Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

[Details]

Name: [Alex]

Age: [18]

Talents: [Soulforge (Soul+)], [Phoenix Flames (S+)], [Spatial teleportation (B+)]

Trait: [Kingslayer]

Trait description: [Being a King does not make one immune to death, you have proved that by killing a King recognised by the system. You do not just have King class potential, your future stands far brighter than that.]

Trait effect: [Damage to King class beings and below is boosted by 50%]

Soul Core: [C- 97%]

Soul Classification: [Mutant]

Soul Classification Progress: [Ordinary - 100%, Mutant - 100%, Variant - 99%]

A/N: I decided to change the way the soul classification is displayed to make the information clearer. This note doesn’t increase the cost of chap price btw :)

Just a quick reminder of Alex’s current stats since they haven’t been shown for a while.

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And this little shock was shown to Alex almost instantly.

With the topic of requirements coming up, out of curiosity, he decided to give his own an odd glance since Rothwind was babbling on and on about the intricacies of what makes a good piece of armour.

[Requirements to reach C rank: Kill 1 B+ rank, Variant class foe]

[Completed]

He rubbed his eyes, thinking that maybe he wasn’t seeing things correctly.

But when that wasn’t enough, he tried closing and reopening his details panel.

But still, that same [Completed] tag was still there in all its big, bold letters.

’How and when the hell did I complete this?’

He was utterly dumbfounded by this finding, as he literally couldn’t quite wrap his head around it.

This whole time, he had been stressing about when he would find a B+ rank Variant class beast to kill, and yet that didn’t even matter because apparently he had already completed the requirements!

Alex was nearly floored by the notification.

There was only one thing that came to his mind for why this could have happened — the King of Evermoor.

’But it wasn’t a B+ rank beast or even a Variant class, so why?’

Of course, he was fully aware that it didn’t fit the requirements, which is why he had to put this question out there.

It wasn’t for himself, but for the system.

The system didn’t always answer his out of the blue questions like this, but he knew for a fact that it was always listening, and perhaps it would decide to grace him with some knowledge this one time.

[In extraordinarily rare cases like your own, feats which exceed the requirements will also qualify to complete the requirements.]

And just as he had thought, the King of Evermoor was the reason for his requirements for ranking up being completed.

All he had to do now was fill in that last 3% gap to rank up to C rank, and then he would be good for both his strength increasing and finally leaving this fucking hellhole called the Primordial Expanse!

Speaking of that last 3%, that reminded Alex that he had yet to check his inventory after the whole ordeal with the King of Evermoor.

He had just spent so much time recovering and constantly on the move that he never even had time to stop and think about this.

But now that he was relatively well recovered, it was about time he checked it.

’Let’s see here…’

He didn’t go into it with high expectations, considering he hadn’t done much killing other than the King of Evermoor.

Not to mention he hadn’t looted many bodies either, so there was not going to be an increase in his beast cores either, even though he already had more than enough.

’What.’

’The’.

’Fuck.’

But when he opened his inventory he was blown away by what he saw.

Alex’s jaw practically hit the ground as he stared, dumbfounded, at the inventory sitting in front of his eyes.

Where he had expected to see maybe a handful of soul orbs at best, was instead greeted by a cascade of shimmering lights.

His brain struggled to comprehend the sheer volume of what he was looking at.

There, floating in his inventory, were hundreds, perhaps even over a thousand, soul orbs.

All varying in size, rank, classification.

The glowing orbs all practically looked like a huge Christmas decoration made specifically for him.

There were so many of them that he felt like he was looking into a swimming pool filled to the brim with the radiant orbs.

"What… the hell… is all this?"

Alex even muttered aloud, bringing the attention of Rothwind and Mira over to him, with their eyes scanning him with curiosity, wondering what had him so shocked.

Each orb was just sitting there dormant, waiting for him to pick them out.

But he was still struggling to figure out where they had all even come from!

’Wait! Was it my last attack?’

Almost immediately his mind was drawn to the destruction he had caused in his final moments in the fight against the King of Evermoor.

He did cause an explosion that spread across thousands of kilometres of land after all…

Perhaps there were some innocent beasts that were unfortunately in the area at that time…

But if he recalled correctly, the last time he had caused an explosion of mass destruction, back when he destroyed the Red Demon base, killing tens of thousands of Red Demons at once, he hadn’t received a single soul orb in return.

So why was this time different?

Was it because the first explosion with the Red Demons wasn’t caused by his own power, but from an external source?

While the one against the King of Evermoor had clearly been his sole power?

Perhaps that was it?

Regardless, Alex wouldn’t get an answer unless he asked the system itself, and considering it hadn’t chimed in with one already, then he was expecting it to stay silent.

The system would have answered him already if it was going to be of help to him.

But he considered his own hypothesis to be the most likely answer.

Which left him to deal with his unexpected rewards…

What the hell was he supposed to do with over a thousand soul orbs!??

There was no way in hell he would be able to use them all himself, besides, the vast majority of them were too low of a rank for him to use anyway?

Glisten!

’What is that?’

However, while thinking about what he would do with all of them, he noticed a particularly bright shine coming from deep beneath the big pit of soul orbs.

His curiosity drew him over to investigate.