Cosmic Peak

"Lady Cerity, that person has returned."

"Where is he?"

"Guildhall."

"Alright, we'll call him after he finishes his business in the Guildhall."

...

Aren had just submitted all of his quest materials except one and got the rewards of those quests.

He got 6350 gold coins and...

2x uncommon grade Agility boost potions.

2x uncommon grade Strength boost potions.

2x uncommon grade Physical defense boost potions.

1x uncommon grade refined bloodstone.

1x common grade gale gemstone.

Naturally, he had yet to submit one reward, and it was the Silverflame wolf's skeleton.

After leaving the Guildhall, he first went to the Apocrathy area and healed the entire dead wolf to recover its bone structure. He had to pay 70 gold coins for that.

Afterward, he went to a skinning workshop and paid 20 gold coins to cut the wolf's skeleton from its skin perfectly.

"Finally done," Aren said as he left the workshop and started walking towards the Guildhall.

However, two knights donned in full body armor suddenly approached him before one of the knights said in a monotone voice, "please follow us to the royal palace."

Aren was surprised and asked, "are you allowed to tell the reason?"

"No. But I am sure it's a good thing," the other Knight answered Aren in a reassuring voice.

"Fine, let's go," Aren said as he rubbed his temples a bit.

"You look a bit exhausted."

Hearing the knight's words, Aren nodded with a weak smile, "Yep. I was fine until two hours ago, but now, the mental exhaustion is slowly increasing since I haven't slept for a bit more than three days."

"Haha, If you got some stored life-essence, then you can use it to level up and remove your fatigue," the knight said with a laugh.

"Stored life-essence?" Aren asked with a bit of confusion, "what's that?"

"Eh...don't you get life-essence as a reward and some other essences after killing a living being?"

Suddenly, Aren thought of something, 'wait...are they talking about Exp? Well, there is essentially no difference between the people of this world and us who came from Earth so I guess they might have Exp but in different form and name, But what about other essences he talked about?'

Aren turned to the knight and asked, "are you talking about Exp? I am from the otherworld, so...ahem, you know."

"Oh, so you are an otherworlder? Well, they do have some advantage over us. However, they always disappear after three years of arriving here. According to rumors, their worlds and they are in danger, so they get strong here to fight against the despair thrown upon them."

Aren nodded with a wry smile and said, "yeah, we also have to fight unknown despair to survive. If we don't, then we will be wiped out. This is what that voice said after it descended on our world."

The knights looked at Aren with a bit of pity, but helmets covered their faces so Aren couldn't see it.

"Well...good luck. That's all we can say."

...

Inside the large royal hall of Royal Palace, Lady Cerity was sitting on one of the exquisite-looking seats. There were ten such seats, five on the left side and five on the right side.

In the middle of two sections of seats was a path with a red carpet material, and at the end of the path were two thrones on a bit higher ground in this hall.

Currently, four people were sitting in different seats, and a regal-looking middle-aged man was sitting on the left throne.

"Cerity, are sure you became a Legendary lifeform because of the essences you got for defeating that so-called Blood Hexa Entity?" King Forcrent asked as he looked at Cerity.

Cerity nodded with certainty, "I also didn't expect to get such reward after defeating it. I didn't check out those essences at the time after defeating that monster, but I properly absorbed them while fighting and broke through."

"Cerity dealt the most damage since it was very weak against her Lightning of Purification, and that's why she got a higher amount of reward than me, which allowed her to break the barriers to the Legendary lifeform stage and allowed us that victory in the battle," Klen said with a smile.

"Strange, if you got such reward after defeating it, that creature must be quite powerful. At least, it should have Legendary lifeform potential for you to get such essence reward after defeating it," King Forcrent said.

"That creature was indeed very strange. Its power was even more bizarre than its weakness. Anyway, who would've thought that my Lightning of Purification would damage it that much? It's good that Aren gave us the suggestion or we might have to spend more time and energy to defeat. I might not have gotten that much essence as well in that case and I wouldn't have broken through," Cerity said while shaking her head with a wry smile.

At this time, Aren entered with the two knights and also heard Cerity's sentence, 'uhh...of course. That strange monster was only at 43% of its full strength. I doubt even the neighbor kingdom knew what they were messing with.'

Aren felt that there was a deep history behind that Blood Hexa Entity. He felt that from the quest's name: Wave of Corruption.

'I wonder what would've happened if that creature birthed with its full strength and started truly corrupting everything with its strange power?' Aren thought, but then he internally shook his head and focused on the current situation.

'That must be the king,' Aren thought as he looked at the middle-aged man sitting on the throne.

"You may leave," the king said as he gestured the knights to leave.

The knights bowed and left.

"Aren," Cerity smiled at Aren before saying, "our king wishes to reward you for your contribution. Your ability to get the enemy's weakness allowed me to defeat that monster, which directly allowed me to become a Legendary lifeform and helped us achieve victory in the battle."

King Focrent nodded and said with a smile, "since you are an otherworlder, you must be in a hurry to get strong. How about I reward you with a Protective Amulet that can defend you against two attacks of Legendary lifeform beings?"

"Thank you very much," Aren's eyes shined as he nodded without any reserve before thinking, 'I wonder what's it upper-limit? After all, there seem to be different levels in the Legendary lifeform stage as well. Let's hope It's higher cause I already encountered one Legendary ghost but was fortunate enough not to catch its attention.'

"Hahaha," King Focrent laughed and nodded as he waved his hand, and an Amulet flew towards Aren.