The large corpse fell back down. Blood trickled down countless holes riddling the monster's body, the biggest amongst them being right in the middle of the Ogre's forehead, splitting a crown-like circlet into two perfect halves.
"Whew! I almost died back there!"
Duke sighed in relief and lowered his bow. He adjusted his scarf and patted the dust of his clothes. He looked at the system message and grinned with excitement.
[Congratulations, you have successfully completed the quest: Return of the Ogre King, a recurring quest. You slew the Ogre King, an E+ rank boss, and have received 100 points as a reward.
As this is the tenth time you have completed this quest, you receive as an additional reward the Title 'King Slayer'.
Because you killed one thousand Ogre Warriors you have gained the Title 'Ogre's Nightmare'
King Slayer: to slay a king, one has to be cold-blooded and strong-willed, as the simple royal aura of a ruler is enough to frighten even the strongest of warriors! The user is granted immunity to all low-level status effects targeting the mind.
Ogre's Nightmare: after slaughtering so many ogres, you'll without a doubt become the main antagonist of the tales ogre mothers use to frighten their children to sleep! The user gains the passive abilities 'Fiery Gaze' and 'Frighten', which respectively lower by 5% the stats of weak Ogre monsters and grant a small chance of any Ogre Monsters faint whenever they gaze at the user.]
"There are actually titles? God, yes! So that information was true! You can truly get titles from repeating this recurring quest... and this other title seems OP too!" Duke excitedly spoke, tightening his grip around the handle of his longbow.
Duke, aka Kevin Dull, had been one of the latest arrivals to the system: having joined just a few months before, he could be considered a newcomer. At the same time, however, his knowledge about the system surpassed that of many veterans!
Before the system first appeared, Kevin had been a shut-in. He would spend all his time playing games in his room, becoming what people usually call NEET. Due to this, the few friends he initially had ditched him, the girl he confessed to, one he had liked ever since grade school, had rejected him. Kevin could still remember very well the expression of disappointment and disgust on their faces.
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He had always regretted dropping out of college and relying on his parents' money, however, after the system arrived on Earth, he had finally a felt a chance, a ray of hope in the darkness; a chance to redeem himself!
Because of that, he had been gathering lots and lots of information even before receiving his class. Hunting areas, quests, classes, abilities, etc, etc.
He did not care whether they were actual facts with proof rumors, he had chased after them all!
And when his class finally arrived, he was met with quite a surprise: his class wasn't common, but at the same time it wasn't that rare either, being a slightly stronger version of any RPG's basic archer, Monster Hunter. At the same time, however, Monster Hunter allowed him to inflict greater damage against monster such as Ogres, allowing him to successfully complete solo raids against the E+ ranked boss monster, Ogre King.
Thanks to his knowledge Duke had grown strong enough to slay bosses ranking E+ in just four months! He was just level 39, but was up and coming!
Just as Duke was going to leave the arena, he heard a beeping sound. He widened his eyes in excitement: this was a System Notification, and what's more one that focused on the Lord's rankings! Being such a seeker for new information, Duke had long since bought items that allowed him to receive notifications about all kinds of matters.
The Lord rankings was one of them.
Duke excitedly called the system menu and went into the information tab. There, the list of Lord rankings was displayed in front of him. He frowned: there was no change amongst the top 10 Lords, so why did the System Notification beep so loudly? He had programmed it to have it only beep as loud as it had when something extremely important happened. For example, last time it had been when the Sovereign Dragonheart had been surpassed by the Sovereign Kenshin in the Nation Lord rankings... so why would it...
Then, as he thought that, a thought dawned upon him. Duke paled.
'Could it be...'
"Search for Lord, Peerless Dao Master!"
Whenever Duke had tried this action earlier, he had been met with the cold message from the System, announcing that no such user held the position of Lord. This time, however, ten seconds passed and no such message had appeared.
Finally, after ten more seconds, the screen refreshed as another System Notice rang in his ears!
[Ding! Information about user Peerless Dao Master acquired.]
Duke stared wide-eyed at the information before him: after just a little time had passed from the bold and confident announcement, Peerless Dao Master had truly let his actions speak instead of words!
[Peerless Dao Master: Position - Lord;
Lord Ranking - 3767/3860]
He had actually become a Lord! How much time had passed since the world had been looking down on that man because of his level? Minutes? Hours?
Despite the ranking being low due to his level, that was not what had shocked Duke so much. After all, anybody not being a Lord was stuck under level 50. What surprised him however was the fact that, even after having just become a Lord and having the limiter on his level removed, he was still not the bottom of the list!
The lowest level Lord was a guy at level 47. A few hours prior, Peerless Dao Master had been under level 25. And yet, Peerless Dao Master was not in the last place, meaning he was higher than level 47, but he also was higher than the last place by a hundred spots! What did this mean? It meant that the mysterious sovereign had gained more than twenty levels in just a few hours!
Duke cleared his voice and then read the information displayed on the glowing screen out aloud, "Peerless Dao Master: Position, Lord; Lord Ranking, 3767/3860; ..."