Guild Wars-Novel

To the north, Colonel Shadowheart led his regiment to conquer the lands in this direction. He was followed by the ten majors Elle Leone, Nightwalker, Money Lover, Noble Writer, Happy Saint, Bella, Warm Spring, Pedro Sousa, Hunter101Bomber, and Hades.

His regiment was full of power and pride, led by a calm and stoic man who was swirling a glass of the finest wine in hand. His tall, intellectual beauty was by his side, tinkering with something as she had the Magical Engineering Tradeskill to pass the time, and his brother in crime, Nightwalker, was currently tormenting Bella and taming her in the cruelest manner.

This was clearly an airship full of champions and winners, and none onboard expected anything less than victory. As such, when they hovered over the Area Zone to the north, which was called the Faraday Plains, they formed a huge deterrent to all the forces below.

The loose monsters in the various Field Zones screamed in fear, but were blown to death by the cannons and laser-like magical beams of the airship that rained down continuously.

Draco had been very clear from the beginning, he didn't care about the damage to the land, sea, or air. With his means, he could fix anything they did, even if they used Destruction Energy.

So Shadowheart chose the smartest strategy and just razed everything along the way. It conserved the energy of his troops and entertained the entire 100,000 regiment as they listened to the screams below.

The Airships used Worldly Energy to charge their shots, and it was in abundance, so there was no cost to this. The group could lounge around and let the airship gunners do the work for them.

However, after going forward for a few hundred miles, they encountered their first bit of civilization. It was a Kingdom called the Yuto Theocracy, and they believed in the Rank 7 entity called Yuto as a Mortal God.

As you could infer, the Yuto fellow was trying to gather faith energy to ascend to become a True God, but to do that required the Ministry Tradeskills as well as some special methods of the Church of Light.

As the Yuto fellow had neither, he couldn't even use the faith energy he gathered to do anything. However, as follower gods with a Rank 7 Church, the core members could harvest and cleanse it into divine Energy.

Of course, the Yuto fellow needed to be unalived to achieve that, but how could that even be a problem for the regiment here today?

Across all regiments, the lowest Rank was 5 for the NPCs and 4 for the players. With Suppression immunity, they only had one Rank of Suppression against Rank 7's, and with their Divine classes, Divine custom sets, and bloodlines, who was their match??

When they reached the army of the Yuto Theocracy who had moved out ahead of time to block them, the core members sneered. The majority of soldiers on the other side were Rank 1 with their officers being Rank 2 and their general at Rank 3.

The warriors didn't even need to get down, the army could wipe them out themselves using the guns. However, where was the fun in that?

Shadowheart waved a hand and allowed the army to deploy. 100,000 men and women against a force that was numbered around 500 million.

After all, ridiculous distances and sizes was Boundless' thing, and even the weakest kingdom could muster more than 50 million troops if they took in just anyone.

It should seem like the lower-numbered troops should be easily overwhelmed. After all, even if they were stronger, enough ants could bite an elephant to death.

But you see, that saying was super retarded because that assumes the elephant is just standing in one area like a retard waiting for death. If the ants can rush over to bite, he too could rush around and stomp.

Likewise, the power gap between Rank 5, Rank 1, and 2 was too great. Let's not put in equipment, stats, or skills, just the fact that suppression existed was enough.

Umbra and its people had been at lower ranks for most of their rise to today, so we always heard about how they were suffering from level suppression from bigger foes.

And yet with this, they still clapped their stronger enemies with relative ease.

You expected them to fall when they were now applying suppression on others after having become stronger???

What kind of drugs are you on homie?

Shadowheart, Elle, and Nightwalker did not move out. Only The others did and they proudly displayed their new classes or abilities one by one.

(Author's Note: Brace yourselves, here it comes!!!)

First was Hades who floated above the army and looked down with a callous expression. He changed out of his usual hoodie and now wore a black windbreaker jacket that covered his mouth, only revealing his cruel hazel eyes and sharp nose.

｢Heaven's Devourer - Divine Class (Rank 5)

Rank 1: Black Hole (Passive), Infinite Absorption (Passive), Energy Devour (Active), Energy Conversion (Active).

Rank 2: Spirit Devour (Active), Spirit Conversion (Active)

Rank 3: Darkness Manipulation (Passive), Energy Seal (Passive)

Rank 4: Strength Devour (Active), Strength Conversion (Active).

Rank 5: Energy Imbuement (Passive), Stat Imbuement (Passive)

Exp gain rate: 0.25%

Rank up difficulty: 50%

Class weapons: All.

Class skills: Any Darkness.｣

｢Energy Imbuement – Passive skill

Effect: The user possesses the ability to imbue any ally or person with the energy he has devoured from another entity, temporarily boosting the ally's power for as long as the energy lasts.｣

｢Stat Imbuement – Passive skill

Effect: The user has the ability to share the stats he has absorbed through active skills like spirit Devour or Strength Devour to any ally or person he chooses, temporarily boosting their stats for as long as their bodies can handle the influx.｣

With a single finger, he pointed into the crowd and sent waves of dark light piercing through many of the soldiers. He then sucked out their Spirit and Strength stats, which weakened them greatly.

Using his two new passives, he waved a hand and the power entered their 100,000 troops, causing their power to soar greatly. Their eyes became bloodshot as the extra power made them go berserk and crazy for killing.

Pedro Sousa stood right in the thick of it, his extremely handsome and perfect form causing men and women alike to hesitate before slashing. His handsomeness was buffed by his Horned Demon and Dark Angel inheritances, causing him to be something that even vaguely approached the power that Draco had.

However, unlike pretty boy Draco, Pedro was more masculine in the sense that he was bigger, taller, and more chiseled with his features.

｢Nephilim - Divine Class (Rank 5)

Skills:

Rank 1: Demonic Source - Rank 5 (Passive), Devilish Source - Rank 5 (Passive), Magnitude (Active), Mind Blast (Active),

Rank 2: Pulverise (Active), Mind Explosion (Active)

Rank 3: Hellfire (Passive), Blackfire (Passive),

Rank 4: Decimate (Active), Endless Mirage (Active)

Rank 5: Demonic Might - Rank 5 (Passive), Devil's Guile - Rank 5 (Passive)

Exp gain rate: 0.25%

Rank up difficulty: 50%

Class weapons: None.

Class skills: Any Evil.｣

｢Demonic Might (Rank 4) – Passive skill

Effect: All physical activities consume no stamina, focus, willpower, and concentration and are boosted by 250%.｣

｢Devil's Guile (Rank 4) – Passive skill

Effect: All mental activities consume no stamina, focus, willpower, and concentration, and are boosted by 250%.｣

Pedro had inherited the broken passive that came with the Divine Rank Abyssal Prime class, but only the two relating to his Demon and Devin inheritances.

After all, the current him was at the same peak that Draco had been when he got his Abyssal Prime class, which was 99% bloodline purity.

With this power, Pedro was now like a Nuclear Fusion reactor, a perpetual machine of energy and power. His immense strength and less power caused the various soldiers to die in swathes like he was a farmer clearing weeds with an industrial machine.

He laughed crazily as his eyes became bloodshot, and every soldier before him wore the face of Vano in his mind. He was venting his trauma and hatred out on these innocent soldiers freely, feeling like his soul was cleansed.

These were the only two out of the group who had their classes intact and went from Rank 4 to 5. All the others previously had Legendary classes, and how now classed up to Divine, and they unleashed them for the first time today.

First, let's talk about Warm Spring, Xela.

｢Divine Shaper - Divine Class (Rank 5)

Skills:

Rank 1: Creation Well (Passive), Divine Invincibility (Passive), Resurrect (Active), Recreate (Active)

Rank 2: Bestow (Active), Shape (Active)

Rank 3: Law of Recovery (Passive), Law of Purity (Active).

Rank 4: Craft (Active), Create (Active)

Rank 5: Divine Resistance (Passive), Divine Passage (Passive)

Starting Stats: Str 30, Dex 30, End 30, Int 170, Spr 170, Cha 30, Lck 30

Exp gain rate: 0.25%

Rank up difficulty: 50%

Class weapons: None

Class skills: Any Good or Divine.｣

｢Creation Well – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper is a being of Creation that utilizes the energy of Creation to perform their abilities. They possess the ability to generate unique Creation Energy by using external energy as a source for conversion.

Note: All skills with no cooldown will use Creation Energy directly for their casting.｣

｢Divine Invincibility – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper has sacrificed most of their offensive capability in favor of bringing the light of creation and creativity to the world. As such, they are permanently protected by a veil of Creation Energy, making them invincible to all conventional damage.｣

｢Resurrect – Active skill

Effect: Bring back to life any target with your Creation Energy, restoring their life, power, and soul to their body from the dead.

Cooldown: 10 seconds.｣

｢Recreate – Active skill

Effect: Effectively purify any soul of their unnecessary thoughts and turn them into your thrall using the cleanest Creation Energy.

Note 1: Can be used on any type of being, good or bad.

Note 2: Can only be used on NPCs and monsters.

Note 3: The maximum Rank of thralls can only be 1 Rank below you.

Cooldown: none.｣

｢Bestow – Active skill

Effect: Grant any ally the blessing of Creation, allowing their abilities to manifest unique effects that are in line with what they are displaying.

Duration: 1 hour

Cooldown: 30 minutes.｣

｢Shape – Active skill

Effect: Use your Creation Energy to perform the most basic task of a Divine Shape and shape the world around you. You can create anything and everything in any manner you wish.

Cooldown: None.｣

｢Law of Recovery – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper constantly radiates pure Creation Energy that affects their allies positively. The energy seeps into the wounds of every ally within range of a Continent Zone, causing their HP regeneration to soar to 25% per second.｣

｢Law of Purity – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper constantly radiates pure Creation Energy that affects their allies positively. The energy forms a coat around the body of every ally, completely making them immune to any and all status effects.｣

｢Craft – Active skill

Effect: From the knowledge you possess, create any finished construct and grant it permanence in the world.

Cooldown: None.｣

｢Create – Active skill

Effect: From the knowledge you possess, create any raw or unfinished construct and grant it permanence in the world.

Cooldown: None.｣

｢Divine Resistance – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper is extremely resistant to any form of Divine attacks utilizing the laws of the world by True Gods. True Gods affect 30% less damage on the Divine Shaper at all times.｣

｢Divine Passage – Passive skill

Effect: The Divine Shaper has passage to any place or location in the world, and will always have a positive relationship with those they encounter except for Abyss, Void, and Demonic creatures.｣

She had chosen the path of creation, fully utilizing her connection with Nuwa to gain a class very suitable for her. Her Divine set was even more astounding in its power, and it perfectly suited her abilities.

She mostly used her ability to assist their soldiers who got lost in the slaughter and maintain their rationality. She didn't actually do much other than that because Creation Energy was a precious resource for her and generating it was even harder than making Divine Energy for a Titled God or Origin Energy for a Semi-Origin God.

It wasn't something she could splash wantonly. Her set actually helped with that, but that was for another time.

Next was Austin Wu, or Hunter101Bomber as he loved to call himself.

｢Blood Sovereign - Divine Class (Rank 5)

Rank 1: Blood Absorption (Passive), Living Blood (Passive), Blood Legion (Active), The Red Wave (Active)

Rank 2: Blood Rust (Active), Feral Waters (Active),

Rank 3: Blood Weaponry (Passive), Blood Grafting (Passive)

Rank 4: Blood Bath (Active), Pool of Youth  (Active)

Rank 5: King of Blood (Passive), All For One (Passive)

Starting Stats: Str 30, Dex 30, End 30, Int 250, Spr 120, Cha 50, Lck 50

Exp gain rate: 0.25%

Rank up difficulty: 50%

Class weapons: Any.

Class skills: Any Blood, Lightning.｣

｢Blood Absorption – Passive skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign is able to absorb all nearby spilled blood, regardless of source, allowing him to store it within his origin for use in any blood-related skills.｣

｢Living Blood – Passive skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign can transfer their consciousness into nearby blood, temporarily allowing them to control blood as freely as they want.｣

｢Blood Legion – Active skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign is literally a sovereign. What is a ruler without his subjects? Summon a Legion of Vampires, Dhampirs, and other ungodly blood-sucking horrors to come to your aid in combat or in leisure.

Duration: 1 hour

Cooldown: 3 hours.｣

｢The Red Wave – Active skill

Effect: Summon a wave of blood that drowns all enemies within a Continent Zone that infects them with <Blood Diffusion>, leaving their blood ready for absorption by the sovereign.

For those resistant to the <Blood Diffusion> status effect, they are coated in sticky blood, slowing their movements. This is unblockable and undispellable until the blood disperses.

Duration: 10 minutes

Cooldown: 1 hour.｣

｢Blood Rust – Active skill

Effect: Blood within the bodies of all enemies, and blood that has coated their bodies or spilled from their wounds can be oxidized immediately, causing them to lose HP at a rate of 1% per second.

Duration: 30 seconds.

Cooldown: 10 minutes.｣

｢Feral Waters – Active skill

Effect: Like a shark, the Blood Sovereign succumbs to his instincts and is driven wild by the scent of blood, increasing his attack by 500% and defense by 300% while lowering his intelligence by 60% and agility by 25%.

Duration: 30 minutes

Cooldown: 1 hour.｣

｢Blood Weaponry – Passive skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign is the ruler of blood, and can manipulate the substance to form any weapon or item from blood, and can even create armor.｣

｢Blood Grafting – Passive skill

Effect: Take the blood of a target and use it to graft the appearance and traits of the person onto yourself or any target you choose. This change can be temporary or permanent and required the blood source to be pure.｣

｢Blood Bath – Active skill

Effect: There is blood in the bodies of all enemies around you, and their blood has spilled onto the battlefield. With a simple thought and snap of your fingers, all that blood is ready to suddenly boil and catalyze into an explosive substance, tearing your opponent part from within and dealing 2,500% explosion damage to a single target.

Cooldown: 3 minutes.｣

｢Pool of Youth – Active skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign is indefatigable and almost unkillable when there is blood. As long as there is enough blood stored or around to rebuild himself, he can keep resurrecting without any penalties and without suffering True Death.

Note: Every resurrection reduces all stats by 1% until the Blood Sovereign completely exits battle and recovers with pure blood.

Cooldown: (When blood is completely drained) 1 day.｣

｢King of Blood – Passive skill

Effect: Where the Blood Sovereign walks, all blood-loving and blood-manipulating entities will bow. You can attract Vampires, Feral Bats, and Evil Blood Thralls to your side just by existing.｣

｢All For One – Passive skill

Effect: The Blood Sovereign is the ruler of blood, and can gain unparalleled power from it. Consume blood directly from any member of any species and gain 0.001% of their stats permanently.｣

Austin was a monster on the field. He was right in the thick of it like Pedro, happily absorbing the blood that came his way. He only used ambient blood to form weapons that floated around him and continuously launched forward like he was some low-budget Gilgamesh.

After that, he would collect the fresh blood from these NPCs for later use while using some dirty blood he had stored from the monsters he killed to reach Rank 5 to form blood bombs and other weapons to effect his slaughter.

Monster blood could not compare to NPCs' blood, so he was not willing to even waste a drop, which was why he didn't oxidize or explode their blood. It would be a total waste, and he also didn't bother to absorb the stats of their blood as that would consume the blood completely.

Anyway, Roma had proven that even if you could absorb stats, each Rank had a hard limit because the body could only handle so much power at that State of Being.

Austin was also not hurting for stats, and his goal was mostly research from blood. He wasn't really interested in fighting all the time, but when it came down to it, he would certainly get down and dirty if necessary.

His Divine set also gave him assistance, but it mostly implemented his ability to control lightning and focus it which was largely ignored by his Divine Class.

However, the Blood Burning Lightning did exactly what its name said, so how could he harvest blood if it was all zapped into nothingness?