After an hour of grinding, Time Walker logged on.
Emile told him about their grinding location. Time Walker showed up at their location after a few directions from Emile. They began grinding together. Their efficiency increased.
Time Walker did a lot of damage with these fireballs. His stat distribution is coming in handy since he was even with their damage.
After killing their 25th alligator it dropped its first scale. This was a surprise to Emile since he didn't know if these alligators dropped the scales.
Dropping these scales gave Emile a sense of relief. It worried him he would have to look for another alligator type.
He would have to look in far away locations to find another alligator.
Emile felt like jumping around after the first alligator scale dropped. He told his party that these items were quest items he needed.
If they picked the quest item up, then they would transfer it to Emile. They would support him while he completes the quest.
Emile asked them to look for Mythril and Meteorite Dust. If they heard of the item, then it would make Emile's life easier since he wouldn't have to look for it.
They continued grinding when Emile reached level 10. He received another system notification.
[World Announcement: Mystical Flame is the first person to reach level 10]
[World Announcement: Mystical Flame is the first person to reach level 10]
...
This announcement repeated five times. This showed the severity of this monumental occasion. Emile's name became even more famous.
People on the other side of the planet knew about him. He became worldwide after the many announcements were about him.
Emile received his 5th special point and five free attribute points. He didn't know if he should use his free attribute points.
Emile was now eligible to enter a city. He had to ask the Village Chief to find out how to enter a village. There were more benefits that Emile could receive, but he wasn't aware of them yet.
"I reached level 10," Emile said to his party.
"We know. We can hear and see the world announcement," Time Walker said.
Emile scratched his head. He forgot that everyone in the world received this announcement.
They continued grinding after congratulating Emile.
Time Walker reached level 9 and became stronger.
They went deeper into the swamp since there weren't enough alligators. They continued killing.
His party level went up after a long time. They had to kill 1000 mobs before the party level went up. This showed how tedious it was to make the party level higher.
They wanted to set another skill for the party skill.
They had forgotten about this specialty that parties shared.
Emile asked Lily to put her Mud Walls as the party skill since this was the most versatile attack they had.
The system stopped her from putting Mud Walls as the party skill since it was a skill from the Nirvanic System.
They learned that the Nirvanic System's skills weren't allowed to be in the slot. Thye tried putting Bloody Awakening, and it worked.
Since the skill was an active skill, only one person from the party could have the Bloody Awakening active.
This meant that Time Walker could activate Bloody Awakening. If he did that then, Emile wouldn't be able to activate the skill.
The only other person who could activate the skill is the person whom the skill belonged to.
This meant that Time Walker and Flower Queen could activate Bloody Awakening but Emile couldn't. Emile and Flower Queen could but Time Walker couldn't.
This also meant that Time Walker and Emile could never activate Bloody Awakening at the same time.
She set that skill as the party skill after gaining the parties approval.
They also gained a buff from being in the party. The system gave them a choice.
[Would you like to set a 5% increase in Strength as the party buff?]
[Would you like to set a 5% increase in Agility as the party buff?]
[Would you like to set a 5% increase in Vitality as the party buff?]
[Would you like to set a 5% increase in Spirit as the party buff?]
[Would you like to set a 5% increase in Intelligence as the party buff?]
An almost identical message appeared.
The party buff could increase a certain aspect of their stats. They all looked for something common between them.
They couldn't put it into strength since Time Walker didn't need strength. Agility was also something that Time Walker didn't need.
Vitality was something that none of them needed.
The two stats they all need were Spirit and Intelligence. They all had the Nirvanic System which required mana to use. All spells required mana, so they needed to decide for more Intelligence of Spirit.
Intelligence was how much mana their total mana was. Increasing Intelligence could allow them to use more spells.
Spirit was how much damage their spells did. They would pack stronger attacks with more Spirit.
Their total mana wasn't useful to them. They run out of mana on rare occasions. Most of the time, they don't need the full mana.
They agreed to put the party buff onto Spirit.
Their party now did more damage with their spells. They grew even stronger.
They continued to grind.
After another hour had passed, Emile received a message from the Handsomest Crab.
"Hey, a little help here. These people want information about you; they wanted to figure out your trick to beating Nightmare difficulty. They surrounded Song Village causing it to trap us in it," The Handsomest Crab said.
"A group of friends and I wanted to hunt the mobs in the forest, so could you help us out," He asked.
"I'll be there soon," Emile told his party about the situation which caused them to stop what they were doing.
Even if they had bad blood, they wouldn't ditch one of their friends.
They headed to Kantaro Mines and teleport to Song Village.
They appeared in Song Village and messaged the Handsomest Crab about their location.
"Where are you," Emile asked.
"In the market. I'm just stalling and wasting time," The Handsomest Crab replied.
Emile's party walked towards the market.
They found Handsomest Crab And Flowing Dream in the market. They were with 3 other people.
"So, what's the situation," Emile asked. Emile went straight to the point.
"There are players surrounding the village. They were allowing people to pass them but whenever we go, they question us. They wanted to know about your party and how you guys passed the Nightmare difficulty. Those players wanted to know the trick to passing Nightmare Difficulty." The Handsomest Crab said.
"Did you tell them anything," Emile asked.
"No. We wouldn't betray you for no reason." He replied.
"All right, try to walk out of Song Village now. I want to see if they can stop us." Emile said coldly.
They headed towards the outskirts of the town. They could see players scattered outside of the town. These players checked each person name.
The players wouldn't care if it was a normal person. They would only do something if they recognized the player.
The goal was to force the players to reveal their secrets. They wanted to find out how they completed Nightmare Difficulty.
These players believed there was a trick, an exploit, that Emile's party used. Some of them tried out Nightmare Difficulty; they couldn't complete it.
They couldn't use force on the inside of the village so they did it on the outside.
Handsomest Crab and his party walked out.
Emile followed from a distance.
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"Where am I?" Lucifer thought as he woke up.
Everything was pitch black. He couldn't see anything. They tied his hands and feet.
The person who tied him did it well; he could have broken free from his shackles if they couldn't tie him.
At this moment, giant lights went on. They all aimed at Lucifer.
Lucifer squinted a few times.
"It's been a while, hasn't it, Lucifer," A man sat in a chair in front of him and gave a slight smile to Lucifer.