Sam held the weapon up high, and felt power flooding his form. He turned his gaze to the Overlord, who had seemingly given up. His aura of red light had disappeared, leaving the man simply kneeling on the ground, as if lost.
“You have defeated me too many times, Sam. I believe it is time for me to realize my true place, before my Dao cracks in half. I will join you on your journey, if only to save my path, and nothing else. Will you take me?”
Sam stared at the man in shock, but then nodded. All things considered, the Overlord hadn’t really done anything to his faction, save for being an adversarial figure. The fact that the man was also his father helped as well.
As he watched, Rodney Kane emerged from the hole in the ground, his bones still shattered. He let out a howl of rage, and rushed Sam, his hands still shredded. Prosthetics of black energy extended outwards, with claws of energy surrounding them. Unlike the Overlord, this was not a man who Sam could afford to live. However, there was someone else more deserving of killing him.
Turning, he brought his hammer crashing down, with the weapon crackling as he brought its skills to bear. Dao energy flooded the head of the weapon, and it landed on Kane like a meteor. He was sent flying back, towards Jeffrey and the others.
“Do it, Lao!” He shouted. Out of everyone there, Lao had suffered the most from Kane, with the man having tortured him during the tournament. A look of savage glee entered the man’s features, a far cry from his normal state. He raised one hand, coating it with blue energy, and brought it down, cracking open Kane’s head. With a gurgle, the man breathed his last.
“As you lived, so you shall die,” Lao said. “That is the way of my Dao.”
A surprising amount of essence entered Sam, but he ignored it. As he was on the edge of E Rank, it didn’t make much of a difference. He stood before the most important moment in his life so far, and he had no idea how to access it. Firstly though, he had a pair of quests to check.
Engines of the End Times
Difficulty: S
You have formed a faction and have begun to take over the surface of your planet, but there are three things that stand in your way. These are divided into the subquests below.
The Seven Seals
Seven weapons of great power, based on the mythologies and legends of your world, have been created around the world. They reside in locations that match their origins. Claim all seven of them to create the greatest weapon that your planet has ever seen. The possessor of this weapon will be able to exert dominance over all others.
Ultimate Goal: Find all the weapons below.(Achieved)
Mjolnir(1/1)
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Excalibur(1/1)
The Spear of Longinus(1/1)
The Sickle of Cronos(1/1)
Sun Wukong’s Staff(1/1)
Gungnir(1/1)
The Thunderbolt of Zeus(1/1)
The Legion
In the time since the initialization started, there has been a curious absence of anyone who has been a soldier before the System arrived. This is because of the actions of one man. General Hugo Mar chanced upon the beginning of the path to the Dao of Legion. In doing so, he laid claim to every soldier to live on the planet through a unique form of Dao resonance, subsuming them into his hive mind. They now exist as the ultimate monster of your planet, a many headed monstrosity of fused will. This force lives only to spread itself, an anarchic terror of pure self propagation. This questline has been completed, to a great degree, with every last one of the Legion destroyed by you or your faction. Well done.
Ultimate Goal: Eradicate the Legion(Achieved)
Invaders from Beyond the Stars
Malefactors from other universes will seek to use your universe as a source of power. You must show them the error of that desire by forcing them off your planet. Some of the alien species will be benevolent, but most will be hostile. You have defeated one of the vanguard armies of the invasion effort, but that is only a drop in the ocean that is the full force. The stronger and larger armies are being stalled in transit so that it will be more of a fair fight, but they will be coming soon. Be warned, for the factions whom these armies belong to will set their eyes upon you. Whether that is a good thing or not is up to fate.
Ultimate Goal: Remove any threats from other universes.
Ultimate Goal: Complete all three quests.
Rewards: Planetary Dominance
All that was left on that quest was for him to finalize the defenses of the planet to the point that the alien invaders could no longer harm the people of Earth. Then he would be indisputably the ruler of the planet.
You have completed a quest!
Rise of the Titans
Difficulty: S
The unprecedented surge of power created by the formation of multiple Daos on your planet within the first month of the initialization has created a Dao resonance of epic proportions. Figures from throughout your mythological systems have been brought to life, first among them being Gaea, the mother of the Earth. These beings will not suffer the lives of ants to exist on what they consider their planet, and they will attempt to eradicate you. In a shocking turn of events, you managed to defeat the Corpse Titan, a feat of legendary proportions. For an F Rank faction to overcome an E Ranker is something that is considered to be almost impossible. Continuing upon your butchery of monsters that should be far beyond your means, you have slain the Solar Titan, an avatar of the Sun’s wrath made manifest. Your legendary feats grow still greater with your defeat of the Flood Titan and the Twilight Titan. Most recently, you hunted down and killed, almost completely by yourself, the Lawful Titan, one of the most difficult Titans to combat. Your strength is undeniable, but your enemies grow ever stronger. The majority of the remaining Titans fell to your hammer, and those that did not were still killed by children of Earth.
Ultimate Goal: Kill Gaea and her eleven children.(Achieved)
Rewards: Survival, ???
The air before him began to glow, and what looked to be a piece of lava, held in a perfect sphere by some ineffable force, dropped out. It was small, about the size of a baby’s fist, but contained immense power. He picked it up warily, but it was cool to the touch. Pursing his lips, he scanned it.
The Heart of Gaea
E Rank Natural Treasure
This sphere of lava contains much of the latent potential that was contained within Gaea, Mother of Titans. Using it will empower one’s ascension into E Rank, or, if already there, will provide immense bonuses to Earth elemental cultivation.