NOVEL NEXT Chapter 235: Reward Levels
Mila
Congratulations!
Your army has won the final battle of the War of the Chosen. Calculating army point distribution.
By killing four enemy commanders you earned…
As she got up from her bed and walked to the window of her room in the main building of Earth’s enlightenment zone, Mila skimmed over the System’s complex calculation of her army point earnings.
As with all the previous stages, the life of every enemy soldier was worth a single army point, each enemy commander 12, and the enemy general 144. Then these values were multiplied based on several factors, X12 for not losing a single soldier, X6 for achieving a complete victory, and X8,388,608 for it being the 24th round, every round after the first doubling the amount of points for each kill.
Then the System decided how to divide these points among the members of the army, each member earning what they deserved before half of every soldier’s points went to the commanders and half of every commander’s points went to the general. The calculations for the individual earnings were complex, with the System splitting the points of every kill among everyone who contributed—Aalam, as usual, having the highest individual contribution of anyone in their army by far—but this part didn’t matter much to Mila.
Every member of the Earth army had signed a contract in their first War of the Chosen battlefield to give over all their points to her to buy things for the entire force, so their individual contributions were pretty much only useful for bragging rights and the individualized rewards they would receive from the System as all the army points of the entire army were in her hands.
Total Accumulated Army Points: 2,435,246,311,680
Then came the more interesting part, the bonuses from their achievements throughout the entire war.
Congratulations!
Your army has achieved first place in the War of the Chosen.
Reward Level +1
Calculating additional modifiers.
Your army lost no combatants throughout the entire War of the Chosen.
Reward Level +1
Your army achieved a complete victory in each stage.
Reward Level +1
You personally have achieved the max possible amount of army points.
Reward Level +1
Calculating.
Your master, the Heavenly Spark Soul King, has transferred his personally gained additional modifiers to you.
Reward Level +2
Congratulations!
You have achieved the max possible reward level for the War of the Chosen, +6.
Mila took a deep breath, feeling a certain amount of tension leaving her body. Then she took a look at Aalam’s System messages to learn how he’d earned those extremely precious extra reward levels.
You have ranked in the top twelve individual contributors in the history of the War of the Chosen at seventh place.
Reward Level +1
You have ranked in the top twelve most powerful E ranks to ever compete in the War of the Chosen at third place.
Reward Level +1
The first was to be expected. As the creator of all their army’s artifacts, Aalam had received part of the points of everyone who used his artifacts while killing their opponents, giving him a part of every kill the Earth army had made. Meanwhile he also had the most kills of anyone in the army by far, as well as the most assists.
Even in their last battle, where Aalam had only killed a single soldier directly, he’d still gained over 90% of the army points available.
Given the rules of the last stage, however, Mila had been worried, so it was a huge relief he’d managed to make it into the top 12.
As for him being the third most powerful E rank in the history of the War of the Chosen, this wasn’t surprising either.
Aalam was an absolute beast of a monster, putting almost every living god and A rank to shame if they were to compare their old E rank selves to the current him while Id was active—something he could now control pretty much at will—but his race was only Heroic grade, not Fabled, while his bloodline gave no direct combat power. Kavon Kemizle, the son of the Lady of Laws, had been slightly more powerful than Aalam when he’d participated in his second War of the Chosen, practicing the same cultivation technique to the same level, having far more uniquenesses than just two, and having already merged one of his skills with his cultivation technique. And then there was Endless Blade Domor Ka, an absolute freak of nature from five trillion years ago. He’d brought six Laws up to the Law Scarab stage before the age of 72 and trained Cosmic Cycle of the Five Elements, a cultivation technique on the same level as Yin Yang Cosmology, to the thirteenth level. He hadn’t made it past D rank, becoming one of the cautionary tales for relying on dao guides for advancement among A rank powers, but it was unlikely anyone would ever surpass the level of power he’d achieved as an E rank.
As far as Mila’d known, there was no extra reward for getting the most individual army points of all time or being the most powerful E rank, but the fact the System confirmed +6 was the highest possible reward level now made her think otherwise, as the System generally didn’t give confirmation like that.
Whatever the case, however, they had no way of accessing those rewards, and they would almost certainly be individual rewards only for Aalam, so Mila didn’t care much.
With the max possible reward level, Mila could buy anything the War of the Chosen would allow to be bought with army points, and that was what she was after as the War of the Chosen, the only universal challenge which represented a force and not an individual, had a purchase list which included categories not found in other universal challenges like the F and D rank Trial Towers. This included things like blueprints for law armors, the spell models for large defensive and offensive arrays, and skill orbs for combination skills, skills which had to be activated by two or more cultivators in order to work, but which usually created an extra powerful effect. The most precious things up for purchase, however, were information on paths to power, which included things like the requirements for races, bloodlines, classes, and skills for advancing.
A normal winner of the War of the Chosen, with only a +1 to reward level, could only purchase this information to the level of D ranks, something which wasn’t all that useful. But, with a +6 reward level, Mila would be able to purchase information not just to the god level, but to the level of gods like the Divine Child, the Lady of Laws, and Aalam’s grandfather, the Primordial Sovereign.
Taking a deep breath, Mila walked out to the balcony of her room and looked out at the waves crashing gently into the enlightenment zone’s beach, taking a moment to center herself.
Everyone in the army had already sent her the lists of individual rewards they’d been offered by the System, it part of the contract they’d signed to give her half a day to give them a better offer than the System in exchange for allowing her to choose their System rewards and then take it to be used by others, and this was going to be a lot of work, so Mila, as she’d learned was useful over the last several decades, was first taking a short break.
Using her sensory domain, she watched as Aalam moved into his crafting hall and started building something, seemingly a spatial storage ring designed to hold and maintain the freshness of food. At the same time, she watched as Isaiah moved out into the water, dove down, and began practicing a spear and shield kata under the sea. And she saw as Reginald of all people went over to Javier’s room and consoled him about how his disguise for Aalam hadn’t worked and how he’d almost caused a disaster in the forest battlefield.
Other than Aalam, however, she didn’t focus on these people much, Isaiah’s actions rather boring and Reginald and Javier’s discussion a private matter. Instead, her minds automatically took more note of people like Sally and Francis Davies, who had walked out of their room, chatting and smiling at each other, and Anton Smith and Nitya, who’d now been married for a little over a decade and were holding hands as they headed to the teleportation platform to go pick up their three children from Anton’s sister, who’d been watching them during the final stage of the War of the Chosen.
Mila wanted that type of relationship, and it was now likely only a matter of months before she could have it.
Looking directly over at Aalam’s crafting hall, she sensed his heartbeat speed up, causing her own to do the same, and then she quickly looked away.
It had taken her way too long to figure out, mostly because she and Aalam hadn’t been on the same planet for years after Aalam had finally forgiven her for what she’d done before their deaths, but once they’d actually started living on the same planet it had been pretty obvious Aalam still had feelings for her. He’d just been trying to create distance between them so he wouldn’t make a mistake, losing the chance to gain the Virtuous Sage class as a D rank by losing his merit of chastity. And Mila hadn’t advanced her abilities enough to manipulate merit and sin to the point she could give him the merit back, so she’d just had to wait.
Sure, their relationship wouldn’t be easy. They were both still really messed up people. But she was so looking forward to working on becoming less messed up together.
