Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
“Gwah!”
“Shit!”
I cut, slashed, and stabbed at the enemy soldiers mercilessly, even as they screamed in fear all around me. The thought that I was too savage towards these poor soldiers had crossed my mind, but only for a second. The experience and instincts I had gained over the past eleven years of my life told me that I had no time to pity them. They told me to swing my spear even harder and faster, to kill at least another fleeing enemy soldier.
==[Spear Mastery has gained a level.]==
==[Level 1: Increase ATT, ATT speed, CRIT rate of equipped spear by 1% and CRIT damage by 30%.
Level 2: Increase ATT, ATT speed, CRIT rate of equipped spear by 3% and CRIT damage by 60%.]==
There wasn’t much of a difference from a single level-up, especially since the skill didn’t have any special requirements and only cost 10,000 golden rings. Still, I was happy that it did, as it made me stronger. It wasn’t the only skill to level up, either.
==[Increase CRIT Rate has gained a level.]==
==[Level 1: Increase CRIT rate by 1%
Level 2: Increase CRIT rate by 3%.]==
I had learned this passive skill the same time I had learned Spear Mastery, at a higher cost. The 2% increase didn’t seem like much compared to the CRIT effects on my Rank 9 and 10 items, but I wasn’t at 100% yet. 2% was 2%; I’d take what I could get.
-All that’s left is to level up Fissure now.-
I had learned Fissure the same time as those other two skills, but it still hadn’t leveled up yet. Then again, passive skills did level up faster than active skills. Either way, I did just get stronger, and I went back to slaying the fleeing enemy soldiers with heightened spirits.
—–
Fifteen hours later, behind a building outside Center B of Section 81…
“If I were you, I would have run as far away as I could instead of hiding here.”
“Shit!”‘
I let the enemy soldiers who had managed to escape Section 81’s borders go, and set off to find every single one who had chosen to hide instead. Three hours ago, the same message I had received at Section 79 had appeared here.
==[World 1455 now has control over Section 81.
World 1455 will be granted a reward if it can maintain control for the next 24 hours.]==
Back when Section 79 was taken over by the Empire, it was destroyed after we maintained control for 24 hours. Then, with my contribution points of almost 150,000,000 points, I had received some great rewards. This time, I had taken over Section 81 on my own, so I was looking forward to the rewards I was going to receive this time. I moved quickly to find and kill all of the hidden enemy soldiers before the enemy’s reinforcements came to take back Section 81.
——
Twenty-four hours later…
I scoured every single corner in Section 81. I really must have killed every single enemy soldier hidden there, because there was no message telling me that Croot had taken back Section 81.
==[Section 81 is now under full control of World 1455.
Those who had a hand in invading Section 81 will now be granted their rewards.]==
“Huh…it really did work.” I had started this little excursion on my own, thinking I would just do some hit-and-run battles, just enough to hurt the enemy and get out if things got too dicey. But my newly-turned Rank 10 spear and new AoE skills had allowed me to completely take over a Section on my own.
==[World 1512 will receive a penalty for losing Section 81 to the enemy.
The Stores of World 1512’s remaining Sections will experience a 5% increase in prices.]==
Now, Croot’s Store prices were 10% higher than when this war started. That was a huge blow to the enemy’s economy. As I watched, the buildings of Section 81 were sucked into the ground. I had already seen it happen at Section 79, so I wasn’t surprised by it.
==[Calculating contribution points in the invasion of Section 81…]==
The message came up, but I didn’t wait for it to finish calculating nor was I worried about my points. It was going to take more than a day to finish anyway, and I knew it was going to be well over 150 million points.
“Should I go to neighboring Section, too?” It hadn’t been a month since I had left Earth’s territory, so it was too early to return home. It would take another month or so for the Empire to finish putting together the one million soldiers for the coming invasion. Besides, I had a Warp Mage at my beck and call, so I wouldn’t need to worry about the time it would take to return home.
“Let’s go to Section 82.”
——
Section 115…
Claudia was holding a meeting with her subordinate deities. “I’m sure you all know by now, but Croot has lost yet another Section.”
“…” No one said anything out of embarrassment. Section 81 was part of Skyla’s territory, but it was too huge of a blow to just blame it all on Skyla.
“I’ve decided to lead the next battle,” Claudia said.
“Have you gotten hold of the Continent’s flow of time?”
“I have. Synchronization is complete.”
“Alright!”
“Finally!” The twenty eight subordinate deities all cheered. They could finally make their move against the enemy. This was the whole reason Claudia had decided that Croot would not attack the enemy right away during the first High Council meeting on the Judge’s Continent. Claudia needed to synchronize with the time that flowed on the Continent. If she did, she would have the power to wipe out millions of enemy soldiers on her own.
Claudia turned to face Dunia who was there as well. “Leave the outside trouble to me. You just take that chance and hit them from the inside.”
“Got it.”
“Hmph. You’re compliant today.”
“Well, now that you’re done with the Continent’s time, you’re basically untouchable. I wanted to get rid of you before then, but I guess I can’t now.”
“How unfortunate.”
“It sure is. But since we’re in this together, I’ll be cheering you on. But I bet Adora will be pretty bitter once he finds out you’ve finished your synch. If you weren’t in the picture, he’d be Croot’s number one.”
“I told you that if you show those red eyes of yours in front of me again, I will steal back your time. Did you think that was an idle threat?”
“Oh, sorry. That’s my bad. I couldn’t help myself now that you’re at full strength. Hehe!”
Claudia knew Dunia was just taunting her into doing something she would regret, but she did not let herself get angry at him. It was the least she expected he would do, and she couldn’t kill someone as useful as him… yet.
“Let’s see just how long you’ll keep that smart mouth on you,” Claudia said to Dunia quietly, before turning back to the other deities. “Make your preparations. We will destroy both Lee Jiwon and his Empire.”
“Yes ma’am!”
——
On the road to Section 82…
==[The system has finished calculating your contribution points.]==
“Eh?” I was surprised when the message appeared before me. I knew by now that the more points I had, the longer it took the system to calculate them, but it hadn’t been an entire day since I had left Section 81. That only meant that I hadn’t earned more points than when I had taken over Section 79.
==[You have obtained 77,325,551 contribution points. You will receive 20,000,000 golden rings for participating in the full invasion of an enemy’s Section.]==
“…” It was half the points I had earned from Section 79.
I couldn’t accept it right away. I had expected that I earned way more points since I had taken over Section 81 on my own. But I didn’t have anyone to ask why this was. Then, I remembered the biggest difference the two Sections. Section 79 had more than two million soldiers manning it, and we had killed more than half that number. The rest had managed to get away. But Section 81 was only manned by three hundred thousand soldiers, and I couldn’t kill all of them.
“But hold on. Shouldn’t I still get more points? I took over a Section on my own; that’s more difficult than invading a larger Section with a small army.”
But the next message appeared, as if it didn’t care about my complaints.
==[You have obtained the most contribution points out of all of your comrades.
You have gained 7 levels
You have received 1405 Stat points.
You have received 1 skill point.
You have received 2,700,000,000 golden rings]==
“What do you mean my comrades? I did it on my own!” The rewards were definitely really good. With Bortega’s Blessing, I had gained a total of 32 levels and received a total of 1.8 billion golden rings just from killing enemy soldiers. Still, I had expected a lot more.
“Hmm… so in the end, there needs to be more soldiers manning a Section,” I said to myself, before resuming my journey to Section 82. Whatever the case, I needed there to be more enemy soldiers guarding a Section, for me at least. While the 5% penalty Croot received for losing a Section was good for Earth as a whole, I cared more about my own rewards.
When I got there, I noticed right away that it was completely empty. There was not a single person in sight. The moment I stepped over Section 82’s border, a message appeared before me.
==[World 1455 now has control over Section 82.
World 1455 will be granted a reward if it can maintain control for the next 24 hours.]==
