Chapter 696: Changes
Chapter 696: Changes
Although Souta wanted to return in just a month, it still took two and a half months to complete his training with Yenxa. Almost three months had passed ever since he left.
All this time they were either in Saya’s inner consciousness or in the mountain range fighting monsters. In these two months, a rumor spread out in the nearby villages and towns. It was a rumor of an incredibly powerful monster taking over the entire mountain range.
The two monsters wouldn’t kill anyone. Instead, they would fight everyone that they saw and leave them in a state of collapse. Naturally, every expert who encountered these two monsters survived so they could live and tell the tale about them.
After knowing that the two monsters didn’t kill anyone, the people in the nearby towns and villages breathe a sigh of relief. So they started to head to the foot of a mountain and placed all sorts of offerings for the peace of their home.
It was normal in this land. After all, some of the people in this continent worshipped monsters like Monkey King, Yamato no Orochi, Typhon, Echidna, and the Four Heavenly Beasts. They wanted protection and blessed their land so that they could harvest their farms quicker.
In some ports, they even worshipped a sea serpent so that they could sail without any accidents.
Out of the seven continents of the Imperium, God’s Continent was much more open to monsters. Some of them even thought that monsters were better deities. After all, most of the war was caused by humans and demis, not by monsters.
Souta and Yenxa lived in the mountain range. Yenxa fought endlessly to gain experience and improve her battle style. In this place, there were dozens of third stage monsters so she avoided their territory and only fight those monsters at second stage.
It took her one month before she reached the third stage. At that moment, she began to target those third stage monsters. If she was about to suffer a defeat, she would escape and come back after she recovered her strength.
Just like that, almost three months had passed since they entered the mountain range. Souta and Yenxa had finished their training.
“It’s time to go back,”
Souta said as he glanced at the system. The rewards from the quest that he got to destroy the Red Matter Association weren’t too high nor too low. It was average for his current level. After all, this was just an ordinary quest, it wasn’t even a chain quest or great quest.
The chain quest with low difficulty would even have a higher reward than an ordinary quest with high difficulty.
[Congratulations on completing the quest “Darkness of Kingdoms”]
[You’ve received 22 skill points, 40 free attribute points, 20,000,000 experience points, and 1 Level-up card]
When he first read it, he was quite surprised as he didn’t expect that he would even be able to receive a card. After all, the source of the cards was the chain quest and the great quest. The skill points were just normal and he even thought that the destruction of Red Matter Association was inevitable.
Even if he didn’t do anything, the quest would be completed on its own. He just made it faster by making an arrangement. The Terror Gale Hippogriff would surely appear and fight Avron even if Souta didn’t warn that monster.
The only thing he did during the war was fight some fodder and help some warriors survive. If he didn’t strategically arrange the battlefield, the casualties in the Third Set would be higher. Nonetheless, they would still win.
Using the skill points that he earned, he level up the [Dark Menace] to level 10. He just needed to level up his [Shadow Damager] spell and he would achieve the requirements to promote his class.
Skill point(s): 12
He had been stuck in this place for two and a half months so he didn’t even receive a single quest. He had no way to increase his points and this would have happened if he accepted Reashka or Athena’s proposal. He would lose the advantage of having a system.
He had two sources of power that made him far stronger than people at his current level. First, was his own strength as well as his various abilities. Second, was the strength of the system like the class function or the card function.
As for Yenxa, she evolved into a creature called Vicious Terra. A type of goblin that had various toxins in its body. The strongest toxin in her body was a liquid toxin and it could melt experts at initial stage of A-rank. She could even affect S-rank as long as the expert received enough toxins from her. But it would take a lot of time to affect an expert at that level. Probably two hours of exposure to her toxins.
She also stabilized her strength to the initial level of the third stage. The increase in mana density also helped her strengthen her body. She would approach the intermediate level soon.
Of course, she wasn’t the only that received benefits from those raindrops. Souta also grew stronger and reached level 64 himself. Aside from his base strength, he also trained his skills and reached the next level.
“Yenxa, it’s time to return,” Souta said in a low voice.
“Yes, My Lord.” Yenxa bowed at him. She was strong enough to contend against the top experts of Astros. Reaching third stage greatly enhances her overall strength.
Souta waved his hand and ten black spheres formed on his back. After a few moments, he and Yenxa shot through the sky. He guessed that Torkez and Alice stabilized his territory while he was gone.
Two months have passed and the Ekatoe City had changed a lot. It was two times larger than two and a half months ago. A lot of merchants were visiting the city every week and goods were exchanged.
Although it was like that, no one had seen the current City Lord. The civilians that were living in the city didn’t even know the appearance of the City Lord except for the members of Astros.
Various establishments were constructed around the city. In the entire history of Ekatoe, these months were the most prosperous they’ve ever been. Countless experts also visited the schools to check the various combat arts and spells that the schools teach to their students.
The civilians had no idea that the City Lord had returned today.
Inside the city lord’s office, every chief of Astros had gathered.
“Hmm… So it’s complete.”
Souta was seating in his seat while looking at the reports. He was reviewing the changes that happened in this place while he was training with Yenxa.
“The warriors of Athen’s Champion had built a post tower here. In that place, we can take missions and submit them to the staff that the legion arranged. Amanda and a few witches joined the legion. It’s good for our development.”
As a First Class Yellow Squadron, the experts that could join the squad had increased. Also, the missions in the post tower grew along with their ranks. They could take some higher missions but they didn’t have enough authority to take a mission regarding Athena’s sub-worlds.
The corresponding ranks for sub-worlds were Third Class Blue Squadron and above.
Souta looked through the report calmly.
The portal wasn’t completed. The resources needed to build it were higher than they expected so they only built one. It needs two portals to work so people could go to the other side. One was here in Ekatoe City and the other one was in the Guardian Fortress.
In regard to this, Alice decided to use some of the resources that he hid in his room. He still had a bunch of high-grade ores, potions, monster orbs, mana fruits, and equipment that he got from clearing the living labyrinth.
Souta didn’t care about it. After all, he already took the things that could help him. As for the rest of the mana fruits or potions in his room, he had no use for them. Even if he consumed those fruits and potions, it wouldn’t increase his strength anymore.
“Good. So the construction of the portal is still ongoing?” Souta raised his head and looked at Alice.
“Yes, it will be completed next week,” Alice answered him.
“That’s good.” Souta nodded. This was very important to him. It was also for his protection. If a powerful expert attacked this city, he could simply enter the portal and destroy it on the other side.
He put down the papers on the table and looked at them with a satisfied expression.
“Good job. Not just the territory, you guys also didn’t forget your personal training. You’ve all improved while I was gone.”
He stood up and faced the windows.
“I think it’s time to invite the local forces of Ekatoe City. Send an invitation to them.”
“I understand.” Torkez nodded. He glanced at him and slowly added, “The Shimpan Family wanted to visit you, Lord Souta. But since you weren’t here before, I rejected him.”
“You can go now.” Souta waved his hand. “Alice, follow me. We’re going to check the mission board in the post tower.”