-[ Transportationplete ]-
-[ Wee to Emperors Domain ]-
-[ Reward is being distributed ]-
-[ Rewards: SS-rank 100x reward, SS-rank copy, SS-rank eyes of revtion, SS-rank merge, and SS-rank beast taming ]-
SS-rank 100x rewards: For every achievement, big or small, there is a reward. With this passive skill, the quality of your rewards will be multiplied by 100!
SS-rank copy: Actively copy skills of anyone below SS-rating power.
SS-rank eyes of revtion: View the stats of everything — humans, monsters, and items.
SS-rank merge: An active skill that allows you to automatically merge needed materials for an item, useful in manufacturing, medicine making, and cksmithing.
SS-rank beast taming: With this active skill, you have a one hundred percent chance of taming any beast below SS-rank.
Seeing these amazing skills popping up in different windows, Rowan couldn''t help but be amazed.
Each skill was powerful and extremely useful, both forbat and territory development. On Earth, while ying Emperor''s Domain, he was only able to acquire a C-rank merge skill.
Even with the C-rank skill, he was unstoppable in the game. Now that he had the SS-rank version of that same skill, he couldn''t imagine just how invincible he would be.
"All these skills, but for what reason?" Rowan wondered. He had read many novels where transmigrated characters had a goal to achieve: defeat the demon king, be the strongest mage, and so on. But what was his purpose?
A new notification shed before him:
-[ MAIN QUEST: Evolve your territory to SSS-rank ]-
Rowan''s heart sank. "What?? SSS-rank? That''s almost impossible," he muttered. "I yed Emperor''s Domain for three years and barely reached B-rank. Now I''m expected to build an SSS-rank territory?"
The top gamer in Emperor''s Domain, with the username Venerable Mario, had only managed to increase his territory to A-rank. In an interview, he said it was impossible to go beyond that level.
He even set up a squad of 20 excellent gamers to work with him in conquering other territories, but they still couldn''t seed.
How then could Rowan achieve it? Was there even something like SSS-rank in the world of Emperor''s Domain?
-[ On Earth, gamers had their limits. But in this real game world, there are no limits. Everything is achievable. ]-
The system replied, as if giving Rowan a bit of hope in his quest. But it only made it worse.
Back on Earth, he was ying the game from thefort of his room, controlling his character with a gamepad and mouse. He didn''t feel the pain or the difficulty of crafting out strategies.
But here, he would have to go through the real deal. If he fought, he would sustain injuries. If he tried toe up with strategies, headaches would naturally follow. It was way different than ying a game, no matter how you looked at it.
Rowan shook his head. "Maybe I am just overreacting. Who knows if my territory is already B or A rank?"
Rowan decided to check his character panel.
"Open character status," he called out.
- Opening character panel -
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RANK: FF-rank
Title: Vige Head
TERRITORY: FF-rank, Winterseed Vige
AREA: 20 square kilometers
POPULATION: 3,000+
RESOURCES: Timber, farnds, small river
Rowan Winterseed
AGE: 18
HEALTH: 49% (Badly Injured)
POWER: FF-rank (1,000,000 evolution points to evolve)
EVOLUTION POINT: 0
SKILLS: SS-rank 100x reward, SS-rank copy, SS-rank eyes of revtion, SS-rank merge, SS-rank beast taming
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After calling out his character panel, Rowan expected something good. But after viewing it, he realized it was the opposite of what he expected.
"This is outrageous," hemented furiously.
"System, send me back home," Rowan demanded, anger rising in his voice. He couldn''t believe the game had taken him from his good life on Earth and sent him to a backwater vige.
Even the resources he had at the moment were considered a curse to gamers on Earth because they offered no advantage to the yers!
[ You have an option to return to Earth afterpleting your mission. Until then, it''s impossible ]
The system replied,pletely dampening his mood. How could the system be so evil and inconsiderate?
"At least, let me know who I am. I don''t even know anything about this body or the region I am located in," he requested. Since he had no way of going back to Earth, he might as well get on with the system.
Though the mission was impossible and hellishly difficult, he had five SS-rank skills that would make it a lot easier.
-[ Memory fragment avable for purchase, Cost: 100,000 evolution points ]-
"Can I buy on credit and pay backter?" he inquired.
-[ Affirmative... Delivering memory fragment ]-
Suddenly, a strong ache struck Rowan, causing him to let out a loud cry of pain.
Holding his head, he fell off the bed, twisting his body on the cold, hard floor as the pain in his head intensified indefinitely.
A few secondster, the pain vanished, reced by memories of the Rowan of this world and the cmity of his vige.
Rowan Winterseed was the only child of the former Vige Head, Dragun Winterseed. Six years ago, Dragun decisively ventured into another kingdom in search of a special milk and never returned.
After months of waiting, the vigers dered him dead and forced 12-year-old, inexperienced Rowan to take on the leadership mantle of Winterseed, bing their new Vige Head.
Unfortunately, surrounding viges took advantage of their weak, inexperienced leader and attacked the vige regrly, stealing their food and capturing capable soldiers as ves.
Due to the declining strength of the vige''s army, the men defending the border became insufficient, causing monsters like Ratax and goblins to constantly attack the vige.
Young Rowan tried his hardest, using every strategy he learned from his father, but there was no use; the burden of the vige gradually added up, bing a load he tried to get rid of.
Four years after the death of his father and four years before today, due to the stress of leadership, Rowan Winterseed fell ill with an incurable disease.
Two years ago, the illness weakened his system, crippling his body and rendering him immobile.
Six months ago, he fell into aa.
About the vige, it had plunged into more danger and poverty than it ever had.
As Rowan made sense of the memories in his head, the door leading inside the room creaked open, and a group of ragged vigers came running in.
"Lord Rowan! You are awake!"