<h4>Chapter 331 - All Legendary</h4>
"Well, when Rina returned from her self-imposed exile, she had been on the cusp of Rank 2. She had increased the grade of her staff from Legendary to Divine, and the active skill had be extremely prohibitive. We didn’t want to cause any problems for us, so we called over all the avable core members and headed over to Vareas Penins ."
"There, we prepared carefully before letting Rina unleash her new Divine skill Ultra Supernova, which covered the entire Continent Zone. With the number of monsters killed, each of us instantly reached level 50 with an unbelievable amount of experience stockpiled."
"We decided to Rank up together, but thanks to the information you have given me, I made sure that everyone would ss Up first. I had to open the guild’s funds to pay for their ss Up procedure. We had enough to allow all of them to attempt to receive Epic or even Legendary sses. Each one of them seeded on their first try."
"Rina though, had been blessed with the opportunity to ss Up into a Divine ss, so we are currently waiting for her results. Unfortunately, this had consumed all the guild’s liquid funds, so we have nothing to give you at this time." Sublime finished with an awkward smile.
Riveting Night digested this in silence. It seemed like these fellows had capitalized on great timing to advance forward. Looking at the results and the method of execution, Riveting Night nodded.
"Good job, just as expected of you, Sublime."
Sublime smiled lightly. With her taking the helm, what could have possibly gone wrong? Riveting Night talking like this was just because she knew giving up any ground to Sublime would bite her in the asster.
Riveting Night cast her eyes around to all the members of Umbra. "Alright, line up and show me the details of your various sses so I can decide what to do with you louts."
Immediately, everyone lined up in a sh. They all feared Riveting Night and her methods deeply. The only one who remained unfazed was of course Loving Aunt, because to her, Riveting Night was like a daughter-inw.
Heh, no matter how scary Riveting Night was, she definitely didn’t have the balls to cross her mother-inw. As such, Riveting Night only spoke gently to Loving Aunt, but the rest received a face full of a murderous intent.
The first to disy her changes was Sublime.
?Seneschal - Legendary ss (Rank 2)
Skills: Assent (Active), Consolidate (Passive).
Exp gain rate: 180%
Rank up difficulty: 60%
ss weapons: Any non-physical
ss skills: Any non-physical?
Her exp gain rate had reduced from 200% to 180%, while her Rank up difficulty had increased from 50% to 60%. It wasn’t that you thought that the exp gain rate was fixed, right? Of course not!
Only formon sses would the Exp gain rate and Rank up difficulty remain the same at all Ranks. For anyone who had any sort of Hidden ss, they benefited greatly from more powerful skills and adjustments in those categories. The rarer the ss, the greater the benefits, even if they got gradually reduced when ranking up.
Still, 180% for a Legendary ss was really great. It would take Sublime some time to hit the Rank cap once again if she was able to focus onbat levelling. Riveting Night estimated that in about a year or two, it was entirely possible for her to enter Rank 3.
Her ss skills had been buffed too, and she had gained two new ones. Riveting Night decided to check them outter, as she had to peruse the changes for all the members of Umbra at once.
If she tried to assess them one by one, who knew when she would finish?
Riveting Night checked on Deployed Solider next, then simultaneously opened all the disys from the other members of Umbra at once so she could assess their changes all together.
?Great Commander - Legendary ss (Rank 2)
Skills: Commander’s Rage (Active), Tactical Incursion (Active).
Exp gain rate: 200%
Rank up difficulty: 90%
ss weapons: Any non-magical
ss skills: Any non-magical?
?Wordsmith - Legendary ss (Noble Writer)
Skills: Speed Writing (Passive), Verbosity (Passive), Writ of Summons (Active), Ledger of ountability (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 50, End 10, Int 50, Spr 20, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 150%
Rank up difficulty: 30%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any literary?
?Ferromancer - Legendary ss (Happy Saint)
Skills: Metallurgy (Passive), Metalmancy (Passive), Tradeskill Form (Active), Combat Form (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 50, Int 50, Spr 20, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 120%
Rank up difficulty: 40%
ss weapons: Any metal
ss skills: Any metal?
?Information Broker - Legendary ss (Sanji)
Skills: Maniptive Words (Passive), Tight Control (Passive), Department Setup (Active), Information Acquisition (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 80, Lck 30
Exp gain rate: 150%
Rank up difficulty: 30%
ss weapons: None.
ss skills: Any informatory?
?Conglomerate Manager - Legendary ss (Akainu)
Skills: Branch Management (Passive), Business Ac.u.men (Passive), Branch Setup (Active), Summon Secretary (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 40, Spr 10, Cha 50, Lck 30
Exp gain rate: 150%
Rank up difficulty: 30%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any mercantile?
?Fire Lord - Legendary ss (Jada)
Skills: Burning Aura (Passive), Ice Immunity (Passive), Extreme Implosion (Active), Searing mes (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 60, Spr 50, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 90%
Rank up difficulty: 10%
ss weapons: Staff, Wand, Tome
ss skills: Any fire?
?Ice Lord - Legendary ss (Jade)
Skills: Chilling Aura (Passive), Fire Immunity (Passive), Persistent Blizzard (Active), Absolute Zero (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 60, Spr 50, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 90%
Rank up difficulty: 10%
ss weapons: Staff, Wand, Tome
ss skills: Any ice?
?Enchantress - Legendary ss (Loving Aunt)
Skills: Extreme Attraction (Passive), Toxic Supremacy (Passive), Subjugate (Active), Poison Ivy (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 60, Spr 20, Cha 40, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 120%
Rank up difficulty: 50%
ss weapons: Any magical
ss skills: Any poison or beguilement?
?Lord of Shadows - Legendary ss (Silent Walker)
Skills: Nightwalker (Passive), Perfect Maniption (Passive), Dark Barrier (Active), Endless Night (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 80, Spr 30, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 110%
Rank up difficulty: 50%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any darkness?
?Demi-Angel - Legendary ss (Warm Spring)
Skills: Holy Aura (Passive), Damage Immunity (Passive), Light of Hope (Active), Mercy (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 80, Spr 80, Cha 10, Lck 50
Exp gain rate: 500%
Rank up difficulty: 1%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any healing or support?
?Lich - Legendary ss (Dreary Traveler)
Skills: Undead Lord (Passive), Undeath (Passive), Rise Up (Active), Promotion (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 90, Spr 20, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 110%
Rank up difficulty: 50%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any undead?
?Sword Supreme - Legendary ss (Slim Fatty)
Skills: Sword Mastery (Passive), Sword Supremacy (Passive), World sh (Active), Overpowered Wave (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 50, Dex 50, End 20, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 100%
Rank up difficulty: 80%
ss weapons: Any sword
ss skills: Any sword?
?Orator - Legendary ss (Rambunctious Buttlover)
Skills: Deceptive Words (Passive), Sweet Talker (Passive), Endless Speech (Active), Inspire (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 90, Lck 20
Exp gain rate: 160%
Rank up difficulty: 30%
ss weapons: None
ss skills: Any bard?
?Martial Artist - Legendary ss (Kiran)
Skills: Inner Force (Passive), Unarmed Combat Mastery (Passive), Cultivate (Active), Qi Wave (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 40, Dex 50, End 10, Int 10, Spr 30, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 120%
Rank up difficulty: 50%
ss weapons: Any unarmed
ss skills: Any unarmed?
?Vanguard - Legendary ss (Uno)
Skills: Protection Aura (Passive), Immovable Wall (Passive), All-out Defence (Active), Deflect (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 100, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 160%
Rank up difficulty: 20%
ss weapons: Any defensive
ss skills: Any defensive?
?yer - Legendary ss (Cobra)
Skills: Extreme Stealth (Passive), Blood Aura (Passive), Disable (Active), Sure-kill Strike (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 50, End 10, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 10, Lck 60
Exp gain rate: 130%
Rank up difficulty: 40%
ss weapons: Any small
ss skills: Any assassin?
?Maverick - Legendary ss (Boyd)
Skills: Bide (Passive), Improvisation (Passive), Unpredictable Strike (Active), Berserk (Active).
Starting Stats: Str 80, Dex 10, End 30, Int 10, Spr 10, Cha 10, Lck 10
Exp gain rate: 140%
Rank up difficulty: 30%
ss weapons: Anyrge
ss skills: Any berserker.?
Riveting Night was stunned into stupidity. After Sublime had told her that all of them had been supported to attempt Epic and Legendary sses, she had expected to see a mixture of the two here. For all of them to be so greedy to go straight for the best choice... they were worthy of being the core members of Umbra.
Even then, she had expected to see some failures among the lot. After all, the base sess chance for Legendary ss Ups was roughly 1%. Draco’s had been 0.01% because those options he had were pinnacle Legendary sses.
These were more average, minus Warm Spring’s Demi-Angel ss.
That was to say, everyone had managed to fall into that bracket of 1% sess rate on the first try? How could that even be possible?
How could Riveting Night understand? If things had progressed normally, only the Five Generals would seed in getting Legendary sses while Rambunctious Buttlover and Slim Fatty might have squeezed out Epic sses.
The rest would have varying chances, but it would certainly not be so exaggerated as it was now. The simple reason for this was due to Sublime Notions veiled threat before they all set out.
The sadistic loli had wickedly remarked that anyone who would fail would have to exin their failures to Draco and Riveting Night. Then she had presented her calctions how long it would take for a normal guild member to ve away before they could make hundreds of thousands of guild funds required to allow just one of them to take their test...
Motivated by extreme fear, they had broken through their mental inhibitors and disyed 150% of their skills during their ss Up procedures. For them, failure was not an option. Simr to Sublime Notion herself, the Five Generals had not shunned from bastardizing their tests in ways that should have even made the system raise an eyebrow, as long as it meant that they could raise their chances of seeding by a tiny amount.
As such, the current scene had urred. In truth, even Sublime had been shocked as one after the other hade out sessfully. Sublime had once thought that loyalty and love were the most powerful motivator in the world, but that was all a fart.
Nothing could motivate a human being to do their best like fear. Fear of failure, of disgrace, of poverty... they often drove a man to disy his best skills and break through limits as well as preconceived notions.
Riveting Night could not know or understand this. Instead, she felt extremely proud and pleased with the members of Umbra, and her aura became extremely warm.
This made the faces of everyone change greatly. Not because of how rare it was for Riveting Night to be so amiable towards them, but solely because of how overpowered her aura was.
This was natural, as Riveting Night was sub-consciously channelling her Celestial Maiden Inheritance. One should not forget, Amaterasu was a kind and benevolent deity, so her aura was like the cradle of life.
It was only Riveting Night’s life experiences that had twisted her nature far from what should have been, making her cruel, callous and a sociopath.
"Good, all of you have done well. Extremely well, actually. You have gone above and beyond my expectations, and that is a hard thing to do in this world." Riveting Nightmended them with a nod.
The core members of Umbra shared gratified looks among each other. It seemed as if their efforts had not gone to waste, as even the harsh Riveting Night was iparably gentle towards them at the moment.
However, her amiable aura suddenly turned chilling and the members of Umbra felt the jaws of the abyss open before them, ready to swallow them up at any time.
"ughtering a whole continent and angering many Rank 7 parties, you louts sure are amazing, huh? Even daring to empty the guilds coffers. Hehe, I am impressed."
Riveting Night’s words made them shiver in fear, especially Sublime who shook like a willow tree in a storm. After all, no matter what, most of the responsibility would fall on her head!
Surprisingly, Riveting Night retracted her aura. "Still, none of that was wrong. What use is money if it is not used properly? As members of Umbra, it is your right to offend even the Gods, as long as you can prove your own worth. After today, you certainly have done that."
Just as Riveting Night was about to continue, a sweltering heat washed over the entire Training Hall as one of the private rooms opened, revealing Rina’s mouth-watering form.
Her scarlet eyes glowed like a torch and her formerly ck hair had be living strands of fire. Her robe was gone, reced by congealed mes that covered her form. In her hand was the Divine mesear, and it looked like it had been reborn.
Rina met eyes with Riveting Night, and her noble expression changed as she sought to flee. However, Riveting Night coldly harrumph and caught her, making the shivering Rina disy her ss information.