“Now, let’s start sorting out the real rewards and decide what to use first,” Almond rubbed his palms as his eyes glinted, releasing a Mana thread that went into this storage ring.
In the next second, various items spewed out and lay on his table.
Dark Renegade Phoenix Feather.
Insight Stones: 4
Gold: 600 mill.
Roulette Ticket: 15
Legendary Ore: 4
Legendary Herb: 4
Skill upgrade card: 2
Universal skill upgrade card: 1
X-Factor Fruits: 5
Advanced Skill scroll: 3
Elemental Insight Selection Slab: 1
Unfettered Blade Mayhem Weapon Art Token. Explore more at empire
And Almond hadn’t even included any rewards he got from Floor 5 yet.
‘There’s the Sub-class quest as well, but no need to hurry for that,’ Almond thought as he looked at the ‘+’ sign on the Class tab.
It appears when an adventurer breaks through to Gold-rank.
But Almond didn’t want to do anything regarding that until he finished absorbing all the powers he had gained so far and consolidated himself.
‘I’ll open the Floor Boss Chest, my MVP chest, and party chest tomorrow in front of everyone to give them a boost,’ Almond grinned. If they saw him getting good rewards, they’d be adamant about staying with him for more Heroic Bosses and more rewards.
Down the line, they’d be loyal to him and become a force that could help him in greater fights because he knew one person ultimately could only do so much in the grand scheme of things.
Especially now that the Battlefield of the Mightiest would descend upon them soon.
‘There are three worlds and three monsters in them…it’s safe to assume that they are way stronger than the current me,’ Almond clenched fists. ‘I have to catch up and get stronger!’
‘I have to build a solid arsenal of combat power.’
He looked at the two Level-up boons that he got after reaching Gold level 50 and checked them out.
‘Please, give me a skill option in one of them.’
Almond opened them.
A second later, his eyes glittered, ‘Let’s fucking go!!’
Skill option appeared in one level-up boon!
‘I have to make all of my skills reach SSS rank, only then can I acquire the requirements to make the class upgrade to SSS rank,’ Almond thought as he selected the skill option.
Admira Rudra had told him how to reveal the requirement for primary classes to upgrade. The straight way was making all skills of the primary rank upgrade to one rank above the primary class’s rank.
Another was triggering special conditions, but this option wasn’t a surefire one, so all adventurers’ primary class upgraded ranks via the first method because people could also upgrade their skills without a skill upgrade card or skill option from level-up boon, but it required study and training of their class powers.
Almond was ahead because, unlike others, his Primary class was directly at SS-rank. Once he upgraded all of his primary class skills to SSS rank, he would be able to evolve his primary class!
[Congratulations. Your skill—Spirit Pocket (SS)—has been upgraded to SSS rank.]
Almond jumped!
“YES!”
He really prayed to get this skill to upgrade first because it was his most important skill, and it happened!
Almond excitedly opened the upgraded skill’s details.
[Spirit Pocket]
-Rank: SSS
-Effect:
—> Pull spirits within your vision and store them—[4/1000]
—> Pocket: Spirit Kodoku—Add spirits to this special pocket where they would devour each other until the last one surviving has devoured others and evolved into a Spirit Wraith—[0/20]
—> Spirit Wraith Hex: You can combine two Spirit Wraiths and modify their attributes to consolidate their power source and evolution path. Cost: 1000 Spirits.
‘Holy shit!’ Almond was dumbfounded and then thrilled as he thought about the Spirit Wraith Hex!
‘This is fucking awesome! Now I know exactly what I need to do,’ Almond’s eyes sharply glinted. ‘And I’d need Admiral Rudra’s help.’
He didn’t wait and directly called.
“Sorry for calling you again so soon, but I have one more request, Admiral.”
“You look hyper and serious. It seems that this one is very important.”
“And very hard,” Almond added. “Since the 10th floor is cleared, I’m sure a batch of S-rank dungeon gates have spawned.”
“And more will spawn in the following fifteen days.”
“It seems that you somehow know about this, too,” Admiral Rudra raised his eyebrows. “That’s right. Five new dungeon doors with high energy readings were detected in the past five hours. They are all S-rank.”
“I want all of them,” Almond directly stated with a severe expression. “I absolutely need all of them.”
“You brat…” Admiral Rudra was speechless. “Only one spawned in our territory. The other four are already heavily possessed by old monsters with guilds plus families backing them because all of them want to dip in.”
“But I don’t want their possessions,” Almond said as he rubbed his chin. “I want to go in first, and it’s fine if they come in. Yeah, this should be easy.”
“That…wouldn’t be hard,” Admiral Rudra slowly nodded. “But we’d have to pay some kind of price. If you have any cards that you want to put on the table, tell me now.”
Almond’s expression turned thoughtful, his pupils appearing distanced as he began thinking. ‘The card that will be revealed soon is my power to craft Legendary gears with limitations.’
“Admiral, I want to know the impact of an ability that will have on our world,” Almond said as he took out his Legendary Golden Sword and shared its status with Admiral Rudra.
“A High-tier Legendary sword, and it’s a part of a set?!” Admiral Rudra was dumbfounded at this sudden bomb from Almond.
He knew Almond could craft items, but this brat was already crafting Legendary items, and that too of high-tier?!
“What the hell?”
Almond wryly smiled, “Yeah, so I can craft these Legendary gears, and since it will be revealed soon, I need to know ho-“
“Say no more,” Admira Rudra said as his hand caressed his beard, but his eyes glinted with lapis blue hue, and his expression turned cunningly sharp as if he was cooking up the best way to keep Almond’s safe while also utilizing this card for his and everyone’s greatest benefit.
“One thing is for sure: you revealing this card will attract nasty attention to yourself. The rats have shown otherworldly power that can heavily threaten us, and they are out there. I don’t know, and I cannot predict how they will take action once they find out about this card of yours.”
“But I will make moves and prepare, thinking that they will try their best to either kill you or, more possibly, abduct you. So we have to construct something good and release information that minimizes the impact of your card once it’s revealed.”
“That…is absolutely correct,” Almond already felt that he was in good hands upon seeing the Admiral’s expression and his words. ‘He is cooking something, alright.’
‘But I should properly give the ingredients first, so he can work on the dish. If he knows my current level of combat power, he will have a better idea of how to proceed.’
‘And on top of that, I’ll have my new hidden cards. The first will be my Weapon Art. I know that is going to be my main playstyle once I learn it. The next is my new Spirit Wraith, and the use of Spirit Wraith Hex.’
‘Let’s do this.’