Second World Novel

When Jack killed Evil Janus, he received exp points. At the same time, he also received a notification that his quest, The Attack on League Factions, was completed. He received 10,000,000 exp, 100 gold coins, and 10,000 mana cores.

This was an SSS-difficulty quest. Normally, there was an additional reward accompanying such a quest. A reward that might be legendary-grade items. He wondered if the technique book Janus gave him was that additional reward. However, he would expect a mega spell equivalent to a legendary-grade item to be eight-rune or nine-rune, not this seven-rune Storm Wrath. Even so, he didn’t complain.

Probably the hidden reward was the blessing from the Healer Society so that he could build the wonder building, Revival Pool. Now that the murder case of the faction leaders had ended, he should be able to meet Panacea, the Healer Society’s leader. He would arrange so once he returned to Thereath palace.

With the mana cores gained from this quest completion, Jack now had enough mana cores to summon the Archdemon Lord. Added the mana cores dropped by Evil Janus, his stock was now 56,000 mana cores. The battle earlier would have been easier if he had these mana cores then.

The gained exp points increased his levels two times. His Time Sage was now level 81 and his Beast Monarch increased to level 80.

At Beast Monarch level 80, Jack gained a new skill, Beast Dominance.

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Beast Dominance, level 1/20 (Active skill)

Take control of all hostile pets and summoned creatures in a 50-meter radius. Only affects pets and creatures with rare elite grades or lower. Cannot affect pets or creatures with higher levels than the user.

After the skill’s duration ends, deals 3000% physical damage to the controlled pets and summoned creatures.

Duration: 2 minutes

Cooldown: 5 hours

Stamina: 250

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“Beast Dominance? Isn’t this the same skill that was used by Theridan during the battle?” Jack asked.

“Yep,” Peniel confirmed. “He granted you the Beast Monarch class, didn’t he? It isn’t strange for him to have the same skill.”

Jack had seen this skill in action. It was a great reversal when the enemy’s pets and summons suddenly turned against their masters. This skill had a much shorter duration compared to the Beast Command skill, but it dealt higher damage to the surviving pets and summons once they were freed of this skill. Too bad this skill didn’t forcefully unsummon the surviving pets as Beast Command did.

Killing Evil Janus and the Young Januses provided tons of exp, but those exp were shared with Therras and his royal agents who were also in the battle.

Therras, Duke Alfredo, and Laurent increased to level 81. Eyrene was now level 86. Robinson became level 78. Lindsey and Jonathan were level 75. Howard was level 74. Amy increased to level 70. Nerd was level 66. Elayne reached level 61.

Jack thanked his royal agents and sent them back to where they came from. After saying goodbye to Janus, he headed to the exchange counter. He had 57,913 knowledge points available for exchange. Since he had already got a mega spell, he exchanged these points for two spells he had eyed in the past.

He paid 24,000 knowledge points for Black Hole and 14,000 knowledge points for Magic Bombs. After the exchange, he had only 19,913 knowledge points on his badge. There were still other good spells and items in the Minister section but his remaining points were not enough for them.

He stored the books in his inventory, together with the Storm Wrath technique book. He wanted Jeanny to copy them first before he learned the spells.

“You know, I was seriously surprised when you decided to spare Tiemezzys,” Peniel remarked. “He is a bonafide eternal creature. Unlike the archdemon who you defeated while in a weakened state. Tiemezzys was even level 90. If you had killed him, the exp and loot would have been remarkable.”

“Now that you mentioned it, I do feel a bit regretful,” Jack said.

“Do you?”

“Nah. I’m just messing with you. Not everything is always about gain. I am not a greedy a*shole who tries to gain everything no matter the cost. There are things in this world that are worth more than material gains.”

“Master would have disagreed.”

“Thank you! I take it as a compliment that you consider me different from that scumbag.”I think you should take a look at

“Speaking of that scumbag, we should find out what happened at the convention. Have you sent a message to the others?” Peniel asked.

“Yes, but I can’t contact Jeanny. John is at Heavenly Citadel. He asked me to go there. He wants to speak directly about it,” Jack answered.

“So, why are we not heading there?” Peniel asked.

“I want to etch this first,” Jack showed Peniel his Staff of Illios.

“The guild workshop can already do that service, can’t it? Why not just use one of the forges there? It was free working there.”

“Guild workshop is always full of people,” Jack said. “Of course, they will all skitter to the side if I want to use the forge, but it will just make me look like a bully.”

“They already consider you a bully,” Peniel said, which awarded her Jack’s irritated glance.

“Plus, I’m not short on coins,” Jack said.

“Spendthrift!” Peniel derided.

“Nitpicker!” Jack returned.

The two continued throwing one another meaningless verbal abuse, even after they arrived at the workshop, which confused the workshop owner a great deal. The owner showed an expression that said, “People, if you want to argue, please do it somewhere else.”

Jack and Peniel finally stopped after the owner couldn’t take it anymore and made an intentional cough to distract the two. Jack rented a forge afterward.

Inside, Jack applied the etch to the Staff of Illios. He then took the Orb of Raijin out of the Mana Leech Staff and inserted the orb into his new staff.

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Staff of Illios, level: 80/99 (Legendary magic weapon), embedded: Orb of Raijin (Unique-grade Weapon orb).

Lightning damage: 1,437

Range: 80 meters

Attack speed: 1

Energy: 500

Intelligence +55

MP +500

Vision Bending: Create a copy that will stay within a radius of 10 meters from the user. The user will be invisible for as long as the copy exists. Copy will vanish if the user receives an attack. Duration: 3 minutes. Cooldown: 3 hours.

Illios Stare: Shoot a beam that deals 200% chaos damage every second. Causes Dizzy status. If the beam hits the same target for more than 10 seconds, the damage is increased to 250% chaos damage every second. If the beam hits the same target for more than 20 seconds, the damage is increased to 300% chaos damage every second. Duration: The first 5 seconds is free, every second afterward will consume 30 MP each second (until a maximum of 30 seconds). Cooldown: 1 hour.

Eye of Surveillance: Consume 1,000 mana cores to project an image of a targeted place. Range: 50 kilometers. Duration: The first 5 minutes is free, every second afterward will consume 20 MP each second (until a maximum of 15 minutes). Cooldown: 2 hours

All skills or spells that deal lightning damage +20% to damage.

Each standard attack has a 5% chance to produce chain lightning that strikes up to 7 hostiles, dealing 50% lightning damage.