Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 116: New Sovereign

Adam couldn't wipe out his smile from his face, this was the first token he had given to someone. Having this token meant that one could ask for one favor out of him.

He had made those tokens during the couple days between the Battle of Sunflower Valley and the day his brother was cured.

Actually, this idea didn't come from himself, but from his partner, King Slayer. He and King Slayer had met during those two days, and Adam had been quite shocked.

King Slayer, who had previously only been an expert of the First Gate, had turned into a Sovereign who opened all three Gates! Adam had no idea how he had done it, normally it should take at least a year or two to a talented individual to go from the 1st Gate to the 3rd, without the experience of the Gates Adam had.

Even though King Slayer had just turned into a Sovereign, as he was still only Level 20 when they met, he shouldn't have been that fast.

In the end, Adam had been too curious, and he asked King Slayer directly how he had done it. He could accept that the assassin was mysterious at times, but this was just too much.

Even though he asked the question though, he didn't really hope for an answer, this was a private matter after all. But much to his surprise, King Slayer had answered, and the answer was even more surprising.

King Slayer had opened the 2nd Gate normally, after the last time they met. Then, when he reached Level 20, he didn't directly go for his promotion, but instead waited to unlock the Third Gate because he knew of the existence of Sovereigns.

And while he was Level 20, he stumbled upon an incredible artifact during one of his quests that allowed him to unlock the Third Gate. This item was so incredible that it didn't just show him the way to unlock the Gate, it forced the Gate in his body to open.

No need to say, Adam had been thoroughly shocked when he first heard this. He had no idea this was possible, he thought one could only rely on themselves to open the Gates. The existence of the scroll he used to help his Division Leaders, two disciples and the Royal Family of Azure Sky had already deeply shocked him, but this item was even beyond that.

Of course, Adam was interested by such an item, and tried to ask King Slayer where he could get such a thing. Unfortunately, King Slayer's answer was disappointing.

First, this item was a consumable so it could only be used once. But more importantly, King Slayer got that item in a Level 230 Map which he had only been able to enter thanks to the quest, and that if Adam wanted one of those items then he would have to snatch it from the hands from a Legend.

In term of comparison, the capital of the Monster Kingdom, the Goblin Kingdom, which the Coldlands Empire was fighting, was also a Level 230 Map.

Adam immediately lost all interest in the artifact, he had no way of taking it. This item would be useful for lower ranked players and NPCs, but at the moment he would be able to get that item it would become completely useless to him.

According to King Slayer, this item was capable of forcefully opening the Gate an expert was stuck at, but the limit was the Third Gate. And by the time Adam becomes powerful enough to beat Legend, his important subordinates would have all already opened the Third Gate, and even more.

Anyway, apart from this great news, King Slayer also informed him that he had finally created his guild, which would be the hidden face of Divine Predator. He had named it Blood Moon.

Adam had asked King Slayer how he intended to recruit members in his guild secretly, and keep the guild hidden from the rest of the world. After all, recruiting players without advertising would be very hard.

But King Slayer completely went around the problem, as he decided not to recruit any player, as he did not trust anyone except from Adam. While this flattered Adam, he also understood why he would do so.

He was the same, although he recruited players, it was only to make his guild bigger. The top members of his guild were all NPCs, and that wouldn't change unless he really found someone to trust, like family.

The reason as to why he made such a choice was that NPCs had different goals and living situations than a player. For a player, a guild is just a company, a job, and they would enter a guild for the salary it offered. As such, it wasn't hard to steal players from another guild.

But NPCs were different. Although they were as intelligent as any player, or even smarter for some, for an NPC a guild was much more important, each of the members would be their brothers and they wouldn't hesitate to die for the guild.

Of course, there still could be traitors among NPCs, but to sway them would be countless times harder than a player.

Actually, many players would like to follow Adam's example and recruit many NPCs into their guild, but it wasn't that easy to convince them. Adam was a Sovereign, and he already had several accomplishments to his name, both before and after he became a Sovereign.

As such, when Eddy went to recruit members for the Guild, there had been several hundreds NPCs who ad willingly joined the guild, and after the Battle of Sunflower Valley, even more had joined, including A Classes.

But to achieve this, Adam had already become the most renown player in the entire world, and so it wasn't a feat easy to reproduce.

Moreover, NPCs were good for their loyalty, but they also had shortcomings. A big one, was the fact that they only had one life. A player could die as many times as they wanted, they would always be able to come back.

But for an NPC, once they died, there was no comeback. Well, there was one way for them to come back, but it was even worse than death, as it was to become an Undead. In this world, the existence of gods wasn't something debatable, as there were proofs they existed.

And with those gods, there also existed places similar to Heaven, places where their soul would ascend when they died, if they lived or died well.

Adam himself had gone to Roskhalla, the equivalent of Valhalla, which only brave warriors could enter. When he fought against Holdir, the latter wished he could have gone to Roskhalla, but he rose as an undead.

Thus, almost everyone in this world would rather die and join their gods than stay in the mortal plane as an undead.

Thankfully for the undeads that were beaten in front of Neve Dorei's walls, their gods had accepted their souls in their Godly Territories, but this wasn't the case with every undead. Some undeads had been undeads for so long that their souls had become tainted, just like the Chosen Undead who led the army.

Anyway, back to King Slayer, he had used his new fame from becoming a real Sovereign to recruit assassins from Blackheart, and created his own faction within the Racial Power.

But apart from showing Adam he had become a Sovereign and telling him he had created his guild, he had also informed Adam of something else, something King Slayer had discovered by himself and that wasn't known by anyone else.

That was the tokens. Anyone could make a token. But if a player had enough fame, then giving out tokens could actually result in quest. Only the most famous and strongest players could do this though.

For example, Olog. He was a Level 150 Gold Rank, even if he received the tokens from thousands of players, could anyone of them resolve his problem? Adam may not be as strong as the old orc right now, but he most certainly would one day, and even if he didn't, Adam still had a level of influence unmatched by any other players.

That's why, King Slayer advised Adam to give out those tokens to people he liked. Moreover, those tokens could also be used as a currency as they represented a Sovereign's promise, and for many, this was much more valuable than any amount of Gold Coins.