Defiance of the Fall

Off With Their Heads (Unique) : Kill the four heralds and the general of an incursion within 3 months . Reward : 10 E-Grade Nexus Crystals , E-Grade equipment , unique building depending on performance . (5/5) COMPLETE]

Not wanting to wait any longer he walked over to the crystal . Zac knew Ogras might actually be spying on him from the shadows , but he didn’t have any means to locate him at the moment and could only let him be .

As he placed his hand on the crystal it started pulsating for a few seconds until the familiar voice of the System appeared .

Incursion subjugation complete . Calculating personal contribution . Contribution 88% . Time taken : 47 days . Support : 1 . Completion Grade : A . Distributing rewards

Two boxes appeared on the ground and Zac picked up the smallest one first . Zac still felt it was unsettling that the System could just make things appear out of nowhere . There was no sound , no ripples of power , nothing . One second emptiness , the next the boxes just were there .

As he opened the lid of the smaller box a blinding light radiated out from its contents . They were the E-Grade Nexus Crystals from the reward . Zac could easily discern that anything he had seen so far was F-Graded at best , as these crystals were on a completely different level .

Each crystal contained a terrifying amount of energy inside , perhaps as much as a thousand crystals in his bags . But it was condensed into the small space of his hand . Zac felt that one single crystal might hold enough power for him to gain more than a level , and if these crystals could be absorbed as quickly as an F-Graded one he would instantly skyrocket in power .

But unfortunately he didn’t dare try them at the moment , not while his predicament with his energy poisoning still remained . He could only reluctantly close the lid of the box and place it into his pouch with a sigh . Next he picked up the larger box , which should contain a set of equipment from the reward .

But before he had time to check it out a large rumbling interrupted him . The ground was ominously shaking and a deafening noise could be heard from somewhere close by . Zac instantly got a bad feeling from the sound . Had Ogras lied , and the demon horde was already upon him? He quickly threw the box into his pouch and summoned his axe instead .

He quickly looked around but saw no change . The noise clearly came from the south so he ran there after a brief hesitation . The only thing to the south was the ocean , and Zac was afraid an aquatic beast horde had started if it wasn’t the demons making trouble . As he ran he opened up his Town Shop , ready to buy a defensive array at moment’s notice .

He soon arrived at the edge of the island , and immediately spotted a familiar figure . Ogras was staring out over the cliff with his mouth ajar .

What did you do? - Zac angrily huffed at the demon as he ran up to him , axe at the ready .

What did I do? Nothing . I heard the noise and thought you had done something crazy . And it seems that I was right , - Ogras snappishly retorted and gestured at the odd scene in front of them .

The cliffs were magically rearranging themselves in a baffling manner . It was as though an earth mage untold times more powerful than the demon mages was reconstructing the whole shoreline to his liking . The previously natural cliffs flattened out into orderly land .

Huge rectangular breakwaters grew out from land and created a sheltered basin hundreds of meters across and two piers emerged out of the sea , displacing all water into mighty waves . Furthermore , fractals appeared on the emerging rock-formations as all the various changes took place , glimmering in a mysterious golden hue . They expansively covered the whole shore-line , the piers , and the breakwaters . The script itself differed from both the system’s fractals and the simpler demonic inscriptions , and it actually reminded Zac of the squarish text in very old computer environments .

The changes didn’t only happen on land though , and the duo was forced to scramble to safety as the ground gave out and created a wet dock where they stood . Next , various buildings flashed into existence . The largest was an enormous warehouse-looking building that was at least 300 meters long and 100 meters wide , where one of the short sides ended close to the sea-line . It was probably the largest building Zac had ever seen , and he thought few structures on earth would be able to match it .

Soon the rumbling subsided , and Zac looked out over the majestic harbor that cropped up in under a minute . The design was cubic and looked extremely robust , and Zac felt that not even the worst storm would be able to do any damage to the structures . The cubic fractals covered all the structures as well , and Zac started to believe that they were some sort of protective inscription .

E-Grade Medium Scale Iliex Shipyard Awarded]

The System blared in his ears , but Zac had no time to react before he was interrupted .