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Chapter 235 - Maria’s Rewards

After Maria rested for a bit, she came out and flew off in a random direction after telling Ash. She wanted to go monster hunting for a bit since the start of the war, she hadn’t been able to do that. Her body was aching for a fight but unfortunately, the high-leveled monster area wasn’t enough to satisfy her.

Ever since her Awakening and level increase past level 100, not many monsters, even those at level 150 or more, could pose a challenge to her. The only decent challenge she had just recently was her fight against Raiju when she had first escaped from her seal and before that, it was her defensive battle with Paimon. Then there was her boss fight in the IGC where she almost went all out just to kill Thor. She wanted to experience the thrill of such a fight again but right now, it was impossible. The only way she could get such an experience is if she fought another boss, not mobs on the field.

In the nearby monster areas, Maria was just crushing everything in her sight with her [Dark Ray] skill and newly attained magic spells. She needed to level them up since they were rather low in levels right now. She had been using her weapon skills so much that their levels and ranks had pulled so far away from her magical abilities. When she lost Paimon, she was reminded of how low leveled her spells were.

Maria thought that maybe if they were at a higher level, she could’ve at least done something to help Paimon and not lose him to Planet Eur’s Hero. Thinking about it again, Maria was rather angered that someone imprisoned her friend like that. She opened up her spell menu and took into account all of the spells she had learned outside of Paimon’s teachings.

“Hmmm, I should start using my Class spells more often. No matter how little I buff myself and debuff my enemies, it will definitely impact the outcome of the fight.”

She had so many skills and spells in her arsenal so it was hard to keep track of every little thing. In most of her fights, Maria would only rely on the skills and spells that she frequently used but she thought that wasn’t the right way to utilize her abilities. She needed to be able to use everything at the most appropriate moments and not forget about anything. Speaking about forgetting she had entirely forgotten about her IGC rewards. Thankfully, however, she had a friend remind her in the next instant.

*DING*

“Hm?”

Maria had just cleared the field of all monsters with her [Dark Ray] and was now deeply studying how to use all of her abilities to their maximum potential when her thoughts were interrupted by a system notification.

“Oh, it’s Lizzy, is she done with her quest or something?”

The system notification showed that Lizzy was requesting a Video Call with her so she immediately tapped on the [Accept] button.

“Mary!”

“Woah!”

Maria was immediately startled when the first thing Lizzy did once the call connected was to shout out her name right in her face.

“W-What’s got you all excited? Ow, my ears…”

“N-Nevermind your ears, did you check out your IGC rewards? They’re amazing! Look, I finally Awakened AND I got a hidden class!”

“O-Oh? You did? So, does this mean you’ve completed your quest?”

“Yup~ now I’m an Azure Dragoon, Hahaha!”

Lizzy let out an uproarious laugh as she began showing off her status screen and her new abilities.

“Wow, you have a pet dragon that also doubles as a battle mount?”

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Lizzy had a smug look on her face as she replied, “Isn’t it awesome? I got the Awakening Quest item from the IGC rewards which then triggered the hidden Class change!”

“That’s incredible! I haven’t opened mine so I wonder what I got?”

Maria quickly opened up her system menu and opened up her mail where all of her unclaimed rewards lay, neglected.

*DING*

You have claimed all of the items!

“So, what did you get?” Lizzy curiously asked after seeing her friend opening up her [Inventory].

“Uhhh…hmm…”

Maria had a skeptical look on her face when she saw her rewards. All of them were randomly generated by the system according to their rank and the need of the character receiving them so none of the rewards would be unusable by the receiver nor would any of them be useless. Since Lizzy was so curious about what she obtained, Maria decided to just show her instead.

“Hmm, let’s see~”

Lizzy was rather optimistic about Maria’s rewards but when she saw them, even she had a skeptical look on her face.

“Uhh, what?”

“Now you see why I’m a bit skeptical?”

“...Yeah…”

She had received a total of 3 medals so it meant that she had received 3 items. The first item was something called [Goddess’s Tear], the second item was called the [Holy Grail], and the final item was called the [Original Sin].

“All of these are just materials…what the heck?” Lizzy exclaimed.

“I-I can’t even use any of them without processing them first… They’re all Legendary items though but that just makes things worst. I don’t have any acquaintances or NPC subordinates that have the skill to even make use of them…” Maria said in disappointment.

“Uhhh, cheer up, Mary! Think about it in the long term! I bet you’ll find some use for them later! There’s no way the game would give you a useless reward…unless of course, you did a useless quest. Then again, these are the IGC’s rewards!”

Maria nodded before saying, “Yeah…I guess I’ll find a use for them sometime in the future.”

Item Name: Goddess’s Tear Rank: Legendary Description: A tear from an unknown god. Contains an immense amount of Divine Energy and sorrow. This item can be used to enhance another item and grant it the attribute of Divinity Crafting Material. Cannot be traded or dropped

Item Name: Holy Grail Rank: Legendary Type: Accessory Effect: Divinity +1000 The grail bestowed upon mankind by the God who loved his creations. The grail contains an immense amount of Divine Energy and can be used to store energy Requirement: Unlocked Divinity stat Crafting Material. Cannot be traded or dropped

Item Name: Original Sin Rank: Legendary Type: Quest Item Description: The original sin that tainted the holy land of Gods. After being sealed inside a vessel, it was then sealed inside a black hole at the center of the universe CAUTION: Unseal the vessel only at your own risk! Crafting Material. Cannot be traded or dropped

Maria looked over the descriptions once again and although all 3 of the items were crafting materials, there were a few differences. The [Holy Grail] was something that could be equipped but didn’t give any extra bonuses to her stats besides Divinity, a stat she still hadn’t unlocked and thanks to the item’s requirement, she couldn’t even equip it. Then there were the other 2 items. The [Original Sin] seemed like a very dangerous quest item and the only pure crafting item was the [Goddess’s Tear].

All of the items had legendary rankings but it didn’t make up for the fact that they were currently useless to Maria right now. The [Original Sin] was a quest item but even after holding it and shaking it around, despite knowing that there was a huge caution in its description, no quest was generated. Maria had to give up and store it away along with the [Holy Grail] while she took another few looks at the [Goddess’s Tear] before storing it away as well.

“Well, I bet I can make an awesome weapon or armor from these things in the future once I find a player or an NPC that can handle them.”

“What about that quest item, did you receive a quest from it?”

“No, which is a bit unfortunate though it’s fine. I want to complete all of my current ongoing quests before Class Advancing.”

“You still haven’t class advanced? I heard from Amy that you went back to Eur to get your class advancement quest, what happened?”

“...It’s a long story, but anyway, I’ll complete my current quests first before tackling it.”

“Well, good luck. Also, the World Announcement commotion, that’s you, isn’t it?”

“Yup.”

“Sheesh, you starting a war or something over there?”

“I already took over a third of the continent I’m staying on.”

“W-What?!”

“I have to go now, Liz. I need to figure out how to maximize the usage of all my abilities. See ya~”

“W-Wai–”

Maria ended the call before Lizzy could get another word in. She was feeling a little envious of her best friend who had just obtained such an awesome power-up from her hidden class change and Awakening. The IGC’s rewards turned out to be a huge windfall for most of the players who received them. She had seen a few videos of the winners showcasing the fruits they obtained from the rewards and now, even her friend was the same. Only her rewards seemed rather ‘useless’ but that was only for now. She’d soon find a way to use them but for now, she needed to focus on the quest at hand.