Cursed Immortality

A week later, Jacob, under the bright sky, was flying toward the waterfall canyon where the Dark City was located.

His vigorous eyes no longer looked exhausted from the lack of sleep because after constantly dealing with the Dark Beings for over a month, he slept for an entire week which was quite a long time for Jacob, even though he hadn't expected it.

Still, now he was at his full strength and even appeared somewhat stronger as well as that dark aura around him after coming in contact with so many dark beings was also gone. Now, the satisfaction of finally achieving his goal was present in his eyes.

After killing the Lich King, everything went smoothly as those high-ranking dark beings fell into chaos, and this gave Jacob a chance to complete his final tally of the extraordinary dark beings and rank up the Hex Magic Core to the Extraordinary Rank.

Even though now he needed to kill 100,000 Epic Rank Dark Beings to upgrade it to the Epic Rank, or 10,000 Unique Rank Dark Beings, which wasn't achievable any time soon.

But after getting another new hex spell when the Hex Magic Core achieved the Extraordinary Rank felt all those cumbersome killings were all worth it.

Because not only now his Hex Spells will work on the Epic Rank, but their effects will also be far greater. He just needed to test them to be sure.

As for the new hex, it was called Powerless Hex, which can decrease anyone's power rank by three whole tiers.

Meaning if someone were an Extraordinary Tier-6 after getting hit by the Powerless Hex, whether it was their magic core rank or their physical rank, they would instantly be decreased by three tiers.

Not only that, but if someone, for example, was an E-Tier-2, after getting affected by the Powerless Hex, they would be dropped down to the Rare Tier-8 Rank and will lose all the ability they had awakened on the extraordinary rank!

This Hex was truly powerful, and Jacob was very content with it. As for how long it will last, Jacob still has yet to figure it out. But he was pretty sure the timing would be the same as his other two hexes because all his hexes seemed to be aligned when it came to their timings.

Last but not least, since the potency of his Hex Mana has also been ranked up to the Extraordinary rank, now he can ride the bronze disc for two hours straight while using the stealth function with his current mana capacity!

Today, Jacob was going toward the meeting place where Hallberg and his meeting point were supposed to be.

Even though he has gotten rid of the extraordinary beings and the Lich King, there are still millions of low-ranking dark beings roaming in the Magic Beast Forest. People would not notice the absence of the missing Lich King so easily. Or they won't directly assume that someone has killed over 100,000 Extraordinary Dark Beings and the Lich King in a month.

So, Jacob was sure no one would connect this incident with him as he would be gone by the time people started to realize or they won't, and this would remain a mystery to the living beings forever.

Because the reinforcement from the Dark Beings was coming, and once they landed here, no one would be able to tell if the Lich King had gone missing since it won't matter. He was pretty sure in that reinforcement, there won't be just 20 or 30 evolve dark begins.

Only the dark beings would notice the disappearance of their powerful army, but they won't be kind enough to warn anyone as long as they weren't idiots.

Jacob also wasn't planning on revealing this as he has already drawn too much attention to himself from the Epic Plains despite not even stepping foot there. Now if those guys knew he could get rid of the Dark Beings in mass alone, then he knew those enemies of his won't underestimate him anymore.

Lastly, even if, by some fluke, someone did discover the high-ranking dark beings' annihilation, all the focus would turn toward the Dark City. It was more believable, and Jacob didn't mind giving the Dark City and Hallberg credit for his hard work and letting him enjoy the spotlight.

When Jacob was a few miles away from the canyon, he finally decided to take out his star watch to send a message to Hallberg of his arrival.

His Star Watch has been stowed away because he didn't want to get disturbed during his sleep. Albeit, the one-week time was still something unexpected.

Right when the Star Watch appeared on the wrist, an interface opened on its own, and Jacob was surprised when he saw it was a notification. But when he saw who this notification was from, his eyes winded slightly.

"Star Administrator Artificial Intelligence (SAAI): Congratulations Faceless Ancient for completing a hidden achievement of the Rare Plains by killing over 100,000 Extraordinary Dark Beings and the Ruler of the Dark Beings in record-breaking time!

"Achievement Reward (1): Ray of Hope (Honorary Identity Badge)

"[Ray of Hope: An Honorary Title granted by the Life Faction to those who devoted their lives to protecting their roots and prevailed!]

"[Honorary Identity Badge (Effect): On equipping this badge, you will be exempt from any entry fees in the cities of Life Faction. You can enjoy a 2% discount on any item purchased with ZC by showing this badge from any city of Life Faction.]

"Achievement Reward (2): Your (Faceless Ancient) Type-1 Star Privilege has been upgraded to Type-2 Star Privilege. (Please Open this section for more information about your Type-2 Star Privilege)

"Achievement Reward (3): 1 Million ZC & 1 All-Life Zone Scroll (Type-2)

"All-Life Zone Scroll Description: Create a 10X10 Life Zone anywhere, and no Dark Being under Unique Rank will be able to enter the All-Life Zone for 1 Year!"

Jacob had to stop in midair to read this unbelievable notification, and when he confirmed it was really from SAAI and his bank balance had been credited with 1,000,000 ZC, he knew it wasn't some pranked.

But someone even more absurd happened the very next moment; something out of thin air popped up in front of Jacob.

It was a beautiful emerald scroll, which was sealed with magic runes, and there was a title written in golden magic runes over it, 'All-Life Zone.'

Jacob couldn't help but look at the bright sky with an appalled look because he didn't even sense this scroll's arrival, and from this notification, it was pretty clear he was being monitored, not to mention SAAI seemed to send items directly to him on a whim.

This sent cold chills down Jacob's spine as he finally understood just how unfathomable the Zodiac Plains were, and his imagination was not enough to even measure its depth!