With the three big bosses dead, the whole atmosphere changed. The elves and Foxkin who betrayed the city now looked panicked, while the ones who had given up hope, started taking up their weapons.
Adam didn't pay much attention to them though, he still had things to do. First, he picked all the loot from the three bosses, with such speed that he didn't even see clearly what he got. But since it was now in his inventory, they wouldn't disappear, unless he died, but even if he did he would need some real bad luck for one of them to drop.
Once he had grabbed everything, Adam and Neith both jumped toward the family heads, the traitors. They were quite strong themselves, and they wouldn't accept their death like that. The seven of them were absolutely stronger than Adam and Neith combined, even with their berserk skills.
However, as they were about to attack, they were suddenly attacked themselves. A big dark cloud appeared above them, filled with lightning. The ground under them turned into lava, burning them, and was then transformed into a lava whirlpool, immobilizing them. Then, an icy wind hit the upper part of their body.
They put up shield, to protect themselves, but then seven thick lightning bolts fell from the cloud, destroying their shields in a single strike. They tried to put a second shield, but before they could a sword appeared before their neck, decapitating them.
The mages who had attacked were Searing Light and three of his Elders, who were SS Classes. As for the sword, it was of course from Tiarsus. Adam noticed Tiarsus was much faster than before though, and he killed the seven mages with such simplicity… It looked like the elven swordsman had opened the Gate of Limit during this battle.
Everyone wanted to cheer, but there were still the undead that needed to be taken care of. Adam raised his sword for all to see, coating it with his blue Aura, and used [Barbarous Roar] to say "Retreat in the city!"
The soldiers, who had regained hope, were confused. They had killed the leaders, now killing the minions would be simple. However, in their mind Adam had already become their leaders, and so they headed to his words without a word.
Every players and NPCs rushed into the city, except for those who had betrayed the living of course. The undeads chased after them, but Adam ordered the mages to slow them down.
It took five minutes for everyone to get in the city, but they were, Adam climbed on top of the ramparts and ordered for the cannons and towers to finish the job.
The cannons and magical towers were defending tools that could deal a large amount of damage over a very big area. Moreover, the cannons here were especially powerful because of the position of the city.
However, they were only usable in the beginning of the fight, since after that the attackers and defenders would be mixed, and any cannon shot would kill as many allies as enemies.
But now, they were facing undeads whose last order was to kill Adam, and so they tried to do that. They were attacking the walls of the city, forming an enormous crowd of densely packed undeads.
So when they started firing the cannons, they were literally wiping out thousands of undeads with every shot, and so in barely five minutes all the undeads had been wiped out.
In the end, there only remained a few hundreds of undeads that were stuck to the wall, they were too close to be hit by the cannons, but Adam brought several mages on the ramparts, and the last undeads were wiped out. As for the traitors, they hadn't been able to flee fast enough, and they were killed alongside with the undeads.
When the last undeads were killed off, everyone heard a loud sound, and received a notification.
[Congratulations for defending Neve Dorei against the undead army! You have completed the City Quest 'Siege of Neve Dorei'!]
The army, be it players or NPCs, raised their fist in the air and cheered. This was over. This was finally over. However, among the cheers, a few voices rose, and instead of cheering, they were chanting a name.
Before long, the whole army was chanting the same name. "VALIANT HEART! VALIANT HEART! VALIANT HEART!"
The sound they made was so powerful that it could be heard from kilometers away, and anyone hearing them could hear their euphoria.
As they were chanting though, a strange phenomenon appeared. Outside the city, the corpses and ashes of the undeads lit up with a silver light, and after a moment grey ghosts appeared above the corpses of the defeated army.
The golden ghost rose in the sky, and the army finally saw the strange event. They lost their voices, amazed by what they saw.
The ghosts rose higher and higher, before vortexes appeared above them. Soon, all the ghosts had disappeared, and so did the vortexes. However, as they thought the phenomenon was over, an ethereal voice echoed through the entire city "I, Strith, Son of Skymother Enya and Norse God of War, name Valiant Heart my Champion!"
A golden light descended from the sky onto Adam, bathing him in it. The temporary weakness from using his Berserk Skill disappeared, making him recover back to 100%. But that was only the beginning of the change. He felt something invade his mind, which he guessed was the God of War himself.
After a moment, he received a lot of information, too much for him to understand. He would have to digest it later. He thought it was over, but a parchment appeared in front of him, before forcefully entering his inventory, shocking him. He didn't know you could force something in an inventory. Then, was it possible to force something out?
The light then began disappearing, returning the city to its calm. Then, Adam received other notifications.
[You have received the title 'Strith's Champion'! Do you wish to equip it?]
Strith's Champion: Reputation set to Exalted in all the territories of the Coldlands Empire. Damage against enemies boosted by 50%. Anyone under your command will receive a 10% boost to their attributes in a battle.
Seeing its effects, Adam immediately accepted. This was probably one of the best titles in the whole game.
Once he accepted, another notification appeared.
[You have ranked first in both individual and party achievements! Rewards: Worshiped Reputation in Neve Dorei, +6 levels, +150 AP, 100 Gold, +1 B Rank Skill.]
Adam instantly took two levels, pushing him to Level 32. He had already leveled up to Level 29 during the fights, and killing the three bosses at once, which were so much higher leveled than him, made him reach Level 30. So those 6 levels were transformed into two levels, making him Level 32.
The 150 AP turned into 750, and the Gold and Skill were pushed into his inventory. Adam didn't look at them directly, but instead prepared himself to go. This was a nice battle, but he still had to go to Buwog, this was his original intention after all.
But before he could jump off the rampart, Tiarsus approached him and said "Thank you, you saved us all." Adam waved his hand and said "I already got a lot of rewards, don't bother thanking me."
Tiarsus shook his head and said "I still have to thank you. But I won't take much more of your time, I have my promotion quest waiting for me. Farewell, Sovereign."
Adam nodded to him and jumped off the ramparts. Meanwhile, some distance away, Searing Light was looking at Adam with a smile. One of the elders of his guilds approached him and said "He is quite amazing, this first Sovereign of ours."
Searing Light laughed and said "Those old fools feared this young man wouldn't be up to the task… In the future, the whole of humanity will rest on his shoulders, and I think he is more than ready. Don't you think so?"
The elder, who was an older woman, chuckled and said "Maybe."