Second World

While everyone was marveling at the grade of their new guild hero, Jeanny went to the Hero Altar and inserted mana cores to use the level-up feature. Nilrem's level was increased by five levels.

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Nilrem (Mythical Hero, Elf), level 55

HP: 940,000

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Now they had two mythical beings protecting their guild, a guild hero and Penny, the lava dragonet. Although Nilrem was lower level than the guild pet, she provided bonus effects to all their guild soldiers for her status as a guild hero. Jeanny was now checking the bonus effects.

With Nilrem registered as their guild hero, every guild soldier of Everlasting Heavenly Legends received a boost of 20% boost to their intelligence and magical damage. Additionally, all soldiers would also receive stamina/mana recovery during battle. Which was a significant improvement for native soldiers, because natives had a high pool of stamina or mana but they only recover them when out of combat. To be able to do that during combat, similar to players, would allow them a longer period of fighting without a need for rest.

That was a boost given to all Everlasting Heavenly Legends whether or not Nilrem was fighting alongside them. In the case that she did, all the friendly soldiers within a thirty-meter radius from her would receive double the boost.

With Uruk enhancing their physical soldiers and Nilrem their magical ones, their guild force's overall capability had been augmented.

While the others were checking Nilrem's buff, Jack was already sitting on the floor working with his blacksmith tools. As before with Uruk, Jack had been able to strengthen the hero further by giving him better equipment. After seeing Nilrem's appearance, Jack knew her equipment was not much to write about. He was glad that he had made preparation.

Jack had fused beforehand a set of super rare armors from all four categories. He had cleaned out the guild warehouse's stock of mundane common-grade armors. He had also collected and bought lots of common-grade armors when he could. So, he had no problem preparing the sets.

After seeing Nilrem, Jack took out the Cloth Armor set and leveled them up. He had also cleaned out the guild warehouse's stock of ores. If it was his old self, he wouldn't be able to level up the equipment to the max that Nilrem could wear, which was level 65.

Even with his Basic Master grade Blacksmith, his chance of leveling up equipment had hit zero percent when he was leveling up equipment from level 59 to 60. But with help of his Master-grade blacksmith tools, which increased the success chance by 30%, and his super rare Runestone of Probability which increased another 40% success chance. He had a 70% success chance to level up equipment to level 60. With his Intermediate Expert Runecrafting skill, he could further boost the Runestone's 40% success chance to around 49% or 52%, giving him an 82% success chance at his best effort.

When He hit the maximum equipment level he targeted, which was level 64 to level 65, his best success chance was 52%. This was still a very good chance. Hence, he didn't waste too many ores on his effort.

Jack also prepared a super rare grade magic staff and leveled it up to level 65 as well. After finishing his blacksmithing work, Jack brought the equipment to the Hero Altar and used the interface there to equip Nilrem.

Nilrem's appearance changed before everyone's eyes. Her aura was already impressive when she was still wearing junk equipment. Now that her equipment was upgraded, she was even more intimidating. She was now adorned with a long green dress that had glowing runes floating around its fabric. On her head was a silver tiara with various gemstones. The long staff he held appeared to be made of wood, with a black skeleton of a bird at its crown. The skeletal bird was holding a large gem that glowed a soft green light.

Nilrem seemed to study her gears after they appeared. She flashed Jack a brief glance before returning to her indifferent attitude. Jack thought that perhaps she was saying thank you with that glance? He couldn't be sure.

Jeanny used their guild interface to send Nilrem to the Training Hall for her to train her level until further notice. Upon receiving instruction, she just vanished from their sight with a blink of light.

"That's teleportation," Peniel informed while pointing somewhere. "A rather high-level one considering the distance she could teleport to."

Everyone looked at where she was pointing and saw Nilrem in the distance. She was currently floating down to the structure where the Training Hall was located.

"I kind of wish we can have another war coming just so we can see what she is capable of," Bowler said.

"Me too!" The Man uttered.

"We can always invade other guilds for that," John proposed.

"We don't have time to play war. We still need to restore the army we lost," Jeanny reminded.

"Yeah, don't waste our force on trivial things. We don't know when another conflict might appear. We need to keep our force in tip-top condition when that happens," Jack said.

"Invading others are trivial things, he said," Jet commented.

Jack ignored the remark, he turned to his grandfather. "Gramps, I have a job for you. Grace's companion had given me an idea."

"Oh?" Grace uttered after hearing Jack's words.

"It is possible to teach natives martial arts and mana ability," Jack said. "Aside from teaching our core members, I would like you to train our guild soldiers as well. Give them a basic drill or something like that. Our training hall is limited, so not every soldier can be stationed there to increase their levels. The rest who are not on patrol should be given a martial art training program to increase their battle capability."

"Hey, you actually thought of something good for once," John complimented.

"What the hell do you mean for once?" Jack said.

"Hm... I will see what I can do," Domon said.

"I will lend a hand. I have experience training the mass when I taught the police force," Jet said.

"So, will you be leaving now?" Jeanny asked Jack.

"Yeah. I shouldn't put the matter on hold any longer. My level wasn't hindered by my divine skill anymore, so it's better if I get that special skill before I level up again. A special class will give me a better attribute increase, correct?" Jack asked Peniel.

"Yes," Peniel confirmed.

"Now, too bad there is no certain way to get a special class for my other two classes," Jack lamented.

"Are you going to stop your other classes' progression until you get their special classes?" Jeanny asked.

"No way. I don't even know where to look for them except for Archmage's one," Jack answered. "I will just leave it to fate. If I get one, then it's good. If not, I won't force it. I will continue to level up as usual. I'm already glad I got a clue on where to find one for the Archmage class."

"I wish you luck then," Jeanny said.

"I really can't come?" Grace asked.

"There is no monster to grind there after you passed level 30. The only advantage there is the time warp, you can get a better one here from our Time Chamber. That place is also too mysterious. There might be something down there that is dangerous. Only Pandora and I can escape as we wish, so it's better if I go by myself."

"All right," Grace said.

"Before you leave, can you donate more gold coins?" John asked Jack.

"Dude, you are truly shameless. I have just donated 200 gold coins after the war. Didn't the guild receive a large gold reward for winning the war? Also, didn't you brag about getting more war contribution points? Then you should get more coins than me. Donate your own bloody coins!"

"I have. The thing is, these units that we get from the unique-grade insignias required expensive upkeep. The coin reward from winning the war can help us fund the construction of new guild structures, but we won't be able to train more of these high-class units if we don't have a steady income of coins to pay for their upkeep."

"How are Dylan and his traders doing in that department?" Jack asked.

"They provided good income of coins. But from the way I see it, we can probably train around triple the number we have right now for those special units. Afterward, we might need to stop training more. Otherwise, we won't have enough coins to pay for the upkeep."

"I see... I will try to donate again when I can," Jack said.

Jack still had plenty of ores left after leveling up the equipment for Nilrem, so he offered to level up the equipment of those who gathered there. He himself had leveled up all his equipment the night before to level 60. His Sword Fiend's Gear set now gave him a total of 1896 physical defense and 1716 magical defense.

His Storm Breaker at level 60 possessed physical damage of 510.

As for his magic staff, he had gained a new unique-grade staff from Garland. Garland, being a special native, had dropped lots of valuable items when he died. A few rare and super rare equipment, some materials and ingredients which he donated to the guild, then four items that were obviously a league above the others.

One of these four was a Unique-grade magic staff called Mana Leech Staff. The second was a blueprint for the lightning tower, which he had given to John. The lightning tower was a similar defensive structure to the ice tower. While their current ice tower dealt high damage in a linear line and inflicted slow and freeze. The lightning tower could attack ten targets at the same time and inflict Paralyze.

The third was a technique book, containing the spell Perpetual Lightning Judgement, Garland's signature spell requiring seven runes to cast. When Jack checked this book after the end of the civil war, he was disappointed to find that the requirement for learning this spell was the Elementalist class and to be at least level 50. However, Jack detected some kind of connection with the book from his mana sense. So, he attempted to learn it despite not being an Elementalist.

The interface appeared asking if he wanted to learn the spell. Although he was confused by it, he was also happy about it. He immediately learned the spell without delay. Peniel also didn't understand the reason why Jack could learn the spell. The only way Jack might explain it was because he was a magic user who had the Lightning God Blessing. Maybe this allowed him to learn lightning-based spells despite not being the proper class. To test this theory, he would need to find another lightning spell technique book again.

The fourth one was something that he put back into his inventory for later use since Peniel informed him that he needed to go to a facility for that item. He didn't want to put his plan for the special class on hold again. He would deal with this item after.

For his new magic staff, he had leveled it up to level 60 the night before. This magic staff now had a higher damage output compared to his Storm Breaker which was still at a super rare grade.

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Mana Leech Staff, level: 60/90 (unique magic weapon)

Magical damage: 550

Range: 60 meters

Attack speed: 1

Energy: 300

Intelligence +20

MP +200

Standard attacks convert 1% of inflicted damage into MP

Mana Steal Aura: All hostiles within a 5-meter radius lose 30 MP every second, and the lost MP is transferred to the staff's owner. Duration: 2 minutes. Cooldown: 1 hour

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He couldn't level up everyone's gears to the max. Although he had lots of ores, they were still not enough. He leveled them up to around levels 50 and 55, with priority given to Jeanny, John, Domon, Leavemealone, Fierce Flame, Trinity Dawn, and The Man. Jet's and Grace's gears were already high level since Jack had improved them during their time in the Village of Peace.

After finishing his work, Jack left and headed to the Valley of Tempus.