Endless: Hell's Swordsmen

Volume3:Devil King?

｢Congratulations on defeating the Legendary Demon Ratchet, Third son of Mephisto.

Rewards:

775% Exp

Special rank: Lightbringer

3000 gold

1 Legendary treasure chest

200 reputation with the Church of Light

1000 reputation with all human, elf and dwarven kingdoms and empires.｣

Astro was utterly shocked. Putting aside the experience he gained, even the gold was unbelievable. At this stage of the game, even the most affluent player had at best, 20 bronze coins to his name. Draco had received a whole 3000 gold coins! The money system was rather unremarkable, following the same trend as MMOs of old. 100 bronze made 1 silver, 100 silver made 1 gold, 100 gold made 1 platinum.

Average players would only have a single gold coin to their name by the time the first update comes in and yet...

Astro gulped and regained his composure. Then his eyes scrolled down and he lost it again. Reputation points? A whole 1000 with every human, elf and dwarven kingdom and empire?

The rankings in Endless were simple with regards to reputation, 100 reputation points made you eligible to become a Lord. 300 reputation points made you a minor noble. 500 reputation points made you a proper noble. 700 brought you to the level of a High Noble. 1000 made you a minor duke.

At this tier, Astro was eligible to own a portion of land in the Kingdom in which the reputation was awarded, as well as a myriad of other powers. The main one that most players craved for was the one which was the most evil: the ability to stand above the law.

One thing about humans will always be that, apart from other humans - and even sometimes including other humans - our kind looked down on everything else. Be it flora and fauna or even uncategorized life forms, humankind would always take the higher position innately and attempt to dominate and sometimes abuse.

This especially held true for NPCs which majority of people felt were just computer programs and not real. Even Astro believed same, but it all ended after the second update. At that point, NPCs were given rights by the World Council.

The points with the Church of Light were even more precious, because it opened a plethora of paths and classes for Astro. The Church of Light was bigger than any kingdom or empire, in fact spanning across each of them. Picture it like every kingdom was ancient Rome, where the Vatican as well as the Pope had equal powers to the King. With the Church of Light having such power in every kingdom, it was easy to see where the true power lied.

The reason the countries allow this was because the Church doesn't follow the stereotypical script of being greedy or overzealous to the point of evil, but act like a true median between the Gods and mortals. They possessed items, inheritances and legacies that could not be obtained anywhere else in Endless

Astro had almost triple that player's points, so he surmised that he could gain a lot more than a divine weapon from the Church, which excited him. However, Astro decided not to rush and rather complete more hidden quests to gain such rewards. Who knew, if he raised his reputation with the Church to 500 points, they just might give him a divine emblem to become a Lesser God and build his own Pantheon.

Finally, he eyed they legendary treasure chest with palpable lust. Atro had never looked at any woman the way he looked at this chest. If he could copulate with it, he would long be thrusting away. To a professional player in this genre of gaming, loot was everything.

One thing he had no inkling of an idea of was this special rank. He had only heard of the nobility rankings and nothing else.

｢Lightbringer- Special Rank