MY IDLE GAMING SYSTEM

by Kideo11

Dimensional Rifts permeate throughout the Chaotic Universe, bringing with them immense dangers...as well as innumerable treasures. In a small Realm, a destitute boy awakens the Idle Gaming System. Countless Dimensional Rifts later, he lazily raises his head to realize...he is invincible!

Chapter 1

The Ethereal Realm was truly vast and filled with wonders.

Being larger than many worlds, it was a land filled with magic and fantasy!

The Realm was filled with City-States spread across three extremely vast Continents, each with their own unique cultures and powerful beings that vied for hegemony.

It's Cities were interestingly a mixture of technology and magic, where one could find uniquely designed buildings and complexes in addition to levitating Vessels that pulsed with mana!

It wasn't uncommon to come across fiery birds tearing through the skies, fantastical fruits that shone with a rainbow colored luster, or mountainous sized fish swarming across the wide seas of this Realm.

Every single corner of this expansive Realm had its own mysteries, with our story beginning on the Light Continent.

Light Continent, Academy City.

In the depths of the Academy City, a boy of about 16 to 18 years of age was lying atop an expanse of green grass, each blade of the innumerable grasses shining with an intense verdant glint as green lights could even be seen swirling around them.

This mere sight of colorful dots of light swirling around lush greenery had given the boy shock when he first opened his eyes in this Ethereal Realm.

That's right.

The young boy was actually a transmigrator, a being that had died and crossed over into a completely different world!

Well, in this case, a completely different Realm.

He was currently lazing atop the lush greenery that was behind the huge building that was one of monuments of Academy City- The Blessed Academy.

It was an enormous structure that housed and taught the next generation of Blessed that would valiantly delve into the Dimensional Rifts present throughout the Ethereal Realm, and Noah had transmigrated into this new Realm just 3 weeks since he began attending this Academy!

As for what caused his untimely demise in his old world, it was of course a speedy red truck that had truly appeared from nowhere.

A moment of blankness and in the next instant, he woke up in the body of this boy that was called Noah Eckert.

He didn't know why the poor sap had died or how he had come to take his place, all he had were memories of this world and its people that he had experienced in his 18 years of life!

He lived in this fantastical place called the Ethereal Realm, a land where powerful Blessed- beings that held immense might and power, moved with vigor to dive into the dangerous Dimensional Rifts.

These Rifts were at the core of the Ethereal Realm, with nearly everything that made the organizations and powers of this Realm relying on the resources and treasures that could be obtained from Dimensional Rifts!

All the City-States spread across the three Continents maintained a close watch on the Rifts within them, the ranks of such Rifts determining the power of the Blessed that dwell within.

To succeed and live a good life in such a place...one needed to be a truly powerful Blessed that actively dived into these Rifts.

It wasn't enough to just be a Blessed, as the abundant atmospheric mana of the Ethereal Realm was more than enough to cause every single being dwelling in it to awaken as an Iron Ranked Blessed by the time they hit puberty.

It was the type of power that came with their awakening that determined whether they could become truly powerful Blessed and succeed in life.

This was where Noah's problem lay.

The body he had transmigrated into had awoken to become an Iron Rank Blessed, but to the dismay of Noah and his family...he obtained no power or special ability from his awakening.

"Haaa…"

Such a reality caused immense frustration to the new transmigrator as he screamed his fury to the skies.

'Where's my transmigrator package?!'

'Where's my cheat that allows me to lead an easy life, huh?! Where?!'

Alas...no matter how much he vented his frustration, nothing changed.

He and his sister had begun attending the Blessed Academy that took in all newly awakened Blessed who wished to dive into Rifts, teaching them pertinent knowledge that would allow them to keep their lives in these dangerous Dimensional Rifts and hopefully hone them into capable beings that could contribute to society.

Being a Blessed that had awakened no power whatsoever, Noah had not been able to find any teams that would take him in as the first weeks of his life were spent in isolation while he gathered more knowledge about the Ethereal Realm.

Even as he lazily rolled around the lush greenery behind the Academy right now, he could occasionally see flashing lights that represented wondrous magical skills from the distance, with even the shocking images of golden flaming birds crossing the blue skies of this wondrous Realm.

It made his heart ache when he thought of all the transmigrators he read about from the overabundance of trash stories that led easy lives with ridiculous cheats in fantasy worlds.

He was in such a fantastical place such as the Ethereal Realm, and he had nothing!

SHAA

At this moment, his eyes that were staring at the Blue skies blinked as a figure with pristine long legs stood above him.

Her eyes glanced down with a sharp light as her voice resounded out.

"Useless brother, get up and come with me."

The strong voice of a girl younger than him rang out as Noah adopted a light smile.

The little sister of Noah Eckert had arrived in a grand fashion.

Chapter 2

Noah glanced at the peacefully swaying grass he left behind with melancholy as he followed his cute little sister into the enormous Blessed Academy.

The verdant green fields behind it were sizable, but the Academy was even larger as it looked like multiple enormous medieval castles stacked next to each other.

Each of them held their own departments as at this moment, Noah was being led by his little sister into the Armament Department where Iron Rank Blessed could check out Iron Equipment before they set off for a Dimensional Rift.

"Mother has constantly been crying to me about how she worries that you might off yourself, with father complaining why you haven't done it sooner and saved them from the constant shame."

Truly hurtful words came out of the little sister as Noah only smiled while following behind.

He knew the girl was one of the few people in this world that cared about him, and that all the words she was saying were meant to motivate him to change!

"This time I'm acting personally to include you in my team against the wishes of my teammates so that you can at least have the chance to dive into a Dimensional Rift."

"Maybe then you will gain some motivation to become a serious Blessed that his little sister can look up to!"

SHAA!

The little Sister, Annalise, turned her head full of red hair to lock eyes with the laid back older brother as she made her goals clear.

Her dark eyes shone with intense light as they looked lovingly towards Noah, with her young face keeping the cold expression. She looked at the boy that gradually had features of a growing adult, his dark hair and bright blue eyes being something that would have been one of his best features if he wasn't a slacker.

"Keep up!"

"Yes, yes. My little sister knows best."

There was a bustle of activity inside the Blessed Academy as many beings could be seen moving about.

The uniqueness was that they were dressed in colorful looking armors that were the [Loot Drops] from the Dimensional Rifts, with many Blessed wearing the common Iron Rank Equipment that would have been able to deflect bullets if they were back in Noah Homeworld!

Annalise passed the crowds of Blessed as she went towards the Armament Department, pulling her brother behind her as he moved with a lazy expression.

Some of the Blessed passing them by were familiar with them as snickers and a few laughs could be heard as they talked amongst each other.

"The slacker older brother with no talent and his beautiful sister that is in one of the top Iron Ranked Teams...truly a combination."

"Ay, are we sure they come from the same mother? It just doesn't make sense…"

"Haha!"

Sounds of mockery could be heard as Noah paid no attention to it, his mind as a 26 year old having grown sufficiently to not be bothered by the words of people barely reaching their 20s.

Annalise had a sharp expression as she seemed to be memorizing the faces of every Blessed laughing in mockery, having something planned later for them as she didn't make a move here!

The two of them arrived into a huge square hall that was the Armament Department.

On its large walls, numerous equipment were hanged- ranging from Swords to Flails, all the way to full body armor and helms.

"You guys!"

Annalise called out to a group that was on one of the counters of the Armament Department.

They were finishing checking out their weapons as they turned towards Annalise, their smiles being wiped away when they saw the Older Brother she was bringing along.

Each of them seemed to sigh inside as they tried their best not to let their feelings show.

"Come, come! We have to hurry before the lines get too long at the Burning Domains Rift!"

From the party, a girl with ponytails covered with a red full body armor came out with a smile to hug Annalise.

There were 4 other members in the party- 3 guys in their 20s and one other girl that had vibrant purple hair.

It was a balanced party of 6 Blessed as from their equipment, Noah could see it was two tanks, a healer, and 3 damage dealers.

His eyes shined brightly as he stared at the colorful equipment that had lights bouncing off of it, reminding him once more of the fantastical things he could have had in this world if he wasn't cheated out of his transmigrator system!

'Haaa…'

His eyes dimmed again as he saw his little sister mingle with her team, their eyes turning towards him every now and then as each of them unwillingly nodded.

Annalise came towards him again as she asked.

"Which weapon and armor do you want?"

Noah gave a light smile at this ferocious little sister of his as he spoke calmly.

"Just a sword and light armor. I'll just be watching my great sister and her teammates carry me to victory after all."

Annalise let out a harrumph as Noah's equipment was prepared, his figure looking more like a Blessed when he put the armor on and wielded the sword.

'Hmm…'

His eyes lit up as his body filled with energy, feeling like he could run multiple marathons as the sharp sword made him feel like he could cut anything!

Such were the boosts of Iron Rank Equipment that could be dropped from Dimensional Rifts.

Such equipment could be checked out from the Armament Department...but they required payment as Noah saw his little sister pull out a glowing gem from a small bag by her side to the receptionist on the counter to pay, this payment being to simply rent the equipment for a day!

This was because they rarely dropped from Dimensional Rifts, and the same applied to the glowing crystal gem his sister had pulled out.

It was a [Low Rank Iron Core] that was another loot drop from the Rift that was near the Blessed Academy.

It dropped with slightly more frequency as such a Core was the currency used among Blessed!

Cores such as these had a myriad of uses, but the main one remained to increase the strength of Blessed when they absorbed them.

The more valuable Cores could be dropped from the Bosses of Dimensional Rifts, and of course, the higher ranking Rifts gave even more abundant rewards if you could survive the dangers within.

"Brother, are you ready?"

When Annalise came back, she and her team were ready as the girls gave polite smiles to Noah, the guys not even talking to him as the party of 7 went out from the Armament Department and went towards a Dimensional Rift!

Chapter 3

The Burning Domains Rift was one of the closest Rifts near the Blessed Academy, and it was one of the few Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts within Academy City.

Many of the new Blessed that were entering into the Power delved into Rifts like these for a year or two as they collected enough resources and upgraded their strength before they tried aiming for higher ranked Rifts.

As for the ranks themselves? They went from Iron to Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, and the highest known Rank within the Ethereal Realm being Platinum.

The Burning Domains Rift was a fairly simple one that consisted of 3 floors, or three 'Domains' that those delving had to clear before they could be teleported out.

It was the go to Rift for all new Blessed as inside, they could slowly farm Iron Rank Cores and Equipment that dropped with a very low chance.

Noah followed his little sister's party out of the Blessed Academy as they moved just a a few miles into Academy City, their goal being something that many figures were going towards even at this moment.

The grand structures and buildings of Academy City reminded Noah of the structures of the Middle Ages with the cleanliness and pristine look of the richest places back in his Homeworld.

Everything seemed to be so cleverly designed and working in harmony that he was lost in its beauty while following the team in front of him.

Crowds of Blessed could be seen going towards a particular direction where Noah could begin to make the outline of an enormous gray glowing circular portal that was over 10 meters large.

Surrounding this portal, this Rift- was a distinct encampment that multiple Blessed Soldiers secured, checking the teams going into the Rift in time spans.

This was because those entering the portal within 1 minute of each other would all be grouped together and be sent to the same spatial area!

It was one of the mysteries of the Rift that was figured out a long time ago, along with the fact that many beings could enter it as they each found themselves in the same Burning Domains Rift with similar monsters that everyone else tearing would come across.

It was a fact that Noah marveled at as his sister's team was up next to enter after they waited for about half an hour.

"Brother, watch as we move through the Rift and be careful not to suddenly grow brave. As someone who is entering a Rift for the first time...you'll have to be very careful!"

Noah smiled as he saw the protective look of Annalise hidden behind her hard exterior, nodding as he followed behind.

Annalise's team went through one by one, Noah watching with shining eyes as their figures disappeared the moment they touched the glowing gray Rift in front of them.

Noah was the second last as Annalise nudged him from behind, breathing out calmly as his hand went towards the Rift...and he disappeared.

'I better not lose my second life too early in this damn Rift.'

His thoughts flowed out as he felt weightlessness for a second before he felt his feet touch the ground, his eyes opening wider as he found himself in an entirely new world!

Annalise appeared beside him soon after as her face was serious, moving up front to stand protectively in front of her brother as her teammates were also ready.

Red skies with billowing clouds could be seen above them, a scorched earth below that occasionally had bursts of flames erupting out.

There were crimson colored trees in the distance where they hear the rustling and howling of a few beasts the moment that they entered.

Noah let out a mystified breath as he entered into a Dimensional Rift for the first time, the environment really being something unique he never expected!

He breathed in the feeling of magic and wonder as at this moment, he truly felt he was in a grand fantasy!

ROAAR!

The roar of Dimensional Beasts could be heard in the distance as the tanks of Annalise's team got into position.

The Healer and three Damage dealers were behind the tanks that began moving forward like a sturdy wall, Annalise pulling out the bow strapped on her as she knocked an arrow that shimmered with blue ice.

"The Dimensional Beasts in the Burning Domains Rift aren't overly complicated, where each of the three domains will hold a variety of land Beasts of the fire element…"

Annalise began to loudly narrate as she expanded Noah's mind, the teammates glancing towards her with exasperated smiles as they saw the level of care she was giving to her brother.

"It is only the last domain where you will come across flying Dimensional Beasts, and even they aren't too dangerous if you have a long distance damage dealer."

"MOOO!"

The thickets of trees broke as the first Dimensional Beast appeared.

Curved horns by the side and letting out a huge moo...a Flaming Cow entered the scene as it charged towards them.

"HO!"

The tank to the right was the first to move as his thick shield glowed with light while he rushed to confront the Flaming Cow, the Beast being thrown into the air gloriously as Noah watched with an agape expression while his sister shot the arrow towards the Beast.

THUCK!

The arrow hit the mark on the head as beside it, two balls of sparkling ice also smashed into its head and ruptured its muscles!

MOOO!

It let out a loud bellow as when the Flaming Cow landed on the ground again, yet another arrow smashed into its disfigured head as it stopped moving entirely.

"..."

Noah gripped the Sword he was renting tighter as he breathed in and out, excitement flowing through his body as he looked at the fantastical and magical skills the Blessed in front of him had used...his heart eager to have something like that himself!

"Nice work everyone. The next Beast should be coming out soon!"

The lead tank shouted out while glancing towards Annalise with eyes that shone with intense light, the arrows of this genius girl simply being too powerful as they helped them take down a Dimensional Beast in seconds.

Yet when his eyes landed on the surprised older brother not too far from her…

'Ay…'

Disappointment overflowed as the party delved deeper into the Burning Domains Rift!

Chapter 4

As Noah followed the party of Iron Rank Blessed through the Dimensional Rifts, he expanded his sight while tightly holding on to his sword.

His shining eyes saw the Blessed of this new Realm he found himself move with vigor as they took down Dimensional Beasts!

It was truly more than enough to make his heart that read novels day and night about such things be satiated.

'Ahh, if only I wasn't a talentless Blessed!'

His sorrows remained in his heart as he watched his little sister work with her team to clear the Flaming Cows of the first floor.

When all of them were cleared, only a bit over 20 minutes had passed as the team counted their loot before moving forward.

"...only 3 Low Rank Iron Cores from all those Dimensional Beasts. We better hope for more luck on the second and third floor or we'll barely have enough for renting equipment next time!"

The team leader sighed dejectedly while cursing their luck, bringing to light the plight of many Blessed that delved into Dimensional Rifts- the very low drop rate!

Equipment had an even lower drop rate than items as the Blessed Academy rented it out a full day for a single Low Rank Iron Core.

"We have our equipment for 24 hours, we can just dive again after we rest for a few hours to cover all expenses and gain profit!"

Noah's little sister Annalise voiced out powerfully as her teammates smiled at each other, getting themselves ready before moving on.

Noah felt his heart strings be pulled as he saw this little sister of his that must have been working hard this entire time, fighting in Dimensional Rifts every day to hone her skills.

It made him grasp his sword harder as he wished he had the capability and sufficient strength to do the same, or even go above it!

The party continued forward as they stepped on a blue runic magic circle that appeared the moment the mobs of the first domain were cleared, each of them being teleported into the second domain of the Dimensional Rift.

The monsters here were ferocious looking Flaming Crows that were fiercly swarming the skies, the Beasts from the skies being particularly deadly as they put that much pressure on the party!

But they were veterans that had delved into this Dimensional Rift multiple times, their teamwork solid as they began clearing it with out too much trouble.

On the last Dimensional Beast of the floor was a Flaming Crow, Annalise didn't shoot her last arrow to finish it as she held her teammates back and pointed to her brother.

"Come, it's on its last legs and simply waiting for a finishing strike."

Annalise beckoned towards Noah as he grasped his sword seriously, going towards the limping Crow that was letting out its last squeeks as he trusted in the Iron Rank Equipment he wore and his body of a Blessed that was stronger than a normal man.

SHULK!

His sword descended down on the Dimensional Beast that was on its last breath as it was put out of its misery, its body shining out in a glimmer of colors as from it...loot dropped!

"...!"

The eyes of Annalise and her teammates opened wide as they watched with agape expressions the appearance of not a Core...but a piece of equipment from the defeated beast.

The thing with the lowest drop rate...dropped from the beast killed by someone that had never even killed before!

"What dumb luck…"

The second tank whispered out incredulously as Annalise looked towards her older brother that had picked up the glimmering red armor that dropped, going towards her with a smile as he handed her the armor.

"My present to you, little sister."

The party members shook their heads incredulously at this scene as they smiled, Annalise taking the armor as she nodded with shining eyes!

Any equipment, even Iron Ranked ones, could fetch for a nice price of multiple Cores in the market- this was especially so for all body armors like this one.

They could also choose to keep the Equipment as they reduced their daily costs of renting things from the Armament Department.

When everyone in their team was decked with gear of their own without having to rent...they could freely farm the Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts around Academy City until they grew strong enough to challenge Bronze Ranked Rifts and eventually break through the shackles of Iron Rank Blessed!

The emotions of the party were high as they stepped onto the margin circle leading to the last domain of the Burning Domains Rift.

There was but a single monster on this floor- the Boss monster that was a fearsome looking beast Noah had heard of from legends...the Minotaur!

ROAAAR!

The 4 meter tall creature roared out gloriously towards them as the party moved together with great teamwork to surround it and begin slowly grinding it down.

They were pumped from having an Equipment drop on the past floor as they moved with vigor to attack the Minotaur!

Noah stayed in the back as he protected his inexperienced self, only moving forward when his little sister said so to release a single strike from the beaten down Minotaur.

It took the party about 20 minutes to tear down the defenses of the Boss monster as an ice arrow from Annalise incidentally took it down.

THRUUM!

The surroundings shook as the boss disappeared into particles of light, leaving behind 10 Low Iron Rank Cores...and nothing else!

"Bah!"

The party members released a groan of disappointment as even though Boss monsters had more chances to drop Equipment, the chance was still low.

They found themselves turning their gaze to Noah as they wondered...would the boss have dropped something more if he had landed the last strike?

But their gazes found a surprised Noah that was blankly looking in the air, his body beginning to tremble in excitement as he screamed out indiscernible words!

"I...I have a system!"

RUMBLE!

Chapter 5

When Noah watched the Minotaur fall into particles of light and release Cores, he felt a sense of accomplishment for completing his first Dimensional Rift...and it seemed that this accomplishment was also something that was required of him for something wondrous to happen.

[Successfully cleared a Dimensional Rift. The Idle Gaming System is now active.]

THRUM!

Noah felt his mind buzzing as he saw a blue text box appear in the air, disappearing a second later as he noticed the formation of a square icon in the corner of his eyes!

This square icon had the image of a small golden sword, Noah focusing on it as it ballooned into a full screen in front of him.

The screen was titled simply- [Idle Gaming System]!

"I...I have a system!"

He couldn't help but blurt out as the party that just defeated the Boss looked towards him weirdly, Annalise coming towards him and putting her palm on his head to see if something had gone wrong with him.

"Did you catch a fever and become delirious? Brother?"

He had blanked out for a second as he nearly delved into the contents of the screen labeled [Idle Gaming System], coming back to focus as he waved it away for now and focused on his sister.

He smiled bashfully as he apologized and said he just spaced out.

All he got were weird looks as the party stepped on the Blue shining runic magic circle that appeared with the Boss's defeat, all of them being transported out of the Dimensional Rift as they appeared in the outside world once more!

WAA!

Noah's eyes were bright and filled with excitement as he appeared in the encampment that housed the portal leading to the Burning Domains Dimensional Rift.

"We will rest for 3 hours and recuperate our energy before delving in again. Brother, will you continue diving with us?"

Annalise shook Noah out of his stupor again as he looked at her and the party behind her, shaking his head as he needed some time to figure out what just happened.

"You guys go ahead without me. I have something to do!"

A hint of disappointment appeared on Annalise as she thought her slacker of a brother would change after seeing the dangers and blood-pumping adventures of Blessed delving into Dimensional Rifts, but it looked like she was wrong.

She sighed wistfully as she saw her older brother take off his armor and sword, handing them to her as it seemed he couldn't wait to leave the entrance of the Dimensional Rift.

"Thank you for taking me into the Rift, it was more helpful than you could ever imagine!"

His voice rang out in his sister's ears as he literally ran out from the encampment and away from the peering gazes of many, his heart shaking as he couldn't wait to check out exactly what his System was!

Annalise sighed as she watched his retreating figure, turning to her teammates and thanking them for letting her bring her brother along with them.

They gave her light smiles as the party made way to one of the many establishments near the Dimensional Rift that held delicious foods for Blessed, many of those that had just dived in Rifts choosing to recuperate in places like this before they continued their adventures.

Across the bustling streets of Academy City, Noah's figure could be seen flashing across as his face was filled with excitement!

He returned to the Blessed Academy right away as he went back to the place he liked being the most, in the back of the Academy where there was the verdant field of verdant green grasses.

He was breathing heavily as he arrived at this location and lied down in the same place he was in before his sister had come to take him.

His bright eyes honed on the square icon with a sword in the corner of his eyes as the interface was pulled up once more.

Had he truly gotten his transmigrator patch? Was his life about to change? Numerous questions buzzed in his mind as even though he portrayed himself laid back and without care, he was always scared that he would have no strength to protect himself!

In this foreign new world, this foreign new Ethereal Realm- he had knowledge of the powerful Blessed and Dimensional Beasts as he was afraid he would lead a life of mediocrity and die within a few months or years from just pissing off someone strong or being stepped on randomly like a bug.

Have you ever experienced the feeling of mediocrity? Of knowing your entire life would go by unnoticed and without being able to make any significant change in the world you lived in? it was an extremely distasteful feeling!

Noah had always been battling this horrible feeling and fear that was enhanced by the dangers of this Ethereal Realm, but at this moment, he felt like he could possible erase it!

Under the blue banner titled [Idle Gaming System], Noah could see a blank blue box that seemed similar to the screen of a phone, and within the left side of this huge box...he could see a square that held the image of a Minotaur and the name of [Burning Domains Rift-IRON]!

…!

He felt his heart beating quicker as he clicked on this singular square, a bright flash shining out as information entered his mind.

[The Host has successfully cleared the Burning Domains Dimensional Rift, and can access this Rift in Idle Mode starting now.]

[The Idle Mode for the Burning Domains Rift is active, and will take 65 minutes to clear before loot resources can be available for collecting.]

"..."

Noah was absolutely incredulous when he continued to receive the bundles of information about his System, a system that seemed so ridiculous that couldn't even fathom the extent of it!

[If the Host clears the Dimensional Rift at a faster speed in the real world, the time needed before collecting loot resources will be adjusted…]

More and more information flowed in as Noah's already shocked mind was bombarded even more.

He...he actually had a system that activated something called Idle Mode on any Dimensional Rifts that he cleared.

After he cleared a Rift once, he wouldn't have to do anything as he could access his Idle Gaming System interface and enter Idle Mode for the selected Rift...automatically collecting loot after however much time it took him to clear the Rift in the real world!

"Holy shit…"

Chapter 6

Among the many Systems Noah had read about in the myriad of trashy novels...he could make a case for his System being the most ridiculous.

It truly fit his personality of not wanting to do any work but still getting wonderful rewards!

He heart thumped as he felt relief washing over him, thanking whoever was watching down over him for this beautiful system as he had a gleeful smile on his face when he watched the timer on the Burning Domains Rift slowly go down over time.

In the lush greenery behind the Blessed Academy, Noah lay among the grasses that shone with green lights as an hour very quickly passed.

DING

[Loot resources are available for collecting in the Burning Domains Rift.]

A sound similar to a notification rang in Noah's mind as he opened his eyes slowly, going into the Interface of the Idle Gaming System and clicking on the box that represented the Burning Domains Rift.

RUMBLE!

An explosion of light blinded him as graphics of 5 boxes appeared in front of his eyes.

[+5 Idle Exp][+13 Iron Rank Cores][+1 Blazing Sword][+1 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+30 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

[All items have been placed in Host's Inventory.]

…!

His eyes nearly bulged out at the abundant rewards of the 1 hour of Idle Mode, watching with incredulousness as the timer in front of the Burning Domains Rift icon automatically reset to 65 minutes as it began to count down again!

It meant that approximately every hour for the foreseeable future...Noah would be gaining stupendous loot and resources of varying amounts!

If he cleared other Dimensional Rifts and also had them in Idle Mode…

The mere thought nearly caused his adrenaline to shoot through the roof as he breathed out to calm down.

He focused on the mentioned rewards as he viewed each of them in detail.

[Idle Exp] :: The Experience gained from using the Idle Gaming System. Can be used to level up the system and unlock new features. 5/1000 Exp until the next upgrade.

[Iron Rank Cores] :: Cores that can be used to strengthen the body up to the Peak of Iron Rank.

[Blazing Sword] :: A sharp sword of the Iron Rank. Has slight fire essence contained within that can burn enemies.

[Iron Rank Minotaur Shard] :: Collect 100 Shards to be able to summon an Iron Rank Minotaur to aid you in real life and in Idle Mode. Every equipped Summon reduces Rift clearing time by a certain percentage. 1/100 Shards until Summoning.

[Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals] :: Crystals that can be used to upgrade the strength of the Summons. When two Iron Rank Summons achieve Peak Iron Rank, Evolution into the next tier is possible.

"..."

He was speechless.

Truly speechless.

The System came with so many things that he had to read over it a few times, but a singular glaring message was shouting in his mind.

'Too OP!'

That's right!

It was too damn overpowered!

By doing nothing, he would receive tremendously valuable loot every hour from the single Dimensional Rift he cleared- with some loot that he had never even heard about.

Things like Unit Shards capable of Summoning the boss monsters of Rifts as his pets or the Unit Upgrade Crystals that increased their ranks...he hadn't come across such a thing before!

It was all so ridiculous that he couldn't help but tear up.

He wasn't a useless transmigrator! He wouldn't accidentally be killed by a passing Blessed!

Maybe...just maybe with this System, he would be able to rise up and shine even brighter than any of the trash main characters he read about while protecting himself in this dangerous new world.

The fear of mediocrity he had these past weeks...he would wash this fear away as fast as he could as he rose to the top!

'Ah…!'

His thoughts calmed down as he came out of his soliloquy and glanced to the lower right of the huge blue screen interface where he saw multiple square boxes that had the label of [Inventory] above them.

There were 5 rows and columns, and he could see the number of pages written as 1/1000 ar the bottom of the inventory.

"..."

This was another stupidly ridiculous feature as he merely sighed in amazement.

He saw that the aforementioned [+13 Iron Rank Cores][+1 Blazing Sword][+1 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard] and [+30 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals] were all placed in the Inventory, his mind merely thinking about the Blazing Sword as it disappeared from the Inventory and appeared in his hands.

It seemed as if he had one of the shocking treasures that were known as Space Rings which could contain things in a separate space, but he had an Inventory that was just monstrous!

The Blazing Sword disappeared from his hands as the Iron Rank Cores appeared instead.

They were all Peak Iron Rank Cores- every single one without exception as this was another huge fact with Noah's system.

The Cores always had qualities of Low, Medium, and Peak, with Bosses of Dimensional Rifts being the only ones capable of dropping Peak Cores of their respective levels!

Yet...Noah got all Peak Cores from a single run of the Burning Domains Rift in Idle Mode…

He continued shaking his head in amazement as he barely believed it even now.

'I might as well put in some work and absorb the Cores to go towards Peak Iron Rank…'

He had a thought that would cause others to spit blood in jealousy, pulling the single glimmering Peak Iron Rank Core in his hands as he began absorbing it while lying down on the verdant grassy plains.

Wisps of energy flowed into his body as his cells drank everything with fervor, his eyes closed as he continued to absorb a Peak Iron Core that very few Iron Blessed would get to enjoy.

He was truly working hard!

But everything was made possible with a single interface that awakened the moment he cleared a Dungeon Rift for the first time.

'Idle Gaming system…'

This thought passed through his mind over and over again as he couldn't help but form the biggest smile.

This was his cheat system.

This was his tool to a wondrous life in this new Ethereal Realm!

'This...is My Idle Gaming System!'

RUMBLE!

Chapter 7

The days were always infinitely brighter when you knew your future was bright.

Noah was feeling this way at this moment as he had just finished absorbing 10 [Peak Iron Cores], his body feeling extremely vibrant and filled with energy, even though he felt like this wasn't the limit of the Iron Rank!

He pulled up the Idle Gaming System interface and clicked on the [Burning Domains Rift] icon that was shining in gold, indicating that Loot Resources were ready for collecting whenever he wished.

SHAA!

A bright gold light.

Glorious words then appeared in front of his eyes.

[+5 Idle Exp][+15 Iron Rank Cores][+2 Iron Rank Minotaur Shards][+20 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+1 Flame Bow]

He gained 2 more Cores and an extra Minotaur Shard for the past hour of Idle Mode compared to last time, also getting less Unit Upgrade Crystals along with a wondrous Equipment in the form of a bow!

The things that had extremely low drop rate for Blessed...were flowing to him as loot every hour as he thought he would very soon not know what to do with them.

He left everything in the Inventory for now as he saw the sun was going down, with night soon to descend.

'Annalise should be diving into the Burning Domains Rift again within the next hour?'

He remembered how the party planned to delve into the Dimensional Rift again after 3 hours, thinking about his little sister in this new Ethereal Realm that he would very soon be able to take care of!

When he transmigrated, he had taken over the body and memories of the Noah Eckert of this Ethereal Realm as he felt very connected to the family he had here.

Because of the memories, it didn't seem like he only knew them for three weeks and it felt like he had known them for years!

As for what he would do to get stronger and be more capable to the family that raised him...well, he just had to wait around and be Idle, his System being able to take care of everything on his behalf.

He rose from the verdant green plains behind the Blessed Academy as he passed through the huge structures of this organization, heading into the bustling city as the apartment complex of the parents of Noah and Annalise was only a 10 minute walk away.

They commuted to the Blessed Academy daily to attend optional and some required Lectures given by experienced Blessed on Dimensional Rifts, with the lessons dealing in a variety of topics.

Some were focused on specific roles Blessed could take- whether they wanted to be damage dealers, tanks, or healers and how they could achieve this.

They would be taught which Dimensional Rifts they should dive in that dropped specific equipment for the role they wanted to specialize in and much more.

Other classes dealt in finance and business when it came to the currency that was Cores, as well as how Blessed could manage their money and sell their Loot either to the Academy or private businesses!

Noah's bright eyes shone ever brighter when he thought about these things while heading home.

This Ethereal Realm had the fantasy and feel of both the Middle Ages and his modern world, yet seemed more advanced than his homeworld in its systems as they used magic to their advantage and created wondrous things!

When he moved around the city in the first few days that he transmigrated, he would occasionally wonder if he was still back on the Blue Planet or had really come into a fantasy world- the similarities were too many!

He passed by the crowds of people as he saw the apartment complex in his memories and went in, putting a code in a gate that was reinforced by Iron Rank Ores that very few criminals would bother breaking into.

Security like this meant his parents were fairly well off as they managed to live in such a protected place, his dad and mom both being Bronze Blessed that risked their lives in Dimensional Rifts daily just like his sister!

He was truly the only one in the family that was a slacker, with his mom constantly worrying that his mind was too weak and he might do something dangerous to himself.

'Ahh…'

Noah sighed in melancholy as he entered their apartment that held 4 rooms, a nicely designed living room, and a kitchen that already had a meal prepared on the table.

Even though his mom was out with his dad and their team diving in Dimensional Rifts, she always kept a meal ready for her kids when they returned from their own adventures!

Noah could feel the love of this new family of his that it made him think back to his own, reminiscing for a few minutes before he broke out of his stupor.

He went to grab some of the food and fill himself to the brim as he planned for many possible things in the future, his thoughts innumerable as they revolved around his Idle Gaming System.

When he finished eating, it was already nearing 8 pm as nobody had returned home yet.

'Well, the night is night and I could sleep and wake up tomorrow to truly wondrous presents…'

He thought about the Loot Resources he would be waking up to tomorrow as over 2 hours had passed since he last collected Loot from last time, entering the Idle Gaming System interface and clicking on the box tinged with the color of gold once more before he called it a night.

[+10 Idle Exp][+28 Iron Rank Cores][+3 Iron Rank Minotaur Shards][+55 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+1 Blazing Armor]

The glorious loot that had their text boxes tinged with their own colors glowed in front of his eyes, making him extremely happy as he delved into the warm bed.

He would work hard Idling this entire night and wake up to a better day tomorrow.

As for the surprises that waited for him? There would be too many to count!

The lights went off as after obtaining his cheat system, Noah Eckert was lulled into the folds of sleep.

Chapter 8

When Annalise returned to their apartment at around 10 pm and saw her brother sleeping with a carefree smile still present on his face, anger bloomed on her cute face as she truly didn't know what to do with this brother of hers!

She was out with her team this entire time diving into Rifts while he...he…!

It was too frustrating to even think about as she skipped her dinner and went to rest right away.

The parents of the two children came in two hours later as it was past midnight, watching as their kids slept safely with a smile.

The lives of all Blessed were hard, no matter their ranks!

The 'weakest' in their family returned home the earliest as he was in bed by 8, with his little sister coming in 2 hours later, and their Bronze Rank parents coming back past midnight as they had to work even harder to provide their children with what they had today.

It was a heartwarming scene as the Eckert Household spent the night peacefully in their beds.

'Hmm…'

Early morning on the next day, Noah woke up with a yawn while rubbing his eyes, looking towards the clock to see that it was 6 am!

This might seem truly early for others, but he could already hear the sounds of his parents and little sister moving outside his room as they went to sleep later than him but woke up even earlier.

Such was the regiment of powerful Blessed- they knew in their hearts that they had to rise up early to be truly successful.

Noah shook off his grogginess as his eyes honed in towards the icon of a golden sword that represented his Idle Gaming System.

The Interface came up as he saw a blinding gold light on the square box with the picture of the Minotaur.

The Idle Mode that had been running this entire night was filled with an overabundance of loot as Noah very quickly clicked on it!

THRUUM!

Glorious golden light erupted out as his vision was filled with vibrant text boxes, things only calming down a few seconds later as Noah's eyes focused on them.

[+50 Idle Exp][+150 Iron Rank Cores][+11 Iron Rank Minotaur Shards][+300 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+3 Blazing Armor][+1 Blazing Sword][+2 Blazing Helm]

"..."

Noah had no words as he stared at the bright loot that went straight to his Inventory.

Not even taking into account the multiple Equipment that very rarely dropped in Dimensional Rifts...just the number of Iron Cores alone nearly frightened Noah!

150 Peak Iron Rank Cores!

That was more than enough to bring some to the Peak of Iron Rank 3 times over, and he had all of it to himself.

He pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming as he nearly burst out laughing in delirium!

His emotions were rising so high as he felt his confidence rise, bursting out of his room as he went to the kitchen where his parents and Annalise were.

His face looked bright as it showed someone with grand goals and aspirations, his eyes shining brightly as he spoke!

"Annalise, Mom, Dad...this son has finally decided to get serious and become a capable Blessed!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

All three Blessed in the apartment turned towards him briefly as silence filled the room.

Annalise threw him the cold shoulder after his actions yesterday as she went back to her meal, his father only nodding disbelievingly as his mom gave him a light smile while patting the seat next to her.

"Come have some breakfast, you little rascal."

His whole family ignored his bold claim as they went about their business, Noah breathing out exasperatedly as he groaned about his past slacking behavior before he joined them for breakfast.

They might not believe him now as things stood, but results would speak louder than words when the time came!

And his results….well, he didn't have to think about it too much when he thought about the rewards of Idle Mode for a single Dimensional Rift after just barely one half a day!

Noah ate his breakfast in silence while his parents and sister talked about the happenings of Academy City.

Being Blessed themselves, his parents had gone through everything that Annalise and he were doing right now, and they had already passed through the stage of the Blessed Academy years ago.

The Academy was an institution established to help prepare all upcoming Blessed and to reduce the deaths occurring in the Dimensional Rifts.

There wasn't truly a grading system or any such thing as the only grading was one's strength!

When a Blessed first entered the Blessed Academy, they would be given an identification badge that classified them as 'Students'. This badge could be used by the Blessed to pass through the encampments of the Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts within Academy City.

If they felt like they had grown strong enough and the Blessed Academy could not be of any help to them...then they would have to take a test that would grant them an official Blessed Licence which allows them to enter the higher ranking Dimensional Rifts within Academy City!

Noah was thinking about this method of things at this moment as he was setting up a plan to clear the 2 remaining Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts in the Academy City before he took the assessment of the Blessed Academy that certified his identity as a qualified Blessed and allowed him to delve into the more dangerous Rifts.

Of course, his life was the most important, so he had to be truly confident in his abilities first before he did any such things!

As he saw from the first Dimensional Rift he cleared- as long as he was in the team clearing it, it was counted as he could utilize it in Idle Mode.

This gave him many ideas as he had a myriad of ways to go about when it came to clearing a Rift.

The family finished their breakfast as the parents were the first to leave followed by Annalise, Noah being left alone in the house as he breathed out slowly.

He went back to his room as he waved his hand and caused the appearance of a Peak Iron Core, lying on his bed grandly as he began to absorb it in order to pump his strength even higher.

He had to work hard to absorb the Cores he obtained after a hard night's work of Idle Mode!

Other beings had to farm Low, Medium, and Peak Rank Cores for months as they divided them between their party members and decked themselves out in equipment first before they began slowly absorbing them to raise their strength.

It was only after they graduated from the stage of having to rent out Equipment that they could begin amassing Cores to increase their strength, taking another month or two as they worked with a team to collect and absorb enough Cores they could absorb to hit Peak Iron Rank!

This was the point when they could take the assessment of the Blessed Academy to be labeled qualified Blessed that obtained the License to delve into the Bronze Ranked Rifts within Academy City.

This was when the adventure truly began, and also the stage where many Blessed remained their entire lives- the Bronze Rank.

Getting into such a Rank was achievable with time, but getting past it and into the Silver level? Insurmountably hard!

An example was Noah's parents that were still in the Bronze Rank after all these years…

Noah thought about the plight of all Blessed as he continued absorbing the Peak Iron Cores, spending the entire morning doing so as he only regained his bearings in the afternoon.

This was because as he was in the process of absorbing another Core, he found out that no energy was flowing into his body anymore.

"Hmmm?"

Only then did he rise from the bed as he checked his body, seeing his muscles tout as they vibrated with strength, each part of his body screaming out with power!

PEAK Iron Rank- achieved!

THRUUM!

He released a burst of strength from his strong body as the bed below him creaked, rising up and staring at himself in front of the mirror while he admired the grand visage of muscles.

Wow.

The toned body he never thought he would have in his wildest dreams could be seen in the mirror, his hands tracing over the six packs that he thought was a mere dream!

Didn't one have to do a lot of cardio and control their diet if they ever wanted something like this?

In this Ethereal Realm, he just had to absorb the Cores his Idle Gaming System provided for him as his body would be sculpted to perfection along the way!

"Ah…!"

Chapter 9

Noah left his apartment complex feeling full of power and strength as he went in a different direction than usual.

He wasn't going towards the direction of Blessed Academy, but further into the Academy City where one could find another Iron Rank Dimensional Rift- The Frozen Forest!

After achieving Peak Iron Rank in a day from the Idle Mode of a single Rift, Noah planned to add as many other Rifts as he could in the foreseeable future so he could enjoy even more abundant rewards.

The earlier the better really was too true for him, as the rewards he could get exponentially rising whenever he was able to add another Rift!

He also needed to go clear the Burning Domains Rift once more to get an even faster clear time that would cause his Loot Resources to collect even more rapidly.

He walked with large strides through the bustling streets of Academy City as he felt like a giant among men, his eyes being able to see even more as every breath he took felt like powerful billowing flames!

This was the feeling of power that Peak Iron Rank gave him, his heart feeling excited when he thought about breaking through into the Bronze Rank.

The streets around him were filled with majestic looking animals pulling carriages, and one could even see floating vehicles that released a blue glow below as they sped past everything.

It was commonplace in Academy City to observe the combination of technology and magic as there were many large organizations researching the use of Cores and incorporating them into daily lives.

As Noah moved across the bustling streets, he found a congestion of beings up front as each of them seemed to be pointing towards the skies while speaking in amazed tones.

"Is it really true? The 5th Ethereal Princess will be visiting Academy City for the next few weeks?"

"That's the Edict that high ranking Blessed heard, it's about to be a tumultuous next few weeks in Academy City!"

Noah's ears caught the hushed words of amazes Blessed as his eyes also turned towards the skies, noticing a majestic vessel floating above the tall buildings of the Academy City.

Only those with true power and status could do such a thing, and the being on the vessel had a tremendous status as she was the 5th Ethereal Princess of the Ethereal Realm!

She was the daughter of the powerful being that stood at the peak of power in the Ethereal Realm, the Royalty that made all the rules and laws of this Realm.

The will of such a being was inviolable as seeing his Descendants away from the Imperial City was truly a rare sight.

The Ethereal Realm was extremely vast as it held within it enormous clusters of land that were divided into three Continents.

There was the Light Continent, the Dark Continent, and the Wild Continent!

The Light and Dark Continents were connected by land while the far away Wild Continent was separated from the two by an expansive sea.

The Ethereal Emperor's power began in the Imperial City of the Light Continent, his influence stretching to the Dark and Wild Continents as when he rose to the peak of power and was crowned as the Emperor of the Realm, not a single person had been powerful enough to oppose him.

Our story had only begun as it took place in the small city-state that was Academy City located in the Light Continent, and the unexpected sight of an important personage that had left the Imperial City and graced the Academy City with their presence occurred.

Noah recalled all the information he could from the mind of the body he was occupying as he stared with shining eyes towards the enormous Vessel that had begun descending down from its high position.

THRUUUM!

It released a powerful sound as it looked like a floating ship one would only ever see out of the wildest fantasy.

The important personages within became visible as the vessel neared the ground, Noah being among the many specks of nobodies whose eyes were pulled towards a shocking image.

It was the scene of a ridiculously beautiful silver haired girl stepping out from the vessel, her left and right sides bounded by powerful looking Blessed that released a wondrous silver color from their bodies!

Silver Rank!

The 5th Ethereal Princess stepping out of the vessel was actually accompanied by numerous Silver Ranked Blessed as guards, her face keeping a gorgeous smile as she stepped on the streets of Academy City and went towards the entrance of a huge skyscraper that had golden words lining it up- The Golden Phoenix Auction House.

Noah felt his eyes blazing with light as he watched the scene of a singular being escorted by Blessed that were powerfully in the Silver Rank.

Such was status!

Such was the true power in this Realm!

Even the Silver Ranked Guards that flanked the 5th Ethereal Princess truly had no need to do so as it was a mere formality.

This was because within the Ethereal Realm, the power of the personage at the very top was absolute.

Not a single being would dare even have an idea of lifting their hands to this personage's descendants!

'Ah…'

Noah thought wistfully about the power and prestige such beings held as he shook his head.

He lived in an entirely different world than these powerful beings that had just their guards be multiple times more powerful than him!

He wouldn't think about them too much at this point, as he might never even enter their playing field. If his strength happened to rise to a great degree in the coming days and months as he became confident enough to protect his little life, only then would he entertain such an idea.

For now, would play with his Idle Gaming System as he collected Loot every day and see if he could get much stronger than he currently was.

His eyes lingered on the gorgeous 5th Ethereal Princess and her shocking escort just a bit longer as she entered The Golden Phoenix Auction House, shaking his head as he began moving away from the crowd of watching people.

He had a Dimensional Rift to clear!

Chapter 10

Within The Golden Phoenix Auction House.

The steps of the 5th Ethereal Princess were light as she was received by the Chief of the Auction House himself, a Silver Ranked Blessed that adopted a fawning expression the moment he saw the Princess.

"At ease, Chief Rykiel. My visit to this city will only last a week or two before I head back, and I will frequent your Auction House among other places to pass the time."

The voice of the 5th Ethereal Princess was extremely sonorous and filled with a commanding authority that made Chief Rykiel bow his head even lower.

One would be shocked to see that the face of the being within looked no older than 20!

"I wouldn't dare be presumptuous in front of the Princess. Please let this servant know if he can be of any use during your stay here."

Even a Silver Rank expert that could make waves and own an establishment like the Golden Phoenix Auction House in the center of Academy City acted subserviently towards a being with her Status.

The Princess only gave a light smile as she walked into the Auction House with slow steps.

Her visit into Academy City this time was a mystery that many people would never find out about, but the consequences of her visit would be a match that would spark the birth of something that had yet to even enter the minds of the powerful beings of the Ethereal Realm.

It was bound to be a tumultuous next few weeks as the 5th Ethereal Princess descended unto Academy City, undercurrents waving in the dark that very few knew about!

On the streets of Academy City far away from the Golden Phoenix Auction House.

Noah was marveling at all the fantastical scenes around him as he hummed a tune while he neared the location of the Dimensional Rift after some time, his eyes wandering around the Interface as he noticed yet another section, this time in the top right hand corner.

It was the square box that had the cartoon image of...him?

He clicked on it as a set of words appeared in front of his eyes.

[Noah Eckert] [Rank: Iron(PEAK)]

[Strength: Iron]

[Dexterity: Iron]

[Intelligence: Iron]

[Vitality: Iron]

[Skill(s): None]

"Ooh…"

He glanced at the stat panel looking interface as he released a sharp breath, seeing the quantified attributes of his body that felt full of power.

'Very intuitive indeed…'

He gave a nod to the System that continued to surprise him as he finally neared the encampment of one of the three Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts within Academy City.

Surrounding it were an abundance of Blessed, some with full teams waiting to go in while others had half teams while seemingly waiting for their party members or looking around for powerful Blessed to join them.

One didn't have to find a Team to delve into Rifts with just in the Blessed Academy, they could easily get into one around the encampment of a Rift...if they were strong enough that is.

Noah had a light smile on as he looked at his inventory that nearly had the full set of the wondrous 'Blazing' Equipment from the Burning Domains Rift, his thoughts moving with a command.

'Equip!'

His intentions were received as while he moved through the crowd of Blessed, a sword pulsing with flames appeared in his hands while a red full body armor and a helm came to easily fit into his body.

When he passed through an unsuspecting group of Blessed, he came out as a Blessed fully decked out in a nearly complete Blazing Set as he went towards a Part that only held 4 members!

Their eyes drew towards him and the powerful looking set of Armament he had on, the party leader at the forefront going towards him as Noah was the first to ask.

"Might you guys be looking for another member? My team isn't diving today, but I still want to stretch my legs!"

THRUM!

His body tensed out as he released a powerful shockwave of strength, the Blessed in front of him looking towards him with shining eyes as the leader had a big smile.

This was because they could now sense his strength at the Peak of Iron Rank!

Having such a being on your team...was a blessing!

"Haha of course. Come meet everyone else…"

The party leader was jovial to gain a powerful Blessed to dive with them today as Noah went to mingle with the party.

It had a single tank with a healer and the rest being damage dealers, Noah joining this designation as with him in the party, they were confident enough to clear the [Frozen Forest] before them.

They queued up among the teams diving as within 20 minutes they went through, Noah stepping into the Frozen Forest with a new team as he moved towards his goal of having multiple Dimensional Rifts in Idle Mode as he collected even more abundant rewards day and night!

Chapter 11

The Frozen Forest Dimensional Rift was exactly that- an enormous forest that spanned a few miles, frozen trees and plains of snow visible all around as within the forest...monsters of the Ice Attribute ran rampant.

A team entering the Frozen Forest had to clear out all the monsters within before the Boss could be summoned, and they had to be careful that they didn't stay in one place or call too much attention to themselves, otherwise they could be swarmed by all nearby beasts.

The party Noah joined thought he would take the lead as he was a Peak Iron Blessed, but he gave them a slight smile as he beckoned for the party leader to continue his role.

Within the frosty environment of the Frozen Forest, Noah felt extremely comfortable while wrapped up on his Blazing Set Equipment, the fiery Blazing Armor and helm making him fully ignore the cold environment.

GRRR

The first Dimensional Beast appeared the moment they stepped foot in the Forest, Noah's eyes shining as with his increased strength, he didn't feel any ounce of pressure from such a Beast that he felt before.

The beast was very similar to an Arctic Wolf, its sharp canines threatening to tear into the hearts of its enemies as the tank raised his shield and got ready to defend.

From behind, Noah's eyes became sharp as he felt his body moving, kicking up a flurry of snow as he found himself closing the distance of a few meters between him and the wolf rapidly as before he knew it, his Blazing Sword was striking down towards the head of the Arctic Wolf!

…!

The party members observed the scene in shock as they saw Noah move extremely fast, their eyes widening as they saw his fiery sword smash into the ferocious head of the Arctic Wolf as a horrid sound rang out.

SQUELCH!

The Sword struck deep as it pierced into the head and caused brain matter to fly, the Dimensional Beast exploding into clusters of light soon after as Noah stood dominantly on the snowy field!

One hit! One kill!

"Hooo…"

He breathed out slowly as he felt a sense of exhilaration fill his body, his eyes shaking as he finally felt the excitement he had hoped to feel since he transmigrated into this Ethereal Realm.

The feeling of power that would course through your body. The feeling of taking down a fierce monster with a swing of your Sword!

'So that's what it feels like!'

RUMBLE!

Noah couldn't help but release his aura at the Iron Rank, the gray wave of energy throwing up the snow around them as it caused some noise in the surroundings.

The party members that were amazed by his strength just before adopted surprised looks at the release of power from the Blessed in front of them, but their gazes quickly changed as they began hearing the growls of beasts come towards them.

They, or more aptly Noah, had made too much noise as they drew the attention of surrounding beasts!

"Protective formation!"

The tank called out quickly as the party clustered together, but Noah's eyes were still wild and filled with excitement as they landed on the figures of the 3 more Dimensional Beasts coming towards them.

His body that felt like it held limitless strength rushed towards the nearest one as he released an excited bellow!

"OOOH!"

He could release such a frightful bellow freely because he affirmed what he knew- Blessed at the Peak Iron Rank could very easily take care of the common monsters in Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts, their power nearing the Bosses of such Rifts as all they needed was support from a few other Blessed to easily clear Iron Rank Rifts!

He had absorbed over 60 Peak Iron Rank Cores as he reached Peak Iron, his strength being something that would cause the envy of many new upcoming Blessed in the Academy.

With the support of the Healer and tank that could take over to push back the monsters whenever Noah had to pull back and recuperate to regain his full strength, the party was able to clear the monsters of the Frozen Forest with relative ease as the 2 damage dealers felt like they weren't required!

RUMBLE!

The Boss monster of the Frozen Forest Rift was summoned after they spent over half an hour to clear the monsters of the few miles long Forest, a ferocious Dimensional Beast appeared in front of their eyes.

ROAAAR!

It was a huge 5 meter Mammoth, its tusks glistening with a dangerous light as it charged towards them.

[Warrior's Resolve]!

The tank of their past used his energy as he cast what was relatively rare to come across among Blessed- it was a skill!

THRUM!

The body of the Blessed shone with a bright green light as he stood like a fortress with his shield raised high, stopping the advancement of the Mammoth as Noah and the other Damage dealers immediately swooped in to land ferocious attacks.

With their swift teamwork and Noah's high attack power that dug out chunks of burnt meat with every attack, the Boss of the Frozen Forest was bound to fall in a matter of minutes!

Chapter 12

BOOM!

The fall of an enormous beast caused a raucous as the snow was blown everywhere, the Beast then bursting into innumerable lights as loot came out.

A wondrous Frost Armor floated down along with 10 Cores, causing excitement to build on the faces of the party moments Noah joined with as they looked towards him with shining eyes.

Since he had contributed the most during this Rift run, he had the first pick when it came to loot!

But his next action surprised them all as they saw him grab the armor and throw it towards the party leader.

"This is thanks for letting me team up with you guys!"

Noah threw the Iron Ran Equipment over to them as a show of goodwill, knowing he wouldn't have ventured into a dangerous Rift alone at the stage of strength he was at.

If he got exhausted halfway through and couldn't stop the onslaught of beasts or be able to stand against a Boss 1 v 1...only the sweet release of death awaited him for a second time!

Besides, he already had multiple Iron Equipment, and with the addition of this Dimensional Rift into his Idle Gaming System...Equipment such as this Frost Armor would be flowing to him in great numbers just in the next few hours.

The Blessed he partied with looked towards him like he was a Saint, the party leader handing Noah a Communication Medallion that was a common mode of communication in the Ethereal Realm.

They could reach each other from vast distances by merely putting their energy into the medallion and speaking to let their voice travel on the other side!

"Brother Noah, be sure to party with us again whenever you have the time! Just send me a message through the Communication Medallion and we will all be there…"

The Blessed looked towards Noah like a fat sheep as they saw him discard an Equipment so easily, thinking he might be one of the Blessed that came from a powerful family as they wanted to form connections.

They weren't too far off as in a short period of time, Noah would become even more well off than the rich sons and daughters of huge organizations!

At these words, Noah gave a light smile as he spoke out.

"We can continue to party right now. Have you guys dived into the Verdant Plains before?"

His words shook the 4 Blessed as he asked about the 3rd Iron Ranked Dimensional Rift in Academy City, a Rift an hour away from their current location!

But Noah spoke of it because he asked himself why he should wait before obtaining all three Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts in Academy City.

What prevented him from getting the last one today as he enjoyed his next few days Idling while getting an obscene amount of loot?!

The party leader didn't expect this as he looked at his teammates while nodding, saying that they had ventured into it a few times.

Noah could only smile brightly at this as he went towards the runic magic circle that appeared after the defeat of the Mammoth to leave the Frozen Forest Rift, his voice ringing out in the ears of the Blessed behind him.

"Then...let's go on a trip!"

THRUM!

Energy fluctuated out as the 4 party members looked wryly at each other while following.

This powerful Blessed...was eccentric!

Noah and the party of Blessed left the Frozen Forest Rift as they made their way through the vibrant Academy City towards yet another Iron Rank Dimensional Rift.

On the way there, he glanced at the Idle Gaming System interface.

Next to the [Burning Domains Rift-IRON], a new square box had appeared as it contained the cartoonish graphic of a Mammoth, its label was [Frozen Forest Rift- IRON]!

It had already entered Idle Mode as Noah saw the timer counting down from 48, the clearing of this Rift being much faster than his first one as the rewards would come with even more frequency!

His shining eyes then clicked on the [Burning Domains Rift-IRON] box that was shining with a golden light that indicated loot resources were ready for collection.

It had been a few hours since he last collected, so the rewards were abundant!

[+40 Idle Exp][+120 Iron Rank Cores][+9 Iron Rank Minotaur Shards][+130 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+2 Blazing Lance][+2 Blazing Boots]

More and more Iron Cores rolled in as he gained yet another weapon and Armament from the Blazing Set, his steps light as he had a happy expression while moving with his makeshift team towards the verdant plains.

If just a single Dimensional Rift had been able to push him to Peak Iron Rank after a day, he wondered what would happen when had three in Idle Mode!

Academy City was vast, but the large majority of Dimensional Rifts were clustered in the center of the City.

This was of course due to planning, many of the powerful organizations bending to the will of the Ruling Force of the Ethereal Realm as they built nearly all of their complexes around the Dimensional Rift.

The Rifts were looked at as a source of tremendous wealth and possibilities, but it seemed the truly powerful were somewhat wary of them as they acted with care.

But Noah didn't have to worry about any of this right now as after passing numerous conglomerates and Blessed Organizations, his little team arrived at the last Iron Rank Dimensional Rift in Academy City- the Verdant Plains!

The truly powerful Blessed didn't pay too much attention to small Rifts like these as most Blessed Organizations could be found active on Bronze Ranked Rifts and above.

The process for this Rift was as easy as the others, where the team had to simply wait in line before they could enter the gray glowing portal of the Verdant Plains.

Noah's eyes were bright as their turn came and they entered, his heart filled with excitement as he was actually set to achieve his goal of having all 3 Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts in his Idle System just a day after he unlocked it!

Chapter 13

The Verdant Plains Rift was just as its name described.

Expansive plains of green stretched throughout as the Monsters were...slow moving Treants!

They were huge 5 meter tall Dimensional Beasts that packed quite the punch, the only saving grace being their slow speed as careful Blessed could slowly take them down until the Boss spawned.

Since the Treats were all outstretched in the same Plains, Noah could use his vigorous strength at Peak Iron Rank to tear down the thick defenses of the Treats as his fire weapon was truly deadly against them!

All that was left was for the party of Blessed to reinforce him every now and then as he felt the vibrant skill of [Heal] land on him when his armor got even the slightest scratch.

The Healer was treating him extremely well as Noah enviously thought of the skills that she and the tank held.

Unless a Blessed naturally awakened a skill or multiple naturally, obtaining skills could only be done one way- skill books!

Such things didn't even drop in Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts, the mobs in Bronze Rank Rifts being capable of rarely dropping lower ranking [Skill Books] or the Bosses of these Bronze Rank Rifts being capable of dropping skill books of the same rank as them.

Noah would have to dive into a Bronze Rank Rift if he wanted to get his hands on a skill book, or he could of course use his newfound wealth to buy these expensive treasures from others…

His thoughts drifted away from skill books as he focused on the Treats his sword was slashing apart, the last movie falling under his hands as a brilliant light shined out to announce the coming of the Boss- the Verdant Treant!

"Swarm this slow thing!"

Noah shouted out to the other Damage dealers of the party as they moved forward rapidly, his heart set on clearing the Rift in as little time as possible for the maximum rewards on his Idle System later.

ROAAAR!

The Treat bellowed out angrily as the tank did a good job of keeping its aggro, Noah and the other Damage dealers moving in and out as the Boss was brought down in less than 8 minutes.

"Haaa…"

Noah breathed out heavily at the fall of the beast, watching the explosion of light as only Cores dropped from it!

The Blessed went to go pick them up with a disappointed expression as the party leader thanked Noah for the smooth Rift dive once more.

Noah only gave them a light smile as he waved goodbye, having achieved his goal of clearing three Dimensional Rifts and having them in Idle Mode as this last one was completed in less than 40 minutes!

He had truly been too active lately, the past few hours all spent running around from one Dimensional Rift to another.

He left the Verdant Plains Rift as he enjoyed the sights of Academy City while heading towards the direction of the Blessed Academy.

The beautiful grass plains behind the Academy was his all time favorite spot since his transmigration as he wanted to collect the Loot Resources of three Dimensional Rifts for the first time while lying down on his old spot.

He needed to go back to his slacking ways while enjoying the fruits of his hard work as with every passing hour...his Idle Gaming System would be working for him!

He spent his time walking around Academy City as he arrived in the Blessed Academy an hour later.

He made his way across the multiple departments of this enormous organization as he also passed all the busy Blessed, his body at this moment dressed in his usual clothes as the Blazing Set he had on had long since returned to his Inventory.

He went behind the huge Academy as he returned to the swaying grass plains that looked even better than any garden he had come across before.

A smile of satisfaction entered his face as he laid down on the grass, his body being covered by them as one could barely make his figure out among the waving grasses!

Over an hour passed since Noah had the three Iron Rank Rifts on Idle Mode, the earlier ones having had even more time under their belt.

His eyes shone as he opened his eyes and focused on the Idle Gaming System, clicking on all of the Rifts at once, wanting to see the results of his hard world and what he should expect for the future!

[+15 Idle Exp][+45 Iron Rank Cores][+1 Blazing Sword][+1 Frost Armor][+1 Verdant Shield][+1 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+1 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+1 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+90 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

The wondrous sight of loot he would have needed three hours to pass from a single Rift to receive...he got in under an hour from the 3 Rifts in total!

One must also keep in mind the fact that the Frozen Forest had less than 50 minutes of clear time, and the Verdant Plains had only 38 minutes of required Idle time before the cycle of loot could repeat…

This shocking fact meant that when the next day came...the loot resources Noah was about to obtain would make even Bronze Ranked Blessed feel like peasants in terms of wealth!

RUMBLE!

He felt his heart loudly beat in excitement as he couldn't stop thinking of a glorious future...

Chapter 14

Noah had worked hard in the morning and afternoon, having Idle Mode set up on 3 Dimensional Rifts simultaneously when it was already in the evening.

He relaxed among the tall verdant grasses on the field behind the Blessed Academy, very few Blessed taking the time to come back here as their hearts were set of Rifts and what they could do to get stronger from them.

When someone did go behind the Blessed Academy, it was more than likely a crimson-haired girl that pushed herself to help her slacker of a brother.

The wind caused the grass to sway peacefully as Noah had a bright smile while relaxing, the environment of this world being so fantastic that simply taking in the air from the surroundings felt wondrous.

His eyes were following the green energies swirling on the grass around him as they soon wandered and began seeing the appearance of tall slender legs. Those legs...he recognized those legs.

"Brother...why are you always here?"

Annalise had appeared with a tired face as she stood above her brother, Noah rising up from the ground he lay on as he looked at her with a light smile. The Dimensional Rift diving today must have been particularly stressful as the girl had tired eyes that didn't seem to want to continue anymore!

"It's peaceful here. Away from the bustle of academy city, away from the maddened Blessed that are always busy doing something."

Noah said this as he looked even further past the plains behind Academy City. Half a mile away, the plains turned into thick foliage and trees as they melded to form the start of a famous forest in the Academy City, a forest that the Blessed Academy itself normally had training exercises in.

Annalise nodded at her brother's answer as she sat down beside him. She didn't expect her brother to ask her a question next.

"Why do you work so hard to dive into Dimensional Rifts, little sister?"

"...to change our position. Mom and dad have been stuck in the Bronze Rank all their lives as they only move like clock work for the past years diving into Rifts to get enough loot to sustain us as the process only repeats…"

Annalise had unexpectedly found herself talking freely, her gaze hazy as flames of ambition could be seen in this girl's eyes!

This was the Blessed that had awoken an Inherent Skill that many genius Blessed held, a type of skill that propelled them to power if they utilized it and grew it well.

It was something called an Inherent Growth Skill, something that grew with the power of the holder!

Annalise's Growth Skill was something that allowed her to be dominant in the Burning Domains Rift, the ability Noah had seen before when he observed her shooting extremely cold arrows to the flame based monsters.

|Ice Queen|.

A growth ability with a dominant name that granted its holder the attribute of ice in all their attacks. Depending on what the Blessed that held it did, the skill could be grown in something terrifying, or it could be lost in the dredges of time as it amounted to nothing.

Noah was a normal Blessed that had awakened with out such a perk, his situation being something the large majority of Blessed went through.

"I want to grow strong enough that Bronze Rank isn't the peak that I will be stuck on, so that I can tell mom she doesn't have to risk her life every day with Teams of people that all have their own goals. Anything can happen you know? Any one of these days she could enter a Rift...and we might never hear from her again."

THRUM!

Shocking words came out of Annalise as Noah's lazy eyes focused. The emotions of the body he took over seemed to become tumultuous as time passed!

"It would be helpful if my older brother picked up some of the work and helped me as well."

Annalise voiced out softly as she hugged her knees while staring in the direction of the far forest with glimmering verdant trees.

Noah could only sigh as he rose up, giving her a light smile as his hand reached out to help her up.

"Your older brother will surprise you in the next few days, I really wasn't joking when I said that."

"Mmm...let's go home for now." The eyes of Annalise were filled with many thoughts as she merely nodded towards her brother with a smile, the two siblings beginning to walk back to their homes!

They passed through the streets of Academy City and found the Complex their parents had managed to provide for them for all their lives, entering its folds as the hours quickly passed.

Noah enjoyed the feeling of clicking the Idle Gaming System interface when 10+ hours had passed, the sight of a large collection of loot resources showing up at once having become an addicting feeling to him.

Since around 5 pm in the evening, he didn't collect any loot resources from the three Dimensional Rifts running in Idle Mode as he planned to give himself a surprise early in the morning!

Chapter 15

In the early hours of the morning at around 6 am, Noah found himself waking up naturally as the bustle of activity could already be heard in the apartment.

He rose from his bed as his eyes shone brightly, attracted towards the glowing box that held a golden sword representing his Idle Gaming System.

Over 13 hours had passed since he last collected, and he purposefully waited for the overabundance of loot to stack. Entering the Idle Gaming System Interface, he saw the three Dimensional Rifts that were shining with a brilliant golden light.

They were screaming...click on us and collect!

...and so he did.

THRUUM!

An eruption of a bright gold light, and a set of shocking words appeared in front of his eyes.

[+215 Idle Exp][+585 Iron Rank Cores][+4 Blazing Armor][+7 Blazing Sword][+8 Frost Armor][+8 Frost Sword][+5 Frost Helm]+10 Verdant Shield][+6 Verdant Armor][+7 Verdant Spear][+15 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+20 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+24 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+1170 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

"...!"

'Is...is this allowed?'

Noah had a shocking thought as he stared at the information floating in front of his eyes.

The significance of having cleared multiple Dimensional Rifts was so damn huge that it showed itself clearly after just half a day in Idle Mode!

The Idle Experience that would have taken him 10 days to max and achieve the next level of his System...he received 1/5th of it in just half a day as he would at most need 2 more days before he could upgrade the System.

The Iron Rank Cores...my goodness the Iron Rank Cores!

He felt like he was wealthier than any young masters he had read about in the past as the number of Cores was truly extravagant.

But most of all, the biggest surprises were the Loot Resources of the Frozen Forest and the Verdant Plains that were much shorter than the Burning Domains Rift!

The loot from these two Rifts had given him many resources this past night, his eyes honing in on the Mammoth and Variant Treant Unit Shards that had exploded in number.

One must recall that he needed 100 Shards to summon a unit by his side, and he had received nearly one fourth of the required Shards from just this single night.

This made for a shocking reality that stated after a day and a half or at most 2 days passed...he would be obtaining two Summonable Units he could use in real life and also in Idle Mode to decrease clearing time by a certain percentage!

His mind was more focused on the fact that he could have them in reality...as it meant he could delve into Rifts by himself and clear them at shocking speeds with the aid of two Iron Rank Boss Monsters.

That was two Rift Bosses...even if they were in the Iron Rank, it was something he could say with surety that he had never heard about before the few times he attended the classes in the Blessed Academy!

Some Blessed were capable of using summoning skills of course, with others even being able to summon the terrifying undead or humungous beasts that made them renowned in the Light Continent. But to be capable of summoning Rift Bosses?

No one could do so!

Noah's excitement was also shooting through the roof when he recalled the [Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]!

These could be used to enhance the strength of the Units even more as if he had enough of them, he could even evolve two Iron Rank Units into Bronze. When he thought of this idea and the possibility of him collecting Bronze or Silver Rank Rift Bosses to fuse in the future...

'Idle Gaming System...please stop! I'm already very impressed!'

Noah nearly screamed out as the palpating excitement threatened to cause a heart attack, the features of this System simply being too many as there were even more things to unlock with future upgrades.

'Two Summonable Boss Units in around 36 hours at the earliest, 48 hours at most…'

He made a few calculations as the reality of the wonders of having three Iron Rank Rifts on Idle Mode dawned on him, his eyes shining brightly as he felt the passage of time to truly not be moving as fast as it should!

When he left his room, his parents and little sister had already gone out as a fulfilling breakfast was left behind for him. He had a light smile on his face as many thoughts swirled in his mind, his eyes filled with glorious purpose as today...he wanted to be a spendthrift!

The vast Academy City held a great deal of establishments and businesses that were under the leash of powerful organizations.

There was an over abundance of stores and shops that sold fantastical things, but Noah made his way to an Equipment Shop most Iron and Bronze Rank Blessed visited as he dared not step into the rich shops where arrogant Blessed strolled in.

He planned to visit the luxurious stores where one could obtain the rare skill books, but his wealth had not yet ballooned up to such an extent as he might only be able to buy one of the lowest ranking Skill Books and be left penniless. He would first obtain a measure of protection, and then wait for a day or two to pass before he searched for a skill!

He stood in front of the door of the shop as he read [Equipment Emporium] on the building, entering it silently as he stepped into a glistening new world of equipment and unique items.

The shop already had a few patrons in early in the morning, multiple reception desks already occupied as Noah glanced at the inside of the store that had many Equipment lining up their shelves.

A large majority of them were of the Iron Rank, but he could see a number of Bronze Rank equipment and on the ceiling of this shop...he could see a glistening silver armor floating majestically!

Silver Rank!

His eyes squinted at the glorious armor as a voice shook him out of his thoughts.

"How may we help you, sir?"

A devilishly handsome guy with a serious expression appeared in front of Noah as he gave a light smile and spoke.

"I came to buy some Bronze Rank equipment."

"Oh? Right this way." A hint of surprise flashed by the eyes of the worker as he led Noah towards a counter, handing him a book that held a list of items as well as their prices.

With hundreds of Peak Iron Rank Cores that a normal Blessed could not even hope of gaining after years worth of hard work, Noah went into an Equipment Shop to choose equipment above his level to buff himself up!

Chapter 16

When it came to equipment, the price difference between Iron and Bronze was over ten times.

Going even further, the price difference between Bronze and Silver Ranks...was 100 times!

It was a gulf that was extremely hard to cross for many beings as they stayed in lower ranks all their lives.

To break through the status quo, one had to have an amazing Inherent Skill or be born in a rich household.

Noah had no such things….but he did have his Idle Gaming System!

"Let me get [Gladiator's Plate] and the [Magma Sword]."

Noah spoke out simply after looking through the list of Bronze Rank Equipment the man in front of him provided.

The workers of this Equipment Emporium were extremely professional as Noah went snubbed or laughed at when he came in with such a shocking request, the worker only smiling towards him with shining eyes as he spoke out their prices.

"50 Bronze Cores for the Magma Sword, 60 Bronze Cores for the Gladiator's Plate."

THUMP!

The price caused Noah's heart to beat faster as he remained calm, waving his hand towards the counter as he caused the appearance of 700 Iron Rank Cores.

"You also accept Iron Cores, yes?"

…!

Alarm filled the face of the worker as he sat up straight.

It wasn't because of the large amount of Iron Cores, even though this brought its own shock as a normal person would never carry that much with them- it was the action of waving his hands and causing the appearance of items from thin air!

The worker of the Equipment Emporium glanced on the ring fingers of this Blessed as he saw a simple ring on one of his fingers, his eyes shining as he assumed this Blessed was a rich young master that had already obtained a Space Ring and was coming out to splurge after taking hundreds of Cores from his parents or organization.

The worker sat up straighter as he nodded.

"Iron Cores are accepted, with the price changing to 600 Iron Cores and 700 Bronze Cores respectively for the Equipment. How does Sir wish to pay for the Magma Sword?"

The price conversion was over 10 times as 50 Bronze Cores weren't even equivalent to 500 Iron, but 600 instead!

The worker pulled the 700 Peak Iron Cores into the counter behind him as they disappeared, a pristine duffel bag holding within it the [Gladiator's Plate] appearing instead as Noah's eyes lit up.

He waved his hands once more as on the counter, one Iron Rank Equipment after another began to appear- ranging from the numerous Blazing Armors, Frozen Armors, Blazing Swords...and a variety of other Equipment Noah had been obtaining freely from his Idle Gaming System!

The worker counted at least 15 items as he evaluated all of them, nodding his head as he spoke out.

"We can take these for 700 Iron Cores or pay the difference of 100 and hand you the Magma Sword."

Noah nodded at the worker as he worked quickly, all the items he set forth disappearing behind the counter as another duffel bag appeared in front of him.

Two bags, two Bronze Rank Equipment!

Noah put them in his inventory as he had long since put on a normal ring he found in his house to pass off as a Storage Ring, nodding towards the worker as he achieved his goal and was about to leave.

"Here's my business crystal. You can rely on our Equipment Emporium for all your Equipment needs up to the Silver Rank."

The worker handed Noah a shimmering crystal that held a unique signature of the Equipment Emporium, this being something Noah could use whenever he stepped into this store again as it would send a signal to notify this worker in front of him to come take his business!

As a worker, he received a portion of the sales profit- this being some of the jobs that Iron Rank Blessed took.

Noah nodded towards the worker with a smile as he stepped out of the shop, passing through the streets of Academy City as he went towards the Blessed Academy.

On days like today, there were a few classes occurring where Bronze Rank hunters came to the Academy to share their knowledge, but Noah returned to his lush hiding place filled with greenery behind the Academy as he planned to relax there the entire day while waiting!

He was waiting for the time to pass quickly so he could collect all the required Unit Shards to summon two Rift Bosses, as he would then be confident enough to go into the three Rifts he had already cleared with these powerful creatures and bring his Clear Time even further down.

The faster the clear time, the more abundant the rewards!

With the Bronze Rank equipment he had just bought, he was more than confident enough to keep his little life while surrounded by Rift Bosses to clear Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts.

This was especially so when he thought about the [Unit Upgrade Crystals]!

Just how strong could he make the Rift Bosses with the hundreds of Upgrade Crystals he already collected? How many would it take to max them before they could be combined and evolved into a monstrous Bronze Rank Dimensional Beast?

Noah's mind truly swirled with a great deal of questions as he returned to his old peaceful hiding place and lay down, closing his eyes to relax.

It felt really good to be a slacker!

Chapter 17

The bustle of Academy City was as vibrant as ever, with many powerful figures moving with their own goals.

On this day, the Blessed moving around the Blessed Academy received shocking news that the personage that descended unto Academy City a few days ago...the 5th Ethereal Princess was visiting the Blessed Academy today!

She had wandered across many establishments and Organizations in the past two days as she gave many big bosses that thought of themselves as kings of their domain a huge fright.

Each of them knew of the inviolable power of the Ethereal Emperor and exactly what Royalty such as the 5th Ethereal Princess represented.

So when the Chiefs of the Blessed Academy received this information, they moved frightfully to get the Blessed moving around the Academy in order as the fairy-like 5th Ethereal Princess came in while surrounded by Silver Ranked Guards.

"Princess…it's an honor to have you visit our humble academy…"

A bright smile that pushed away any and all darkness could be seen on the 5th Princess as she nodded and spoke.

"I had to come see the Academy that gets the next generations of Blessed ready for the dangerous Rifts. I won't bother you guys for too long."

THUMP!

The Silver Rank Blessed that was in charge of the Academy along with a few other chiefs could feel sweat forming on his head as he nodded while trying to keep a smile on his face.

"Please, take all the time you need…"

The 5th Princess moved with her guards as the surrounding Blessed looked towards her with shining eyes and amazement.

The demeanor of this personage was truly too grand!

The Chiefs of the Academy began to work hard as they cleared the halls of the different departments to make sure no incidents occurred, the Blessed that normally permeated throughout actually being moved out as the Chiefs observed the path of the Princess.

The Armament Department was visited as the workers stood like statues, the Learning Halls that Noah never stepped into also being visited as while the Princess was on the second floor of the Learning Halls, she looked out the window to see a beautiful expanse of greenery in the back of the Academy.

It gradually melded with thick foliage and vibrant trees as it formed into a thick forest that was a known site for Academy City- The Vibrant Forest that had a myriad of unique harmless animals!

Her eyes lit up at the beautiful sight of the grassland as it seemed extremely peaceful, making her way from the second floor and going towards the back of the Academy.

There was a single archway entrance that led to the back, the Chiefs having already moved to clear out Blessed and make way as the Princess strolled in with her Silver Guards.

She looked around the archway and their surroundings that seemed devoid of people, voicing out calmly to her guards.

"Keep a look out here, I wish for some alone time."

The lead Silver Ranked Guards nodded as his eyes scanned the surroundings while the line of guards stood to protect the archway that led to the back of the Academy.

The 5th Princess strolled in alone as her hands passed over the vibrant grass that rose to her knees, enjoying this peaceful feeling she couldn't get from the Imperial City as she stared out toward the expansive greenery around her.

The Silver Guards behind her kept a close look as they saw her walk further in, the Princess stopping at a certain point as she breathed in deeply and...sat down.

Coincidences and chance meetings rarely happen.

But when they do, one would find themselves wondering- was it truly by chance, or something else?

Noah's body was lying down among the tall grasses as always, his figure barely discernible among the waving plants as he felt extremely comfortable.

He had been relaxing for the past few hours as many plans flowed in and out of his mind, occasionally falling asleep while enjoying the peace this place brought him.

This time, he was taken out of his relaxation as he felt a change in the surroundings, the smell of verdant greenery replaced by a whiff of...perfume?

It was an extremely enticing smell as he opened his eyes groggily while raising his head.

When he did, he found his eyes landing on a ridiculously beautiful girl a few meters away, the silver hair on her head vibrantly cascading down to her shoulders as he was immediately woken out of his grogginess.

His mind worked fast as he seemed to recall seeing this figure from far away before, his heart beginning to beat faster as he felt a foreboding sensation!

What was most shocking when he raised his head was the fact that on the face of this peerless beauty...he could see a line of tears seamlessly dropping from her eyes!

"..."

When his head rose, so did hers as her colorful blue eyes locked with his own vibrant blue eyes.

The tears on her face stopped flowing.

They immediately disappeared from her cheeks as if they never existed.

Her eyes locked on the being that was seemingly coming out of a groggy sleep and trying to get up as she spoke silently.

"Do not raise your head any further if you wish to keep it on your shoulders."

Her voice clearly and silently rang in Noah's ears as it didn't travel far, not alerting the guards that were lined up on the archway and watching their surroundings carefully!

She did not want this poor boy who was most likely just resting here to be mistaken for an enemy or assassin, hey blue eyes sparkling with light as she kept her voice low.

"There are 10 Silver Ranked Blessed behind me that are just waiting for an excuse to prove their power."

Noah heard her voice again as his heart shook, his head sinking back right where it was as he breathed out slowly.

He really liked that his head was still attached to his body.

He did not want that to change.

His breath quieted down as he calmed his beating heart, understanding the stupid situation he had found himself in as he cursed multiple times in his mind.

All he wanted to do was relax and Idle as he collected Loot, why the hell did this Princess choose to interrupt his time like this?!

Chapter 18

The verdant grass continued to sway with the wind behind the plains of the Blessed Academy as the 5th Ethereal Princess sat peacefully.

The man lying down not too far away stared at the sky while he thought of the ridiculousness of this important being just happening to be visiting his relaxing spot and causing this whole situation.

His expression became serious as he also recalled the dangers of it, his voice ringing out softly.

"I didn't see anything."

He thought of the tears he had seen fall from this girl as he said this, waiting for a few seconds before her voice rang out in his ears again.

"That's right. It's best if you didn't see anything."

Silence descended onto the green plains before her voice rang out again.

"Your name?"

"...Noah Eckert." Noah replied carefully as his mind continued to spin, adding a question himself. "Yours?"

The grass swayed peacefully as no reply came, Noah waiting an entire half a minute before he heard the sweet voice again as it came with a sigh.

"Rose. I'll be leaving now, don't leave this area for at least another hour if you don't want to be wrongly implicated in anything."

Noah stayed silent to voice his affirmation as he stared at the vibrant blue sky, feeling the smell that had woken him up gradually fade away.

He had no problem staying in the verdant plains for another hour. It was his relaxation spot, after all!

His mind was already locking away the memories of the girl that was crying and what her identity was.

As an Iron Rank Blessed, he couldn't even afford to think of Silver Rank Blessed at this moment, much less a being that was protected by 10 of them!

He also wasn't a knight in shining armor that would begin peering into the business of the crying girl asking what he could do to help.

A chance meeting.

An exchange of names...and that was it!

Neither person knew if they would ever meet again, nor did either of them care.

One wanted to continue his days Idling with no issues, the other had her own weight on her shoulder as to her, this was only a small unimportant meeting she would soon forget about.

So the time passed.

The visit of the 5th Ethereal Princess to the Blessed Academy turned out to be brief, the Chiefs seeing her out as they breathed sighs of relief as activities resumed to normal.

In the green plains, Noah loved his little life so much that he enjoyed his relaxation for another 2 hours before he even raised his head and left the plains to begin heading back home.

The visit was nothing too important in his eyes as he didn't wish to embroil himself in any way with powerful beings while he was still so weak.

Stay low and be Idle.

That should be his motto for the days to come!

He went back home as he chose to wait on collecting the Loot Resources that had been filling up since this morning, wanting to see what a full 24 hours would provide when he collected all of them at 6 am tomorrow.

He had managed to get in the routine as nothing deviated from it aside from the chance meeting earlier today, returning home and into his bed with ease as the night quickly passed.

When the blanket of the night washed over Academy City, it didn't become quieter, and instead became even livelier as it was the time that Blessed went out in full to enjoy themselves.

After a day's work of diving into dangerous Rifts, many of them could be seen in vibrant establishments that held a deal of voracious food, men, and women.

But Noah didn't have any of this in his mind as he peacefully slept!

When he woke up early in the morning, over 24 hours had passed since he last collected loot resources from the Idle Gaming System. His bright eyes swept over the system as he was really close to opening it watch the shower of golden light bloom into numerous text boxes, but he stopped himself as he went to grab breakfast.

He knew that he needed a minimum of 36 hours or a max of 48 before he could definitely max the shards he needed for the Rift Bosses from the Frozen Forest and the Verdant Plains, as well as getting the Idle Exp he needed to upgrade to the next level of the System!

'Be patient...be patient…'

He knew that if he clicked on it now, a shower of loot would wash over him as he would be happy to see it briefly, and would then gruel over the rest of the day as he waited for the hours to pass and the last Unit Shards and Idle Exp he needed to pool in.

So he forced himself to be patient!

Everything seemed the same in the Eckert household as he mingled with his family, watching as they left to begin their days as always with a smile.

He stayed behind as today would be a momentous day, and he couldn't bother to leave his home in case another dumb accident occurred. So he lazed around the entire day as the hours passed.

Noah was extremely decisive as he let 15 hours pass freely, spending a majority of it eating, planning, and relaxing in his home.

The entire day passed as it was now 10 pm at night. It was now close to 40 hours since he last collected his loot resources!

His voracious eyes could not wait any longer, entering the Idle Gaming System Interface as he found the three Dimensional Rifts to be shining a brilliant luster of gold!

They foretold what abundant rewards would be seen from waiting for so long.

RUMBLE!

A bright golden light shone from Noah's room.

A line of data appeared.

[+795 Idle Exp][+1845 Iron Rank Cores][+14 Blazing Armor][+7 Blazing Spear][+12 Frost Shield][+15 Frost Sword][+15 Frost Boots][+21 Verdant Shield][+15 Verdant Armor][+17 Verdant Helm][+51 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+79 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+88 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+3457 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

Glorious lines of words that represented maxed out Idle Exp, numerous Iron Equipment and Unit Upgrade Crystals, as well as...over 100 Unit Shards for 2 Rift Bosses!

Chapter 19

Noah's eyes shone with a bright light at the number of loot, his eyes honing in on the most important one to him on this day.

It was the Iron Rank Verdant Treant and Mammoth Shards that now gave him a total of 100 Shards for both Units!

It meant he could now Summon two Iron Rank Rift Bosses…

Rift Bosses!

DING

[Idle Exp requirement met. Upgrade System level?]

A notification sound and bright blue words appeared in front of his eyes, his mind sending his affirmation as he screamed yes!

RUMBLE!

A glorious golden light shone from his interface as it looked like it was glistening on all sides, only dimming after an entire minute as Noah's eyes hungrily searched for changes.

The icon interface looked even more sleek as the borders shimmered with gold lines, and he didn't have to search for the changes himself as the information flowed in his mind.

[System Successfully Upgraded. Unlocked The Tower of Champions. Idle Exp required for next level: 10,000.]

[Tower of Champions] :: A Unique Dimensional Rift that spans across dimensions and time. It currently contains 1000 Floors that the Master of the Idle Gaming System can try clearing for great rewards.

A brand new feature he couldn't wait to explore appeared in front of him, but there were even more surprises as the text boxes of the system continued to appear!

[The 100 Shards requirement has been met for two Units. Combine?]

'Combine!'

RUMBLE!

A brilliant blue light shone once more as the 100 Shards for the Mammoth and Treat disappeared from Noah's inventory, his eyes watching as on the System Interface that had the cartoonish image of himself where he could click to view his status panel, 5 circles appeared around it.

At this moment, two of those circles shone with intense light as the images of a Mammoth and a Treat were placed in!

[2 Units are now available for summoning. The Master of the Idle Gaming System currently has a maximum of 5 Unit Slots and can summon up to 5 Units at the same time.]

"..."

More and more wonders appeared in front of Noah as he could barely contain his breathing. He wanted to try out every single new feature and test his gains, but he couldn't do anything in his small room at this moment!

His shining eyes honed in on the new feature of the Tower of Champions as many thoughts swam in his mind.

In the Interface, the Tower of Champions was placed to the far right of the square Dimensional Rift boxes as it had the image of an obsidian tower that tore through the skies.

He chose to first test out this Tower as he focused on it, its square becoming expanded as it filled the entire screen.

On the screen, Noah could see a single gray door labeled 1 in front of him, and when his eyes rose up...he could see countless other doors that continued at 2, 3, 4…

His eyes could barely see past the 100th door as the Tower of Champions looked absolutely massive. He looked to the right side of the first door as he saw something that made his eyes shine.

[Rewards for clearing the 1st Floor] :: [+500 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+25 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+500 Iron Rank Cores], [+1 Random Iron Equipment].

The stellar rewards for clearing the first floor appeared, and Noah saw that they were all the same for the higher floors until his eyes reached the 5th floor, his eyes went even further up as he saw the 6th until the 9th floor also had similar rewards, barely being able to read to rewards for the 10th floor that also seemed different.

It meant that every 5 floors, the rewards changed as they became even more abundant!

Aside from the ones listed before, Noah saw the addition of two extra rewards for clearing the 5th Floor.

[Rewards for clearing the 5th Floor] :: …[+1 Bronze Rank Equipment], [+25 Random Bronze Rank Unit Shards.

"..."

The Tower of Champions had enticed him so much that his eyes shone while he gave the command.

'Enter the Tower!'

THRUM!

The moment his command was given, a unique light tore through space as it wrapped around Noah's body...leaving behind a flash of light as his figure disappeared from his room!

A unique spatial energy wrapped and carried him to who knew where, but when his eyes opened, he found himself in an entirely different space.

OOOM!

He looked around to see that he was in a dreary space, billowing clouds of darkness covering everything around him as he seemed to be in an enclosed circular space.

Within this space, he could only see a single gray portal that had the number 1!

[Welcome to the waiting area of the Tower of Champions. Here, the Master of the System can take their time to get ready before they delve into the Tower.]

The blue text box floated in front of Noah as he nodded with shining eyes, looking towards the portal a few more times before he looked into the system interface and focused on the images of two Rift Bosses that now occupied 2 of his 5 Unit Slots.

"Summon the 2 Iron Rank Units!"

RUMBLE!

A flash of gray light, and swirls appeared above him as two enormous figures descended.

BOOM!

They caused vibrations to spread on the ground he stood on, his eyes landing on the ferocious looking Dimensional Beasts that occupied positions as Rift Bosses.

"ROAR!"

The Mammoth bellowed out grandly as the enormous tusks on it shone with a glimmer of light, the Verdant Treat swaying dangerously as its thick moving branches threatened to pulverize any enemies in sight.

Their eyes fell to Noah as they looked towards him subserviently.

Two Rift Bosses, gazing towards him so he could give them commands!

"Haha, good!"

Noah could not help but release a vibrant bellow himself, getting ready to test out all the new features!

Chapter 20

Before Noah jumped into the swirling gray portal that led into the first floor of the Tower of Champion, he thoroughly looked at his two summoned Rift Bosses as he pulled up the number of Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals.

[Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals] :: Crystals that can be used to upgrade the strength of the Summons. When two Iron Rank Summons achieve Peak Iron Rank, Evolution through fusion into the next tier is possible. Currently available Crystals: 5252

He wanted to utilize the crystals as he found out exactly how much he needed before he could make the Rift Bosses rise to Peak of Iron Rank and have it be possible to cause an Evolution into a Bronze Rank Rift Boss.

If he could truly make that into a reality...the sheer thought caused him to tremble!

One must know that Bronze Rank Rifts were 10 times harder than Iron Rank ones, with a team of at least 10 Bronze Rank Blessed required to fully beat all the mobs up to the Rift Boss.

Even the Peak Iron Rank Blessed that wanted to graduate into the Bronze Rank, they had to either be carried by a Bronze Team or form a Team of 20+ Iron Blessed to stand a chance of clearing the Rift.

Yet Noah...would be able to fuse his units and call forth a Bronze Rank Dimensional Rift Boss the moment he raised their power to the Peak…

He wasted no time as he gave the command to use the Unit Upgrade Crystals on the fearsome Mammoth first!

[Frost Mammoth] :: An Iron Rank Unit that has ferocious skills of the ice attribute. 0/500 Unit Upgrade Crystals required to advance from Low to Middle Rank.

500 Crystals were required, and so he paid them!

RUMBLE!

Energy wildly erupted out as Noah paid the required number of Unit Upgrade Crystals- the body of the Mammoth shone brightly while letting out another roar as it grew noticeably bigger while its tusks became even sharper.

The count of Crystals on it then changed to 0/1000 to advance!

Noah paid this as well as the Mammoth expressed even more dangerous might, the count of crystals changing to 0/2000 to Max Out the Unit!

This was also paid for as only after 3500 Unit Upgrade Crystals did the body of the Mammoth explode with a shining light as it became twice as big as before, its trunk bellowing out grandly as it announced the arrival of a king.

OOOOH!

Noah had to plug his ears as they nearly ruptured, looking towards the fearsome creature that now towered over 6 meters!

It looked absolutely monstrous as Noah gulped with envy while looking at the ferocious aura it released.

This was nearly double if not more of the power he felt when he faced the Iron Rank Rift Bosses before!

Such a Beast was his to command…

He couldn't help but let out a smile as his eyes turned towards the Verdant Treant. He only had 1752 Unit Upgrade Crystals left, and he pumped all of them into the Treant as it shone with a beautiful green color while becoming even larger.

He just needed a bit less than 2000 Unit Upgrade Crystals to max this Unit as well, and he could then fuse the both of them to cause an evolution and bring forth a Bronze Unit!

His eyes turned towards the first portal of the tower as he gave a command, the Bronze Rank equipment he bought falling on his body as the Magma Sword was grasped tightly on his hand, the shining red light it released brightening up the waiting area as the Gladiator's Plate armor made him look like a seasoned warrior.

"Let's go!"

He walked in large strides towards the glowing portal as his eyes were locked on its rewards, and the even more abundant ones present every 5 levels!

WAP!

The figures of one man clad in a Bronze Rank armor and sword entering a portal while being followed by 2 Iron Rank Dimensional Beasts could be seen in the waiting area of the Tower of Champions.

Noah felt weightlessness as his vision went dark, only restoring itself a second later as he saw he was teleported into a dreary environment!

[The first level in the Tower of Champions had 50 Iron Rank Undead that need to be cleared.]

The Blue text box appeared in front of him as he nodded, his eyes looking at his surroundings as he found himself standing in front of a small dark castle.

The castle had clouds of mist covering it as growls could be heard inside, Noah seeing for himself the figures of 3 armored skeletons standing in front of the door that led into the castle!

The first enemies he faced were surprisingly the rare undead, relentless creatures that fought with immense vigor and were the bane of many Blessed in high ranking dungeons.

"Mammoth...obliterate them!"

Noah's eyes shone as he looked at the 3 nearest undead, the Rift Boss he commanded roaring out as it began charging forward!

ROAAR!

The undead reacted the moment the charge began as they raised their rusted swords, but the glimmering tusks of the fearsome Mammoth smashed into them too quickly as bones went flying.

BOOM!

The door leading into the castle was also destroyed as from the corner of his eyes, Noah saw the counter that stated 3/50 pop up.

The power of the enhanced Iron Rank Rift Boss showed itself clearly as it smashed two Iron Skeletons into bones with a single strike while charging into the Undead Caste!

"Good! Treant, let's go!"

Man and tree then followed the destructive trail of the Mammoth as they delved deeper into the castle, smashing every enemy they came across as the normal undead could not even withstand the two Rift Bosses.

Noah himself wielded the two Bronze Rank Equipment to take down a few undead, the Bronze Magma Sword spurting out a splash of scorching molten Magma with every strike as it made his battles with the Undead extremely easy!

None of them could get through his defenses with Gladiator's Plate as they all fell to his summoned Rift Bosses and the swings of his powerful sword.

The 50 Iron Rank Undead in the first level didn't take too long to defeat as Noah swept the small undead castle, finally causing the skeleton head of the last undead to fall on the floor as the counter reached 50/50!

RUMBLE

Energy erupted out to cover him and his pets the moment the counter hit 50, their sights changing ad they found themselves return to the waiting room once more.

The portal that made the first level shook as it surprisingly burst in front of them, the one leading to the second floor descending down like an elevator as it took over the space!

[First Floor cleared. Rewards are in the Inventory.]

The text box showed itself in front of Noah as his glowing eyes searched his interface, finding the promised rewards inside of it!

[+500 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+25 Random 1 Rank Unit Shards], [+500 Iron Rank Cores], [+1 Random Iron Equipment].

He received another 500 Unit Upgrade Crystals as he pumped them into the Verdant Treant right away, leaving only 1500 Crystals left for this unit to reach Peak Iron where he could then fuse it to the Mammoth.

There were also 25 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards that he would get at every level, where he could combine 100 to summon another Iron Unit. Lastly, the loot drops he hadn't had access to before, the Equipment Upgrade Crystals were dropped in this Tower of Champions as he would be able to upgrade Equipment!

There were too many wondrous things about this Tower, but he considered the Unit Upgrade Crystals and Iron Rank Unit Shards as the most important- so he gave a command to the Frost Mammoth and Verdant Treant to rush into the 2nd level of the Tower of Champions as he wanted to obtain these and strengthen himself greatly as soon as possible...

Chapter 21

As Noah began climbing the Tower of Champions, a great deal of things were occurring in the background within the Academy City.

Since the entrance of the 5th Ethereal Princess, many more powerful figures from surrounding cities had descended onto Academy City behind the dark and openly!

Their goals were unknown, but the status of an Ethereal Princess meant many important figures would swarm towards her wherever she was.

Maybe it was her suitors from the Imperial Capital, maybe it was other beings that had their own intentions!

But each of them began to appear silently in the Academy City as enormous vessels began to permeate through the skies.

The knowledgeable powerhouses within the Academy City that were within the Silver Rank either curried favor or stayed clear of the new visitors, knowing that the personages from the powerful cities brought opportunity as well as dangers.

And neither of them wanted to be on the side of danger when it came to these beings!

In an extravagant establishment where only the most important beings could reside, the figure of the 5th Imperial Princess could be seen as she was listening to a report from one of her trusted guards.

"No others have entered the City?"

"...no, Princess. Aside from some trashy nobles from the Imperial City and a few other Cities, we haven't seen any others that arrived here publicly."

The Silver Rank Guard replied carefully while glancing at the solemn 5th Princess not too far away. This female guard was one of the beings closest to the Princess, and even now she had slight hesitation on her face as she seemed to want to ask something!

"No need to hold it in, Natasha. Speak your mind."

The voice of the Princess rang out as the guard nodded while hesitatingly asking.

"Princess, if I may ask...why did the Crown Prince send you here at such a time?"

She worded the question carefully as she made sure to ask nothing out of bounds, the 5th Princess adopting a saddened expression as she replied.

"It is a test. I am merely a tool that my brother is using to sound out our enemies. Sending someone of Imperial Blood relatively unprotected in an average sized city…"

She looked outside the window of the grand room she was in as she continued.

"...it is to test whether the Will of the Ethereal Emperor is still respected by our enemies, or whether they have grown strong and confident enough over the years."

…!

Alarm rose on the guard's face as she didn't expect such a shocking reply.

"But...what about your father? What of the Ethereal Emperor?!"

"Father, huh…" The 5th Princess had a distant expression as she replied blankly, seemingly lost in thought as the guard stopped asking questions.

Under the vibrant and peaceful Ethereal Realm, undercurrents were waving in the dark as all was not what it seemed!

Meanwhile, a certain transmigrator was passing his time in the Tower of Champions as he put in some work!

Noah delved into the Tower as some time passed, the high battle power of his summoned Rift Bosses being able to easily clear the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the Tower with ease as only variations of 50 Undead were present on each floor.

Passing the fourth floor granted Noah plenty of treasures as he was able to achieve 100 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards from the 25 of each level, as well as obtain a total of 2000 Unit Upgrade Crystals that meant he could enhance the Verdant Treant to the Peak of Iron...then gaining the ability to fuse it to the Mammoth to make a Bronze Rank Rift Boss!

RUMBLE!

Noah wasted no time as he gave the command to combine the 100 Random Unit Shards into a Unit, a shining light erupting from the waiting area that held the portal to the 5th level waiting- a new unit appearing in front of Noah's eyes.

It was something unique he hadn't come across before, his eyes opening wide as he saw the appearance of a...Sunflower!

[Golden Sunflower] :: A mutated Dimensional Beast that is proficient in recuperative and healing abilities. It currently has the [Heal] and [Detoxify] skills in its arsenal.

A swaying sunflower about 1 meter in size appeared in front of him as Noah nearly laughed.

He was more joyful as a pet with a skill set to act like a priest was extremely rare, this one having two skills just for that purpose!

He nodded towards it as it swayed happily behind him.

His eyes then focused on the Frost Mammoth and Verdant Treant on the side that had their bodies shining with a bright gray glint!

They had both reached the Peak of Iron Rank as they now fit the requirements to be fused together to evolve under the system.

In just days after awakening his Idle Gaming System, Noah was now about to get his hands on a Dimensional Rift Boss a level higher than himself!

Chapter 22

[Two Units match the requirements for fusion and evolution. Start the process?]

A prompt came to Noah a second later as he nodded, his eyes locked with the two Iron Rank Units that had begun to shine with a glorious light.

If all things were perfect, he would have actually chosen to fuse the Treant with the newly arriving Sunflower as their elements matched, but he wouldn't obtain all the required Iron Unit Upgrade Shards to bring the Sunflower to the peak for at least a day or two.

Within this same timespan of collecting Upgrade Shards, he would also receive 100 more shards to simply summon another Treant from his Idle Rewards of the Dimensional Rifts, so he planned to still make this fusion in the future to see what would come out of it!

The glorious lights that the combined Mammoth and Treat shone with rushed towards each other as they began to meld together, swirling in a shocking accumulation of energy as a bright light erupted out for an entire 10 seconds before the combination and evolution was finished!

From 2 Iron Rank Units, a single Bronze Rank Beast was born!

Noah's eyes adjusted to the light as they landed on the newly fused creature, observing a mountainous being over 8 meters glancing towards him with a sharp light.

It stood on its own two feet as it had huge arms with white green fur, it's head looking ferocious as two sharp Bronze tusks erupted out on either side of its mouth!

A Beast from the mixture of ice and earth element had appeared!

[Greenplains Yeti] :: A rare creature at the Bronze Rank that survives in the most extreme environment due to its nature. Its defenses are second only to its ferocious quick burst attacks that will tear down its enemies. It currently has the [Thorn Armor], [Frozen Charge], and the [Mountainous Strike] in its arsenal.

A Bronze light could be seen covering its body as a powerful Bronze Rank Rift Boss appeared for Noah to command!

ROAAR!

It bellowed out grandly to announce its arrival, the green white fur of this creature shining in the light as Noah had a big smile while looking at it.

"Let's go!"

He wanted to test out its power right away as he commanded its large arms to touch the portal leading to the 5th level of the Tower of Champions as Noah and the Golden Sunflower entered a second later!

Every 5 levels of the Tower granted more abundant rewards, but they were that much harder to clear as the Dimensional Beasts within...were truly powerful.

Within the 5th level, Noah found that it wasn't the same dreary Undead castle he had appeared in 4 times before, but a field of gray that had its ground filled with bones. Not too far from where they appeared, the glimmering outlines of 5 Skeleton atop horses could be seen waiting gloriously.

[The fifth level in the Tower of Champions has 5 Iron Rank Rift Boss Undeads that need to be cleared.]

RUMBLE!

The eyes of the Undead Rift Bosses- the Dullahans, shone with an intense red light as they began to charge towards them.

Even a single Iron Rift Boss would need cooperation from many Iron Blessed, and this was even more so if they were in the Undead subtype.

Yet as Noah faced the charge of 5 Iron Rank Rift Bosses, he wasn't the slightest bit worried as he only saw them as small obstacles!

This was because he currently had...a Bronze Rift Boss as a pet.

"Rip them apart, Yeti."

...ROAR!

The 8 meter large Yeti was 3 meters larger than the Dullahans, its overpowering figure looking towards the Undead with disdain as its thick legs vibrated, kicking up snow as it instantly shot forward!

[Frozen Charge] was cast as ice bloomed from the feet of the Yeti, its advancement being so abrupt that it appeared in front of the charging Irom Rift Bosses in a second, its thick arms smashing into them.

BOOM!

The clutter of bones could be heard as the 2 closest Dullahans received such a shocking force that their armored bodies and horses shattered on impact, the other 3 blown back as their skeleton cluttered!

WAA!

The Yeti wasn't done as it relentlessly cast another skill, its furred arms beginning to coalesce with unstable sharp ice and earth elements as they turned mountainous in front of the eyes of the 3 Undead Rift Bosses.

[Mountainous Strike] was cast as the elements of ice and earth swirled, the expanded arms of the Yeti swiping towards the three Undead as energy furiously exploded out from the impact!

BOOOM!

"..."

Noah had his mouth agape at the dominating show of power from this Bronze Rift Boss, his eyes focusing on the clearing scene as he saw the remaining 3 Undead Bosses were nothing but more bones on the ground they were on.

All that was left above the field of bones was a Greenplains Yeti that raised its head arrogantly while its legs crushed a skull that had residual energy below it.

Powerful!

Dominating!

This was a Bronze Rank Rift Boss that Noah now commanded!

SHAA!

Their figures were teleported from the cleared floor and returned to the waiting area as Noah still glanced towards the Yeti in shock.

Rewards similar from the first floors entered his inventory as among them, he also gained Bronze Rank Equipment Shards and Unit Shards.

[Rewards for clearing the 5th Floor] :: …[+1 Bronze Rank Equipment], [+25 Random Bronze Rank Unit Shards

The rewards on every 5th floor were truly abundant!

Noah's eyes shone while glancing at the rewards, his eyes then focusing on the Greenplains Yeti as he wondered just how high he could climb the Tower while collecting its abundant rewards!

Chapter 23

The 6th to 9th floor were relatively easy with the Greenplains Yeti at the helm, the remaining the dreary environment of Undead as they changed from Undead Skeletons to Undead Knights and Dullahans!

Every level was filled with over 100 common Iron mobs as well as 3-5 Rift Bosses, Noah tearing through them with ease as the Greenplains Yeti didn't even give the Golden Sunflower a chance to be injured and use its healing skills.

Noah ran in conjunction with his pets as the Yeti acted like a tank that tore through everything, a few hours passing by.

From the rewards of the 5th floor, Noah had gotten a [Paladin's Helm] for the Bronze Rank equipment. His head being washed by a comfortable white light as he ascended up the Tower. This made his body now be clad with 3 pieces of Bronze Equipment when he was still in the IRON Rank!

An overabundance of rewards greeted him from the 6th Floor, but his eyes didn't register on them as he was looking at the rewards for clearing the 10th floor.

[Rewards for clearing the 10th Floor] :: …[+1 Bronze Rank Equipment], [+25 Random Bronze Rank Unit Shards], [+25 Bronze Rank Cores],[+500 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+5 Health Potions], [+5 Mana Potions]

A wondrous display of treasures he could obtain lay in front of his eyes, his heart particularly being drawn to the 25 Bronze Rank Cores!

Here he expected to have to go to the Blessed Academy to get his Blessed Licence first before he could begin descending into the Bronze Dimensional Rifts to collect Bronze Cores to increase his rank, never had he expected to get them through this new feature that was the Tower of Champions!

Many mysteries surrounded it and his Idle Gaming System, but he dared not even question it as he continued his own thing.

Among the rewards, there were also the Health and Mana potions that he knew were rarities to make in the Ethereal Realm, as well as Bronze Rank Upgrade Crystals for him to finally increase the strength of the Greenplains Yeti even further!

The enticing rewards made him not waste even a second as a man, a Sunflower, and an enormous Yeti flashed away to the 10th floor instantly!

While Noah pierced through the Tower, many things continued to occur in Academy City.

On this particular day under the cover of the night, a party of dark robed figures that counted over 10 in number silently entered the City.

They didn't leave any traces as they used the cover of the night to enter the Vibrant Forest that was a mile away from the Blessed Academy.

Even though they were robed, one could still see the glimmers of silver around them that represented a shocking level of power!

They sat in a circle in the dark forest where one could barely see another person a few feet away, but these Silver Rank experts could see around them as if it were day time.

"We'll be here very briefly, in and out. As soon as our mission is complete and we confirm the target, disperse!"

The leader of these beings voiced out with a gruff voice as the others nodded.

It was a fear inducing talk that had many implications, but the eyes of the robed Silver experts remained cold and merciless!

The leader's eyes shone with light as he looked to the dark skies while muttering something.

"Change is coming…"

RUMBLE!

The 10th floor was similar to the 5th as Noah found himself on a field of bones, but this time there was a single enemy in front of him.

To clear the 10th floor, one had to actually be strong enough to take down a Bronze Rank Rift Boss!

[The tenth level in the Tower of Champions has 1 Bronze Skeleton King that needs to be cleared.]

Noah had his own Rift Boss as a pet, the Yeti roaring towards the Skeleton King that had glorious red light shooting from its eyes while it wielded an enormous sword.

BOOM!

The charge of the Yeti was stopped by the Skeleton King, the Beast finally meeting someone on its own level as it didn't completely bulldoze its way through!

But would the Skeleton King truly be able to hold back a fused Rift Boss with 3 skills?

Noah didn't wait for the answer as he opened his inventory to use the 100 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards to summon another Unit, knowing his little old self could not get anywhere near a battle between two Bronze Rank Bosses unless he wanted his little life to be taken away.

The Golden Sunflower was swaying gently by the side as it provided a [Heal] when it saw the Sword of the Skeleton King drawing blood from the sturdy fur of the Yeti.

THRUM!

Energy fluctuations flew out as Noah's thoughts were heard, the Unit Shards in his Inventory disappearing as a brand new Unit materialized in front of his eyes.

[Earth Golem] :: A sturdy creature made up of stones, it can assemble and disassemble its body as it acts as a great protector. It has the [Stone Guard] and [Pristine Stone Armor] skills among its arsenal.

A new unit had entered the scene!

Chapter 24

Yet another Unit appeared in front of Noah, this one sadly not the damage dealer he wanted but for the enemy in front of them, it would do!

"Go!"

Noah gave the command for the Earth Golem to aid the Yeti, this creature turning into rolling stones that made their way over to the Skeleton King.

The rolling stones appeared beneath the 2 battling beasts as they coalesced around the feet of the Skeleton King, holding this beast in place as the stones took a pristine Unbreakable appearance!

[Pristine Stone Armor] was cast as the Earth Golem used the unique features of its body to hold the Bronze Beast hostage for a few seconds.

These few seconds...were all the Yeti needed as its large furred hands glimmered with a green and white light.

OOOOH!

[Frozen Charge] and [Mountainous Strike] were cast at the same time as the figure of the Yeti barreled towards the Skeleton King like a bullet train, smashing its crowned head with its huge furred hands as a horrific Crack could be heard.

BOOOM!

With the inclusion of another Unit holding it down, the Skeleton King didn't last long as within the next minute, its bones lost all the strength holding it together as it crumbled to the ground.

"Haha!"

Noah was laughing gleefully in the distance as he saw the tired Units defeating a Bronze Rift Boss, all of their bodies flashing with light as they were teleported back to the waiting area!

The stellar rewards of the 10 floor appeared in front of his eyes.

[Rewards for clearing the 10th Floor] :: …[+1 Bronze Rank Equipment], [+25 Random Bronze Rank Unit Shards], [+25 Bronze Rank Cores],[+500 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+5 Health Potions], [+5 Mana Potions]

Noah located the rewards in his inventory, his eyes honing in on the 25 Bronze Rank Cores!

Blessed would need to go through a tiresome process of getting a Licence and forming a huge team to descend down Rifts before they could put their lives on the lines to obtain such Cores and break through the shackles of IRON, yet Noah got them as the reward for the 10th floor of the Tower of Champions.

His shining eyes commanded some of the Cores from the Inventory and into his hands as he sat down while holding them close.

They looked like shimmering Crystals that shone with the bronze color, Noah starting to absorb them right away as he attacked the shackles of IRON!

His body was already filled to the brim as he was at the Peak of this stage, needing a push from a higher level core to break through, and on his absorption of the 5th Bronze Core...he did!

RUMBLE!

Energy fluctuations wildly swirled around him as the color he gave off changed from the gray IRON to the stellar color of BRONZE.

His dark hair flew around wildly as his blue eyes shone with lights, lifting his hands as he saw the distinct bronze color while feeling the intense strength that ran throughout his body!

He felt like he was multiple times stronger than before as he clenched his fists, his eyes showing an intense light of determination.

He was able to go from IRON to BRONZE just a matter of days after obtaining the Idle Gaming System...such a thought made him extremely proud as it reinforced his belief that he could possibly rise from mediocrity and into the Peak of strength!

Within this Ethereal Realm, he wouldn't have to stay at the very bottom rungs of power!

'Good!'

He rose up as he stared at the 3 Units that stood a few feet away waiting for orders.

"Return."

SHAA!

They turned into streaks of light as three of the 5 circles next to his name contained the images of a Yeti, Sunflower, and a Golem simply waiting for his call.

Even though his body felt vibrant and full of energy after breaking through into the BRONZE Rank, he still felt a sense of exhaustion as he hadn't slept the entire night as he spent it defeating skeletons.

He glanced at the 11th floor of the Tower and onwards, seeing their bountiful rewards as he knew they would be just as hard to clear...but he was up for the challenge!

'Leave the Tower of Champions.'

He thought of the command as his body flashed with light, returned to his room as he saw darkness still pervaded, but the hours of the morning weren't too far away.

'I truly put in some effort today…'

He thought of how hard he worked as his tout body hit the bed, knowing he wouldn't get much sleep before the sun rose. It seemed like he would have to spend his day relaxing on a certain green plains behind the Blessed Academy to make up for lost sleep today!

Noah's schedule was somewhat set after the past few days as he established a routine that was gradually changing.

He planned to climb the Tower mostly at night as he would relax or descend into Rifts during the day, and he followed this schedule when morning came as he appeared in the green plains behind the Blessed Academy.

Feeling the rays of sunlight and the verdant greenery around him made him feel extremely at peace, dragging his tired body onto the tall soft grass as he returned to his Idling time.

At this period of time, neither Noah nor any of the prominent Blessed around the city knew that shocking events were about to come, each of them going about their lives with fervor.

During the period of time where everything seemed to be going right...this was when they took an unexpected turn for the worse as in the blanket of peace and prosperity, chaos was coming for Academy City!

Chapter 25

Noah was relaxing in the green plains behind the Academy City as he had no idea that a few miles away, a group of hidden SILVER Rank Blessed had taken refuge in the Verdant Forest that the green plains of the Academy connected to.

A few of the hidden Blessed were moving covertly within the city as they tracked the location of a certain someone, following their moves closely as they observed their path for the day.

Information was continuously collected as they prepared to make a grand move.

The day passed like this as many beings moved with their own aims in the vibrant Academy City.

As the rays of the sun were about to be snuffed out with the blanket of the night coming, the long legs of a certain younger sister appeared next to her older brother.

Annalise had finished her Rift diving for the day as she thought of the slacker of the green plains, coming to sit beside him and rousing him up.

"What's my little sister up to now?"

Noah's voice rang out as he looked into the tired eyes of Annalise.

The girl was still working hard to dive into Rifts, and he was soon planning on concocting a made-up story as he showered her with an abundant amount of Iron Cores and Equipment to increase her strength.

He was planning on navigating his newfound rising strength to his family carefully as he wanted to step up to help them in any way he could.

"I just came to make sure you make it home, I didn't see you when I came back last night."

Annalise replied lightly as Noah found his absence when he was in the Tower of Champions last night was noticed.

He smiled as he rose up and reached out towards his little sister.

"Your brother was actually working hard last night. Come, I do want to be taken out today. Which restura-"

BOOM!

Before Noah's words even finished the ground beneath them trembled as if a bomb had gone off!

The abrupt shift caused Noah's face to harden as he turned towards the direction of the explosion, his eyes going into the city where he saw a cluster of brilliant purple flames rising up.

"Come up."

He pulled Annalise up as they saw the bustle of movements in the Blessed Academy going towards the erupting flames somewhere in the city, many thoughts crossing his mind as he wondered what the hell had happened!

Annalise also had a pensive look as she looked at the scale of the flames, her voice ringing out slowly.

"That...is a skill from a Blessed!"

Her voice was pensive as Noah tightened his grip, not knowing whether to stay where they were or also rush into the city like all the other Blessed!

He thought of his parents that were somewhere deep in the city as well as he made up his mind. He was about to move when suddenly, he saw a flurry of activity rush towards them as three figures seemingly came from the skies and smashed down onto the green plains not too far away from them.

It felt like time was going in slow motion as Noah and Annalise made out the three appearing figures!

All three had their bodies glowing in a brilliant silver light, one being dressed in a black robe as his body was hidden, the other having on silver armor as she wielded a luminous sword to stop the advancement of the robed being!

The third figure...was someone Noah was familiar with as the Silver hair and blue eyes of the 5th Ethereal Princess were captured by him clearly!

BOOM!

The impact from the battle of a SILVER Ranks was horrid as they could feel the fluctuations from here, watching as the robed assailant exploded out with purple flames that smashed into the Guard of the Princess.

"Natasha!"

The Silver Ranked Guard's hand flew as her hair became tinged with blood, her gaze furious as she screamed put toward the princess.

"Please go, Princess! I'll hold him back as long as I can!"

Even though she had lost an arm, the guard planned to lay down her life to stop this shocking assailant that dared to actually aim for the 5th Ethereal Princess!

Did he not know her identity?!

BOOM!

Yet another explosion resounded out as the body of the guard called Natasha was pushed back, her face tout as she screamed towards the princess.

"Please!"

Fighting back tears, the 5th Ethereal Princess with a silver light before her figure began bounding towards the dark forest behind them!

In the city, her remaining Silver Guards were in a terrifying battle with powerful groups of Blessed that she didn't turn back there, bounding towards the hidden forest as she at least planned to hide until the Imperial Capital got word of what had taken place and sent in powerful Blessed.

The tears she was fighting back dripped down her face as she thought of the only guard she was close with and the death she might soon be facing.

The assailant was at Silver Rank just like her and her guards, but her untrained battle power would be ripped apart by him in seconds as the assailant seemed to be twice as powerful as even her guards while in the same Rank!

It was a dreadful situation as she ran, many thoughts coursing through her mind.

'Is this the test you wanted, my dear older brother?! Will my death finally help you achieve what you want?!'

Her heart was in pain as she made a beeline towards the dark forest!

Soon after this, news would begin to spread across the Academy City from the Blessed that had seen the streaks of powerful Silver Ranked Blessed move, as well as the shocking battle that continued in the City for quite some time until the local Silver Blessed joined in to push back the assailants.

The shocking news that reverberated out...was that the 5th Ethereal Princess had been attacked!

Someone was actually bold enough to attack the blood of the Ethereal Emperor, to defy the will of the Imperial City!

RUMBLE!

Chapter 26

In the green plains, Noah's hands held on to Annalise tightly as they saw one figure rush towards the dark forest.

The Silver Ranked guard that stayed behind had a wrathful expression on her face as she faced the assailant that had his eyes focused on the running princess. His body began to glimmer with the purple flames once more as the Sword he wielded threatened to go behead the guard that seemed like an impassable bastion even with a missing arm.

"For the Ethereal Realm."

Her words seemed weak as her figure looked like it could be blown away by a breeze, but the Silver Ranked assailant felt a sense of danger as he tried to quickly pull back his Attack.

But…

BOOM!

A flash of deafening Silver blasted the body of Natasha apart, this guard actually choosing to self-destruct and cause an attack more powerful than anything she could cast in her life to take down the assailant!

WAA!

The light died down as Noah observed the assailant's sorry figure, blood being seen dripping from his hands as his body shuddered.

He wasn't dead!

His bloody eyes turned towards the shocked Noah and Annalise not too far away as he debated something, but he then turned towards the dark forest as his heavily injured body bolted towards it!

"..."

THUMP!

Noah felt his heart beating fast as the moment the assassin had turned his eyes towards them, he felt the threat and fear of death he never wanted to come across.

It was like being stared down by a Beast that could devour them at any time!

Annalise grasped onto his hand tightly as she turned towards the forest, her shaking voice ringing out.

"That was the Ethereal Princess...we have to help her!"

Her hands were shaking even as she said these words, being Noah out of his stupor as he shook his head.

"Save her how? A silver Ranked assassin is after her!"

Noah's need to preserve his little life kicked in as he looked around them at the devastated field of green.

"They must have left trails of destruction on their way here, more Silver Blessed will likely come to lend aid, we can even go into the city to let them know."

Noah voiced out hurriedly as he felt Annalise let go of his hand and speak valiantly.

"By that time, she would already be dead. If you won't go, I will!"

The girl that was weakly in the Iron Rank began rushing towards the dark forest without waiting for her brother's reply, Noah looking towards her incredulously before he followed.

'Do Blessed just not value their lives?!'

He shook his head as his stronger body at the Bronze Realm caught up to her, slight shock appearing in her eyes as she continued to run forward.

"Don't worry, I don't plan to lead myself to death. The assassin already looked heavily injured so we might be able to lend some help while more people come."

Annalise's strong voice rang out clearly as Noah merely sighed, the brother and sister duo following the trail of the two Silver Ranked Blessed that just rushed in!

Few actions can decide the direction of someone's life, and few knew at the exact moment of these actions what they truly signified.

At this moment, Noah had no idea his current actions were life-defining ones that would alter the course of history!

Within the dark forest, the 5th Ethereal Princess crossed the thickets of trees as her strong face still had tears dripping down.

They were tears of unwillingness, tears of despair, and tears that simply flowed because of the situation she was put in.

But most of all, they were for the dead guard as she felt the aura of the assassin lock onto her again!

As she crossed the vegetation and trees and felt this aura getting near, her face adopted a strong resolve as she turned around.

Her body glowed with a silver luster as a Blue sword appeared in her hands, he face turning serene as she wanted to face death head on. She would not wait for someone to take her out while she ran like a coward!

Even though her strength was only silver on the surface after using the resources of the Imperial Capital and she didn't have battle power anywhere close to the assassin, she could still fight!

BOOM

Her body erupted in silver light as she struck forward to the chasing assassin.

CLANG!

...and she was knocked back right away as the palm that held her Sword ruptured and bled, the force of the strike of the assassin feeling like a mountain smashing towards her.

"It's not personal, Princess."

The voice of the assisting was guttural as he coughed blood, his body having been heavily injured by the suicidal attack of the guard.

Yet his power still remained strong as his sword snaked towards the Princess while talking. He was bleeding internally as he knew he could only keep up this strength for a little while longer. He could not delay the death of this personage!

SHAA!

They crossed swords as the Princess was pushed back each time, her body becoming bloodied more and more each time as her silver hair was soon turning crimson.

With death nearing, she couldn't help but raise her blue eyes to lock onto the assassin as she asked.

"Who?"

A fairly simple question, but one the assassin answered as he stared at the pitiful face of someone about to die. He felt like he still had half a minute of his strength as he furiously bled, his guttural voice ringing out as he swung the sword to chop off the head of the Princess at the same time.

"The Dark King has found out the secret of the great Ethereal Emperor, and he sent us here to confirm."

…!

Shocking words came from the assassin's mouth as his sword swung down, bent on separating the neck of the 5th Ethereal Princess from her body!

Chapter 27

The eyes of the 5th Princess shone with light at the shocking words of the assassin as they then began to dim, closing as she saw the sword snaking towards her throat.

...DING

A second passed as she felt intense pain strike her shoulder, muscles and bones torn- but her head was still intact!

She opened her eyes to see the assassin looking towards a region not far away where a girl was shining with the white light of the ice element, arrows forming around her and striking towards the assassin as she was the one to have caused the deviation of the Sword from the neck and into the shoulder.

"You dare…!"

The assassin recognized the girl he had spared as his eyes searched for the boy that was beside her, feeling only a few seconds remaining on his full strength as he tried to decapitate the girl in front of him again!

ROAAAR!

Yet a furiously howl met him as from nowhere, an enormous form of an 8 meter tall beast descended, its furred hands causing the air to freeze as the assassin was knocked to the side by the enormous fists.

WAA!

The Greenplains Yeti appeared grandly in the Forest as on top of it, the figure of Noah already clad in Bronze Armor appeared!

Annalise looked towards this scene incredulously as the boy that should have been beside her was gone and standing atop the fearsome creature.

The assassin looked towards this scene incredulously as he felt even more internal injuries from the single strike of the Beast!

The 5th Princess Rose, felt the threat of death alleviate as her heavily injured figure slumped to the ground, her eyes locked on to the being standing atop an enormous Dimensional Beast as she recognized him!

Meanwhile, Noah himself was scared shitless as he stood atop the Yeti, his heart only calming when he saw how heavily injured the Silver Assassin was.

He wasted no time as he gave a command to the Dimensional Rift Boss he stood on, the Yeti roaring out as [Frozen Charge] and [Mountainous Strike] was cast!

The Assassin looked towards this scene incredulously as the strength he was using to sustain his heavily injured body was nearly gone, seeing the formation of intense ice elements on the body of the beast in front of him as its enormous white-green furred fist sped towards it with the force that even the most talented BRONZE Blessed would not be able to muster.

BOOM...SQUELCH!

He raised his sword to meet the strike of the terrifying Dimensional Rift Boss as he could only withstand it for a second before the strength of his heavily injured body was used up, the [Mountainous Strike] continuing to descend down unhindered as the body of the assassin was smashed to paste.

"..."

Noah breathed out fast atop the Yeti as his Magma Sword was ready in case he had to step in, wiping the sweat off his brows as he turned to look at the heavily injured Princess below him.

"Brother…?"

Annalise's shocked voice rang out as the talent of the ||Ice Queen|| faded away, her cute face looking towards the figure of Noah atop the Yeti in shock as she neared carefully.

"I told you that your older brother was working hard these past days…"

He tried his best to sound strong and hide the fear in his heart, jumping to the ground as he came beside the girl that was bleeding all over.

Her silver hair was dyed red as blood leaked from her lips, yet her gaze remained strong as the only weakness to be felt from her was the tears falling down her cheeks!

Annalise passed the now stationary Yeti as she came and sat beside the princess, holding onto her hand with care.

"You all...need to go. Anyone implicated in this will be beheaded, go quickly!"

The 5th Ethereal Princess felt the strength leaving her body as her vision darkened, seeing the caring eyes of the girl to her right as her eyes locked with the person that had killed the assassin, her eyes telling him to run!

Even while she knew death was coming for her, she tried to save the two beings who had rushed here to try and save her!

"Brother…"

Annalise looked towards Noah as she was hoping for another surprise, and she wasn't let down as she saw him sigh while waving his hands, causing the appearance of another beast beside them!

This one was a waving Sunflower that shone with a bright white light the moment it appeared, [Heal] being cast on the Princess multiple times as her eyes only stayed open for a second longer before she lost consciousness.

Annalise raised up her body as she still felt a pulse, looking towards her brother and the creatures he summoned in shock as she quickly shook her head.

"We have to leave!"

They glanced at the bloodied scene around them as Noah felt that there were a myriad of troubles headed their way, sending the Sunflower back as the Yeti waved its huge arms to grab the bodies of the unconscious princess, himself and his sister as their figures quickly disappeared from the scene!

A few minutes passed after they fled the scene with the unconscious princess in tow, and multiple figures clad in silver auras appeared in the spot where an assassin was pulverized.

"Fan out and search!"

The strong voices reverberated out as a long night filled with turmoil in the Academy City continued.

The events and consequences of this night...would go down in history as the beginning of something grand!

Chapter 28

News spread out in fervor all around Academy City as shocking revelations came in waves.

The party of the Ethereal Princess that had been moving to the Golden Phoenix Auction House was attacked, her guards killed as the assailants were truly powerful Blessed!

Even the Silver Blessed from the Academy City that went to lend found themselves injured, with a few unlucky ones even facing death to defeat some of the assassins that broke the peace of their city.

But as the night went, the shocking news only became more frightening as the personal guard of the Princess was found, along with a bloody scene of shattered muscles and bones located in the forest behind the Blessed Academy as there was nothing to be found!

With this, the news began to spread rapidly like a growing fire, the many Blessed in Academy City feeling their hearts turn cold as they knew something was coming.

It was the news of the death of the 5th Ethereal Princess, of the Will of the Imperial City being defied as on this night- royal blood was spilled!

In the cover of the night, Noah and Annalise left the Dark forest before any search parties appeared, Noah taking out the duffel bag that used to gold his Bronze Rank Equipment when he bought them from the Equipment Emporium as he stuffed the body of the Princess in there.

The Yeti was returned into the system interface as they came out of the verdant forest that was in the Middle of the City on another side, the brother and sister pair trying their best to calmly walk along the streets of the tumultuous city to make it back home!

It took them an entire hour to navigate as many Blessed rushed towards the bloody scenes near the Blessed Academy, only releasing breaths of tension when they opened the door to their apartment and stepped in.

Their mother had been pacing around in the apartment with worry as she turned towards them.

"Where were you two?! Your father is still out there looking for you…"

She let out a relieved sigh as her voice contained a tinge of anger, noticing the expressions of the two as she noticed the duffel bag Noah carried.

He sighed while putting down the bag and opening it, the figure of a bloodied girl being seen inside as the air in the apartment turned cold.

Their mother noticed the Silver hair among the blood, her eyes opening towards them frightfully.

"You...what did you two do?!"

It was a long night, but it passed nonetheless for Academy City as the news spread!

It reached the far off Imperial City as among the ranks of those with power, pandemonium ensued.

"Someone has dared to take up arms and spill Royal Blood!"

"They have defied the will of the Ethereal Emperor!"

RUMBLE!

The ministers and officials in power cried out loudly towards the Imperial Castle that stood like a domineering dragon over the Imperial City.

Exquisitly designed and larger than the highest buildings that Noah would have seen in his old world, the domineering Imperial Castle shimmered with a gold color that could be seen from miles away as it was the highest structure one could see in the Imperial City.

Being at the center of the Light Continent, this city that acted as the Imperial Capital where the central power of the Ethereal Realm should have resided was extremely vast.

The majority of powerful Blessed in the upper ranks would most of the time be congested in this Imperial City as they sought the Dimensional Rifts within!

The Imperial Castle was a grand structure that represented the power and dominion of the beings that influenced large expanses of lands, a structure that very few beings ever got a chance to get close to.

Within the expansive Imperial Castle, a man was standing on a balcony as he sipped a golden drink, his eyes shining blue as he emanated a world shaking power!

His hair was strikingly silver as it glimmered with light, a devilishly handsome face that would cause the strongest women to falter was currently scowling with an interested expression.

"So that's why you're amassing an army...you have finally found out about it."

His voice was extremely calm as it was heard by no one, containing a myriad of mysteries as this being was the very same Crown Prince that the 5th Ethereal Princess mentioned to her guard.

This was the being that had sent her into Academy City for a test, and his test had borne results!

It might have not been the results he wanted, but it told him of many things as he could now prepare.

He finished sipping his drink as he touched his face, putting on the expression of wrath as he went deep inside the vast Imperial Castle with his voice loudly resonating out to be heard by all the ministers and officials.

"My sister's blood has been spilled unjustly! Ready the Legions to make those responsible pay!"

RUMBLE!

Amidst the shocking secret that the powerful Royals had been keeping under wraps for a few years, the Crown Prince finally made a grand move to seize and utilize the power his father left behind as a tumultuous period was on the horizon!

In the small apartment that a family of four lived in, there was complete silence as the four stood while looking at the figure of the 5th Ethereal Princess.

The father of the family had returned as his expression was stern while staring at Noah.

"You've been at Bronze Rank this whole time?"

He didn't even look at the shocking personage on the ground as he focused on his son, Noah shaking his head wryly as he replied.

"I just stepped into it yesterday, I told you guys I was finally getting serious! But...I don't think we should be focusing on me at this moment…"

After their mother tightened her grip on each of their ears and told them to explain, the truth of Noah and Annalise stepping in to save the Princess and dispatch a heavily injured Silver Rank expert through a surprise attack came to light.

Noah's words caused all eyes to turn towards the Princess lying on the ground as the air became heavy again.

Against such a personage, they truly didn't know what to do!

"We can hand her to the authorities, the forces of the Imperial Capital have already arrived in this city anyways."

Noah's father- Jon Eckert, voiced out a logical path carefully as his mom shook her head off to the side.

"No, let's wait until she wakes up for us to see where the danger is, it might just be that very same force from the Imperial Capital…"

Her eyes were filled with a sharp light as she went down to pick the bloodied girl from the bag Noah had brought her in.

Her actions caused the unconscious princess to actually begin coming to, her eyes fluttering open as she looked around to see the worried face of the woman that was holding her, a gruff man, and two faces she recognized- the ones that had actually saved her from the sharp sword of an assassin!

The 5th Ethereal Princess that was supposed to be dead had opened her eyes!

Chapter 29

The eyes of the 5th Princess were hazy as she drank from a glass of water. Her body still seemed feeble after taking the strikes of the SILVER ranked assassin, the deadliest strike on her shoulder still continuing to heal even after she received support from the Golden Sunflower.

With hazy eyes, she gazed towards Noah and the family around her as she spoke.

"The status of the 5th Ethereal Princess is that she's dead?"

"...that's the current news around Academy City, with Imperial Soldiers coming into the city for improved security."

Noah replied calmly as he recalled everything that occurred in the past night.

When the Princess had woken up to find she wasn't actually dead but everyone declared her to be, a myriad of emotions crossed her mind as tears began to fall!

She thought of her older brother sending her here, she thought of the assailants that came for her...she thought about a great deal of things as her eyes locked towards Annalise and Noah.

"I owe you two my life, and for that...I will be forever grateful!"

Her still weak body tried to rise and bow, Noah's mom- Evelyn, going towards her with worry as the 5th Imperial Princess continued, this time gazing towards everyone in the small apartment.

"I do not wish to impose upon you all for too long. If the consensus is that I am dead, then I shall remain dead! I just need a day or two to pass before I can make my way out of Academy City and disappear."

The eyes of the 5th Ethereal Princess were red as she actually did not wish to go back to the Imperial City, wanting the news of her death to stay as it was!

She wanted no more of the power struggles.

She wanted no more politics! Of the schemes of Blessed that only sought for more power and strength no matter the price!

She just...wanted peace.

"Nonsense! You won't step foot outside my door in this state. You're welcome to stay here for as long as you want!"

The voice of Noah and Annalise's mother rang out as her eyes were red with tears.

Looking at the pitiful state of the Princess. She couldn't help as her maternal instincts rang out.

"If you do not wish to return to the Imperial Capital and wish to stay hidden with your identity under wraps, what better place than an abode of a weak family in Academy City? Please, don't feel like you're a burden."

Evelyn's voice continued to ring out as she held onto the head of the weak Princess. At this scene where she felt like she had nobody, this Princess couldn't help but break down crying as she seemed like any normal girl!

Noah glanced at his father as the two of them looked at each other while communicating with their eyes, each of them letting out sighs in their minds as Annalise joined her mother in comforting the 5th Princess- Rose.

When the tearful session neared its end, Noah couldn't help himself anymore as he asked an obvious question that plagued the minds of many.

"Why would anyone be bold enough to attack you? All the stories I've heard from the Imperial Capital are about how the Will of the Ethereal Emperor reigns Supreme across the three Continents, that his influence stretches across all regions...who would be bold enough to send assassin's towards you?"

…!

His question caused angry glares from his mom and Annalise, but he didn't care as he locked his eyes with the girl he saved!

She looked towards him as her blue eyes glimmered with light, her decision being made in seconds as she thought of the secret that only the upper echelons of the Imperial Capital knew for the last years. For assassins to be sent towards her so boldly...this secret must be out! So she steeled her heart as she released shocking words that Noah nor anyone else in the apartment expected to hear.

"My father...the Ethereal Emperor...has long since perished."

RUMBLE!

"The undefiable Will that he established...his influence over the Ethereal Realm as he boasted absolute power...this Will can no longer be upheld!"

…!

The faces of the four changed drastically at this as Noah's face turned sour.

What was this?!

The Ethereal Realm he thought was peaceful under the Rule of a powerful Emperor...actually wasn't so the being in question was actually dead!

Too many questions swam in his mind as he selfishly wondered how all of this would affect his Idling life!

"It was a secret that was held closely among my family for the past years, but the actions taken against me means the news must be out, and the subjugated Kings from the other Regions might be making a move."

…!

Alarm filled the eyes of everyone listening as silence descended, with Noah's voice being the one to ring out again.

"Why? Why start conflict even if the...Ethereal Emperor had passed?"

He worded his question carefully as Rose wiped away her tears and gave a tired smile, her voice ringing out as she dropped another bombshell in the minds of these average beings.

"They aim for the Imperial Capital that has lost its strongest defender because there, the highest Tier Dimensional Rift in this Ethereal Realm exists."

…!

"The DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift that my father delved in and obtained treasures that allowed him to even rise beyond that level and step into the PLATINUM Rank...the Kings from other regions want the treasures within that Rift to increase their own power."

RUMBLE!

Shocking revelations came out as Noah felt his mind being expanded, a much truer picture about the new Realm he found himself in being painted!

In the end, it all came down to power and benefits!

In the past, the Ethereal Emperor had delved into a stupendous Dimensional Rift as he risked his life to obtain invaluable rewards, his strength rising as he became the Peak expert within this Realm.

With his inexplicable death, others wanted this same Dimensional Rift as in the coming future, blood would flow like rivers while they aimed for this treasure!

Chapter 30

"The powerful Blessed in the Imperial Capital aren't diving into this Rift that only they have access to?"

Noah continued to humor his inquisitive minds as he ignored the glares of Annalise and his mom, Rose replying again while shaking her head.

"How easy is it to clear a DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift that has treasures capable of helping one break into the strongest realm? They haven't been able to produce the same result as Father, the...Crown Prince using this time to amass a strong enough force of DIAMOND Blessed to dive into it successfully in the near future."

"Enemies of the Light Continent do not want them to succeed, so it will be a tumultuous months and years to come!"

RUMBLE!

The Princess gave a clear image of what they could expect as the faces of everyone turned grim.

Their mom, Evelyn, adopted a strong expression as she shooed Noah and her husband away.

"Enough of that. You need to rest right now, you have heavy internal injuries that will need time to heal. Annalise, get Noah's bedroom ready for Rose."

Their mom gave the command as Annalise nodded and moved to follow her mom's words.

Noah looked at this scene incredulously as his mom turned towards him apologetically while giving deafening words.

"You'll be on the couch for the next few days."

…!

The Transmigrator was kicked out of his room with the entrance of an emotionally and physically injured Princess, the family gathering ending as many people needed their rest after the long night!

It was already way too late as the dawn of the next day was only some hours away, and Noah had stepped out of his home to let things settle down as he walked through the streets of Academy City.

A different air seemed to blanket the City as everyone moved around hurriedly.

Noah's own brain was buzzing with a myriad of thoughts as the new information caused his calm heart to stir!

The Realm he was in was about to get tumultuous, and he needed to get truly strong if he wanted to survive the coming waves...or be squashed like a bug!

This feeling had thrown out every feeling of laziness from him as he couldn't stay in his home, his steps taking him towards the nearest Iron Rank Dungeon as he wanted to increase his Clear Time and accumulate his rewards even faster to rapidly increase his strength.

The feeling of an impending war and all the doom the Princess had mentioned truly made his little heart scared as he wanted to quickly get stronger and prevent anything wrong from happening to him.

Today, he faced a SILVER Ranked expert as that alone was frightful enough, what if GOLD Ranked Blessed suddenly descended?

He cleared his mind as his steps neared the dungeon, his eyes turning to the Idle Gaming System interface as he clicked on the Rifts he hadn't touched for over 24 hours.

[+385 Idle Exp][+910 Iron Rank Cores][+9 Blazing Armor][+8 Blazing Spear][+8 Frost Shield][+11 Frost Sword][+7 Frost Boots][+13 Verdant Shield][+13 Verdant Armor][+14 Verdant Helm][+29 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+34 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+43 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+2856 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

A glorious amount of loot entered his Inventory as he merely nodded, his more focused on the Unit Upgrade Crystals and Shards to summon more air on Units that he could then combine to Bronze!

Can you imagine the sight of multiple Bronze Greenplains Yetis? Or whatever creature came out when he combined the Treat and the Golden Sunflower?

The combinations were many as he finally arrived in front of the Burning Domains Dimensional Rift.

It was eerily empty as only a single guard was present, no Blessed teams moving about as the events of assassins had caused many to return to their abodes for the day!

Noah flashed his Student ID as a Blessed while his body released the vibrant Bronze aura that signified his Rank, the guard allowing him through the encampment without any issues as he placed his hand on the gray portal.

The moment he reappeared in the Iron Rank Dimensional Rift again, he began to move rapidly as the roar of a summoned Bronze Rank Yeti was quickly heard, an Earth Golem also called out as Noah adorned all of his Bronze Equipment.

Along with them, Noah combined the now 100 Shards of the Minotaur from this very same domain as he brought forth another Unit!

ROAAAR!

The resonant bellow of the Minotaur that looked just as fearsome as the Rift Boss within this Rift reverberated out as Noah commanded them to move forward.

His blue eyes shone with intense luster as he felt the overpowering need to get stronger, rushing towards the Beasts within the Burning Domains as he aimed to reduce his Clear Time!

With a Bronze Dimensional Beast in tow along with an Iron Rank Earth Golem, and a Minotaur, the beasts nor the IRON Rift Boss of the Burning Domains gave any challenge as Noah managed to clear all domains in less than half an hour.

26 minutes to be exact!

Moving through the domains and searching for all the beasts until the Rift Boss spawned...it took him only 26 minutes as he nearly cut down the clear time of this Rift by 3 times!

Yet even with such exemplary work, his heart wasn't satisfied as he felt like he was pressed for time, coming out of the Burning Domains Rift and rushing towards the direction of the Frozen Forest Rift right after.

His goal was to do all three Rifts in the next hour or two as he got his Clear Time down for each of them, beginning to collect their rewards in the most efficient way as soon as possible!

Like this, the shocking scene of him descending into Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts played out 2 more times that night, where he visited both the Frozen Forest and the Verdant Plains Rift.

The former had taken him 24 minutes to fully clear, the latter taking him 22!

All in all, he had cleared all three Iron Rank Dimensional Rifts in Academy City as they averaged a time of 24.

This shocking number mentioned that he had increased his efficiency in collecting loot by nearly a factor of 3, this shocking number revealing a ridiculous reality of him getting enough Shards to summon 3 Iron Rank Beasts in a bit over a day, his output for getting the Iron Rank Upgrade Crystals shooting up even higher as he should be getting close to 6000 within a day!

His eyes shone with wild luster as he planned for the tumultuous future, the thoughts of leading multiple Bronze and eventually Silver Ranked Rift Bosses occupying the entirety of his mind...

Chapter 31

Academy City was wrapped with a cloud of dangerous and depressive air as it didn't seem the same, many figures that weren't normally here stepping into the City after the shocking events.

Noah moved in the night without paying attention to this as after he finished reducing his Clear Time with the Dimensional Rifts, his figure disappeared from the streets of the City as he entered the Tower of Champions!

His figure was carried away by a spatial light silently as he appeared in the waiting area once more, calling forth his four Units as a Yeti, Minotaur, Earth Golem, and Golden Sunflower appeared grandly.

His eyes honed in on the 11th floor as at this moment...he wanted to farm!

He felt the need to rapidly increase his strength as he wanted to collect more Unit Upgrade Crystals to be able to fuse another Bronze Unit, and even clear the Tower until the 20th level that would give him the last 25 Bronze Rank Unit Shards that he needed to summon a Bronze Unit!

"Let's go!"

His eyes shone with an intense light as he delved into the 11th floor right away.

This time around, there were no more undead for him to face as he appeared in a scorchingly hot desert environment, his ears picking up the clicking sounds of a dangerous Beast nearby as the summoned units surrounded him.

HISS!

The horrible sound was heard first as a second later, an enormous Snake towering 6 meters in diameter rose from the sand below them!

Its power boasted Peak IRON as it had the strength of a Rift Boss, but Noah was prepared as his face remained cold while commanding his Units.

ROAAAR!

The Yeti led the charge as the Minotaur was close behind, Noah beginning to clear the floor that actually consisted of 20 mobs that were all Rift Bosses at the Iron Rank!

His own strength being at Bronze allowed him to combat these Rift Bosses without his life being threatened, using this time to better hone his battle instincts as the 11th floor was very quickly cleared.

[Rewards for clearing the 11th Floor] :: [+1000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+1000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+50 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+1000 Iron Rank Cores], [+5 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+1 Random Bronze Equipment].

The wondrous rewards that were twice as much as the earlier floors showed themselves, along with the addition of a Random Bronze Equipment and 5 Bronze Cores for all normal levels he cleared after this!

The one thousand Iron Rank Upgrade Crystals were even more enticing in his eyes as after clearing the next few floors, he would have enough to fully enhance 2 Units and fuse them to obtain another Bronze one!

With rejuvenated vigor, Noah was teleported away from the 11th floor as he chose to enter the twelfth right after, intent on clearing as many floors as he could in today's session as he vastly improved his power.

Desert-type monsters like Snakes, Scorpions, and huge Worms appeared on the 12th through 14th floor, each time a varying amount of them as each were Rift Bosses.

Noah spent a few hours going through the vast desert stages as he searched for the Dimensional Beasts, his body feeling the sense of tiredness as he adamantly continued.

After the 14th floor, the rewards had stacked up to such an extent that he had 200 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards along with enough Unit Upgrade Crystals to fully raise 2 Units when he put into account the reserves he already had from his Idle Rewards!

This meant that he could upgrade and fuse two from the Minotaur, Earth Golem, or the Sunflower.

Before this decision was made, he used the 200 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards to see what units would come out, and if their fusions would be more aligned with the units he currently had.

SHAA!

Two sources of light flashed as the Unit Shards were combined, two boxes icons appearing in Noah's inventory as he looked at their details.

[Light Wisp] :: A creature of the rare Light element that illuminates brightly. It is proficient in the abilities of [Strength Enhancement] and [Healing Aura].

[Desert Scorpion] :: A creature that lives in the depths of the desert. It is proficient in the abilities of [Poison Strike] and [Quick Burst].

Two equally unique Iron Units were available for him to use, and he could only call one out as he had a cap of 5 Units he could use at once!

As he looked at these two units and the ones currently on the field...his eyes shone as he saw two suitable combinations!

One was to fuse the Minotaur and Desert Scorpion for a deadly offensive Unit, and the other was to fuse the Golden Sunflower and Light Wisp for the ultimate support unit.

Each of the combinations had its points, but as he looked at the remaining floors he wanted to climb...he chose to first get the fusion that would produce an Offensive Unit to join the Greenplains Yeti to utterly crush the enemies they would face!

The Light Wisp and Sunflower could be summoned and active for now as they stayed in the back to provide support until he gained enough Crystals to upgrade them.

"Let's do it!"

The path was decided, so he went ahead to finish it. The Desert Scorpion was summoned first as a creature similar to the ones he had been fighting in the past floors appeared.

The Upgrade Crystals were then pumped into the Minotaur and Desert Scorpion as they achieved peak Iron Rank, a prompt soon coming up asking Noah to fuse as he agreed!

RUMBLE

A brilliant flash of light erupted out as the figures of Minotaur and Scorpion melded together, the product to come out being something deadly.

Noah looked forth in a stupor as the details of the beast popped up!

BRONZE [Fiery Chimera] :: A mixed creature that has the heads of a bull and a Scorpion, its deadly stinger being something that threatens everything in the same Rank. Its abilities include [Fatal Sting], [Armor Break], and [Poison Arrows].

A deadly creature that shone with malice appeared, Noah getting his hands on 2 Bronze Dimensional Beasts in a short period of time as his sight was on the wondrous Tower levels he wanted to clear!

As the slacking Transmigrator worked harder than ever since he came to in the new Realm, its inhabitants were now actively moving as the period of peace that many enjoyed for the last years...was shattered.

When the new day rose after the Assassination of the 5th Ethereal Princess, many found to their shock that it wasn't the swift hammer of justice from the Imperial Capital that came first, but the shocking declaration and advancement of forces of powerful Blessed from the Dark Continent!

This gave everyone a much clearer picture of who the culprit of the Assassination was, as well as tremendous fear for the future as the powerful reply from the Imperial Capital they had expected was not there!

Chapter 32

The forces of Blessed moving from the Dark Continent and advancing into the Light Continent was something that only shook the hearts of commoners, but those truly knowledgeable knew that for them to move this fast, all of this had to have been in motion for a long time as the event that occurred the day prior...was just the match that sparked the fire.

The Assassination of the 5th Ethereal Princess and subsequently poor response from the Imperial Capital of the Light Continent allowed the generals and powerful beings behind the ruling force of the Dark Contient to confirm the truth they had found out some time ago- the fact that the Ethereal Emperor truly was no more!

Thus, after confirmation, the plans they had in motion all this time were initiated as the force of the Dark Continent vowed to expand its influence by taking over the nearby cities of the Light Continent.

The purpose of expanding their rule and extending it to nearby cities was of course for the same reason that was the core of the war about to be waged- the Dimensional Rifts!

If one controlled Dimensional Rifts, they controlled the access for an insurmountable amount of wealth and power.

For the higher level Rifts that were occupied by the true nobility and beings of power in the Ethereal Realm, one had to even pay a prince to enter and dive into a Rift as others were not even allowing access to common Blessed!

Controlling the Rifts...meant controlling the flow of power.

So the forces of the Dark Continent moved to bring more Dimensional Rifts under their control as so far, the forces could be seen moving towards 3 Cities within the Light Continent.

They were cities that were just past the border between the two Continents, cities that mainly held Dimensional Rifts up to the SILVER Level!

It was the Bright City, Moset City, and lastly the area that sparked the confirmation for this whole war...Academy City!

The forces of the Dark Continent chose these 3 cities strategically as they were where most of the young aspiring Blessed started off from before they delved deeper into the Light Continent where even more wondrous Dimensional Rifts were located.

The three Continents of the Ethereal Realm were large clusters of land filled with City-States such as Academy City, long roads and expansive forests existing between the cities for commoners to move across.

The Royals and those with power could afford huge Vessels that made their journeys easier, with the Light Continent having much richer cities and prospered much more than the Dark and Wild Continents under the Rule of the Ethereal Emperor!

The Dark Continent aimed for the Rifts and Prosperity of the Light Continent that had lost its strongest defender, its commanders each moving with their own goals but joined together by a singular aim under the banner of one being- a being that many would come to know in the future as his name spread, the Dark King!

As these events were unfolding, Noah was traversing the Tower of Champions as he stepped on the 15th floor while being surrounded by spectacular Units.

A fearsome Greenplains Yeti and Fiery Chimera at the forefront, an Earth Golem behind them protecting the figures of the support units- a swaying Sunflower and a bright Light Wisp that glowed with a glimmering white light!

This party was currently facing the fearsome might of 2 BRONZE Dimensional Rift Bosses, Noah questioning the difficulty of this Tower as it just jumped from 1 BRONZE Boss on the 10th floor to 2 on the 15th.

If he hadn't fused another BRONZE Beast just now, it would have been a deadly battle as he might have even lost a few pets!

BOOOM!

A shocking explosion resounded out as the Yeti and Fiery Chimera worked in conjunction, one releasing a [Mountainous Strike] as the other released a [Fatal Sting].

Their bodies were just as vibrant and full of power compared to the two Bosses they faced, one being a giant Worm and the other a Desert Scorpion.

Noah's units had the support skills of the Light Wisp such as [Strength Enhancement] and [Healing Aura], the two offensive units becoming even bulkier as a unique white light surrounded them!

Whenever they were hurt, their injuries would very quickly heal as their enemies only became weaker and weaker.

Noah was occasionally moving in and out to deal deadly strikes with his Magma Sword himself as he used the Earth Golem to defend if any Strike came towards him.

But with this tremendous teamwork of highly Offensive and Support Units, the battle finished in a stellar style as Noah's party came out of it with no injuries!

BOOM! BOOM!

The bodies of two BRONZE Dimensional Beasts collapsed as the party was warped away, the rewards of their hard battle popping up in front of Noah's eyes.

[Rewards for clearing the 15th Floor] :: [+1000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+1000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+50 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+1000 Iron Rank Cores], [+25 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+1 Random Bronze Equipment], [+2000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+25 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+10 Health Potions], [+10 Mana Potions], [+1 BRONZE Skill Book]

Looking over the rewards, Noah couldn't help but release a gasp at how luxurious they were!

He was now 25 Shards away from a Bronze Unit, and he had finally gotten his hands on BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals for him to upgrade the strength of the Yeti and Fiery Chimera.

But most of all...was a skill book!

Rare than anything you could come across, an item that infused one with knowledge of how to guide the energy of their Ranks to influence the elements in their surroundings in order to bring forth deadly results.

Noah wasted no time as he took the BRONZE Skill Book out of his Inventory, watching as it disappeared the moment he willed to learn it, a brand new Skill Appearing in his stat panel!

[Noah Eckert] [Rank: BRONZE]

[Strength: BRONZE]

[Dexterity: BRONZE]

[Intelligence: BRONZE]

[Vitality: BRONZE]

[Skill(s): (BRONZE- Fire Bolt)]

A gorgeous set of words that displayed his new skill appeared.

A skill that shot forth a rapid arc of fire to pierce and scorch his targets- Fire Bolt had come to light!

Chapter 33

Of course, Noah wanted to right away test the new skill he had obtained. But he had underestimated the floors of the Tower of Champions, the vast expanse of deserts in the past floors taking him a few hours to go through as he knew it was nearing daytime.

He couldn't not try out the new skill he gained on Beasts though, so he made up his mind as he chose to delve into at least the 16th floor!

SHAA!

Their figures were teleported onto the scorching desert once more, facing even more monstrous and larger numbers of desert type Rift Bosses.

This time while his Offensive units thundered forward, he wasn't too far behind them as when he faced a Desert Scorpion, his eyes shone while he cast [Fire Bolt]!

ZIIING!

A fiery bolt of flames appeared beside him as it shot forth like a flash of light towards the Beast.

BOOM!

It struck its head as it left behind devastating damage, an explosive and scorching mess left behind as the Iron Rift Boss wiggled and fell to the ground!

One hit KO on a Rift Boss!

Noah felt strong emotions from gaining such a wondrous skill as he searched the vast desert with even more vigor, casting the skill left and right as it definitely helped with their clear time.

He ran out of energy half way through as he pulled out the item he had been obtaining in the past Floors, Mana Potion!

[Mana Potion] :: A potion that revitalizes the energy of its consumer to full capacity.

A wondrous piece of loot that he drank to be filled with energy again, finishing the 16th floor after an hour as rewards similar to the 11th floor greeted him!

He looked towards his Loot that glimmered with shining lights in his Inventory as he reappeared in the waiting area of the Tower of Champions, choosing to leave after spending an entire night here.

He would return to rush towards the 20th floor as soon as he could, his heart set on the rewards there as he wanted to challenge himself to rise even further!

-[Change in POV]

I was staring out the window early in the morning as I looked for a single person.

More shocking than even last time, my dear older brother had not even spent the night in the house after we saved the Princess, and he was off doing lord knows what.

The events of last night played through my mind as I still couldn't believe them, though.

My older brother. My slacker of a brother. He...actually had BRONZE Rank strength and even had abilities that could summon fearsome beasts!

"How…"

There was no answer in sight as I looked towards the door that used to be his room, where currently a princess that nearly lost her life was now resting.

'Hmm?'

My eyes caught his figure as he entered the apartment complex, trying my best to put on a calm expression as he came up and entered our apartment.

He saw me sitting by the window as he smiled.

"What's my little sister doing up so early?"

He shot forth a question so calmly as if he didn't just take down a SILVER Rank assassin last night.

I looked at him closely as I let out a sigh and replied.

"So you disappear at night to dive in Rifts? Why keep it a secret? Why act weak…?"

I truly had a great deal of questions for this older brother of mine, but he frustratingly waved his hands to dismiss them all as he spoke with a smile.

"I told you guys a few days ago that I was finally gonna get serious, and I actually did start that day. The results you see now...are all I have achieved since then!"

…!

He let out unbelievable words as I rolled my eyes, but he then waved his hands after seeing me disregard his words as…

SHAA!

The brilliant luster of IRON and...BRONZE Rank Cores filled the room!

"I wanted to help my little sister and finally contribute to the family. Use these to break through the Iron Rank and reach Bronze, and then we can go diving in a Bronze Rift soon…"

I couldn't help but look towards him in a stupor while glancing at the scene of hundreds of Iron Cores and over 30 Bronze Cores!

Yet...he merely yawned as his face seemed to be filled with tiredness, crashing on the couch as even with the sunlight passing through the window, this guy fell asleep in seconds!

This…

This was truly my older brother?

The same very one I used to know?!

While Annalise grasped the fact that her brother had become capable enough to even wave his hands and cause the appearance of Iron and Bronze Cores, the hours passed as news of the movements of the Dark Continent became widespread.

In the hours of the afternoon where the sun's rays were the brightest, the parents of the Eckert Household returned home to first see the daughter shockingly absorbing Peak BRONZE Cores that even they rarely come across when they dived in Rifts with a team!

When she came to and stabilized her aura in the BRONZE Realm, her body reeled in the Frost that had begun to leak out from her ||Ice Queen|| also advancing with her as she let her parents know that the one to be magnanimous enough and give all this...was her Older Brother.

They looked at the slacker that was snoring on the couch as they made sure it was the same person, Jon looking towards his son with a hidden light of pride as Evelyn looked towards Noah with loving eyes that even dripped tears!

But even this scene didn't last too long as Noah was ruffled awake when the door to his room opened and the 5th Princess they were hiding came out.

Jon's face then turned grim as he looked at everyone along with the groggy Noah while he told them shocking news.

"Forces of the Dark Continent are making their way through the border...they want to expand their influence as Academy City is one of the locations a Legion of Blessed is heading to!"

…!

The sleepiness was instantly lost from Noah's eyes as the eyes of two girls flashed with a sharp light!

The peaceful years they had experienced were now being brought to an end as they would soon be caught in the middle of a war between two Hegemonies!

Chapter 34

Noah was roused awake the moment the shocking words of a force from the Dark Continent nearing the border of the Continent he was currently in reached his ears.

He truly wanted to spend his time idling and growing stronger, with his next plans even being to delve into the Bronze rank dimensional Rifts with the help of his parents and even the 5th Ethereal Princess.

He had planned to put this princess to use as he utilized the favor of saving her life by quickly clearing the three Bronze Rank Rifts in Academy City, and even later going towards the singular Silver Ranked Rift within the City!

But now he was just told that the forces from the Dark Continent were heading towards the Light Continent, with a few cities as their target and Academy City was one of them!

It was such a surreal development that he didn't even know what to do.

The voice of Noah's father Jon rang out with somberness by the side.

"The news should have already been spread towards the Imperial City. We should see reinforcements before the legion From the Dark Continent making their way here can even arrive. Before then, we have to decide what we are going to do!"

A tough road seemed to lay ahead as the five figures within the small apartment pondered about the future.

The fifth princess seemed to have made up her mind as she rose to speak up, but this was when something shocking occurred.

It was akin to a bomb going off, a bomb so loud that the ear drums of a common Iron Ranked a Blessed were ruptured!

BOOM!

The sound shook the very apartment they were in as solemn expressions appeared in the faces of everyone when they felt the reverberations!

On this day, Noah Eckert came across the second explosion since his transmigration into the Ethereal Realm.

This second explosion...would have a much grander and more horrific significance than the first one though!

This was because the explosion...was the beginning of a nightmare.

...

In the skies above the clouds of Academy City, an airship was moving slowly while being hidden to the eyes of those below.

The airship contained a myriad of Blessed, each of them with cold expressions as their eyes were those of focus and longing!

There were thousands of Blessed within this airship, the large majority of them in the bronze rank as over 100 in the SILVER Rank were lined up neatly up front. Each of them wore armors and held weapons that matched their respective levels, these beings letting out powerful auras as on each of their armors, there was the inscription of a bloody crown being pierced at the center by a golden sword.

Standing in front of all of these beings at the edge of the airship was a man that had glimmering red hair and dark eyes.

His eyes seemed extremely sharp as they held the features of a beast, a glint of a golden color reflecting off of his body as shockingly, this was a being not of the Bronze or Silver ranks, but of Gold!

GOLD!

As he stared down at the calm city below them, his voice rang out.

"They expect the legion coming by land to be the one that reaches them first. They expect for us to give them time to prepare as they bolster their defenses and wait for the forces from the Imperial Capital."

His voice was tinged with power and ridicule as this GOLD rank Blessed thought the large city below them looked extremely minuscule when one looked at it from such a far away position!

His shocking words continued as his body pulsed with power.

"No, this war...this conquest was planned for a long time. We shall not give you time to prepare to be ready. We shall advance and strike quickly as before you know it...a large majority of these cities would have already fallen into our hands!"

RUMBLE!

From the position of the sky where the airship was at, this being that palpated with billowing power of the GOLD Rank jumped off the airship.

Before the enormous vessel could even be seen by those below in the Academy City, the most powerful figure that traveled within the vessel jumped off of it in a spectacular manner!

His body barreled towards the ground as he smashed onto the very center of the city, his impact causing a horrendous amount of damage in the nearby mile.

Buildings were shaken and tumbling as any beings in the Bronze rank or lower close nearby in the area that this expert had landed on were grievously injured or dead!

WAA!

The GOLD Rank expert stretched his neck as he looked around him, the shining eyes observing everything coldly as he moved towards the strongest auras within this city, the important personages of Silver that were wildly flaring out their power.

This GOLD Rank expert was the source of the explosion Noah and his family had heard.

This being signaled the arrival of a force that the beings from the Light Continent thought were days away from them.

This being signaled the beginning of a terrible war!

Noah and his family had gone out of their apartment complex as their faces changed drastically when they noticed the scenes outside.

In the skies, the appearance of an enormous airship tore apart the clouds as it descended towards the city at a rapid speed.

Ropes flung out of the airship as numerous figures blinking with silver and bronze lights flowed across them and into the peaceful city!

Noah's heart shook at the scene as it was purely unbelievable. Everyone beside him had foreboding feelings in their hearts while they were looking at this scene.

Near them, the 5th Ethereal Princess was wearing a veil that covered her face, her eyes shaking as she saw the enemies of their Light Continent and unbelievably having already arrived to attack them!

"No...it shouldn't be like this, they should not…"

Her words were filled with disbelief, but the scene in front of them could not be denied!

BOOM!

Numerous explosions began to resound throughout the city as the sounds of fighting began. The flashes of silver and bronze lights that descended down from the airships had begun to spread out into the city rapidly, destruction being left behind in their wake.

In the middle of all this chaos, a mesmerizing voice that was amplified uniquely by the use of magic rang out across the many miles of academy city.

"Your saviors from the Dark Continent have arrived to lift the oppression of the so-called Ethereal Emperor."

…!

"We have arrived to free you, as all you need to do is lay down your arms and kneel under the rule of the Dark King. Only through this will you find abundant opportunities and wealth."

"As for those who do not kneel...they shall perish from where they stand!"

RUMBLE!

A resonant voice releasing a domineering claim!

It was the start of a shocking war as in the midst of it all, a certain transmigrator had not expected nor wanted any of it!

Chapter 35

At this moment in time, it was not just Academy City that had an airship appear above their skies.

Multiple other cities had a shimmering golden light descending from the airships like a bomb as they smashed onto the center of their city, causing widespread mayhem and casualty as a GOLD Ranked Blessed was sent on each airship!

The Gold experts on the ships were accompanied by over a hundred SILVER rank experts and thousands in the bronze rank.

It was such an overpowering force that the unprepared cities that had at most tens of beings in the silver rank and a few thousand in the bronze as the vast majority were in the iron rank.

None of these beings could withstand a trained army that was there for subjugation!

A war had begun, and with it came with immense horrors nobody would ever wish to experience in their lives.

In Academy City.

"We have to move and fast!"

The stern voice of Noah's father rang out clearly as he grabbed the hands of Annalise and Evelyn while he began sprinting to the outer peripheries of the city.

The father of this family had analyzed the situation thoroughly as he chose to run in the next moment that the flashes of silver and bronze lights began to spread throughout the city!

If they did not want to heel under the subjugation of this invading force, they had to rush out of the city and go deeper into the Light Continent towards the Imperial Capital that had much more powerful city states surrounding it that were filled with silver rank experts and even those in the gold rank!

Noah found himself running beside his family as the 5th Princess kept up with them with a somber expression.

She seemed extremely conflicted as she didn't know what to do, but the voice of Noah's father continued to ring out as they made their way across the chaotic streets.

"Keep running!"

RUMBLE!

Many beings could be seen running around haphazardly, their faces filled with fear as not too far from them- the sounds of fighting could be heard.

The screams of fighting and the sounds of people dying!

BOOM

The street in front of them cracked as a figure landed.

The party of 5 instantly turned as they avoided the silver flash that just descended down to instantly go in another direction!

BOOM!

Yet the area they turned to also had another silver light descending down as it caused the earth below it to crack.

They breathed hard as they came to a stop.

They weren't the only ones boxed in as multiple other inhabitants of Academy City were pooled in a circle as from three directions, the powerful color of Silver blocked all sides!

Not long after, the glimmers of multiple bronze experts appeared as each of them carried bloodied weapons as they looked coldly towards the beings around them.

"Kneel!"

The word was uttered from the Silver Ranked Blessed that held pristine swords and a razor sharp armor.

It was a single word, a command that had to be followed!

Multiple powerful Silver and Bronze Blessed enemies surrounded them.

It was an impossible situation!

Some beings in the iron and bronze rank near Noah's family could not help it as their legs buckled and they fell to the ground, shaking in shame and fear as they could do nothing but kneel.

Noah's father had a difficult expression as he looked at all sides, his eyes then landing on his family behind him!

Noah stepped forward as he saw the dangerous eyes of the silver and bronze blessed around them.

These beings weren't like the heavily injured assassin he had been able to ambush and kill in the past, with each of them armored to the tee as he knew even if he summoned his Bronze Beasts, they would not be able to change the situation!

His eyes went towards his father as they spoke with their eyes. It was another time where father and son communicated with only their eyes as their intentions were understood by both sides.

Noah saw this being telling him that for now, they would simply have to kneel and bear the shame as they truly did not have the strength to stand against their enemies.

They had to kneel!

THUMP!

Noah felt his heart beat clearly as the feeling he never wanted to experience- the feeling of others stronger than him standing atop him as he couldn't even control his life...this fear of his since he arrived in the Ethereal Realm had actually become a reality.

More knees fell on the ground shamefully as Noah's father was the first, his strong arms pushing on his wife and daughter to go down as well. The 5th Princess also fell to the ground as one could see a veil covering her head that prevented others from seeing her head full of silver hair!

Noah felt extreme shame as his knees were about to fall down as well, knowing the situation was extremely dangerous as too many enemies surrounded them at this moment.

Even if he called forth his 2 Bronze Pets...it wouldn't be of help against the 3 powerful Silver Blessed and multiple Bronze ones that boxed him and multiple others on all sides!

So his body shook as this transmigrator for the first time ever...went to the ground and kneeled.

...!

His eyes were red as since arriving in this new place, he fell to the lowest point.

Yet in the crowd of Blessed that were kneeling, there were a few that were either too brave or too prideful to kneel.

In this crowd, it was the figure of an elderly woman who held the hands of a little girl.

Her expression was adamant as one could sense weak fluctuations of the bronze rank from her, her aged face looking towards the powerful enemies around them as she didn't have a sense of fear.

"The people of the Light Continent do not kneel to subjugators!"

The voice of the elderly woman resonated across the destroyed square as those kneeling heard it, their heart being shaken as the shame they felt threatened to flood out.

The Silver Ranked Blessed nearby kept his cold look on his face as his eyes turned to this elderly woman and child.

Both the elder and young child seemed to have no fear in their eyes as they chose to stand for something!

Alas...

SHAA

A silver light flashed. A sword was drawn.

THUNK!

The head of the elderly woman that had spoken in revolt was severed cleanly as it fell to the ground.

"..."

People looked around in a stupor as they saw the mercilessness of their enemies, the silver expert looking around towards the few people that were still standing as a sword aimed towards them as well.

Back in the area where the head of an elderly woman lay on the ground, the shaking hands of the young child that still held on to the hand of her grandmother could be seen.

This child had a lost expression as she tried to register the scene in front of her, her little face looking at the grandma and then at being that had taken the head off of her!

Tears had begun to fall out of her face as she looked at the ground and grabbed onto a nearby rock, her little hands wrapping around it and throwing it towards the silver rank Blessed that had taken her grandmother away from her.

The stone was harmless, really, one that would not even harm even an iron-ranked blessed.

But the silver commander turned around and looked at the child that had defiantly thrown it towards him.

His face remained cold and impassive as to the shock of everyone there, he began to move towards the child with his sword raised high!

….!

Alarm and shock wrapped and crossed the minds of many, but nobody moved as their legs trembled in fear! Nobody...moved but a single person.

This person stood up from her kneeling position with a strong expression in her eyes as she called forth righteously!

"Really? You would even harm a child?!"

The voice was extremely striking as it held a stinging tone towards the powerful silver blessed with the cold expression.

Noah's heart sank as he heard this voice, his shaking eyes rising up to see the figure of his mother- of Evelyn angrily looking towards the ruthless Silver Blessed that was about to raise their hands against a child!

The scene that played out next was something that Noah would never forget for the rest of his life.

As he kneeled on the ground feeling his weakness and shame...as he kneeled to the ground because of his fear of losing his own life and of his family around him...he saw a flash of silver light!

This flash of light was extremely fast as Noah was barely able to follow it, this light going towards the figure of the woman that had stood up to protect an innocent child.

This flash of light passed through her neck seamlessly as yet another head fell to the ground.

PAH!

…!

Shock! Stupor! Horror!

Chapter 36

Noah would have many lessons inscribed in his brain after his transmigration.

One of the early lessons that would be etched into his mind...was that those with power could be ruthless!

That they could be extremely cruel!

They could do as they wished as they stepped on those weaker than them, and there would not be any repercussions.

They could do as they wished purely because they had the power to do it, and so they did as they showed not an ounce of pity or compassion!

SHING!

The SILVER Blessed swiped his sword to the side after decapitating a being Noah had memories of through his life.

His feet stepped on her rolling head as he applied light pressure, the face becoming deformed as blood and brain matter splattered out.

The SILVER Blessed...still merely had a cold and impassive look on his face.

Noah was frozen. For the first time since his transmigration...he was frozen!

Annalise's body shook by the side at this incredulous scene, crawling on her feet as she went towards her mother's decapitated body.

Jon- the father of Noah Eckert whose memories were very vividly remembered by the being that had taken over his body, Jon's expression was that of immense anger and pain as he watched the love of his life perish!

The woman he had built a life with! Who he had worked with day and night to create a family! Just like that...perished.

He turned towards his stupefied daughter and son, his eyes locking with Noah as they shimmered with light. Noah came out of his stupor as father and son communicated with their eyes once more.

It was the communication that the father and son would have for the last time.

Noah saw the unwillingness and despair...as well as another message that smashed into his heart- he understood it all just from that one look!

RUMBLE!

Jon's body erupted with the aura of a Bronze Blessed as his wrathful and despairing eyes turned towards the cold faced killer. For the love of his life to be taken so unjustly in front of him, he could not sit idle!

His body rushed towards the cold-faced killer as this being from the Dark Continent merely gave a cursory glance as a flash of silver illuminated the surroundings again.

Another head rolled to the ground.

"..."

SQUELCH!

The foot shimmering with silver came down upon this rolling head again as it pressed down and caused brain matter to fly out.

"..."

There were many things occurring all around them as sounds of fighting continued to ring out, screams and wails apparent on all sides.

Yet it felt like everything was isolated in the area they were in as they witnessed cruelty after cruelty!

"It's like they don't believe that I'll kill them. I'll repeat myself again- kneel and remain kneeling, or you will perish."

The SILVER Blessed wiped his sword of the blood that had taken away the lives of three innocent beings as he spoke.

Noah came to at this moment after this shocking sequence of events, the fear and shame he had in his mind replaced by extreme anger and wrath!

He had only transmigrated into this world less than a month ago, but he had its memories from the body he occupied for all of his life.

Ever since he could remember when he was young until now...the memories of the parents of Noah Eckert filled his mind as if they were his very own!

The attachment the body he occupied had felt towards them erupted out as his wrathful eyes locked onto the SILVER Blessed that had taken their lives so easily.

A mere Silver Blessed, a being he knew he could step on in just a matter of days or weeks after getting stronger...this being and the powerful gold flash from the skies had caused him to kneel as they then carried out untold cruelty!

RUMBLE!

His body rose up steadily as he no longer kneeled.

"Hmm?"

The Silver Blessed turned his head towards him as he saw Noah wasn't the only one, the shaken figure of Annalise also rising up as her body glimmered with an intense blue light, frost beginning to wrap around her.

As the Blessed saw the wrath and disbelief in their eyes, he nodded while speaking out simply.

"I see, that was your family? It's better you join them than remain here!"

His bloodied feet moved forward as for the third time in the last few minutes, another flash of silver light occurred!

CLANG!

Yet at this moment, the cold blade was deflected as the shaking figure of Rose- the 5th Princess, could be seen!

Her body shook with pain and fear as she screamed out towards Noah.

"Run! Don't lose your life here for no reason!"

Her words roused Noah's and Annalise's minds as the other Blessed around them that were still kneeling looked at the bloody scene, each of them rising and beginning to run out fearfully.

"Ho?"

The Silver Blessed swung his sword again towards Rose as a slight surprise entered his face, his strike pushing the girl that only had silver strength on the surface but did not have the battle power associated with it!

A large gash appeared on the 5th Ethereal Princess's shoulder as she was thrown back towards the same direction where Noah and Annalise stood.

Noah's expression twisted as he grabbed onto her, Annalise beside him as the two were ready to fight for their lives!

The Silver Blessed came towards them with a blade drawn as Noah was about to summon all his Units and see if he could take out even just this single being before he perished!

But…

"Now now, don't go around killing everyone. We still need a workforce for the days to come."

WAA!

A glorious flash of gold appeared and floated in the skies.

A being with crimson hair and shimmering eyes appeared as he looked at the sorry figures of Blessed trying to run or fight, everything silencing under his gaze as the Blessed coming towards Noah and the others clicked his lips in disappointment.

"Gather all the able ones into the center of the City. A new regime is here for them!"

RUMBLE!

The aura of GOLD Ranked Blessed was extremely overpowering, Noah and the others barely being able to stay on their feet as they knew going against these words meant death! They truly could not fight back!

They barely survived by a few seconds, and it was due to the mercy of their enemies!

The being shining in gold glanced at each of them as Noah turned his eyes upward, the eyes of the GOLD expert that looked at each of them like mere bugs beings inscribed in his mind.

"Haha!"

Only a peal of light laughter came from the GOLD Blessed as he flashed away from the sky and into another region.

Noah felt his blood boiling as the shame and anger he felt only increased, looking towards the figure of their decapitated parents as the many Bronze and Silver Blessed enemies around them ushered them towards the center of the City, the strong voice of the Blessed around them resounding out.

"You heard the Golden Commander! To the center of the City if you wish to keep your life!"

A new regime had descended onto Academy City.

It wasn't the only city affected as many on the border of the Light Continent would be taken over, a bloody war beginning as a being that was considered a nobody was now wrapped in the middle of it!

Chapter 37

The flames of war had erupted unexpectedly and without notice, a shocking morning turned extremely bloody in the Light Continent as the forces from the Dark Continent moved in grandly.

Before the forces of the Imperial City could even react, multiple Cities in the edges of the Continent had been taken over through the surprise attacks that utilized airships sent in with GOLD Blessed at the lead!

Within these cities, flames rose to the skies as the dead Blessed were burned right where they fell, causing for a crimson color to shade the dark skies!

It was a shocking reality as Noah and two girls were moving towards the center of their subjugated City soullessly.

His eyes were red as all the fears he had since his transmigration had actually come true as he wasn't able to do anything against a suddenly appearing powerful force!

His parents…

His gaze was melancholic and filled with wrath when he thought of the last look he received from his father.

It told him that against all odds, he must protect his little sister!

He stared down at the figure of Annalise that had a blank expression while looking at the destructive sights around him, his hand reaching out to stroke her head as the two siblings mourned the great loss of their parents.

Rose moved with light steps as she bled, emotions of shame and regret flowing freely from the young princess!

The three made their way deeper into the center of the City after learning a painful lesson.

It was a lesson on cruelty and ruthlessness, a lesson they would not forget anytime soon!

Chaos, Flames, and Blood overflowed across Academy City, only coming to a stop after a few hours as new Banners and flags were raised throughout.

The banners and flags contained a slanted crown that was dripping with blood, a golden sword passing in between this crown gloriously!

"Under the Rule of the Dark King, you all will prosper!"

RUMBLE!

When many beings were gathered at the center of the city where bodies of their brethren burned to ash, the voice of the Golden Commander resounded out.

"The King is truly magnanimous, as his only rule is that every able being has to dive in the Dimensional Rifts within this city, and those successfully finishing a dive will have to hand over half of their loot!"

…!

"Those of you still with families...hold them close as you work together towards a grand future. Those of you that have finally woken up to the realities of death and saw your friends lose their lives in front of you...work even harder as we welcome your challenge if you wish to rebell!"

RUMBLE!

"As of this day...this City shall be known as City 8...and you all are the proud subjects of the Dark King."

"..."

Noah, Annalise, and Rose were breathless as they were among the many clustered in the square watching the Golden Blessed say these words in person, their eyes etching every single scene in the recess of their memories.

Academy City was occupied and given the number identity of City 8, the Blessed within all becoming the conquered in but a single day!

What a grand show of power!

What a wondrous Ethereal Realm!

In the very same apartment they had run out of earlier, three beings returned as they missed 2 less people.

The three were finally able to find a time to rest as they sat around each other in a room.

Noah was silently stroking Annalise's head as she sobbed, while Rose had red eyes as she looked outside the window and into the city that was tinged red with blood!

Noah's eyes seemed to have lost all emotions as he turned towards the 5th Ethereal Princess and spoke coldly.

"I'll need your help for the next few days."

His eyes locked with the Princess as a myriad of thoughts crossed their minds, Rose only nodding while biting her lips.

Noah then looked at the crying Annalise as he then whispered to her.

"It's ok, little sister"

The tears of the girl didn't stop falling from these words as he continued.

"They did this to us because they were strong, and because we were too weak to even defend ourselves."

RUMBLE!

Noah's eyes shone as he spoke, his mentality greatly altered after today's event as his eyes flashed with wrath to overshadow the deep shame and regret he felt.

"What they did to us...we shall pay them back tenfold!"

…!

This sentence finally got Annalise's attention as she wiped her tears while turning towards him, her small voice ringing out silently.

"How…"

Noah stared at the girl that felt even more pain than him, the girl that had always been diving into Rifts to prevent a situation like the one that occurred today from happening.

His eyes flashed with light as he replied while looking at the vast burning metropolis they lived in.

"We will dive into Dimensional Rifts and grow our strength! In time…"

Many dangerous emotions coursed through him as on this day, the naive laid-back transmigrator was killed in Academy City as someone else was born from it!

The hours passed as in the evening, Noah and the two girls were able to step out of the apartment once more as they went towards the portal of a Rift with heavy steps.

Rose had her hair dyed as a veil covered half of her face, the identity of the 5th Ethereal Princess thrown away as she moved behind Noah.

She felt an enormous debt of gratitude towards this family, and as she had just helplessly watched as the lives of the parents were lost, she felt like she had to repay them somehow!

Noah was walking forward with a blank Annalise by his side, the three not wasting any time after today's event as they were actually the first few Blessed to go towards the Rifts under the new Regime.

They appeared at the Encampment of a BRONZE Rift, multiple guards wearing armor that was inscribed with the bloody crown and golden sword piercing stationed there and looking at them with deep smiles.

"We have the first customers...haha!"

The Blessed laughed with each other as the one at the forefront came to stand beside Noah and look at the pretty girls beside him.

"What a lucky man you are...enter the Rift and remember...half of what you gain will be left behind when you come out!"

Noah glanced at the being in front of him as he nodded coldly. Walking forward as he, Annalise, and Rose entered a Bronze Rift for the first time.

They moved with great urgency as they felt their weakness!

They moved with great urgency so they could have a chance at revenge!

They moved...to build a better future!

Chapter 38

The three of them touched the vibrating portal as Noah appeared in his first Bronze Rank Dimensional Rift.

OOOM!

He waved his hands as the Greenplains Yeti, Fiery Chimera, Golden Sunflower, Earth Golem, and the Light Wisp were summoned to the surprised eyes of the two girls.

ROAAR!

The Units announced their arrival grandly as they roared out, Rose's voice ringing out as she looked at them.

"Your inherent ability is Summoning?"

"Something like that, yours?"

He asked the Silver Raked princess that only had the power of this Rank on the surface, yet her ability did not seem that developed.

"||Lightning Ruler||, along with a few skills I obtained from the vault of the Imperial Castle."

Rose replied as the party went deeper into the Rift that was called the Unknown Caverns. A Bronze Rift that required one to go through many winding caverns while defeating the beasts they came across!

The Caverns were filled with Bats as the final boss was an enormous Bat King that was over 5 meters large.

Noah having two Bronze Beasts at the forefront as well as a Silver Blessed that had begun fighting for the first time in her life similar to them, on top of the newly Bronze Annalise that held a determined expression...the Rift was not too much of a problem for them to clear.

[Fire Bolt]!

Noah ferociously spammed his first skill as glimmering arcs of fire struck the body of the Bat King that was besieged on all sides by his Yeti and Fiery Chimera.

ZIING!

Rose also released a strike with her sword as purple lightning shone from it, with Annalise staying behind as she drew a bow that released frozen arrows!

BOOM!

The Bat King fell to the ground as the three of them were able to take it down and finish the rift in half an hour.

30 minutes!

[The Unknown Cavern's Rift is now available in Idle Mode.]

Noah's eyes shone at the message from the system as he counted what they received from this rift, an abysmal number of Bronze Core and one Equipment being the result.

"Let's go."

His voice rang out as the three of them stepped on the newly appearing runic magic circle that teleported them outside, surprising the Blessed from the Dark Continent that had been laughing at them before.

Noah threw the dropped bronze Equipment and a few bronze cores to them with a cold face, the Soldiers beaming with smiles as they nodded in a friendly manner. It was an extremely funny scene as to Noah, these things were worthless with him havings hundreds of Bronze Cores and Equipment!

"Nice work in there comrades! Dive again a few more times if you're still up for it!"

They took the loot with smiles as this would be the way things worked for anyone wanting to dive into Rifts in the future, they would have to pay half if not more of their gains from the Rift to the Blessed Soldiers that were stationed outside of it!

Noah and the two girls did not say a single thing as they moved away from this rift and went towards the second one in Academy City, or as it was known now- City 8.

There were two more Bronze Rifts within this City that Noah had not cleared, bringing Annalise and Rose towards the second one as they repeated exactly what they did with the Unknown Caverns!

Being filled with an intense drive and determination, the three Blessed descended onto the Rift and cleared it around the same time, paying the inconsequential fee of half their cleared Rift loot to the Blessed Soldiers of the Dark Continent as they then made their way to the third Bronze Rift.

On their way there, Annalise was moving with Rose as Noah led the way up front.

"You're lucky to have a brother like him."

Rose spoke lightly to Annalise as she nodded sadly, glancing at the figure of Noah as she clenched her fists, hiding the pain and sorrow in her heart.

"His words might seem grand, but I...somehow feel like they would come true. That revenge would truly be possible…"

The little sister of Noah looked at her Older Brother's back as she began developing a strong sense of trust, Rose nodding absentmindedly as she looked at Noah's back while thinking of her own Brother, the Crown Prince, that had used her and nearly caused for her death.

How different they all were!

The three beings moved with heavy emotions as they went to clear the third Bronze Rift within City 8, managing to clear it within half an hour just as the past two.

This meant in the span of a few hours and with the help of the Silver Ranked Rose and Bronze Ranked Annalise, Noah was able to clear the Bronze Rifts and now had all of them in Idle Mode!

All he had to do now...was dive into the single Silver Rank Rift within this City as he would just have to wait for time to pass before he became immensely more powerful than he was currently.

With the Idle Gaming System, all he needed was for time to pass as the more days that went by, the stronger he would be!

His thoughts were churning as he looked at Annalise and Rose, the two girls showing tired expressions as he took them back to the apartment. They had done the most they could for today, and he would not risk losing all their lives by rushing to dive into a Silver Rift.

He would first clear more floors of the Tower of Champions as he obtained more reward there, seeing if he could come across SILVER Cores similar to when he came across BRONZE Cores and broke through before.

Even though the monsters of the Tower of Champions didn't drop any loot, the rewards for clearing the floors was something that the monsters could not give even if one cleared them a hundred times!

Their steps were heavy as they reached their apartment complex, only to find it was surrounded by Blessed Soldiers adorned with armors inscribed by the bloody crown and golden sword.

They looked towards Noah and the two girls as they waved their hands away while uttering cold words.

"This apartment complex and region will be under renovation and used by us, you all best find somewhere else to be if you used to live here."

"..."

Cruelty and unfairness!

Noah looked at the 2 Silver Ranked Blessed among the group and the tens of Bronze Blessed as he clenched his fists and turned around, Annalise and Rose following him as their eyes were red with emotions!

On this day, they were even kicked out of their homes!

Chapter 39

Noah found a tall building that served as a temporary tavern and lodging for Blessed and other important beings, swallowing his pride as even after being kicked out of his childhood home, he told himself to persevere as he first grew stronger.

When he achieved Silver and even GOLD Rank as he led Rift Bosses at the same stage, would anyone be able to hinder him from where he wanted to go?!

He let the wrath foster in his heart as he and the two girls appeared in front of the front desk of the tall building that was called The Elegant Pearl Inn. A Blessed with the insignia of a bloody crown and sword smiled towards them as this force had already begun to take over everything to do with City 8.

"One Iron core per night, with dinner and breakfast costing 2 Iron Cores."

The Blessed spoke with a smile as ugly prices that would cause common Blessed to go penniless within days were heard, Noah simply pulling iron cores from a satchel he had on his side.

"Two-"

He was about to ask for two rooms, one for him and another for the two girls, but they pulled on his hands at the same time as he turned to look at them. He saw their eyes as he knew the two girls still held a tinge of fear in their hearts, and they did not want to be separated a few hours after witnessing cruelty and not yet understanding how the conquerors of this city would act towards them in the days to come.

"One room, with meals for three for dinner and breakfast."

He three a bunch of Iron Cores on the table as the eyes of the Blessed shone with a smile, looking towards Noah as his eyes looked over the two girls beside him up and down.

"What a lucky guy you are, huh?"

Noah kept his cold expression as he grabbed the room key, the three of them going up the stairs of the Elegant Pearl Inn as they finally entered a wide room with a single bed and a small couch, as well as a small bathroom on the side.

"You two get a chance to relax."

He spoke towards the two tired girls that were emotionally and physically exhausted as he sat on the small couch and was lost in his thoughts.

The two girls went to freshen up as they soon fell asleep from exhaustion, Noah remaining the only one awake in the room as his now cold eyes opened the Idle Gaming System Interface.

He was reminding himself over and over again of ruthlessness and the fear he felt as he replayed the scenes of his mother and father dying in front of his eyes. He did not want to forget the scene as he made sure to remind himself every few minutes!

He saw six boxes that represented six rifts, three shining with a gray light as the other three shone with a bronze light. He clicked on all the Iron Rifts as he collected the Loot Resources after another 24 hours.

[+975 Idle Exp][+2700 Iron Rank Cores][+60 Blazing Armor][+61 Blazing Spear][+59 Frost Shield][+64Frost Sword][+57Frost Boots][+70 Verdant Shield][+62 Verdant Armor][+67 Verdant Helm][+89 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+93 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+101 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+5400 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

A shocking amount of loot after having cleared the Rifts to an average of 24 minutes, but they didn't bring the same feeling of wonder to Noah anymore as he looked at the calculatingly while planning ahead!

He waited for 24 hours to pass before he collected the loot resources from the 3 Bronze Rifts for the first time, as he planned to use the Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals to make more Bronze Beasts.

From the Idle Rewards and Climbing the Tower of Champions, he now had enough to bring 4 Units to the peak of Iron and fuse two new beasts!

He looked at the two resting girls as he didn't go to sleep himself, a light of spatial energy wrapping around him as he disappeared.

SHAA!

Silence returned into the room as the two girls that were 'sleeping' rose up, their eyes glimmering with shock after seeing Noah disappear into thin air!

In the Tower of Champions, Noah pulled out the Light Wisp and Golden Sunflower as he pumped the Iron Rank Upgrade Crystals into them, enhancing their strength into the peak.

[Two Units match the requirements for fusion and evolution. Start the process?]

"Begin."

His cold voice lingered in the waiting room of the Tower as a flash of light erupted in front of him, a new Bronze Beast appearing in front of his eyes!

[Illusory Willow] :: A rare creature consisting of the light and earth element. It has strong immunity to physical damage as it is proficient in the [Grand Heal], [Grand Enhancement], and [Rejuvenating Aura] abilities.

A powerful Healing Unit came to be as Noah went ahead and summoned another Iron Verdant Treat from the Idle Loot resources he had just obtained. He brought this creature upto to peak iron as well, having the choice to pump the Earth Golem next and combine them both. Being of similar elements, he didn't see why not as the scene from earlier repeated, the Earth Golem and Treat being fused as another Bronze Unit was born!

[Elder Stone Treant] :: A creature with a unique physiology that is hard to damage even by Peak Bronze beings. It is proficient in the abilities of [Vine Field], [All Around Protection], and [Stone Throw] abilities.

Just like that, two new Bronze units were born, Noah seeing both of them leaning towards the earth element as when he collected enough Bronze Rank Upgrade Crystals from the next floors of the Tower and through the Idle Resources in 24 hours, he wanted to see if he could combine them or the Yeti and Fiery Chimera to make a SILVER Rift Boss!

His gaze was filled with a terrifying light as the scene of him kneeling was played again and again, putting himself through enormous mental torture to punish himself for his actions as he summoned the Yeti and Fiery Chimera.

With 4 Bronze Rift bosses by his side, he delved into the 16th floor of the Tower as he went towards the 20th!

It was the same scorching hot desert environment from the 16th to the 19th Floor, Noah coming across Desert Scorpions, Worms, and Snakes in varying sizes as gradually, the numbers of those in Iron Rank began to thin out.

By the 19th Floor, every creature he faced was in the Bronze Rank as they moved in pairs, Noah working in conjunction with his four Bronze Units as the Yeti and Chimera were the Damage Dealers, the Illusory Willow acting as the healer while the Elder Stone Treat gave support as it used its numerous vines to restrict the movements of enemy mobs while the damage dealers pummeled them to the ground.

He aced through the four flours as each of them gave similar rewards.

[Rewards for clearing the 19th Floor] :: [+2000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+2000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+50 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+2000 Iron Rank Cores], [+50 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+2 Random Bronze Equipment], [+1000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+10 Health Potions], [+10 Mana Potions]

Adding up the 1000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals he received on the past four floors and the 2000 from the exclusive reward of clearing the 15th floor, he had 8000 that he had chosen to pump the powerful Greensplains Yeti with as its power in the BRONZE Stage was currently terrifying!

Yet its counter before it could fully be fused remained at 8000/10,000 as Noah needed just 2,000 more to max it.

If things went like this, it meant the rewards for the 20th Floor would get him a max Bronze Unit as he would have to clear either the next 5 or 10 floors to gain enough Bronze Upgrade Crystals for him to fuse SILVER Rift Boss!

The dream of doing so was actually not too far away!

Chapter 40

Hours passed as news traveled, the actions of the Dark Continent being spread as powerful Blessed found out that shockingly, over 10 Cities in the outer perimeters of the Continent had been attacked by Airships that carried GOLD experts at the lead, each of them falling without question as blood overflowed and they became subjugated under the banner of the Dark King!

The symbol of a bloody crown with a golden sword piercing it was spread across all 10 cities as new rules were established, the local Blessed finding themselves imprisoned in their own homes as they had to struggle diving into Rifts daily while giving over half of all that they gained to their conquerors.

After the powerful Blessed from the Dark Continent paved the way, their beings entered through the cities en masse as they took over all important positions!

The cities truly became subjugated as their past inhabitants now felt like prisoners in their own homes...

The Imperial Capital received a shock from this set of events as they truly had not expected for the plans of the Dark Continent to be so thorough and quick.

The Crown Prince that had thought he was moving fast by assembling Legions and moving them to the surrounding cities was given a metaphoric slap, the forces he had assembled moving even faster to go out towards the many City-States of the Light Continent to provide more man power!

It was truly an utter failure on their part as they had the knowledge of the Ethereal Emperor passing for years, and yet their preparations were not as strong and fast as they should have been...

After the subjugation of the 10 Cities, the forces of the Light Continent would be spread out so that there were at least multiple GOLD Rank experts protecting the Cities around the continent, with the even more terrifying Blessed above that rank protecting the Imperial Capital and its treasured Rifts.

As for the question of retaking the Cities? The hardship of this was high as the focus currently was to make sure the advancement of the Dark Continent stopped there!

In the Tower of Champions.

From the past 4 floors of the tower, the other boons were the 8000 Iron Rank Upgrade Crystals and the 200 Iron Rank Unit shards. It meant the fusion and combination of a 5th Bronze Beast, and Noah prepared himself fully as he summoned the two random Iron Units and fused them before delving into the 20th Floor.

The random units came out to be a [Red Scaled Snake] and [Fat Worm], their fusion bringing to light a Bronze Beast that was termed [Devouring Sands Serpent].

[Devouring Sands Serpent] :: A creature that loves hiding beneath the earth as it attacks its enemies silently. Its abilities include [Sand Displacement], [Swallow], and [Sand Spears].

A fifth Bronze Beast joined Noah's team as it made 5 maximum units that he could concurrently summon, and it also gave him a terrifying team that made him descend onto the 20th floor with confidence!

It was the same extensive desert before him, this time without any mobs as 10 Bronze Rift Bosses waited for him.

10!

RUMBLE!

His gaze was called as he sent his units forward, [Fire Bolt] already leaving his body multiple times as he kept a Mana and Health Potion close!

The fight should have been immensely tough, but the enhanced Yeti that had been pumped with 8000 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals showed terrifying battle power as it delved into the field of Desert Scorpions, Snakes, and Worms.

While supported by the surprise attacks of the newly joining Devouring Sands Serpent and Fiery Chimera, the Bronze Rift Bosses began to fall one by one as the vines of the Elder Stone Treat played a huge part in grouping them together and allowing for the deadly strikes of the offensive beasts to land!

The Illusory Willow was ready to give healing support at any time, but the furious Units that seemed to sense Noah's wrath and pain pummeled their enemies to the ground as after 20 minutes, the 20th floor was cleared of all enemies.

Ttriing!

A wondrous notification rang out as something beautiful was displayed in front of Noah while his body was returned to the waiting room.

[Rewards for clearing the 20th Floor] :: [+5000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+5000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+5000 Iron Rank Cores], [+100 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+10 Random Bronze Equipment], [+10,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+50 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+25 Health Potions], [+25 Mana Potions], [+3 BRONZE Skill Books], [+1 Random SILVER Equipment]

"..."

Even in his rage, Noah came to a stop at the list of rewards.

3 skill books, a silver equipment, enough BRONZE shards to now summon another Bronze Unit, and even 10,000 BRONZE Unit Upgrade Crystals that gave him the 2000 he needed to max the Greensplains Yeti, as well as 8000 remaining to max another one as he just needed to clear one more floor to gain the extra 2000 so he could fuse a SILVER Rank Rift boss!

"..."

A Silver Rank Rift Boss Unit was that close!

While obtaining this, it meant his growth would be even more explosive as he could ascend through more floors and even possibly descend onto the single Silver Rank Rift in City 8…

His heart thumped at this possible reality as his cold eyes shone, pumping the required 2000 Crystals into the Yeti as its body shone splendorously at the peak of BRONZE, ready for fusion as soon as another unit at the same stage as it appeared.

He then looked at the 125/100 Bronze Unit Shards as he summoned a 6th Unit that he couldn't equip due to his 5 cap limit, but he still wanted to know if it would be something particularly rare.

[Desert Kingsnake] :: A creature that loves the desert, this one particularly deadly as it is proficient in the [Poisonous Bite], [Swift Movements], and [Strangle] abilities.

Even though the Shards had the word random attached to them, they more than likely gave Dimensional Beasts of the floors he had been clearing, the only exception being him not receiving a single undead from the first 10 floors!

But he had received yet another damage dealer that could replace the empty Unit Slot when he fused two into the Silver Level, his eyes then going towards the 3 Skill Books that were the rewards from this floor.

[Vision Enhancement](Passive) :: A passive ability that grants the user enhanced vision, making night as clear as day.

[Haste](Active) :: An ability that allows the user to experience a rapid boost in speed to surprise their enemies with a deadly strike.

[Tough Skin] (Passive) :: A Passive Skill that enhances the defense of the user, making them even more durable.

Even more skills were added into his Skills tab as two were the rare passive abilities that all Blessed sought for, Noah merely nodding his head as he felt his body becoming tougher and his eyes even sharper!

He then turned towards the 21st Floor of the Tower of Champions.

He could already see to the right of the portal that among its rewards, there were the 2000 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals he needed to bring to fruition a SILVER Unit.

His steps were fast as his summoned units followed, his figure disappearing into the 21st Floor!

- Chapter FIN

A Note:

Hi everyone! A bit of an important note that I'll place within the chapter to be seen by all: The novel [My Idle Gaming System] is a story connected to the Multiverse that is about to be explored in my other novel, [Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse]. The main character in my first novel is named Noah Osmont, with the character in this novel being Noah Eckert. Osmont is already fleshed out as he is about to explore the Multiverse in Infinite Mana, while Eckert has only just begun in this story!

They are different characters, and Eckert is being built differently compared to Noah as the goal will be to create a somewhat naive character that learns to be ruthless and cunning. Plot developments like the death of his parents or anything that follows are already outlined and simply being put to paper, with the focus always remaining on making an overly OP, ruthless main character through the [Idle Gaming System] as he relentlessly advances forward. If the style isn't to your liking or using a certain plot device somehow ruins the whole experience for you- that's ok! There are many wonderful works on Webnovel to explore and enjoy for that reason. If you're among the many that enjoy the story, I welcome those from my first novel and the new peeps we're getting along the way on another fantastic adventure!

As in any of my works, an overpowered main character can be expected, with blood-pumping battles and gorgeous skills appearing throughout. Some wonderful things I'm excited to put to paper is weaving the Multiverse of these stories together in the coming future, where ideally my 3rd or 4th work will be the inclusion of all the main characters we are coming across. In Infinite Mana, Noah Osmont obtains his own Cosmic Treasure after many hardships. In My Idle Gaming System, Noah Eckert will also have the chance to rise and obtain his own!

I wish everyone an amazing day, and even more amazing next few years as we build wonderful fantastical worlds ^.^

Chapter 41

The environment changed once more after 10 floors, Noah finding himself in an expansive grassland for the 21st floor.

ROOAR!

His enemies this time were enemies he had come across before, the grasslands being filled with a large amount of Elder Treats- enormous trees with hard defenses and thick branches to strangle their enemies with.

There were tens of these Bronze Beasts littering the grassland within this floor, Noah beginning his clearing methodically as he moved himself to increase his battle awareness and power while his Units did most of the work!

The Fiery Chimera took the spotlight along with the monstrous Greenplains Yeti in ripping apart the Elder Treants, Noah intent on fusing these two beasts together as he went ahead and put the 8000 Upgrade Crystals into the Chimera right away, watching as the rate they cleared the floor increased greatly from the Chimera's power boost.

The number of the slow moving Treants did not matter to them as in around an hour, they finished clearing every single one on the 21st floor!

SHAA!

They were all teleported back to the waiting room as the rewards appeared in front of Noah.

[Rewards for clearing the 21st Floor] :: [+5000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+5000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+5000 Iron Rank Cores], [+200 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+20 Random Bronze Equipment], [+3,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+25 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+25 Health Potions], [+25 Mana Potions], [+1 BRONZE Skill Book]

A bit less than the exclusive rewards he got on every 5th floor, but abundant rewards nonetheless as he got his hands on the Bronze Crystals he required!

He ignored everything else as his eyes focused on the enormous figures of Yeti and Fiery Chimera.

The Yeti already had the max 10,000/10,000 Upgrade Crystals, and that same number soon appeared on the Fiery Chimera as a prompt popped up in front of Noah's eyes.

[Two Units match the requirements for fusion and evolution. Start the process?]

"Begin!"

Noah's eyes were blazing with an intense light as he reached a major milestone, never having expected to get his hands on genuine Silver Rank power this quickly! It also made his heart fill with even more regret as he wondered...if he had climbed the Tower and dove into the Rifts of the city with the intensity he had now, would things be different?

Would he have been able to stand up and save his parents, or would all of them have perished anyways when the GOLD Rank Blessed showed up? If he had his hands on a SILVER Rift Boss or two instead of Bronze ones, would he have ever chosen to kneel? If...

There were many ifs, but he pushed them all away for now as he focused on the path forward!

He could not change what happened in the past! He truly could not...so he should not focus on it so much as he needed to do all he could to alter the coming future.

His blue eyes glimmered with light as he looked at the scene of the fusion.

A glorious silver light shone as a terrifying aura arrived in front of Noah.

A Dimensional Beast that towered over 10 meters, its body taking a humanoid shape as it was a creature with four arms and a terrifying tusked head, its body shining with a silver light as it announced its arrival with a roar!

OOOH!

Noah felt the surroundings shake as the details of the first fused SILVER Unit entered his eyes.

[Flesh Giant] :: A creature that holds mixed Bloodlines from many sources, a single one not being able to triumph in the end as it became a flesh giant that holds steel forged muscles capable of causing the strongest creatures in the same rank as it to turn fearful. Its strength is its biggest feature as it is proficient in [Colossal Strike], [Poisonous Burst], [Earthquake], and [Silver Armor].

A glorious Rift Boss 10 meters in size grandly looked towards Noah subserviently. It released a shocking aura that felt 10 times as powerful as any of the Bronze Units Noah had out.

It was the aura of a SILVER Rank Rift Boss!

One must know, Rift Bosses of any Rank required multiple Blessed in the same Realm to easily take care of them, so Noah gaining just a single Silver Rank was akin to him gaining the force of multiple average Silver Blessed!

All of this in just a matter of days since he first gained the Idle Gaming System!

"..."

A myriad of thoughts crossed his mind as he knew more than half of the night had passed with a few hours remaining before dawn would break.

But he didn't return back into the real world this time around.

He glanced at the ferocious looking Flesh Giant and the other Units he had summoned, his steps going towards the 22nd floor portal as he planned to continue!

SHAA!

Their figures disappeared into the 22nd floor of the Tower as with the SILVER Rank Rift Boss at the lead, the Elder Treants were shredded apart like paper.

ROAR!

The Flesh Giant would cast [Earthquake] as he caused the earth of the surrounding 50 meters to quake, its enormous fists then glimmering with a silver light as it smashed towards the unstable Elder Treants with a [Colossal Strike]!

BOOM!

The other units only acted as support as the SILVER Beast carried Noah to clear the 22nd flour in under 20 minutes.

Nothing stopped him from collecting the rewards of this floor into his Inventory as he crossed it and stepped on the 23rd, and 24th floor- the same shocking scenes being repeated as the SILVER Unit he now commanded was truly carrying everyone on its back!

The rewards of the past floors were abundant as they were the same as the 21st, Noah being able to obtain from all 3 floors collectively 3 more Skill Books, 9000 Bronze Upgrade Crystals that now gave him 10,000 of such Crystals to use on another Bronze Beast, as well as enough Iron Unit Shards to call forth 5 Iron Units and enough Shards to summon another Bronze Unit!

The rewards of the Tower were as abundant as ever, with Noah expecting his strength to explode even more when he neared the 30th floor.

This was because just on the next 25th Floor he had to clear, its rewards were even more exuberant than the 20th floor! He would be granted more than enough Bronze Upgrade Crystals to fully max another Unit and be able to carry out the second Fusion of a SILVER Beast among other rewards he acted to get hit hands on!

All in all, his earnest climbing of the Tower of Champions was granting him an enormous boost in power, his turbulent emotions settling ever slightly as time passed!

Chapter 42

The 25th Floor was a steeping point, as Noah finally stopped tearing apart Bronze Beasts, a singular Boss appearing on this floor.

It shone with an intense silver luster as it towered over 20 meters, nearly twice as large as the Flesh Giant- it was a Silver Rank Elder Treant!

ROAAAR!

Its grotesque human-like face bellowed out as the Silver light it released shone out resplendently, its many vines beginning to erupt towards Noah and his Units.

WAA!

The Flesh Giant was at the forefront, its huge fist grasping and pulling the vines apart while rushing towards the Silver Boss faster, all the other units carrying out long distance attacks as they fought a battle of attrition!

With the SILVER Flesh Giant at the lead, it seemed like the Silver Ranked Elder Treant could only act defensively while its branches were ripped apart, the enormous fists of the Flesh Giant relentlessly pounding into it as after half an hour...it could only release a deathly wail as the enormous Silver tree fell to the ground!

"..."

Noah breathed out hard as they were kicked out of the Floor, his body feeling the enormous mental and physical strain, but the rewards that soon appeared in front of him rejuvenated him as he knew his hard work wasn't for waste.

[Rewards for clearing the 25th Floor] :: [+10,000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+10,000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+200 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+10,000 Iron Rank Cores], [+200 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+20 Random Bronze Equipment], [+15,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+45 Health Potions], [+45 Mana Potions], [+25 Strength Potions], [+1 INHERENT Skill Book], [+2 Random SILVER Equipment], [+5 SILVER Cores]

…!

A truly glorious assortment of loot was given.

Every time he faced an enemy of that Rank for the first time, he received Cores of its stage as from the 25th Floor, he had now obtained SILVER Cores!

What was even more shocking though, was the skill book given this time around. It wasn't a Bronze or Silver Rank Skill Book, but instead something that Noah did not obtain when he first became a Blessed- an Inherent skill that grew with the user as they advanced through the stages.

Its power could be minuscule in the beginning as it grew to become terrifying in the future, or it could begin as something terrifying and continue to be so as one advanced!

There were many things he could absorb from the loot he just received, but he clicked on the Inherent Skill Book in his Inventory.

A bright light shone.

|Mind Dominator| :: A weak mind cannot advance far in the future. This is an inherent skill that strengthens the mind of the user while granting them abilities that can dominate others. The ability of [Subjugate] is currently unlocked, with many more abilities capable of being unlocked as the user rises in power.

A cooling feeling washed over Noah the moment the ability was granted to him.

A cooling sensation that reduced his rage and shame while making his eyes turn sharp!

His mind exploded with many thoughts and ideas as he closed his eyes to just think for a second.

When a few minutes passed and he opened his eyes, a sharp light coursed through them as he thoroughly understood his ability!

It was a truly wondrous one to have as it opened many avenues for Noah.

He breathed out slowly as he stretched his neck, unboxing the other rewards as his focus now went to the Bronze Upgrade Crystals that he had over 25,000 of in total after the rewards from this floor!

It naturally meant another SILVER Unit could be fused!

Noah's eyes turned to the remaining Bronze Rank Units he commanded as he had to make the choice.

When it came from the healing or support units being combined or gaining another offensive Rift Boss, his current situation led him to make another Offensive Unit to smash his way across the floors of the Tower as well as the Dimensional Rifts in the outside world!

Between the [Devouring Sands Serpent], [Illusory Willow], [Elder Stone Treant], and [Desert Kingsnake], he chose to fuse the two alike Offensive Units.

RUMBLE

Energy fluctuated out wildly as the Bronze Unit Upgrade Crystals were pumped into the Devouring Sands Serpent and the Desert Kingsnake!

Their aura rose to the highest it could be before the prompt came for Noah to fuse, giving his command as the two units disappeared into a swirl of light.

Soon enough, an even more terrifying Serpent over 10 meters large made its appearance!

[Horned Serpent] :: A terrifying creature at the SILVER Rank that enjoys breaking the bones of its enemies before devouring them. Its abilities include [Venomous Cloud], [Constrict], [Enhanced Bite], and [Flash].

A terrifying Horned Serpent with vibrant silver scales raised its terrifying head as Noah analyzed its nature and abilities.

It was another terrifying addition that would increase his battle power greatly, but no strength would be more important than his own as after fusing this Silver Beast, he then took out the 5 Silver Cores from the Inventory.

Such things were extremely rare to get, with the truly important beings in the past Academy City being able to get their hands on them by diving into the only SILVER Rift within the City!

Noah had long since achieved the peak of Bronze as he had hundreds of such Cores in his Inventory, sitting down and beginning to absorb the Silver Cores as he sought to do something shocking.

It was the action of trying to break through from Bronze to SILVER!

A shocking Speed of Progression that others could not even dare to think about, with him only needing a matter of days to jump from Iron to Bronze as he now knocked on the door to Silver.

It truly showed the terrifying prospects of the future with the Idle Gaming System on hand!

RUMBLE!

Energy gloriously waved around him as he began to absorb the Silver crystal Cores in his hands, a shocking lustrous color beginning to envelop him as he forged forward!

Chapter 43

In a Grand mansion within City 8 that an important Silver Rank personage used to live in.

Currently, it was being occupied by the GOLD Blessed that has dropped from the skies and overwhelmingly won the battle for Academy City!

He was currently talking with multiple Subordinates as they reported the progress of their projects within the city.

"The flow of resources has swiftly begun as we already have thousands of Iron Cores, hundreds of Bronze, and tens of Silver Cores ready to be transported."

A Silver Blessed spoke while looking at some papers, another one raising their voice after.

"The rate of Equipment collection is as abysmal as slow ever, but it is beginning to stockpile up!"

The GOLD Blessed's eyes shone with light as he listened, the City he was given the mission of overseeing already heading on the right track!

When he thought of all the young Blessed in his homeland that would freely get these resources, his heart warmed as the mission he had only became firmer.

"Get ready to begin the transportation process!"

His resonant voice rang out as he thought of his home.

For the happiness of the young and upcoming Blessed back home, he would do all that was required of him!

Taking over Cities and taking the lives of a few enemies was not an issue.

For his motherland, he would do anything!

RUMBLE!

His body crackled with the terrifying power at the GOLD Rank as a shocking reality played out not just in City 8, but in all the Subjugated Cities on the border of the Light Continent.

It was the restrictions placed on Rifts- on the fact that all those stepping out of them would have to give half of all the loot they gained away!

It was the cold truth of the Ethereal Realm and the beautiful Universe this Realm was located in- the truth of the alluring Dimensional Rifts and the resources they provided.

Whoever controlled such Rifts controlled the flow of power!

The forces of the Dark Continent utilized such a truth seamlessly as they had already begun using the Blessed from the Cities they had taken over to procure a large amount of resources en masse as it was all sent back to strengthen their people and produce even more fearsome warriors!

The significance of the events occurring in the dark had not entered Noah's mind yet, his blue eyes vibrantly shining with light as he raised his hands to see the shimmering Silver color floating around it.

It was the affirmation of him stepping into SILVER Rank!

He released a turbid breath as he felt the explosive strength within his body, looking towards the enormous Flesh Giant that was looking towards him subserviently just like all his other units as he sent to it a shocking command.

"Hit me."

THRUM!

The unit obeyed without a second delay as a deadly fist shimmering with silver light crossed the air to fly towards him!

His own body glimmered with an intense silver light as he threw his own fist to meet the terrifying blow of the Flesh Giant Rift Boss.

BZZT...CRACK!

The impact was terrifying as Noah felt like a mountain was slamming into him, but he was actually able to hold on against it for a few seconds!

This was the strength of a terrifying Rift Boss mind you, which meant after holding on for a few seconds, his small body was still flung back multiple meters as he felt the bones within his right hand break in multiple spots.

"..."

The pain barely registered in his mind as he tested his strength, calling for the Illusory Willow as a [Grand Heal] was cast on him multiple times until his hand was as good as new.

He nodded swiftly as when he thought of the time, he knew that the night had passed as dawn should have already broken.

He thought of the two girls he left behind in the room as he looked at the Tower with 1000 floors and thought about how the first 25 alone had given him strength up to the Silver Rank.

It held shocking implications for the future as for now, he had to leave it once more.

SHAA!

He put away the summoned Units as a spatial light began to warp around him, his body returned into the small room he had been teleported away from as within this room...the eyes of two girls looked towards his appearing figure with shock!

Rose couldn't utter any words as it was Annalise who spoke slowly.

"Brother...just what Inherent ability did you awaken?"

Noah's weary eyes landed on the girls as he had planned to make something up for his disappearances sooner or later, this chance giving him the opportunity to do as he sat on the couch exhaustingly while beginning to talk.

"It's not just a Summoning ability. I unlocked something that allows me to be transported to luxurious Dimensional Rifts...Rifts that give out rewards hundreds of times better than the ones you can find in the Ethereal Realm!"

He thought of the Tower of Champions and his Idle Gaming System as he weaved something together, his hands waving as he brought out colorfully silver equipment from his Inventory that were the rewards of previous floors.

"Cores, Equipment, Skill Books...these Rifts can grant me a great deal of treasures as long as I alone risk my life to clear them."

…!

The two girls looked at the ground where they shockingly found Silver Ranked Equipment- powerful Armors and Weapons that even the average SILVER Blessed would have a hard time getting their hands on!

This was because the higher one's Rank was, the harder and rarer the Cores and Equipment of those ranks became.

Yet Noah had just waved his hands to make these amazing treasures appear before them!

"This is why I said it is possible to get revenge...why I am confident in being able to pay back everything they did in time! It's also why I regret...not getting this serious sooner!"

His strong voice woke the girls out of their stupor as Annalise came towards him and hugged his head, her small voice ringing out.

"You could have never known how things would have happened. You do not have to blame yourself!"

The brother and sister comforted each other on their loss as Rose came by to give her own emotional support, Noah's voice continuing to ring out.

"My ability becomes more powerful the more different types of Rifts I clear, not how frequently I cleared them. It's why my goal is to delve into the Silver Dimensional Rift in the city next!"

…!

The two girls glanced towards him in shock as Rose spoke out.

"Already? It might be dangerous with just us. Even though I'm in the Silver Rank, I haven't been honing my skills or fighting in the past. For a Silver Rift, you need a team of Silver Bless-"

OOOM!

Rose's words were cut short as Noah's body now pulled with a silver light, showing his Rank grandly in front of them!

"It is possible. I wouldn't risk my life otherwise!"

The two girls had agape expressions as they stared at the man that used to be in the Iron Rank not too many days ago.

Now, he somehow stood at the rank of SILVER!

Chapter 44

Noah looked at Annalise while rising up, his shining eyes staring at the Silver equipment on the floor as he thought about all the other loot he had in his Inventory.

When he used the Random SILVER Equipment from his Inventory, he obtained equipment like [Silver Snake Armor], [Death Rapier], [Silver Bow]...and many others that nicely fit him and the two girls.

His voice rang out while he stared at Annalise.

"I used all the Silver Cores I found as loot to advance so I don't have anymore, but we can get our hands on them in the Silver Rift, and I can obtain even more when I delve into the rare Rifts I told you about."

"Then we can bring your Rank to Silver as we continue to strengthen ourselves before we make a move…"

His words turned dangerous at the end as the girls felt the air turn cold. But their hearts remained firm as they remembered the cruelty they had faced, as they remembered the shame of being forced to kneel!

Annalise's eyes shone dangerously as the girl spoke.

"To the SILVER Rift then…"

RUMBLE!

The party of three communicated as Noah talked with them about a great deal of things.

When he thought about how he would begin to fight back against the subjugators of the City, his newly gained Inherent Skill came to mind, especially the Ability that was unlocked on it currently.

His eyes looked at his Stat Panel as his eyes shook, seeing that the Inherent Skill had actually changed and added another ability since he first learned it!

An Inherent Skill grew with the user, and Noah had broken into the SILVER Rank after he obtained his Inherent Skill!

Under |Mind Dominator| were the abilities [Subjugate] and…[Mind Connection]!

[Subjugate] :: The user can dominate the mind of a weaker being or someone at the same Rank as them who is brought into a disordered state. A [Subjugated] being follows all the commands of the Mind Dominator, even if they are asked to die. The number of Subjugated beings depends on the mental capacity of the Mind Dominator.

[Mind Connection] :: The Mind Dominator can form a connection with his [Subjugated] beings, obtaining all of their thoughts and memories.

…!

A truly wondrous display of abilities from the newly gained Inherent Skill.

It made the plans he was forming even more solidified as against the ruthless Blessed that had attacked them and killed his parents...he planned to be just as cruel and ruthless!

"Let's go!"

He and the girls left the Elegant Pearl Inn as they moved on the subjugated Streets of City 8, seeing the shocking scenes of local Blessed being pushed around as they walked with their heads low, while the beings walking with the insignias of a bloody crown pierced by a golden sword walked with their heads held high.

Scenes like this and even more disgusting ones were happening throughout the Subjugated Cities.

Other areas had unruly Blessed that chose to bully the beings of subjugated Cities even more, an unknown number of Blessed being forced to do things they didn't wish to!

It was the horrors of war that many chose not to think about, but they occurred!

Noah and the girls moved across the City with cold faces as they simply inscribed the scenes occurring throughout in their minds.

The vibrant Academy City that was filled with bustling Blessed moving about and always seemed full of life was currently bleak and covered with a depressive atmosphere as it truly transformed into a City that was just identified by a number!

The three arrived at their destination that was located at the center of the City, a vibrant large Silver Rift that was noticeable a mile away shining resplendently in front of them.

This one was surrounded by the auras of powerful beings, Noah knowing that clearing it would draw some attention towards them!

But he had to obtain a Silver Rift in Idle Mode as the rewards from it being cleared over and over again for the days to come...had to be obtained as early as possible.

The encampment of this Silver Rift that was known as the Molten Ruins shockingly had the aura of multiple Silver Blessed that had the insignia of the bloody crown and golden sword...and even the oppressive aura of the GOLD Blessed expert that Noah had seen floating in the skies!

The eyes of the two girls shook at this sight as Noah continued his steady steps.

"Oh?"

The attention of the Blessed from the Dark Continent that seemed to have been discussing something turned towards them, the GOLD rank expert looking at Noah's party curiously.

His golden eyes locked on the figure of Noah, Rose, and then Annalise as he gained a hint of interest!

He saw the distinct color of Silver that Noah and Rose had chosen to release, as well as the Bronze aura coming off of Annalise.

"Two Silver babies and a Bronze one wish to descend a Silver Rift?"

His voice was tinged with surprise as it caused the nearby Blessed to break out into laughter.

Noah looked at this powerful being that was the true reason that City 8 fell,? realizing he hadn't even remembered their faces when he floated above them and looked at them like bugs the day prior!

He wasn't able to locate the face of his parents' Killer that was inscribed in his mind at this location, putting other thoughts aside as he spoke.

"Are we allowed to enter? We understand the rule that half of all the loot will have to be left behind when the Rift is cleared."

Noah's voice was steady as the eyes of Silver Blessed looked mockingly towards them.

The powerful GOLD expert developed a deep smile as he nodded.

"75% for Silver Rifts actually. Hopefully, you do not perish in here as we need courageous beings like you!"

His words were like nails to their ears as Noah merely nodded, pulling Annalise and Rose into the Rift as they disappeared!

"Commander, won't it be beneficial to have people like them clear the Bronze Rifts? They might die in here or it might take them the entire day just to clear it."

A nearby Silver Blessed asked the GOLD expert with a small voice as this being was about to leave after coming to check the Silver Rift.

The fearsome expert shook his head while replying.

"Silver Loot will always be multiple times more important than Bronze. Even if it takes them two days to clear it, we need them to!"

RUMBLE

"Watch things here and record their clear time when they leave. We need to keep track of all the Silver Blessed within this city."

"Yes, Commander!"

The Silver Blessed called out cordially as they watched the shining golden figure take to the skies and head elsewhere.

Their eyes shone while looking at the ability of flight that only powerful experts would get to experience in their lives, only looking away from the skies seconds later to continue carrying out their mission.

At this moment, they did not know that they had just let a terrifying enemy into the very same Silver Rift they were guarding!

Chapter 45

I had seen many things in my few years of life.

I've come across GOLD Rank Experts, and even those in the DIAMOND Rank...but it was still the first time coming across someone like him.

I've truly seen a lot, but the scene in front of me was just unbelievable. A single Silver Rank being waved his hands as two mountainous sized Dimensional Beasts appeared, their power nearing that of the oppressive Gold Rank beings I've come across before!

A swaying illusory tree was called out as well as it released a comfortable light, as well as two ferocious Bronze Beasts that only added to this mysterious sight around this being...around Noah Eckert.

Even with my time in the Imperial Capital, coming across someone who could rise through ranks at such a rapid speed was something that could only be considered a dream. But after that traumatic event just one day, this being had changed too much as we were now in a Silver Rank Rift.

"These should help."

He looked towards me and his little sister after nonchalantly summoning the fearsome SILVER Dimensional Beasts, waving his hands to cause the appearance of the Silver Armors and weapons he showed us in the room.

I didn't even question what spatial treasure he had as I donned one of the armors and Annalise, this poor girl, took the Silver Bow with a strong expression. Her eyes seemed to be getting brighter over the past day as she saw her brother's strength, this brightness hiding the pain of losing both her parents.

If only I had been stronger...maybe I would have reacted fast when everything was happening!

If only I…

My weakness was something I sorely felt after being nearly assassinated and then not being able to help the people who saved me, and it was why I was following this being in front of me...this Noah Eckert who had unexplainable strength!

I had to repay my debt towards him no matter what it took, and I had to grow strong enough to never have to kneel again!

After all, no matter how I detested it- royal blood still flowed through my veins.

Like the brother and sister before me...I would make it my goal to never have to kneel again!

In the Molten Ruins Rifts, Noah was looking at the huge map in front of them with shining eyes. The environment was truly that- Ruins that showed devastated structures all around, the area seeing gusts of scorching air erupt from random spots as the sounds of beasts could be heard within!

"Let's go!"

He spoke while his body was adorned with Silver Equipment obtained from the Tower of Champions, Annalise and Rose wearing similar armor as they moved behind two enormous Units.

The SILVER Flesh Giant and the Horned Serpent led the way, the support and healing units that were the Illusory Willow and the Elder Stone Treant following behind them!

Even though he had SILVER Rift Bosses leading the way, Noah was extremely careful within this Silver Rift as it was filled with dangerous Beasts.

ROOAAR!

This point was reiterated as on their left side a Molten Beast erupted from the blind spot of the two front offensive Units, rushing towards Rose as Noah caught the speed of the Beast and appeared in front of it!

CLANG!

A silver radiance shone as his sword blocked the Molten Beast's strike, [Fire Bolt] blooming in front of him as even though the Beast was the fire element, it was still knocked back from the force of the skill.

OOOOH!

The roar of the angry Flesh Giant resounded out as its figure appeared rapidly at their position, moving at speeds something its size should not be able to as its enormous foots crashed down on the Molten Beat's position.

SQUELCH!

A horrifying sound rang out as the Beast was instantly reaped of its life.

Its death made way for many more Molten Beasts to rise towards them as the Units angrily rushed towards them, Annalise staying by Noah's side as she knocked frozen arrows onto her SILVER Bow, putting her Inherent Skill of ||Ice Queen|| to the test against the enemies a Rank higher than her as the opposing elemental attacks dealt heavy damage against them!

"Yaa!"

Rose had a determined expression as while covered with a silver aura, she slashed out with her sword that was reinforced with lightning, her dyed hair dancing on her head as she finally began to utilize her abilities and skills in combat!

A sense of teamwork was gradually formed as Noah moved across the Molten Ruins with powerful Units in the lead, learning about everyone's skills as after about 50 minutes, they crossed the scorching area of the Molten Ruins multiple times as all the normal Beasts within were taken care of.

RUMBLE!

When all the beasts were cleared, the Rift Boss would spawn.

This was exactly what occurred as in the next moment, a glorious magic runic circle shone as a monstrous Molten Lava Beast made its appearance.

ROAAR!

It bellowed out towards the challengers as the Flesh Giant and Horned Serpent released their own dominant roars, the Serpent flashing with great speed as it released [Venomous Cloud] onto the huge beast!

The Flesh Giant added to this with [Poisonous Burst], the shocking scene of its hand bursting into horrendous tendrils of pulsing green masses that wrapped around the Molten Lava Beast being shown.

It wasn't the best match up of elements, but Noah's units still dealt tremendous damage as they continued to swarm the Rift Boss on all sides.

Annalise's Frost arrows shot forth every now and then to slow the Rift Boss even further as Noah and Rose enhanced their bodies with their Silver auras while constantly weaving in and out of the range of the Boss to throw their attacks!

ROAAR!

Being swarmed on all sides, the Molten Lava Beast could do nothing but roar out in anguish as it fell under the attacks of the party in less than 10 minutes.

SHIING

A brilliant blue light erupted out at the fall of the Boss, it's body exploding into loot as 6 Silver Cores could be seen on the ground and nothing else!

The drop rate of loot in higher ranks was as abysmal as ever, even the common Molten Beasts of the Rift giving them a few Silver Cores.

[The Molten Ruins Dimensional Rift is now available in Idle Mode].

Noah got the prompt a second after the Rift Boss fell, his heart feeling a large weight lift off his shoulders as at this moment...he had effectively delved into all the Rifts within this City as he had had to do now was watch the overpowered Idle Gaming System do its work while he delved into the Tower of Champions!

Chapter 46

The brilliant runic magic circle that appeared from a Rift being cleared made its appearance, Noah telling the girls not to go towards it as they could not let the Blessed outside know of the fact that they cleared the Rift in an hour.

The two girls nodded as they looked at Noah's tired eyes with concern, Annalise speaking out.

"Brother, when did you last sleep? You were gone the entire time last night…"

The little sister had eyes that shone with immense care when she stared at her older brother, Noah only giving her a light smile as he waved the Silver Cores they obtained from the Rift towards her.

"Don't worry about me, let's use the time to have you make a break through into the Silver Rank."

Annalise saw the same dismissive attitude from her brother that was now working harder than any of them as he hadn't even slept in the past day, her expression becoming stern as she spoke out strongly!

"I'll do what you want if you do what I want! We can stay in the Rift and not leave for a few hours, get some rest and you'll wake up to see me in the SILVER Rank…"

Rose was also nodding strongly by the side as the two girls tried their best to have the one who had been overworking himself for the past day to get some rest.

They were relentless as Noah finally agreed, the huge weight that lifted off of his heart after clearing so many floors of the Tower of Champions and finishing all the Rifts within Academy City finally allowing him to close his eyes to rest after constantly moving for so many hours.

In the cleared Silver Rift of a subjugated City, a transmigrator was lulled into the folds of sleep while surrounded by two girls- one putting his head on her lap so that he wouldn't rest on the hard ground of the Rift, the other grabbing Silver Cores to continue upgrading her strength!

Within a Rift, there was no such thing as a time limit on how long one could be there.

Some beings that challenged Rifts above their levels would sometimes unfortunately find themselves slowly going through it for hours, with the truly unlucky ones taking them days.

Even though Noah and the 2 girls cleared the Silver Rift within the hour, they stayed inside for a few hours as Noah finally fell down to sleep from exhaustion while Annalise began absorbing the Silver Cores they came across in the Rift!

Rose was looking at the tired brother and hard working sister pair with a smile as the 5th Ethereal Princess found herself holding the head of Noah on her lap.

It was only something she did in hindsight, but she now found herself looking at the face of this hard working brother while his little sister had her eyes closed absorbing cores.

Her eyes twinkled as she thought up close, the man in her lap had some dashing features!

But this was only a passing thought as she shook her head and thought about many things herself.

The hours passed by as some time later, Annalise came to while her body vibrated with strength.

Frost began to swirl around her as her Inherent Skill was enhanced by another factor, knowledge of it flowing into her mind.

||Ice Queen|| :: An Inherent Skill that allows the wielder to have expert control of the ice element, with its usage varying depending on the user. Its abilities include [Ice Aura] and [Glacial Meteor].

The Enhancement of her strength to Silver tier had unlocked [Glacial Meteor] from her Inherent Skill, allowing her to call down an icy Meteor! It was a heavily offensive skill compared with what she had before- the [Ice Aura] that she used to reinforce all her attacks!

This was the boon with Inherent Skills- they could truly be grown to grand possibilities as a Blessed rose through ranks, how they would truly turn out in the future being something only the Blessed can find out.

Annalise familiarized herself with her new strength as she and Rose took turns looking after Noah, the hours passing by quickly.

Outside the Rift, the Blessed from the Dark Continent had annoyed expressions as throughout the day, there were three parties that delved into the Molten Ruins Rift, with the latter 2 coming out in 2 to 3 hours.

But the team that had entered during the beginning of the day...they had been in there for so long that the sun was nearly setting!

"I mean they're definitely dead. Who bet on them not even making it out?"

One of the Silver Blessed overseeing the encampment of the Silver Rift spoke to the others with a smile, watching as one of them received multiple Iron and bronze Cores from the others.

"Truly a waste of those two girls…"

Disgusting dialogue was about to start when the Rift portal lightly flashed, the figure of Noah and the two girls appearing as the Blessed came to attention.

There was surprise in their eyes but also not, because the team in front of them had taken nearly the entire day to clear the Rift!

They looked at their gains as they only saw a Silver Boots Equipment in Noah's hands.

It was loot from the Tower of Champions that provided increased defense and speed, Noah having no problem giving this away to not bring any attention to themselves for now as all Cores were absorbed by Annalise! To him, this single Equipment was nothing as he had already racked up tens, and he would have hundreds of such equipment in the days to come.

He threw the equipment over to the group of Blessed that looked at it with shining eyes- knowing how rare the drop rate of equipment was that they didn't even search the team to see if they obtained anything else.

"Nice work! Come again!"

Their jovial voices rang out behind them as Noah and the girls made their way out of the encampment and towards their temporary lodging.

Noah had become rejuvenated after the sleep, his focused eyes now looking forward to claiming his Idle Rewards for the past 24 hours for both the Iron and Bronze Rifts, and the past hours rewards of the single Silver Rift!

They walked along the darkening streets of the City carefully as they passed some groups of Blessed, nearly reaching their goal when in the next moment as they crossed a street...they came across a group of patrolling Blessed.

"Oh?"

It was two in the Silver Rank and 2 in Bronze, their equipment carrying the inscription of the bloody crown with the golden sword!

"I know you."

The eyes of the front most Silver Blessed shone with light as his eyes landed on Noah and Annalise, also locking with the girl wearing a half veil he recognized!

Noah's eyes constricted as Annalise's eyes became blood red, the figure of the being they etched deep in their hearts actually appearing in front of them.

The killer that had taken away their parents not too long ago...they came across him as his eyes locked towards them interestingly!

Chapter 47

Rykker looked around the empty street and the blanket of the night that made everything hard to see as his eyes landed on the 2 girls and the man in front of them that looked towards him with eyes filled with killing intent.

He gave a light laugh as he recalled using his fast sword to take out two Bronze weaklings that had turned out to be the parents of the ones in front of him, and he didn't get to finish the job as his Commander came!

His eyes looked at the crimson hair on Annalise and the dyed dark hair on Rose as they lit up, a cruel smile filling his face as he spoke.

"I remember the little cowards on the ground that watched their parents die. Why don't you come with me for a second? I still have more things to show you."

He nodded towards his Silver Rank compatriot and the Bronze Blessed behind them as cruel smiles appeared on each of their faces.

"Over there should be good."

One of the Bronze Blessed looked around them and pointed out a darker alley between buildings where very few beings passed across, a Silver light shining on Rykker as he sent pressure over the party of three while repeating his words!

"Now, don't make me repeat myself again."

Noah and the two girls weren't outwardly showing their silver auras as Rykker didn't even bother to check, only recalling how they were weak and helpless just over a day or 2 ago.

He didn't notice the cold light and wrath simmering in Noah's eyes, nor the eyes of the girls that were about to erupt!

Noah simply put his hands on the shoulders of the two girls as he motioned for them not to worry, the party of three following the 2 Silver and 2 Bronze enemy Blessed into the dark alleyway.

Rykker's eyes shone with malice as he looked at the girls beside Noah while speaking.

"I didn't enjoy the simple swings of my Sword that took away your parents, but I am going to enjoy myself in the next few hours while I make you watch something beautiful."

His face was twisted with a dark smile as his eyes snaked over Annalise and Rose, but his pace was brought to a halt as he heard an extremely cold voice come out from the man in front of these girls!

"Not today."

RUMBLE!

A single word! But it was a word that was accompanied by a wondrous flash of Silver light as in the opposite alley behind the 4 enemy Blessed, an enormous Horned Serpent made its appearance.

SHAA!

The moment it was called forth, its terrifying jaws moved in the small space as it ripped the bodies of the two Bronze Blessed in half, blood gushing out like rain as it moved at great speeds!

WAA!

Before the 2 Silver Blessed could even react, the fast Rift Boss as its enormous body wrapped around them, the small alleyway becoming extremely cramped as the writhing muscles of the Horned Serpent constricted around the two bodies of Blessed.

Recall that a Rift Boss required 10 Blessed on the same level to match it!

It was extremely hard to fight against a Rift Boss, especially when one was unprepared and it struck fast!

"Huk…!"

The 2 Silver Blessed felt their lungs were about to be smashed in as their bodies flashed with silver light, but they weren't able to break out of the shocking restraints as in the next instant, Rykker felt a strong hand clasp onto his neck while his body was nearly bulging out from the constricting pressure!

"You seem to think that you're the only one who can be cruel."

RUMBLE!

His words were filled with coldness as his hands shimmered with an intense silver light, acting quickly as he squeezed down on the throats of the two incapacitated Blessed!

Annalise appeared by the side as her body burst with coldness, the bodies of the two beings becoming even more constricted as they couldn't make any actions.

A SILVER Rift Boss, and two Silver Blessed ganging up on them...the Blessed from the Dark Continent could not break out of it!

Rykker could only look at the scene in front of him with shaking eyes as the hand clasping onto his neck...crushed his windpipe as he then felt it yank out everything it held from his throat!

SQUELCH!

The horrible sound of muscles and bones being torn rang out as Rykker's eyes shook with pain, his throat missing as his eyes began to dim- but not before he heard his last words.

"I can be cruel too!"

RUMBLE!

Noah's voice remained in the dark alley way as his blue eyes shone brightly, watching as the light faded away from the eyes of the Blessed that had so easily taken his parents' lives.

It was that easy! It felt so easy that the blame he placed on himself for not getting serious sooner and increasing his strength greatly felt heavy!

He watched every second of the Blessed losing the light in his eyes until he perished, his body turning into a mass of blood and flesh under the constriction of the Horned Serpent as he then turned his eyes towards the remaining Silver Blessed.

His left hand trembled with silver light while clasping onto the neck of this being, a myriad of thoughts crossing his mind as he squeezed tighter while his blue eyes brightened, the ability of his Inherent Skill, [Subjugate], being cast!

WAA!

An ability that worked on someone weaker or a being in the same realm but in a disordered state.

The Silver Blessed in front of his eyes had nearly burst from the intense pressure of the Horned Serpent wrapping around him, and Noah's hand clasped onto his neck as he could barely breathe!

He was as disordered as he could be, Noah's blue eyes shining brightly in the next moment as they carried a dominating light that covered the entirety of the vision of the Blessed, his eyes being covered by the light as it permeated into his mind and laid down shackles.

OOOOM

A resonance of energy later, and the Blessed's body was released by the Horned Serpent as its jaws frighteningly went towards the bodies of the 3 dead Blessed and swallowed them whole.

The only enemy Blessed from the Dark Continent that remained landed on the ground shakily, his eyes showing a revealing blue light as he looked up towards Noah.

The being then dropped to his knees while looking towards the blue eyes of the man staring down towards him with eyes filled with wrath, a shocking word being released from him.

"Master."

RUMBLE!

On this day, the first Inherent Skill of Noah was utilized to dominate a Silver Blessed from the Dark Continent.

It was the birth of a terrifying being that would exert his influence on the entirety of the Ethereal Realm. The birth of a being that would rip apart all authority as his blue eyes would be the last thing many powerful beings would see before they perished!

Chapter 48

There was a common understanding that the older someone was, the wiser they were.

The wisdom came from the fact that they loved a long time to experience a great deal of things! Their wisdom came from the collective memories and events they lived through.

Memories...were extremely important!

So when it came to Noah's second ability from his Inherent Skill ||Mind Dominator||, the ability known as Mind Connection was an extremely terrifying one.

In the Dark alleyway where few Blessed passed, the Horned Serpent swallowed the three dead bodies as it disappeared in a flash of light, the only ones left behind being Noah and the two girls...along with the Blessed from the Dark Continent that was now kneeling in front of Noah!

His eyes were those full of submission, a glint of blue reflected within as they seemed to speak of their new master.

"Get up and look at me."

The Blessed instantly got to his feet as he stared deep into Noah's blue eyes. There was a flash of light as Noah cast [Mind Connection] for the first time.

RUMBLE!

A weak fluctuation of energy erupted in the outside world, but it felt like a bomb had gone off in Noah's mind!

The cast ability allowed for the Subjugator to link with the mind of the Subjugated, their memories and everything with their mental processes being shared!

…!

Noah felt his mind throbbing as information flooded into his mind. Information of a village the Blessed in front of him used to live in.

Memories of how he grew up. When he became a Blessed. His first battle...everything about the being in front of him entered his mind as he nearly blanked out for a second.

The hands of Annalise and Rose landed on his shoulders as he was brought back, his eyes glimmering with light as from this encounter...he had truly obtained a lot!

Revenge against a killer! Wiping away his shame! Finally...gaining the first Subjugated Blessed that was actually one in an enemy camp.

"Continue acting as normal. Rykker and the other two in your squad went for drinks and you lost them. I'll call for you when needed!"

His voice was cold as he talked to the Blessed in front of him, this being bowing his body respectfully.

"Yes, Master!"

SHAA!

The Blessed disappeared from the alleyway as he distanced himself from his new Master to return to his task!

Meanwhile, the two girls were filled with emotions for what had just occurred as Noah pulled them along from the darkness of the alleyway. He truly had a great deal of things to digest.

From the Mind Connection with the enemy Blessed, he was able to find out about some of the operations of the enemy in City 8, as well as more information on the Dark Continent and how they moved in to attack them!

The Dark Continent was just as vast as the Light Continent, its lands being much less prosperous as their City States always fought for resources.

Of course when it comes to prosperity, it's not just in terms of land or vegetation...but Dimensional Rifts!

There weren't as many Rifts in the Dark Continent for Blessed to dive in and obtain treasures, and it was one of the reasons for the war that had just begun.

But Noah put aside all of this larger information of the Continents and the forces the Blessed had seen as he focused on the City he was currently in.

He focused on City 8, and the GOLD Blessed that was currently presiding over it- a being that he didn't know before!

"Golden Commander Stefon."

He uttered the name to the 2 girls that he had returned with in the Elegant Pearl Inn.

Golden Commander Stephon!

The being that dropped from the skies and caused the submission of everyone in the city that was below his rank.

This was the being that was currently overseeing the operations of City 8, and also the one that handed off thousands of Cores and Equipment to the forces of the Dark Continent daily from the hard work of the Blessed of the City.

Many thoughts and plans formed in Noah's mind when he thought of this character as he continued to talk with the two girls.

"We'll move around the city mostly during the day and won't be active at night. The places for us to avoid…"

From the memories of the Subjugated Blessed, he knew much about the infrastructure of the enemy army as he planned accordingly, letting the two girls know about every pertinent information!

After he finished, he gazed at them with intense eyes as he opened his mouth while speaking in a heavy tone.

"That Golden Commander Stephon is just one among the many GOLD Blessed under the forces of the Dark Continent. Us taking down some Silver Blessed or even aiming to take him down in the near future...it will be something that makes us enemies of the forces of an entire Continent, and will undoubtedly be dangerous!"

RUMBLE!

The air in the room changed as the girls gazed at Noah.

"I do not plan to remain at the bottom rungs of power, and I do not want to ever be forced to kneel again. For this...I will do all I can to wipe out every single Blessed from this City, and I do not plan to stop there as I know there are much more powerful beings aside from this GOLD Blessed that we face as an enemy!"

Noah was telling the girls of his plans, he was telling them that he was setting himself on a dangerous mission where he wanted to change himself and rise through the ranks of power, a mission that would be filled with powerful beings trying to kill him!

Annalise looked at his face with red eyes after killing the killer of their parents, her voice ringing out with a chill as her Inherent ability unconsciously came out.

"The SILVER and GOLD Blessed carrying out acts of atrocities are just pawns. I...I want the head of the one that commanded them, brother! I want the head of the so called Dark King that sent pawns to easily take the lives of others as they see fit!"

RUMBLE

Annalise surprisingly had even more rage than Noah, where even after the death of the SILVER Blessed that was directly responsible, she wanted the most powerful being at the very top to answer her judgment!

At this, Noah's eyes shone brightly as he answered unhesitatingly.

"It is just some powerful Blessed calling himself a King, against my System...against me, he can only be a nobody!"

RUMBLE!

Domineering words were released from Noah as he denounced the Ruler of an entire Continent!

Chapter 49

"At the end of this all, obtaining the head of the so called Dark King will not be an issue!"

Noah thought of his overpowered System as he made this claim boldly.

He thought of the fact that he rose to the SILVER rank and obtained 2 Rift Bosses in just a matter of days since he seriously used the System!

Based on his speed of progression, he shockingly expected to enter the GOLD Rank sometime in the next few days or at most in a week or two.

Mind you, other Blessed in the Ethereal Realm remained in the BRONZE Rank throughout their lives, with only truly dedicated beings stepping into SILVER!

And they did this in time periods of months and years!

If a being like him wasn't able to rise through the ranks and stand powerfully, nobody could!

On the side, Rose also steeled her heart as she also spoke.

"Even though I was weak and timid, I lived in the Imperial Capital for a long time and saw how they ruled. I saw how my Older Brothers fought against each other after Father perished, our current situation being the result of the infighting in the Imperial Capital!"

"If you are planning on wiping out the enemy Blessed of this City and even aim for the head of the Dark King behind it all...why not also use the time to establish your own dominion and Rule? The Rulers of the Light Continent are ineffective, the Rulers of the Dark and Wild Continent are murderous. Why not rise to establish new rules and ease the pain of all common citizens in the Ethereal Realm?!"

RUMBLE!

The former 5th Ethereal Princess spoke out shockingly as her eyes shone with arcs of electricity.

"I will aid you in establishing a new Rule! I will use all my knowledge and power, I will even lead you to the Imperial Capital against my Elder Brother!"

Her eyes were filled with hate at the Crown Prince that sent her to die, at the Imperial Capital that allowed for enemies to Attack without protecting their citizens!

As she saw Noah's rate of progression and his powerful abilities...she thought this man might possibly have the chance to establish something new and powerful, something different from what they currently had now!

Noah looked at the passionate 5th Princess as many thoughts swarmed in his mind, his eyes only becoming brighter...

"This City or even the three Continents...we will see! Our focus will start with the enemies in our City."

Rose's words resonated in Noah's mind as they seemed grand at this moment.

Rise to establish a new rule? It seemed distant at this moment, but with his Idle Gaming System...it was definitely not out of reach!

After talking with the two girls a bit longer, he rose up as he was about to go into the Tower of Champions.

"I'll have to go descend into the unique Rifts I mentioned before, it's where I can continue increasing my strength at the fast pace you've seen."

Annalise and Rose nodded with serious faces as the former's voice rang out.

"We can't come with you to help?"

Towards this question, Noah recalled the message of the Idle Gaming System as he shook his head. The Tower of Champions and any other currently unlocked features were only for the Idle Gaming System Master!

"No, but I will need your help to clear Rifts faster when the time comes."

The two girls sighed while nodding, Noah being wrapped in a spatial light as he disappeared.

In the waiting room where he could enter the Tower of Champions, Noah opened up the Idle Gaming System Interface as he looked at the seven glimmering boxes that represented seven Rifts!

Three Iron, three Bronze, and one Silver. The first ones shone with a wondrous grey-gold light, the seconds ones shining with a bronze-gold light, and the single last one shining with silver-gold luster!

Every day at night during this time, 24 hours would have passed for him to collect all of his Idle Loot Resources. This was the case for the Iron and Bronze ones, with the Silver Idle Resources having only been there for the past few hours since he cleared it today.

The Iron Rifts had been reduced to an average cleartime of 24 minutes, with the Bronze ones beings around 30 minutes. As for silver- it was one hour.

Something to also keep in mind was the fact that the Idle Resources clear time was also affected by the units Noah equipped.

As powerful units began to appear, one must recall from the displayed definition when Unit Shards appeared in front of Noah for the first time- the fact that every equipped unit reduced the Rift Clearing Times by a certain percentage in Idle Mode!

This allowed for Noah to have even less time cycles where he gained more loot.

Like a king checking upon the resources he worked hard in obtaining, he started with the Iron Dimensional Rifts Loot Resources!

[+1045 Idle Exp][+2893 Iron Rank Cores][+63 Blazing Armor][+43 Blazing Spear][+57 Frost Shield][+70 Frost Sword][+39Frost Boots][+75 Verdant Shield][+76 Verdant Armor][+61 Verdant Helm][+101 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard][+109 Iron Rank Mammoth Shard][+121 Iron Rank Verdant Treant Shard][+5850 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

Then on to Bronze!

[1,580 Idle Exp][+2300 BRONZE Rank Cores][+35 Reinforced Armor][+43 Sharp Helmet][+37 Sturdy Shield] ][+55 Molten Sword][+35 Swift Boots][+51 Molten Shield][+38 Spiked Armor][+45? Bronze Helm][+65 BRONZE Rank Giant Bat Shard][+63 BRONZE Rank Red Wolf Shard][+66 BRONZE Rank Manspider Shard][+4,294 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+23 BRONZE Skill Book]

…!

The first time he clicked on the three Bronze Rifts...and they didn't disappoint as aside from giving him nearly half of the Upgrade Crystals he needed to max a Bronze Unit, hundreds of Equipment filled his Inventory as well as the Shards of 3 new Bronze Beasts- and let's not forget the 23 skill books!

23!

Skill Books were extremely rare as they only began dropping from Bronze Rifts, and as always- the rare things in Ethereal Realm were given with frequency from the Idle Gaming System!

He took a pause at the Bronze loot as his gaze lingered, letting out a deep breath and clicking the single Rift that shimmered with a silver-gold light that remained.

[+210 Idle Exp][+95 SILVER Rank Cores][+5 Glistening Silver Halberd][+2 Steelforged Silver Armor][+3 Silver Moon Bows][+13 SILVER Rank Molten Lava Beast Cores][+1,243 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals][+3 SILVER Rank Skill Books]

…!

His eyes could not help but tremble at the sight of such gorgeous loot as he collected from all three levels of Rifts for the first time!

This was the reason he was confident of the future! It was the ridiculously overpowered System that gave him extremely rare resources others only dreamed of...freely!

Chapter 50

In the waiting room where he could enter the Tower of Champions, Noah was going through all the loot resources as he organized the most important ones.

The first was related to the System- where within two days, he would have gained enough Idle Exp to upgrade the system once more, and this was something he heavily looked forward to!

Last time the wondrous Tower of Champions was unlocked. This time...he couldn't wait to see what he would be gifted with!

Next were the rare skill books!

There were a great deal of them from the Bronze Rifts, with nearly half being Active as the other half were Passive Skills.

Passive skills such as this could greatly strengthen a Blessed as Noah began absorbing a few right away!

There were multiple duplicate skill books like [Tough Skin] or [Vision Enhancement] that he put away to also increase the strength of the two girls.

But as for himself, he was able to add on [Endurance], [Increased Evasion], [Heightened Senses], and [Fast Feet] for the Passive Bronze Skill Books!

When it came to the 3 Silver Skill Books, they were effectively [Molten Burst] that was an AOE offensive skill, [Magma Armor] that was a defensive skill where a wondrous armor of Magma seamlessly wrapped around the body of the Caster.

When Noah learned and Cast the skill, he found his entire body to erupt out with a layer of hot magma that caused the surroundings to simmer, yet inside the armor he felt like he was in a slighter hotter summer day!

The other skill book was a passive one, a shocking ability called [Minor Automatic Regeneration].

[Minor Automatic Regeneration] :: A Passive skill that uses the Mana of the user to automatically heal any injury they receive. It is only minor as the rate of progress is slow.

Noah loved the passive skill books the most as when he continued to get them with even more frequency, he could greatly increase the gulf of power between him and other common Blessed by slapping himself with a ton of Passive Skills!

He wanted to build himself up to be considered a Rift Boss himself, where multiple other Blessed would be needed if they wanted to match him alone!

With such dreams, his body flashed with a silver light as he donned on a gorgeous set of SILVER Equipment, already giving the commands to pump the SILVER and BRONZE Unit Upgrade Crystals into the respective units he wanted to strengthen and upgrade next as his eyes turned towards the 26th floor of the Tower.

The Silver ones went to the Horned Serpent as the Bronze ones were pumped into the two healing and support units, this being the next fusion to Silver that Noah wanted to carry out.

The SILVER rank [Flesh Giant] and [Horned Serpent] were summoned, along with the [Elder Stone Treant], [Illusory Willow], and another Bronze pet called [Armored Lion] that came from the many BRONZE Unit Shards that Noah now had to summon Random Units!

With his party set and him holding on to a SILVER Core that he constantly absorbed to pump his own strength towards the peak of his current Realm, he and his units dashed towards the 26th Floor to continue clearing the Tower and obtain even more wondrous loot.

With such a tight party set up and Noah's own increasing strength, the three floors from 26th to 29th were a breeze, especially since they were filled with variations of tree monsters.

Some floors were 2 Rift Bosses alone while for others, they had to go through an expanse of grasslands to kill Silver Rank Treant mobs. It took a few hours, but Noah very quickly jumped through these floors as he collected a large amount of loot!

The Tower truly was Noah's strongest tool at this moment, especially because of the rewards of BRONZE and SILVER Upgrade skill Crystals he had begun receiving that he could use to increase the strength of units.

The rewards from the 26th to 29th floors were glorious!

[Rewards for clearing the 26th Floor] :: [+10,000 Iron Rank Equipment Upgrade Crystals], [+10,000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random Iron Rank Unit Shards], [+10,000 Iron Rank Cores], [+500 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+30 Random Bronze Equipment], [+5,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+1,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+25 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+30 Health Potions], [+30 Mana Potions], [+15 Strength Potions], [+15 Defense Potions] [+1 SILVER Skill Book], [+3 Random SILVER Equipment], [+20 SILVER Cores]

Such gorgeous rewards were exactly the same for the 27th, 28th, and 29th floors as one could just multiply the above loot by 4 to grasp the shocking collection of loot!

Just forgetting everything else for a second, the 5000 Bronze Upgrade Crystals every time meant he now had 20,000 to build up another SILVER Rift Boss, while the 1000 Silver Upgrade Crystals meant he could increase the strength of his current Silver Beasts to crazier amounts.

At Silver, it required 50,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals for a single Unit to be maxed, and Noah would ridiculously need 100,000 to be able to make his first GOLD Unit!

When that time came…

His blazing eyes could barely contain themselves as he closed them to calm down, turning his attention towards the 3rd Silver Rift Boss he was about to fuse.

This time, it was a combination of the Elder Stone Treant and Illusory Willow- the combination of the healing and support units!

RUMBLE!

A gorgeous show of colors cascaded out after the two units were pumped to brim with Crystals and their fusion began.

The light only began to die down after a few seconds as it showed a wondrous new Unit that exceeded Noah's expectations.

[Tree Pixie] :: A terrifying creature that is a feared local in the Dream Forest. It has a habit of pulling its enemies to sleep before it strangles them to death while sucking on their nutrients. Its Abilities include [Resplendent Heal], [Deep Slumber], and [Entangling Vines].

Small in size as barely half a meter, a green creature that had transparent wings and a small humanoid figure could be seen.

An amazing all around support unit!

Noah thought of this because it had the ability to heal and restrict enemies at an even greater level than the Illusory Willow and Elder Stone Treant had, and as for its third ability?

[Deep Slumber] :: The Tree Pixie can release deadly transparent smoke that lulls beings into a deep sleep that they cannot wake out of for an entire 60 seconds. Those in the same Rank have a 75% chance of being affected, with those at higher rank having a 25% chance of being affected.

It was an ability that Noah thought was extremely overpowered, and one that he could use to accelerate the plans he had set moving forward!

Chapter 51

With a third SILVER Rift Boss added to his party, Noah eyed the 30th floor that had gorgeous rewards.

At the same time, he focused on his [Mind Connection] as he sent a message to the

Silver Blessed he had subjugated.

After he cleared the 30th floor, he planned to use the cover of the few hours of the night remaining to move in the dark as he earnestly began moving against the enemies within the City!

"Let's go!"

His resonant voice called out to the units as they delved into the 30th floor that actually contained five SILVER Rift Bosses.

Each of them was gigantic as the SILVER Treants moved with vigor and purpose, Noah testing out the Tree Pixie's ability as he had it release the gas of the [Deep Slumber] skill while the Flesh Giant and the Horned Serpent moved in!

BOOM!

Against these Rift Bosses, Noah also joined as his body became wrapped in SILVER Skills.

An armor of Magma gloriously surrounded his body as he flashed forward, calling out for [Molten Burst] as from him, a pillar of Magma erupted and rushed towards the Treants that began to burn wherever the skill touched them!

ROAAR!

Their bellows rang out as Noah continued to cast the ability until he drained all of his mana, popping a Mana Potion into his mouth thereafter as he watched it slowly regenerate his energy.

The two offensive Units were as fearsome as ever, matching the powerful Rift Bosses and even pushing them back! In the few seconds since the battle began though, the vigorous figures of 3 Rift Bosses suddenly turned limp as if they lost consciousness.

They...had actually been affected by the Deep Slumber skill as they were lulled into a deep sleep!

Noah's eyes shone at this wondrous ability as his Units roared out to use this chance, the Tree Pixie using Entangling Vines as its small body shimmered with light, its roots wrapping around the two awake Treants as it kept them at bay.

During this time, Noah commanded the Horned Serpent and Flesh Giant to point away and reap the lives of the Rift Bosses that were lulled to sleep, going towards the third one himself as his body shone with the [Magma Armor] landed on the human like face of the Treant while he cast [Molten Burst] multiple times while using his SILVER Sword to cut deep into the Boss!

Against enemies that were lulled into sleep, how hard was it to kill them if you could get through their defenses?

BOOM!

The Flesh Giant and Horned Serpent made quick work of their sleeping enemies as they ripped them apart, Noah burning a hole through his target as in a matter of seconds, three SILVER Rift Bosses fell.

3!

After that, it didn't take long for the entangled and angrily roaring remaining 2 Bosses to be defeated as the 30th floor was cleared out in a grand fashion!

RUMBLE!

Energy fluctuations reverberated out as Noah released a deep breath while looking at the Tree Pixie.

It made the battles much easier as shockingly found the uses of this Unit would only be more stupendous as time passed!

They were teleported out of the Floor as they appeared in the waiting room, Noah checking the rewards for the 30th floor that already entered his Inventory.

[Rewards for clearing the 30th Floor] :: [+2000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+50 Random Bronze Equipment], [+30,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+10,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+50 Health Potions], [+50 Mana Potions], [+50 Strength Potions], [+50 Defense Potions] [+5 SILVER Skill Books], [+20 Random SILVER Equipment], [+300 SILVER Cores]

On the 30th floor, Iron Rank Rewards were taken away as an abundant amount of Bronze and Silver Loot came to be!

Enough Upgrade Crystals to obtain another Silver unit, enough Silver Cores to reach peak Silver for him and the two girls, and even 5 skill books!

His eyes shone brilliantly as it was also at this moment that he received a message from the Subjugated Blessed he shared a connection with.

"Master, I have about 7 Silver Blessed who took over the abode of an important personage within the City. They are the furthest from where the Golden Commander is!"

The Blessed he dominated collected information and fed it all to him as Noah nodded.

He looked at the wondrous rewards he received from the tower as many thoughts crossed his mind.

He wanted to use the cover of the night to begin on his mission as soon as possible. He had learned his lesson on not wasting time as doing something even a day earlier could have possibly prevented many things!

His body flashed away from the waiting room as he recalled his Units, his eyes quickly going over the Idle Gaming System Interface as he used the many Bronze Unit Shards he had to summon new Bronze units for possible fusion.

In the room of the Inn, he saw the two girls were still sleeping on the bed. He didn't have to worry for their protection while inside an abode such as this, but he still waved his hands to summon a Bronze Unit to just keep watch and send a message to him in case something unexpected happened!

He then quietly slipped out of the room to go towards the location that the Subjugated Blessed spoke of while going through the 5 new skill books and the next possible fusion of Bronze Units into Silver.

It was only halfway through the night, but it was bound to be wild!

In a certain Villa within City 8.

It used to be a grand mansion that two powerful Silver Blessed of Academy City lived in, but it was currently taken over by the enemy forces as 8 Silver Blessed resided within and used it as their command center!

Among the silver blessed living there currently, one of them happened to be the one that Noah subjugated.

After obtaining information from the dominated blessed, Noah planned to begin his grasp for the power of City 8 by starting with the Silver Blessed in this villa!

Chapter 52

Deep in the night.

Noah's figure flashed silently as he appeared In an area at the back of the villa where his subjugated Blessed was residing in.

"Master."

The Blessed kneeled towards him as Noah merely nodded as he voiced out.

"They are all asleep?"

"Yes, master. After a night of debauchery where they enjoyed themselves with the men and women of this past academy city, many of them have fallen to the folds of sleep."

Noah's face was cold as he nodded and proceeded to call out the silver rank Tree Pixie.

SHAA!

The figure of the humanoid Winged creature shining green appeared as she put on a cute expression while looking at Noah!

He gave but a single command to this powerful unit.

"Use Deep Slumber and scatter the smoke everywhere in this villa. Keep scattering it as I don't want them to wake before things are ready."

Noah said this as he gave multiple mana potions to the Tree Pixie.

A skill was silently cast as a transparent smoke soundlessly swept through the expansive Villa!

As it was cast, the silver blessed within the villa that had much less resistance compared to the rift bosses that even Noah had battled against just an hour prior- these Blessed could do nothing but fall into deeper slumbers where they would not wake until even after a whole minute passed.

Noah went room to room as he glanced coldly within.

He entered into rooms that had extravagant beds with scantily clad women strewn all around, and the enemy blessed reclining on these majestic beds with happy smiles on their faces!

He even walked into a room where there was a female silver blessed and all around her in the bed were five bronze blessed men that looked tired and spent.

He and the Subjugated Blessed moved with great speed as they collected all seven of the Silver enemy blessed and brought them to a singular location- a wide training hall in the basement of the Villa!

All seven were sleeping soundly without a care in the world when Noah motioned and released another silver unit.

This time it was the fearsome Horned Serpent that slithered onto the wide training hall of the villa, its enormous body wrapping around each of them and beginning to constrict tightly!

None of them had any defenses up so they could not even raise their silver energy to protect themselves, Noah hearing the sounds of bones cracking as he merely looked on with cold eyes.

Even his hands shimmered with a silver light as he moved personally to grasp their necks and shatter their vocal cords!

When the effect of the deep slumber skill finished, the seven Blessed woke up in a fright as they felt the bodies horribly injured and mangled.

….!

Their throats were not even able to utter a sound as Noah had gone ahead and shattered their vocal cords, the sounds they released seeing extremely gruesome!

They looked like dead fish with extremely terrified eyes as they felt that death was near.

In the depth of fear and pain, they looked in front of them to find a man with shimmering blue eyes.

His eyes locked with each of them as he silently cast [Subjugate] over the disoriented and heavily injured blessed.

RUMBLE!

It did not take long before all seven were released from the constraints of the Horned Serpent, their mangled bodies falling into the ground as Noah snapped his fingers to call the Tree Pixie.

The powerful unit cast [Resplendent Heal] multiple times over their bodies as a wondrous golden light washed over each of them

"Ahhh…!"

Distinct groans could be heard as the seven blessed were healed, feeling the pain of their bones realigning and their vocal folds reconstructing until they were as good as new!

Their bodies got back to brimming with power as their eyes carried a tint of blue.

They quickly kneel to the ground as they looked reverently towards the man with deep blue eyes, the same being who had just nearly shattered the muscles in their bodies, and they called out.

"Master."

On this day, Noah Eckert began expanding his influence as he slowly began to infiltrate the forces of the Dark Continent, beginning with 8 Blessed as he entirely dominated their minds and took over a huge Villa!

After he subjugated the enemy blessed, he looked around the villa as he saw how these beings lived like kings. Thinking of the two girls still in the Elegant Pearl Inn, he made some arrangements by sending various commands to the blessed within the villa.

"Send out all the beings you were playing with and clean up the villa. Make it into something that we can use as a base of operations."

"Yes,master!"

The seven blessed and the first one nodded as Noah didn't even bother addressing them with their names, simply giving them numbers similar to how they themselves gave their subjugated Cities numbers as the form of identification!

The blessed were labeled one through eight, and Noah left the villa while beckoning to Number 1.

SHAA!

They flashed out of the villa in the dark of the night and soon appeared in the small room within the Inn while waking up the girls.

He told them they were going somewhere much safer, where there would be protection from multiple silver blessed around them!

The two girls were shocked, but they didn't dare underestimate Noah after all the things he had shown to them over the past few days.

So Annalise and Rose simply nodded and followed silently in the night, going towards a Villa that had its strongest being under Noah's control. The attendants and weaker beings in the bronze rank would soon follow.

When the dawn of the next day broke, everything around the city seemed to forge on with the new normal. Nobody within it realized that in the last few hours, of the 100 Silver Blessed from the Dark Continent that were stretched across the city, eight were now subjugated!

A few hours passed as dawn broke, the resplendent rays of sunlight washing over City 8 as within a certain Villa, a base of operations had gradually formed in the night as Noah collected abundant information about the enemies he faced...

Chapter 53

Within the subjugated villa, Noah and the two girls were within the wide underground training hall in the early hours of the morning.

"Yaa!"

Valiant screams could distinctly be heard from Annalise and Rose as the two girls were actually training within by fighting two Subjugated SILVER Blessed after Noah gave them some of his many Cores to continue absorbing and bring their strength to Peak Silver.

RUMBLE!

Frost was spreading throughout the region that Annalise was standing in as the being with the Ice Queen Inherent Skill could now utilize it with even more proficiency as her Rank was elevated higher and higher.

'The Inherent Skills of this Realm are too different...but I can see Rose eventually being able to command the Ice Element to possibly freeze entire regions in the future…'

This was the thought that crossed Noah's mind as he watched the ass whooping taking place against the subjugated blessed.

The Blessed known as Number 5 had frost all over her body as the sparring continued!

BOOM!

Not too far from them, Rose had lightning running across her body as it reinforced all her attacks, the past Princess gradually stepping out of being the weakest being in the SILVER Rank as after absorbing many Cores and honing her battle senses, she was now seeming like a capable Blessed.

'Aside from her experience as a Royalty, the damage she can release with her Inherent Skill could make her a terrifying offensive Blessed.'

Another thought crossed Noah's mind as he saw the girls moved with even more vigor against their sparring partners!

BOOM!

Number 5 and 7 were knocked back at the same time as the two girls looked towards each other with slight smiles.

As time passed, the phase of grief gradually lifted as smiles returned to the faces of the girls every now and then, especially in instances like these where they trained and felt their strength increasing!

"Brother, why don't you spar with us?"

Annalise and Rose's bountiful chests bounced up and down as they overexerted themselves, Noah beckoning towards the Tree Pixie beside him to cast Resplendent Heal on them as their bodies very quickly rejuvenated.

He had been lying on the ground as he watched their spars and played around with the Idle Gaming System Interface, looking at all the Bronze Units he had obtained from the Random Bronze Unit Shards he was avidly collecting from the Tower.

Since they were random, many of them didn't match each other in their elements as Noah wondered if he should go ahead and fuse from them or wait until tonight when he would get the Idle Resources from the Bronze Rifts again that would grant him 3 types of Bronze Rift Bosses!

"I've gotta head back into the Rifts within the Tower. You guys can keep on training and tell the Blessed under Number 5 to prepare a feast in the meanwhile."

He spoke with a light smile as he stood up, motioning for the girls to use the Subjugated Silver Blessed and the Bronze ones below her that Noah had subjugated throughout the night.

The Villa had the Silver Blessed and their attendings were now fully under Noah's control, and one of the first commands from him was to follow the commands of the two girls as if they were his own.

"Be safe…"

Rose called out lightly as Annalise looked towards Noah's disappearing body, the spatial light very soon warping him away from the underground space.

The two girls then turned around to look at the tired Silver Blessed they were just sparring with.

"Again!"

Their valiant voices rang out as they continued to train!

Meanwhile, Noah dove back into the Tower of Champions as he continued past the 31st Floor.

Keeping up with the past, he now found himself in a different environment from the 31st floor onwards, leaving behind the Expansive green plains where he found Treants as the mobs this time around were SILVER Ranked flying and land type beasts of the ice element!

He seemed to have appeared in an extremely cold and frozen landmass, mountainous regions blanketed with snow being seen all around him as he faced attacks from above and below by ferocious beasts.

'Every single Rift and Floor feels like an entirely new world...'

Yes! Every single Rift and floor and he descended in always felt like he had transmigrated somewhere else, each place being so distinct that he couldn't help but think in this manner!

The units were summoned as with the Flesh Giant and Horned Serpent at the lead while the Tree Pixie used her terrifying control abilities of Deep Slumber and Entangling Vine paired up with Noah's powerful Silver Rank Offensive skills of the fife element, the 31st floor wasn't too much of an issue!

He had debated and decided to not yet use the Bronze Rank Upgrade Crystals to forge a new Silver Unit as he waited for the Idle Rewards tonight, his eyes constantly looking at the Idle Exp that might actually be filled up fully by the end of the day tonight as he waited for both the loot resources from the Rifts and the possible surprise of making his Exp and seeing what wondrous things come out of it.

So he crossed the upper floors while forging strength even higher, the only thing he could consider a negative being the fact that each floor took over an hour to scale and clear!

But with its abundant rewards, he didn't complain as he found himself even collecting over 20,000 more Bronze Upgrade Crystals after clearing 31st-34th floors in less than 5 hours!

The wondrous rewards for the past 4 floors were identical and looked as such.

[Rewards for clearing the 31st Floor] :: [+1000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+25 Random Bronze Equipment], [+5,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+1,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+50 Health Potions], [+50 Mana Potions], [+50 Strength Potions], [+50 Defense Potions],[+2 Bronze Skill Books], [+1 SILVER Skill Books], [+10 Random SILVER Equipment], [+100 SILVER Cores]

Gorgeous loot for nearly half a day's worth of hard work!

Even Noah couldn't help but look at his progress as something major that he got from past floors were the many skill books that he added to himself, especially the passive skills that caused his power to rise by another level.

[Noah Eckert] [Rank: SILVER]

[Strength: SILVER]

[Dexterity: SILVER]

[Intelligence: SILVER]

[Vitality: SILVER]

[Skill(s): [INHERENT- Mind Dominator], [BRONZE(Active) - Fire Bolt, Ice Spear, Earth Wall], [BRONZE(Passive)-? Tough Skin, Vision Enhancement, Haste, Endurance, Increased Evasion, Heightened Senses, Fast Feet, Bolstered Defense], [SILVER(Active)- Molten Burst, Magma Armor, Frozen Barrage], [SILVER(Passive)- Minor Automatic Regeneration, Minor Aura of Strength]

His stat panel had expanded greatly over the past few days, numerous skills being added as he always liked the many passive ones mote the active ones.

This was especially so for the Minor Automatic Regeneration and the new one he grabbed from the past floors- Minor Aura of Strength!

SILVER [Minor Aura of Strength] :: An aura circles around your body passively, giving you elevated strength to overpower your enemies at all times. The colorful red effect can be turned off and be made transparent if the user wishes.

Passive Skills were really something he liked and wanted to get more of!

After getting such abundant rewards for half the day, his figure flashed out of the Tower and reappeared in the Villa, coming to see the scene of Annalise and Noah talking amongst each other with light smiles on their faces.

A feast was on a wide table within the dining hall of the Villa they occupied, the two girls waiting for Noah as they didn't start without him.

On the exquisite seats around the table, Rose seemed to be telling Annalise of all the things outside City 8 as she nodded with a shining expression, Noah himself not helping but smile at the scene of the two girls as he was glad they slowly healed and returned to their old selves, walking towards them to enjoy the feast as many thoughts filled his mind!

Chapter 54

After he returned to the Villa, he gave commands to the few remaining Subjugated Silver as he put together the many clusters of information he was receiving.

The Blessed didn't stay in the house the entire day as they had the tasks they were assigned to from the Golden Commander Stephon of overseeing the City and keeping order, only one or two Blessed being able to come back in the Villa at all times throughout the day!

Noah planned to expand his influence even further as in the near future, he wanted all of the 100 Silver Blessed from the Dark Continent to be under his heel as he subjugated all of them!

With such wondrous dreams, he continued with steady steps as in the latter half of the day, he went ahead to reduce the clear times of the six Iron and Bronze Rifts, and even entering the Silver Rift in the evening and coming out of it at night.

With his Units and the two girls that were ceaselessly improving their strength, the clear time for the Iron Rifts was brought down to an average of 17 minutes, the Bronze Rifts being brought down to 22 minutes, while the Silver Rift went from taking an hour and becoming reduced to 40 minutes!

A shocking rate of advancement as with this, the rate he collected Idle Rewards was going to be even more extravagant.

They spent the latter half of the day this way as they remained in the Silver Rift for 3 hours longer before coming out, a few hours having already passed since night came as they returned to the Villa without any issues.

Noah had the two girls get some food while telling them to rest, dragging his tired body to the waiting room of the Tower of Champions as he held an excited glint in his eyes.

He knew that from his hard work in the past few days, he was about to be rewarded with something huge!

He began by entering the Idle Gaming System Interface and clicking on all the 7 Rifts he had on Idle Mode.

The abundant rewards of the Iron Rift showed themselves first, then the Bronze, and Ultimately Silver!

[+2575 Idle Exp]...[+129 Minotaur Shards]...[+1345 Idle Exp]...[+310 Idle Exp]...[+3 SILVER Rank Skill Books]...

The shining rewards of his hard work were shown in front of his eyes as a second later, a prompt popped up that caused his blue eyes to shine even brighter.

DING

[Idle Exp requirement met. Upgrade System level?]

A notification sound and bright blue words appeared in front of his eyes.

The words seemed like the most beautiful things one could see as he nodded his eyes with great enthusiasm!

RUMBLE!

A glorious golden light shone as the Idle Gaming System underwent its second upgrade, the design of the Interface looking even more wondrous as the words of the System appeared in front of his eyes once more.

[System Successfully Upgraded. Unlocked The Shattered Elemental Planes Rifts. Max number of available Units increased by 1. Idle Exp required for next level: 100,000.]

Noah's eyes constricted at the next unlocked feature, not being able to stop himself as he quickly gleaned information on it!

[The Shattered Elemental Planes Rifts] :: The Master of the Idle Gaming System now has the chance to enter Shattered Dimensional Rifts that have great dangers, but in turn give bountiful rare treasures from Unique High Tier Elements Beasts. The Type of available? Shattered Elemental Rifts changes every 3 days. Currently Available Shattered Elemental Rift: Shattered Light Plane.

…!

Alarm and shock were apparent on Noah's face as he read about the fantastical feature!

The chance to enter rare Dimensional Rifts that held beasts from High Tier Element Beasts!

RUMBLE!

In the waiting room where he always came to enter the Tower of Champions, the ground below him quaked as something else rose to the right side of where the Tower was.

This time, it was an enormous Tower that was no less domineering than the Tower of Champions, but this one was shining brightly in a golden color!

It represented the new feature of the [Shattered Elemental Rifts]? and at this time, the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift was available!

Noah's heart beat slightly faster as he thought of all the possible rare loot within, glancing at the first golden portal that was enticing him to quickly enter.

His Units were summoned with Haste as he very quickly began walking towards the shimmering golden portal that drew him the moment he neared it!

As the spatial light warped around him and sent him to a far away Dimension, he found his sight clearing up as his eyes opened up to a bright new world.

The ground below him felt soft as Verdant golden grass grew from it, the atmosphere having wisps of golden light flowing serenely across as far in the distance, Noah even saw glimmering golden trees!

…!

He raised his head to look around more as when he looked at the skies, he was left in shock as it wasn't a blue sky with a sun or moon hanging in the distance, but it seemed like a shattered glass surface that showed the starry space from up close!

Space! With multiple shimmering stars and planets shining far in the distance…

This was the Shattered Light Plane he had entered, a piece of a Dimensional Rift that was broken off from who knew what world or Realm, and it seemed to be shockingly hidden in space!

CAAA!

Noah was thrown out of his stupor as he heard the roar of a fearsome monster, his Units moving in formation as he turned his eyes to come across a fearsome looking beast flapping its wide wings from the skies and coming towards them.

The name [Light Eagle] floated above it as it towered over 10 meters in size, its feathers painted gold as its beak let out a terrifying shine that could blind others!

RUMBLE!

As he looked at this terrifying Light Element Beast at the Silver Rank, he was glad he hadn't yet spent his Bronze Upgrade Crystals to forge the two new Silver Units yet.

When he got his hands on the Bronze Unit Shards of this wondrous Shattered Elemental Rift...he could very possibly get himself stupidly powerful and rare Light Units at the SILVER Rank, and two of them at that!

CAA!

The Light Eagle cried out once more as it barreled towards them, the Flesh Giant and the Horned Serpent ready to protect their master as a terrifying battle bloomed in the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift!

Chapter 55

The Beasts within the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift were truly powerful.

Among the many Beasts Noah had come across, these Light Element beasts took the number one spot currently with their ferociousness and wondrous skills!

Across the Shattered Plane that was filled with golden vegetation and wide gold trees, they came across Light Eagles that attacked from the skies, their wings flapping to release terrifying light arrows that the thick skin of the Flesh Giant had to defend against.

When they traveled further in, they even came across a terrifying creature that was walking on the ground even though it had resplendent gold wings- it was a Griffin!

ROAAR!

The Griffin was one of the more terrifying beasts they had come across in the shattered light plane, with Its golden feathers as sharp as blades and its claws were even sharper as they even caused huge gashes on the enormous body of the Flesh Giant.

Noah even carefully stayed behind as he cast long distance skills while giving mana potions to the Tree Pixie to continue healing the Flesh Giant and the Horned Serpent.

Any bronze units would have been ripped apart easily, so Noah did not call the Units he needed to fill up the unit slots. The moment he cleared the Shattered Light Plane and saw exactly what different types of units he could get his hands on...then he would freely utilize his loot!

From the vast golden grasslands to even the enormous foliage of golden trees, Noah's units crossed this wondrous new location as they continued facing Griffins and Light Eagles as the only two different types of beasts within this floor.

Noah had to spend over an hour across the first floor of this shattered light Rift, his pets and him coming out extremely tired! But his eyes remained bright as he looked towards their awards that came from defeating so many powerful Light Type Beasts.

[Rewards for clearing the 1st floor of the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift : [+100 Bronze LIGHT Unit Shards], [+25 Silver LIGHT Unit Shards], [+2 SILVER Rank Light Equipment], [+3 Loot Drop Potion]

An array of rewards opened up in front of him!

He first looked at the Potion that shone with a blue gold light.

[Loot Drop Potion] :: Consuming this potion causes defeated enemies to drop more loot. If consumed during a level on the Tower of Champions or Shattered Rifts, the proper adjustment will be made to the levels rewards.

"..."

A shockingly rare loot from this unique Rift! A potion that increases the chances of obtaining more loot...what more could one ask for? With the first floor giving him high expectations, he went on to the next as he pulled out the two Silver Ranked Light Equipment.

SHAA!

In front of his eyes, a shining armor releasing a white light and a gorgeous bow appeared.

SILVER [Paladin's White Armor] :: Heavily protects against physical and magical damage while granting the wearer constant [Rejuvenation].

SILVER [Light Bow] :: A bow that requires no arrows, only the Mana of the user to form deadly arrows that never miss their target.

"Well…"

Even the items from this rift were stupendous as Noah donned on the Paladin's White Armor and Light Bow. He could now deal deadly long distance attacks while still protecting himself fully!

What was left to see next were the Unit Shards, 25 in Silver and 100 in Bronze that were ready to be summoned.

Within shining eyes, Noah utilized the 100 Bronze light unit Shards right away!

RUMBLE!

A brilliant golden flash of light, and he called forth his first unit of the Light Element.

Pale gold in color, transparent, and having the humanoid appearance, it was something called Light Elemental!

BRONZE [Light Elemental] :: A rare creature of the Light element that loves to swallow mana. It possesses strong physical damage immunity as it is incorporeal. Its abilities include [Attack Absorption] and [Light Blast]

…!

His eyes hungrily went up and down the Light Elemental as he nodded and turned towards the Shattered Elemental Rifts. He wanted to go back and continue diving until he achieved a SILVER Light Elemental, and so he did!

"Let's go!"

With overflowing drive, he continued onto the second floor of the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift, newly armored and weaponized along with an Extra Light Elemental by his side.

The second floor was just as vast as the first, where in addition to the Light Eagle and Griffins, he also came across Pegasi!

Vibrantly white and flesh eating Pegasi that could shatter a man's chest with their deadly hooves, ones that also released spears of light that without the Tree Pixie's constant Deep Slumber and Resplendent Heal skills, the battles would have been extremely tough for Noah!

But he persevered as he spent the entire remaining half of the night going through the fantastical looking Shattered Elemental Rifts that were filled with dangers and even more abundant treasures.

After 4 hours and going through deadly Light Eagles, Griffins, and Pegasi...he was finally rewarded!

With the [Loot Drop Potion] he drank while diving in, the end rewards he received were even more numerous as after finishing the fourth floor...over 350/100 BRONZE Light Unit Shards and a full 120/100 Silver Light Unit Shards were in his Inventory.

He saved them all for a wondrous unboxing as it was time for him to greatly enhance his strength.

3 Bronze Light Dimensional Beasts were first summoned from the 350 Shards.

RUMBLE!

A Light Sparrow, another Light Elemental, and a Great Horned Light Owl appeared in Noah's inventory!

The 100 Silver Shards were also used as after a bright eruption of light...something Noah had been battling this entire time came to him!

SILVER [Light Pegasus] :: A terrifying beast of the Light element. Capable of flight as well as powerful offensive attacks, it can act as the best mount while using its golden hooves to break the bones of your enemies. Its abilities include [Light Spear], [Flight], and [Elemental Reinforcement].

NEEIGH!

The gorgeous sound of a horse entered Noah's ears as a Pegasus bowed its head towards him. It was gorgeously white all around as streaks of gold covered the feathers on its wings, Noah going forward to stroke its head with a smile.

A fourth SILVER Unit had entered his hands, and another 2 were about to do so as his eyes honed in on the 4 Bronze Rank Units he could upgrade and fuse.

It felt like it was worth the wait to save his Upgrade Crystals for so long!

Chapter 56

From all the Light Shards, there were 4 Bronze Light Units that came to light- Two Light Elementals, a Light Sparrow, and a Great Horned Light Owl!

He had the required Upgrade Crystals, so he pumped all the 40,000 Bronze Crystals total into all of them as he accepted the prompt for the fusion, the names of two new Silver Beasts showing in his Inventory as he summoned them outside.

The two Light Elementals bore fruit to a 2 meter tall Light Guardian- a humanoid outline of a being that was fully made of transparent light! It nearly seemed invisible as it blended into the surroundings.

The two bird type beasts gave way to a 4 meter large Fiery Light Falcon that had its feathers dancing with golden flames, its body shining beautifully as it released a loud cry!

[Light Guardian] :: A rare creature of the Light Element that boasts strong offensive and defensive capabilities to protect its master. It's abilities include [Invisibility], [Light Ray], and [Golden Bastion].

[Fiery Light Falcon] :: A creature born for the skies, its golden flames capable of scorching any normal being of the same Rank. Its abilities include [Golden Blast], [Meteoric Descent], and [Burning Light Flames].

Two more SILVER Units that each had their own utility, Noah looking over their details closely as he saw many ways of using them!

But this current situation left behind the terrifying reality of him filling up all of his 6 Unit Slots with Silver Ranked Dimensional Rift Bosses in the span of half a night.

6 SILVER Rank Rift Bosses!

RUMBLE!

He summoned them all together to look at them in their full glory. The Flesh Giant, Horned Serpent, Tree Pixie, Light Pegasus, Light Guardian, and the Fiery Light Falcon!

Each of them stood subserviently in front of him as their terrifying looking figures bowed their heads towards his direction, just waiting for instructions.

With these being backing him up and while he himself was wearing a gorgeous set of SILVER Armor with a shimmering golden bow in his hands, he turned towards the next level of the Shattered Light Rift as he continued.

As Noah was constantly advancing, so were others!

After the forces of the Dark Continent had solidified their grasp of the Subjugated Cities, more forces entered as they planned to reinforce them with manpower and never lose them.

From the Imperial Capital, an overabundance of forces had left and arrived onto multiple Cities, the presence of the Rulers of the Ethereal Realm being shown once more as powerful GOLD Blessed were dispatched on the front lines.

It felt like a deadlock had appeared as the Dark Continent didn't advance further in while the Light Continent heavily fortified its borders.

But was it really so? Was the preliminary attack of the Dark King simply stopped at the subjugation of a few cities?

What about the Wild Continent, what exactly were the forces of this dangerous Continent doing this whole time?

…!

Within City 8, it was deep in the night, but there was a buzz of activity as in the cover of darkness, many beings had unexpectedly arrived.

Noah was finishing the 5th Floor of the Shattered Light Rift when he received a message from Number 1.

"Master, groups of Bronze and Silver Blessed have been entering the City, with the commands of the Golden Commander Stephon just coming down in the last few minutes telling us to welcome them and to work together."

ZIIING!

Noah had knocked a pulsating golden arrow while utilizing the [Light Bow] as he received the message, his mind moving fast as he replied while working with his Units to damage the enormous SILVER Griffin Rift Bosses they faced!

"They are not from the Dark Continent?"

"No, Master."

Noah took in these words with sharp eyes as he looked to the starry stars that could be seen from the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift. He gazed at the beautiful sight as his 6 Units swarmed the Rift Bosses and utterly decimated them with flashy attacks as many thoughts crossed his mind.

From the memories of the Subjugated Blessed, he didn't find out of any other forces aiding the Dark Continent, but it seemed like only the Golden Commanders were made aware!

It was of the terrible truth that the Dark and Wild Continents were actually allowing together for their conquest- something that even the forces of the Imperial Capital might not know at this moment!

With such shocking news of the Wild Continent joining the fray and bringing their forces to reinforce the Dark Continent, Noah had to work even faster.

His task to put the enemy Blessed within the City Under his grasp as they were all subjugated...had to be accelerated!

Aside from going down the Shattered Elemental Rift and the Tower in the next few days, the task of covertly making the powerful experts of the City Under him would commence fully!

BOOM!

The last Rift Boss fell under the attacks of his pets as their figures were teleported away, an abundant amount of rewards flashing in front of his face as he recalled all the Units but two.

It was the newly gained Light Unit that had the ability of [Invisibility], the Light Guardian, along with the Tree Pixie!

A Unit with terrifying offensive abilities that could also become hidden from the eyes of others along with a Unit that could restrict and put enemies to sleep.

With such a match up, Noah left the waiting area where the portals of the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rifts laid, appearing within the Villa as he sent multiple messages to his Subjugated Blessed!

"Send me the coordinates of all isolated Silver Blessed around the City, even those in groups of 3 or 5…"

Paired up with shockingly powerful Light Elemental Units with his own power increasing by a mile, Noah planned to traverse City 8 as he went hunting in the deep of the night!

Chapter 57

In the dark hours of the night where Noah began to move with his Subjugated Blessed, a shocking meeting was occurring at the heart of the City.

In a skyscraper that was formerly the Golden Phoenix Auction House, Commander Stephon was standing at the top floors of it while overlooking the City, the expansive room he was in palpating with power as soon after, another aura similar to his entered!

"Brother Stephon, I didn't think we'd be stationed together so quickly."

The gruff voice of a GOLD Expert resounded out as Golden Commander Stephon looked over with a scowl.

"They actually sent the Red Berserker to reinforce me?"

"Haha, you should be happy! It means no matter what response the Imperial Capital sends, we will stand strong!"

RUMBLE!

The two Gold Rank experts gave each other bear hugs as they sat down to talk. One would be shocked at their identities, as one was a Golden Commander from the Dark Continent, and another from the Wild Continent!

Yet they were talking and discussing as if they were brothers in arms, showing that there were many things in the dark that many didn't understand!

"We're currently reinforcing all the Subjugated Cities and preparing to move further inland. The Dimensional Rifts these guys have been so freely enjoying...we will have them all ourselves."

RUMBLE!

"In time, Brother. What I am most hesitant of is when the Imperial Capital chooses to send out its true experts. The DIAMOND Ranked Masters within their ranks…"

Stephon's face was thoughtful as he recalled the powerful Blessed that should be under the Imperial Capital!

"Hmph, we have our own! Ones that trained hard to get where they are. And the moment we take over the Imperial City, we will able to produce even more experts like them…!"

…!

A shocking conversation continued as the tides of war advanced forward!

Hello.

I am Number 1.

Since a few days ago, the Master was gracious enough to show me the way, and I have seen the path forward under his awakening!

With my will solely following his, we were currently moving across City 8 to complete the mission to add even more brothers and sisters into our ranks.

"Huk!"

In an area where a Silver Blessed was patrolling in the dark of the night, he suddenly tumbled to the ground and fell asleep as I flashed in to silently pull him to the alley way, the Master breaking their bones and vocal cords as his eyes flashed a gorgeous blue the moment the Blessed woke up.

This was when a new brother would join our ranks as he was shown the way!

Master would then use his wondrous Unit to heal them as the brother newly joining our ranks would be given the command to wade through the City in search of more Silver Blessed.

We had been moving across the city like this for the past few hours!

It had been slow at first, but the pace gradually picked up when Master added Number 20, our numbers having more than doubled to what they were previously.

With a force of 20 Blessed moving through the City, our speed exploded through the last part of the night, and this was all also due to another terrifying pet that the Master summoned!

It was a transparent creature made of light, one that could turn invisible to get up close to Blessed and puncture their lungs before dragging them to Master!

Whether we were going through Villas where Blessed were sleeping or at the edges of the city where the Blessed patrolled, we were seamlessly and silently able to move and add another 30 brothers and sisters as when the night ended, Number 50 was with us.

What a glorious Number.

What a glorious night!

For us who were shown the way, we could only hope to bask in Master's glory as we faithfully carried out his commands, our hearts expectant on what the future held under the Rule of the Master!

The past night was extremely fruitful for Noah, moving with extreme efficiency as he only found his task to get easier with time passing.

When one controlled the tens of powerful Silver Blessed, the things that could be done ballooned up greatly as the efficiency was kicked up another notch!

The cycle of finding Blessed that were either patrolling or resting to be added to his ranks turned easy as he moved with the Units that could put others to sleep or the one that could turn invisible and ambush the Blessed with powerful skills.

It left him with the stupendous result of the rays of sunlight washing over him with a new day, 50 Blessed coming under his command as his eyes shone with brilliance when he looked over the City!

50!

One must recall that 100 Blessed from the Dark Continent were dispatched to Subjugate academy city, and now over half of them had fallen under Noah silently. He would not target the Bronze Blessed yet as there were hundreds of them, knowing his mind would not be able to stand subjugating such a large number of people. But he didn't need to worry about those with lesser power when he controlled the Silver Blessed who could control those below them.

The City had gained tens more Silver Blessed from the Wild Continent as Noah was able to Subjugate a few from their ranks as well, the information he was receiving at this moment being something that even the Imperial Capital had no way of receiving!

From combing through the memories of many Blessed, a much clearer picture had painted itself in Noah's mind.

He returned to the Villa that was the base of operations early in the morning, giving commands to the many subjugated Blessed on how they should move as he made plans for his own moves and what he would ultimately do when he had all the Silver Blessed within the City Under his grasp!

The ultimate goal was to bring down the GOLD Commander Stephon that now actually joined by another Gold Expert to oversee the city, and Noah planned to do so the moment he was confident in raising his SILVER Units to full power, or gaining enough Silver Upgrade Crystals to fuse two Units into the GOLD stage.

For this...the Tower of Champions with its abundant rewards was required.

'The time will have to be divided into the Tower or Shattered Rifts while moving in the outside world to finish subjugating the rest of the Blessed.. '

The thought of how to move for the next few days formed in his mind as he couldn't wait to get started!

Chapter 58

The Tower remained Noah's topmost focus as after he talked with Rose and Annalise, he left the two girls to train with a few Silver Blessed as he made his way to continue past the 35th Floor.

With the powerful addition of 3 Light Element Units and his team being fully 6 SILVER Rift Bosses...he tore his way across the Tower as he could see his speed of progression was about to be explosive!

This time...he planned to do a speedrun!

The rewards for the 35th floor were just as stupendous as they should have been, Noah gaining 30,000 Bronze Upgrade Crystals and 10,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals on top of 5 SILVER Skill Books and a variety of Potions.

He took the passive skills for himself as the active Offensive skills like [Frost Barrage] and others would be saved for Annalise and Rose.

His main focus at this moment was the Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals, these being the things that could produce a GOLD Unit for him!

He needed 50,000 for each Unit to do so, and he was barely halfway through collecting them for the first Unit.

With this on the line, he tore through the 36th through the 39th floor in a matter of 3 hours as he collected more loot, another 10,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals falling into his hands as he was ever closer!

The levels of the Tower continued to be just as difficult, where the numbers of Silver Mobs increased and the Silver Rift Bosses he had to take down were even more numerous.

At the rate it was going...he expected to be facing a GOLD Rift Boss by the 50th floor!

Such a reality was terrifying to think about, but it meant that he would also very soon gain a creature at that very same Rank of power as he neared the 50th floor.

Such a thought was the reason he would persevere on today's speedrun!

The 40th floor was an expansive frozen area that had rough winds flying about, containing over 10 powerful Rift Bosses within that Noah had to take out before he advanced forward.

With a Light Pegasus and a Fiery Light Falcon raining down attacks from the air and 4 more powerful Units on the ground, the Rift Bosses were taken down in half an hour as Noah advanced forward relentlessly!

Abundant rewards more numerous than the normal floors flooded to him as usual, forging forward as he could almost taste the power of a GOLD Unit!

The 41st floor was then cleared.

42nd!, 43rd!, 44th!

On the 44th floor that signified the 10th floor he had cleared on this single day, he finally went above the 50,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals to enhance a single Silver Unit to the peak!

Aside from the 20,000 he gained from the 35-39th floor, the 40th floor alone granted the increased rewards of every 5 floors as it gave him double what he received on the 30th and 35th floors- it granted him a stupendous 20,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals for that single floor.

The 41st through the 44th floors had granted him another 12,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals as aside from these, he had an overabundance of Skill Books, Silver Equipment, Cores.

But his shining eyes focused on the now 72,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals from todays floors and the ones he had collected so far as with these...he was more halfway to making a GOLD Unit!

'Of course...it has to be one of the power Light Element Units.'

He rested his tired body while popping a Mana and Health Potion into his mouth, enjoying the sugary taste while thinking of the possibilities.

He had truly been speedrunning the past floors, rapidly getting the rewards he wanted as his goal was right in front of him.

Most floors took over an hour or more, a lot of time having passed as Noah remained in the Tower of Champions!

He glanced at the rewards of the 45th floor and above, his heart shaking as when he did the math…he truly just had to pass a few floors above it to get his hands on what he wanted!

'Haaa…'

He breathed out his exhaustion as he looked at his Units, popping in more mana and Health Potions as he restored himself to his peak before he dove into the 45th floor.

The environment was in a frozen mountain, with the level being filled with over a dozen Silver Rift Bosses he had to find across the snowy areas.

This single level alone was harder than any he had come across before, taking him an hour and half to wade through before he and his Units finished the last Silver Rift Boss.

RUMBLE!

Their figures were returned to the waiting room as Noah's eyes were bloodshot, having not slept the past day as he had been constantly diving into the floors of the Tower of Champions for the past hours.

Shockingly, a day had already passed as night had descended in the outside world, but as he saw the rewards of the 45th floor and how close it brought him to his goal...he had to force himself to continue!

[Rewards for the 45th floor…+20,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals…+5 Silver Rank Skill Books…]

Similar to the 40th floor, 20,000 Crystals greeted him as they brought his total number to...92,000.

When he saw this number his bloodshot eyes glanced at the floors above 45 and their rewards as...he knew no matter what happened tonight, he had to keep going.

This was because from the 46th to the 49th floors, the loot rewards each held +5,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals within them!

It meant that just clearing 2 more floors would put him over the 100,000 that he needed to fully bring two Silver Units to their peak before he could call forth a Gold Unit.

For this...he had to continue.

The environment of frozen wastelands continued for the 46th floor, the Potions and the abilities of the Tree Pixie to rejuvenate and heal his body being the only thing that kept Noah going.

At this point, all the enemies they faced were Silver Rift Bosses by the dozens, the only lucky thing being how they were all spread out across the frozen wastelands so they couldn't group up around Noah and his Units!

The Light Element Units showed their superiority even against the Flesh Giant and the Horned Serpent as within one hour and a half, the vast 46th floor was cleared.

With bloodshot eyes that shone with a blue splendor, Noah delved into the 47th floor as it seemed to be the most grueling one so far, purely in terms of how tired he was at this point as he kept his focus by equipping the Light Bow and shooting deadly arrows towards their enemies.

The floors of the Tower of Champions were becoming much vaster and significantly harder as he continued to rise, the difficulty being ramped up great as Noah would need to quickly upgrade his power if he wanted to keep clearing the levels safely!

But all it took was a matter of time.

After close to 2 hours...the 47th floor was also cleared!

'Fucking finally…'

Noah let out a tired breath as he saw the number of Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals hit 102,000.

Fifty thousand into each Silver Units, and the fusion of them into the GOLD rank would take place!

Just days after stepping into the rank of SILVER, Noah was about to call forth his first GOLD Unit!

Chapter 59

The choice of which ones to fuse remained on the powerful Light Element Units.

Between the three, Noah didn't want to lose the [Invisibility] skill from the Light Guardian as he was leaning towards fusing the Light Pegasus and the huge Fiery Light Falcon!

Both creatures were of the Winged Light Element, with each of them carrying terrifying offensive abilities.

When combined together, what would the GOLD Unit be like?

OOOM!

Noah waited no longer as he began to pump the Upgrade Crystals into the Light Pegasus and the Fiery Light Falcon.

Their bodies vibrated with more and more power as Noah watched each of their numbers rise towards 50,000/50,000!

WAA!

When it was achieved, they released a flash of light as a prompt Noah had been waiting to see for too long finally appeared.

[Two Units match the requirements for fusion and evolution into the GOLD Rank. Start the process?]

"...start!"

THRUM!

In the waiting room, an intense white light flashed out as the Light Pegasus and Fiery Light Falcom were sucked towards each other, coagulating together as the silver aura they released...mixed together brilliantly to very soon produce a wondrous golden color.

The color gold seemed extremely enticing in Noah's eyes, wondering when he himself would be able to wrap such a wonderful color around his own body!

His shining eyes observed the process fully as the silver energy entirely disappeared, leaving behind a flash of gold as a majestic creature 5 meters large unfurled its wings in front of Noah.

The wings were bright gold as white flames danced over them. Its eyes...they shone brightly with an intense gold light as they landed on Noah, releasing an oppressive power that Noah had not even felt when he recalled the GOLD enemy Blessed that was in the skies staring at him like a bug!

It was the true and genuine aura of a GOLD Rift Boss, a creature that was normally only found at the end of dreadful Gold Rank Dimensional Rifts that needed a team of Gold Blessed to clear.

Such a creature stood in front of Noah now...as something he could command!

GOLD [Conflagrant Pegasus] :: A mutated pegasus that is proficient in light and fire based attacks. Among the creatures in the GOLD Rank, it can be placed near the top in terms of pure attack power and speed. Its abilities include [Scorching Light Spear], [Elemental Reinforcement], [Rays of Burning Light], and [Instant Acceleration]

"..."

Noah glanced at the details of this powerful beast as even with every single muscle and bone on his body screaming from tiredness after he spent nearly a full day going through the Tower of Champions, everything felt worth it at this point!

He went forward as he placed his hand on its body that pulsed with power, closing his eyes as he felt this terrifying strength while thinking of the future.

'With this...what can the GOLD Blessed overseeing the City do?!'

RUMBLE!

His thoughts were deadly as they focused on the Golden Commander Stephon that had been at the forefront of the city's subjugation, as well as the new Gold Commander to arrive from the Wild Continent.

'There is much to do…!'

Noah's eyes opened with a flash as he waved his hands, the Silver and single Gold Unit disappearing in front of him as his body also began to warp with the light of teleportation.

He had been in the Tower for too long!

He entered during the day as night came and passed, where it was now day again.

But...he could finally get some decent sleep after his heart settled with the knowledge that he could now summon a terrifying GOLD Rift Boss.

A creature that normally 10 Blessed of the same Rank would be required to take care of!

This thought repeated in Noah's mind as he appeared back in the training grounds of the Villa.

"Brother…"

Annalise's voice called out the moment he returned, the girl coming forward and looking at Noah's tired body up and down as she didn't say anything else, only bringing Noah into her arms as she hugged him tightly!

"...you're working hard by yourself, being going for more than a day!"

The little sister hugged her older brother tightly as even though she was growing to become a strong combatant, she was still soft towards the only remaining family she had!

Noah had a light smile as he raised his face to look at Annalise.

"Don't worry about me. I just had to stay a bit longer to get the power we need to safely stand against those at the GOLD Rank!"

…!

Shocking words were heard from him as Annalise looked towards him in shock, Rose's voice ringing out from the side of the training hall as the two girls were just sparring with each other before Noah returned.

"Already? Even with their reinforcements from the Wild Continent?"

The eyes of the girls were shining dangerously as they looked towards Noah...who merely waved his hands to call forth the Conflagrant Pegasus.

THRUM!

The 5 meter majestic beast of light element appeared grandly as even though it didn't release its outrageous aura at the Gold rank, the glint of gold waving from its body making the girls look forward in a stupor!

"GOLD…"

Rose went near the Beast as she then looked towards Noah in shock, Annalise being the only one to come out of the stupor as her eyes shone brilliantly.

Noah spoke out as he waved his hands to make the beast disappear once more.

"We have much to do before we make our move. I first need to Subjugate all the remaining Silver Blessed roaming across the City…"

Noah laid out the outline of his plans as for now...he had to plan carefully what his next moves would be.

"After experiencing the memories of so many powerful Blessed, I've come to realize how important information is."

"Our task will be to make sure that for the coming battle against the GOLD Blessed...not a single piece of information about it travels outside this city!"

RUMBLE!

Many thoughts and plans were made as for the days to come...Noah wanted to utilize his Subjugated Blessed at full capacity to create a blockage of any information or people leaving the City.

He wanted to take over it without the knowledge of either of the warring Continents as from this city...he would have a springboard to launch himself to greater heights!

Chapter 60

After giving out multiple commands to the already subjugated Blessed, Noah's exhaustion after moving across the Tower of Champions for over a day and getting by through chugging Potions finally got the better of him.

He had actually returned in the afternoon as even with the sun brightly illuminating the villa he was in and its surroundings, his exhausted mind gradually greeted the darkness!

As he went into the folds of sleep, the images of him standing above the beings calling themselves Golden Commanders flashed through his mind!

While Noah rested, the over 50 Subjugated Blessed moved around as normal under the directions they received from the Golden Commander Stephon, none of their colleagues or the Commander above them finding out anything wrong with them!

They moved to collect more information on where the remaining Blessed from the Dark Continent would be tonight, as well as keeping track of the movements of the newly arriving Blessed from the Wild Continent.

The mission that the Mind Dominator had given them...was to locate all the ways that information left the city, especially the Blessed that were assigned to sending messages back and forth due to their unique Inherent Skills or abilities. These would be the beings Noah wanted to target first!

The day passed silently as night dawned, Noah waking up refreshed as he affirmed with his Blessed that everything was followed accordingly.

The coordinates of important targets were given to him as he would begin the mission of Subjugating Blessed early this night...with the goal of getting the rest of the 50 SILVER Blessed from the Dark Continent and seeing how his progress would be for the new Blessed from the Wild Continent.

The results...were shockingly easy as he came to find when one held a lot of information, they could easily maneuver around undetected!

From the Subjugated Blessed, he learned of the habits of the Golden Commander Stephon and how he spent his time, as well as the habits of all the remaining targeted Blessed as with such information...he very easily moved across the City to Subjugate more Silver Ranked beings.

To make sure he didn't alert the 2 GOLD experts within the City, he didn't utilize his GOLD Unit yet as he stuck to the resourceful Tree Pixie and the Light Guardian that had the skill of [Invisibility].

Groups of 3-5 Blessed that were either just drinking their night away or about to rest very quickly found themselves in Noah's clutches as his blue eyes were the last things they saw before they became utterly dominated!

Noah's mind was extremely active as even after subjugating the minds of many beings, he had yet to feel a strain as he continued with great vigor.

The more beings he had under him, the easier it was for him to move as groups of enemy blessed would find themselves surrounded by 10 beings of the same Rank as them under his commands, very quickly becoming mutilated and disoriented before Noah swooped in to Subjugate them!

In this manner, it actually didn't take even half the night for the remaining 50 Blessed from the Dark Continent to be located in the City and subjugated under Noah…

That was 100 Blessed!

...!

In the middle of the night, Noah stood atop one of the skyscrapers as the Tree Pixie floated behind him and the Light Guardian was invisible as it couldn't even be seen.

He came to a stop as he took a deep breath, closing his eyes to focus on his Inherent Skill as he saw the tens of connections he had formed with multiple beings in the city below him!

'It's possible…'

As he saw his shocking progress where he actually took over the minds of over 100 beings in the same rank as him, he questioned the Inherent ability he had and how powerful it was.

Others awakened theirs, and such abilities were only as powerful as they themselves made them to be. But his...was just monstrous as what it allowed him to do was just…

Maybe because it was a special loot from the tower, maybe there were other reasons. All he cared about now was the fact that with 100 of some of the most powerful beings with the city under his grasp, he knew the fate of the 2 GOLD Blessed within the City was almost sealed!

"Find and target the remaining SILVER Blessed from the Wild Continent. Let's see if we can wrap up this night by adding even more into our ranks…"

He released multiple commands as he moved in the shadows of the night.

Not a single being within the City knew of the shocking events occurring, nor could they guess that a terrifying being was taking over a majority of the forces silently within the City!

When dawn broke, Noah was only left to wipe the sweat off his brow as with the capability to utilize over 100 Silver Blessed to move under his orders...the Blessed from the Wild Continent never had a chance.

There were some accidents where some of the injured ones died before Noah could utilize [Subjugate] on them, but the results were exemplary as the latter half of the night, he was able to add another 93 Silver Blessed to his roster!

This meant that at this moment, 193 Silver Blessed moved from following his orders...a shocking level of power when one truly thought about it.

All from the loot of the Idle Gaming System! From the stupendous Tower of Champions and the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift!

Noah reminisced how different things were just a few days ago as he overlooked the city, many thoughts crossing his mind as the following hours during the day that just broke...he planned to use them to finish planning and locking the city down with the subordinates he had amassed.

He would not attack with brute force even though he had a GOLD Unit that he knew could dominate any human of the same Rank!

After he connected to the minds of so many beings and lived through their memories...he knew the most important thing for the Siege he was about to lay out would be whether he would be successful in not letting any news about it spread out.

It was the spread of information!

"When night comes, lock down all the gates. Not a single being enters or leaves the city. Anyone that tries to do so...kill them on the spot!"

RUMBLE!

His eyes were filled with a shining blue light as he sent the command to the network of Blessed.

He was ready.

Tonight, he was ready to face off with 2 GOLD Rank experts!

Chapter 61

Within City 8, the day passed normally the two powerful GOLD experts had no reason to believe their subordinates were compromised, giving out a few commands that dealt with overseeing the City and coordinating teams to keep the order.

During this time, Noah maintained the command center within the Villa he took over, where he was now talking with Annalise and Rose on what he had planned.

"In the night, we will have teams make a perimeter around the city to make sure nobody comes in or out, and the rest will be with us in besieging the GOLD experts…"

The two girls had solemn expressions as they listened, knowing things were finally getting serious as after today...many things would change!

Noah went through an excruciating amount of details as he coordinated with the Subjugated Blessed to make sure nothing went wrong that he didn't even have time to dive into the Tower, the hours passing by as the darkness of the night would very soon envelop City 8.

When this darkness lifted...everything would be different!

"The glorious Light Continent…"

A certain Golden Commander from the Wild Continent spat out the words while thinking about the lands that kept all the resources of the Ethereal Realm to themselves while leaving nothing for those in other Continents.

"Was the Ethereal Emperor truly fair? For him to establish a rule that forces us to remain isolated in our Continents without coming in contact with the Dimensional Rifts that belong to all of us?!"

…!

"With your death...we'll be sure to take everything that you left behind!"

The heart of the Blessed burned with the flames of anger as he thought of the living conditions of many of the people back at home, his gaze that of yearning.

"Sir...Commander Stephon sent a message asking for you, apparently it's important."

A silver blessed spoke towards him with respect as the Golden Commander nodded while gazing over the darkening city.

"What's happened now…" His expression gradually calmed down as he set off towards the structure of the Golden Phoenix Auction House that Golden Commander Stephon had taken over.

At this point, he didn't have even a clue that the Silver blessed he considered a subordinate...was actually scheming against him!

His figure streaked across the sky as he utilized an ability unique to GOLD Blessed- their usage of using their robust Mana to take to the skies!

Granted, average GOLD Blessed could only do it for tens of minutes before they were exhausted, but it was still a terrifying ability that showed their power.

SHAA!

The feet of the Commander touched the roof of the huge skyscraper as he went towards Stephon on the floor right below, this Commander from the Dark Continent rising his head quizzically as he sensed the aura of the only other GOLD expert within the City.

"Brother Berserker, what's happened to bring you to my abode in the dark of the night?"

Stephon was finishing looking at a few papers that collected information about the loot they had gained over the last few days, massaging his temples as he asked the incoming Blessed from the Wild Continent!

"Hmm? What are you on about Stephon, didn't you call me here?"

"Haah?"

The two GOLD Blessed looked towards each other with confusion as at this exact moment...something shocking happened.

The moment the two men stepped on the same floor together as they were brought to the same location- before any alarm bells could be raised in their minds...the dark sky lit up brightly with glimmering golden light!

An ability under a certain GOLD Rift Boss that had appeared out of nowhere...smashed onto the floor the two GOLD Blessed were on as a devastating scene played out.

BOOOOM!

Scorching golden rays of light descended from the skies as they illuminated the dark streets briefly, these rays raining down with terrifying power as the entire upper floors of the Golden Phoenix Auction House were decimated!

It was the ability [Rays of Burning Light] from the GOLD Ranked Conflagrant Pegasus!

WAA!

Two brilliant golden lights could be seen on the rubble of the upper floors of the skyscraper, Stephon and the Red Berserker looking up in shock as both of them were actually greatly injured from this sneak attack.

"Who…?!"

Golden Commander Stephon had a wild look as he blurted out, his words coming to a stop as his eyes landed on a majestic beast flapping its wings in the skies!

The fantastical creature let out a piercing cry as before the two experts could even gather themselves, its body turned into a flash of light as it rushed towards them.

[Instant Acceleration] was cast!

SHAA!

The faces of the two GOLD Blessed were ashen as they sensed the terrifying strength of the beast, the Red Berserker calling out in shock as his body lit up with many skills to defend himself.

He recalled the aura of a terrifying beast like this!

He had met it a few times during his dives across the few GOLD Ranked Dimensional Rifts outside of the Light Continent, but even the ones he came across before didn't have a terrifying aura as dense as the one he faced now.

"A Rift Boss!"

RUMBLE!

He called out in shock as the Conflagrant Pegasus arrived in front of them, its sharp wings that had edges sharper than the deadliest blades smashing into both of their bodies as they were shot back like cannonballs!

BOOM!

Their two figures were knocked from the decimated floors of the Skyscraper as they looked like 2 blinking lights that streaked across the skies and into the dark streets of the City, causing craters to form where they landed.

"Huk..!"

Flashes of gold light mixed with blood could be seen.

With their bodies powerfully in the GOLD Realm, they quickly stood up even though they were heavily injured from the last two attacks!

Stephon had huge gashes on his chest from the sharp wings that just hit both of them...while the Red Berserker's shoulder was nearly torn off.

"Commanders!"

While rising from the craters and getting ready to fight against the suddenly appearing enemy, they heard the cries of their subordinates as they saw multiple SILVER Blessed flooding from the streets and coming towards them.

The Red Berserker spat out blood while looking towards the skies to find the terrifying enemy, his voice blazing out around them.

"Gather together! It's a GOLD Rank Rift Boss!"

RUMBLE!

"What?!"

The incoming Blessed replied with shocked faces as they grouped up around the two experts, getting their wondrously sharp weapons out as their bodies glimmered with light, ready to cast against their enemy!

Stephon and the Red Berserker let out sighs of relief as they saw multiple Silver Blessed rush towards them, their injured bodies glancing towards the skies as they kept a lookout for their enemy.

Meanwhile around them- beings they considered their allies began to cluster around the both of them for 'protection'!

Silver Blessed they knew to be their subordinates...surrounded them to aid them against the terrifying enemy.

Oh, what allies these Silver Blessed would turn out to be!

Behind their veils of concern and shock as they circled around the two? Gold Blessed, a blue light that subjugated their minds flashed and remained hidden in their eyes!

Chapter 62

In the darkness of the night, a commotion had begun in the center of City 8!

"Dammit, where the hell did it come from?!"

Stephon roared out as two Blessed helped him from the crater he was smashed into, his body bleeding from many angles as he also gave commands to the appearing Silver Blessed around them.

"Circle around us, we need you guys to buy some time while we heal and get ready to match it...we'll also need to send for reinforce-"

WAA!

Before his words could finish, the figure of the Conflagrant Pegasus appeared in the skies above them grandly once more, its gold eyes extremely cold as it seemed ready for another attack!

"Get ready! Throw everything you have against it, just buy some time!"

The bodies of the GOLD Blessed glimmered with light as they cast healing skills on themselves, trying to buy as much time as possible to get back into top shape before they faced the terrifying enemy.

But in this hectic moment, they failed to clearly see a few details!

Like the fact that the Silver Blessed coming to back them had appeared very quickly.

The fact that there were tens of them supposedly surrounding them for protection, with each GOLD Blessed having over 20 Silver experts quickly appearing around the area on the ground they smashed into!

To them, it was lucky and actually a good thing that their subordinates managed to gather so quickly, their thoughts at this moment only on survival.

It was at this moment when the fate of the two GOLD Blessed was decided!

"Defend!"

At this moment, it felt like time was moving in slow motion as the shouts of the GOLD Blessed reverberated out. The Conflagrant Pegasus shone lustrously in the skies as its body lit up to seemingly release another skill, two blinking gold lights beneath it looking up with solemn expressions as multiple silver lights surrounded them!

From the distance, Noah was watching this shocking scene as he overlooked the whole battle, watching it play out slowly as the Silver Blessed that were ready to release their attacks towards the GOLD Rift Boss in the sky...shockingly turned and aimed their blades and skills towards the Golden Commanders they should have been protecting and giving time to heal.

SQUELCH!

Surrounded by beings they thought to be their closest allies, the two GOLD experts did not have their defenses up against them and instead focused their power above them against the Rift Boss. But soon after,?they shockingly felt Silver Ranked Weapons dig into their bodies, numerous skills from tens of Silver Blessed also smashing into them!

BOOM!

A horrendous explosion exploded out from the power of skills from tens of Silver Blessed, the Commanders at the Gold Rank actually being dealt the heaviest injuries at this time as their bodies were smashed further into the initial craters, muscles torn and bleeding!

…!

Stephon's body was tattered as he barely kept his life by releasing a burst of golden light that drained nearly all of his remaining mana.

"This...you…GAH!"

He looked around him in shock as he spat out blood, barely standing up on his two legs as his eyes saw the cold and expressionless faces of Blessed he knew all his life…

THRUM!

Above them in the skies, the Conflagrant Pegasus made its true move as [Rays of Burning Light] was cast again, illuminating the dark skies of the City for the last time!

BOOM!

A sudden sound of horrendous explosions shook the city.

Less than a minute later...it stopped!

Very few people would find out exactly what happened on this day...but some watched the show from beginning to the end.

Rose, the former 5th Ethereal Princess, was looking at the shocking scene of 2 GOLD Blessed face betrayal from their own forces, their bodies becoming riddled with injuries from the force of tens of Blessed!

She then watched as the hot rays of light she could feel the temperatures of even where she, Annalise, and Noah stood...she watched as they went on to pierce their injured bodies and nail them to the ground.

These were GOLD Rank experts mind you!

Powerful beings could take to the skies, being that stood above them and looked at them like bugs just a few days ago.

Yet they were now ambushed by a force of nearly 100 Blessed that Noah called to participate, the rest of the Subjugated beings tasked with keeping this area clear of people and overseeing the walls of the city to make sure not a single soul left the City.

On top of Light Element GOLD Rift Boss, the 2 experts in this same rank never stood a chance!

It was a heart rending scene that was inscribed in the hearts of all that saw it, the scene of two Gold Blessed skewered to the ground with pulsing Light Rays being something Rose would never forget in her life.

"Wait here."

She was taken out of her stupor as the voice of the man responsible rang out, watching as he walked forward calmly, the ranks of Silver Blessed splitting apart like a tide as he walked to the crater where the two GOLD Blessed lay!

His eyes shone bright blue as a myriad of thoughts seemed to flow through them, squatting down next to the two beings whose bodies were twitching and bleeding heavily as a Tree Pixie appeared beside him.

The creature shone with a glint of green as vines sprouted out to restrict the movements of the beings that could most likely not even be able to lift a muscle, their eyes barely being able to focus as they looked at the being that appeared before them!

BOOM!

The figure of the Conflagrant Pegasus also landed beside Noah as more scorching rays of light descended with it to skewer the limbs of the two Commanders into the ground, utterly breaking the wills of these experts as they nearly lost consciousness.

"Wow…"

Rose could not help but feel her heart speed up as she looked at this scene. A scene of Noah's cold eyes glancing at beings a rank higher than him as they were mutilated from his commands, a scene of him standing above them domineeringly like a king that had planned for and thought of everything!

'It...it should be possible for someone like him…'

Her mind worked quickly as she etched the scene into her soul, looking at the domineering and cold figure of Noah as she truly thought it was possible for this being to stand on top of many.

For him to wipe out the scourge plaguing the lands of the Ethereal Realm, for him to stand atop even her Older Brother in the Imperial Capital!

'Strength...he has enough of. I need to be of use when it comes to utilizing his people and managing the lands he will take over in the future!'

…!

The former princess was thinking steps ahead as she observed the shocking scene, planning how she could contribute to this being's grand rise that she was witnessing first hand on this night…

Noah's eyes coldly looked towards the mutilated GOLD Blessed that could barely breathe in front of him.

He didn't gloat or begin giving any speeches before his goal was complete, so he sent the command to the Tree Pixie to use its vines and force the bloody heads of the powerful Blessed to face him, his eyes beginning to shine blue as they locked onto the face of the Commander Stephon!

"Whoever you are...you won't get awa-GUH!"

The Commander known as Red Berserker by the side seemed to have stronger vitality as even while bleeding with the bones in his body shattered, he tried to muster a light of gold to cover his body and speak- but the Conflagrant Pegasus merely thundered down more scorching rays of light onto his body as he was pushed further into the ground.

Noah kept his eyes locked to the much more heavily injured Stephon as he cast Subjugate while speaking out slowly.

"Just give me a few seconds to get to you."

THRUM!

Stephon, this powerful being that could take to the skies and look upon Noah like a bug just a few days ago...this being now locked eyes with the same being as he lay battered and broken!

Ambushed by a shockingly powerful Rift Boss and then facing the surprise attacks of multiple Blessed he thought to be his allies...the being was in dire straits as he fit the conditions for Noah's [Subjugate] ability!

It was someone of the higher rank though, so bringing them under his command was all the more difficult, and it was why Noah had mutilated the GOLD Ranked Blessed as much as he did.

As Stephon's eyes locked with Noah, his body began to tremble as his mind was resisting the enticing Blue light coming from Noah!

SQUELCH!

Yet Noah's only response to this was summoning a Silver Rank Sword from his Inventory and stabbing it into the chest of this being while twisting the sharp blade around.

"It's okay."

SQUELCH!

The lungs were punctured as Stephon could barely breathe, Noah's eyes shining even brighter as he felt his energy leaving him in droves while keeping [Subjugate] active to try and bring this GOLD Blessed into his fold!

OOOM!

His left hand grabbed onto the bloody head of Stephon as his weapon sank multiple times into the already mutilated body, his eyes shining their brightest as finally, Stephon's dark eyes were now replaced with a hint of blue!

RUMBLE!

A hint of blue that meant the subjugation of a GOLD Expert!

Chapter 63

…!

The body of Stephon slumped to the ground as the Entangling Vines receded from him, multiple Resplendent Heals descending unto him a second later as his mutilated body began to twitch and heal.

Noah watched the scene calmly as he waved his hands to bring forth a Mana Potion and drink it, his eyes turning to the GOLD Commander known as the Red Berserker!

"You...Argh!"

Every time he tried to muster any words or strength, the scorching rays of light called down by the Conflagrant Pegasus would smash into him as there didn't seem to be a bone in his body that wasn't broken.

Noah came towards the remaining GOLD Blessed as the tens of Silver Blessed in the surroundings hid the scene within the crater, making sure that no beings would bear witness to the events occurring at this moment.

"Thank you for waiting."

Noah came in front of the Red Berserker with cold eyes as after refilling his mana reserves, he repeated exactly what he had done with Stephon!

This juncture was the first time that Noah began to feel his head pounding from immense pain as he took over the minds of 2 Blessed a Rank higher than him, feeling like his brain was splitting apart in the process as he persevered.

Less than a minute later, the body of another GOLD Blessed slumped to the ground as Resplendent Heals washed over his body!

"..."

Noah stared at this scene silently as at this moment, he had successfully managed to achieve his goal, and two of the most powerful combatants of the City lay before him...as beings he could freely command!

He rubbed his aching temples as a sense of profound accomplishment washed over him, but still keeping his vigilance until this night fully ended as he began to give out commands.

"Clear the scenes of battle and don't let anyone near. The excuse will be rebelling Blessed that will be taken care of!"

RUMBLE!

His shocking commands reached the minds of the many silver blessed as they began to move out in the dark of the night.

Within the crater, a few remained behind as Noah squatted down while looking at the two GOLD Blessed painfully healing on the ground.

"So, let's see your memories, shall we?"

…!

The shocking explosions and terrifying aura that appeared within City 8 disappeared just as quickly as they came.

The Bronze Blessed from the Dark and Wild Continents that had woken to see what was wrong were held back by the SILVER Superiors, nobody being able to grasp what exactly had happened in the block where the Golden Phoenix Auction House was!

The walls of the City were reinforced as not a single being was let in or out, a tight lock down being put in place upon the city as the Silver Blessed moving about told those below them that some beings had tried to rebel, the whole City needing to be placed on lockdown until they were all caught.

This would be the truth that many beings would know and believe for some time!

But Noah had managed to achieve his goals as he was able to Subjugate 2 GOLD Blessed under him and keep all the information about it hidden from others, nobody being the wiser on who was truly standing atop this City at this moment.

It actually was not under the influence of any of the warring Continents...a new being rising up as he now held an entire city beneath his feet, controlling all the powerful Blessed within it!

What a wondrous feat to achieve in a matter of days!

Hours passed as the chaos receded and calmness descended, a lot of activity still occurring throughout the city as Squadrons of Silver Blessed moved while leading Bronze teams in the night.

In the block where the Golden Phoenix Auction House was, the area that was entirely blocked off from the gazes of any Blessed- Noah was sitting on a couch within the first floor of the empty Auction House as he stared at the kneeling figures of two Gold Blessed.

"The Dark King…"

He uttered out the name of the powerful being whose authority was used to take over the past Academy City and start the war, the memories he gained about this being and the secrets about the upper ranks of Blessed from the two Continents being extremely bountiful and shocking!

Using [Mind Connection], Noah was able to learn a great deal of information that he knew he would need days to simply isolate all of and plan accordingly.

It was information about the shocking Ruler that found out about the death of the Ethereal Emperor, the information of the being that created the armies that were coming to ravage the Light Continent at this moment...information from Commanders of this army that would prove extremely deadly for the days to come!

"Master, the other subjugated Cities are…"

Stephon talked freely as Noah listened, Annalise and Rose behind him taking notes as they learned exactly what was going on in the darkness of the Ethereal Realm.

After some time, Noah waved his hands and gave tasks for what the two Gold Rank experts needed to do for the next few hours, remaining with Annalise and Rose as he looked towards them with shining eyes!

Annalise was looking towards her brother with pride as Rose looked on with a sense of wonder.

"We have powerful enemies around us and the Imperial Capital in front of us, you two are ready for what is to come?"

Noah spoke calmly while gazing at the girls that adopted strong expressions while nodding! Rose was the first to speak up as the regality of a princess showed itself on her face. Her silver hair was not dyed anymore as it fell down her shoulders, many of the fears she had being wiped away with today's events!

"We have already started on the path, so we will continue. I know you have a lot of things on your plate with the dangerous Rifts only you can access...so I ask that you please let us be of use in managing this City."

Rose had a firm expression as she said this, Annalise nodding by her side as she spoke out as well.

"Don't put everything on your shoulders brother, let us help!"

The two girls saw how much time and effort Noah was putting in as they wanted to be of help! At this scene, Noah felt his heart warm up as he nodded while replying lightly.

"We'll need to oversee the status of the city, the transfer of Rift Resources that they were sending back to their continents...and lock down any knowledge of ourselves as we won't step onto the stage for now. I'll have to leave you guys with a lot of work!"

Noah was planning many things in his mind as he sorted out the clusters of information, knowing that rising in power in the shadows was a must for him at this moment as he couldn't just come out and start declaring that he had retaken Academy City.

This was because they were effectively in the middle of enemy territory, one of the more terrifying things he had found out being the fact that multiple battalions from the Dark and Wild Continent had already gone past the 10 Subjugated Cities of the Light Continent, their blades aimed deeper into the Light Continent as they wanted to expand!

"Even as we rise while surrounded by enemies...it does mean we cannot stop! The goal will now be to create a thorough base of information in this city as we find out all we can about the forces around us and the other subjugated Cities. We'll make our way towards them as we retake them from the enemies until we can finally point our swords to...the Dark and Wild Continents!"

RUMBLE!

Noah's eyes glowed brightly as for him, the battle of dominion had just begun!

Far away from the Academy City, within the Imperial Capital.

The being that had centralized his power after the passing of his father for so many years was situated upon a luminous and extravagant throne as he listened to the information of multiple Gold Blessed bowing respectfully towards him.

"Sire, we have affirmed that some of the forces of the Wild Continent are colluding with the Dark King, with many airships and battalions spotted moving past the outer perimeters of the Continent. The 10 fallen Cities...can now be considered part of the Dark Continent."

…!

A shocking reality was affirmed as the former Crown Prince nodded.

With a gaze filled with regality and majesty, he spoke out.

"Move out the prepared battalions. Show these fools that they cannot make another step into this Continent."

THRUM!

Energy fluctuations erupted with his words as the Golden Commanders in front of him nodded, the tides of war in full swing as after a few days, a bloody battle between the three Continents was about to erupt.

Neither of the powerful moving forces knew that in an insignificant City, yet another contender for the Dimensional Rifts and influence they were fighting for had risen!

Chapter 64

Outside of the walls of Academy City.

On the marble road that had one of the entrances into the walled city, there was a cluster of transport carriages that were being filled with Equipment and Cores being hauled out from the city.

"Brother Derek, I envy that you guys just get to oversee the operations of a city. We have to join the major battalions that are pushing further into the Light Continent soon!"

Under the light of the beautiful rays of the sun, a Silver Blessed from the Dark Continent spoke to a being he knew for years- A silver Blessed from Academy City that was in charge of transporting the Resources they collected from the Rifts of the City to be handed off to the forces of the Dark Continent!

The one known as Brother Derek was actually Number 87- just another being that was under Noah's mind domination.

Number 87 smiled towards the Blessed as he saw the resources were all placed into the carriages and they were ready to set off.

"Being within the City isn't as easy and fun as you would expect, much of it is just boring work!"

The Blessed from the Dark Continent rolled his eyes as he peered through the sliver of the open gate to see the inside of the city, shaking his head as he gave a command to the forces taking care of the transport.

"Let's set off! We have to pass by two other Cities before docking everything into the airship…"

The Resource Transport began to move out, the gates of Academy City slowly closing as Noah watched all this from a distance!

The task of taking over a city silently had been successful, where even the transport of Loot Resources had been taken care of without an issue or raising any red flags from their enemies.

To them, they were talking to and doing business with the same beings they knew over the years!

'Good. Then there is the situation of the city itself…"

Noah thought of this as he turned his head towards the center of the City where the aura of Golden Commander Stephon shot out majestically as soon as the Resource Transport left the gates of the City.

"Gather and heed a new Edict that has been passed down!"

RUMBLE!

The words of the Subjugated Golden Commander rang throughout the city as many beings were brought to attention, his figure gloriously floating in the skies of the City as the Silver Blessed lined up powerfully below him.

The people throughout the City raised their heads to the skies as resonant words rang out.

"The Dark King is truly wise, passing out the Edict that everyone within the Subjugated Cities must act like brothers in arms, working together for a brighter future!"

…!

"If this Edict is broken...it does not matter what Continent you call your home as you will be executed on the spot."

RUMBLE!

Alarm and confusion crossed the minds of the thousands of Bronze Blessed from the Dark and Wild Continent, while shock passed through the minds of the locals of Academy City!

This was because such a declaration effectively meant all the injustice and bullying they faced from the Blessed of the Dark and Wild Continents would come to a stop, and they didn't understand why the stance of the powerful Golden Commander in the skies would change so quickly.

"You all hear that?!" From another direction in the skies, the even more oppressive Red Berserker shone with a glint of gold as his eyes coldly looked down at the forces from the Wild Continent.

"I better see everyone within the City working together with no conflicts. Otherwise, we will soon be seeing Blessed being made examples of!"

…!

The words of a second GOLD Expert cemented the new Edict, as well as show how serious they were if it was broken.

The eyes of Golden Commander Stephon blazed with a hidden blue light as he finished.

"Go forth and raise your strength, the Silver Blessed below me will monitor everything closely!"

RUMBLE!

His figure disappeared from the skies as he left the masses of the city with a myriad of emotions, nobody within being the wiser about the change in power!

The city was still locked down as nobody could enter or leave, with information heavily restricted as life within seemed to settle to a new normal.

Annalise was discussing with Rose after they saw the scene of Golden Commander Stephon finish, their eyes turning towards Noah's figure that appeared in front of them seconds later.

The three of them still remained in the first Villa they took over as it continued to be the base of operations.

Seeing Noah's figure, the girls smiled as Rose was the first to speak.

"With the first Edict and Blessed constantly running on watch to oversee it, we're heading in the right direction!"

Rose had been the one to propose that they raise multiple Edicts to change the situation around the City, Noah agreeing to lay them out in phases as today's Edict was to ensure no more injustice or war crimes would play out within Academy City.

"We'll draft the new Edicts as we see how things go...but it seems like we can slowly grow our power even as the forces from the Wild and Dark Continents are still around us!"

Noah gave a smile at Rose's words as he sat down while letting out an exhausted sigh. A second later, a flash of gold bloomed in front of them as the two Golden Commanders that were just in the skies appeared.

Their eyes were locked onto Noah as they fell to their knees on a shocking scene that would scare anyone who saw it!

"Master, everything is proceeding with no issues."

The bowing experts didn't feel an ounce of shame as they looked reverently towards Noah, who only glanced at them as he spoke while looking at the list of Edicts that Rose and Annalise had devised, as well as the ones he had in mind himself.

"By tomorrow, be ready to demolish the current army ranks from the Dark and Wild Continent. Another Edict will be passed for the formation of a new army that all capable Blessed within the City can join. For those that join…"

THRUM!

Noah waved his hands as hundreds of Iron, Bronze, and Silver [Equipment] and [Skill Books] sprawled out in front of him!

"...Powerful skills and equipment wait for them."

…!

Even the girls had their eyes sharply open at Noah's domineering wave of a hand to cause treasures more than 10 times what the City gave for today's Resource Collection to appear in front of them. The two Subjugated GOLD Blessed only looked towards Noah more reverently as they nodded.

The innumerable amount of Loot that Noah had just brought out were of course just a portion among the shocking amount that he gained in the past two days of collecting the Loot Resources from the Rifts that were still running in Idle Mode!

The boxed Rifts were glimmering gold when he entered the Idle Gaming System Interface to claim them a few hours ago, giving him Loot that would make others drool. But to him, it still wasn't enough as his main focus at this moment was the Idle Exp.

He stared at the abysmal 8,245/100,000 Idle Exp as he wanted this number to increase even faster, knowing that the rate his strength grew would only become more and more explosive as he unlocked more of the System!

The last unlocks gave him the wondrous Tower of Champions and then the Shattered Planes Rifts, and he was eager to know what else the System had in store. For this...he would use his time wisely as he navigated how to move in the middle of enemy territory while gradually expanding his influence.

He came out of his thoughts as he spoke towards Annalise and Rose.

"Tonight, we'll take the GOLD Blessed and dive into all the Rifts within the City again to achieve an event faster clear time. Coordinate with those in charge of the Rift Encampments to have them cleared out when we head over…"

Noah's words resounded out as the two girls and kneeling Blessed nodded, plans being made for an even faster clear time of Rifts that would increase the rate he gained loot and reduce the days before the next System upgrade!

"Also, we need to collect the information on how many Rifts there are in the nearby subjugated Cities...this will guide on which city we expand our influence to next…"

A myriad of plans were made and carried out as Noah moved efficiently, the lesson of how many things could change in a short period of time still very clear in his mind!

After the planning and discussion session with Rose and Annalise ended with the two girls moving to take care of many things within the City with the GOLD Blessed and tens of Silver ready to follow their orders, Noah himself disappeared from the Villa as he reappeared in the Waiting Room where he could access the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Rift Planes.

RUMBLE!

It was time to ascend the Tower and break his own shackles at the Silver Rank!

Chapter 65

Noah glanced at the floors of the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Planes Elemental Rifts as a myriad of thoughts crossed through his mind.

The most important one and the one that he had been focusing on the most was...how different he was compared to everyone else in this Ethereal Realm!

Of course, this difference came in terms of how rapidly one could advance through the Realms of Power.

There was Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, and Platinum for the Ranks...as he had already torn through the first three as he could now enter GOLD within the next few hours as long as he climbed a few floors of the Tower and faced the GOLD Rift Boss of the 50th floor!

For the rewards of the Floor, he could already see that among them were [+5 GOLD Rank Cores] and even another [INHERENT Skill Book], similar to how he got such a book on the 25th Floor.

He didn't know how many more floors he would have to clear before he achieved the DIAMOND Rank and then PLATINUM, but he knew that if he spent a majority of his time in the Tower of Champions, he could achieve this in a matter of weeks!

This was how different he was to the natives of the Ethereal Realm with his Idle Gaming System!

They had to fight over the resources of Dimensional Rifts, where a bloody war had broken out just because a Ruler of one region wanted to get his hands on the access of a Diamond Rift that held loot which helped the past Ethereal Emperor cross over into the next Rank and become the strongest being.

With his access to the Tower and Shattered Elemental Rifts...he had the chance to obtain an endless supply of loot as long as he continued to climb higher!

After a few tens of floors of the Tower, he would encounter DIAMOND Ranked Dimensional Beasts. Above the 100th floor, or even before that, who was to say he wouldn't come across creatures at the Platinum Level?

That was how ridiculous his Idle Gaming System was, where his rate of growth could actually be exponential!

He wouldn't have a blockage or slow down as he rose in strength, and it might even allow for him to rise through the ranks faster!

The only thing he had to pay attention to for his strength...was his Units.

They had been the forefront reason for his rapid rise in strength, where he considered the [Upgrade Crystals] Loot one of the most important resources aside from Cores.

With the Upgrade Crystals to fuse two units of one Rank into another...such a ridiculous feature was the main reason he was rising so fast in strength. It is what gave him the Silver Units that gave him the power to Subjugate the Silver Blessed of Academy City, and also what allowed him to very quickly get the GOLD Unit that allowed him to decimate the fighting strength of two GOLD Blessed!

When his thoughts reached this juncture, his eyes shone with brilliant light as he knew...he could have this whole Realm in the palm of his hands in just a matter of weeks or months! As long as he continued his rate of progression…

RUMBLE

He waved his hands to call forth the Conflagrant Pegasus and his other units as his cold voice rang out.

"When I achieve GOLD, what's to stop me from going to every Subjugated City and putting their Golden Commanders under me?"

OOOM!

"When I reach DIAMOND, the Rank that the top experts within this Realm have...what's what's stop me from taking a Party of DIAMOND Rift Bosses and decimating the so called Dark King and his forces?!"

RUMBLE!

His voice reverberated across the Waiting Room as his eyes shone with eyes that seemed to want to devour everything.

The light died down as he began to make steady steps towards the Tower.

His heart became calm as he knew the moment he achieved the power he was calculating he would achieve...he would flip the whole board that the Blessed of the Ethereal Realm were playing on!

As Noah realized his terrifying potential and entered the Tower of Champions, a clash occurred between the forces of the three warring Continents!

In a region known as Wandering Plains that was filled with long stretches of Valleys surrounded by mountains, the normally clear skies were cloudy as the verdant greenery was trampled by the boots of tens of thousands of Blessed.

The alliance of forces from the Dark and Wild Continents made their way deeper into the Light Continent, coming face to face with battalions that blazed with fighting spirit as they came in contact at the center of the Wandering Plains.

OOOOH!

Bellows and shouts rang out from both sides as thousands of Bronze Blessed clashed on this expansive battlefield, led by hundreds of Silver Blessed at the forefront as the Golden Commanders took to the skies to face each other.

What proceeded to happen after this clash at the Wandering Plans was immense bloodshed that hadn't been seen in the Ethereal Realm for years!

The truth of the Light Continent having many more Rifts of greater variety was displayed as the Battalions from the Imperial Capital were adorned with powerful Equipment.

Their bodies brimmed with power as terrifying skills flew to decimate their enemies, the Battalions from the other two Continents only being able to keep them at bay because of their combined forces!

Golden Commanders led the forces on both sides as at this moment, neither side utilized their DIAMOND experts that could overpower entire Battalions by themselves. It wasn't time for such a thing yet!

But this caused for there to be no victor, the battle only becoming prolonged as the forces of the Wild and Dark Continent were not able to advance forward, while the Battalions of the Light Continent could not push them back.

A stalemate had occurred!

Chapter 66

Far from the Wandering Plains where a deadlock had occurred, deep in the heart of the Dark Continent.

In a glorious castle that was fit to win a competition for how menacing and majestic a castle could be, a shocking meeting was occurring in the Halls where only the King and his trusted aides could step into.

As we are in the Dark Continent, the Ruler was naturally the being that termed himself the Dark King, the expression of this being cloudy as he spoke while looking into a mirror that showed the scenes of the battle at the Wandering Plains!

"This deadlock might continue for a few days, but if we sacrifice more Blessed...we should be able to break through and take over the Cities that have GOLD Rifts within them."

RUMBLE!

Shocking words left the Dark King's mouth as beside him, a shining red Communication Medallion reverberated with a voice from thousands of miles away.

"You may be ok with sacrificing so many of your subjects...but not I!"

The voice was gruff and Wild, coming from the being that had risen in power until the Warlords of the Wild Continent came together under his banner- it was the Ruler of the Wild Continent.

"Then how should we proceed, Alexander?"

The Dark King's eyes had no emotions as he spoke, seeking a reply from his ally that waited an entire minute before his voice came out from the medallion.

"If the situation doesn't change in 3 days...I will send forth a DIAMOND Warlord to take control of the situation."

…!

A sharp light crossed the Dark King's eyes when he heard these words from the medallion, a devilish smile appearing on his face as his voice only came out blandly in a reply.

"We shall wait and see then!"

RUMBLE!

Two Rulers continued to gather information and watching how things were playing out in the Wandering Plains as in an entirely different spatial area, a being they had no knowledge about but would come in contact with soon enough- this being was going through the floors of the Tower of Champions with purpose!

WAA!

The DPS of the Gold Rank Conflagrant Pegasus was so dominating that the beasts they came across in the frozen landscapes of the past levels were decimated with ease.

As every Dimensional Beast had been at the Silver level on the past floors, they finished up to the 49th with ease as they were currently staring down at the boss they had to defeat on the 50th floor!

Similar to the 25th, this floor seemed to be a major jump in power and significance as their enemy was a single Rift Boss- but one that was in the GOLD Rank.

It was the first GOLD creature Noah came across in the Tower, this creature being a genuine Ice Drake!

ROAAAR!

It released a wondrous bellow of power as it clashed with the Conflagrant Pegasus in a show of power.

Noah was standing on top of the shoulders of the Flesh Giant, his hands drawn on the Silver Light Bow where he shot out arrows towards the eyes of the Ice Drake.

The major combatant was the Conflagrant Pegasus, gorgeous Scorching Light Rays raining down and slowly piercing the thick skin of the Ice Drake as a Rift Boss of lower Element could not so easily defeat one of a higher element…

This also reinforced in Noah's mind the need to continue the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rifts as soon as he finished the 50th floor of the Tower and obtained the rewards he wanted.

This was because only a day remained for the Light Plane Dimensional Rifts before they were changed into another element!

ROAAR!

The roars of the Ice Drake in front of him gradually got weaker as it was facing a much higher tier Beast than it while being grouped on by multiple Silver Rift Bosses.

In no time... its enormous body slammed onto the frozen ice caps as the bodies of Noah and his Units appeared in the Waiting Room, Noah's eyes glimmering brightly as he saw the rewards listed in front of him.

[Rewards for clearing the 50th Floor] :: [+10,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+1000 Random Bronze Equipment], [+100,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+1000 SILVER Rank Cores], [+100 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+50,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+200 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+100 Health Potions], [+100 Mana Potions], [+100 Defense Potions], [+100 Attack Potions], [+1 INHERENT Skill Book], [+1 Random GOLD Equipment], [+5 GOLD Rank Cores], [+25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards]

"..."

It was the glorious display of loot only meant for the greatest Champions!

There were truly too many things to go through, where Noah isolated the most important things to be the SILVER Upgrade Crystals that contributed to him obtaining another GOLD Blessed soon, the +25 GOLD Unit Shards that he needed another 75 of for another Gold Unit, the INHERENT Skill Book...and the GOLD Cores.

From these, he entered his Inventory as he took out the Gold Cores!

Ever since he had dominated the minds of the 2 GOLD Blessed, his mind felt a constant pressure as he wasn't able to add any more Subjugated Blessed to his ranks.

He needed to personally upgrade his own strength to solve this, so he sat down and began absorbing the GOLD Cores as the first thing!

The Cores looked like luminous gold crystals whose light sank into his palm until they turned dim, Noah going through 3 of them before his body began to tremble with power.

BZZZT!

Golden sparks began to erupt on his body as his figure shockingly floated and sank back into the ground!

When he absorbed the 4th core, a glimmer of wondrous gold light swam around his body as he fully lifted off the ground, his hand already grasping onto the 5th core as with it, he felt like he broke heavy shackles that bound him and flew to the skies!

WAA!

A wondrous golden aura raged around his body like a storm, his blue eyes opening as his dark hair whipped around gloriously.

GOLD was achieved!

Chapter 67

THRUM!

Gold colored energies ravaged the surroundings as Noah remained elevated in the skies, sensing his upgraded strength as his clenched fist released a burst of power.

A realm that others only dreamed of as those who held it were called Commanders of entire Battalions...he actually obtained it in just a matter of days since he began as an IRON Blessed!

Such a profound sense of achievement made him think of many things as his body came down to ground of the Waiting Room once more, the gold sheen disappearing from his body as he breathed out.

His mind felt extremely free after the upgrade as he didn't feel the strain he had since Subjugating Stephon and the Red Berserker, his eyes turning to his stat panel as he looked at the displayed ||Mind Dominator|| Inherent Skill that should have even gotten an upgrade with his strength entering the GOLD Rank!

||Mind Dominator|| :: A weak mind cannot advance far in the future. This is an inherent skill that strengthens the mind of the user while granting them abilities that can dominate others. The abilities [Subjugate], [Mind Connection], and [Remote Control] are currently unlocked. Locked abilities that will become usable as the User rises through ranks- [Dominator's Consciousness],? [Evolve|Devolve]...

From the 2 abilities he could use, a third one termed [Remote Control] was added!

The description of the Inherent Skill was even expanded as the future possible unlocks Noah could come across when he stepped into the Diamond and Platinum Ranks showed themselves.

He couldn't find any information on these, so he focused on [Remote Control]!

[Remote Control] :: The Mind Dominator can remotely control his subjects, being capable of controlling their bodies and utilizing all their senses from any distance. The last level of control is death, where the Mind Dominator can choose to have his subjects Self Destruct in a blast of glory.

"..."

A wondrous extra ability for Mind Dominator, and one that had cruel implications if Noah ever chose to fully utilize it!

But the mere feature of being able to remotely control the bodies of his Subjugated Blessed and being able to see and do everything through them gave him plenty of ideas...

It also made him look forward to the second Inherent Skill he just got his hands on, his eyes turning towards the next most important reward of the 50th floor.

Throughout a being's life, they would only ever hold a single Inherent Skill- the one they were born with. Yet Noah was about to get his second one as a stupendous reward of the Tower of Champions!

He pulled out the glimmering Skill Book from his Inventory as it shone with a luminous light that went on to dig deep into his mind and etch itself onto his very soul.

RUMBLE!

When the light died down, an abundant amount of information bloomed in Noah's mind as his second Inherent Skill showed itself!

||Telekinetic Emperor|| :: An inherent skill that grants its user the capability to manipulate matter with their mind. Constant and continued use of the abilities of this Inherent Skill will only work to increase the mental strength of the Telekinetic Emperor. The abilities [Matter Manipulation], [Mental Field], and [Telekinetic Energy Emission] are currently unlocked. Locked abilities that will become usable as the User rises through ranks- [Field Master],? [Ruler's Emenation]...

A stupendous Inherent Skill with its own gorgeous strengths displayed itself, Noah's eyes constricting as he found his second Inherent Skill to also focus on the mind!

His blue eyes gazed at the Tower of Champions and then to his Idle Gaming System Interface, many questions swarming his mind as he wondered about the mystery of this System, and why the rewards of the 2 Inherent Skills from the first 50 floors of the Tower would all be mind related abilities.

Even though he gave it thought, no answer came to him as he chose to throw it in the back of his mind for now, focusing on the new abilities given by the ||Telekinetic Emperor|| Inherent Skill!

[Matter Manipulation] :: The user is capable of using their mental energy to freely influence outside matter, with the limitations of the ability dependent on the mental strength and imagination of the user.

[Mental Field] :: The user can create a field of mental energy around their body to protect from both Physical and Elemental damage.

[Telekinetic Energy Emission] :: The disastrous energy of the Telekinetic Emperor can be released outward to Attack.

A ridiculous set of abilities were displayed in front of him as he wasted no time trying them, his blue eyes glimmering brightly as they released tendrils of blue light outwardly, these tendrils forming into arcs in front of his body that he could manipulate!

This was [Telekinetic Energy Emission]!

RUMBLE!

He condensed the blue tendrils together as his eyes flashed, the dense energy going on to smash onto the floor of the Waiting Room as an explosive sound reverberated out.

...it was a shocking ability that definitely had to be tested on Silver and Gold Dimensional Beasts for Noah to find out the extent of the damage it could cause!

Next up, he closed his eyes while utilizing [Mental Field]- a wondrous scene playing out as a transparent blue circular field surrounded him on all sides, humming gently as it released a protective light.

[Matter Manipulation] was even more straightforward as a second later, his body that was majestically covered by a mental field rose to the skies...and he was not utilizing his energy at the GOLD Realm to do so!

He was merely utilizing his ability to manipulate matter as his body took to the skies even faster than when he plainly used the energy of his current Rank to do so, changing directions freely as he felt a sense of freedom he couldn't even describe.

This was the result of the second Inherent Skill, bringing him a set of abilities he definitely needed to explore some more, but greatly increasing his battle power nonetheless.

WAA!

The Mental Field around him dissipated as his feet touched the ground, his shining blue eyes going towards the side of the waiting room where the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift still lay waiting for him.

He had successfully cleared the 50th floor of the Tower and obtained rewards to bring him to the GOLD Rank...and now it was time for him to farm more Light Units in this rare and timed Rift that would be gone in around a day!

He didn't know what High Tier Element the next one would be, but he would climb the Tower as much as he could for the hours to come as aside from an Offensive Light Unit, he wanted to see if he could obtain a Defensive and a Support One to make him even more monstrous…

As he obtained more Upgrade Crystals from the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift and obtained the Shards of Light Units...he would gradually replace his current ones as the 100,000 required Silver Upgrade Crystals for another GOLD Unit were not too far away!

RUMBLE!

He took his steps towards the Shattered Rift as his Units followed, his eyes flashing as he utilized [Remote Control] for the first time to test something out.

In the Villa that wasn't too magnificent to draw the attention of prying eyes, Annalise and Rose were looking at fields of papers as they organized a ton of information they were receiving within the City and outside of it.

"The other 9 Subjugated Cities all have 2 or 3 GOLD Blessed overseeing and protecting them...would brother still be able to take them down silently, or will he have to repeat taking over the minds of so many Blessed first?" Annalise spoke lightly as she had a thoughtful expression on her face.

Beside her, Rose adopted a wide smile as she replied, "If the purpose is to just take down the Golden Commanders, I think we can do it in many other ways…"

Her eyes held a devilish light as she looked at the stacks of paper while she continued .

"As long as we contain the scale of the battle, and we can even choose the outcome of it with Noah's ability. Similar to here, they just have to fight an unknown foe and come out 'victorious', even if they're under your brother's control!"

…!

The girls were talking back and forth as they oversaw the operation of the Blessed moving throughout the city and the ones collecting information outside of it!

"If only we knew my brother's limits on his mind control ability…" Annalise spoke out with a tired sigh.

She had been doing her best to try and lighten the burden on her brother, a being that had grown to become much too capable compared to just a few days ago!

She remembered when she pushed him to enter his first Iron Rift with her as he moved unwillingly, and thought of him now as he truly changed from top to bottom.

As Annalise thought about this, she still didn't know that it was this action of pulling Noah and clearing his first Rift for him that allowed him to awaken his Idle Gaming System!

'Hmm?'

Her tired eyes quickly darted towards the door of the room as while she was lost in thought, she saw the figure of Stephon walking through the door.

"Even I don't know the limits of the ability myself until I test it, little sister."

…!

A shockingly familiar yet unfamiliar tone of voice came out from the blank face of Golden Commander Stephon, the two girls being shocked as Annalise voiced out in shock.

"Brother…?"

"Yeah, I'm able to project my consciousness and remotely control those I've Subjugated after stepping into the GOLD Rank. How's everything been going?"

Noah's tone could clearly be heard from Stephon as it carried a hint of mischief, the girls looking towards him in shock!

He was delving into the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift as he sought for more Light Units and loot, and he was also controlling a Subjugated Blessed to talk to the two girls in an entirely different location.

As for the reason the girls received even more shock? It was his word that he had advanced to the GOLD Rank and enhanced his Inherent Skill!

They looked at each other with wry smiles as they shook their heads and continued the discussion.

The shocking topic about Subjugated Cities and how to extend their influence as the armies of the Wild and Dark Continents moved around them continued, a shocking sentence coming out from the Golden Commander's mouth that was being Remote Controlled by Noah.

"So the nearest City and the first that we'll be going to is Plalo City, or as they aptly renamed it- City 9…"

The blank eyes of Stephon shone with a light blue glimmer as his Master continued to decimate the Silver Light Beasts of the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift while already setting his sight on another City...and the Dimensional Rifts and GOLD Blessed he could add to his collection when he took it down!

Chapter 68

The next 24 hours were extremely busy as Noah worked with utter efficiency to clear the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rifts while dividing his attention for the future plans.

Of the tens of Subjugated Silver Blessed, many were sent outside of the city to act as eyes and ears. Of the lands that could now be considered part of the Dark Continent, the former Academy City was located tens of miles inland!

There were 9 other Subjugated Cities located tens of miles away from each other, with the forces of the Dark and Wild Continent officially considering them their own as they had already set up the system of resource collection and allocation to increase the might of their forces.

Noah's Silver Blessed were tasked with leaving the city and watching which areas the forces of the two continents were moving across, as well as the status of other nearby cities and which commanders dwelled within them!

This allowed them to have a clear idea of what was happening around them, while also learning of the bloody battle taking place in the Wandering Plains far from Academy City from the Golden Commander Stephon who continued to get regular updates because of his role.

The knowledge of the bloody wars only made Noah delve into the rare Rift with more vigor as he tore through their floors, intent on collecting as much loot as possible before he moved out.

He was already standing on the 20th at this moment as the Light Element beasts he faced increased in variety and power, and the loot he gained was just as wondrous as he got himself enough Light Unit Shards to summon 5 more units of this rare element!

It was actually another 2 Silver Light Guardians- the same one that came from him fusing the 2 Light Elementals.

As the Light Guardian was extremely deadly with his Invisibility skill and had boisterous defensive abilities, Noah already knew which Unit was getting fused next.

All he needed was a thousand more Silver Upgrade Crystals...which he would be receiving as soon as the 20th Floor GOLD Rift Boss of the Light Plane Rift was defeated!

ROAAAR!

A heart shaking roar was released from the much more powerful Rift Boss of the Light Element, the one they fought being a Sun Golem.

Terrifying defensive abilities backed out with its heavy attacks forced Noah to run around it in circles as his Conflagrant Pegasus wore down its defenses with his other units backing him up.

As for Noah himself, he was routinely utilizing the abilities of a ||Telekinetic Emperor|| as he found he could even restrict the movements of the Rift Boss for 2 seconds before its overwhelming force broke through his mental energy!

But this 2 second help he could provide every now and then caused the battle to go much smoother, the powerful Light Rift Boss of the Floor being taken down after another hour.

"Sheesh…"

Noah let out a tired sigh as a few hours had passed since he returned to climbing the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rifts, this 20th Floor with a GOLD Rift Boss giving him the last Upgrade Crystals he needed for another Gold Unit, along with his first +25 GOLD Unit Shards along with +100 Silver Shards for another Light Unit!

As he was teleported into the waiting room and the [1 Hour and 23 Minutes Remaining] in front of the Light Plane Dimensional Rift, he knew he would not be able to utilize the 25 GOLD Unit Shards for a while as when the timer finished and another High Tier Element Rift replaced the current one, he didn't know when he would come across it again.

But from it, he obtained a total of 6 Silver Light Units, and over 11 Bronze ones that he could fuse!

After the fusion of the Bronze ones, it meant he had obtained a total of 11 Silver Light Units that he could fuse to make his team become a full set of GOLD Light Units in the future…

Such a terrifying thought made his blood boil as he focused on the ones he could currently make!

His tired eyes summoned the two Light Guardians as the Silver Upgrade Crystals were pumped into them, a wondrous congregation of lights playing out as usual, followed by a prompt that Noah agreed to and finally...the fusion of a new GOLD Unit.

RUMBLE!

With a burst of light, Noah's sharp eyes found themselves staring at...a glorious set of armor and golden battle axes moving by themselves!

[Animated Light Equipment Guardian] :: A rare animated moving armor and weapon creature whose only purpose is to follow the orders of its master. It's abilities include [Invisibility], [Golden Shield], [Light of Dawn], and [Equipment Mode].

A gorgeous new GOLD Unit appeared in front of him, this one having a 4 meter tall Golden armor and battle axes as its body, golden energy moving through the gaps as it connected everything together!

The wondrous Invisibility skill was retained as [Golden Light] was a defensive skill that released an enormous illusory golden shield to block enemy attacks.

Meanwhile, Light of Dawn was actually an AOE Healing ability that healed everyone in a certain area!

But the most stupendous ability from this new Light Unit was the last one.

[Equipment Mode] :: The Animated Light Equipment Guardian is granted the highest honor of fusing with its Master, becoming a glorious set of Armor and Weapons adorned on its Master as all of its strength is given. +150% Increased Attack and Defense in this state.

…!

A skill that allowed the Animated Light Equipment Guardian to actually become a set of armor and weapons on his body...where he could reinforce himself with the strength of a Rift Boss thereafter!

"Good!"

He couldn't help but shout out at such an unexpected and powerful skill, a smile coming upon his face as he glanced at the remaining Silver Light Unit Shards and already summoned Silver Light Units that came out to 9, excited to see what the 4 GOLD Units coming out from them would be whenever he got his hands on enough Upgrade Crystals.

RUMBLE!

He glanced at the Shattered Light Plane Dimensional Rift one last time as he gave the command to leave the waiting room, heading back into Academy City as there were a great deal of things for him to do!

First was the reduction of the clear times of the Dimensional Rifts...and then he would set off to the nearby City 9 to carry out the plans he had been discussing with Annalise and Rose in the past few hours!

"Berserker, Stephon!"

He sent commands to the 2 GOLD Units as they were ready to go, a party of them, Noah, and the two girls moving silently in the night towards the Encampments of the Rifts that were already isolated for them alone.

Those hoping to dive into the rifts this time during the night would all be turned back as they were exclusively reserved for the beings that were the true power behind Academy City!

The girls wanted to let off some steam and continue training themselves while also watching just how much stronger Noah had grown, their eyes only becoming filled with shock when they saw his new GOLD Unit and him displaying the terrifying abilities of ||Telekinetic Emperor||.

In the Iron Rifts, Noah's [Telekinetic Energy Emission] released tendrils of blue light that smashed onto the heads of the iron creatures and caused them to burst into brain matter with ease!

Along with the 2 GOLD Units and 2 GOLD Blessed, they tore through the Iron Rifts as the average clear time for all 3 Rifts...came down to 5 Minutes.

5 Minutes!

The same shocking reality played itself as they delved into the 3 Bronze Rifts, the ridiculous power that Noah and his Units displayed on top of the Blessed with them allowing the average clear time for these Rifts to be reduced down to 8 minutes!

Much of this time was spent wading through the Rifts as any Dimensional Beasts they came across were decimated in a single shot.

It was a shocking scene to experience as just a few days ago, these same Rifts had taken Noah an hour or 30 minutes to clear, but now he was going through them as if they were nothing!

What a shocking rate of progression! What a wondrous Idle Gaming System that made it all possible!

RUMBLE!

The boss of the Silver Rift fell as this last Rift was cleared in 11 minutes, the clear times of the Rifts within Academy City being brought down by a shocking amount as the Idle Exp and Idle Resources Noah could receive was about to explode.

The true overpowered nature of the Idle Gaming System...would soon start to display itself as the reality of hundreds of thousands of Cores, items, and skill books that would pile up to millions soon enough began!

Chapter 69

After he finished his mission of heavily reducing the clear time of the Rifts within Academy City, Noah turned his sight beyond the walls of the city, across the plains where other Cities that were now under the influence of the Dark and Wild Continents lay.

He was currently sitting on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers in Academy City, looking at this fantastical metropolis below him that was going in an entirely different direction because of his actions.

He thought of the parents he had when he transmigrated into this new Realm, and thought of his sister who was the last of his family, as well as the princess everyone thought to be dead!

With his recent actions and what he had planned, he was setting all of them onto a path they had to keep going down in, a path filled with blood where Noah sought complete security and freedom at the end of it.

He didn't want for his life or for the lives of those he cared about to be even capable of being threatened by others, and he never wanted to feel the powerlessness of leaving his fate onto the hands of a stronger being!

This was the reason why continued to get stronger, wanting to make himself the highest authority so that nobody could stand above him and look down upon him like a bug ever again!

Many thoughts crossed his mind as his blue eyes were extremely mesmerizing to look at in the night, his heavy thoughts unconsciously releasing his mental energy as the tendrils of blue light that were the Telekinetic Energy Emissions lit up his figure on top of the skyscraper.

"A city under my control now, and next up is multiple cities…"

He uttered these words softly as he thought of the plans that he and the girls talked about as they moved around the last few hours. For everything he wanted to do, he needed power. At this moment...he had more than enough power for the task ahead so he steeled his resolve as from the edge of the skyscraper, his body jumped off towards the dark city below him!

THRUM!

A flash of gold color covered him while he fell, his body beginning to levitate in the air, closing his eyes as he enjoyed this wondrous feeling of being in the skies.

Then this gold color faded away under his command, his body free-falling again as it came to a stop a second later, levitating once more! But this time, it was due to him controlling his body with the [Matter Manipulation] of the Telekinetic Emperor.

There was only a hit of blue energy covering his body as a smile unconsciously floated on his face while enjoying the wondrous skills he could only access in this new world.

"So be it!"

With firm words being released from him, his figure silently flew across the skies of the city, going towards its walls as he very soon passed over them...and left the City for the first time since his arrival in the Ethereal Realm!

Not too long after, a flash of light took to the skies as it went towards the same direction as him, this being the Golden Commander Stephon that Noah would be taking him on the mission for tonight.

Deep within the City, in a certain villa.

Rose and Annalise watched Stephon's figure flying out as the other Golden Commander of the City was beside them, the body of the Red Berserker talking in a calm tone.

"Our plans are sound. You girls just wait for the good news and prepare to handle managing even more Cities. If everything goes according to plan, it will soon enough be a continent…"

…!

Shocking words were released from the GOLD Blessed through Noah who spoke with Remote Control, the girls adopting extremely serious expressions as they nodded.

Outside the walls of Academy City, Noah enjoyed the feeling of crossing the skies as the windy air was extremely comfortable. Stephon's figure was flying right beside him silently as this subjugated being would occasionally give a reverential look towards his master that was flying without using his gold energy!

After a few minutes, Noah opened his eyes from the enjoyment of flying himself as he waved his hands to call forth a Unit.

WAA!

A golden flash of light later, and the glorious Conflagrant Pegasus appeared as he and Stephon comfortably boarded it.

"Towards City 9 we go."

Noah's words rang out as they were soon drowned out by the shocking speed of the Rift Boss that had begun to shoot across the skies like a bullet train, their direction being towards a subjugated City that had 2 Gold Blessed looking over similar to Academy City!

It was only a bit over 12 miles away, so Noah was able to arrive there in no time while on the back on the wondrous Gold Rift Boss.

They arrived while traveling in the skies as a City appeared below them soon enough, Noah being able to see the twinkling lights that represented a busy nightlife.

City 9 was known to be Plalo City in the past, a huge City where more experienced Blessed flocked to due to its abundance of Bronze Rifts!

Within the City, there were actually 8 Bronze Rifts and only 2 Iron and a single silver one. It was famous due to its overabundance of Bronze Rifts with different varieties, many resources being able to be obtained here.

Many thoughts crossed Noah's mind as he gave a command to the Golden Commander beside him.

"You're up."

RUMBLE!

Stephon followed the command immediately as his body shone bright gold, going towards the city like a twinkling star as he would be able to be seen by anyone there!

Within City 9, there were 2 GOLD Blessed overseeing it, these powerful experts living grandly at the center of the bustling city that held most of the riches and Rifts. On this particular night, both of the golden commanders felt a powerful aura of a Gold Blessed appear in the skies, leaving whatever they were doing behind as they shot forth from the Villas they were staying in.

"Who?!"

The Golden Commander from the Dark Continent had a serious expression as he shouted out while getting ready for battle, knowing the appearance of a GOLD expert this time of the night was a bad sign!

Yet before his body could explode with powerful offensive skills, he saw the ashen expression of a Blessed he knew being the one gloriously showing his aura in the skies!

"Stephon?!"

The Blessed from the Dark Continent looked forward in shock as Stephon came towards him and the other Gold expert from the wild continent, his expression serious as he was talking before he even arrived.

"Brother Rickat! An emergency has occurred in the city I'm looking over, and I had to fly to the nearest place I could find help. Please, come in haste!"

After saying these words with an earnest and panicked expression, Stephon shot back into the skies towards the direction of Academy City as the Blessed called Rickat could only look forward exasperatedly.

Couldn't he give more information before flying out?!

"Commander Oden, please help me oversee things here, I'll go see what's up." Rickat spoke towards the Gold Blessed from the Wild Continent who looked at this scene with confusion, his body already following the trail of Stephon as two gold lights left the city.

The Commander from the Wild Continent only watched this scene carefully before he returned into the city!

In the dark skies, Rickat's body flew out at high speeds as he chased after Stephon, his voice constantly ringing out to call this being. Yet Stephon had a look of haste as he continued to rush out, the figures of these two beings flying an entire mile away from City 9.

It was only then that Stephon stopped in the skies, Rickat sighing out of anger as just when he was about to ask this fellow commander what was wrong, he saw that his face had gone utterly blank without a smidge of emotion present!

A bad feeling crept up in his heart, but he wouldn't get to entertain such a feeling as in the next instant, a terrifying force of gold smashed into him like a speeding train, the impact so horrendous that his figure fell from the skies and smashed onto the cold earth below!

BOOM!

Rickat wheezed out as blood sprayed from his lips, his eyes barely able to catch the glimpse of a terrifying Conflagrant Pegasus before scorching rays of light thundered down unto him.

It only took 2 minutes before the flashes of Gold light died down, the ground below scorched and filled with signs of fighting!

Yet at this moment, the figure of Stephon could be seen standing next to Rickat, both of their eyes carrying a hint of blue as they looked towards a single man on the back of GOLD Light Unit.

Noah's eyes released a wondrous light as after quietly isolating and subjugating another GOLD Blessed, his eyes remained impassive as they looked back to the city that only had one remaining!

"Let's finish this."

RUMBLE!

With a shocking momentum, the force of multiple Gold Blessed and a Gold Rift Boss descended unto City 9 silently, Noah beginning his goal of spreading out his influence across the surrounding areas silently as in a matter of days...he wanted to have all the GOLD Blessed in the surrounding Cities below him while he dove into the Rifts within the Cities to obtain the maximum rewards of the Idle Gaming System!

Chapter 70

The remaining Gold Blessed in City 9 did not even have a chance with the force that came, the one known as Commander Oden simply rising to the skies to find Rickat returning alone.

As this Blessed tried to figure out what was going on, a wave of intense mental energy from Noah's Inherent Skill rushed towards him, Noah using a lot of his strength to hold the body of this powerful Blessed in place in the skies for just a few seconds!

If he was facing the being alone, such a move would have used a majority of his mental strength and left him vulnerable if the enemy wasn't taken down, but since he had multiple Gold Blessed with him- even a single second where the enemy could not move could spell death!

The moment the body of Commander Oden was brought to a halt, he found to his shock and dismay the body of Rickat flashing with a powerful offensive skill to smash into him, Stephon's body also appearing from behind to land another attack as an instant later, the deadly force akin to a speeding train that was the Conflagrant Pegasus came up from below to knock the figure of the Gold Blessed into the skies like a rag doll.

Drops of blood were all that fell to the quiet grounds of the city after that as for anyone watching, they would have only seen bright flashes of light in the skies for a few seconds before everything came to a stop!

What occurred after was a subjugation after the body of Commander Oden became tattered and ragged, the two GOLD Blessed of City 9 silently being placed under Noah's banner.

That easy!

WAA!

In the skies, the wings of the Conflagrant Pegasus flapped majestically as Noah had his eyes closed, reading the memories of the two new Blessed as he expanded his knowledge of the forces of the two Continents and got a better grasp of the City below him.

What caused his eyes to burn with the light of ambition was that from the memories of Commander Oden, he actually found that this being from the Wild Continent had been in constant contact with a Golden Commander currently commanding a battalion in the Wandering Plains where the forces of the three Continents were clashing- this Golden Commander talking with Oden about the fact that in under 2 days, the war situation would change as a being capable of changing the entire battlefield would be sent over!

This was a shocking piece of information that meant the Wild Continent would actually send out a Diamond Ranked Expert first to cause a big splash in the war. Noah played close attention when it came to any experts at this level, every time he read the memories of the New Blessed looking for any information about them.

He roughly knew the numbers of those that publicly showed themselves in the Wild and Dark Continents from the memories of the 4 GOLD Blessed he had taken over so far, but he needed more information!

The piece of news about the deployment of a Diamond Expert was shocking enough though, as he knew the war was about to become even more tumultuous.

In the middle of this turmoil...he could obtain the most benefits if he moved rapidly!

While the three Continents were focused on their war and even planning to increase its dangers up a notch, Noah could fully take control of the Gold Blessed situated to look over all the subjugated Cities as when the battle in the Wandering Plains became even more chaotic- he could have a force of Blessed under him that was as strong as one of the armies battling in the Wandering Plains right now.

With each subjugated City having around 2 Gold Blessed overseeing it, with some cities having three- it meant Noah could have more than 20 Gold Experts under him! This was the number of Commanders deployed to lead the battalions at the warfront of the Wandering Plains at this moment! Noah's options after controlling such a force...would be heavily expanded.

Many thoughts swirled in his mind as he shifted his plans somewhat, accelerating how quickly he would go from city to city to subjugate the Gold Blessed there.

He stared down at the twinkling lights of City 9 as he eyes the Dimensional Rifts below, giving a shocking command to Commander Oden that would cause the turmoil of the war to only increase.

"Head towards the Wandering Plains in haste. Silently leak the news to the Commanders of the Light Continent that a Diamond expert will soon enter the field of battle!"

Noah's eyes shone brilliantly when he gave this command, plotting many things in his mind as sank into the City below to clear the Dimensional Rifts.

This was his main goal of going City to City, the Rifts within being tremendous boons to give him Idle Exp and numerous other resources to increase his power!

An example was the increase in Silver Rank Rifts- the more of these that he had, the faster he could gain the Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals, which meant the faster he could fuse new gold units!

It also gave way to the reality where he could obtain thousands of Silver Cores that he could utilize to raise a terrifying army. Of course, the results would only be expounded when he moved on to Gold Rifts and the only Diamond Rift within the Ethereal Realm.

Such thoughts always remained in the back of his mind as within City 9, he used Rickat's authority to blatantly enter the Rifts within as he and Stephon just didn't show their power, the Blessed who were overseeing the encampment simply looking forward in confusion as Noah knew they couldn't do anything at this moment, especially with the major forces of the continent focused on the battle at the Wandering Plains!

From the 2 Iron to the 8 Bronze and the 1 Silver Rift, he went from one to another as while he carried the terrifying force of 2 GOLD Light Units and 2 Gold Blessed along with his own terrific power, the rate of clearing the dungeons was just monstrous as his average clear time was around the same as the rifts within Academy City.

All in all, it took him just an hour and a half to clear all the rifts once, having an average of 5 minutes on the Iron? Rifts, 9 minutes for the bronze, and the single Silver Rift he blazed through in under 14 minutes!

This meant he added another 11 Rifts in Idle Mode, his bright eyes watching the timer ticking on these rifts as they landed on the ones that shone with a golden splendor- it was the Rifts from Academy City.

3 Iron, 3 Bronze, and one Silver.

These rifts had nearly been running on this timer for a day, their boxes shining intensely with a golden light as Noah couldn't help but click on them to see the fruits of his labor!

With the clear times of 5, 8, and 11 minutes respectively for Iron, Bronze, and Silver...the rewards were shocking to say the least.

IRON [+4320 Idle Exp][+13,00 Iron Rank Cores][+300 Blazing Armor]...[+445 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard]...[+27,000 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

BRONZE [+5,400 Idle Exp][+9847 Bronze Rank Cores]...[+395 Bronze Rank Frost Wolf Shards]...[+25,134 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

SILVER [+2,640 Idle Exp][+3,145 Silver Rank Cores]...[+295 Silver Rank Molten Beast Shards]...[+8,445 Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

"..."

A shocking set of details exploded in his mind after he clicked on the rifts, seeing his shocking rewards after moving around with vigor the past days as he was greeted with an unbelievable amount of loot.

Enough Iron Rank Unit Shards and Unit Cores to fuse over 10 Bronze Units, and enough of the same loot in Bronze for him to fuse over 10 Silver Units!

A shocking detail to recall was that since many of the Unit Shards were the same Dimensional creature from the loot of Rifts, Noah could fuse element specific Units all the way to Silver and Gold!

He could continue fusing multiple of the same Minotaurs all the way to Silver and Gold, or multiple units of the Ice Element or Fire Element.

It left many possibilities for the future where if he experimented and spent his time correctly, he could call forth an entire team of a specific Element if he wished!

Then there was also the matter of the most precious loot for him at this moment- the Idle Exp. Just from a single day, he had gained over 10,000 Exp! This was the old amount of exp he needed to upgrade the System, and he got it in just a day at this moment as it was one tenth what he needed to get to the 100,000 he required before the next upgrade.

All that from just a single day!

THUMP!

Noah could feel his heart beating clearly as he thought of all the wondrous possibilities.

The shocking results of reducing the clear time of the Rifts as shown above...it could effectively be multiplied in two after he added the rifts of City 9 that he just conquered- or maybe even by 3 as he added 11 Rifts from this city compared to the 7 in Academy City.

This was why he wanted to very quickly descend onto other cities and clear their Rifts as well!

Just with the addition of another City, he would be getting 20,000+ exp after 24 hours.

If he added the remaining 8 Cities and all the Rifts they held? That number would stupidly and easily spill over 100,000+ Idle Exp in just a day, with his being able to obtain a similar number when it came to Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals as it meant he could ridiculously fuse a Gold Unit every single day!

The numbers of Iron and Bronze Units he could fuse would become uncountable.

The number of cores would pile up to treasure mountains!

All these possibilities...they made Noah's eyes turn hungry with greed as in just minutes after he took control of the 2 Gold Blessed of City 9, his Conflagrant Pegasus rose to the skies as it began to fly towards City 10!

His blue eyes blazed with arcs of light as his mind just couldn't stop after he thought of all the possibilities!

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With his goals very clearly right in front of his eyes, Noah did not waste any time as he thundered towards the next nearest city.

He had long since collected information on where all the surrounding subjugated Cities were, all that was left being how long it would take him to get there!

With the flying type Conflagrant Pegasus that had the skies as its home, the trip to another City took just 20 minutes.

WAA!

He stayed in the skies as he looked over City 10, this City and the rest of the subjugated cities having had their own names in the past before they were given mere numbers from 1-10. To Noah, the exquisite buildings and layout of these fantasy cities seemed the same as all he cared about at this moment was taking care of the 2 GOLD Blessed within as well as the Rifts!

Using schemes to lure them out and isolate them similar to what he had done to the past City 9, the residents and Blessed of the City only saw a few gold flashes of light as they were drowned out in just under a minute.

When the Silver Blessed reached out to their commanders to ask what was going on, they received a reply from an already subjugated being that told them everything was fine! Noah only took over the Gold Blessed at this moment as he didn't want to add to many beings under his command without knowing what his limit would be, making sure to have enough strength for the many Golden Commanders stretched throughout.

These were the main power houses of the Ethereal Realm besides the DIAMOND experts that were the peak of power, the only being to have ever reached PLATINUM being the long perished Ethereal Emperor! If he controlled many Gold Blessed...his goals could easily be achieved.

"Let's go!"

After the subjugation of this City's Gold Blessed, Noah dove into their Rifts in the dark of the night!

City 10 had 5 Iron Rifts, four Bronze, and one silver as Noah kept his fast clearing rate with the aid of his Units and Subjugated Blessed. When midnight passed, only a bit over an hour had gone by as Noah finished up on the Silver Rift with a 12 minute clear time.

This meant that whatever Idle Rewards he had were multiplied yet again as at this moment, he would get over 30,000+ Idle EXP in 24 hours from the Rifts of his 3 Subjugated Cities!

After that...everything was like clock work as Noah simply had to go from city to city to silently subjugate the Golden Commanders overseeing them while clearing their Rifts and adding them to his collection.

He would leave a single Gold Blessed in the cities he had taken over as he brought the rest with him, where after he crossed the skies with the Conflagrant Pegasus and finished taking over the 4th City, he had 2 more GOLD Blessed aside from Stephon following him!

It was such a shocking force and reality that whether Noah knew it himself or not...he was about to break the very structure of power of the Ethereal Realm with his shocking actions of dominating the experts that made the biggest chunk of power within these lands.

With even more GOLD Blessed accompanying him to the later Cities...the process of subjugation would only become easier as the clear time of some Rifts fell under 5 minutes!

The ridiculousness of Noah's actions were in full swing as only time would tell what shocking results they would bring forth.

A few hours passed.

In the Wandering Plains where a terrifying battle was taking place, a terrified Blessed was brought to the Commander's Tent where powerful auras of multiple Gold Blessed lay within, all of their eyes turning towards the Silver Blessed as the centermost Golden Commander voiced out chillingly.

"You say a gold expert from the Wild Continent had you in his grip and let you go to deliver a message?"

RUMBLE!

The centermost Golden Commander was a renowned Blessed in the Light Continent called Commander Windsor. He was known for his experience and ability to lead, the Crown Prince putting him in the lead to oversee the battle as he had been able to coordinate and work with other commanders to make sure the battalions of the Light Continent did not lose!

Windsor had been discussing with the 2 other Commanders when he received the news that just 30 minutes back, one of their powerful Soldiers who had been keeping watch in the night faced a masked Golden Blessed in the periphery of the plains where the fighting was taking place, this masked being holding the soldier down and passing a shocking message to him that he said to tell to his commanders.

The masked Gold Blessed then disappeared as with a newly granted lease in life...the Silver Soldier very quickly moved back while telling his direct Superior the shocking information he was given! Now, he stood in the tent where multiple Commanders stared him down as he repeated what he was told with an apprehensive face.

"Yes, he said that within the next few days...the Wild Continent would release a DIAMOND Ranked expert to end the war in the Wandering Plains and push further in to the Light Continent!"

RUMBLE!

It was like lightning struck onto the hearts of those that heard this information, Commander Windsor's eyes constricting as he voiced out calmly.

"Can you recall anything about the man's voice? His tone, dialect…?"

He asked multiple questions as the Silver Blessed revealed all he could remember, Commander Windsor's face becoming exceedingly serious as he turned towards a Communication Medallion at the center of the exquisite table within the tent that held a huge map of the Wandering Plains and where all the forces were moving.

His hand grasped the Communication Medallion as his energy sank into it, his voice ringing out with seriousness!

"Sire, we have a situation…"

…!

Through Noah's hands, Commander Odo from City 9 had traveled non stop through the skies and land when his energy ran dry, traveling for over 4 hours until he crossed tens of miles to reach the Wandering Plains where the forces of three continents were stationed! In the lull of the night, he had taken a Silver Blessed as he released shocking information that would have immense consequences.

Deep in the heart of the Imperial Capital, the Crown Prince put down the Communication Medallion that delivered shocking news from Commander Windsor, his eyes turning into cold slits as his silver hair that was a shade dimmer than Rose's fell to his shoulders!

He waved his hand as another medallion appeared in his hands, this one delivering a message to another being- a being of shocking personage that resided within the Imperial Capital!

"Uncle, I'll have to take some of your time."

…!

A few seconds passed before a reply rang out from the medallion the Crown Prince held.

"What happened? We are preparing for the next dive into this terrible Rift…"

A voice filled with majesty and authority spoke to the Crown Prince, a voice of a being at the DIAMOND Rank!

Through Noah's actions, a set of events had played out as soon enough, it would cause the first clash of the peak experts within the Ethereal Realm!

As the consequences of his actions began to spread, the man in question was standing gloriously on top of his Conflagrant Pegasus in the skies as he watched the golden rays of sunlight watch away the darkness of the night.

He had been moving for the entire past night across multiple cities until dawn was now breaking, his figure on top of the Pegasus not being alone as 6 Golden Blessed shockingly floated behind him!

These were just the Blessed he brought with him from the Cities he had already controlled the Gold Blessed of, and it shockingly included the cities that were given the numbers of 7,6, and 5 after their subjugation.

That's right. After Noah left City 10 with Stephon and one of the Gold Blessed within that City, he had managed to cross the tens of miles in the skies while utilizing the strength of the pegasus to repeat what he had been doing as the Golden Commanders from 3 more subjugated Cities fell into his grasp!

After they fell, he of course cleared the Rifts within their Cities with them, adding over 30+ Dimensional Rifts collectively in the past few hours from 3 cities as the total number of rifts running on Idle mode at the moment were 63.

63!

The subjugated cities renamed 5-10 were taken over as Noah ridiculously had all the rifts within these cities cleared, the only task remaining for him being to grasp four more cities until he could just sit and wait for time to pass while he became immensely stronger!

But with dawn breaking, he brought his relentless advance to a halt as he didn't plan to attack the Blessed and clear the rifts in broad daylight, choosing to use the day to get back into the Tower of Champions to go past the 50th floor, as well as check which Shattered Plane Dimensional Rift had opened after the timer of the Shattered Light Plane ended!

Chapter 72

WAA!

From the skies above mountainous plains, the cry of a Conflagrant Pegasus could be heard as it descended to the ground.

The mountain it descended on was filled with verdant greenery, the light of dawn making them shine brightly as Noah looked at this beautiful scene before he turned towards the 6 Gold Blessed he had brought with him.

"Wait within this mountain until I return, we'll resume the mission at night."

His command rang out as the powerful experts nodded reverentially, not even being able to disobey a command from their Master!

Noah had them wait here and not return to their cities as there was still a Gold Blessed in each City overseeing things, with the focus of the forces of the three continents being on the Wandering Plains. Until this battle ended, Noah knew there would be no surprises when it came to the subjugated cities.

As for even the possibility of being able to bring other beings aside from himself and the Units he obtained from the System into structures like the Tower of Champions? It was null as always, the description staying true that it was only for the Master of the Idle Gaming System.

THRUM!

Waves of spatial energy rang out as after having given the command, Noah's body disappeared along with the enormous Conflagrant Pegasus, the two of them appearing within the Waiting Room where the brilliantly shining Tower of Champions as the Shattered Planes Dimensional Rifts lay waiting!

Noah's eyes instantly turned towards the Shattered Planes Dimensional Rifts as he wanted to see which High Tier Unit was available now, seeing the clear and purple name reading AETHER at the front of the Shattered Planes Rift at this moment.

The structure had lost the brilliant gold color that represented the light element, pulsing a wondrous purple at this moment as Noah nodded his head towards it with shining eyes.

The plan for today was to descend onto the newly available high tier element rift only after he had ascended the floors of the Tower of Champions. He was much further ahead in here as this was also the location that gave him the most Upgrade Crystals, and after the 50th floor, it would begin to give him Gold Cores!

If he obtained a large number of such Cores, the ridiculous reality of him producing multiple Gold Blessed could be realized.

In the coming days, if he pumped the Silver Blessed he had subjugated to the peak of Silver rank and then had multiple Gold Cores in hand, what prevented him from raising tens of Blessed that others still considered rare experts at this moment? Depending on how far he climbed the Tower and its rewards...he wouldn't be surprised if he could elevate the ranks of tens of Silver Blessed to make a terrifying army of Gold minions!

With such thoughts in his mind, he dove towards the 51st floor of the Tower of Champions!

The environment had finally changed from the frozen plains and ice caps, this time finding himself standing in a barren plain that looked like a road. As for where this road led? It was towards a huge fortress that Noah could see a shining white name above it.

[Elven Fortress] :: Clear all the creatures within the Elven Fortress to pass through the 51st floor.

On the 51st floor, he shockingly had to fight beings he had not even heard about- Elves!

His powerful eyes could see that on the Fortress Walls, figures of multiple Silver Blessed walked around protectively, and he could sense the aura of a Gold Blessed at the center of this fortress as well.

If he could sense the aura of a being in the same realm as him…

RUMBLE!

An alarm seemingly rang from the Elven Fortress as the Silver Elves stationed on the walls became ready for battle while staring out towards the barren plains Noah was in. The Gold Elf at the center of the Elven Fortress had sensed his appearance as it seemed the enemies he would face after the 50th floor were not just powerful creatures, but ones with high intellect!

His eyes shone as he recalled what he knew about elves from the fantasy stories of his old world. The image of beautiful beings with bows and arrows was wiped away as he saw mana pulsing brightly on the walls, the ferocious face of murderous Elves that had pointed ears and looked exactly the same as humans being seen as they released powerful long range elemental attacks.

"Well alright then!"

RUMBLE!

Noah smiled brightly as the rest of his Units were called forth, 5 more units aside from the Conflagrant Pegasus making their appearance. The Equipment Guardian was the only other GOLD Unit as the rest were in silver, but this would change soon enough as Noah climbed the tower and waited for the rewards of the Idle Gaming System in a day.

CAA!

The Pegasus voiced out powerfully as it took to the skies with Noah on top of it, the Equipment Guardian pulsing with light as it looked like a formidable paladin protecting the Silver Units as it went head on towards the huge steel doors of the Elven Fortress!

BOOM!

From the skies, scorching rays of light began to thunder down as Noah appeared directly above the center of the Fortress to engage the Gold Elf Rift Boss right away. A brilliant luster of gold shined out as a reply, a figure flying to the skies while shrieking towards them, enormous balls of fire that causes searing waves to travel in the air forming around the creature before they rushed towards them.

WAA!

Noah's eyes flashed as they released blue tendrils of light, the energy of the Telekinetic Emperor erupting out as the directory of the horribly scorching fire balls was changed away from them, a glorious battle erupting in the skies as below, the Equipment Guardian had cast [Light of Dawn] as a wondrous golden light erupted from it, this light increasing the power all of Noah's units could release while healing them from any injuries they received!

Facing the Silver Elves on the Fortress Walls...the Guardian moved unhindered as the main entrance was broken through and a massacre began.

With the Conflagrant Pegasus and Noah above while the Equipment Guardian led the other Units below, the Rift took Noah just half an hour to clear out after the terrifying GOLD Rift Boss fell from a protracted battle.

Unlike the Blessed he faced outside, genuine Rift Bosses were much harder to kill as Noah moved carefully against them! But the floor was cleared in half an hour as Noah and his forces were teleported out, the rewards of the floor displayed in front of him!

[Rewards for clearing the 51st Floor] :: [+5,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+500 Random Bronze Equipment], [+50,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+250 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+500 SILVER Rank Cores], [+25 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+20,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+50 Health Potions], [+50 Mana Potions], [+50 Defense Potions], [+50 Attack Potions], [+5 SILVER Rank Skill Books], [+1 Random GOLD Equipment], [+5 GOLD Rank Cores], [+25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards].

The words were in a box that shone with gold light, his blue eyes reading over them thoroughly as he saw the most important details.

The biggest was of course the 25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards that made him now have 50 from the original 25 he obtained on the 50th floor, meaning if he cleared the 52nd and 53rd floor...another GOLD Rank Rift Boss would fall under his lap!

There were also the 5 Gold Rank Cores that meant the birth of another Gold Expert, his first priority being to strengthen Annalise and Rose as he saw how powerful these girls could be with the Inherent Skills they had along with him feeding them a bunch of Skill books.

The potions were welcomed as always, especially the Mana Potions that he chugged nearly in every battle until the taste could be recalled by his taste buds the moment he pulled one out! The Attack and Defense potions were ones he utilized to boost his strength even more when he faced the powerful Rift Bosses like the one he just faced.

After analyzing all the rewards of the floor and seeing what was waiting for him, he returned into the tower once more as he went into the 52nd floor!

[2 Elven Fortresses] :: Clear all the creatures within the two Fortresses to pass through the 52nd floor.

The difficulty rapidly ramped up as Noah was teleported to an area that held 2 Elven Fortress, the battles bound to be more hectic as his units vibrated with power while they went forward relentlessly!

In his hands, he was already chugging potions to be in his strongest form, his figure looking extremely valiantly as he sat on top of the Pegasus that tore through the skies towards a fortress filled with murderous Elves!

Chapter 73

His work being increased, the 52nd floor of the Tower of Champions took Noah double the time as he only finished taking down the two Elven Rift Bosses after an hour.

The rewards were identical to the ones he obtained on the 51st floor as he gained another 20,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals and 25 GOLD Unit Shards that meant he was only 25 away from having 100 and summoning a random Gold Unit for the first time!

?

Not through fusion, but through the loot of the Tower as the Unit would be randomized! Noah recalled how even though it had the word 'random', the shards almost always gave Units that related to the Dimensional Beasts of the floors he was clearing. So he wouldn't be surprised if the random gold unit just happened to be an Elven Rift Boss.

"Let's go!"

His vigorous shout rang out as he took the units to delve into the 53rd floor, this time yet another Elven fortress being added as he shockingly faced 3 Gold Ranked Rift Bosses!

The difficulty of the upper floors of the tower was truly elevating rapidly as Noah had to move to quickly assault the first fortress and take down an Elven Rift Boss before the other two combined their forces and came over.

With the Conflagrant Pegasus and Equipment Guardian on the lead, they just barely managed to take down the first Rift Boss before reinforcements from the other 2 Fortress came, a dangerous clash ensuing as without the Potions Noah and his units were chugging, it would have been a truly dangerous battle!

OOOH!

When a single Elven Rift Boss was left on the floor, the Equipment Guardian released a wondrous bellow as with Noah's command, the skill [Equipment Mode] was cast as this GOLD Rift Boss turned into golden lights that descended around Noah.

RUMBLE!

Golden mana gloriously waved about as a gold suit of armor appeared on Noah, his hands holding exquisite battle axes that pulsed with an intense and dangerous light as his figure thundered down on the Rift Boss that was casting multiple scorching balls of flames.

BOOM!

The skills were dispelled as Noah attacked ferociously, the Conflagrant Pegasus coming to aid him on the side as they dominated the battle and took down the Elven Rift Boss soon after.

"Haa…"

Noah enjoyed the brimming feeling of strength with [Equipment Mode] active, his body feeling like it held unending strength! It was short lived as with its high mana consumption, the armament and battle axes faded from his body as the Equipment Guardian returned to his normal form, a spatial light covering everyone as they were teleported out of the tower.

[Rewards for clearing the 53rd Floor] :: [+5,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+500 Random Bronze Equipment], [+50,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+250 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+500 SILVER Rank Cores], [+25 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+20,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+50 Health Potions], [+50 Mana Potions], [+50 Defense Potions], [+50 Attack Potions], [+5 SILVER Rank Skill Books], [+1 Random GOLD Equipment], [+5 GOLD Rank Cores], [+25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards].

The last Gold Unit shards were obtained along with another 20,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals, Noah seeing that he had 83,024 out of the 100 thousand he required before yet another Gold Unit could be born!

It meant that today...the number of gold units he held would double as 2 more were coming right up! His shining eyes focused on the 100/100 Random Gold Rank Unit Shards as he gave the command.

"Summon!"

RUMBLE!

The shards disappeared from his Inventory as mana bloomed in front of him, his eyes taking everything in as when the light died down, an enormous figure bloomed in front of his eyes.

HISSS!

A sharp hissing sound erupted out as a serpentine head rose to meet Noah's, its eyes shining with a light of submission as its body towered at 10 meters- that was 5 times the size of a normal human being!

Intense coldness radiated from this creature as frost could be seen from its body, Noah looking over to it in surprise as it truly was random this time around, getting his hands on a creature he had not yet come across!

[Frost Basilisk] :: A creature that enjoys the coldest wastelands as its home, with its body being capable of causing an entire region to change depending on its mood. It's abilities include [Frozen Breath], [Ice Age], [Ice Armor], and [Icy Meteor]

A wondrous new Unit joined his side as Noah read over its details, focusing on its skills as this new unit would prove to be a terrifying one.

Frozen Breath was a powerful area of attack ability that the Basilisk could use to heavily damage and freeze its enemies, while Ice Age powerfully caused an entire specified region to freeze and bloom a frozen glacier!

Ice Armor was its defensive ability that covered its body in a powerful armor, and Ice Meteor was just another powerful offensive ability in its arsenal that called forth a destructive frozen Meteor to form in the skies before thundering down towards its enemy.

A powerful new Unit indeed!

With the addition of this terrifying new GOLD Unit of the Ice element, Noah wasted no time as he dove into the 54th floor of the Tower of Champions.

Within this floor, 4 Eleven Fortress that contained 4 GOLD Rift Bosses met him, where he knew that if he had not added another powerful Rift Boss, this might have been the last floor he would reach before he had to give up and be kicked out of the tower.

Facing 4 Rift Bosses that was equivalent to facing the power of 40 Gold Rank Blessed, Noah and his units chugged potions after potions as the battle only concluded after 2 hours!

But with its finish, identical loot similar to the past floors greeted him as he gained the remaining Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals to fuse another GOLD Unit.

SHAA!

The figures of Noah and his Units were teleported out as Noah clicked his tongue at the increasing difficulty of the Tower, the next level being one that would most likely be three times as harder if not more as it would be the 5th floor since he cleared 50.

His eyes honed in on the Silver Upgrade Crystals as he would only be confident to continue up the tower after he gained another Gold Unit, and even then he was worried! He waved his hands to bring up the Inventory that cleverly organized his potions, cores, skill books, and Units into small separate boxes, his eyes focusing over on the 'Units' boxes that shone with a silver light to indicate Silver Rank Units.

He honed in on the ones that had a golden line that signified their element, choosing two Offensive Light Units for his choice of fusion as his choice was actually...the very same Light Pegasus and the Fiery Light Falcon that produced his first GOLD Unit!

THRUUM!

100,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals disappearing and a gorgeous golden flash of light later, another robust and magnificent figure of a second Conflagrant Pegasus appeared.

Identical to his first Unit!

The already summoned Conflagrant Pegasus turned towards the one that looked exactly like it, Noah smiling brilliantly as he chose to obtain a powerful offensive unit he already had confidence in. If something was broken, why try to change it? If one Conflagrant Pegasus had led him to the victories he had obtained until now, why not two?!

RUMBLE!

Gloriously, Noah stared at the figures of two Conflagrant Pegasi, an Equipment Guardian, and a Frost Basilisk as he had actually managed to stack 4 GOLD Units under him in a short period of time.

He just had 2 more spots he needed to replace with additional GOLD Units before he could have a full stacked team of 6 Gold Rift Bosses!

"Good!"

He couldn't help but commend the power of the Units and his own conviction, his gaze turning towards the building opposite the Tower of Champions as he stared at the pulsing purple light that represented Shattered Aether Plane Dimensional Rifts.

He knew the next floor of the Tower would be exceedingly hard after he barely finished the 54th floor, so he thought back to the Shattered Light Planes Rifts that had relatively weaker enemies that still began at silver, but when he cleared up to the 20th floor...its rewards had stacked up enough to have given him 100,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals!

Between the exceedingly hard 55th floor of the Tower of Champions that Noah could see among its rewards having 50,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals or the Shattered Aether Rifts that he could easily clear and obtain enough Silver Upgrade Crystals to fuse another Unit...the choice was already made as after nearly half a day of diving in the tower, Noah made his way towards the Shattered Aether Planes Dimensional Rifts with 4 GOLD Rift Bosses in tow!

Chapter 74

Inside the Shattered Aether Planes Rifts, Noah faced unique creatures that released an oppressive air even denser than the light element Dimensional Beasts, dense purple mana wrapping around their bodies as they released terribly powerful attacks.

These creatures seemed heavily on the offensive side, Noah coming across Aether Serpents, Wolves, Falcons, and a variety of other Beasts that were tinged with the High Element of Aether! Past the 15th Floor, he even began coming across Aether Drakes that even at their Silver Rank, the attacks they released could rival those of a GOLD Blessed!

?

OOOH!

But with a team of 4 Rift Bosses, Noah was relentless as he tore through the floors. His two Conflagrant Pegasi were roaring victoriously at this moment as he defeated the multiple Silver Aether Rift Bosses of the 24th Floor where he faced three Aether Serpents and six Aether Drakes.

The difficulty was no joke as without his beefed up party, Noah would not have gotten too far! But he pierced through this Elemental Plane Dimensional Rift faster than even the first one as for the last portion of the day, nearly all of it was used to get to the 24th floor. Noah knew that night was nearing as he would have to soon resume his take over of the remaining 4 Cities, his eyes glancing at the rewards so far as they were truly abundant!

From the 24 floors, he had gained over 150,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals as he crossed even more floors in the past 5 hours than all that he climbed during when the Light Element Plane was active, also getting his hands on a variety of Potions and Hundreds of Silver Rank Aether Unit Shards for him to summon over 15 Aether Element Units!

The immense power of the Aether Beasts made Noah evaluate on whether he should combine Light Element Silver Units for the last 2 spots of his team, or if he should combine the Aether Units to get two brand new stupidly offensive styled units of another High Tier Element.

'Well, why don't we have the next floor make the decision easy?'

Noah's eyes shone with light as he glanced towards the rewards of the 25th Floor of the Shattered Aether Planes Elemental Rifts. Their rewards included 25,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals along with 25 GOLD Rank Shards for a random Aether Unit, Noah choosing to enter and clear this floor as he would very likely face his first GOLD Rank Aether Rift Boss here!

He wanted to see just how powerful and oppressive it was compared to the Gold Rift Bosses he had come across as he...was not let down at all.

ROAAAR!

The 25th Floor of the Shattered Aether Planes Dimensional Rift contained a creature similar to the Aether Drake Noah had come across on the past floors, but it was much larger as its wings spanned out majestically, Noah getting an image of a fantastical creature from this Beast!

[Aether Half-Dragon] :: Defeat the GOLD Rank Half-Dragon to clear the 25th Floor of the Shattered Aether Planes Dimensional Rifts.

The identity of the resplendently purple shining creature was relayed at as it charged towards Noah and his Units without fear, the cries of two Conflagrant Pegasi reverberating out as colorful scorching spears of light went forward to stop its advance while the Equipment Guardian turned into a streak of light that merged with Noah!

WAA!

The newly gained Frost Basilisk spat out [Frozen Breath] as the surroundings became filled with ice, the figure of the Aether Half-Dragon brought to a halt as the Pegasi and Noah rushed towards it to release powerful attacks.

BOOM!

Yet...it was unhindered as its body shone with purple mana, an innumerable number of purple lightning beginning to dance around out as Noah's units were pushed back.

The Pegasi looked towards the Half-Dragon furiously as [Light of Dawn] was actualized from the both of them, a halo of protective light wrapping around them and Noah as they rushed back to engage the powerful enemy!

Noah got his first look at his first creature that had the name 'Dragon' within, fighting a blood pumping battle that only neared its end after 20 minutes, and this was when the energy reserves of the Aether Half-Dragon ran dry as its body was wrecked with injuries from 4 other GOLD Rift Bosses.

The light within the eyes of this Dragon was relentless as even in the face of death, its jaws opened brilliantly to release a ray of purple lighting that nearly tore off the wing of one of the Conflagrant Pegasi, the Frost Basilisk coming from behind to finish the job as [Ice Age] was cast, a glacier erupting out with the Aether Half-Dragon in the center as the terrifying beast was forever encased in ice!

THRUUM!

Noah stared breathlessly at the majestic creature that even in death by ice, its frozen figure was glaring at them with hatred as it still wanted to rip them all apart.

He only confirmed its death when he felt the light of teleportation wrap around him and his Units as they all appeared back in the waiting room!

Many thoughts crossed his mind as he thought about the fearsome power of the Aether Half-Dragon, his mind being made on exactly which units would be joining him as GOLD Rift Bosses after he witnessed the power of the one he just fought.

It seemed that even among High Tier Elements, some were stronger than others or had an edge over a certain area- and Noah saw the edge of the Aether Element beasts to be their terrifying Offensive abilities!

"Hooo…"

He let out a breath as he stretched his stiff limbs after moving the entire day, knowing that the day had passed with night soon nearing.

It meant that he would soon have to step out and leave the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Aether Planes Dimensional Rifts to go finish his mission of taking the minds of the remaining GOLD Blessed of Subjugated Cities as well as clear their Dimensional Rifts!

Before he did this, Noah focused on his Idle Gaming System Interface as he made some calculations.

Since dawn came and it was now dusk, over 11 something hours had passed since Noah fully had 63 Dimensional Rifts running on Idle Mode.

He normally liked collecting the rewards after 24 hours, but at this moment after he cleared the 25th floor of the Shattered Aether Planes Dimensional Rifts- he only lacked a little over 25,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals to have on hand the sweet number of 200,000 that would grant him 2 GOLD Units!

For this number, he was willing to break his rule as he opened the Idle Gaming System Interface and focused on the Silver Rifts that were shining brilliantly with a golden light.

The Silver Rift of just Academy City had given him 8,445 Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals in 24 hours with the heavily reduced clear time. What would the 5 other Silver Rifts he added in addition to the one from Academy City grant him in half the time?!

SILVER [+7,450 Idle Exp][+9,293 Silver Rank Cores]...[+155 Silver Rank Molten Beast Shards][+159 Silver Rank Blazing Iguana Shards]...[+26,927 Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

The answer was a wondrous amount of Idle Exp, Cores, and above the number of Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals that he needed to have enough materials to fuse 4 Silver Units into 2 Gold ones!

"Good!"

With bright eyes, he focused in the Inventory where the Silver outlines of Units with a purple luster could be seen, his thoughts going out as he selected two [Aether Drakes] to pump with the first portion of the 100,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals to fuse.

RUMBLE!

An explosion of dense purple mana later, and a powerful pressure was summoned in front of him as a creature easily over 15 meters Ross its serpentine eyes to stare towards him!

[Aether Half-Dragon] :: A mutated creature that stemmed from the Bloodline of Drakes. The regal blood of Dragons was too thin for its birth as it could only become a half dragon. But the mere fact it is half a dragon makes it a deadly enemy that one should never turn their backs on. It's abilities include [Lightning Burst], [Aether Cage], [Destructive Ray], and [Aether Rune Mark].

ROAAAR!

The half dragon announced its presence gloriously as the oppressive air it released was more intense than even the Conflagrant Pegasus, Noah's eyes shining intensely as he looked over its powerful skills!

Lightning Burst caused the Half Dragon to explode with Aether as it reached speeds multiple times faster than normal, with Aether Cage laying down tendrils of Aether lightning to lock down enemies on a certain area for a short period of time.

Destructive Ray was the terrible purple ray of Aether shot forth from its jaws that Noah had experienced in the past, while Aether Rune Mark was a unique ability as it actually granted a Rune Mark on those the Aether Half-Dragon considered its allies- those selected having all their attacks be reinforced with the element of Aether as their offensive abilities are increased by another level!

ROAAAR!

The majestic new Unit let itself be known once more as Noah smiled brightly towards it, his eyes looking towards another two Silver Shards that showed two [Aether Drakes].

One was already terrifying, but why not have two?!

Chapter 75

The air vibrated with intense power as in front of Noah, there was a line up of 2 Conflagrant Pegasi, a Light Equipment Guardian, a Frost Basilisk...and 2 Aether Half-Dragons!

He had gone ahead and fused another two Aether Drakes to produce another Aether Half-Dragon, the oppressive aura the creatures released being doubled as their bodies shone with a resplendent purple luster.

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Noah was looking at this scene with intense eyes as he felt a great sense of accomplishment- the reality of 6 GOLD Rift Bosses having actually been achieved by him!

One must not forget that the entire party of Units...was also made up entirely of High Tier Elements of Light and Aether.

It was Dimensional Rift Bosses that were a notch stronger than most, the terrifying might they could release still yet to be fully explored!

Noah enjoyed the sight of the powerful Beasts for a few more seconds before he waved his hands to send them back into his Inventory, leaving the Waiting Room and reappearing back into the mountain where he left behind 6 Gold Experts.

Darkness had already descended as the area around Noah was extremely quiet, without the sound of even a single animal in sight! This was of course due to the 6 Gold Blessed that stood in a circle while waiting for their Master.

Their eyes flashed with a glimmering blue light when they saw his return, rising up as their bodies pulsed with power!

Noah looked at the 6 figures as he still held the smile from completing a team of GOLD units, calling forth a Conflagrant Pegasus and an Aether Half-Dragon to appear behind him.

BOOM!

Their enormous bodies caused the mountains to shake as Noah's voice rang out!

"Let's head out!"

WAA!

The Subjugated Golden Commanders looked at this scene with fervor in their eyes as the six of them boarded the enormous Dragon, Noah getting on the back of the Conflagrant Pegasus as streaks of purple and gold took to the skies going towards City 4.

Over 200 miles from Noah's currently changing location, the bloody Wandering Plains were filled with a dreadful air as many Blessed were shown the terrifying scenes of the results of war.

The originally peaceful Plains were littered with the bodies of Blessed as since a few hours ago, the soldiers who would risk their lives to collect and bring back the bodies of their comrades had long given up- giving way to the shocking scene where Blessed still fought while thousands of dead bodies were around them!

In the dark of the night, the visibility was so low that some might even accidentally step on the bodies of their dead friends as they fought back against their enemies.

OOOH!

Shouts that stemmed from beings just trying to survive at this point continued to respond out, the biggest casualties being the masses of Blessed from the Bronze and Silver Ranked as the Golden Commanders only fell here and there.

BOOM!...SQUELCH!

Horrifying sounds continued to ring out as destructive Elemental skills flew all around, a Golden Commander from the Wild Continent overseeing a certain region of the Wandering Plains as his face was scrunched when he saw the casualties that continued to rise!

Many thoughts crossed his mind as the most persistent one was the thought of whether all of this was worth it.

For the Gold and Diamond Rift in the Imperial Capital? Were just these things enough to make it okay for so many beings who had family back home be sacrificed?

His face was cloudy as he sighed while observing the ongoing situation.

"When will Warlord Steel arrive…"

The voice was barely an audible whisper- something that even the Blessed who was sitting right next to him would not be able to hear. Yet...a resounding voice actually rang out in the mind of the Golden Commander as it caused his body to shake in excitement!

"You're this fearful, Johnny? Don't worry, I have arrived."

RUMBLE!

The voice was accompanied by a domineering aura appearing in the skies, this aura spreading in all directions as Commander Johnny and many others looked in the skies with excited smiles.

The battles below were brought to halt as many beings looked towards the dark skies to notice...a pristine White aura spreading out!

An aura so white and clear as it seemed like an erupting milky cloud, this aura bringing with it boisterous laughter as it thundered towards the Battalions of the Light Continent.

Many beings turned fearful at this scene as shouts began to resound across the battlefield, shouts that called the identity of the being tearing through the skies!

"DIAMOND…!"

"A Diamond Ranked Expert…!"

RUMBLE!

Hysterical shouts erupted out as the forces of the Light Continent saw the enemy send out a DIAMOND expert, this light of this terrifying being about to reach them as they scrambled to get out of the way!

Yet before a massacre could occur, a vibrant voice reverberated across the Wandering Plains as another aura that was even more oppressive erupted out.

"Warlord Steel, you are still just as vile even after all these years."

RUMBLE!

The voice came with an overpowering aura that stopped the advance of the DIAMOND Rank Expert from the side of the Wild Continent, the figure of a middle aged man dressed in white robes floating in the skies as his eyes shone with a sharp light!

"You…!"

Warlord Steel's face turned sour as the surprise attack from him that should have caused the downfall of many Golden Commanders from the Light Continent and win this battle was erased to nothing with the appearance of a certain Commander.

"Protector Chen!"

"The Impartial Protector!"

Shots of happiness erupted from the hearts of the Silver and Golden Commander from the Light Continent, calling the name of the powerful being appearing in the skies!

"You actually seem surprised that I could be here to stop your blatant bullying of those a rank lower than you? Pathetic what you have become after all these years, Steel!"

RUMBLE!

The face of Protector Chen shone with glorious light as his body erupted with power the skies being dyed white as two DIAMOND Blessed were about to clash for the first time since the war began.

From the side of the Dark and Wild Continent, it was a being that took the title of a [Warlord] to signify his terrifying power at DIAMOND, while from the Light Continent there was a [Protector] that shone with an illustrious light!

OOOOH!

In the skies above the Wandering Plains, a shocking battle erupted out as the being that had a hand in causing it...was silently finishing up the Dimensional Rifts of City 1.

In the past hours, he had successfully gone across the Gold Blessed of Cities 4-1,? successfully taking them down through a myriad of means! Whether through using the Subjugated Blessed of previous Cities that they were familiar with, or causing a small commotion of battles breaking out that ended in less than a minute...through any means necessary, Noah continued unhindered as he neared his objective silently!

This was how after more than half the night had passed, all the Cities that had been under the control of the forces of the Dark and Wild Continent...they were now under him as he controlled the strongest GOLD defenders residing in these cities.

SHAA!

His figure and the figure of multiple Blessed were teleported out of the Silver Rift of City 1 as around the encampment, there was not a soul in sight but another Gold Blessed whose eyes flashed with a blue light, the usual guards that watched over the encampment being sent away as Noah's figure was not seen by a single being!

With the Gold Blessed in tow, Noah looked like a king walking in front of his subjects as he turned around to stare at the silver rift portal behind him. This single rift held great significance, as it was the last Rift Noah had to clear in the 10 Subjugated Cities...this Rift bringing to a close the shocking reality of him having taken over the strongest subjugated of all these Cities as he now had all of their Rifts on Idle Mode.

From the 4 new Cities, Noah had added 39 new Dimensional Rifts in Idle Mode as with the past 63...it granted him a total of 102 Rifts in Idle Mode!

A shocking number! And one that promised wondrous possibilities. For these rifts, the average timer for Iron Rifts came to 5 minutes, the Bronze Rifts came to 6 minutes, and the Silver Rifts had a gorgeous average clear time of 11 minutes.

With such a thing being over and done with, Noah felt his heart being immensely at ease as all he had to do from this point was wait for a ridiculous amount of loot to come to him. With a heart brimming with achievement, Noah's smile only deepened when he received information from a certain Gold Blessed he had sent to deliver shocking news to the forces of the Light Continent.

Of course, it was the Golden Commander Oden that he stationed to watch the unfolding situation of the battle in the Wandering Plains, this being letting him know that the development of two DIAMOND experts appearing in the skies of the Wandering Plains!

Such a battle was extremely interesting to Noah as after he achieved his goal, he cast [Remote Control] to borrow the sight of Commander Oden. He wanted to understand the power of the most powerful enemies he would face in the Ethereal Realm...the beings standing powerfully in the Rank of DIAMOND!

Chapter 76

The situation at the Wandering Plains was extremely horrific as at this moment, the battle between two DIAMOND Level experts was shaking the very skies of the already bloody battlefield!

Multiple clashes of milky white could be seen every second in the skies as this scene was relayed to multiple forces.

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One was deep in the Dark Continent, where within a grand hall, a certain king was looking upon this scene with cold eyes as a gruff voice came from the communication medallion beside him!

"How is this possible?! Choosing to send a DIAMOND level expert was something they never could have guessed!"

The expression of the Dark King was sour as he listened to the angry voice of the Ruler of the Wild Continent.

"Either that fool is a lot more prepared than we believed, or this information was... leaked to their forces!"

RUMBLE!

A shocking assertion was laid out as silence prevailed in the grand hall.

"You think I would leak news of one of my strongest forces entering the stage?!"

RUMBLE

A conflict was nearly about to erupt as the Dark King shook his head and replied.

"No. Which is why it's so perplexing. You know me and what I want, I would never jeopardize something like this. So who…"

A question that could never be answered was laid out as the Rulers of two Continents looked at the scene with complex eyes, the battle between Diamond experts only heating up in the skies of the Wandering Plains!

In their eyes, even though this battle was unexpected and unplanned for, it carried immense significance as it would show the gulf of power between those in the Light Continent who had access to the DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift versus the experts from their continents that had stalled in their progress while honing their power after they lost their privilege to enter the highest Rift of the Ethereal Realm!

Thus, the scene of this battle was being observed with immense scrutiny!

This same scene was being watched by a certain Crown Prince that was surrounded by many figures in a hall who were also monitoring the situation.

His eyes were shining with a sharp light as the news that was shared with them had actually turned out to be true, his thoughts moving rapidly as he wondered if the being that should have been high up in the ranks of the enemy army to be able to have access to information such as this!

The perplexing question was...why would they share it?

'Is there a Commander within their ranks that is sympathetic to the Light Continent? Just what exactly…'

Many beings were searching for answers amidst the shocking development, but while there was perplexion in the eyes of the Crown Prince, there was also a light of confidence when he looked at the scene displayed in a huge mirror that depicted the shocking battle continuing above the Wandering Plains.

"Even I haven't been able to win against Uncle during spars...you think a DIAMOND Blessed that hasn't had access to the Rift within my city for the past tens of years will be able to stand against him?"

RUMBLE!

The Crown Prince looked at the scene playing out coldly as he believed with certainty that his Uncle, the one known as Protector Chen...would be able to defeat his enemy with out any issues!

This was because he was the Impartial Protector of the Light Continent, a being that was one of the leading figures that took teams to clear the Diamond Rank Dimensional Rift within the Imperial Capital!

BOOM!

The clash in the skies was becoming even more hectic as we get to the last being watching this scene from far away.

Noah was utilizing Remote Control as he borrowed the body of Commander Oden who was hidden silently among the ranks of soldiers from the Dark Continent, experiencing the shocking battle of beings a level above gold as their might...was terrifying!

It felt like bombs exploding every time that the two figures clashed, with skills that covered a wide range of distance erupting out every now and then.

Warlord steel shone with a red light as fire elements swirled around him, his white aura creating a beautiful scene in the dark sky as he was like a lantern that lit up the darkness!

"What Impartial Protector?! You're merely a tool that hogs the treasures of this Realm from everyone else!"

RUMBLE!

The body of Warlord Steel thrummed with power as he shot back like a streak of white light, glaring at Protector Chen with a hateful look as he raised his hands up and called forth powerfully.

[Devouring Flame Tornadoes].

WAA!

The skies brightened to a crimson color at these words, red lines descending from the skies around Protector Chen as they quickly bloomed into terrifying swirls of flames that caused the very air to turn blurry!

The swirling flames formed into terrifying crimson tornadoes that threatened to scorch the skies, entirely eclipsing the figure of Protector Chen as it seemed anyone would be burned into nothingness with the cast of this skill!

Yet...the face of the Impartial Protector was placid as while tornadoes of flames threatened to overwhelm him, he called out calmly.

[Wrath of the Lightning King].

TRHUM!

A single cast of a skill, and the crimson skies that threatened to scorch everything were brought to a halt. Above the Impartial Protector, large arcs of blue lightning began to descend down, each one being multiple meters wide as they thundered down with terrifying power to strike the forming hellish tornadoes.

They vibrated with power as more and more enormous pillars of lightning descended down, drowning the hellish tornadoes and even thundering towards Warlord Steel who held an ashen expression in the face of one of his strongest skills being broken!

"I have delved into the very Rift you and your ragtag group of traitors are aiming for...and I have grown much stronger compared to years ago!"

OOOM!

The power of Protector Chen continued to explode out as after the cast of a powerful skill that dispelled horrendous tornadoes of flames, his voice light rang out as his body glimmered with light.

"Do not even think you can step foot in the Imperial Capital to obtain such a thing. [Wrath of the Lightning King]!"

RUMBLE!

The shocking skill was cast twice as the rain of enormous arcs of lightning continued, the sky turning blue and brightening up the dark night. Noah was able to see this spectacular skill first hand as he observed a DIAMOND expert overwhelm another with a skill that even caused the skies to change color and quake.

This was the power of a being above gold...the power of the strongest Rank that beings within the Ethereal Realm currently achieved when putting aside the past fallen Ethereal Emperor!

It was the wondrous power at DIAMOND Rank!

The eyes of Commander Oden that Noah was watching this scene through shone brightly, Noah actually not feeling even an ounce of fear as he actually looked towards such a scene while imagining himself standing against such beings.

He saw himself standing on the same stage as them as never again would anybody stand above him and look at him like a mere bug to be stepped on!

WAA!

In the skies, the figure of Warlord Steel was flung out from the field of raging arcs of lightning as he looked disheveled, the Golden Commanders of the armies of the Dark and Light Continent looking at this with ashen faces.

Meanwhile, the battalions of the Light Continent cheered out at the scene while their commanders gave them the bellows to charge forward!

OOOOH!

Rejuvenated and filled with the taste of victory, the forces of the Light Continent moved forward while the battalions from the Dark and Wild Continent moved back. The Warlord from their side could not stand against the Impartial Protector of the Light Continent, and this meant a defeat for them as their armies retreated!

"You sully the name of Protector! Merely a part of the thieves holding the treasures of our Realm to themselves!"

RUMBLE

The figure of Warlord Steel retreated slowly with a sorry figure as he let out hateful words while looking towards Protector Chen that continued unhindered with an impassive face. The demeanor of the victor was clear as the majesty of a DIAMOND expert was only displayed by a single being, the other merely buying time for the two armies below to retreat while trying to keep his life!

Noah looked at this scene as many thoughts swam in his mind, being shown just how quickly things could change during a battle of powerful experts as he canceled Remote Control and left Commander Oden to observe the end of the bloody battle.

Soon enough, the details of the events of the Wandering Plains would spread out across the three Continents...the might of the Light Continent and those that termed themselves Ethereal Royals making their power known brilliantly once more!

Chapter 77

The shocking results of the battle at the Wandering Plains spread out as many got to see the power that the Light Continent kept under their banner- the power of the Impartial Protector that could obliterate all challenges!

The armies of the Dark and Wild Continent were forced to pull back, coming towards the region of the 10 subjugated Cities as they sought to reorganize and recuperate.

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The Impartial Protector had also spent a great deal of his battle power to completely overwhelm Warlord Steel, this powerful being not choosing to take the risk of having a battle to the dead while he went towards the enemy territory, staying behind with the battalions of the Light Continent to celebrate their victory!

With the might of the Light Continent on display, a depressive cloud hung over the forces of the Dark and Wild Continents as thousands of injured Blessed filled into the subjugated cities!

The powerful Warlord Steel that had been on the losing side of the battle against Protector Chen was among those that retreated into a City...this being not knowing anything about the change in leadership of the Cities that had occurred practically overnight.

"Overseeing 10 Cities that are half-filled with Blessed from other Continents…"

In Academy City, Annalise and Rose were discussing Noah's shocking feats in the past 2 days as they looked towards the Gold Blessed in front of them he was utilizing through Remote Blessed.

Rose's eyes were sharp as she voiced out. "You can't control the Silver Blessed like the ones within this city?"

Her words caused Annalise's eyes to shine as Noah spoke from the mouth of the subjugated Blessed.

"That numbers would be in the thousands of Silver Blessed to Subjugate. I'm not currently strong enough for that yet...maybe if I reach DIAMOND Rank in the coming week or two."

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He spoke of something balance shattering as stepping into the Diamond Rank in a week or two, the two girls looking towards him with agape expressions as he continued!

"With the control of those at the top, we might just be able to reform those below…"

Her words caused Rose to think back to the forces of the Imperial Capital as she came out of her shock and spoke out slowly.

"From my experience, they are fighting for food and power. If we can give them this...we can easily control them!"

She thought of the overabundance of loot that Noah had displayed for them before, looking to fully tighten the influence over the subjugated cities this way!

"Possibly- oh?"

Noah had been speaking when he came to a stop, the expression of the Blessed he controlled changing as a devilish smile appeared on his face.

"It seems the retreating armies have reached and settled into my cities, and with an injured? DIAMOND Blessed in tow…"

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A terrifying smile settled onto Noah's face as he seemed to be deep in thought, the two girls staring at each other with concerned eyes as Annalise was the one to speak!

"Brother, you're not thinking of attacking the DIAMOND Warlord right? Even while injured…"

The little sister was concerned for her brother at even the thought of facing one of the beings on the current peak stage of this Realm! Yet Noah merely looked towards her while speaking with an expression of conviction.

"He is injured from the battle with that Impartial Protector, and my power...is much different than what it was just two days ago!"

These words were backed with strength and confidence as at this moment, Noah had a full team of GOLD Rift Bosses on top of multiple Gold Blessed under him!

If he utilized all of these forces correctly...he truly believed an injured DIAMOND Rank expert might actually fall in his hands.

To make such a thing into a reality, he moved rapidly as he told the girls not to worry. The first thing he did...was to send commands to all the GOLD Blessed he had subjugated from the 10 Cities aside from the single one that he left behind in Academy City to protect his sister and Rose, the number of this GOLD Blessed coming out to 23!

Some of the cities had 3 Gold Blessed overseeing them instead of two, and Noah could now utilize a force of 23 Gold Blessed.

The retreating armies of the Dark and Wild Continent had come towards Cities 3, 4, and 5- these cities being closer to each other as they were only a few tens of miles away from the Wandering Plains. Here, the armies planned to recuperate and resupply, while the injured DIAMOND expert descended onto City 4 to tend to his injuries while waiting for orders on how to move after their devastating defeat!

Noah knew this as when the forces of the Dark and Wild began to retreat, he made sure that the subjugated Blessed that should have been overseeing Cities 3 through 5 returned to their original locations to handle the incoming forces.

Because of this, he knew exactly where the tired golden commanders that led the battalions were in each of the cities, as well as the mansion that Warlord Steel- the DIAMOND Ranked Blessed, was recuperating in!

To entertain his idea of sneak attacking this expert and actually come out successful, Noah began with the tired Golden Commanders that were spread out across Cities 3,4, and 5, choosing to increase the number of Blessed he controlled if it was even for a little as he increased the number of powerful experts he could utilize.

He was on a time crunch as he also did not want to give Warlord Steel too much time to recuperate, so after he was able to use his forces to lay out silent attacks and subjugate 8 more Golden Commanders that were worn out from the battle in the Wandering Plains, he began to silently move towards City 4- towards the mansion that Warlord Steel was recuperating in!

He had 31 GOLD Blessed move in a circular ring towards the city, each of them having already been given Mana, Health, Attack, and Defense potions as their bodies pulsed with power.

Meanwhile, Noah himself was in the skies as he planned for a terrifying sneak attack that would involve the instantaneous cast of horrendously powerful abilities from 6 Rift Bosses, this being just the first surprise he would deliver before 31 Gold Blessed moved in to release even more shocking surprises!

In a certain mansion within City 4.

Warlord Steel had cleared out the whole majestic building as he made it his abode to heal from his heavy injuries, the abilities of the Impartial Protector having dealt significant damage to his body that would take days to heal from!

"How did they know?! Just how did they know?!"

RUMBLE!

The area around him shook as his body released powerful waves of power, his milky white mana at the DIAMOND Rank going on to heal his injuries ever so slowly as he questioned how everything went down.

He felt as if his own forces had sent him into a trap as when he was tasked with coming to the Wandering Plains, he was told it would be a smooth mission to win the second major battle for the war that would decide the fate of the Ethereal Realm!

"Alas…"

Steel sighed with melancholy as he felt the state of his body, but in the next second...his senses that he had honed for 10 of years warned him of great danger!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Horrendous and destructive elements of mana thundered towards his position deep in the mansion from the skies, elements of Aether and Light being the most overpowering as they utterly destroyed the structure of the mansion and smashed down onto the figure of the DIAMOND Ranked expert!

These attacks were only the first round as when Warlord Steel rose from the rubble angrily with his body spasming as destructive elements of Aether still attacked him, even more of them thundered down.

"Who-" BOOM!

Like the sky was breaking, like multiple bombs exploding...the peace of City 4 was destroyed as horrendous vibrations and sounds spread throughout!

They were caused from [Scorching Light Rays] of two Conflagrant Pegasi and the [Destructive Rays] of the Aether Half-Dragons, terrifying damage drowning the single figure of the injured DIAMOND expert as he was battered to the ground, the mansion he stood in becoming a mere depression on the ground as only a flicker of milky white could be seen beneath.

The surprise attack that came when Warlord Steel was just recuperating...had unexpectedly injured him a great deal more as his face was grim while being protected by his milky white mana!

In the early hours of the morning after the shocking battle in the Wandering Plains, terrifying attacks thundered down the center of City 4 as a DIAMOND Ranked expert was besieged by unknown enemies, brilliant purple and golden lights raining from the skies as those who would be lucky enough to see the sight would only remember it as something glorious!

Chapter 78

THRUM!

The second round of the raining attacks left a single figure covered by a milky white light among the rubble of a mansion. Warlord steel had a grim expression as he sensed the fast paced changes around him!

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'Those attacks...are at the peak of GOLD Rank as they can nearly enter the DIAMOND Rank in power! Having so many thrown towards me at once in my injured state…'

The thoughts of the DIAMOND expert were tumultuous as he faced a shocking sneak attack in an area his enemies should have had no prior knowledge of, his eyes turning towards the skies where the attacks came from as he didn't manage to see anything- his trained eyes only being able to pick up a glimmer of an enormous winged creature!

Yet what he truly should have been paying attention to...were the tens of smaller figures that had begun to encircle him on all sides!

Warlord Steel's expression became more and more grim as his body urged out his remaining power, knowing he had to defeat the enemies that popped up as soon as possible if he didn't want anything to go wrong.

RUMBLE!

But this was when he felt multiple auras at the Gold Rank come towards his position, his careful eyes becoming jubilant as it was the faces of Blessed from the Wild Continent he knew as well as the Blessed that had the insignia of the bloody crown being pierced by a golden sword.

Yet in the next second, his experienced mind sang out alarm bells as his senses picked up more than 10 GOLD Ranked Blessed rush towards him, the nearest ones about to reach him releasing their most powerful attacks as many more of them were swarming towards him in a circular formation!

"What the fuck is this?!"

RUMBLE!

As the most powerful strikes of GOLD Blessed began to rush towards him, the heavily injured DIAMOND Rank expert bellowed out as the entire city and it's blessed became aware of something shocking happening within the center of the city.

Something such as the besiegement of a DIAMOND Ranked expert was extremely hard to hide!

Yet for the sake of taking down such a high caliber of an expert...Noah accepted the momentary commotion!

BOOM!

Like golden flickering lights, multiple GOLD Blessed rushed towards Warlord Steel as their bodies shone with powerful skills, the milky white mana that protected this injured expert wrapping around his body as he defended against the coming attacks!

"What is this?! What are you all doing?!"

The face of Warlord Steel became grimmer at every second as he counter attacked and punched out to only push one GOLD Blessed away, but a new one took their place a second later as they tried to land deadly attacks on his body.

"Fools!"

RUMBLE!

The surroundings quaked as fire elements converged, Warlord Steel casting the devastating skill he had used against the Impartial Protector as Fiery tornadoes began to form around them!

The moment these tornadoes formed, all the GOLD Blessed synonymously moved back as they dodged the terrifying tornadoes of flames, one being unlucky enough to be swept by one as his body began to swirl in hellish flames.

Yet all others pulled back as the face of Warlord Steel became grim, and this was because as the Blessed pulled back, the auras that were in the skies reappeared to rain down scorching rays of light and deadly rays of Aether at his position!

BOOM! BOOM!

The attacks were relentless as he was given no chance to even rest, the milky white mana surrounding him flickering as he found himself forced to his knees while defending against these outrageous attacks.

His face was livid as he wanted to see just which enemies would dare to do this in the skies, bellowing out as he began to take to the skies!

OOOOH!

With the cry of an expert, his burst of speed caused him to instantly appear in the skies as the scene became clear, his eyes constricting as he became face to face with the image of a magisterial Aether Half-Dragon.

A Half-Dragon!

THRUM!

The purple mana around the Draconic Rift Boss swirled as a wondrous cage paling with Aether descended around the shocked figure of the DIAMOND Expert.

This was the cast of [Aether Cage]!

And it came in two as a second later, yet another cage overlapped with the currently laid out one as tendrils of lightning stretched out to attack the single being within the cage, the auras of two more Rift Bosses that had peak GOLD Rank auras nearly spilling over into the next rank also appearing in the skies as all four directions were covered by the aerial beasts!

The heart of Warlord Steel palpated at this scene as he shockingly found he shouldn't have taken to the skies.

Up here, the enemies were actually masters of the Sky as the moment the Aether Cages were laid down, the elements of Light and Aether raged down tyrannically as they struck the single figure of the DIAMOND expert!

BOOM! BOOM!

Numerous attacks wrecked the body of the already injured being as he struggled to defend and gasp for breath inside, his body becoming charred as it only pulled with a weK milky white light.

"Vile creatures!"

His terrifying shout that held a tinge of fear at only being able to receive deadly attacks without being able to retaliate rang out, his body shining out a brilliant light- a light that was like the last flicker of a dying sun that went on to shatter the Cage of Aether as the figure of Warlord Steel shot towards another direction in the city!

BOOM!

Yet he came across 10 Good Blessed with impassive eyes that blocked his path and thundered down already prepared attacks, knocking down his body that was nearly drained into the streets of the City where Silver and Bronze Blessed were fearfully beginning to gather to see what situation was occurring.

His figure ragged and breathing heavy, Warlord Steel barely stood up before he felt another Aether Cage descend down the figures of multiple GOLD Blessed appearing within as they moved with shining weapons to smash into him!

SQUELCH!

Horrifying sounds began to emanate out as the defenses of a DIAMOND Expert began to be pierced through, sword clad in flames or ice and arrows tinged with lightning smashing into his body as blood freely began to overflow.

The breath of Steel was ragged as his experienced eyes looked at the Gold Blessed surrounding him and dealing him deadly attacks.

Each of them had impassive looks on their faces as he knew many of them!

This was especially so for the ones from the Wild Continent, where many of them he had spared or trained in the past as they prepared to move out to face the Light Continent!

Yet these same beings and those from the Dark Continent had impassive faces as their eyes flickered with a blue light, not answering any of his questions as they only moved to rip apart the defenses he was trying to set up.

His experienced eyes had many theories as he picked up on what was going on!

"Fucking idiots, falling into the control of someone else! What did he offer you? What was enough for you to betray your motherland?!"

THRUM!

The DIAMOND expert tried to muster up his drained essence to rise up, but the swarm of GOLD Blessed thundered down attacks even faster as when he least expected it, more destructive rays of Aether and scorching light rays rained down from the skies and wrecked his boy even more!

When the scene cleared, one could see a mutilated expert who had not been able to defend his entire body as his right arm was currently a stump- the entirety of it ripped off as his eyes were the only thing remaining with a shining light.

"I'll offer you the same thing I offered them."

RUMBLE!

In the midst of this, a calm voice rang out as Steel turned his tired and mutilated body to see the culprit who caused all this, but he only found the impassive eyes of GOLD Blessed that surrounded him!

He dragged his bloodied body around as he laughed despairingly.

"Haha, and what would that be, you coward who won't even show himself?"

Everywhere he turned, only the impassive Blessed could be seen as they surrounded him and reached out, multiple of them holding on to his remaining three limbs as one put his hands on the head of this expert, his hands pulsing with Fire elements as he could release them to heavily mess up the head of this expert in a split second!

The reply Warlord Steel asked for came, and it was one that would cause a chill to run down anyone's heart as his experienced eyes saw a Gold Blessed from the Wild Continent he was familiar with speak out with an impassive face in front of him.

"Your life. I will offer you to keep your life."

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Steel observed the Blessed as even though he had the same face as the one he knew, he had entirely different eyes as the body of the expert felt the increasing injuries and slumped down!

"I see."

His hoarse voice rang out as blood freely flowed from his body. His eyes turned placid as he seemed to be thinking of a myriad of things before they finally focused on the Blessed speaking in front of him. With the last power he could muster, he spoke.

"I don't know who you are, or how you've managed to do all this...but I am not someone that you can control."

RUMBLE!

The air and demeanor of an expert that had lived too long came out from the eyes of the mutilated being, shining a brilliant white light as he began to laugh out loudly!

"Unlike these fools around me, I know Death would be better than becoming a mindless fool under a scheming creature like you!"

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The eyes of the Blessed surrounding him remained placing as far above in the skies on top of a Conflagrant Pegasus, Noah looked towards the position of the encirclement below as when the words of this expert ended, brilliant white milky light erupted out as the mutilated body of this being ballooned out eerily...before it exploded in a terrifying blast of blood and gore that pushed out all the Blessed near him!

"Haha!"

The chilling laughter of this expert could barely be discerned as it was released right before the implosion of his body, resounding out as it caused Noah's face to become grim while he watched the scene below.

Shockingly, he was successful in taking down a terrifying expert as he heavily reduced the battle power of his enemies, but his face was grim as he felt like he took a loss!

In the face of death, the DIAMOND Ranked being was fearless as he chose to embrace it rather than be controlled by him!

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Chapter 79

The surroundings of the devastated area calmed down as the results revealed themselves, the bodies of over 10 Blessed that were in the surroundings of the last blast Warlord Steel released being heavily injured as one even lost his life!

Noah considered it a heavy loss as he wasn't able to obtain a Subjugated DIAMOND Blessed at the end of it all, but at the same time the shocking reality of him being able to take down one of the most powerful experts of the Ethereal Realm settled in.

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Granted he was injured and he laid out a sneak attack! The event...was still of immense significance!

In the skies, he looked at the surrounding rubble and the figures of Blessed making their way over to understand the scene, sending commands to the uninjured Gold Blessed to move out and quell the commotion as others were commanded to secure the area and make sure no news of what had just occurred here spread.

The collision between Noah and the Diamond Ranked Warlord had taken just a few minutes, only the Silver level Blessed trying to make their way towards the perimeter that Noah locked down as the vast majority of beings were unable to see anything!

But Noah still left behind 5 Gold Blessed to clear up the commotion he caused as well as ensure news about it was not relayed outside, using the identities of the subjugated Blessed as Golden Commanders to establish orders as none of the Blessed they commanded could have even imagined that their higher ups were under someone else's control.

"What a waste…!"

Noah sighed in the skies as he looked at the decimation below, sending commands to the Conflagrant Pegasus to make his way back to Academy City while returning the Gold Blessed he utilized back into their own Cities. For the period that followed...he had to consolidate the power he had gathered and obtained, with the cities within his hands not being under the influence of the Dark or Wild Continent as he now had to make sure the same atrocities were not done under him.

THRUUM!

He crossed the skies rapidly as he appeared from a flash of golden light above the Villa he occupied and used as a command center in Academy City, a myriad of Blessed going in and out of this Villa in droves as they carried out commands of two girls.

Rose was taking the lead as she had experience from the Imperial Capital and had watched the Ethereal Royals rule, Noah choosing to dump the majority of the work that had to be done for the next days onto her and Annalise while he cleared the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Planes Elemental Rifts!

"Brother!"

His figure flew down from the skies and into the balcony of the villa as Annalise saw him from the hall, coming towards her older brother with worry and seeing he was perfectly fine. Noah smiled towards her as he patted her head.

"I told you not to worry. We were able to take care of one of the strongest combatants we would have faced, even though I wasn't able to make him join the ranks of people I control!"

His words caused Annalise to look towards him in shock and wonder as she glanced over his body up and down, shaking her head as the two of them walked into the hall where Rose was surrounded by communication medallions and papers that detailed too many things!

Noah nodded towards this Ethereal Princess that had a strong expression, the silver hair dancing to her shoulders glimmering from the morning light. Noah's voice rang out towards her and Annalise as he looked around the hall.

"I'll leave it to you guys to manage the subjugated cities in the next day or two before we move forward. It would have been infinitely hard of a task...but you have my subjugated Gold Blessed to command! Just say what you want for any of the Gold Blessed in Cities 1 through 10 by giving the command to Stephon or any of the other subjugated blessed, and this command will be passed on…"

Noah gave the girls directions as in the next second, he waved his hands to release things from his inventory.

WAA!

Waves of mana emanate out as thousands of peak Silver Cores that glimmered like mountains were brought out, along with tens of thousands of Bronze Cores, Equipment, and Skill Books!

"Use these as you see fit, we'll have even more of them in the future. And for you two…"

After causing a mountain of loot to appear with a mere wave of his hands, the two girls were already looking towards him in a stupor as he turned to them and caused 10 Gold Cores to appear in front of each of them, along with 2 gloriously shining Gold Rank Equipment!

"...use these to step into the Gold Rank. You'll need all the power you can get your hands on for the days to come!"

The girls looked towards him with shining eyes as Annalise put down the glimmering gold cores and came in front of Noah, pulling her older brother into her arms as she spoke with a voice that was filled with care.

"You've worked hard, Brother. All the cities unjustly taken over, we're now in the process of taking them back and establishing order. From the lowest ranks of Blessed, you've now risen all the way to Gold as you can even give out resources of such a level! You've worked hard…"

Tears fell out of the girl's eyes as she held her brother, thinking of events days ago when they lost their parents! Her expression only became firmer as time passed, looking into Noah's deep blue eyes as she continued.

"You've worked hard, so please take a step back to realize it all while getting some rest. Slow down just for a second!"

Noah looked into the eyes of the caring girl as he nodded, realizing he actually had not slept at all for the past days as he moved from cities and into the Tower or Shattered Realms. His stronger soul and power made it so that he had more resistance when it came to exhaustion, but he still had not reached the point of power where he didn't need to worry about food or sleep!

He looked towards Annalise and Rose who was nodding in agreement, Noah giving the girls a light smile as he left them to carry out a mountain of work while he retreated into one of the grand rooms of the villa. His back hitting the comfortable bed within, his eyes didn't take long before they closed as he was lulled into the realm of sleep.

The unknown Ruler that had moved in haste without any rest in the past days finally laid down to rest as his actions...were causing wide ranging consequences at this moment!

Hours passed as many pieces moved in place.

The Light Continent bathed in their victory for the battle of the Wandering Plains as they stopped the advancement of enemy forces, while the Dark and Wild Continent were still reeling from the defeat as in a certain hall of a majestic castle deep in the heart of the Dark Continent, the Dark King had a cold expression as he listened to the Communication Medallion beside him!

"I haven't been able to reach Steel for the past hours, and when I checked with the Golden Commanders that returned with him...they actually weren't able to find him in the place he had locked himself in to recover!"

RUMBLE!

The words caused the eyes of the Dark King to turn into slits, his voice ringing out in return.

"Since that Protector Chen didn't follow and our forces didn't see any commotion, your Warlord might have just chosen to take time in isolation to heal from his injuries! It just means we've lost a piece that we could have used when the full scale war occurred."

"This full scale war...sigh." The words of the Ruler of the Wild Continent ended with a sigh as he seemed contemplative!

"Is all this death and bloodshed worth it? Just to regain access to the Diamond Rift within that city for hope of breaking through into the Platinum Rank?"

The words were filled with tiredness, causing the eyes of the Dark King that heard them to shine with a light of brutality and disappointment as his voice rang out calmly.

"We've already come this far for our goals. For a better future of our people...remember?! We do not want to be stuck as frogs in the bottom of the well that is the Ethereal Realm. There is a vast world outside of this filled with even more opportunities. For us to reach those opportunities...we have to break through to the rank of PLATINUM and gain the capability of leaving this Realm to obtain greater possibilities!"

RUMBLE!

"Only then can we gain enough power to bring happiness to the subjects we rule...and we have to move with even more care to not end up like our glorious Ethereal Emperor that was taken out the moment he stepped out of this well that is our Realm…"

A shocking truth behind the aims of the forces of the Dark and Wild Continent was revealed, a truth that shed light on what the forces of the Light Continent were doing, and why exactly the past Ethereal Emperor that had reached the rank of PLATINUM had fallen!

Chapter 80

The conversation between two Rulers ended as the Dark King stayed within the gorgeous halls of his castle while thinking of many things.

His eyes were filled with an unknown light as he seemed to have finally made a decision, his lips moving lightly as he spoke to no one in particular!

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"At the end of it all, this war was always going to be won by those in the DIAMOND Rank…"

The eyes of the Dark King were filled with coldness as he said this, his voice continuing to ring out as he grabbed multiple communications medallions and placed mana into each of them.

"Jon, Cali, Visalia...prepare your Legions. We play with battalions of Silver and Gold for the last time. After this battle...the next one shall include Legions being led by DIAMOND Blessed!"

RUMBLE!

A shocking message was passed from the Dark King to his people, a message that called not for a pause or end of the war, but due to the desperation this being felt...an acceleration of it!

He rose upon his throne as he slowly walked towards the end of it, staring at a glorious white armor that was displayed there to show off the power that the Dark King could wield.

His hands moved towards this armor as black mana brought it towards him, its glistening surface landing on his hand as he stroked it with sharp eyes. The white armor released powerful fluctuations as it wasn't in the Silver or Gold Rank...but DIAMOND!

"You shall be worn until your color is dyed red again, my friend."

RUMBLE!

Waves of power spread out as a Ruler from one region prepared while passing the news to his allies and getting his forces ready.

In the meantime, a Shadow Ruler that had arisen in the midst of Subjugated Cities received this news just hours after the declaration of the Dark King, the Gold Blessed under him being sent the news to prepare as in less than a week, Legions that were multiple times larger than any of the battalions would descend towards the Light Continent, these Legions led by the terrifying experts at the level of DIAMOND!

It was horrendous news that would have even made the Commanders and Protectors of the Light Continent despair, but not the being that had received news about it the quickest!

Noah stood upon the balcony of the villa he was in as after getting to rest after days of moving he woke up to the news of Legions and the DIAMOND experts that would be leading them.

Yet even in the midst of this news, he was fearless as his eyes shone brightly blue, many thoughts crossing his mind!

'Less than a week for the Legions being prepared to arrive...they don't know what I can do in a week!'

WAA!

A domineering light erupted from Noah at this thought, but it was true! He knew that since the forces coming would be taking days before they even stationed themselves in this location before making their way deeper into the Light Continent, many things could change before then.

After all, he had gone from nothing and into a Gold Blessed controlling a team of GOLD Rift Bosses in less than 2 weeks.

2 weeks!

It utterly broke the rules of the Ethereal Realm or any other Realm within this Universe for that matter, and Noah knew he could do such a thing again!

The pressure of his Inherent Skill ||Telekinetic Emperor|| was released unconsciously as tendrils of light began to shine from his eyes, his voice bringing out with clarity.

"I just need to climb the Tower and Shattered Planes Dimensional Rifts until I reach the levels that hand out DIAMOND Rewards. After that, what army or Legion of beings that are fighting against a single DIAMOND Rift going to do to me?"

THRUM!

Mana pulsed around him as such wild thoughts crossed his mind, and he moved to act on them right away as his body disappeared from the balcony of the Villa!

He had already talked with Annalise and Rose as they managed the movement of the subjugated Gold Blessed to monitor everything with the subjugated cities, and he would be putting his focus on the features of the Idle Gaming System while waiting for another half a day to pass before he collected Loot Resources from the 102 Rifts.

He finished them all in the night of the day prior, and now the sun was about to go down again as over half a day had passed. When the 24 hour mark hit, Noah could click on the Rifts he worked hard to collect as the boons would be stupendous!

It would be enough Idle Exp to unlock the next upgrade of the System, and enough resources to form another Gold Unit.

It was due to these resources he would soon be receiving and what he planned to do in the Tower of Champions and the Shattered Planes Dimensional Rifts that he wasn't the least bit scared of the forming Legions!

It was because in less than a week, he dreamed of already getting his hands on a DIAMOND Unit… if not a party of such creatures!

RUMBLE

He appeared in the Waiting Room where an enormous black Tower lay to his left while another tower pulsating with the Purple light of Aether lay gorgeously to his right.

He waved his hands as the shocking figures of two Aether Half-Dragons, two Conflagrant Pegasi, a Frost Basilisk, and a Light Equipment Guardian all appeared with a glorious light!

"Let's go towards DIAMOND, shall we?"

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With a goal set in his mind, Noah acted right away as he delved into the 55th floor that he knew would be bound with immense difficulty.

He had been facing Gold Ranked Elven Rift Bosses protecting Fortress in the past floors, and the 55th floor went above that as he wasn't given a fortress...but an entire City!

[Defeat the Rulers of the Elven City to clear the 55th floor.]

A simple prompt appeared in his mind as he looked at the tall city walls for from where they had appeared, an entire City of beings appearing that he had to clear before he could leave.

Within, he could feel the aura of 5 Gold Rift Bosses as he shook his head at the rising difficulty of the Tower, climbing atop the body of one of the powerful Aether Half-Dragons as he took his Units to descend onto the Elven City fearlessly!

OOOOH!

Below of war rang out from with as 5 glimmering figures from five sides of the City came out, stupendous bows and other weapons in their hands as they made way towards Noah's appearing forces in the sky.

Noah merely looked down towards them with cold eyes as he patted the back of the Aether Half-Dragon while watching the Light Equipment Guardian and the Frost Basilisk shatter the walls of the city, his eyes watching as the Half-Dragons opened their jaws to release horrendous tendrils of Aether onto the ground while the Frost Basilisk rose its head dangerously while spitting out a Frozen Breath that caused death and destruction wherever it passed!

To top it all off, 2 Conflagrant Pegasi were eight golden lights as they tore through the skies, raining down golden Rays of scorching light as the city below them began to face decimation!

[Light of Dawn] would occasionally be cast from the Equipment Guardian when any injuries occurred as the Elven Rift Bosses moved, but the battle began with a one sided attack and continued that way as the party that Noah had assembled was just too powerful.

Noah himself had his eyes released gorgeous tendrils of blue light as his mental energy wrapped around the Gold Elven Rift Bosses, training himself and his Inherent Skills as he gained more battle experience and rose even higher.

With a team full of High Tier Element Dimensional Rift Bosses, the exceedingly hard 55th floor fell within just an hour as Noab was teleported back into the Waiting Area!

[Rewards for clearing the 55th Floor] :: [+20,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+100 Random Bronze Equipment], [+100,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+2500 SILVER Rank Cores], [+50 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+50,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+200 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+100 Health Potions], [+100 Mana Potions], [+100 Defense Potions], [+100 Attack Potions], [+10 SILVER Rank Skill Books], [+10 Random GOLD Equipments], [+50 GOLD Rank Cores], [+25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards], [+25,000 GOLD Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

A glorious level of rewards that at this point, Noah merely glanced at before he turned his eyes towards the Tower again.

Just the 55th floor had given him a great deal of things, with the most important being the newly appearing GOLD Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals!

This was the key towards everything, the key towards the dream of Diamond Ranked Units fighting by his side.

They had made their appearance from the rewards of the 55th Floor, and he would continue to collect them as in just a matter of time...he would have the required amount to max his Gold Units to the peak and fuse them to the ranks of DIAMOND!

When that time came...oh when that time came!

Chapter 81

For upgrading and fusing Silver Units into Gold, he needed 50,000 to max each unit for a total of 100,000 Silver Upgrade Crystals. To fully max a single unit and be able to fuse it with another, 200,000 Gold Upgrade Crystals were required to do so!

It was an obscene number as it meant he had to collect 400,000 Gold Upgrade Crystals to even taste his first DIAMOND Unit.

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But Noah was unhindered by this large number as he delved into the 56th floor after checking the rewards and replenishing all his units and himself with potions. His eyes also lingered on the 25 Random Gold Unit Shards that he just needed 75 more of to summon a Gold Unit, his drive to very quickly clear the upper floors of the Tower of Champions blazing ever higher!

The 56th floor was not as vast as the 55th, but it had similar bosses as Noah still had to take down an Elven City that had 5 Gold Rift Bosses. Having already had practice, this Elven City fell within half an hour as another set of rewards was displayed in front of his eyes.

[Rewards for clearing the 56th Floor] :: [+20,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+50 Random Bronze Equipment], [+50,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+2500 SILVER Rank Cores], [+50 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+25,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+100 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+100 Health Potions], [+100 Mana Potions], [+100 Defense Potions], [+100 Attack Potions], [+5 SILVER Rank Skill Books], [+5 Random GOLD Equipments], [+50 GOLD Rank Cores], [+25 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards], [+25,000 GOLD Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

Some rewards were slightly reduced, but many were similar to the 55th floor as the Gold Rank Unit Shards and Upgrade Crystals that were the most important to Noah remained the same!

His expression remained placid as with this constant progress he was seeing, he continued into the Tower.

57th.

58th.

59th!

Three more floors were cleared under his relentless assault and the terrifying team of 4 Light Rank Units and 2 of the Aether Rank!

The Rift Bosses on each floor mainly remained Elven Rift Bosses, their numbers increasing to 6 on the 59th Floor as he was still able to take them down in a matter of time. But the clearing of floors 57-59th now gave him a total of 125 Random Gold Unit Shards...as well as 125,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals.

These were the crystals that he needed just 75 thousand more of to fully raise the strength of a Gold Unit to the peak, and with the increasing difficulty of the floors of the tower...he forced himself to use it on the Gold Unit he planned to bring to DIAMOND Rank first!

His choice was of course, his strongest offensive units so far- the Aether Half Dragons!

Beginning on the 57th floor, he began to pump all the Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals onto the Aether Half Dragon as its body grew ever larger while it shone with a flash of intense purple brilliance.

The battle power it could release jumped up by another level as even among Rift Bosses, it was now on the extreme scale of power! This was further enhanced by the Unit being a creature with the name of a Dragon attached to it, its strength being the only thing that allowed Noah to smoothly clear the past floors!

This single Aether Half Dragon that was pumped with Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals could stand against three normal Gold Rank Rift Bosses, 3 Elven Bosses having to run circles around it before they would ultimately be taken down by its terrifying attacks and purple glistening scales whose defenses could not be broken.

THRUUM!

Purple mana blazed wildly as Noah pumped the recent 25,000 Upgrade Crystals into its body, the Unit becoming even deadlier as he smiled while sitting on top of it. His eyes turned towards the 60th Floor as he was unfazed, his voice counting to ring out to his units!

"Let's go!"

In the outside world, the day had already passed as Night entered, but Noah continued within the Tower as there were truly too many things he was waiting for.

With a few more floors cleared, he would be able to have a single maxed Gold Unit, and if he waited just for more than half the night to pass...he would be able to collect the Idle Loot Resources that came from 102 Rifts across 10 Cities!

He would be able to feast his eyes on a shocking amount of loot as the most important to him was the Idle Exp that would upgrade his System yet again. As for the other loot? He was currently saving everything else as the SILVER Unit Upgrade crystals he could use to fuse GOLD Units were currently stacked up to 164,485.

With this, he could fuse another Gold Unit, and he even had 125 Random Gold Unit Shards to summon another random gold Unit! But he waited on utilizing all of these as he currently had the max 6 Party Unit he was allowed to utilize, and he could use the Silver Upgrade Crystals on a powerful Light or Aether Unit when the time came that two gold units disappeared to allow for the fusion of a Diamond one!

With his mind swirling with such thoughts, he descended unto the 60th floor that was filled with Elven Rift Bosses, this time his task being increased to taking down two Elven Cities.

Each of these Cities held 6 Rift Bosses, meaning Noah had to face 12 Gold Rift Bosses with his team of 6!

ROAAR!

The draconic roars of the Aether Half-Dragons reverberated out as Noah moved with haste to defeat a few of the Elven Rift Bosses in the first city before those from the other city came to reinforce them, barely being able to clear the floor after kiting the bosses and taking them down one by one.

Under the enhanced strength of the strongest Aether Half-Dragon, even the 60th floor holding 12 Gold Rift Bosses fell! As for the rewards, they were of course abundant as it was another special 5th floor cleared since the 55th!

[Rewards for clearing the 60th Floor] :: [+25,000 Bronze Rank Cores] , [+200 Random Bronze Equipment], [+150,000 BRONZE Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+500 Random BRONZE Rank Unit Shards], [+5000 SILVER Rank Cores], [+50 SILVER Rank Equipment], [+75,000 SILVER Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+200 Random SILVER Rank Unit Shards], [+100 Health Potions], [+100 Mana Potions], [+100 Defense Potions], [+100 Attack Potions],[+100 Haste Potions], [+20 SILVER Rank Skill Books], [+20 Random GOLD Equipments], [+250 GOLD Rank Cores], [+50 Random GOLD Rank Unit Shards], [+50,000 GOLD Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals], [+1 GOLD Rank Skill Book]

Beautiful numbers that gave him another 50 thousand Gold Rank Upgrade crystals that he pumped into the Aether Half Dragon right away, only 25 thousand remaining for this Unit to enter the peak and simply wait for fusion once another Unit reached the same stage!

There was also the introduction of [Haste Potions] that caused his body to vibrate with power, his speed being increased greatly as the mana circulating in his body felt even more vibrant. This just went to allow him and his Units to increase their battle power as with the terrifying enhanced Aether Half Dragon in the lead, Noah put everything else aside as he continued deeper into the Tower.

The 61st floor.

The difficulty remained ramped up with Noah having to clear 2 Elven Cities with 12 Gold Rift Bosses similar to the last one, this floor taking him another hour before it was cleared!

The Aether Half Dragon was fully maxed to the peak on this floor as it could even withstand 5 normal Gold Rift Bosses alone.

'I wouldn't be surprised if it could match a DIAMOND Blessed at this point!'

Wild thoughts crossed Noah's mind when he looked at the beast, the reality of Rift Bosses only being capable of being matched against 10 Blessed of the same level not applying to the Half Dragon anymore as it could even match 5 Rift Bosses!

It would not be too much of a shock to Noah if it could stand against a Diamond Blessed! As for whether it could defeat one? Only time would tell…

The process of Noah and his units chugging Health, Mana, Attack, Defense, and Haste Potions repeated as their bodies brimmed with power, the 62nd floor being delved into fearlessly.

Then the 63rd!

After another hour, the 64th!

Over 3 and a half hours, but three more floors were cleared as the number of Silver Upgrade Crystals Noah held stacked up to 321,455.

That was three future Gold Units!

The number of Gold Upgrade Crystals also reached 75,000 for the next Gold Unit, Noah choosing for it to be the other Aether Half Dragon as the fusion of these two High Tier Element Units would birth his first shockingly powerful DIAMOND Rift Boss.

But after his shocking Tower run where he nearly crossed 10 floors, he came to a stop as a significant amount of hours had passed, the time being past midnight as he brought his tired body to remain in the Waiting Room while opening up the Idle Gaming System Interface!

There, 102 Rifts were shining a brilliant golden loot luster that screamed towards him, 24 hours having passed for nearly all of these rifts as the rewards Noah was about to collect all at once would be something mind shattering!

Chapter 82

In the Idle Gaming System Interface, Noah's thoughts gave the command as the Idle Loot Resources from all 102 Dimensional Rifts were collected all at once!

RUMBLE!

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A brilliant golden light erupted out to cover his eyes that were then showered with many words, words that were enough to make any man break into a smile as they achieved utter happiness!

IRON [+43,550 Idle Exp][+138,00 Iron Rank Cores][+2890 Blazing Armor]...[+4245 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard]...[+289,385 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

BRONZE [+56,055 Idle Exp][+98,453 Bronze Rank Cores]...[+3,483 Bronze Rank Frost Wolf Shards]...[+260,305 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

SILVER [+28,345 Idle Exp][+30,453 Silver Rank Cores]...[+3,123 Silver Rank Molten Beast Shards]...[+112,384 Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

"..."

It was beautiful.

So beautiful that Noah went speechless!

The numbers were simply balance breaking, what they truly signified being something that would cause the locals of the Ethereal Realm to question their own sanity!

30 thousand Silver Rank Cores...how many Silver Rank Blessed could be born from this? How many of such cores were even in reserve within the huge treasuries of the three Continents?

Noah would be shocked if he knew that at this moment, the wealth of just 24 hours of his Idle Resources exceeded what each of the Continents of the Ethereal Realm were saving!

In just a single day...the cores he held surpassed those of the nations of beings that had been living in the Ethereal Realm as its natives.

What an Idle System!

What overpowered possibilities!

"Ah…!"

Noah shook his head as he felt like he was breaking the balance of this Ethereal Realm too quickly, his eyes going towards the Idle Exp that showed him obtaining over 100 thousand that he required easily.

This was an action that meant wondrous things were about to appear in front of him!

DING

[Idle Exp requirement met. Upgrade System level?]

"...upgrade!"

RUMBLE!

A glorious flash of light flashed out front of Noah's eyes.

The luminous golden light died down only a few seconds later, the Interface of the Idle Gaming System appearing in front of his eyes as it displayed what came with the upgrades!

[System Successfully Upgraded. Unlocked Dimensional Store and the Infinite Crucible. Max number of available Units increased by 2. Idle Exp required for next level: 1,000,000.]

The System underwent an Upgrade, and it brought with it not just one, but two newly unlocked features! Noah's eyes hungrily focused on these features as their descriptions appeared.

[Dimensional Store] :: Across the vast dimensions, a myriad of things can be found. The Dimensional Store is one of the junctions that connect many Dimensions, the Master of the Idle Gaming System being able to utilize it to obtain a vast amount of items in exchange for Cores. Within the Dimensional Store, anything can be bought, and anything can be sold.

A feature of a dimensional store that allowed Noah to buy and sell items and cores...a bright smile appeared on his lips as he read on, nodding his head as he couldn't wait to utilize it and finally put to use his exuberant amounts of Cores, Equipment, and Skills!

His eyes then locked on to the terrifying feature termed [Infinite Crucible].

[Infinite Crucible] :: A test of combat, perseverance, and the ingenuity of the Master of the Idle Gaming System. Within the Infinite Crucible, the Master of the Idle Gaming System will fight against increasingly powerful Waves of Dimensional Beasts. When every 10 Waves of the Infinite Crucible are successfully cleared, the Master of the Idle Gaming System will be rewarded and given the option to leave or continue for even higher tiered rewards. Every Wave cleared grants the Master of the Idle Gaming System Crucible Points that can be utilized for Unique Loot only accessible from the Dimensional Store, or utilized to grant Blessings to oneself or Curses to the Dimensional Beasts that are applied until death is met or you choose to leave. Death within the Infinite Crucible is not final, but it will lock all features of the Idle Gaming System for 10 days…

…!

Shock and alarm rose in Noah's mind as he looked at the details of this shocking feature, his heart beating ever faster as he went across all of the possibilities such a thing could bring to him!

RUMBLE!

The surroundings of the Waiting Room quaked as in the next moment, two new buildings rose- one beside the Tower of Champions, another beside the Shattered Planes Elemental Rifts.

WAA!

They arrived with a glorious air as one was built to look like a pristine shop that was propped up by golden pillars, shining with a brilliant light as the words [Dimensional Store] were glowing brilliantly in front of it!

Noah gulped as he turned his eyes towards the other direction, looking at the other structure that rose up as he saw a gloriously shining gate that was shining crimson red, a hazy swirling spatial light being released from this gate as it was looking extremely menacing with it rising over 20 meters.

On top of this enormous red portal gateway, the words [Infinite Crucible] shone with a bright luster!

Noah looked between these two things as he steeled his heart, choosing to save the best for last as he first began walking towards the Dimensional Shop. The exquisitely designed shop shone with a gold luster as Noah walked through its doors, a shining light grabbing him and teleporting him as he found himself appearing within an extremely long hall.

The hall seemed to stretch for miles as on the right and left sides, shelves that rose to the skies could be seen as they contained items of varying qualities! Yet the skies were blank as only the glimmer of stars could be seen, Noah coming across an astounding sight where he felt like he was in space between two never ending shelves stretched upon this hall!

The area that Noah began in was lined up by Iron Rank Items, all the shelves shining with a gray luster with each of the items being labeled IRON!

Noah had an amazed expression as he walked further in, where after a few minutes he finally stepped onto the area where he could find BRONZE items, and a few minutes later he found the tall shelves that stretched to the skies that were labeled GOLD!

In each area, blue prompt boxes popped up anytime he stared at them, detailing what he could find in this certain area as when he focused, the full items would be shown in front of him as the shelves opened up their sections to reveal the items with a luster of wondrous light.

He saw sections labeled [Equipment], [Skill Books], [Potions], [Food], [Unique Items], [Cursed Items]...

And this was all just in the section of GOLD! Far from here, he could see the brilliant milky white luster that represented DIAMOND, and even further forward...shelves of section pulling with a purple luster that represented PLATINUM!

WAA!

Noah felt his heart beat faster as he forced himself not to stare at things he couldn't even buy, restraining his gaze on the GOLD sections as he explored what he could get.

Under Equipment, a gorgeous line up of armors and weapons of all normal elements were listed, their prices not being anything to worry about.

[Earth Bulwark](5 Gold Cores)...[Flameborn Javelin](5 Gold Cores)...

The section of skill books had an innumerable number of GOLD skill books each for the price of 20 Gold Cores, with Noah's eyes finally changing when they landed on the[Unique Items] and [Food] section!

[Braised Dragon Heart](500 Gold Cores) :: Cooked to perfection, good for breakthroughs…

[Deep Fried Phoenix Wings](500 Gold Cores) :: Mana seeps out with every bite as you will feel rejuvenated for the next 10 days…

"..."

A shocking amount of food items were listed as their names and prices caused Noah to take a pause, his body that had been going through the Tower for the past hours salivating at the names of the foods as when he focused on them, they were released from the shelves and displayed to him! As if they were frozen in time, the exotic meats of Dragons and Phoenixes began to emanate their strong smell the moment they were displayed as it seemed like they had just been cooked!

In front of such a scene, Noah steeled his heart as he forcefully turned his gaze away.

'Just window shopping...can't spend the rare Gold Cores on food!'

He gave a glance to the wondrous looking foods as he turned his eyes to the Unique Items!

[Magma Pendant](500 Gold Cores) :: An item capable of storing the Peak Gold Skill Magma Meteor 5 times, the skill being able to be released consecutively with no requirement of mana usage or time delay thereafter until the 5 charges are used up…

[Fallen Nether King's Crown](10,000 Gold Cores) :: Grants the wearer the capability to summon 2 Gold Rank Skeleton Kings and 200 Silver Rank Skeleton Knights…

[Frost Basilisk Shards](5000 Gold Cores) :: Allows the summoning of the Frost Basilisk Unit...

[Aether Half Dragon Shards](10,000 Gold Cores) :: Allows the summoning of the Aether Half Dragon Unit…

A myriad of items were shown in front of him, but the most unique ones were the listing of items he already had placed near the very top like the Shards of his Gold Units!

Such a sight caused him to turn his gaze behind him as he couldn't afford the prices of the Gold Unit Shards displayed in this section, going towards the shelves behind him that held a tinge of Silver and browsing through them as sure enough, what he wanted to see was displayed there!

[Aether Drakes](10,000 Silver Cores) :: Allows the summoning of the Aether Drake Unit…

[Flesh Giant](5,000 Silver Cores):: Allows the summoning of the Flesh Giant Unit…

The Dimensional Store truly let him buy things he came across before, his eyes lighting up as he made his first purchase within this unique place, spending 40,000 Silver Cores that had been collecting dust this entire time to buy 4 Aether Drake Shards that would represent 2 Gold Aether Half Dragons.

What a feature! What a boon to play around with!

This was just the Dimensional Store, where Noah had not even gone to explore the shocking Infinite Crucible that seemed even more exciting!

Chapter 83

A gorgeous light shone from the tall shelves of the Dimensional Store, releasing 4 purple lights into Noah's hands as 40,000 Silver Cores disappeared from his Inventory.

He had a light smile as he looked at these Unit Shards.? With his over 300 thousand Silver Unit Upgrade Crystals, he could very quickly pump these Silver Drakes and fuse them to produce 2 Aether Half Dragons, which would allow him to use up the 2 new spots of Units that were increased with the Upgrade of the System!

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This would allow for him to have 4 Aether Half Dragons, 2 Conflagrant Pegasi, a Frost Basilisk, and an Equipment Guardian!

"Hooo…"

He let out a light breath as he took everything in, glancing at the far away shelves of this Dimensional Store that held items he couldn't even buy, not trying to get his heart and hopes up from looking at things far away as he forced himself to give the command to leave the Dimensional Store!

SHAA!

His figure appeared in the Waiting Room as his eyes gazed towards the thing that he couldn't wait to go into, so much so that he didn't even continue exploring the Dimensional Store until he saw exactly what was waiting for him with the feature called Infinite Crucible.

Endless waves of Dimensional Beasts. Endless Rewards! Crucible Points! Death wasn't final!

There were so many things attached onto the Infinite Crucible that Noah couldn't help but walk towards it while summoning his Units.

RUMBLE!

The enormous figures of Aether Dragons, Pegasi, Basilisk, and an Equipment Guardian appeared as along with them, 2 golden-purple flashes of light erupted out as Noah pumped the required Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals into the 4 newly bought Aether Drakes and combined them, the brilliant hue of purple spilling into the Waiting Room even more as 2 new Gold Rank Aether Half Dragons made their appearance!

ROAAAR!

Draconic bellows rang out as Noah nodded at the magnificent figures of 4 Half Dragons, bringing all of these beings towards the pulsing gateway that was the Infinite Crucible, their figures disappearing in a flash of light!

WAA!

Spatial energies wrapped around Noah and his units as they were shuttled across space and time, their figures only reappearing a second later as they descended down in a flash of blue light.

Noah's eyes brightened up as he looked at his surroundings, seeing that the floor they stood on was inscribed with square white boxes that extended for miles! This expansive floor of the Infinite Crucible was bordered by thin transparent white walls that Noah could see far in the distance, the whole structure being shaped like a huge octagon!

When he looked past the transparent white walls that acted as the border of the octagonal space and above him on what should have been the sky, he found himself only seeing the beautiful sight of a starry glimmer of space.

The Infinite Crucible...was actually an enormous octagonal arena that stretched out for miles while floating in space!

RUMBLE!

His arrival caused a flood of mana to pour in as a smile from him, red portals appeared while releasing a dangerous glow. Their appearance was followed by a prompt appearing in front of Noah's eyes.

[Begin Wave 1? Once started, the Waves will automatically continue until 10 are cleared.]

"Begin!"

The prompt gave a question, and Noah answered it with fervor as the 8 Units around him roared out!

THRUUM!

An intense wave of mana resonated out as the red portals shone, creatures beginning to be released from them as it seemed they were struggling with each other to get out and rush towards Noah.

They bared their fangs as their saliva dripped onto the floor, Noah seeing terrifying figures of Iron Rank Minotaurs, Treants, Flaming Lions, and a variety of Reptilian Creatures that all thone with glimmers of light!

ROOOAR!

Their numbers quickly rose above a few hundreds as they moved in an enclosed circular wave towards Noah and his Units.

The four Aether Dragons looked at the figures of hundreds of Iron Ranked Dimensional Beasts in contempt, their roars meaning nothing to them as with the majesty of dragons, four [Destructive Rays] of Aether erupted from their jaws as they moved them left from right, a shocking scene of entire hordes of Iron Ranked beasts becoming dismembered or blasted to oblivion showing itself!

BZZZZT!

The dangerous purple energy of Aether vibrated around them, the monsters that were coming towards them in a circular explosion all burnt to cinders or torn apart from the aether rays released from the jaws of the Half Dragons...the entire first wave being cleared just with these attacks!

…!

[Wave 2 Commencing.]

The prompt appeared in the skies as Noah observed the scene with a shining gaze, climbing onto the back of one of the Aether Half Dragons as he looked over everything from above, the Half Dragons, Conflagrant Pegasi, Frost Basilisk, and the Equipment Guardians all moving towards the newly erupting wave of enemies that began to leak out of the portals.

Compared to the first Wave, a few hundred more Dimensional Beasts were added...but since they were all in the Iron Rank, they were cleared in seconds from the deadly attacks of the Aether Half Dragons that could cover a large distance!

Corpses littered the floor of the Infinite Crucible as the Dimensional Beasts didn't disappear into particles of light, their bodies piling up if they weren't disintegrated and turned into bloody paste from the attacks of the terrifying GOLD Units.

RUMBLE

Another wave commenced as a chilling sight ensued, the waves being cleared as Noah passed the first few with extreme ease!

Every time another wave came, hundreds of more Iron Rank Beasts were added, and tens of Bronze Beasts began to appear on the 5th Wave.

ROAAR!

The roars of the Aether Half-Dragons could be heard throughout as they decimated the enemy forces, not mattering whether it was iron or Bronze as they were all shredded equally!

By the 9th Wave, the majority of the hundreds of Beasts jumping out of the portal turned out to be those in the Bronze, and the 10 Wave had ten Silver Beast Rift Bosses make their appearance.

Yet all it took Noah was a minute to clear out all the low level Beasts of even the 10th wave.

OOOM!

The moment all the Beasts were cleared from the 10th wave, the mountains of bodies that had piled up began to break into particles of light, a prompt appearing in the skies for Noah to see!

[10th Wave cleared. Proceed or Give Up and collect rewards?]

The question didn't even need to be considered as Noah wanted to know how stupendous the rewards were on the floors where he could defeat Gold Rank Dimensional Beasts!

"Proceed!"

RUMBLE

With his command, the waves of Beasts resumed as Noah underwent multiple bloody battles, each of them being cleared as neither he nor his units ever came to harm from the Beasts they faced in these early levels.

By the 15th Wave, no more Iron Rank Beasts appeared as only Bronze and Silver littered the floors of the Infinite Crucible.

By the 25th Wave, the Beasts rushing out of the red portals were all in the Silver Rank as tens of Silver Rank Rift Bosses thundered towards Noah and his Units, only to be delivered death!

On the 30th floor...Gold Dimensional Beasts finally began to appear as the hundreds of Beasts Silver Beasts were led by 5 horrendous Gold Beasts.

They looked like oversized Iguanas, their huge jaws shooting out scorching balls of flames as they threatened to topple Noah's dominance, but even they fell under the assault of 8 High Tier Element Gold Units!

OOOOH!

Noah's units released victorious bellows when the 5 Gold Beasts fell, the 30th Wave being passed as Noah became extremely serious and careful while proceeding to the next few Waves.

The 31st through the 34th waves had similar numbers and qualities of Beasts, where aside from the 5 Gold Rift Bosses, tens of normal ranked Gold Beasts began to appear among the hundreds of Silver!

On the 35th Wave...Noah shockingly faced 10 Gold Rift Bosses as he faced the first hard battle within the Infinite Crucible.

Yet with the aid of the powerful Light and Aether Units along with the Frost Basilisk, even this was passed as the 10 Golf Rift Bosses fell one by one!

It was at this point that the true challenge began, with Noah facing variations of 10 Gold Rift Bosses for the 36th through the 39th Waves.

At this point, very few Silver Beasts could be seen as the floor of the Infinite Crucible was littered with Gold Rank corpses, Noah breathing heavily as he stood atop an Aether Half-Dragon while looking at the last remaining Gold Rift Boss of the 39th Wave.

It was being held down by the Equipment Guardian while Noah and the remaining Units swallowed multiple Potions to be in top tier shape, the beast having its life reaped away only when Noah gave the nod!

A brilliant light flashed out as a dreadful prompt appeared in the air.

[Wave 40 Commencing.]

RUMBLE!

The air quaked as terrifying auras emanated out from the red portals spread out across the Infinite Crucible, Noah letting out a breath as he counted not just the usual 10 Gold Rift Bosses that he had been meeting in the past few waves...but he counted the auras of 20!

20 Gold Rank Rift Bosses.

ROAAAR!

They varied from enormous Golden Minotaurs to Flaming White Eagles, Earth Drakes, Molten Lava Lords...a variety of Rift Bosses that added up to 20! They were accompanied by hundreds of normal Gold Ranked Beasts, Noah's face becoming exceedingly serious as he faced such a terrifying force!

"Just this Wave…"

His hand felt the scales of the glistening Aether Half Dragon he was on as he repeated to himself, Noah facing his toughest battle yet as he felt more threatened against the 20 terrifying Rift Bosses than even the injured DIAMOND expert he swarmed not too long ago!

RUMBLE!

Billowing waves of power emanated out as Noah's buffed Units roared, facing a dangerous battle even with their elected strength as high Tier Units.

An hour passed.

Devastation could be seen everywhere across the miles of the octagonal Infinite, thousands of bodies strewn all about!

Enormous 20 meter corpses that represented GOLD Rift Bosses could be seen, only a few beings still standing on the bloody arena as their eyes were filled with tiredness!

From the 4 Aether Half-Dragons, many areas of their bodies had their tough scales shattered, the wing of one of them even nearly being torn off.

The Conflagrant Pegasi and all other Units had heavy injuries on them as well, all of them undergoing their first truly deadly battle as their lives were in peril a few times, the Heals of the Light Equipment Guardian being the one to save a few of them many times!

Noah stood among a mountain of corpses himself as with red eyes, he looked towards the prompt in the sky above him.

[40th Wave Cleared. Proceed or give up and collect Rewards?]

This time around when he saw these words, he didn't hesitate as he chose to give up!

RUMBLE

He raised his exhausted eyes as he saw the corpses around him disappearing, a Golden light washing down and flowing into him as yet another prompt appeared.

[40 Waves Cleared. Based on the Clear time of the Waves, rewarded with Tier 3 Gold Rank Treasure Trove.]

RUMBLE!

A shining Gold chest appeared in Noah's inventory, his tired and shaking eyes locating it as he clicked on it, a bloom of gold erupting and covering his entire sight as gorgeous words were displayed to him!

[Tier 3 Gold Rank Treasure Trove] :: [+5,000 Gold Cores] [+100,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+200 Random Gold Rank Unit Shards], [+20 Random Gold Equipment], [+50,000 Silver Cores], [+300,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+800 Random Silver Rank Unit Shards]...

…!

Alarm rose in Noah's eyes as a shocking sight was displayed in front of him.

It showed many things, but the biggest and most important one was a set of Upgrade Crystals that guaranteed something of immense importance!

It was the guarantee of a Diamond Unit, the guarantee of Noah gaining the power to alone flip the scales of power of this Ethereal Realm he found himself in!

Chapter 84

The moment that Noah finished clearing the 40th Wave of the Infinite Crucible, he chose to give up right away as just this single wave alone had nearly caused the deaths of him and his Units!

If he continued, the sequence that he had seemed so far would be him facing another 20 Gold Rift Bosses on the 41st through 44th Waves, and these numbers would then ridiculously double of the 45th Wave as he would face either 30 or 40 Gold Rift Bosses.

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And that was just on the 45th Wave! Once he started the next ten waves, they would continue coming until he cleared the 50th Wave where he wouldn't be surprised to find a DIAMOND Boss waiting for him there!

He didn't want to lose his life in the Infinite Crucible and lose 10 days' worth of the boons of the Idle Gaming System, so he chose to see what the rewards would be from stopping at the 40th floor while he rested his exhausted body.

The results...were out of his wildest dreams as the [Tier 3 Treasure Trove] granted him too many things, but the most important was the 100,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals!

He merely needed another 75,000 to fully max out the second Aether Half-Dragon, and now he even had extra when he finished this task due to the rewards of the Infinite Crucible.

He would have had to clear multiple floors of the Tower of Champions to achieve this, and yet the terrifying experience of the Infinite Crucible granted it to him after he barely passed the 40th Wave!

His exhausted body began to feel rejuvenated as he stared at the injured Aether Half-Dragons, feeling that at this moment, a huge change was about to occur as he took the steps towards DIAMOND Rank.

'I can't even say it's been a long time…'

He had a light smile as he thought about how quickly it had taken him to get here, being only a matter of days ago when he was still collecting Silver and Gold Units. Yet at this moment...he was ready to fuse his first DIAMOND Unit!

RUMBLE

A glorious light shone as he pumped all the required Gold Unit Upgrade Crystals, his tired body sitting down as he merely stared at the figures of two Aether Half-Dragons brimming with power.

It felt like a momentous occasion, and one that should be marked in history as it signified an enormous change within the Ethereal Realm!

"Fuse."

In a sense of profound calmness, he gave the command after the 2 Aether Half-Dragons were brought to the peak.

THRUUUM!

Mana began to rage.

With a glorious assortment of colors of gold and purple, the figures of the 2 Half-Dragons merged together, a milky white color beginning to be born as they were fused!

From the wondrous color of gold, it was gradually being wiped away as in a matter of seconds, the only colors left were the purple that represented the terrifying Aether Element, and the milky white color that represented...the rank of DIAMOND.

WAA!

The light released itself and washed past Noah's sitting figure and the figures of other Units that were staring towards it, a magisterial aura being released as an enormous creature made its appearance!

Wide spiked purple wings, a serrated tail filled with crystalline spikes, and dense purple scales that released rays of glorious light...the head of a genuine Dragon opened its eyes as they focused on Noah, causing an oppressive pressure that could suffocate a Gold Rank to spread out.

Towering over 50 meters, the creature was more than 25 times larger than a normal human being!

ROAAAAR!

It released a wondrous bellow to express its arrival, Noah not being able to help himself from having a smile erupt on his face.

This was partly because of the details of the new Unit, but also purely from the power he could sense from it! This was because the pressure Noah could feel from the DIAMOND Ranked Rift Boss in front of him seemed 10 times more oppressive than the one that the injured Warlord Steel released!

Having such a creature made him extremely confident when it came to his plan of simply flipping the whole board that was the Ethereal Realm and putting himself as the top player.

His confidence further rose when he looked at its details.

DIAMOND [Koddrys, The Champion of Aether] :: A full grown adult dragon of the Aether Element. It has gained masterful control of Aether as its enemies can be destroyed with a mere look. It's abilities include [Lightning Burst], [Aether Cage], [Destructive Ray], [Aether Rune Mark], [Aether Breath], and [Storm of Decimation].

A dragon!

A genuine, full grown dragon!

"Ah…"

Noah walked towards it and touched its scales, the enormous beast 25 times his size bringing its terrifying head down for him to stroke it subserviently.

The 2 remaining Aether Half-Dragons and other Units roared out weakly while bowing their heads down, a new king arriving among Noah's forces!

It was Koddrys, the Champion of Aether!

RUMBLE!

With shining eyes, Noah looked into its detail as he focused on the two new skills that were added with the advent of this Dragon.

[Aether Breath] :: The most common skill of the Dragon Race, with the element of Aether making it particularly destructive as a large region will be burnt to cinders.

[Storm of Decimation] :: The Champion of Aether calls forth an Aether Storm to ravage the surroundings, any enemies within the affected area only being left to wish for the sweet release of death.

…!

A wondrous set of skills! Both of them having AOE Damage as they affected large areas, making Noah looked forward to when he cleared large droves of Dimensional Beasts in the Infinite Crucible again with a single cast of a skill!

RUMBLE

A brilliant light covered all of them as Noah and the Units were taken out of the Infinite Crucible after this, reappearing in the Waiting Room as Noah released a breath.

His gaze still lingering on the Dragon, he thought about how nearly 5 hours had passed while he cleared just 40 Waves of the Infinite Crucible.

With the addition of the Champion of Aether, this timer should drastically be reduced down as Noah could continue farming up to the 40th Wave every time to obtain the Gold Rank Treasure Trove that had 100,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals!

If he just did it three times and obtained 300,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals...that was another DIAMOND Unit…

He also had the Tower of Champions to continue as he felt like he would come across a Diamond Rift Boss sometime in the next 10 floors, and the Tower was less dangerous than the Infinite Crucible as it didn't force him to complete 10 at once!

There were many things for him to plan and do, but he would revel in the achievement of obtaining a DIAMOND Rift Boss as he prepared to make a grand move against the experts of this new Realm he transliterated in.

From the stories he read back in his homeworld, the Rulers of the three Continents would all be vying for Hegemony by planning protracted wars and involving hundreds of thousands of Blessed Soldiers in the mix!

They would be at the front lines as the Golden Commanders or when their DIAMOND experts were introduced, but the war would involve a great deal of people even though a few beings were the ones at the very top fighting for resources and wealth.

"I won't play like that…"

RUMBLE

A chilling smile appeared on Noah's face as he planned!

He wouldn't raise an army or do the tedious task of slowly going city to city to stretch his influence within the Dark and Wild Continents.

With him obtaining a DIAMOND Rift Boss, he could directly go against the old fogeys at the very top that were fighting this war for their own reasons- and he would Subjugate or kill them as he bypassed all the strenuous process of creating armies or moving slowly!

With his Units, he would be his own army as all he had to do was decimate and defeat the most powerful DIAMOND experts of the Dark and Wild Continent- and then he could put everything else under his heel!

With absolute strength, things became easy.

The so called Dark King of the Dark Continent was just a DIAMOND Ranked expert. If he faced the terrifying Champion of Aether right now- a Rift Boss that was 10 times more powerful than an average Blessed...what prevented his death?!

After all was over and done, after he had taken down these old experts controlling the wars in the dark, he would finally be able to relax while collecting Idle Resources.

He would allow Rose and Annalise to establish order and rule as they saw fit while he gazed at everything from above, just enjoying the fruits of his labor!

He could do so after those responsible for the war were dead or subjugated, after those that caused the death of his parents were paid back in full.

RUMBLE!

With a heart full of plans and a terrifying DIAMOND Unit in his hands, Noah disappeared from the Waiting Room as he returned into the Ethereal Realm after over a day and a half had passed.

He returned as a new man!

Chapter 85

As an enemy that could wipe all of them out rose in silence, the forces that stood atop the three Continents of the Ethereal Realm were preparing as they were about to move in full to achieve their goals!

To understand the alliances and reasoning of the powerful beings atop the Continents, we must discuss the powerhouses within the Ethereal Realm, and why you had multiple factions across the Realm!

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Tens of years ago, the most powerful experts were all in the Diamond Rank, with their being regional powers across the Ethereal Realm created by DIAMOND experts that worked together to clear the only Diamond Rift within the Realm.

This all changed when during a Rift run, the being that would go on to be the Ethereal Emperor obtained a unique Loot Drop that rarely dropped while he was diving with a Team of Diamond Ranked Blessed!

The rare Loot Drop was the item that caused the Ethereal Emperor to be elevated in strength above the rest, his power being elevated to PLATINUM Rank with it as with this event, many changes began to occur.

Among the Diamond Blessed that were within that Rift that day, the one that was currently known as the Dark King was among them, and the Ruler of the Wild Continent that was known as Alexander was also within this team!

They were able to see first hand the changes brought when the being their knew rose to PLATINUM, friction beginning to bud from this point as the Ethereal Emperor used his power and authority to close off the only Diamond Ranked Rift to beings he didn't trust, the Dark King and Alexander being among them as multiple DIAMOND Experts made the list.

If any of them were to try resisting, they would be standing against the only PLATINUM Ranked expert in their Realm, with their deaths only following close by!

It was then that the Ethereal Emperor proclaimed the Light Continent to be his domain, his will spreading throughout the Ethereal Realm as he enthroned himself an Emperor and created a Royal Household.

The Dark King who currently ruled the Dark Continent and Alexander who oversaw the Wild Continent banded with the other DIAMOND Ranked experts that were not trusted by the Ethereal Emperor, forming the nations they had today!

For years, the situation continued this way as the Dark and Wild Continent were isolated with access only to Gold Rifts, while the Ethereal Emperor and the Protectors he trusted remained in the Light Continent diving into the only DIAMOND Rift while trying to obtain the Unique Loot that granted the Ethereal Emperor his Rank of PLATINUM once more.

Yet...the situation never repeated itself.

Never in the years that passed did they come across the Rare Spawn creature within this Diamond Rift that could drop the unique Loot, and the miracle that the Ethereal Emperor experienced could not be recreated!

This is because the chance for the rare spawn to appear within the Rift were extremely low, and the Rift was so hard that it took days to clear- which didn't increase their chances in any way while they fought the terribly powerful Dimensional Beasts within.

This was when the decision that would cause the huge changes within the Ethereal Realm occurred.

It was when the Ethereal Emperor became disillusioned with the only Diamond Rift that never repeated a miracle, and he looked past his Ethereal Realm and into the stars for other chances and opportunities!

He chose...to leave and explore the starry space for more Dimensional Rifts that would provide new opportunities, not wanting to be stuck in this Realm until his death!

As a being at the PLATINUM Rank, he could seamlessly leave a world or Realm and go into outer space, traversing across the myriad of stellar bodies to look for something grander.

And so the Ethereal Emperor did! Leaving behind those he considered his friends to oversee and protect his Royal Family, he set off for the stars to walk on a brighter path!

Yet...the path he walked on would not be so bright and easy as something occurred during his exploration.

Not even a few years had passed before the Communication Medallion that the Ethereal Emperor left behind rang out with distraught words, something that only the Crown Prince and other DIAMOND Experts within the Light Continent got the chance to experience occurring as the powerful Ethereal Emperor that had dominated an entire Realm...shockingly faced his death in the starry space he went to explore!

Such shocking news was kept under wraps for more years, but it brings us to the current point where the DIAMOND experts of the Dark and Wild Continents knew of the death of the expert they feared, and that no PLATINUM deterrent existed in the Light Continent!

Yet...the passing of time with those in the Light Continent clearing the Diamond Rank Rift meant that more Diamond Blessed were born on their side, where their numbers were nearly twice as many if not more compared to the other 2 factions.

This was why the Dark and Wild Continent joined power...their most powerful experts seeking to take the Rifts of the Light Continent- but most of all to regain access to the Diamond Rift that was closed off to them!

This was why Warlord Steel that Noah had killed and the Impartial Protector that he fought knew each other, Steel calling the other merely a thief. The ais of the Diamond Blessed allied together against the Light Continent all wished to dive into the Rift that would elevate their strength once more, not being able to handle the fact that they were effectively given a death sentence as if they could not increase their Ranks, they would eventually be ravaged by time and simply die in silence.

So they moved with haste!

The forces of the Light Continent were also moving with haste as they tried to recreate the miracle the Ethereal Emperor had experienced to no avail.

Both sides were moving with the issue of time on the line, and this was why the Dark King had begun bringing together his Legions as he called upon all the DIAMOND experts who joined him years ago to take back their right to enter the Diamond Rift and seek ever greater power!

RUMBLE!

The skies on the innermost portion of the Dark Continent were cloudy, darkness covering the hundreds of thousands of Blessed that had begun moving out from this day.

Their faces were grim as they were Battalions of tens of thousands of Bronze Experts, thousands of Silver, and all of them were led by Golden Commanders as these multiple Battalions came together to create a Legion- a Legion that was led by a DIAMOND Expert!

Across the Dark Continent, 7 enormous terrifying Legions were moving and converging towards each other as it represented a force of 7 DIAMOND Blessed. This wasn't accounting for the Dark King himself who was currently in the skies above staring at everything below, his figure standing above an enormous black Crow that spanned tens of meters in size.

This was the grand scene that could be seen in the Dark Continent, with something similar happening in the Wild Continent as the Diamond Ruler, Alexander, oversaw the formation of 5 Legions!

With him included, there were only 5 other DIAMOND experts as they still could not come in contact with Warlord Steel- none of their forces knowing that he had fallen silently in a City that should have been a safe location.

The Legions moved as they would converge to meet the forces of the Dark Continent, where only a few days would pass before this alliance would enter the land of the Light Continent and fight for their right that was taken away from them!

RUMBLE!

"A few days...huh?"

Noah was twirling a Gold Core in his hands as he utilized [Mind Connection] to gather a great deal of information from the Gold Commanders he controlled.

He found out about the LEgions being formed by both the Dark and Wild Continent as with so many Gold Blessed under his control, he understood their reasoning behind the war somewhat! But that didn't change the fact that it was still the wills of a few powerful beings standing at the very top trying to get what they want!

"You could have simply banded together with all Diamond experts and laid out your attack on the other Diamond Blessed of the Light Continent. Fight it out with each other and decide the victor who gets to dive into the Diamond Rift...why involve small Cities and take over the resources of small Rifts as well?"

He understood why they did what they did, but he didn't accept the way they carried it out! Through the means they chose, multiple Cities within the Light Continent were overtaken as many innocent beings that had nothing to do with the actions of the Ethereal Emperor and the Imperial Capital were killed, and this was why Noah would target these powerful DIAMOND experts of the Dark and Wild Continents first before he made his way into the Imperial Capital!

His eyes released majestic tendrils of light as he thought of such a scene, with himself standing atop a DIAMOND Rift Boss with many more fighting beside him as he faced their powerful DIAMOND Commanders…

Chapter 86

Noah was mostly thinking to himself as he affirmed his goals, the Gold Core he was throwing up and down landing on his hands as his eyes looked towards the figures of two girls that were brimming with power in the same balcony of the Villa he was in.

It was the figures of Annalise and Rose finishing their breakthroughs into the Gold Rank, Annalise being covered by frost all over her body as she released an icy aura that made her genuinely look like her inherent skill- an Ice Queen!

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Meanwhile, peals of thunder and lightning surrounded Rose as her expression was dignified, her Inherent Skill as a ||Lightning Reinforcer|| also being elevated along with her rise to GOLD.

WAA!

The two girls opened their eyes at the same time as their bodies beautifully glimmered with gold, Noah looking towards them with a smile as even these two girls had come far from where they were before!

Noah patted his little sister's head as her eyes cutely turned defiant while she rose to maintain the demeanor of an Ice Queen, a smile of happiness present on her face when she looked towards her older brother! His gaze went towards Rose as he spoke.

"We know about the Legions and numbers of Diamond Blessed within the Dark and Wild Continent, what about the Light Continent? Aside from that Impartial Protector Chen, how many are there?"

Rose's silver hair that signified Royalty beautifully cascaded down her shoulders as the lightning around her dwindled, looking towards Noah with eyes filled with an untold amount of light and thoughts as she replied with a thoughtful expression.

"The number of Protectors that Father left behind...should be more than 15!"

RUMBLE!

The Ethereal Princess mentioned a number that was double what the Dark or Wild Continents each had, where they would only be able to match their forces if they allied together as they did!

Noah nodded with eyes shining with an intense light, speaking in a tone the girls found enchanting and domineering his body pulsed with power.

"Very well, in a few days, I'll move out to take on these Diamond Experts...with the battle for this Ethereal Realm not taking weeks or months as hundreds of thousands of Blessed fall to their deaths, but only the strongest peak Experts that began this war in the first place!"

RUMBLE!

His words caused the atmosphere to change as the two girls looked towards each other with shining eyes. Noah himself gazed out from the balcony of the Villa as he knew very well what he was doing, making calculations on how he would be proceeding in the Tower of Champion, Shattered Rifts, and the Infinite Crucible for him to obtain multiple DIAMOND Units in the next few days before he moved out with confidence to break the balance of this whole Realm.

"I'll see you girls in a bit."

SHAA!

With a light smile, Noah threw the Gold Core in his hands towards Annalise and Rose as he disappeared, returning into the Waiting Room where a great deal of Features lay open for him to utilize!

Noah moved to achieve his goal of having multiple DIAMOND Rift Bosses under him as the best way to do this...was actually the new Infinite Crucible that seemed to be calling for him by the side.

So long as he went into the Infinite Crucible and cleared the initial 40 waves three times, he would obtain 100,000 Gold Unt Upgrade Crystals from just the Tier 3 Treasure Trove. If he did this three times...that was the 300,000 Upgrade Crystals that he needed to obtain a Diamond Unit!

And what stopped him from simply clearing the 40 waves again after he collected his loot and restarted the Crucible? The answer was not a damn thing as this time around, he planned to farm until he left this place with a ridiculous amount of power.

A ridiculous amount of power that was only made possible through a ridiculous System!

Before doing anything else, Noah visited the Dimensional Store to buy the Unit Crystals of Aether Drakes to forge another Aether Half-Dragon to take the empty spot in his party that was made after the fusion of the DIAMOND Ranked Champion of Aether- Koddrys!

It was only after that when Noah went towards the enormous doorway that was the Infinite Crucible, seeing that to the right of it, a blue panel had appeared that showed his highest Wave cleared and its time of 4 hours, highest Treasure Trove obtained, as well as...the number of Crucible Points.

[Crucible Points](40) :: Can be utilized to buy Unique Loot in the Dimensional Store, or utilized to grant Blessings to oneself or Curses to the Dimensional Beasts that are applied until death is met or you choose to leave. Current applicable Blessings- [Enhanced Mana and Health Regeneration], [Poison on Attack], [Damage Modifier]... Current applicable Curses- [Mana Drain], [Mindless Frenzy], [Firebourne], [Darkbourne], [Speedy]...

A flash of interest passed through Noah's eyes as he focused on the Blessings and curses to learn more about them.

[Poison on Attack](40 Crucible Points) :: This Blessing grants the challenger of the crucible and his allies the ability to lay deadly poison on any enemies they attack with skills or weapons, this poison dealing 10% of their total damage as poison damage every second.

[Firebourne](40 Crucible Points) :: The Dimensional Beasts swarming within become Inflamed, becoming fused with flames throughout their bodies and origins as they deal increased fire damage with every attack, but they become more susceptible to any sources of cold damage as their resistance become heavily reduced.

[Darkbourne](40 Crucible Points) :: The Dimensional Beasts swarming within become steeped in darkness, dealing increased dark attribute damage with every attack, but they become more susceptible to any sources of Light damage as their resistance become heavily reduced. Defeating waves of Darkbourne Beasts grant much higher rewards.

"Well…"

A truly unique set of Blessings and curses lay in front of him, giving Noah many ideas on how to utilize them to get even further in the Infinite Crucible!

There were a variety of curses that dealt with the elements like [Darkbourne], [Lightbourne], [Aetherbourne]...if Noah created a full Light Unit Team in the future and bought the Darkbourne Curse, he would most likely be able to get much further ahead in the Infinite Crucible, with the rewards being even more abundant!

For the coming runs, he would save the Crucible Points as he just undertook his goal of farming the Tier 3 Treasure Trove for ore Gold Cores.

THRUM!

His body stepped into the gateway of the Infinite Crucible as he was carried away, returning to the expansive octagon floating in the starry space as he called forth his terrifying Units.

ROAAAR!

The first to arrive emanate ridiculous levels of power, the full fledged Dragon Koddrys roaring out with power as the Gold Units that came out after paled in comparison to it!

3 Aether Half-Dragons, a Frost Basilisk, an Equipment Guardian, and two Conflagrant Pegasi made their appearance as well, Noah commencing his second run of the Infinite Crucible as this time around, he sought to farm until obtaining another DIAMOND Unit!

[Wave 1 Commencing.]

RUMBLE!

Portals activated as a flood of monsters began to appear, the puny levels at Iron making the Champion of Aether look towards them with disdain, Aether bursting off of its scales as a bloody massacre of many waves began in the Infinite Crucible.

With the inclusion of a DIAMOND Ranked Unit, Noah thundered across the Waves of the Crucible as he reached the 30th Wave in just half an hour, and it then took him 2 hours to go through the throngs of Gold Rift Bosses before he returned to clearing the 40th Wave!

This time around, it felt much easier as his life or the lives of his units wasn't constantly under threat with the protection and strength of the terrifying Champion of Aether that was at the DIAMOND Rank.

Yet Noah kept to his plans as he gave up continuing the waves at 40, not choosing to endanger his life with tens of Gold Rift Bosses that would continue to appear after these floors as he didn't know what shockingly powerful creatures would have to be cleared on the 50th Wave. He gave up as his rewards were displayed in front of his eyes!

[40 Waves Cleared. Based on the Clear time of the Waves, rewarded with Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove.]

RUMBLE!

A shining Gold chest appeared in Noah's inventory, and this time it wasn't Tier 3, but Tier 1!

His clear time had been reduced so much with the inclusion of Koddrys that his rewards would actually be even more abundant!

[Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove] :: [+10,000 Gold Cores] [+150,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+300 Random Gold Rank Unit Shards], [+40 Random Gold Equipment], [+100,000 Silver Cores], [+500,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+1000 Random Silver Rank Unit Shards]...

…!

Noah looked at the shocking details of the Treasure Trove as a smile could not help but break from his face!

Chapter 87

A Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove appeared!

With the shocking speed of clearing that Koddrys provided, Noah's rewards were boosted even more that instead of 100,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals, he obtained 150,000! Such a thing meant that instead of clearing the Infinite Crucible's 40 Waves 2 more times, he just had to do it once more…

"Good!"

His eyes blazed with wondrous light as his body was taken out from the octagonal Crucible, finding himself back in the Waiting Room as he made his way over to the pulsing gateway a second later.

Into the Infinite Crucible again!

Noah began going through the waves just like before in a mechanical manner, doing his best to begin the process of farming DIAMOND Rank Units as he wanted to move with a full team of such terrific beings before the Legions of the Dark and Wild Continent reached the Light Continent!

ROAAR!

Within the Crucible, a terrifying Dragon's Breath that released scorching tendrils of Aether crushed down towards two GOLD Rift Bosses, their defenses ripped apart as when the breath receded they could barely move as they whimpered in pain.

SHAA!

A Destructive Ray then thundered out as the two creatures were bisected in half, the floor of the Crucible coming to a stop as the 40th Wave was cleared once more! The moment Noah got the prompt to continue or to give up, he unhesitatingly gave up as he knew another DIAMOND Unit was waiting for him at this moment.

[40 Waves Cleared. Based on the Clear time of the Waves, rewarded with Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove.]

The beautiful message appeared in front of his eyes again as the bodies of him and his units were warped out of the Infinite Crucible once more!

Noah then clicked on the Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove as a deep smile appeared on his face.

[Tier 1 Gold Rank Treasure Trove] :: [+10,000 Gold Cores] [+150,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+300 Random Gold Rank Unit Shards], [+40 Random Gold Equipment], [+100,000 Silver Cores], [+500,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+1000 Random Silver Rank Unit Shards]...

Upgrade Crystals, and even more Gold Cores that he could use to now buy Gold Unit Shards from the Dimensional Store similar to how he was buying Silver Rank Aether Drake Cores with 10,000 Silver Coins.

When he went back to the Dimensional Store and went to the GOLD section, he would be able to buy the Shards of Aether Half-Dragons, Conflagrant Pegasi, and Equipment Guardians for 10,000 Gold Each- having a unique selection for his future DIAMOND Team!

At this moment, he wanted his team to be somewhat balanced without just overly powerful Offensive Units, and it was why he planned to buy another Light Equipment Guardian for its powerful defensive skills and healing capabilities.

But for now...he wanted the ridiculous DPS of another full-fledged Aether Dragon as he utilized his 300,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Cores to enhance two Aether Half-Dragons and fuse another DIAMOND Ranked Unit!

RUMBLE!

Mana freely raged in the surroundings as Noah did ridiculous things with utter ease, yet another terrifying Champion of Aether appeared in front of his eyes.

DIAMOND [Coadrien, The Champion of Aether] :: A full grown adult dragon of the Aether Element. It has gained masterful control of Aether as its enemies can be destroyed with a mere look. It's abilities include [Lightning Burst], [Aether Cage], [Destructive Ray], [Aether Rune Mark], [Aether Breath], and [Storm of Decimation].

Another Champion of Aether, but this time carrying the name Coadrien! Noah only focused on its terrifying purple scales and cold eyes that radiated regality, this terrifying Dragon seeming like a twin of Koddrys as the two of them looked at each other with a sharp light.

"Truly…"

Noah looked at this scene with utter wonder as he truly gave himself another DIAMOND Unit in just 5 hours! With the appearance of this second one, his clear time would be further reduced as he would soon enough even be confident to delve past the 40th Wave and be capable of clearing it to the 50th!

With a heart bubbling with enthusiasm, he delved back into the Infinite Crucible as he farmed to his heart's content.

4 hours later, another 300,00 Gold Rank Upgrade Units were obtained!

Another DIAMOND Ranked Champion of Aether appeared!

After that, the clear time was reduced by another hour as after 3 hours, another Champion of Aether was born.

That was a total of 12 hours to obtain 3 new DIAMOND Ranked Units! It was ridiculous, unbelievable, and it just should not be allowed!

ROAAR!

When Noah looked at the magnificent sight of 4 Champions of Aether, he finally felt content with these terrifying Dragons as he then looked at the Units of other Elements. He visited the Dimensional Store in between his runs to the Infinite Crucible, spending 10,000 Gold Cores to purchase Light Equipment Guardian Shards.

It was time for him to make an overly powerful healing and defense Unit as after that with the inclusion of 4 terrifying Champions of Aether, he would go past the 40th Wave to obtain even more gorgeous rewards!

With his forces currently, he wasn't even afraid of meeting a DIAMOND Rift Boss in the Infinite Crucible or the Tower of Champions, and such a thing he was even looking forward to as it meant he would obtain DIAMOND Cores to enhance his strength into this level as well!

Another 2 and a half hours passed as he delved into the Infinite Crucible twice in this period of time, his clear time having been more than halved from the original time as the force of 4 DIAMOND Dragons was nothing to joke about.

The last two runs provided another 300,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals as this time, Noah had the fusion of another 2 Units to step into the rank of DIAMOND.

The wondrous golden colored Light Element raged around with the fusion of two Light Equipment Guardians, Noah's eyes expectant on the result as he wasn't let down, his shining eyes letting out gorgeous tendrils of blue light as they landed on a 20 meter large creature that shone gold from all around!

It looked like an enormous golden armor, beautiful gold light running through the gaps of its armor as it connected everything together, a hazy gold light congregating together as it formed a cloudy head. For its weapons, it held a huge golden hammer that pulsed with a shocking light, as well as a large golden Tower Shield.

It looked like a genuine protector of the battlefield as Noah glanced at its details!

DIAMOND [Glorious Paladin of Light] :: An autonomous living armor that has ascended to become a Paladin of Light. For healing and protection, no others in the same rank can exceed it. Abilities include [Invisibility], [Golden Shield], [Light of Dawn], and [Equipment Mode], [Summon Holy Totem], [Hammer of Glory].

A Paladin of Light. A glorious one at that! Noah's eyes shone as he looked at the details of the last 2 added skills.

[Summon Holy Totem] :: The Glorious Paladin of Light calls forth an ancient totem filled with the power of Light, this Totem hanging in the skies as it grants the Paladin of Light and its allies constant effects of [Resplendent Healing], [Boosted Defense], [Enhanced Attack], and [Righteous Light].

[Hammer of Glory] :: The Paladin protects in the most righteous way it knows- by laying down scorching judgment. This ability calls from a 50 meter Hammer of Glory that strikes down any nearby enemies, this Hammer releasing [Scorching Light Flames] in the 100 meter area where it lands.

"...well damn."

Noah glanced at the details of the skills with surprise as they seemed overly powerful, not wasting any time as he delved into the Infinite Crucible. This time around, he didn't plan on stopping at the 40th Wave!

The utility of the Paladin of Light was shocking to say the least, its abilities of healing and buffs being eclipsed by the shocking area of attack that was termed [Hammer of Glory].

On the 40th Wave where 5 Gold Rift Bosses were moving towards Noah from a certain direction, he gave a command as the golden shining Paladin of Light lifted the hammer it held to the skies before bringing it down!

[Hammer of Glory].

RUMBLE!

The skies trembled as they formed an enormous golden hammer that towered 50 meters in size, the oversized hammer thundering towards the group of 5 Rift Bosses and the normal Gold Rank Units following them as the impact was utterly decimating.

BOOM!

The floor of the Infinite Crucible shook as many Beasts were splattered to nothingness, but it was the scene that followed which was truly heart pumping! Golden scorching flames erupted from the point of contact of the hammer, spreading out to a 100 meter region as everything became covered by hellish golden flames that burnt down 5 Gold Rift Bosses to cinders!

WAA!

This was the terrifying power of the Paladin of Light! A defensive Unit whose one attack skill didn't lose out to the most powerful attacks of a Champion of Aether!

With such a creature within his team, Noah did not choose to give up on the 40th Wave as his eyes shone brightly with his voice ringing out when the prompt came.

"Continue!"

THRUM!

Mana exploded out as the mountain of corpses from the 40th Wave disappeared, Noah entering past it for the first time as he was about to come face to face with 30-40 Gold Rift Bosses per Wave, but the rewards were bound to be even more wondrous.

Chapter 88

In the Waves that followed, the Gold Rift Bosses he faced were of course ramped up in large numbers, where by the 45th Wave, Noah was facing 40 Gold Rift Bosses that swarmed towards him in a terrifying manner with hundreds of normal Gold Rank Dimensional Beasts!

OOOOOH!

But with the presence of 4 Champions of Aether, genuine Dragons that were at the DIAMOND Rank who were paired up with a majestic Paladin of Light...the battles were shockingly dominated by Noah's strength.

The terrifying DIAMOND Units released their milky white luster of their Rank, managing to withstand multiple Gold Rift Bosses to themselves as after the release of a few skills, a few Bosses would begin to fall as the pressure on them would reduce even more!

[Hammer of Glory].

RUMBLE!

A hammer that released a shocking light would be cast as it thundered down and wiped out a large region of Beasts!

[Dragon's Breath].

WAAA!

Filled with the pulsing power of Aether, vast stretches of land were affected by the high temperature Breath that decimated anything they came across.

Like this, even the 45th Wave with 40 Gold Rift Bosses were cleared after half an hour!

Noah continued to slowly and carefully make his way forward, the waves continuing to come up until the 49th Wave, the Gold Rift Bosses he faced became 45.

This didn't bode well for the last coming Wave where if Noah was following the pattern of previous Waves, there would be a creature a Rank higher after he faced such a large number of Rift Bosses in the previous waves!

[Wave 50 Commencing.]

THRUM!

The waves of the Infinite Crucible were emotionless as they continued to come, the many red portals spread out across the octagonal Crucible vibrating as they began to release a horrendous amount of Beasts.

The Dimensional Beasts this time were extremely unique, Noah seeing all of their bodies dancing with flames as it looked like the Beasts of the 50th Wave were naturally given the Flamebourne Curse!

The auras of 50 Gold Rank Rift Bosses could be seen in a shocking fashion as to top off all this...Noah could sense the aura of a single creature that released a much more dreadful feeling than all of them.

ROAAAR!

In one direction, Noah's eyes squinted to find an enormous 30 meter tall beast stepping out of a huge portal!

3 heads, a body clad in writhing flames, and eyes releasing terrifying beams of light as a milky white aura surrounded it.

It was a creature at the DIAMOND Rank!

The name of [Hellfire Cerberus] appeared above it as Noah felt his heart beat faster when looking at this scene, his mind moving rapidly as he gave multiple commands to his Units.

A terrifying battle was ahead of them!

THRUM!

The body of the Paladin of Light glimmered as before the battle even began, it's hands came to its chest as if it was praying, the skill [Summoning Holy Totem] being cast as a brilliant Light Totem releasing powerful boosts and Heals manifested in the skies, washing over Noah and his Units as the Champions of Aether flew put towards their enemies with fervor!

[Storm of Decimation].

[Storm of Decimation].

Terrifying destructive Aether began to form and rain down all around them, Koddrys and the other Dragons fully displaying their shocking might as they went to om to release storms of Aether onto their enemies.

ROAAR!

The Hellfire Cerberus bellowed out while releasing waves of flames, but the elements of Aether and Light could not be brought to a stop!

Against 5 DIAMOND Rank Rift Bosses, the singular powerful Cerberus was torn down as the other Flamebourne Dimensional Beasts faced the same fate.

It was the fate that would befall any enemies that would meet Noah's soon to be completed team!

BOOM!

After an hour had passed, the enormous body of the Hellfire Cerberus slumped to the ground as Noah breathed hard, his Units looking at everything with shocking majesty as a few injuries were present on their bodies and healing rapidly from the Holy Totem floating above them.

The offensive strength of the Champions of Aether overflowed as they were followed up by the great utility of the Paladin of Light that provided healing and powerful attacking strength as well!

But with it, the 50th Wave was cleared as Noah chose to give up from continuing right after! He did not yet want to face the eventual Waves that were filled with 5 Diamond Rift Bosses and then 10 Diamond monstrosities, liking his little life too much and not wanting to lose the privileges of the Idle System when he had to set off to face the experts of the Continent soon.

[50 Waves Cleared. Based on the Clear time of the Waves, rewarded with Tier 5 DIAMOND Rank Treasure Trove.]

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A DIAMOND Ranked Treasure Trove had appeared!

Granted, it seemed to be the lowest Tier 5 of the wondrous Treasure Troves, but it was DIAMOND nonetheless!

[Tier 5 DIAMOND Rank Treasure Trove] :: [+10 Diamond Cores], [+10,000 Diamond Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+10 Random Diamond Rank Unit Shards], [+1 Random Diamond Equipment], [+20,000 Gold Cores] [+300,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+300 Random Gold Rank Unit Shards], [+80 Random Gold Equipment], [+200,000 Silver Cores], [+1,000,000 Silver Rank Upgrade Crystals], [+2000 Random Silver Rank Unit Shards]...

A beautiful display of words were displayed in front of him as he and his units were teleported out of the Infinite Crucible!

It was loot of great significance in many ways, as most importantly was the finding of DIAMOND Cores for the first time in Noah's life, A DIAMOND Equipment, and enough Gold Upgrade Crystals in a single Crucible run to call forth another Diamond Unit!

It took him around 6 hours to fully clear up to the 50th Wave at this time due to the increased Gold Rift Bosses in Waves 41 through 50, but him repeatedly farming all 50 Waves would be much more beneficial even if takes the longer period of time as the loot one could obtain from them...was simply too high tier.

His eyes swirled with intense light as he waved his hands to bring out the DIAMOND Cores from his Inventory, watching the crystalline white Cores glisten brightly and illuminate his face! This was his key to stepping into the next rank that very few beings achieved in the Ethereal Realm, a rank that any who did achieve it were stuck on for all their lives!

Yet Noah was about to reach it in just days, his speed being something that would cause the natives of the Ethereal Realm to die of envy if ever they knew.

WAA!

A glorious shine emanated out as he began to absorb the Cores pulsing with energy, his eyes going towards the two Conflagrant Pegasi as he gave the command to utilize the 300,000 Gold Rank Upgrade Crystals on them as the bases for the next fusion of a Diamond Unit!

For the next few seconds, a light show pulsed out of the region Noah and his units were at as a powerful bellow came out soon after, the two Conflagrant Pegasi disappearing as a glorious 20 meter tall creature with a pristine white horn appeared majestically before Noah's eyes.

[Luminous Unicorn] :: A rare creature of the Light Element that is known for its gentle yet terrifying nature. It's abilities include [Scorching Light Spear], [Elemental Reinforcement], [Rays of Burning Light], [Instant Acceleration], [Swords of Light], and [Photoportation]

"Ho?"

Noah's eyes perked up at the details of the new Unit as he stared at the gorgeously white furred Unicorn that held a piercing horn and expansive white wings. He looked at the details of the skills that pulled at his attention!

[Swords of Light] :: The call of a wrathful creature of light rains down scorching swords of light that cleanse all enemies.

[Photoportation] :: The Luminous Unicorn is capable of teleporting itself or others with the use of light photons.

…!

A brilliant new skill that caused Noah to veer over [Swords of Light] entirely, Noah giving a command to the Luminous Unicorn to cast Photoportation!

SHAA!

Like a literal flash of light, the Unicorn disappeared from the location it was at and appeared a few meters away, instantaneously!

Noah stared at this skill as he gave another command to cast the skill, this time on Koddrys.

SHAA!

The enormous Dragon became a glimmer of light as it was also instantaneously teleported meters away, the light in Noah's eyes shining ever brighter as he obtained a top tier skill with the advancement of the Luminous Unicorn!

"Good! Let's go back in…"

With such a creature coming into his party, he became all the more terrifying as thereafter, the dangerous trek towards the 50th Wave of the Infinite Crucible that he went on to repeat was as dangerous, where the lives of none of the Units ever became threatened!

After clearing up to the 50th Wave again and receiving another Tier 5 DIAMOND Treasure Trove, Noah's 7th DIAMOND Unit was another Luminous Unicorn after he found its damage output and unique Photoportstion ability to be just too useful.

He then spent a reduced amount of 4 hours as he moved with 7 DIAMOND Units to clear the 50 Waves again and obtain another 300,000 Gold Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals from the Tier 5 DIAMOND Treasure Trove, getting his hands on the last Upgrade Crystals he needed to obtain the last Diamond Unit!

He chose to go with the tank that could also dish out ridiculous damage and Heals, getting another Paladin of Light after he purchased its Unit Shards from the Dimensional Store.

THRUM!

After coming out of the Crucible for the last time since he came here in the past day, Noah stared breathlessly at the ridiculous sight of the achievements he had managed to obtain after just a few days.

It was the achievement of looking at 8 DIAMOND RIFT Bosses, putting him in the upper ranks of strength if not near the peak of the powerhouses dwelling in the Ethereal Realm!

Now...it was time for him to make a move!

Chapter 89

At this point, Noah was like a rich young master with all the resources that he obtained more and more of every single day, while the natives of the Ethereal Realm always struggled just for common resources like they were peasants!

The sight of 8 DIAMOND Rift Bosses and what they signified was just too ridiculous, Noah looking at them left to right with a gratified expression.

4 Dragons who were termed Champions of Aether with their own names, 2 Paladins of Light, and 2 Luminous Unicorns!

RUMBLE!

Their appearance of being summoned all at once seemed to cause the elements in the surroundings to rage, the Light and Aether Elements swirling around them shaking with power as a bright light shone in front of Noah's eyes.

DING!

[Unlocked a hidden Feature- Unit Synergy. Current Synergy effect of half Aether and half Light Units, [Light of Aether], grants +100% Increased Mana and Health Regeneration, +100% Increased Attack Speed, and +100% Increase to All Damage.]

…!

The surprises of the System weren't done as from the completion of 4 Aether Units and 4 Light Units, a synergistic party effect was seen as their strength was enhanced with stupendous boosts!

"Ah…"

He stared at the figures of the powerful Units in wonder as he sat down on the cold floor of the Waiting Room to continue absorbing the other 10 Diamond Cores he just received.

Shockingly, he had already absorbed 20 of them as his body continued to accumulate strength, feeling extremely robust at this moment as it took a larger amount of Cores to break through from GOLD to DIAMOND!

THRUM!

His body roiled with energy as only after the absorption of the 27th DIAMOND Core did he begin releasing a lustrous white, taking his eyes off of the stupendous Units and focusing on his own body as it began to rise in the air while releasing a milky white radiance.

He was truly forging ahead!

To the DIAMOND Rank that very few beings could achieve, to the rank that was the highest level within the Ethereal Realm he had transmigrated in!

"With this…"

RUMBLE

Mana raged as he opened his eyes and released a milky white luster. His power seemed immense, like a single move from him could release skills that could affect the weather of nearby miles.

This wasn't just due to the powerful aura that DIAMOND Ranked experts released, but it was due to Noah's strength that was enhanced by his Inherent Skills!

With the advancement to DIAMOND, the ||Mind Dominator|| and ||Telekinetic Emperor|| were further enhanced as he gained a new ability in each of them!

His mental energies raged around him as his eyes released powerful bursts of blue light, knowing that the power he could release while utilizing the abilities of these Inherent Skills were about to be crazy.

||Mind Dominator|| :: A weak mind cannot advance far in the future. This is an inherent skill that strengthens the mind of the user while granting them abilities that can dominate others. The abilities [Subjugate], [Mind Connection], [Remote Control], and [Dominator's Consciousness] are currently unlocked. Locked abilities that will become usable as the User rises through ranks-? [Evolve|Devolve]...

||Telekinetic Emperor|| :: An inherent skill that grants its user the capability to manipulate matter with their mind. Constant and continued use of the abilities of this Inherent Skill will only work to increase the mental strength of the Telekinetic Emperor. The abilities [Matter Manipulation], [Mental Field], [Telekinetic Energy Emission], and [Field Master] are currently unlocked. Locked abilities that will become usable as the User rises through ranks- [Ruler's Emenation]...

An extra ability was added to each of the Inherent Skills, Noah going ahead to observe them as he felt the strength of his mind and the force he released to have increased at a ridiculous level once he broke into the DIAMOND rank.

[Dominator's Consciousness] :: A Passive Ability that greatly increases the strength of the soul and consciousness of the Mind Dominator depending on how many beings he has subjugated and how powerful they are.

[Field Master] :: The Telekinetic Emperor becomes capable of creating three different types of fields of mental energies- an Attraction Field that pulls surrounding objects towards him, a Repulsion Field that pushes objects away, and an Aversion Field that causes nearby objects to avoid the Field Master's body.

…!

Wondrous skills that made the Inherent Skills work very well with each other!

This was especially so for the [Dominator's Consciousness], an ability that greatly increased his mental strength and made him feel like he could explode with a ridiculous amount of mind power when utilizing Telekinetic Emperor!

As for the ability of using an energy field to attract, repulse, and cause objects have an aversion towards him...such a wondrous thing could only be explored with its full wonder when the time came.

RUMBLE!

His body rose to the skies with the milky white luster emanating from it, his eyes releasing tendrils of light as he waved his hands to cause the 8 Units to turn into streaks of light that returned to his Inventory!

He then pulled up the Idle Gaming System Interface as he glanced at 102 Rifts that were glimmering with a shocking luster of golden light after being left alone for over a day, clicking on all of them as golden words filled his eyes!

IRON [+48,925 Idle Exp][+153,284 Iron Rank Cores][+3205 Blazing Armor]...[+4,468 Iron Rank Minotaur Shard]...[+375,926 Iron Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

BRONZE [+59,355 Idle Exp][+110,375 Bronze Rank Cores]...[+3,945 Bronze Rank Frost Wolf Shards]...[+290,585 Bronze Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

SILVER [+32,995 Idle Exp][+38,833 Silver Rank Cores]...[+3,934 Silver Rank Molten Beast Shards]...[+137,582 Silver Rank Unit Upgrade Crystals]

Nearly 150,000 Idle Exp that brought forth the next System Upgrade even closer, as well as a ridiculous amount of Cores and other loot that came with even more frequency as he grew more powerful.

One must recall that with more powerful Units by his side, Noah's clear time had a percentage reduction that caused the Dimensional Rifts in Idle Mode to loop even faster!

Noah let out a breath as after achieving DIAMOND and collecting a ridiculous amount of loot, only then did his figure leave the Waiting Room, coming out an entirely different being as he was now a force that might be the strongest on the whole Ethereal Realm!

With such a power, he planned to now go forward to achieve his plan of putting the powerful beings waging war under his feet- he planned to go decimate the DIAMOND Ranked experts of the Dark and Wild Continents!

RUMBLE!

His figure disappeared from the Waiting Room, reappearing within his villa that was busy with Blessed moving about.

Information about the Legions of the Dark and Wild Continent was constantly being gathered and put together, especially their exact positioning and the location where their forces were about to converge and join together!

With Noah's reappearance, the figures of Annalise and Rose who were in a large hall of the villa appeared as they picked up the shocking aura he released.

The two women that were standing powerfully in the GOLD Rank looked towards him with shining eyes as they noticed the aura around Noah to be ridiculously heavy, his gaze languid as he stared back at them while his body emanated power!

"It's time."

RUMBLE!

His words caused a change in the surroundings as the air became heavy, his eyes flashing with a light of determination as he continued.

"I'll do things directly and battle with the strongest forces behind this...I'll skip months and years of war as I end everything by simply becoming the strongest force there is!"

…!

His bright eyes then landed on Annalise and Rose as he continued with a light smile.

"After that, you guys can choose how to lead everyone...and maybe I can finally relax how I used to."

He looked towards the little sister he obtained in this world with kind eyes, the girl that was now a powerful Blessed at the Gold Rank and emanating an icy aura that fit her Inherent Skill coming forward and hugging him tightly. Her voice was light as she spoke with a smile.

"Sorry for putting everything on your shoulders...and thank you."

Noah patted the crimson hair that didn't fit the cold aura that his little sister emanated, nodding towards Rose by the side who looked towards her with bright eyes.

After that, a figure shining with a milky white light could be seen flying from a nondescript Villa in Academy City, his path towards the direction past the border Cities of the Light Continent as he made his way towards the junction between the Light and Dark Continents- towards the location that the Legions of the two powerful forces would be congregating together before they make their way into the Light Continent for a bloody war!

Chapter 90

The earth trembled as millions of forces moved their heavy feet in the form of multiple Legions.

These forces had become even larger in the past day as the Legions from the Wild Continent had merged their path and connected with the ones from the Dark Continent!

There were powerful Golden Commanders leading the Battalions that made up these Legions, and there were the even more sagely looking DIAMOND Commanders who were floating with a milky white light in front of every Legion.

Their expressions were those of excitement as these beings looked forward to this coming war, such an action meaning they would finally be reclaiming their right to delve into the only DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift within their Ethereal Realm!

OOOOOH!

The blood of their forces was bubbling with fervor as they moved, feeling like they were on a grand conquest that would define their lives.

Above these forces in the cloudy skies, two beings wrapped in milky white light were looking at them while talking.

"They've most likely seen the movement of our forces, but it should be in our favor as it took us days to pan and put everything together. That little Crown Prince who used to be a snot-nosed brat won't be able to mount up a strong enough defense in the beginning. We must use this to our advantage…"

The Dark King was speaking to King Alexander of the Wild Continent, his eyes shining brightly as he spoke of the current Ruler of the Light Continent like he was nothing!

Alexander nodded at these words as he looked at the forces below them, his eyes heavy as they seemed to carry a great deal of responsibility.

"The masses of them have no idea why we are going to war...and their blood will be spilled the most on the battlefield. We couldn't have done this any other way?"

"..."

A look of melancholy and pain appeared on Alexander, the Dark King ruling his eyes at this being's indecision as he asked about something else.

"Still no word on Warlord Steel?"

"None."

RUMBLE

There was a period of silence between the two as a situation neither of them could explain continued.

A DIAMOND Ranked Warlord…had just disappeared from the face of the earth just like that. They couldn't locate Warlord Steel, and didn't know the reason why he just disappeared!

"All the Golden Commanders I reached out say nothing happened out of the usual, but the Villa that Steel was hiding in was just empty when morning came…"

King Alexander's eyes were filled with solemnity as he spoke, the Dark King nodding as he looked towards the stretch of mountains they had to trek before they could see the outline of the Light Continent.

"We'll reach the 10 Subjugated Cities in about a day, after that we'll look at the scene to discern our trut-"

RUUUUUMBLE!

In the middle of his words, the Dark King was brought to a stop as his eyes constricted, both him and Alexander looking towards the same mountains that led to the Light Continent as they felt the tumbling and heart shaking beastial aura erupt out from the mountains, seeing the terrifying creature blatantly releasing this aura a second later as their eyes shone brightly!

"What…!"

"This…!"

All eyes went to the skies as even the Legions below felt the overpowering aura, raising their eyes to come face to face with the terrifying figure of an enormous Dragon that shone with a milky white light amongst all the bursts of purple Aether around it.

OOOOOOH!

The Dragon roared towards them as the Legions nearly felt their knees buckle, the Dark King looking at this ferocious creature that actually raised its head towards the figures of him and Alexander in the skies!

The expressions of these two Rulers were grim as they looked over at this creature, sensing its ferocious power that they actually remembered from before.

It was a power they had only come across when they dove into the only DIAMOND Dimensional Rift in the Ethereal Realm- the power of a genuine Rift Boss of this same level!

"What the hell is this?!"

The Dark King gritted his teeth while looking towards the oppressive force this Dragon released, not knowing how it appeared or why.

Well, the why could be discerned as the creature was looking towards them with a cold expression, and this was the reason for their current grim state!

In the next moment though, their eyes shook with even greater surprise and shock than when the Dragon first appeared, and this was because they managed to see something they had missed in the grandeur of the appearance of this Dragon- the fact that a being was being carried on its majestic back.

The figure of a human...was being carried on top of this powerful Dragon that released an aura multiple times more dominating than a normal DIAMOND Expert!

…!

With expressions of utter shock, they locked on to the figure of a man that could barely be considered to be entering his 20s, his fair face being spotless as his eyes glimmered with an intense blue light.

Hair as dark as night stood atop his head as this being...looked towards the Dark King and Alexander with exceedingly cold eyes that were filled with utter disrespect and coldness!

"Who are you?!"

RUMBLE

The grim looking Dark King bellowed out as the Legions below them came to a halt, his bellow being answered quickly as all 7 streaks of milky white lights that were leading the Legions below came up to float beside him.

All of them...Blessed at the DIAMOND Rank as their faces were those of middle aged men that had seen the vicissitudes of life!

But at this moment, they had grim expressions when staring at the DIAMOND Rift Boss as they felt like they were returned back to decades ago and they were facing the Boss of the Diamond Rift they were trying to reclaim.

The being atop the wondrous Champion of Aether, Noah Eckert, looked towards the Rulers of the Dark and Wild Continents with exceedingly cold eyes as he had yet to utter a single word!

Only when the 6 DIAMOND experts of the Legions of the Wild Continent also came up to float beside Alexander did he speak.

"This is everyone?"

"..."

RUMBLE!

Words of utter dominance and disregard flowed out as Noah's voice traveled all across the skies, the expressions of the 15 DIAMOND experts in the skies darkening at them as the Dark King was the one to step forward!

His eyes blazed with a wrathful light at this scene he couldn't explain, his brain churning out thoughts and possibilities as he looked towards this being.

They could fight him and the terrifying DIAMOND Dragon below him, but it would require that 10 of them mobilize and spend the next hour draining the energy of the creature before they could bring it down!

They didn't have such time on their hands so he thought of alternative ways!

"What can we do for you, friend? I haven't seen nor heard of someone like you in our Ethereal Realm- are you a visitor from the stars?"

THRUM!

His words were careful as he tried to ascertain their situation first. His words caused the eyes of many beings to shine as if they finally understood something.

The being in front of them could not be from their Ethereal Realm, as it was someone that seemed less than 20 years old and yet had the strength to control a DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift Boss!

Noah looked at all of them with impassive eyes as after counting the 15 of them, he nodded his head while replying coldly.

"I'm not a visitor."

…!

THRUM!

His reply caused the expressions of the DIAMOND experts in the skies to change once more as they looked towards him with shock and hate!

"I was a nobody from a small city called Academy City- one of the first among those you all commanded your attacks to start on."

RUMBLE!

The faces of many beings began looking at Noah incredulously, Alexander and the Dark King only becoming grimmer at these words as time passed, the others merely finding them unbelievable!

"Impossible!"

A Warlord bellowed out as he looked over the terrifying Dragon below the feet of the young being.

If he was truly within the first few cities they sent these forces in, none of them would have managed to succeed under his strength!

Yet now…!

"We have no ill will with you, and do not wish to use our forces to fight a battle to the death here when our enemies are at the heart of the Imperial Capital."

RUMBLE

The Dark King spoke with a cold expression as his body began to bubble with immense power, the dark skies becoming even gloomier as the Inherent Skill of this being that forcibly became a Ruler of the Dark Continent was extremely overwhelming!

"A battle to the death?"

Noah said these words as a sharp light crossed his eyes, tendrils of blue light beginning to be released from them as he waved his right hand.

SHAA

A light of teleportation flashed out as...another terrifying purple glistening Dragon appeared with a wave of his hand!

…!

"This will not be a battle to the death."

RUMBLE!

He waved his hand again as on his left side, another fearsome Dragon nearly identical to the first two appeared!

With every Wave of this hand, a terrifying monstrosity appeared in the skies as it caused the hearts of the DIAMOND experts to sink more and more, their gazes looking towards him being those of stupor!

"This will just be a massacre."

…

WAA!

What was this?! Just what the fuck was this?!

Chapter 91

The Dark King had achieved a lot in his life.

Even after being cut off from the DIAMOND Rank Dimensional Rift by the Ethereal Emperor, he had still moved relentlessly as he gathered other Diamond Blessed that were not trusted by the Ethereal Emperor, eventually crowning himself a king of an entire Continent!

When his hidden forces within the Imperial Capital got wisps of the news that the Ethereal Emperor might be dead, he planned decisively for years until all these plans bore fruition in the past days, where he was currently moving with Legions being led by DIAMOND experts to reclaim the Rift whose access was stolen from them.

He imagined a glorious future where he waged war until the forces of the Light Continent fell, where he took down Protector after Protector until the Crown Prince trying to take his father's place was groveling beneath his feet soon enough!

He would then pierce through the terrifying mobs of the Diamond Rank Dimensional Rift as he looked for the rare drop that would allow him to break through to the PLATINUM Rank...and he would then begin to explore the grander worlds and Realms in the starry space as his life would then achieve its glorious purpose!

Yet…

Yet…!

Why the fuck was a being commanding four DIAMOND Rift Bosses appeared at this time?!

The Dark King's face was ashen as Alexander looked forward with a blank expression.

As for the 13 other DIAMOND Experts beside them...their hearts trembled as mana surged around their bodies protectively!

At the scene of four identical purple Dragons, their shock gradually turned to stupor, and stupor gradually became horror!

If it was one Diamond Rift Boss, they would be able to handle it and move on with their conquest.

Even that one would have taken over an hour and exhausted all of their power, but three more had appeared right after as they circled all around them to make sure they couldn't even run!

"This might have been inconsequential to you at the time, but did you think anything of the command you gave to send your first wave of forces to occupy regions like Academy City?"

THRUM

The voice of the being looking at them with eyes releasing tendrils of light reverberated out, the bodies of all the experts continuing to brim with power as they were ready to move at any time, their eyes locked onto the aura of the four terrifying Dragons around them.

"Your goal is the Diamond Rift in the heart of the Imperial Capital and becoming the Rulers of the Ethereal Realm, yes? Why attack peripheral regions? Why send airships to attack regions that barely have Silver Rank Rifts? Why not just go to your target and defeat your enemies while claiming your ticket into the Rift everyone is fighting for?"

WAA!

"What did the poor people of these small regions have to do with the enemies you all have in the Imperial Capital? Why did they have to be massacred?"

Noah said these words as he looked down to the Legions that consisted of millions of humans below them, those on the Gold and Silver Rank who could visibly see them high up in the skies only looking at them in shock!

He saw the innumerable number of airships floating in the skies that carried even more Blessed and materials as his eyes returned to the 15 experts before him for an answer.

Neither of them replied as they still locked eyes threateningly with the Dragons around them, Noah's body beginning to slowly erupt with more power as it was then that the Dark King raised his face and spoke!

"We were only following the code of War! For the number of forces we had to move, we needed many resources if a prolonged war broke out! You cannot just go directly to the heart of the enemy territory when you haven't weakened their influence or their source of resources...we could not just go to the Imperial Capital!"

RUMBLE!

The Dark King's expression was grim as he spoke, trying to think of many ways to avoid what seemed like an inevitable confrontation the more this being in front of him spoke!

It seemed as if he was an inhabitant of the lowly Academy City, yet it didn't make sense for his forces to have bullied him as his Rank was too high for that…

BZZZT

His reply seemed to have not been favored as the tendrils released from the being atop the purple dragon increased, his dominating voice ringing out.

"You cannot go directly to your enemies? What do you think I'm doing?"

…!

"You…!"

Silence descended in the skies as the Diamond Experts looked at the Rift Bosses around them as their form of an answer!

He came directly to them because he had the power to! Because he believed he could stand against them without losing his life!

This was an uncertainty for them, and it was why they never went into the Imperial Capital to attack the Diamond Protectors within right away.

They were fearful of the result, more so because their enemies had access to the Diamond Rift and could enter it whenever they wished to improve their strength.

The being standing atop the purple Dragon...reminded them that the reason they involved the forces of entire Continents and caused blood to spill...was due to their own weakness!

RUMBLE

The blood of the two Rulers of the Dark and Wild Continent bubbled at this slap in the face, gazing towards Noah with eyes blazing sharply as they saw this being merely nod at them.

"Good. At least you know now."

THUMP

It felt like time was in slow motion in the next few seconds as the being waved his hands again.

Mana trembled out as above them, a gloriously white-gold Luminous Unicorn made its appearance, its white wings eclipsing all of their figures as it looked below them coldly!

THUMP!

Many of the Diamond Rank Blessed could now feel the beat of their hearts at the ridiculous scene as with a wave of another hand, a similar looking Unicorn appeared below them as well.

A second later, two enormous moving sets of Living Armors that contained wondrous white light appeared further behind the circling Dragons as their auras were not the least bit weaker than any of the other Rift Bosses here!

"...!"

8 Rift Bosses!

The equivalent of beings who could stand them when we apply the rule of 10 Blessed per Rift Boss of the same rank meant 80 Diamond Blessed were required to stand against these terrifying Bosses.

And this wasn't even putting into account the fact that they were High Tier Element Beasts!

THUMP!

The Experts from the two Continents could feel their heartbeats clearly as their bodies trembled while looking at the forces around them. Atop the? Champion of Aether, Koddrys, Noah gazed towards them as he spoke coldly.

"In the next hour, it is going to be the choice of death or submission."

RUMBLE!

"Choose wisely."

BOOOOM!

The bodies of the Diamond Rank Experts exploded with power the moment these words ended as they felt immense killing intent from them, their hearts set to fight for their lives as the skies changed color.

Yet before any of them could cast any powerful skills, an immense force seemingly erupted at the center of their forces, this terrifying force uncontrollably flinging the bodies of the 15 Diamond Experts in different directions as they were all sent towards the direction where terrifying Rift Bosses awaited!

This was the work of the Telekinetic Emperor who utilized [Field Master] and caused a force of repulsion to push the experts away from each other and into the jaws of terrifying Beasts!

…!

Horror was on the face of the Diamond Warlord from the Wild Continent who found himself heading towards the Dragon that had Noah's figure on top of it, his milky white aura erupting out in full as he shook the force wrapping around him while preparing to pull back.

Yet Noah only looked at this being coldly as he waved his two fingers forward, his entire mental energies focusing on this being as he released an Attraction Field that pulled the Warlord towards him at high speeds!

[Dragon's Breath].

WAA!

The jaws of Koddrys opened at this instant as this Diamond expert flew like a missile directly into a scorching breath of Aether and death!

BOOOM!

…!

Terror spread out into the hearts of all those watching as it seemed they had been sidetracked by the 8 Rift Bosses that they didn't look at the being that had summoned them too closely.

It seemed this being...had terrifying power no less than the Rift Bosses he summoned!

"Impossible!"

The Dark King's face was unwilling at having met such an unstoppable force right when his goals were near, his body erupting out with darkness as the sunny sky gradually turned dark.

With a face twisted with reluctance and unwillingness, the Dark King called out.

[Descent of the Dark Emperor].

RUMBLE!

The skills of Diamond experts capable of affecting large regions of space began to be cast, the Ruler of the Dark Continent taking the spotlight with his wondrous abilities of the Dark Element as clouds of darkness roiled down and threatened to surround everyone!

At this scene, Noah's eyes only shone as he gave commands to his Units.

The commands were followed with the entire sky that was darkening...to be lit up brighter than ever before as terrifying skills were cast!

[Storm of Decimation].

[Storm of Decimation].

[Swords of Light]...[Swords of Light]!

RUUUMBLE!

It was a wondrous scene that the Legions consisting of millions of beings below would not be able to forget, something that would be etched into their memories!

The scene of enormous glimmering Swords made of golden light piercing through the clouds of darkness, the scene of dense purple tendrils of Aether shattering all obstacles in the skies as they went on to decimate their targets!

It was the scene of the stupendous skills of Rift Bosses being cast at once as it made it seem like the sky had been torn apart!

Chapter 92

The scene before me was something out of my wildest dreams, and at the same time...it felt natural.

My feet were standing on top of a huge Dragon, one termed the Champion of Aether as three more just like it were brimming with power nearby!

There were also two glorious looking Unicorns with wide spanning wings and Living Armors wielding enormous golden Tower Shields and Hammers.

All of these things...were following my commands.

Me. Someone who died inexplicably in my old world and was placed in this new realm, and I had somehow grown strong enough in such a short period of time that now...I was standing against the Realm's strongest experts!

Along the way, my personality had gradually changed as my emotions and soul merged with the body of the native of this world, the connections he had with his family being extremely strong as the loss of it affected me greatly. Even now as I stood on top of Koddrys, my expressionless face had a tinge of a cruel smile as I watched resplendent skills rain down upon the beings that began this whole war.

[Storm of Decimation]...[Swords of Light]!

THRUM!

It was a scene out of pure fantasy.

Luminously glowing golden Swords of Light formed from the skies, smashing towards the Diamond experts with purpose as accompanying them were tendrils of dense Aether storms!

The Dark clouds that were menacingly forming from the Dark King faded from such attacks as the enemies had to take them head on.

BOOOM!

A shower of gold and purple erupted out with the impact of the attacks, my eyes turning towards the Blessed I had pulled when utilizing Field Master into the jaws of Koddrys.

"Ahh…!"

His figure was disheveled and burnt in many places, the milky white light within his body nearly drained just from defending against the Dragon's Breath that released a shocking storm of Aether!

WAA!

My fingers made a motion again as while the other Diamond Blessed were just reeling from the first wave of attacks, this one that was injured the most flew towards me uncontrollably as an Attractive Force pulled him forward.

"No..huk!"

His face was that of disbelief and shock, my hands grasping around his neck as with his body drained of power where barely any milky white light could gather, I raised him to look into my eyes while making sure that Mental Field and Aversion Field were active around me for an extra layer of defense.

While looking into this being's eyes, I asked a simple question!

"Will it be death, or submission?"

…!

RUMBLE!

It was an interesting sight, really. My palm around the neck of a peak expert as I looked down at him from above, my gaze cold as I found myself not feeling a tinge of guilt or remorse. There was just...the feeling of power I sought for, the power I wanted so badly to never have to experience being stared at like a bug again!

Like something that could just be stepped on as I couldn't control whether I would live in the next second. This is what I imagined the despairing Diamond Blessed to be feeling as he stared into my eyes, the tendrils of blue mental energy that I was releasing from my eyes only running wilder as if they were excited.

After all, there was the possibility of dominating multiple DIAMOND Ranked Blessed today and having them under my wing!

All that was left for them to decide was whether they would submit or face death!

WAA!

"Submission or Death?"

I repeated myself again to the shaking being, my hand tightening around his neck as my own milky white energy tightened around his body.

His raspy voice came out weakly. "...Sub..mission!"

THRUM!

My eyes blazed with tendrils of light.

The feeling of subjugation fully erupted as a portion of my consciousness shot into this being, [Subjugate] being cast as shackled were placed onto the mind and soul of this expert, his gaze turning blank before his eyes opened even brighter, a shade of blue being seen within!

"Master."

My hands let go of his neck as he fell kneeling onto the back of the Dragon, a glorious golden light descending from the Paladin of Light as his body was rapidly healed.

I waved my hands to take out a Mana Potion and a Health Potion as this now Subjugated being took them reverently, his body beginning to be filled with power again as he now stood beside me just waiting for a command!

WAA!

This was power.

Power that a nobody like me now controlled, power that I would not let slip out of my hands so easily!

The shocking scene that just occurred caused fear to fully spread among the hearts of the Diamond Experts that barely withstood the first wave of skills from the terrifying Rift Bosses.

A being just like them, one of their own companions that they knew very well the level of his power! Such a being faced the attacks of the Dragon acting as the mount for the terrifying young man before them, his mangled body being dragged to this terrifying being as after the shining of a brilliant blue light, their friend now stood protectively and reverentially beside the enemy!

…!

Seeing this scene, their faces twisted as they found themselves facing a terrible predicament, the words of the enemy they faced ringing out clearly once more as he and the dragon below him moved towards them.

"Submission...or death!"

WAAA!

A dominating pressure was released, the Dark King feeling this even more as he bellowed out while casting skills, causing numerous weapons made out of pure darkness to appear around him as he bellowed out.

OOOOOH!

"Fight!? Fight for your lives and honor! Fight and do not Submit!"

The will of the Dark King was strong as he would not bow to anyone, even in such a predicament!

"We are the Rulers of Continents! We do not fall to a some known enemy."

WAA!

Every time he spoke, the materialization of weapons steeped in darkness became faster as with his calls, some semblance of fighting spirit shone from the hearts of the experts as shocking skills filled the air.

[Wind Storm]!

[Fiery Burst]!

[Ice Age]!

Skills capable of changing the very surroundings were cast, the skies changing from shades of blue to red and back to blue as deadly wind blades filled the skies in one second, fiery storms the next second, and the ice erupted out to cover the surroundings a second later!

But...even with all of this, the DIAMOND Rift Bosses merely shook off these attacks as they couldn't pierce through their defenses.

The Paladin of Light shone with a compassionate look as a second after the fighting spirit of the enemies were rejuvenated, it waved its arms as it cast [Hammer of Glory] towards the cluster of experts, the Diamond Blessed shockingly finding the Dragons and other Units moving away as an enormous golden hammer formed from the skies to smash towards them!

"Defend!"

OOOOH!

The hammer covered a 50 meter region as they were all in it, their bodies glimmering with milky white lights as an assortment of colorful skills released from them to release the shocking impact of the Golden Hammer of Glory.

BOOOM!

It felt like their legs buckled below them as the sound of the sky shattering spread out, but their bodies shone with power as they held on, feeling the tinge of victory nearby!

But this was when the second effect of [Hammer of Glory] appeared, where scorching golden flames erupted from the area of the sky the hammer smashed on as it went on to spread out 100 meters in diameter!

…!

"Ah…!"

Some still had the power to withstand, others felt their defenses shredded as the power of a Diamond Rift Boss was simply too immense.

Yet as they handled the golden hammer releasing scorching golden flames above them, another Paladin of Light appeared below as with a positive look, he called forth another Hammer of Glory.

RUMBLE!

As above, so from below!

Another hammer shot towards the 14 remaining experts, their eyes barely turning to see the expanse of gold smashing into their feet as scorching golden flames then erupted below them, Devouring the defenses of the weaker experts as this attack would take a few out of commission!

It was just two attacks from two Light Element Dimensional Rift Bosses, but that was equivalent to the attacks of over 20 Diamond Blessed against the 14 that were facing enemies on all sides…

The result was only natural!

WAA!

When the scene cleared and the hammers faded, the bloodied figures of the Ruler of the Wild Continent and The Dark King could be seen, their faces extremely ugly at this moment!

From among them, the figures of 6 Diamond Blessed fell from the skies as if their strings were cut, their eyes blank as some of them nearly had their bodies fully Scorched by the surprising golden flames.

Yet their bodies didn't even fall far before they came to a stop, a terrifying force pulling them towards a certain direction where a young man stood on top of a Champion of Aether!

Whether conscious or not, their 6 figures were pulled towards Noah and they were lined up in front of him as his eyes released horrendous tendrils of blue light, he once more asked coldly.

"Submission, or Death?!"

RUUUMBLE!

Chapter 93

BZZZT!

The blue light of the Mind Dominator shone brightly as I felt my consciousness explode upwards in power.

The addition of 6 more Diamond Blessed Subjugated after the first caused [Dominator's Consciousness] to go on overdrive, the boosts it provided causing my soul and consciousness to elevate at such a high degree that it felt like I was running on full energy even when I had been using my mana and mental energies this whole time!

"Hmm…"

A wondrous golden light shone down into the bodies of the 6 Diamond Blessed as Mana and Health Potions from my Inventory landed on their hands, the subjugated beings chugging them with fervor as their bodies exploded in power and they returned to their prime strength.

WAA!

They received my thoughts as their eyes turned towards 8 remaining Diamond experts that looked over here with fear and shock apparent in their faces!

"Join the battle against your old compatriots. Show them the way."

RUMBLE!

Their bodies shone with glorious milky white light as they erupted forth to attack the very same beings they had been moving with over the past tens of years under my single command.

There were 15 DIAMOND Commanders in total, and I had already taken control of 7 of them! All the was left were the two Rulers of the Wild and Dark Continents along with 5 other Diamond Experts that were already heavily injured.

They were up against 8 Rift Bosses and now 7 other Diamond Blessed as well!

They truly didn't stand a chance.

I had prepared thoroughly and made sure to have a complete set of Diamond Units, taking me what, a period of 2 days?

It didn't matter if they were the Kings or Rulers of entire Continents!

It didn't matter if they were characters that were meant for conquest and power as they led the masses, against an unstoppable force- they could do nothing but fall!

RUMBLE!

Even the Dark King that struggled at this moment while trying to utilize his Inherent Skill of the Dark Element, a fairly rare inherent skill mind you- even he could not change the tide.

Nor could the Ruler of the Wild Continent who was termed Alexander. His body rumbling with hellish flames that threatened to scorch anyone nearing, and yet their temperatures didn't even reach half of the Golden flames that could be released with a swing of the [Hammer of Glory]!

They just weren't up to par against someone with a ridiculous System that allowed for the appearance of multiple DIAMOND Rift Bosses in just weeks after awakening it.

"Submission...or Death."

BOOM!

The horrendous skills of [Storm of Decimation], [Swords of Light], and [Hammer of Glory] thundered down again as they lit up the skies, the figure of the defending experts becoming more and more distraught as their Mana leaked from their bodies while they tried to defend against the horrendous attacks!

SHAA!

A skill not yet utilized in battle appeared at this second as after withstanding another round of shocking attacks and feeling like they had a second or two of breathing room, two Diamond experts just saw a blooming of golden light before terrifyingly powerful Luminous Unicorns appeared in front of then, their glistening sharp horn sinking into their bodies as they disappeared a second later to appear beside me.

SHAA!

[Photoportation] was used as these beings didn't even see it coming, the Luminous Unicorns seemingly teleporting across the skies as they skewered the 2 enemies before they appeared beside me!

Their horns were dyed red as I used my mental energy to pull the ragged bodies that were near death towards me, the tendrils of blue light only increasing in my eyes as I gazed into them while casting Subjugate, only letting their ragged bodies fall into the ground when I felt the two new connections in my mind.

Golden lights shined down to heal them as my cold eyes turned back towards the now 6 remaining Blessed as I repeated again!

"Submission...or death."

RUMBLE!

Fear.

Genuine and unabated fear.

This was what the Dark King felt at this moment!

In the span of minutes, nearly all of them had fallen as only 6 remained in the skies, their states just as miserable as him.

Below them where millions of beings were watching, the Gold Commanders that could fly to come aid them remained still, their hearts having been stricken with even more fear at the sight of 8 DIAMOND Rift Bosses!

They knew that if their DIAMOND Commanders could not handle them, they would be able to do even less.

So the Dark King could only watch from the skies as even though he had millions of beings filling up multiple Legions below him, he couldn't use any of them as the enemy was just too strong!

'Submission or Death…'

This thought swam in his mind as his mana bubbled, sending out multiple Dark Swords to smash into a Blessed who was fighting alongside him just minutes ago, but was now being controlled by the enemy as he attacked with an expressionless face.

BOOM!

The horrendous skills from the Rift Bosses thundered down again as his body creaked from them, his defenses being torn down as he gritted his teeth while looking around him hatefully!

When the scene cleared after the last round of attacks, the Dark King's face turned ashen as he saw in the skies, only he and Alexander were left.

Golden flashes of light that were faster than even their eyes could follow had picked off the remaining heavily injured Blessed, all of them currently beside the terrifying blue eyed enemy as they were in the process of being controlled!

The scene turned quiet as the ragged bodies of two Kings were all that remained in the skies, surrounded by 8 Rift Bosses looking at them coldly.

The Dark King was shaking with an aura entirely black in color, Alexander having his body weather in flames that burned brightly!

These two beings...floated alone and injured as enemies surrounded them on all sides.

The Golden Commanders and Silver Blessed that made up the Legions below looked in the skies at this scene, their faces ashen as they didn't even know what to do!

The enemy that had decimated their forces and picked them off one by one stood on top of the Dragon that trembled with the aura of Aether, his face placid as if he hadn't done anything important.

The emotions of the two Rulers were in turmoil as beside this enemy, their own allies now stood by his side as they were ready to lay down all of their power against them the moment that their enemy commanded!

It was truly a dreadful thing as with their pride as Rulers, this didn't want to fall into such a state- they didn't want to submit. But the only other option for them was death! With his mind made up, the Dark King had a twisted expression as he bellowed out, black smoke leaking from him as he made his way towards Noah's figure.

OOOOOH!

It was the last yell of a Ruler, the last battlecry that the one known as the Dark King would release on the battlefield!

RUMBLE!

The Ruler of the Wild Continent did the same as the flames around his body rose ever higher, his body seeming like a dying sun that was shining its last bright luster as he also made his way towards Noah.

Ignoring the auras of powerful Rift Bosses around them, the two Rulers charged forth valiantly as they never gave up!

Relentless to the very end!

Noah looked at the valiant scene of these two beings charging towards him as 13 aura of powerful DIAMOND Ranked Blessed rose up in front of him.

The Rift Bosses around his shone with Elemental light as horrendous skills were released towards the auras that flickered with a dying light!

BOOOM!

A terrifying clash occurred a second later, the Dark King being the one to take it first as his consciousness shook...and he blanked out.

The skies calmed.

8 Rift Bosses that released a terrifying level of power surrounded the region in the sky, others not being able to fully grasp what was happening within as the calming of the skies only caused them immense terror!

A minute passed.

The Dark King was the first to wake up, his mind having seemingly been foggy as for the first time ever, it seemed to be free and full of calm!

His first thought as his conscious returned to him was…

"Master."

THRUM!

The Ruler of the Dark Continent kneeled the moment his eyes opened, looking reverently towards the being standing majestically atop the dragon as felt no shame- his heart only set on obeying the commands of this being!

"Master."

The Ruler of the Wild Continent also kneeled in the skies with a fevered light in his eyes...kings of two Continents falling into Noah's grasp just like this.

Easily!

Seamlessly!

It was an event of stupendous significance, and it concluded in just a few minutes!

Chapter 94

Noah stood in the skies while looking at the terrifying scene of all the DIAMOND experts from the Wild and Dark Continents kneeling towards him just waiting for commands.

It was a surreal thing to be able to do in such a short period of time, putting the peak powerhouses of an entire Realm below his feet less than a month since he obtained his Idle Gaming System!

Below him, the Legions that created the millions of Blessed that were the most powerful from the Dark and Wild Continent stood waiting, their strength not having been enough to even contribute to the battle between experts that had now ended!

There were many Gold Commanders that still looked to the skies with hesitation, debating on whether they should be up there fighting! But every time they felt the aura of the ridiculous Diamond Rift Bosses, their hearts were doused as they remained rooted to the ground, not a single one of them ever taking to the skies. They instinctively knew this wasn't their battle!

Their eyes turned upwards as the scene before them cleared, finally regaining a sense of calm after the sky had nearly been torn apart by the skills of DIAMOND beings.

RUMBLE!

Their bodies shook as they saw 15 milky white auras of the Diamond Rank standing strong in a row, their eyes cold and flashing with a blue light as behind these 15 beings, the enormous outlines of 8 terrifying Rift Bosses could be seen!

Four glorious Dragons that shone with lustrous purple scales, beautiful white Unicorns with wide spanning wings, and enormous Paladins of Light holding golden shields and hammers.

It was a wondrous sight to look at!

What made the eyes of Golden Commanders and Silver Blessed along with all those below them shake was the fact that the 15 beings obediently floating in a row in front of the force of terrifying Dimensional Beasts...were the very same Rulers of their Continents and Commanders that were leading their Legions!

Yet at this moment, they seemed like mere soldiers that adhered to the commands of another as on top of one of the luminescent purple Dragons, a figure domineeringly looked below and gazed upon all of them.

WAA!

The four Aether Dragons, two Luminous Unicorns, and two Paladin of Light began to descend from the skies and come down lower, the 13 subjugated Diamond Commanders and 2 subjugated Rulers going down as well, this action causing Noah's figure to fully appear in the eyes of all beings below that looked like throngs of ants in front of his eyes!

The bright blue coming out of his eyes shone ever faster as he opened his mouth, a booming voice erupting from him as it was enough to be heard by the few million beings in the surrounding few miles!

"There will be no war or bloodshed from here on out!"

THRUM!

His voice traveled out grandly as Noah announced himself at this moment, his actions having been so ridiculous as he now stood on top of the strongest experts of the Ethereal Realm that he didn't worry about his identity being known.

His gaze released a sharp light of regality that even Noah did not see, his voice continuing to ring out.

"The people leading you all as Rulers…"

He pointed towards the Dark King and Alexander who turned and made a kneeling motion in the skies towards him.

…!

The eyes of all the millions of Blessed watching shook as they turned breathless at this scene, Noah's voice continuing to ring out!

"...are no better than the Rulers you are waging war on in the Imperial Capital!"

WAA!

"All of them are the same- incapable and greedy beings that will only spill your blood for their own gains."

His eyes shone with wondrous tendrils of light as the many Blessed listening had their eyes and hearts captivated at this show of majesty!

"I'll be tearing down these Rulers from their thrones...and show them what it is like to lead others with strength and power while not succumbing to using their blood in exchange for gains!"

…!

A grand proclamation was made as the milky white aura on Noah that signified his level at the Diamond Rank shone even brighter, oppressive power leaking from him and the Rift bosses near him as the Legions below could only listen.

Noah gazed at them one last time as he coldly spoke.

"Return to your homes for now. Whether it is food or resources...these will not be an issue in the future. Anyone who does try to spill blood needlessly…"

ROAAAAR!

The four Dragons under Noah bellowed out draconic roars to get Noah's point across, their terrifying wings flapping as they left behind tendrils of Aether while they began to fly back towards the direction of the Light Continent!

10 of the 15 Diamond Commanders from the Wild and Dark Continent followed along, leaving behind only 5 as two of them were the Rulers of the Wild and Dark Continent! They looked towards the Legions they were leading to war just minutes ago as their eyes carried a trace of cold blue light.

"Do as the Master commands! He will bring to us a glorious future where we do not need to feel starved for resources or loot…!"

…!

The Legions of many Blessed were in for more rounds of shock as those they knew as powerful rulers were actually defeated and made to be someone else's underlings, where they currently talked about the new master they served as if he was the savior of the world!

Yet the subjugation of the experts within these Legions meant no forces would be heading towards the Light Continent, making sure that no unnecessary bloodshed would occur in the regions outside the heart of the Light Continent that Noah would soon make his way towards...the Imperial City where the core powers of the ethereal Realm stood, and the location of the only Diamond Rift within the entire Realm!

SHAA!

Noah felt the breeze of the wind as he stood atop the Champion of Aether, the auras of terrifying Units following him from behind as 10 Diamond experts were being carried in tow.

The surreal experience of taking down the top figures of this Ethereal Realm with something he achieved in just weeks was still fresh on his mind, his eyes hazy as he went through the memories of the 15 newly Subjugated being to learn more about them and the Ethereal Realm!

His mind was buzzing with power at this moment as his consciousness had been greatly enhanced with the addition of 15 powerful Diamond experts, going through their memories at computing speed that common computers in his home world would be jealous of.

BZZT!

His eyes only opened brightly when he neared Academy City, digesting an abundant amount of information from the subjugated Diamond experts!

He learned of the only Diamond Rank Rift within this Ethereal Realm, of their memories about the past Ethereal Emperor and the Diamond experts residing within the Light Continent. It was an overabundance of information as the most unique was the Dimensional Rift that everyone on this Realm was fighting for.

A rift that was the size of a Continent, one that took a team of Diamond Experts days to clear!

The rift that one in a blue moon held a rare drop that was the reason the history of the Ethereal Realm played the way it did!

RUMBLE!

Noah wanted this rift badly, his eyes blazing with intense light as he gazed towards the lands further into the Light Continent, towards the Imperial Capital that was filled with experts just waiting for his Subjugation.

After he did to them what he did to the Rulers of the Dark and Wild Continents...then he could establish something new where the bloodshed that had occurred in the past would never occur again.

WAA!

His many powerful Units caught the attention of many beings within Academy City as they looked up to the skies in a stupor, Noah ignoring these gazes as it truly didn't matter at this moment! He left the Units and 10 Diamond Experts floating in the skies as they stopped above a certain Villa, his figure descending down alone towards the villa filled with a few subjugated Gold Blessed and tens of Silver Blessed working under the direction of Annalise and Rose.

The two girls came out of the Villa as they sensed the shocking auras arriving in the skies, Noah gazing at them with a smile as he focused his eyes towards Rose.

The lost Princess of the Ethereal Emperor.

The girl many thought to be dead as her own Brother had cast her out for a mere test!

"It's time."

…!

He spoke towards Rose and Annalise as the two girls clenched their fists, looking towards each other as they nodded while turning their heads to Noah.

"It is time to descend onto the Imperial Capital and claim the official throne of Authority of the Ethereal Realm...it is time to cleanse these lands of horrible rulers as we build something beautiful!"

RUMBLE!

Chapter 95

Within the Imperial Capital, a flurry of activity could be seen as in its surroundings, the presence of hundreds of thousands of Blessed could be seen clustered together.

It was the makings of many Legion of Blessed that would be sent out to face the incoming armies of the Wild and Dark Continents, as the experts of the Light Continent had picked up the movements of the enormous army being led by multiple DIAMOND experts!

The Legions outside the capital at this moment we're just waiting for their DIAMOND Ranked Protectors to set off with them to face the enemy armies and protect their homes.

But...they would actually not be able to!

"What do you mean the entire army is turning around?!"

RUMBLE

The eyes of the Crown Prince were sharp as they vibrated with power, his gaze currently on a being kneeling down towards him and the few DIAMOND Commanders beside him in the glorious Hall of the Imperial Castle.

Currently, the Crown Prince sat on the lustrous purple throne as he asked the messenger that had been keeping track of the army of the two enemy Continents!

The Gold Blessed that had the ability to summon a flying companion replied with a shaken gaze as he continued.

"Something shocking happened before that of course. I was flying many miles away to make sure I wouldn't be seen, but horribly powerful auras stronger than even the 15 DIAMOND Commander auras I could sense from the 2 armies appeared…"

…!

"Their auras were too powerful as I couldn't even count how many there were, but these auras appeared in the middle of the battlefield just for a few minutes, my eyes barely being able to capture the flames of light from the distance as it seemed a battle broke out!"

"What?!"

The Crown Prince's expression was grim as Protector Chen and 4 other Diamond Blessed who were within the golden Hall had troubled looks at these words.

Multiple more auras more powerful than DIAMOND experts? What did this mean!

"But just minutes later, the powerful auras flew away from the army as I had to scramble my summon to go to the ground and run, and this was because the powerful auras exceeding DIAMOND Blessed made their way towards the Light Continent…"

…!

Sharp lights crossed the eyes of all those listening as nobody spoke!

They wanted to know the authenticity of this shocking story, because the things it represented were truly too shocking.

Foreign enemies they never knew about.

Enemies that clashed with the forces of both the Dark and Wild Continents and came out from it unphased!

The Crown Prince had a difficult expression as he turned to his side.

"Uncle Chen…"

He looked towards the Diamond Blessed he trusted the most for what their next move would be, this Impartial Protector having a grim look as just when he was about to reply, he sensed a shocking fluctuation of power from the distance of the Imperial Capital!

He wasn't the only one as the eyes of all other Diamond Blessed shone brightly, even the Crown Prince turning his head towards the direction where they felt horrendously powerful auras draw near with every passing second!

Their faces were grim as they flew out of the Golden Hall and took to the skies, leaving only the Crown Prince behind

"Everyone on high alert! A powerful enemy is here!"

RUMBLE

The voice reverberated out of the whole Imperial Capital as many weaker beings and Royals shut their doors fearfully, the formed Legion Commanders getting ready as the auras of multiple DIAMOND experts to the skies as they flew towards the direction where they could sense the horribly powerful auras.

The Crown Prince that had stayed behind had his eyes shining with a lustrous light as his body shone with a unique blue light, mana fluctuations erupting as a second later, a blue light released from him and took on a form, gradually molding itself into a humanoid shape that looked just like him.

A clone!

The Crown Prince actually had the ability to call forth a clone as part of his Inherent Skill, this clone being identical to him in power and looks as a second after its formation, it rose from the golden hall and took to the skies to join the other Protectors of the Imperial Capital!

THRUM!

From all sides of the Imperial Capital, many glimmering milky white lights flew out as more than 16 could be counted, all of them staying close together in the skies as their eyes gazed towards the shocking aura they could barely see the outline of at this moment.

It was coming at an extremely fast speed as within seconds, the outline became clear as the eyes of the Diamond Protectors could only open wide with shock!

For enormous glistening purple Dragons! Living Armors shining with brilliant light! Unicorns of pristine elegance that looked extremely holy in the light!

It was the appearance of terrifying Rift Bosses they would only ever come across in the Diamond Rift within the Imperial Capital, it was something they never expected to come across in the outside world.

But this wasn't what caused them the most shock.

Their stupor came from the fact that on top of these terrifying Dimensional Beasts, a group of beings stood calmly.

An impassive you man on top of one of the purple Dragons, and the two women were standing on the wide back of one of the Luminous Unicorns! It was the identity of one of these women that caused the powerful DIAMOND Commanders to look forward in shock, while the body of the Crown Prince trembled at her sight!

"Rose…"

Glimmering silver hair dancing down her shoulders, blue eyes that were just slightly dimmer than Noah's cerulean blue, and a purple dress that flowed down beautifully while emphasizing her blessed curves.

It was the Ethereal Princess that was known to be dead, the being that had her life taken first before the war between the two Continents began!

Her eyes were tinged with an emotional light as she stood on top of the Luminous Unicorn, gazing at the powerful beings she grew up around as her eyes locked onto the being that should have always been there to protect her.

The being that should have always had her back as it was her own family!

She gazed coldly at the Crown Prince as she spoke with eyes flashing brightly with a wondrous light!

"Brother."

RUMBLE!

-Rose POV

The changes were too rapid and monstrous.

Even now as I stood on top of the back of a creature emitting an intense protective light, I could hardly believe the reality!

"Brother."

I called out to the being that Father left behind to protect us all when he went to explore the stars. The one that should have been someone to look up to, but he became a being that took power to satisfy his own vanity and even use his family members as pieces so long as it brought him gain!

"You..!"

He looked towards me with shocked eyes as he didn't even focus on me, but the powerful summon of Noah that Annalise and I stood on and all the ones around us. Behind his shocked eyes, I could barely see a look that hadn't appeared on his face since a long time ago- it was the look of fear that he only got when father was still around and he did something wrong!

"I came back after my own brother sent me as a test in the Academy City, my death granting him what he wished as he is now next to be the Ethereal Emperor after this war with the Dark and Wild Continent concludes, yes?"

…!

A sharp light passed through the eyes of my older Brother as some of the Diamond experts around them looked towards him in shock.

"Rose...I'm glad to see that you're still alive, but I don't know what you're talking about!"

RUMBLE!

The Crown Prince showed an expression of happiness and confusion at the same time, and I just shook her head while I looked towards Noah.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one to leak the news of Father's death to the Dark and Wild Continents just for some plans he had but...none of that matters. We don't have to exchange any more words, you can go ahead!"

…!

Rose's eyes were filled with an unknown light as they looked towards Noah, the being that had made many impossible things into a reality as she said they could go ahead!

These words caused the Diamond experts lining up in front of them to have a terrible foreboding premonition as they looked towards the man who looked at all of them with an impassive expression.

He looked no older than 20 as he walked on top of the purple dragon while looking towards them, his voice ringing out calmly.

"I came to uproot the Rulers of the Light Continent.'

RUMBLE!

…!

With a grand entrance, Noah appeared in front of the powerhouses of the Light Continent, bringing with him an Ethereal Princess and a girl that shone with a terrifying icy light!

Chapter 96

His words caused a milky white light to explode from all of the Diamond Experts as they looked carefully towards Noah's party, the Crown Prince locking eyes with his sister at this shocking situation as Noah waved his hands.

With a single wave, 10 of the Subjugated Diamond Commanders from the Dark and Wild Continents appeared behind the party of the Dimensional Rift Bosses as Noah pointed to them.

"The ones from the Dark and Wild Continent have already fallen. Now, it is time for those in the Light Continent."

…!

BOOM!

His words caused an explosive white light to be released from the Diamond experts of the light continent to erupt even higher, the Crown Prince looking towards the Ethereal princess who should have been dead as he called out while looking warily towards the shocking being on top of a Dragon!

"Rose, what is this?! Why would you ally yourself with an enemy in bringing right to our doors?!"

At this bellow, Rose only shook her head slightly as she didn't even bother to speak. She remained on top of the Luminous Unicorn along with Annalise as their heir bodies were brimming with manna at the gold rank. The battle about to occur wasn't one that could yet help in, and they were here to observe the shocking actions in front of them!

As the seconds passed, many of the experts that had been spread out across the periphery of the imperial city to prepare their Legions to advance...all of these experts now made their way to the skies where horrendous auras were wildly erupting out.

They all rushed out as soon enough, the full number of Diamond experts that stood opposite to Noah and the two girls after a few seconds were seventeen.

Seventeen DIAMOND Blessed!

Such a number would have made it tough for the forces of the Dark and Wild continent to pierce through the defenses of, especially when these beings were the ones that were regularly clearing the only diamond rank dimensional rift within the entire Ethereal Realm!

But even with all of this considered, when putting into account the rows of Dimensional rift bosses...what exactly could they do?

Against 8 Rift bosses that were the equivalent of 80 Diamond Blessed, the answer was the same shocking result that occurred when Noah faced the Dark King and Alexander with all of their forces.

A scene very similar to what occurred just hours prior began to play out in front of the Crown Prince as the enemy displayed the shocking power of his Rift Bosses against 17 Diamond Experts!

"...!"

It felt like time was moving in slow motion before the eyes of the Crown Prince.

Aside from him, not a single being in the battlefield on the skies knew that the current him they were seeing was actually just Clone.

None of them knew that the Crown Prince's main body was back in the imperial castle as his expression became grimmer and grimmer when he began to see the battle power that the terrifying Aether Dragons displayed, along with the instantaneous movements of the Luminous Unicorns and the horrendous support abilities of the Paladins of Light paired up with their deadly Hammers of Glory that scorched the skies and caused any Diamond expert contained within their blast to lose nearly all of their defenses with a single attack.

Within the imperial castle, the crown prince truly did not know what to make of this shocking development of this new and overly powerful enemy rising out of nowhere as he now floated in the skies of the imperial capital and he defeated powerful beings left and right!

At the end of this battle, this random being that he had never met would most likely be the winner of this battle as he would stand upon the same throne that he had obtained after so much hard work!

This random being that returned with his own little sister that he had discarded long ago to initiate the war that would help him solidify his reign...

He clenched his fists as he continued to see through the eyes of his clone the ridiculous power that the calm being standing on top of a purple colored Dragon continued to display.

'Why?'

Why!

This question repeated over and over again in his mind at this moment!

All that he wanted to do was to be like his father, to look over the entire realm as the Ethereal Emperor, to know that there were no enemies in one continent or another that opposed him.

He wanted to win this war with strength and dignity as he brought the forces of the dark and the wild continent to his side!

With this he could have repeated what his father did tens of years ago- he could have formed multiple teams powerful enough to clear that dimensional rift within the city many times as they increased the chances of obtaining the rare treasure that only his father received. The rare treasure that let him touch the ranks of Platinum as he became the Ethereal Emperor...

This was what he wanted!

Just to make all the experts within the realm bend to him as they explored the dimensional rift over and over again until another Platinum Ranked expert rose!

But...

The situation before him told him that he would not have it.? As his clone gazed upon the ten diamond ranked experts that came from the Dark and Wild continents, he was able to recognize their faces...but not the expression within their eyes that was simply blank.

As time passed, the terrifying being standing atop the dragon merely waved his hands as the tattered bodies of his own people, the tattered body of even Protector Chen uncontrollably flew towards him and he made these powerful experts kneel before him, a bright blue light erupting out before seconds later...these same beings stood up and bowed towards him as if he was their new master!

A shocking scene!

A terrifying development!

It was a scene that someone who had been working behind the scenes to make things happen for so long could not bear! As the crown prince saw the increasingly deteriorating situation, as he saw his own sister standing calmly as expert after expert from the light continent fell to the hands of the enemy that she brought here...his emotions became twisted as an intense light bloomed from his eyes.

His body within the Imperial Castle disappeared deeper into this exquisite structure.? He made his way across the castle as he appeared in a small room that very few beings had entered in the past tense of years.

It was the study that his father commonly used to use, the study where nearly all of his personal belongings were left in when they found out that he had perished!

The day that his Father had perished...he remembered it as if it was yesterday.

When the Ethereal Emperor left to go explore the vast stars, he left behind a single Communications Medallion that he would routinely send news through or talk to his family. The Crown Prince held this medallion and was among the few people that had access to it!

On the day that the Ethereal Emperor perished, this medallion had blazed with intense light as his father had been able to leave one last message before he perished!

The Crown Prince went on the table of the study as he grabbed a crystal that held a unique recording function, putting mana into it as a recording that was taken a long time ago played once more.

"Aldrin! Oh and the little Rose! Everyone else that I left behind...I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I never thought things would turn out this way. I never thought how vast the gulf of power could be outside our realm!"

RUMBLE!

"I? never thought how chaotic the starry stars could be, and I never would have expected how vile people could be! I...I offended a force that I shouldn't have, and their people are currently chasing after me.? If I don't make it back, if you don't hear from me again...consider me dead! If it is not my voice that comes through from this medallion when it is activated again...do not reply. Please...do not reply. Otherwise, they will even find my home...they can't-"

…!

That was it!

The last moment that his father spoke, and the last words that the Crown Prince and the Diamond experts of the Light Continent had been able to hear.

It wasn't too long after that. Merely minutes had passed since his Father's message when the Communication Medallion activated yet again, a voice coming out of it. But this time, it wasn't his father. It was a cold voice filled with calm and regality, a voice that seemed to consider everything below it to be less than nothing as it came out calmly!

"Hello."

THRUM!

"I've got the body and limbs of a so-called Emperor here in my hands if anybody wants to recover them."

…!

"Hello?"

A dreadfully playful voice that caused chills to all who heard it, causing the Crown Prince and many others to clench their fists in anger and grief as they heeded the words of the Ethereal Emperor!

That was...until today.

Until at this time point when the Crown Prince caused mana fluctuations to erupt out as a certain medallion came to float beside him!

His expression...was that of grim resolve as his mana moved forward!

Chapter 97

The stars are vast and innumerable.

If one ever got a chance to explore the starry space, they would find themselves faced with an increasingly dark void of endless possibilities, and it was only brightened by the glimmer of planets, stars, suns, and many more vibrant planetary bodies moving throughout!

Occasionally, one might even come across the marvelous luster of a Realm.

Within the Chaotic Universe, Realms were extremely unique as they were special pockets hidden in space, pockets that one could not find too easily unless they knew what they were looking for!

For some, Realms were their home- places they considered their only world as they lived their entire life in ignorance and happiness.? For others, Realms represented something else entirely.

They were a stage above what one considered a planetary body, their high ranking being due to their spatial isolation and the fact that within them were boundless treasures! These treasures were of course in the allure of Dimensional rifts, these unique constructs always and forever remaining the number one thing that every single being sought for in the Chaotic Universe.

At this moment in time within a small Galaxy in the vast Chaotic Universe, a being draped in a fascinating set of golden armaments was floating in the skies of a certain Realm as his gaze emanated immense power!

The Realm he was in was extremely unique, the skies themselves being tinged with a fiery crimson light as the particles of fire within this Realm were exceedingly abundant!

Below the feet of this being, red particles of fire could be seen dancing as they seamlessly held him in place, with his eyes currently being locked onto the shapes of two Dimensional Rift gateways below him.

The rifts shimmered with an intense milky white luster as they represented Diamond ranked dimensional rifts, and the being draped in a golden armament had a light smile as he saw the various parties of powerful beings entering these deadly rifts,? nodding in accomplishment as he was about to move away!

He would go to another region as he oversaw the workings of many rifts, just like this across a myriad of Realms and planetary bodies, yet he came to a stop a second later with a confused expression as he looked at his ring finger- at the space storage ring that was buzzing with a blue light.

THRUM!

There was actually something that was emitting mana fluctuations within the ring, the being waving his hands as he brought it out.? His confusion was only lifted a few seconds later as his eyes locked on to a certain communication medallion and he finally remembered something from many years ago.

"Well, well, well. Look at this!"

His eyes became sharp as a twisted smile appeared on his face, his mana moving as it entered the communication medallion and heard a voice come out from it! The voice was cold and sounded as if it came from someone that had seemingly lost everything.

"Hello."

RUMBLE

It was a simple word,? but this simple word was an introduction for something dreadful to come! It was the introduction of the Crown Prince of a certain Ethereal Realm to a powerful being that was part of a terrifying force, an introduction that moved the waves of fate towards a certain direction!

The being wrapped in the gold armament continued to pour mana into the communication medallion as his other hand pulsed with a purple light that released from it and wrapped around the medallion, causing a thin line beginning to form from it and shooting out past the skies of the Realm he was in!

"To what do I owe the pleasure of having someone reply to this medallion after so many years?"

…!

As he did something the other party did not know about, he asked a simple question as he waited for a reply that only came a few seconds later!

"I know who you are and what it means for me to use this medallion, we do not need to play any games. I want to make a deal!"

RUMBLE!

A dense twisted smile appeared on the being draped with a golden armament, his other hand continuing to pulse with purple mana as the line beginning from the communication medallion only became brighter and brighter, shooting towards a certain location that only he would know about.

He listened to the Crown Prince at the opposite end of the medallion as an apalling thought appeared in his mind!

'Finally...I'm looking forward to increasing my quota and adding another Realm Colony, especially one that has an Elemental Rift!'

THRUM!

Back in the ethereal realm, Noah was dominating all of the Diamond ranked blessed of the Light Continent by using the terrifying power of his rift bosses along with the subjugated diamond blessed.

Annalise and Rose were watching on top of the Luminous Unicorn as at this moment,? nearly all of the protectors of the Light Continent had already fallen. Noah remained on top of the Aether Dragon as he merely waved his hands to enact an attractive force as he pulled in the defeated experts towards him and he then subjugated them!

At this moment, he was going through their memories in the middle of the battle trying to glean more information about his current situation, his face becoming brighter when he came across the information about the Diamond ranked rift these beings had been delving in, excitement welling up inside him as he thoroughly planned to delve into it in the very near future!

But when he arrived across a certain memory from the subjugated protector Chen, his eyes opened wide in shock! It was the memory of the last message that a certain Ethereal Emperor left.

A message of distressing significance along with the communication medallion left behind in the Imperial Castle!

RUMBLE!

Many thoughts crossed his mind as his eyes very quickly honed in on the figure of the Crown Prince. Seeing his dead eyes as he was one of the last few remaining in the skies, his mana wildly raged as he waved his fingers and caused an attraction field to wrap around the body of the crown prince and bring it towards him at a fast speed.

BOOM!

He grasped onto the neck of the body of the crown prince as he looked deep into his eyes, his expression very quickly changing as he saw Subjugation was not even applicable to this being at this time!

Paired up with the memories of Protector Chen who actually knew the inherent skill of the Crown Prince, Noah's face turned trim as his body quickly moved and landed on the luminous unicorn that Annalise and Rose were sitting on.

"Let's go!"

WAA!

He left behind the other rift bosses to finish up the few remaining diamond experts as the luminous unicorn shot like a streak of light towards the imperial castle!

Noah would normally not know where he was going, but after assimilating the memories of many of the local experts who moved within this castle, it seemed like the back of his hand as he very quickly arrived on the balcony of a certain area of the castle. The mana of the luminous unicorn blasted put in droves as the balcony was blasted apart, showing a hall that Noah flew towards.

His mental energies wrapped around Annalise and Rose to bring them along with him as he had a foreboding feeling! His mental energies spread out from him and covered the entire Imperial Castle looking for the aura of the real body of the Crown Prince after he had thrown away his clone.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Annalise looked towards him while asking, but Noah only moved faster after his mental energies caught the aura of the Crown Prince in a certain location.

BOOM!

The three figures weaved across the imperial castle as they blasted through the doors of a certain study where the Crown Prince was holding on to a communication medallion that had a monstrously powerful voice ringing out of it!

"A deal is a deal. Keep this medallion active for another few minutes and I'll know exactly where your beautiful little realm that produced an Elemental Platinum Ranked being…"

…!

"Haha, a rare Elemental Rift that has a chance to drop Universal Law Crystals...I can't wait!"

RUMBLE!

Noah's face turned extremely twisted and wrathful at this as the mana of the telekinetic emperor rushed out in droves at the Crown Prince that had turned his eyes towards them- his lifeless empty eyes that had actually sold them to a terrifying being!

BOOM

The hand of the crown prince was torn from his body just from the sheer energy that Noah released. His hand was disconnected from the medallion as the source of the mana flowing into it was cut off, Noah grabbing it as he saw the dying light fading from it, a white aura erupting from him to crush the medallion within his hands!

When the scene cleared, the Crown Prince could be seen tattered on the floor, an arm missing and his expression twisted.

His eyes filled with many emotions as Rose looked towards him in horror.

"What have you done? What have you done?!"

RUMBLE!

Chapter 98

Drax's face had been buzzing with excitement the more the communications medallion remained active, using a unique technique to trace the connection towards the location of the connected medallion as he was very close!

The line extending from the medallion had crossed the vast distances of space away from the current Realm he was in as he could already feel it stretching across the vast space towards a certain region, this region being the one where the Realm that actually held an Elemental Rift was hidden in the folds of space.

If he could find it...it meant he could manage a Dimensional Rift that could drop Law Crystals- wondrous Loot Resources that allowed the one who absorbed them to finally be able to sense the Universal Laws and be able to embark on them!

The mana held within the Law Crystals was so dense that anyone that absorbed would not just experience an advancement in their understanding of Universal Laws, but they would also increase their Rank!

This was the rare Loot Resource that the Ethereal Emperor had obtained in the past, the loot resource that allowed him to step into the rank of PLATINUM while at the same time learning a Universal Law.

The crimson Realm that Drax was currently in that was filled with fiery particles and even the flames below his feet...it was all the particles that came from the Law of Fire. The Dimensional Rift that he was trying to get his hands on right now was even more luxurious….as it was actually an Elemental Rift of a High Tier Universal Law!

'Come on...come on!'

He urged his mana to move faster after he spoke to the being who wished to make a deal, but his expression turned sour soon after as in the next second, the connection cut off!

CRACK!

The medallion even cracked a second later as it represented the other side of it had been utterly destroyed, the thin line that was about to locate the Realm stopping in place as it couldn't trace it anymore.

"Damn it all!"

RUMBLE!

Fire blazed from the body of Drax as the skies around him turned into a hellish scene, his face twisting as his figure turned into a shocking meteor that shot to the skies, heading towards the boundary of this current Realm so he could enter the starry space and head towards the region that he nearly located the Realm!

His expression was cloudy as he remembered the coordinates with clarity.

"I have the general region...all I need to do is search!"

WAA!

Yes! He had discovered the general region of the area in space where the Realm was located, being only seconds away from finding it! Since Realms were hidden in folds of space, he could only search every inch of this Region in Space until he found what he was looking for.

This could take days at the least or weeks at most...but he would surely find the wondrous Realm that didn't even have beings who could leave it, a Realm that actually had a High Tier Elemental Dimensional Rift!

RUMBLE!

Noah's eyes were burning with intense anger as he almost snapped off the neck of the Crown Prince, looking at the shattered Communication Medallion within his hands as Rose had a cold look when she looked towards the emotionless Crown Prince.

"What have you done?!"

…!

The eyes of the Diamond Ranked Prince remained placid as Noah's body that was raging with blue mental energy came towards the prince, the atmosphere around him crackling with power as he spoke.

"He was contacting the same being that killed your Father...trying to doom us all by inviting someone dreadfully powerful into this Realm because he is about to lose his seat as the Ruler!"

WAA!

…!

Shock and wrath filled the eyes of Annalise and Rose, coldness beginning to spread from the Ice Queen as purple lightning palpated from Rose! Intense rage and disappointment flooded from her as she looked at her older brother that would doom an entire Realm with billions of beings just because he didn't get what he wanted.

"Despicable!"

The lightning curling within her body intensified as it flooded into her hand, forming a palpating sharp lightning blade that she furiously struck down towards the neck of her own older brother looking at her with cold dead eyes!

THRUM!

Noah's eyes were even colder as his mental energy fully unfurled, the might of the Telekinetic Emperor on full display as his mind constricted the body of the Crown Prince from moving even a muscle, the lightning blade of the Gold Rank Rose thundering down and smashing into the neck of the Crown Prince!

BZZT!

A flash of light erupted out as the milky white light of a Diamond Expert passively rose to protect the Prince, but Noah's very own intense milky white light erupted to descend onto the body of the Prince as the blade his sister was bringing down...tore through the muscles and vessels as the neck was cleanly cut, a head falling down into the ground in a scene of intense horror.

….!

Even the Ice Queen had an expression of shock as she looked towards Rose and Noah, the Ethereal Princess that had just taken the life of her own brother heaving her blessed chest up and down as one could only see an intense light from her eyes!

Noah rose up while looking at the body of the crown prince, his expression cold as he then turned to the destroyed medallion within his hands.

He truly wanted an Idle life after defeating the experts of the Ethereal Realm and creating an era of peace throughout the three continents of the Realm. He wanted to dive into the Tower of Champion, Shattered Elemental Planes Rifts, and the Infinite Crucible as he could grow as strong as he wanted before he ever stepped out into the vastness of space!

But...it seemed fate would not have it as the dead fool before him had invited someone into their Realm before the dust could even settle! Because the connection was shattered, Noah wasn't sure how long they held, their time being most likely days or even luckily weeks before whoever was trying to find them did.

He would have to use this time to delve into the Diamond Rank Rift that even that unknown being that killed the Ethereal Emperor was searching for...and utilize the Idle Gaming System and all its features to grow even stronger!

"Just when you think you can rest…"

He let out a long sigh as he looked at Annalise who came to comfort Rose and turn her away from the body of her older brother, Noah thinking of the many things he had to do in the very near future.

'The stabilization of the Ethereal Realm, Dimensional Rifts,? Tower of Champion, Shattered Elemental Planes Rifts, and the Infinite Crucible…'

There were a great deal of things to do, but Noah placed his focus on the memories of the Diamond Ranked Blessed that had routinely delved into the Diamond Rift within this City- the memories that told him of the rare loot drop that the Ethereal Emperor got his hands on!

This was because the Rift was an Elemental Rift, a High Tiered one at where the Dimensional Beasts one faced within it were tinged and burning with the elements of...a Universal Law!

'Universal Law…'

He let these words roll off his tongue as his eyes blazed sharply, the images of the environment within the Rift that was filled with dangerous purple elements and beasts appearing in his mind.

That's right.

Within this Dimensional Rift, the Dimensional Beasts were actually ones that Noah had read about before from a description of a feature of the Infinite Crucible of his Idle Gaming System- the Crucible Points that he could use to apply a [Curse] that would make the beasts within become [Darkbourne] or [Firebourne]!

The Dimensional Beasts within the Diamond Ranked Rift within the Imperial Capital were actually [Aetherbourne], making it an Aether Dimensional Rift where the rare and wondrous loot of Aether Law Crystals had a very small chance of dropping!

A High Tiered Elemental Dimensional Rift!

This should have been the thing that caused Noah the most excitement, but it was actually the second best thing as his attention turned to features of the Infinite Crucible.

He could start the Waves of this Crucible and choose any curses ranging from [Aetherbourne], [Darkbourne], [Lightbourne]...and such a shocking thing meant if he reached a high enough Wave in the Infinite Crucible, it might actually be possible for him to get his hands on the Universal Law Crystal Loot of not just 1 High Tier Element, but many…

RUMBLE!

Such a thought shocked him to his core as it also bolstered his confidence!

With such a ridiculous feature of the Idle Gaming System with him and the Diamond Rift within this City...even the enemy that was searching and coming for their Ethereal Realm would have to bow before Noah as long as he utilized his resources currently!

Chapter 99

The Ethereal Realm was boundless with its borders. Its three Continents covered landscapes broader than even Noah's old world, this world of fantasy having an ocean existing between the Light and Wild Continent that separated them, and a border being shared by the Dark and Light Continent that Blessed moved across.

Noah was currently in the Imperial Castle- in the area that used to be the King's Throne as he stared at the maps displayed on a tall round table placed in the middle of the hall facing the Throne.

The entire hall that was designed to shine with a gold and purple luster had an extremely oppressive pressure as many Diamond Ranked Blessed were currently kneeling in a line at the entrance of the hall while looking towards Noah's figure!

Annalise and Rose were to his side as they talked with him about the Ethereal Realm and what exactly they would be doing now. They had only been saying words before on how they wanted to tear down the old Rulers and make a better system themselves, and they now had to actually do that as Noah had ridiculously in a short period of time rose to the peak of strength in the Ethereal Realm, all of its experts coming under his feet as he now stood within the center of power of this Realm!

The table before them was filled with papers that Noah and Annalise were going through, listing many things about the distribution of resources, mines, farming areas, factories- it listed many things that someone would have to keep a close look at, Noah shaking his head at all of it as he began to move away from the table and go towards the single purple throne that stood at the most elevated position in the hall.

PA, PA, PA!

His steps were light, but they seemed to resound in the hearts of the two girls that looked towards him and the subjugated Blessed that kneeled even further behind them!

Noah's light steps came to an end as he arrived at the throne, stroking its regality as he then brought his body down and sat on it.

RUMBLE!

Unseen waves of mana erupted out as a shocking scene played out for the first time in the Ethereal Realm, a truly powerful being taking a seat in the Emperor's Throne as this being currently had the strongest experts of all three Continents under him!

There were many Rulers spread out through many worlds- Rulers that sometimes elevated their kingdoms through their power and wisdom, and other Rulers that caused the downfall of their Kingdoms through their own actions.

The Ethereal Emperor had consolidated power and cast many beings as outcasts when he achieved the rank of Platinum, creating the beginnings of his downfall as after he set off to explore the stars and saw true power outside of it, he fell as his kingdom followed years after!

His own son even tried to end it and he realized he wouldn't be able to obtain it for himself. Now, Noah stood atop the throne that these beings fought for as he wondered, how exactly would he rule?

His cerulean blue eyes glimmered brightly as an overpowering pressure unconsciously released from him.

He knew his identity. He was a transmigrator, not even a native of this world! He had read many stories and experienced a great deal of things himself as he knew his limitations and weaknesses, and also his strengths.

What he was strong at...was playing with the Idle Gaming System and growing overly powerful in a short period of time! It was using his unique mindset as a transmigrator to allow him to utilize the features of this ridiculous System to the fullest, preparing for anything that might come at him!

From Noah's experience, the being that was currently searching for the Ethereal Realm for its High Tier Elemental Rift most likely belonged to some big organization or power that ruled a large region of space, and this organization this being was from most likely had a connection to an even bigger organization that ruled quadrants of the space, and he wouldn't be surprised to know that at the end of it all, there was an even bigger power that influenced the Galaxy he was in that he didn't even know the name of!

He didn't want to take the route that he had read many times before where he goes ahead and defeats a young master, and then he has to defeat the entire family of that young master and all their distant relatives, and then it turns out their family is connected to an ancient family of powerhouses that then become his enemies...he didn't want the never ending cycle of fighting one force after another as they just kept on popping up endlessly!

Even now, he didn't like that he wasn't given a lot of time to enjoy taking over the Ethereal Realm and enjoying his idling time, having to prepare for a coming enemy that was in the rank of PLATINUM or even higher.

Such a progression of events would be broken by him as he truly wanted to be idle!

He wanted to utilize his Idle Gaming System in peace and grow as strong as he could, and maybe after he was stronger than everyone in the whole Galaxy that he didn't even know the name of that he was in- then he would go ahead and crush everyone while rising to the very top. So that he could keep his aspirations of never falling under the control of someone else, ever having his life or death under someone else's wishes. So that nobody threatened his life or the lives of those close to him...

This fantasy world he had transmigrated in would have many surprises for him, but as long as he prepared, there shouldn't be any issues with the System he had on hand!

He raised his head as he held a calm demeanor that even enticed the two girls looking up towards him, Noah speaking more to them than even the Diamond Ranked expert behind as his voice echoed throughout the room.

"We have taken down a Dynasty that has ruled for decades...and we now have to build our own!"

RUMBLE!

"I know my own strengths...and it is not in kingdom management or overseeing entire continents! But...I do have the subjugated Blessed that used to rule under me, and I have two perfectly capable women that know exactly what needs to be done to make this Realm prosper…"

…!

His words caused the two girls to blush as he then pointed to the Diamond Ranked experts behind them.

"They are here for us to use and command, and when it comes to the resources that wars have been started for…"

THRUM

Noah waved his hands to his right as a flood of Gold and Silver erupted!

Equipment, skill books, Cores...a fantastical amount of loot flooded out and began covering the entire floor of the hall they were in, rising up above the knees of the two girls and nearly covering the kneeling subjugated Blessed!

…!

Their eyes all looked towards him with intense light, the subjugated Blessed having a light of reverence as they looked at their Master.

"These are only a portion of the Silver and Gold Rank Loot Resources I have, with the ones for Bronze and Iron being enough to drown the entire castle."

RUMBLE

"My reserves alone are higher than even the treasure rooms of the past powers of these continents. So we have the resources that everyone fights for, and we have the strongest experts that we can use to establish order under our feet! It should be no problem to create a dynasty of peace and prosperity, to create a ruling that elevates the happiness of the beings within this Realm and allowing for no bloodshed!"

As Noah spoke and looked at the boundless loot before him, he thought of all the uncountable numbers of Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold Rank Dimensional Rifts that were spread across the Ethereal Realm.

He had to make a campaign to clear these rifts and add them to his Idle Gaming System in Idle Mode, gaining an overabundance of Idle Exp as well as a stupendous amount of loot he could choose to pass down to the beings on these lands as he armed them to be capable enough to delve into the rifts with ease themselves!

'That campaign will only come after I taste the Diamond Rift…'

His eyes flashed sharply as he brought himself back to the current situation, staring at Rose and Annalise as he spoke.

"The past Ethereal Princess who knows the Imperial Capital, and my own little sister that is much more capable than even me...will I have your help in running this beautiful little realm to prosperity?"

THRUUM!

Waves of unseen mana erupted out as the two girls looked up at the man on the throne with enticed eyes, where even Noah himself didn't know just what grand of a light he was releasing at this moment!

"Yes!" "Yes!"

The two girls replied with enthusiasm as their bodies trembled with power, Noah nodding towards them as he rose from the throne.

"Command the Diamond Blessed as you wish, addressing any one of them if you want to give commands to the Dark King and Alexander in the Dark and Wild Continents."

"I'll give out resources like these down here for as much as needed, just let me know! For now...I need to delve into the Diamond Rift within this Capital!"

RUMBLE!

His words reverberated throughout as they represented the true authority of the current Ethereal Realm, of a ruling that would begin on this day and extend to the foreseeable future!

Chapter 100

The streets of the Imperial Capital that was the center of the Light Continent was currently filled with an air of mystery.

Many Royals and even common Blessed did not know what was fully going on, only sensing a shocking battle in the skies just hours prior as all they knew at this moment was that they were in a state of a war!

But the Legions that were just being formed were dissolved hours following the impact of battles in the skies, the Blessed being told to go to their homes and return to their daily lives as no war would have to be fought! There was confusion all around, with Noah letting Rose and Annalise work with the Diamond Blessed and the Gold Commanders under them to slowly establish order and begin veering the workings of the Imperial City and the many more city-states spread across the Light Continent to the right direction.

This process would take some time as it wouldn't all be completed in a day, so Noah would let his Subjugated Blessed and the two girls take care of it while he himself...went towards the Rift that was the cause of many things in the Ethereal Realm!

Protector Chen and 14 other Diamond Ranked Blessed were flying in the skies of the Imperial Capital with him, Noah watching the grand Castles and tall structures below them that really showed off the fantasy feel of the Ethereal Realm, the few airships that could be seen in the skies every now and then reminding him of their advances in technology as well.

One would be constantly reminded of the fantasy of it all as small birds that held wisps of flames could be seen crossing the skies, the Capital below had many areas of farmland in the periphery that held vibrant vegetation and animals that pulsed with colorful lights!

Noah's destination at this moment was a structure that was built like a coliseum- this coliseum being the structure that held the Rift Portal of a Diamond Rift that very few had gotten the chance to enter.

BZZZT!

In the skies, Noah felt the emanations of mana coming from the Rift as the Gold Blessed put in charge of the watch looked to the skies to see the figure of Protector Chen many other oppressively powerful Diamond Experts, their eyes not even glancing on these esteemed figures for too long as they nodded and went about their jobs!

The figures of the subjugated Blessed and their Master landed in the wide Coliseum that held the Rift Portal at the very center, Noah's eyes shining as he glanced at the large portal that pulsed with a majestic white light.

Very few beings had even gotten the chance to come near this Rift, the area around the coliseum-shaped structure being one that Diamond Ranked Blessed frequented as the nearby facilities all held powerful healing potions or concoctions for returning parties! It was an area of extreme importance as the Rift held dangerous creatures and anyone stepping out could be halfway through losing their lives and need immediate treatment!

This was the only Diamond Rift of the Ethereal Realm, and it turned out to be a High Tier Elemental Rift that was known as the Aether Continent Dimensional Rift!

"Let's go!"

Noah didn't want to waste another second as he gave a command to the 15 Diamond Blessed he had with him, their figures disappearing into the portal that would lead them into a Rift that was actually the size of an entire Continent.

When the light of teleportation faded, Noah and the 15 Subjugates Blessed found themselves on a ground that palpated with arcs of purple light.

The area around them and even the skies above were tinged with purple, the arcs of purple light below them snaking up to their feet as they threatened to tear apart their defenses if they didn't reinforce their bodies with mana!

Vibrant purple vegetation could be seen around them, trees that seemed infinitely tall stretching above them as this area made Noah feel like he had entered a fantastical ancient land of Aether!

ROAAAAR!

From the distance, roars of beasts could be heard as the party found themselves placed in the middle of a purple forest, their very surroundings emitting dangerous waves of Aether as the beasts weren't too far off.

"Master, we are always transported in the periphery of the Continent first, and we have to work our way in land as the core of clearing this Dimensional Rift lies in defeating 3 Diamond Rift Bosses that are secluded in their own domains."

Protector Chen spoke with reverence as Noah merely nodded, going through the many memories of this Rift he could access from the subjugated Blessed as he also spoke!

"Three Aether Dimensional Beasts that divide the Aether Continent into three Domains, with you all slowly clearing the normal Diamond Beasts in each Domain before facing the Rift Boss, recuperating and healing before proceeding to another Domain and doing the same...taking you guys a day at the fasted or multiple days when some of you get injured."

…!

The clearing method of the parties that delved into the Aether Continent Dimensional Rift was revealed as Noah truly found it to waste a lot of time, but he knew it was because the Blessed were Limited with their strength!

They were lucky that the 3 Rift Bosses remained in their Domains as they went to clear each one, otherwise their entire party would be destroyed if just 2 of the Rift Bosses chose to swarm them.

But going through the domain one and clearing every single beast across these purple colored lands that were the size of a Continent seemed like an extreme waste of time for Noah who needed the fastest clear time possible.

"We won't be going domain through domain and spend an entire day to clear this rift…"

RUMBLE!

Noah spoke out domineeringly as his mana moved, calling forth his Units as the skies above them shook, the images of 2 Luminous Unicorns and 2 Paladins of light appearing gloriously as the even more oppressive figures of 4 Champions of Aether roared out powerfully!

Their appearance caused the subjugated Diamond Blessed to look towards Noah with even more reverence and confidence, their eyes locking unto him as they saw tendrils of blue light erupt from his eyes as his body rose to the skies.

THRUM!

Powerful waves of power from the Telekinetic Emperor trembled as with Noah at the center, they began to expand out rapidly towards all directions of the baleful Aether Continent!

It only took seconds before Noah's eyes opened brightly, his senses catching the powerful auras of 3 Rift Bosses that roared out angrily at their domains being invaded by a foreign consciousness.

A second later, the 8 summoned Units vibrated with power as a Paladin of Light, a? Luminous Unicorn, and an Aether Dragon shot towards the Northern direction! Another party of the same units also left behind raging winds as their figures disappeared towards the eastern direction! The remaining two Aether Dragons...Noah got on one of them as his eyes honed in towards the western direction of the Aether Continent, the dragons shooting off towards this direction as his voice rang out in the minds of the 15 Subjugated Blessed below that were just waiting for orders!

"The rest of you scour the Aether Continent hunting for the normal Aether Dimensional Beasts. We'll take care of all the 3 Rift Boss consecutively."

RUMBLE!

The head of the subjugated Blessed nodded as they looked towards each other with shining eyes before shooting off in parties of two or three into the dense purple forests palpating with Aether.

Their Master was so grand that he sent 6 Diamond Ranked Units to face the Rift Bosses of two domains, taking the two Aether Dragons for himself as he thundered towards the 3rd domain to face the last one himself while the normal beasts were taken care of by them!

With such a method, it would be impossible to even come close to the horrible clear time that the Diamond Blessed of the Light Continent had of a day or more, with there being a possibility of clearing this vast Dimensional Rift in just hours.

With such a shocking rate of clearance and given the fact that Noah regularly received what others considered rare loot like Cores, Skill Books, and Equipment in droves through the Idle Gaming System, he expected the rare Loot Drop known as an [Aether Law Crystal] to land in his hands soon enough!

RUMBLE!

The Aether Dragon Noah was on tore through the skies of the Aether Continent fearlessly as the Rift Boss of this domain was already roaring out angrily from a distance, Noah glancing at the many powerful normal ranked reptilian Diamond Beasts that had also begun to take skies and rush towards them maddeningly.

The beasts looked like variations of winged reptiles as their bodies shone with purple scales, their eyes releasing powerful arcs of aether as their sharp claws wanted to rip everything apart.

It was a fantastical scene as in the next second, the aura of a Diamond Beast rose a few miles away, its jaws letting out a horrendous noxious Aether Breath in the air as it announced its entrance grandly!

It had draconic features when one looked at its head, but the rest of its body was that of a terrifying serpent, Noah looking at it with shining eyes as one of the Rift Bosses of the Aether Continent showed itself.

The most striking thing about this enormous Aether Serpent was the fact that it had powerful wings widespread and covering the skies, its eyes shining with power as it roared out angrily and rushed towards Noah and his two Aether Dragons!

The battle for the only Diamond Dimensional Rift had begun!