Fenrich was accompanied by Laura, Ren, Chiaki and Isabella as they flew through the air on top of Nauja's back. Any flying mutant beast that came too close, or was within a kilometers distance was shot down by purple flame spears from Nauja.
Their group was at a rare calm as Nauja took care of all the pests with ease. Isabella had absorbed a third of the artifact that Uncle Bao had found. She has gained a rush of over 500 basic attribute points, 250 advanced attribute points, and was awarded with a single Epic Class Evolution option.
Due to Laura's Oath and how they needed multiple times more effort, Fenrich passed the artifact off to Laura telling her to consume the rest. On top of that, Ren had immediately filled out his quota of Equinox Emperor Blessings.
All of those chosen gained massive increases to all of their attributes and were awarded with higher rarity Class Evolution options. Fenrich and Laura were already far ahead of the current curb, so Fenrich opted to skip the both of them. The attributes would definitely be invaluable, but so was setting up the proper foundation to have a tremendous surge of enhanced F rankers appearing after their Class Evolutions.
Jackson, Garen, Alex, Isabella, Sasha, Julia, Ryan and Lukas benefitted from the Equinox Emperor Blessing. Warlord Anderson, Thunder Magus Alannah and Midnight Reaper the most innately talented and peak future figures got the three remaining spots Ren had promised Fenrich.
The last couple of hours had flown by in a flash, Fenrich and his group were taken to the outskirts cities from Ottawa such as Kemptville, Perth, Arnprior, Calabogie, Almonte, then swooped back around to Cornwall.
Fenrich and company had slain all of the regional bosses, emptied the towns of all their rare resources, natural treasures, treasure chests and more.
They were now on their way back to the Smart Base and were 45 minutes away when something ominous caught Fenrich's attention.
In the distance as they left Cornwall from the western direction, Fenrich spotted what looked like a spire of corpses, wriggling flesh and mutant beasts that pierced upwards of 300 meters into the sky.
Fenrich could see thousands of Elite zombies with hundreds of Lords and dozens of Kings. In the center of the corpse spire was an armoured clad zombie Progenitor that was level 50 and walked the Emperor's path and at pseudo-Mythical ranking.
Fenrich could feel it deep within his bones, the zombie Progenitor raised its head towards Fenrich's group and flashed a vicious smile full of challenge and killing intent.
"Another poor lamb to become fertilizer for this Emperor's growth."
The zombie Progenitor raised from its throne of bones and corpses, grabbing its monstrously huge pristine white Greatsword with a black skull and red shining eyes on its cross guard.
[Ding! Quest Received - Clash Of Emperors: Defeat or slaughter the pseudo-Mythical ranked Emperor Zombie Progenitor. Rewards: Your own path of the Emperor fully awakening, Titles for clearing out a Zombie owned Smart Base, Survivor Coins, merit towards Class Evolution and Omniverse Lord Status.]
Fenrich equipped his Titan Gauntlets and Firmament Defiance Greatsword. With the instant addition of 500 more attribute points to his basic attributes, 200 to Physique and the 2x multiplier to Strength, Endurance, Vitality, Agility, Physique. The stat percentages from his Soul Weapon, the aura from Fenrich's body rapidly increased, becoming primal, condensed and felt raw to all of those around him.
"Well. I guess it wouldn't hurt to play with the children now would it? All of you take care of the Elites and above. The Emperor is my prey."
Fenrich's figure vanished from his group's perception entirely, the only sound they could hear was the loud clang of metal striking upon metal. All of the zombies in a 60 meter circular radius were blown away by the impact of Fenrich's and the Zombie Progenitors clash. The Zombie Progenitor was pushed back in the clash of might, completely unable to match Fenrich's current strength. That was without Metamorphosis, Abyssal Weapon Enhancement or anything else passive to add to his attribute pool.
"Impossible! How is an unevolved trashy human being this strong!?" The Zombie Progenitor roared out in fury, a blackening aura steeped in the crimson of sin began radiating off of the Progenitor's body, having activated his Berserk Skill, the Progenitor flashed forward from his position of ten meters away.
Fenrich carelessly swiped his sword up vertically as he absorbed the momentum with Black White Fist, redirecting the Progenitor's weapon upwards, with the same movement Fenrich smacked the pommel of the Firmament Defiance Greatsword into the Progenitor's forehead, blasting the undead dozens of meters away.
"You disgraceful rat! You dare to use your Greatsword Weapon Mastery in the midst of battle to polish yourself against this Emperor!?" The Progenitor bellowed while visibly shaking in humiliation with wrathful burning embers lit in its stomach.
"Fine. I'll see just how long you can act nonchalant to keep disrespecting this Emperor!"
The Progenitor flashed forward to the corpse spire, piercing his arm into it and his aura began to climb to tremendous heights, all the while the corpse spire was shrinking until the Progenitor absorbed an entire 200 meters of it into its own body.
Stomping on the ground and flashing forward with the same speed that Fenrich launched off Nauja with, Fenrich smiled as he clashed with the Progenitor once more, this time their strengths were entirely equal.
"Did I strike a nerve? You're wrong, now I respect you as an Emperor because you now have the strength that belongs to an Emperor albeit borrowed and for limited time. Respect is earned, not given. Just like one's own individual strength." Fenrich's right leg snapped up kicking the side of the Progenitor's head, however, it was caught as the Progenitor's speed and reflexes had increased tremendously.
"Caught your foot huma-"
Fenrich dropped his body letting his back nearly touch the ground, as soon as he felt the Progenitor tense up to hold his body weight and falling momentum, Fenrich engaged his core and transferred his momentum as he twisted his right leg out of its socket to chop down with his left legs foot and ankle smashing down upon its skull. The Progenitors body was like a nail and Fenrich the hammer as it was nailed down through the earth.
Fenrich hopped away and began maneuvering his right leg until he clicked it back into place.
"You're not even a challenge at this rate. All that I'm doing is bullying a child who doesn't know how to properly wield their strength, and has no sense for combat. This is rather disappointing."
Fenrich sighed ruefully as he unequipped the Titan Gauntlets, even without the multipliers and mass of basic attribute points, the Berserk Skill and temporary power up of the Zombie Progenitor lost out in comparison to his current self. With his efficiencies hitting a high 80% already, his strength was already nearly doubled as the efficiencies made his attributes that more strengthened.
Even though his current Strength was at 1,842 with his 0.21 multiplier from the Berserker title included, due to his efficiency his Strength was the current equivalent of somebody at 2,996 in Strength. For the common Elite on the multiverse standards, Fenrich was already a person with unmatchable strength within the first 65 levels, and could hold his own against someone in the very early 80s after second Class Evolution.
"If you were to bow your head and submit to me. I can allow you to keep your life, even if you lose your Emperor's path, you're already a force to be reckoned with. And, you would also have a lot to gain from becoming subordinate to one of my men who have the Zombie Apostle Class."
Fenrich came forward and talked down to the Zombie Progenitor with his own weapon back in his inventory space and arms crossed akimbo in front of his chest.
"Submit. Or die."
Fenrich's sleeping Emperor aura began stirring as a mass tidal wave of crimson-black aura flooded out causing all of the Elite and above zombies still alive from his peoples slaughter to plummet to the ground. The Progenitor struggled as Fenrich's Emperor aura began invading his own, dampening it to the point that it could no longer retaliate back.
"I refus-"
The crimson-black Emperor aura morphed into a colossal sized dragon with three golden claws, amber eyes outlined with regal red. Six pristine white albeit tainted wings steeped in the Sin of Fenrich's very Soul sprouted out from the Dragon that the Progenitor saw.
Before the Progenitor's vision, Fenrich was not just a human or a Dragon. What others did not see or could not feel, due to the amount of Sin that it had already accumulated from wanton slaughter. Fenrich was the true monster of the two, the Sin was so thick that it had permanently stained the humans Soul and Karmic links.
"I… submit."
The progenitor gulped in fear as it couldn't even believe its own eyes of what it had just witnessed.
[Ding! Your quest - Clash Of Emperors has been completed and so has its hidden conditions. Your Emperor's Path of Sinful Domination has been fully awakened. +700 undistributed attribute points have been assigned to your distribution. 25,000,000 Survivor Coins has been added to the treasury of your Smart Base
[You have gained the Title - Emperor Domination. You have successfully dominated a fellow Emperor making them lower their head to relinquish their own path. However, just because they have relinquished their Emperor Path does not mean that it cannot be rekindled. You have unlocked the advanced attribute - Charisma. +40 Charisma has been rewarded.]
[You have gained the royalty status of 1 Star Lord on the Omniverse scale. Those that do not have a royalty status, or are lower in royalty status than yourself will comply with your every task or demand that you have of them. All purchases from the Omniverse Alpha System have a permanent 10% discount. All upgrades to your A.I Smart Bases current facilities, new buildings, or expansions cost 15% less in Survivor Coins and resource amounts.]
[You have been given 1 Rare Class Evolution option.]
Fenrich put on the suppressant cuffs that he'd gotten from Irainia's spatial ring, limiting all of the Zombie Progenitors stats to 10 and sealing its Mana and Qi pathways.
Walking towards the corpse spire, Fenrich reached his hand out with an open palm and touched it. A new prompt appeared within his vision.
[Ding! Would you like to reclaim this Corrupted Smart Base or to dissolve it for materials?]
Fenrich clicked on the dissolve word that was boldened, and then followed up with clicking on the Yes prompt that asked him to confirm his choice of dissolving the Corrupted Smart Base.
[Ding! You have successfully dissolved the Corrupted Smart Base for materials. You have received 50,000,000 Survivor Coins, 7 Dao Fruits, 4 Dark Gold treasure chests, 8 Gold treasure chests, 25 Silver treasure chests, 40 Iron treasure chests and 110 Bronze treasure chests. You have gained the blueprints to a Unique Building - Elite Skill Repository. (Contains replenishable Skill Scrolls that go up to the third Class Evolution. Each layer of the Skill Repository will have to be opened up by completing a Trial set for that specific floor. The first floor is unlocked and readily available.)]
[Ding! You have gained the Title - A.I Liberator. Your favorability has increased from Respected to Revered by your A.I Eden. Your base favorability with all A.I that you will communicate with in the future has been improved from Neutral to Liked. Your A.I's efficiency and intelligence has been increased by 25%. All subordinate A.I's that you take control of will gain a 20% increase to efficiency and intelligence.
The voice of an elderly man sounded out in Fenrich's head at the end of that last prompt.
[Thank you for releasing me from that corruption, my sentience has been corrupted and nearly wiped out by the corruption of the Zombie that took over my Smart Base. I will no longer remain, but I have decided to give my Core to Eden to manage. When a new sentience has been formed, it will coordinate with Eden to help run your Smart Base.]
Fenrich nodded, as he felt the changes within himself. His temperament greatly changed, and so was his gradual train of thought. Now, with his path of Sinful Domination awakened, Fenrich could peer into the hearts and minds of others on a rudimentary level.
Around him were people that respected, revered and feared him just as much. The one that revered him surprisingly enough wasn't Laura, but the Zombie Progenitor. It looked Fenrich in the eyes. A hunger for power. Desire to reclaim what it had lost.
Fenrich walked over to the Zombie Progenitor and now consciously gave it a blessing.
[Ding! You have given 1/10 Emperor Empowerment Blessing. Urakalazu has gained +350 basic attributes and +300 advanced attributes as well as awakened the Disgraced Emperor Talent]
"Emperor Page"
Fenrich muttered quietly as he observed the new page added to his personal information
[Emperor Empowerment Blessings 1/10. (Achieve first Class Evolution to gain 10 more blessings. Grants +350 basic attributes and +300 advanced attributes.)]
[Empyrean Emperor Blessings 1/1. Doubles the attributes of the receiver. Has a high chance of awakening sleeping Talents, Bloodline and Divine Bodies (Achieve first Class Evolution to gain 2 more blessings.)]