Chapter 119 -119-Leviathan

Chapter 119: Chapter119-Leviathan

The study fell silent once more.

Horus was still standing where he was, looking as though he had yet to fully process what had just happened.

John walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

"You heard him, right?"

Horus nodded instinctively.

"I heard him."

"Good."

John turned and headed for the door.

"Then get to work."

Horus: "..."

Wait.

You were the one who just negotiated with my superior.

So how did all the work end up on me?

Watching John reach the doorway, Horus finally couldn’t help himself.

"You’re just leaving like that?"

John glanced back.

"Something else?"

Horus opened his mouth, then waved him away.

"Forget it."

"Just go."

John nodded in satisfaction.

"See you in-game."

The door closed.

Horus stood alone in the study for a moment before looking down at the new order he had just received.

[Immediately conduct a maximum-level security assessment of the target residence and surrounding area.]

[Priority: High.]

Horus rubbed his temples.

"I knew it..."

...

After returning home, John still felt that relying on the military alone wasn’t enough.

He couldn’t put all his eggs in one basket.

He turned on his computer and began listing everything that needed to be upgraded around the residence.

Perimeter surveillance.

Door and window reinforcement.

Identity verification.

Intrusion detection and alarms.

Backup communications.

Independent power supply.

An indoor safe room.

The room housing his nutrition pod would need even stricter access control as well.

As for the temporary contingency measures he had used before...

The less he had to rely on them, the better.

This place was going to be his long-term residence, after all.

Security, stability, and legality mattered most.

John spent quite some time putting together a long list of purchases and renovations.

Then he sent the entire thing to Alfred.

Not long afterward, Alfred arrived at the study.

He quickly read through the document, his expression as composed as ever.

"Sir, when would you like this completed?"

"As soon as possible."

"And the budget?"

John thought for a moment.

"Prioritize security."

Money was starting to feel more and more like a string of numbers to him anyway.

There was no point being stingy when it actually mattered.

Alfred gave a slight bow.

"Understood."

"I’ll arrange for a professional team to handle it."

With that, he left with the list in hand.

John leaned back in his chair.

Only then did he finally feel a little more at ease.

The military was one layer.

The community’s security was another.

Alfred and the Ocean Hotel provided a third.

Once the house itself was properly reinforced as well...

That should be enough.

Outside the window, the sunlight had already begun to slant toward the horizon.

By the time everything was arranged, most of the day had passed.

John rolled his shoulders and looked toward the nutrition pod in the room.

The real-world matters were temporarily taken care of.

Now it was time to see what was waiting for him in the game.

He still hadn’t collected the rewards from Dawnstar City’s treasury.

He had over a million Military Merit points waiting to be exchanged.

Leviathan should be about ready to hatch.

And then there was...

Black Rose.

As well as Gray Ledger, whose headquarters he had single-handedly reduced to rubble.

The corner of John’s mouth curled upward.

"Log in."

His vision lit up once again.

John opened his eyes.

The familiar ruins came into view.

Gray Ledger Headquarters.

This was exactly where he had logged out yesterday.

After an entire night, quite a few outlines of new buildings had already appeared throughout the guild compound that he had previously demolished.

Large numbers of Gray Ledger members were running quests around the area.

Transporting materials.

Repairing the walls.

Rebuilding the guild core.

Everyone was so busy they barely had time to breathe.

[Gray Ledger Headquarters Reconstruction Progress: 40.3%]

John: "..."

Pretty efficient.

The nearby Gray Ledger players quickly noticed him as well.

At first, only one person stopped what they were doing.

Then more and more heads turned.

The moment they saw that familiar ID, the entire construction site rapidly fell silent.

[Endbringer]

Memories of yesterday instantly resurfaced in everyone’s minds.

They had spent the entire night grinding quests, farming contribution points, and hauling materials.

Only after all that work had they finally pushed the reconstruction progress back up to 40%.

And now this walking disaster...

was online again.

The two sides stared at each other in silence.

John raised his Void Staff.

"Fire Dragon."

Every Gray Ledger player immediately went pale.

"Holy shit!"

"Run!"

"He’s back!"

BOOM—!!!

A dragon’s roar tore across the ruins.

Massive waves of fire descended from the sky.

The newly erected outlines of the city walls exploded on the spot.

Immediately afterward, a black hole unfolded over the central district.

The Icefire Flame Array engulfed the reconstruction zone.

Countless Void Spears rained down from above.

The buildings Gray Ledger’s players had spent the entire night rebuilding collapsed one after another beneath the barrage of violent magic.

[Guild structures have suffered severe damage!]

[Reconstruction progress decreased!]

[35.7%!]

[21.4%!]

[8.9%!]

BOOM!

The last newly constructed main building crashed to the ground.

Dust slowly rose into the air.

The entire guild compound finally looked familiar again.

Ruins.

"Much better."

John nodded in satisfaction.

He opened the teleportation interface and left.

...

After returning to Dawnstar City through the main city teleportation array, John used Void Shift several times in succession.

Before long, he arrived near the military district.

He had promised Loki yesterday that he would come see him today.

But before that...

there was something even more important.

John found a quiet open area and sat down.

The moment he opened the Void Arsenal, a system notification appeared before him.

[Mount incubation complete!]

[SS-rank Mount "Leviathan" has been automatically stored in the Void Arsenal!]

"Finally."

John’s eyes immediately lit up.

That egg had been incubating for an entire day.

He immediately opened its status panel.

[Leviathan]

[Level: Lv1]

[Quality: SS]

[Type: Flying Mount]

[HP: 2,500]

[HP Growth: 2,500 × Level]

[Spell Power: 30]

[Spell Power Growth: 30 × Level]

[Physical Defense: Immune to Physical Damage]

[Magic Resistance: Immune to Magic Damage]

[Skills: Teleport Lv1, True Sight Lv1]

John’s gaze stopped dead on the defensive attributes.

Immune to physical damage.

Immune to magic damage.

"..."

Beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful.

Those two traits alone meant ordinary players would have a hard time knocking it out of the sky.

John continued checking its skills.

[Teleport Lv1]

[Effect: Allows Leviathan to teleport itself and its master to any location whose teleportation array coordinates have been recorded.]

[Current Maximum Teleportation Range: 10 km]

[Cooldown: 10 seconds]

...

[True Sight Lv1]

[Effect: When activated, detects all stealthed targets within 20 meters.]

[Duration: 10 seconds]

[Cooldown: 20 seconds]

[Notice: Leviathan’s skills will automatically grow as its mount level increases. An additional exclusive skill will be unlocked every 20 levels!]

Flight.

Teleportation.

Stealth detection.

Immunity to both physical and magical damage.

The more John looked, the more satisfied he became.

Especially with [Teleport].

He already had Void Shift, but its range per use was limited.

Whenever he needed to travel a truly long distance, he still had to rely on city teleportation arrays.

Once Leviathan reached a higher level, however...

that would be a completely different story.

Combined with its ability to fly, his travel efficiency would increase dramatically.

But...

This was still only an SS-rank mount.

John opened the Void Arsenal.

Inside, the card he had been saving all this time still lay quietly in place.