Chapter 18 : World Announcement
Axton did not expect that a dragonet would be this strong at level 1. Using the average stats for a level 1 player, it was clearly to him that the little dragon beat it.
It was not surprising, considering the heritage it bears.
If Axton were to be stripped of his bonus and SSS rank talent, he would be nothing when compared to the Terra Dragonet.
Axton tapped his own cheek, snapping himself out of his daze.
"Are you really envious of your own pet?" he self-reflected and then laughed.
'There is a caveat where Terra Dragonet can transfer 100% of its attributes to me but I have no idea if that would apply to its skills,' Axton thought briefly.
'I will gain more and get stronger as long as it continues to level up and get stronger as well.'
The presence of the dragon pet was also needed at this moment.
The fact that he acquired a creature that could not only share attributes with him, but could also use mana was a miracle.
Axton barely had mana or any magic power to flex off.
*Ding*
[You have achieved a milestone]
[You are the first to kill the Grade 3 Level 10 Beast, the Rock Verdant Serpent]
*Ding*
[You have gained +1 Mythical Point and +200 Reputation]
[New Eden worldwide announcement has been activated]
Grade 1 monster kills triggered village wide announcement and that of a grade 3 monster triggered a worldwide announcement. Not that Axton cared much for that.
Either way, he was getting his name spread far and wide the virtual world, and the worldwide announcement guaranteed that much.
*Ding*
[World Announcement!]
As expected, immediately this notification rang in the heads of the players, they went wild even before the announcement was actually delivered.
Thoughts ran through their heads as to why a world announcement was being made out of the blue.
[Congratulations to player [Khan] for being the first to kill the level 10 beast, Verdant Rock Serpent, gained +1 Mythical point and +200 reputation]
Players all around the world of New Eden were dumbfounded, unable to say anything for the first few seconds after listening to the announcement.
Even the ones doing quests to farm experience points stopped and stared blankly into nothingness.
It almost felt as if their efforts were for nothing.
"This Khan guy is cheating, man! What the actual fuck!"
"Level 10 monster! How? Just how did he kill it?"
"Majority of us are still dancing between levels 1 and 2 and this guy is already killing a level 10 beast. That's ridiculous."
"His account should be banned. Now it's just blatant cheating."
"He's rubbing it in our faces that we can't do anything."
Players from all over the world, including guilds and expert gamers were all shocked to their bone marrow with this announcement.
"Mythical point…? What the hell is even that?"
Mythical points were keys to special events and only those who were the first to kill certain boss monsters could have the right to gain them.
At the moment, no one had even a single mythical point and here was Axton, with two mythical points already.
As his strength was growing, so also was his reputation.
When his reputation becomes high enough, there was a chance that he would probably become a noble or at least hold a position of power in governance.
"Our little novice village seems to have produced a beast out of this Khan person."
"Didn't he just kill a grade 1 monster that was level 4 sometime ago, and now this?"
"If he's not cheating in any way, then this dude is certainly impressive."
While the rest of the New Eden world were shocked at mythical point and how Axton got one, the players located in the novice village #666 were the only ones who knew that Axton had two mythical points.
*Ding*
[100x Critical Hit initiated]
[Your recently earned mythical point has increased by +100]
[Reputation has increased from 200 to 20,000]
*Ding*
[100x Critical Hit initiated]
[Mythical Points : +100]
[Reputation : +20000]
The extra attributes of mythical and reputation points were gradually accumulating.
The system prompts continued to roll in almost endlessly.
*Ding*
[You have gained a Grade 5 beast]
[Being the first to acquire a beast, you have automatically activated the Beast Rankings]
[You are 1st on the ranking and will receive +1000 points to Reputation]
[Do you wish to conceal your identity?]
"No. Tch!" Axton answered rudely, allowing his strength to get into his head.
[Do you wish to hide your beast's information?]
Axton paused and thought for a bit.
This time around, he needed to be careful what he answered.
Allowing the world to know that he acquired a dragon beast would bring him a lot of fame, admirers and enemies, even the ones who were gold diggers.
"Yes. Hide my beast's information."
The world announcement was triggered again.
*Ding*
[World Announcement!]
[Congratulations to the player [Khan] for acquiring a beast]
[Player Khan is 1st on the Beast Rankings and has received +1000 reputation points]
The Beast Rankings was a feature nobody was expecting until some levels later, based on what was published in the official website of New Eden.
For Axton to be able to trigger its activation was really impressive.
As was routine with his critical hit bonus, the reputation was multiplied up to a hundred thousand points and this brightened up his future prospect when he will eventually leave the novice village.
At this point, other players watching did not know how to feel and process this anymore.
Whenever they thought this "Khan guy" was done, he would manifest another feat.
It started to feel like Khan was a mask work by one of the developers of the game disguising as a player.
"A beast already?"
"I'm tired, man. I don't even know what to do now."
"This guy is miles ahead of everyone for some weird reasons."
"Fuck this shit! I'm done!"
"Fucking cheater!"
"Ban Khan."
*Ding*
[Beast Rankings]
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