Undying Warlord

Back to the surface, Dilan felt a shudder running down his spine.

He was actually afraid of what he had seen at the base of the ocean. It had been far more frightening than the thought of fighting the four Berserk Sea Serpents and the Blazing Spinosaurus at the same time.

The abandoned island was still standing strong and Dilan rushed to the somewhat glassy beach as the surface of the sand beach had been turned into fragments of glass owing to the searing heat the shockwave of the explosion had caused.

However, all of that didn’t matter to Dilan as he looked back to the darkness of the ocean, which caused him to twitch involuntarily.

“Is the abandoned island a tortoise shell?” He wondered, looking back to the island that had been turned upside down. Even if he didn’t want to see it, Dilan could hardly not look at the huge hole the Sea Serpent’s explosion had caused. The entire forest had been burned down and reduced to ashes. The only remnants he could see of all the monsters that had been on the surface when the explosion had been caused were their Essence crystals.

Not even their skeletons were left behind, and everything seemed to have been devoured by the explosion, giving Dilan the chills.

The hole caused by the Sea Serpent’s suicidal attack was like a huge crater and upon looking closely, Dilan could even see a large red crevice that seemed to be pulsating.

He presumed this crevice to be the wound that had caused the turtle, or whatever it was to scream out in pain. The Island turtle hadn’t moved after the scream, which was what made Dilan think a lot.

“The wound is healing rapidly and it doesn’t seem to be deep. Does that mean the turtle just screamed because it was startled by the sudden and unexpected injury?” Dilan wondered, feeling thankful that he didn’t have to spend the next 30ish hours in the wide ocean until he would be teleported back to Milarn.

Fighting in the Ocean was definitely not something Dilan was capable of. He would be at a disadvantage and even Tier-3 monsters would be capable enough to kill him.

Dilan was glad that he could avoid the ocean as much as possible, but that didn’t really mean the situation was great.

“Basically all the monsters on the abandoned island are dead. The mountain is still standing strong and the pulling force is also there…does that mean a third Night Invasion will happen?” Dilan wondered, not sure whether he wanted a third, and even stronger night invasion to occur.

The second night invasion seemed to have ended because the harrowing scream of the Island turtle scared all the marine monsters witless. They wouldn’t dare to approach the abandoned island for the next few hours.

With that in mind, Dilan tried to calm his heart by collecting all the Essence crystals that littered all over the entire abandoned island.

Collecting all the Essence crystals took him quite a while. There were far more than he imagined, and Dilan was only done by afternoon the following day.

Less than 24 hours were left on the timer of his abyssal-difficulty mission so Dilan decided to make a few purchases.

“So many Essence crystals…” He mumbled, trying to gauge if it would be possible for him to advance to the peak of Tier-2 the moment he finished his advancement mission.

In the end, there were roughly 1.5 million Tier-2 Essence crystals, close to 50,000 Ter-3 crystals, and a total of 9 Tier-4 Essence crystals in his possession.

Even Tier-4 monsters had met a horrible death due to the aftermath of the Sea Serpent’s explosion, which was exactly what Dilan had presumed.

This didn’t make it any less terrifying, especially since Dilan was the only living being on the abandoned island, if one ignored the fact that the abandoned island was located on the back of a being he presumed to be at Tier-5.

Dilan wondered how many Tiers existed, to begin with, but it was not as if he could receive an answer to that so easily.

He could only access the chat of the Divinity Mission Board and ask a few more questions.

[What is the highest Tier someone can reach?]

[Can every race/monster reach the highest Tier, or are there any differences in the innate potential of beings?]

These two questions were something Dilan wanted to know the answer to right now. Unfortunately, he was already known as someone who only asked questions and that he would never answer their questions even if it was related to his question or anything else.

He didn’t even give any reasons for why he asked such specific questions or anything similar to that.

However, that was not really important for Dilan because there were always a few Ascenders, who were ready to answer his questions as they were quite interesting. His questions were not dumb either and it was totally justified to be curious about all the things he asked.

But Dilan also realized that there were a few things he had not thought about properly before. The combination of his questions allowed many intelligent Ascenders to make their own conclusion about his situation, especially his questions about the Growth type armor set called Hyel Destructo.

Thus, Dilan shouldn’t have been surprised when someone figured out his current location.

[Are you currently working on a highly difficult advancement mission? Considering the questions you are asking, your planet or origin has probably undergone the Primordial Ascension fairly recently. If this is your advancement mission to Tier-4, and you are one of the faster Ascenders on your origin planet, let me give you some advice.

Completing the given mission will only allow you to receive the basic rewards of the advancement mission; to advance to the next Tier. Doing more than necessary will always fetch you more rewards even if the dangers are great. The system will reward hardworking beings, and you may even receive more benefits than you can imagine.

If you are working on a highly difficult advancement mission, you may receive the authority to open hidden shops or access secret places. Use the hidden shop as well as possible, and buy the Hyel Destructo armor set! You definitely won’t regret it as long as you have the necessary wealth to purchase the armor set and to pay the fee to bring it back to your place.

….]

The text message was really long and all the information Dilan received through it was very helpful.

There were a few things he didn’t really understand but that was not important because he noticed something that bothered him quite a bit, something he had already expected to happen.

‘So everything I procure in the dimension of the abandoned island will cost me Essence points to return it to Milarn?’ He wondered, feeling iffy about this news.

From the looks of it, he couldn’t bring back all the Essence crystals he had procured, let alone Xealtron, without paying a ‘fee’. Dilan was not sure how expensive that was but it was certainly not something he felt great about.

“System, how expensive is it to bring Xealtron to Milarn after <Survival> ends?” He asked out loud, hoping for the system to respond nicely.

However, the system notification he had received caused Dilan to frown deeply.

[The Cursed Dagger <Xealtron> requires a fee of 3,500,000 Essence Points to be paid to be brought back to Milarn!]

“10 times the purchase price…will the same be the case for the Hyel Destructo armor set and the Essence crystals?” Dilan wondered, feeling like punching the system. It could have notified him about something as important as this earlier.

He shook his head and felt thankful for the lengthy message he had received in the Divinity Mission Board chat.

Thus, he accessed it once again.

[Ariel Silvertale, thank you very much!]