Chapter 8: Rewards
Ethan returned to his chambers after taking a bath and resolving the current warfare issues. He told his generals to rest and a meeting will be held tomorrow. And so he got time to study his memories in detail and the system.
He remembered the system issued a mission and called it out. A transparent screen appeared before him.
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* Congrats on successfully completing the quest*
Reward: Celestial life breathing technique
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Ethan looked upon the quest and frowned, ' I only got a breathing technique for all that effort' he thought. " Well first things first let's take a look at the system". 'Status' he called inwardly.
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Status
Name: Ethan Darkwood
Level: Early-stage Trainee
Equipment: None
Breathing Techniques: Celestial Life
Money: 136 Gold
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Kingdom status
Kingdom Ranking: 6th-Tier
Military Strength: Conditions not met
Conditions not met.
Unable to level up.
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<Mall>
<Inventory>
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Ethan spent the remainder of the day and night examining the system. 'According to the system the system is there to help me become to strongest ruler of the strongest kingdom'.
The system gave him a detail description of every function. The inventory is his personnel space where everything and anything could be stored. The Mall is where you can buy anything that he could ever imagine, all sorts of goodies ranging from pen and paper to mighty war beasts, potions, artifacts and many more. But the only problem is the mall uses gold but even the cheapest item is a pen for 50 gold.
"How the Hell is a pen so expensive!!!" he shouted
"I can barely afford 2 pens with my money not to mention the war beasts what are thousands of gold" Ethan felt like crying at the systems black heartedness. With this newfound knowledge but unable to do anything at the moment Ethan cast his attention back to the breathing techniques.
'This thing better be worth my effort or I could just go and die again' he thought internally
Based on his knowledge most trainees are unable to become knights due to the lack of breathing techniques, because kingdoms although rank up they are unwilling to share their strongest techniques and as such only low quality techniques are shared. Thus there being more trainees than knights.
Ethan sat cross legged on his bed according to the techniques and started practicing, 'T-This, This is amazing'. Ethan was amazed to discover that with every breath he takes he feels his body growing stronger. ' No wonder, trainees fight so desperately for breath techniques'
<Next Morning>
Without being unaware of time Ethan practiced the whole night and he even make a breakthrough in his realm.' This is nuts!' he thought. 'Show status'
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Status
Name: Ethan Darkwood
Level: Mid-stage Trainee
Equipment: None
Breathing Techniques: Celestial Life
Money: 136 Gold
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Kingdom status
Kingdom Ranking: 6th-Tier
Military Strength: Conditions not met
Conditions not met.
Unable to level up.
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<Mall>
<Inventory>
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"In one night I went from an early-stage trainee to a mid-stage trainee. With this pace it wouldn't even take a month before I become a late-stage trainee. I love you system" Ethan said overjoyed at becoming stronger.
"Now to take a look at this body." Ethan started walking until he found a mirror to see how he looked like.' With all that happened yesterday I didn't get the chance to see myself in the mirror.
As he looked at the mirror, a young man with fair skin, emerald green eyes and golden blonde hair stared back at him.' Wow I didn't think I would be this handsome, how on earth have you not been able to get a wife??'
Ethan was admiring himself in the mirror when a knock on his door startled him. "Come in" he said. As the door swung open Asher walked in with William at his side. "Your Majesty" they called out.