[Sloth System (Legendary)
Quest: Main Quest (1)
Requirement: Take over the hidden organization
Clear conditions: (1) Make all 15 Numbers your slaves
(2) Kill the leaders of the organization and take over their place
(3) Both
Rewards: (1) Active Skill: Dizziness-(A)-Make everyone around you slightly dizzy and unfocused for a few seconds. Can disrupt mages from casting magic spells. Duration depends on the target's mind. Can be used once every 15 minutes, 1000 points.
(2) Dream Mist, 1000 points.
(3) Both rewards, 3000 points]
Immediately Ray's eyes brightened at the quest.
'Finally a main quest!'
After doing so many side quests, he really wanted proper main quests with rewards that would help him.
And looking at the rewards he wasn't disappointed.
No matter what, he had to get the Dream Mist. It was an essential ingredient he needed to finally obtain the Dream Realm's physique in the future. Without this physique he could never enter the dream realm physically.
However the condition for obtaining this made him frown.
It said he had to kill the 'leaders' of the organization.
The vice-leader was already enough to give the current him a headache and he didn't even know who the leader was.
If the leader was far stronger than the vice-leader, then…
He would think of that later.
Suddenly, he remembered something and clicked on the reward screen of the pride system which showed it as completed.
With a bright flash a golden sword appeared in front of him.
The hilt of the sword was intricately carved in white and golden, with various shapes of harps and wings engraved on it. The blade was completely white. So white that one would question what it was made out of.
'Appraisal.'
[Item: Sword of the 9th Hero
Type: Weapon
Grade: ???
Description: The sword of the 9th Hero Anteas, the pacifist hero who stood high above others but hated killing. This sword was created by him before he died. This sword cannot break.
Limitation: You cannot kill with this sword.]
Ray sighed after he read the description of the item.
'It's the same…'
He had researched about a lot of things before, items, artifacts, magic, much more, but this was something that he couldn't understand.
From what he knew there were ten of these swords, and they would only show up once as a reward. If he missed it, they would be gone forever.
He didn't know what he could do with these swords, none of them could kill. The moment their blades pierced through a living body, they would become almost untouchable and pass through without harming them.
He didn't know how this happened, and neither did he know what these swords were made out of.
In his last life, he had missed three of these swords from quests thinking they were trash, but now he atleast knew something.
If he collected all ten swords, something would happen. And even if nothing happened, it would clear out his curiosity.
Who were these heroes? How did the system have these swords? What is this lore about the heroes that the system spouted in the item description?
As usual, the systems were shrouded in mystery.
Ray looked at the sword closely and put it back in his storage ring.
This sword was unbreakable. Just that. Neither was it very sharp to pierce through armors, nor was it able to kill people. However that didn't mean it was useless. It could be used to block almost any attack if he properly handled it.
Each hero sword had its own special property and he still remembered that the he often used the fourth hero sword in his last life. It could pierce through any metal like butter.
Ignoring future problems for later, right now he looked at his points which seemed to have accumulated.
[Current Balance: 7300]
'Status.'
Immediately, a black screen appeared before him.
[Name: Ray Celestia
Age: 18
Species: Human
Bloodline: Royal (A+)
Physique: Self-Healing (S)
Mind: Calm (SSS)
Disposition: Neutral, Chaotic
Title: Celestial Empire Crown Prince (Unique)
Strength: (A)
Agility: (A)
Intelligence: (SS+)
Charm: (S+)
Dexterity: (A)
Stamina: (A+)
Mana Quantity: (B)
Mana Output: (A+)
Mana Control: (SS+)
Mana Purity: (B+)
Passive Skills: Strong Body (B), Reverence (B), Subdued Rage (A), Love Sight (SS), Blessed Fate (SS), Growth (D), Blood Refinement (D), Reverse Envy Aura (A), Weakness (S), System Backlash (Divine), Reincarnation Cycle (Divine)
Active Skills: Pride Aura (A+), Reverse Berserk (A+), Suggestion (SS), Soul Travel (SS), Cursed Fate (F), Sustenance (E), Positive Envy (A), Lust Overflow (A), Nirvana Fingers (A), The Divine Rod (S), Replica (C), Enslavement (SS), Perfect Disguise (SS), Trait Randomizer (SS), Dream Lord (SS), Appraisal (Divine), Ultimate Sin (Divine)]
He thought about what he could do.
He could buy more skills, however from experience he knew having too many skills was never good. And he could steal skills if he wanted to either way.
That left him only few options… divine system functions, skill rank up cards or items.
He immediately removed the items from the option, because he could just use artifacts from the treasury and he didn't really need system limited items right now.
That left him two options but he also removed the divine system function from the list.
The functions that he could afford at the moment like hidden stat unlock or emotional detection was currently useless to him.
There was one function he needed though and he bought it immediately.
'Buy Mana Affinity Detection.'
[Divine System Function: Mana Affinity Detection unlocked]
[Remaining Balance: 6800]
'Buy 20 Rank up cards!'
[Obtained 'Skill Rank Up Card' x20]
[Remaining Balance: 4400]
Ray decided what he would upgrade.
He had to first perfect his battle style. His moves were quite predictable at the moment. He had to add in more elements into his battle style to upgrade its proficiency.
First a taunt skill, to force the target to attack him and lose a part of his sanity.
'Upgrade Positive Envy!'
['Skill Rank Up Card' x1 used]
[Positive Envy (A) has been upgraded to Envy Aura (S)]
[Skill: Envy Aura (S)
Description: Can control envy aura around your body with extreme flexibility. You can now increase the aura to a high degree to taunt people and even reverse it to make them feel less envious towards you.
Restriction: Can be used on any target however many times you want, but be warned. Using same skill on one target too many times could lead to target gaining resistance to taunting.]
At this moment, another window flashed before his eyes.
[Reverse Envy Aura (A) has been determined to be useless. Skill has been removed.]
'And now to get that one skill…'
'Upgrade Pride Aura!'
['Skill Rank Up Card' x1 used]
[Pride Aura (A+) has been upgraded to Pride Aura (S)]
[Skill: Pride Aura (S)
Description: Everyone feels superior to you
Restriction: -]
The skill description didn't change, but he knew that right now he could exert far more pressure with this skill if he wanted to.
Looking at the status, he decided to try something.
'Synthesize pride aura and envy aura…'
[Similar skills found…]
[Synthesizing…]
[Synthesis failed!]
[Conditions not met!]
'Sigh… so I need all seven aura skills…'
Without holding back he went on a mass upgrade spree and spent all his remaining 18 rank up cards.
He used 1 card to upgrade 'Lust Overflow (A) to Lust Aura (S).
With this, he had three aura skills.
Using another 6 cards, he ranked up Growth (D) to Growth (A).
This skill was a must have for his long term growth. It could help him slowly grow his physical stats if he ate monster cores.
The higher ranked this skill was, the faster his physical stats could soar.
After seeing Zero in Nadya's memories, he felt an urgent need to upgrade his physical stats. No matter how good a plan he made, if he was weak he could never back it up.
Now he had only 11 cards left.
Using another card he upgraded Weakness (S) to Weakness (SS).
Now this skill could not only show him weakness in people, their pleasure points, but even the weakness in people's battle styles. It could essentially help him find flaws in other's attacks to breakthrough with his first form.
And finally with his last 10 cards…
[Enslavement (SS) has been upgraded to Enslavement (SSS)]
With this, he could finally move around hidden in relief.
He had previously heard that the association had a few SS ranked slavers, and now that he had both Number 3 and Number 15 as his slaves, if any of them caught onto him it would be over.
He wanted to play safe.
With his skill going to the SSS realm, no one currently could ever detect them to be enslaved.
Right now, his status screen looked like this.
[Name: Ray Celestia
Age: 18
Species: Human
Bloodline: Royal (A+)
Physique: Self-Healing (S)
Mind: Calm (SSS)
Disposition: Neutral, Chaotic
Title: Celestial Empire Crown Prince (Unique)
Strength: (A)
Agility: (A)
Intelligence: (SS+)
Charm: (S+)
Dexterity: (A)
Stamina: (A+)
Mana Quantity: (B)
Mana Output: (A+)
Mana Control: (SS+)
Mana Purity: (B+)
Passive Skills: Strong Body (B), Reverence (B), Subdued Rage (A), Love Sight (SS), Blessed Fate (SS), Growth (A), Blood Refinement (D),Weakness (SS), System Backlash (Divine), Reincarnation Cycle (Divine)
Active Skills: Pride Aura (S), Reverse Berserk (A+), Suggestion (SS), Soul Travel (SS), Cursed Fate (F), Sustenance (E), Envy Aura (S), Lust Aura (S), Nirvana Fingers (A), The Divine Rod (S), Replica (C), Enslavement (SSS), Perfect Disguise (SS), Trait Randomizer (SS), Dream Lord (SS), Appraisal (Divine), Ultimate Sin (Divine)]
Looking out of the window of his room, he sighed.
It was already dark.
'The day after tomorrow is my coronation ceremony…'
He initially wanted to try out his new lust skills, but he knew he would have ample time after he became the king.
So without wasting time, we went out to practice his new skills and the new divine system function in his training room.
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A few hours ago…
Nadya returned to her room and contacted Number 1 with the communication device.
"Oh? Number 3? What happened to the oracle?"
Remembering all of Ray's instructions, she kept on a serious face and replied like he was instructed.
"Dead. I urged him to become my slave, but he refused. So I had no choice but to kill him."
"So he's gone for good… and the Duke?"
"He wont be a problem. I'll convince the Duke to follow your plan!"
"Alright. Well then…"
However before he could hang up, Number 3 stopped him.
"Now that I remember, the oracle might be sick in the head but he shouted something before he died…"
Number 1 who was already satisfied that the oracle was dead didn't really care as to what he said, but just out of curiosity, he asked her to reiterate.
"The three will rule all once again!"
The smile on Number 1's face collapsed as he started sweating suddenly.
Without saying another word, he hung up and immediately began calling their vice leader.
Nadya who was surprised at being hung up shrugged and began working on a list of criminals to kill.
'I need to accumulate points...'