5 Months passed and Leo was finally on the brink of breaking into peak F-Grade.
Leo
Level 73
Class: Void Emperor (Fate’s Candidate)
Bloodline: Void Emperor (Corrupted)
Nexus Coins D-Grade: 4999998
STR: 5000 Efficiency 5500
DEX: 4500 Efficiency 4950
INT: 1000 Efficiency 1100
WIS: 1500 Efficiency 1650
VIT: 3000 Efficiency 3300
END: 4000 Efficiency 4400
LUCK: 760 Efficiency 1102
Bloodline Talent: Void Heart
Titles: Witness Of The Terminus Cheat Death System’s Chosen Willpower Enlightened
Dao: The Heavenly Peak Of The Void (LOCKED) Dao: Dao Seed Of Will - High
Skills: Void Slash, Soul Swap, Void God, Void Dismantle
Dao Seed Of Will - High
WIS + 200
STR + 1000
DEX + 500
The pass few months haven’t been the most exciting he just steadily progressed. It turns out Leo was kind of a Dao idiot? He had a hard time getting epiphany’s and instead turned to his mass wealth he spent 2 D-Grade Nexus Coins on 2 Dao Treasures upgrading his Dao Seeds twice. He also was on the cusp of evolving. It was worth mentioning that the one of his Quests has changed slightly.
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Savior
Drive back the Sword Curse Cultivators from Xeno Sector (0/1)
Time limit 2 Years 6 Months 15 Days
Reward: Hidden Node Breaker or Ancestral Vision
Bonus Objective: Battle The D-Grade Pope and survive. (0 seconds/ 60 seconds)
Bonus Reward: ???
Firstly Leo’s main objective changed from Earth which he no longer was on to the whole Xeno Sector Leo seriously didn’t understand why it took the System so long to realize it had made a typo. Was the System also a forgetful being? Anyway the Pope wasn’t someone Leo wanted to bother with. There were 4 Pope’s in total one for each grade leading up to Monarchy. The Pope was the second highest being in the Cursed Sword Sect Hierarchy. As all Pope’s were below the Cursed Monarch in ranking. There was only one Cursed Monarch and he was estimated to be a Divine Monarch equally as strong as the Sword Saint.
The Cursed Monarch was an unorthodox cultivator who gained power through sacrificing lower grade people. He would wage wars against Sectors like the Xeno Sector and whenever someone died whether it was from his side or the opposing side he would gain a bit of Cursed Energy that went straight into his Heart Curse.
Now don’t get it wrong one F-Grader wasn’t anything just able to fill up one out of sextillion of his Heart Curse. But when Sector wide wars like this happen trillions of bodies are sent to fight each day and casualties happen in the billions. And that is only F-Graders each E-Grader, Hegemon and Monarch also count towards his Heart Curse. The longer the war drew out the stronger he would get.
Pope’s were basically the prime strategists of the Sect they weren’t the strongest in the Sect but were considered the second most important. Don’t think Pope’s are weak though they might not have raw talent like Asil but it was good to remember Asil was an F-Grader in a place like the League Of Shadows even Monarchs were considered toddlers just talent. And talent was truly that being a Heaven’s Chosen didn’t mean much when you are just an F-Grader.
Asil wasn’t truly at the level of power an experienced and stronger Heaven’s Chosen was. And Leo full knew that if Asil had time to prepare and refine his techniques he wouldn’t have lasted 5 seconds. The Pope’s were monstrous in their own right and the D-Grade one was especially dangerous. Leo heard of stories from the true frontlines where Hegemons fought through space that the D-Grade Pope was the best combatant out of them all and was rumored to be so strong he only had four bodyguards compared to the other Pope’s at minimum fifty thousand. Leo has seen clips of the Pope fighting and he felt that if the Pope and Slasher fought even with Slasher going all out with his Transcendence he wouldn’t be able to defeat the Pope in his Base Form and the Pope was in Low D-Grade while Slasher was in High D-Grade. The Pope also still had his form when he activated his Heart Curse and had his battle abilities skyrocket. He exposed that form when he got cornered by 4 Hegemons and a Half Step Monarch. The Pope had gotten away killing all four of the Hegemons and cutting off the Half Step Monarchs arm. Although he himself was bedridden for 2 months.
Leo didn’t worry about that yet though he still had time and he was progressing. It was time for the final outing that would put him in Peak F-Grade.
Leo breathed in the air of rust and death and he felt a cold rush. Oh no. Something terrifying was appearing at the middle. Leo charged Energy in his eyes to look further and what he saw scared the living hell out of him. A woman dressed in red robes a pope’s hat and a staff at her side. The E-Grade Pope.