There was no one who should know the na of the Quest. He hadn't shared it with anyone. The nas the system gave to things were variable. It was based on a combination of what people used and sotis hidden chanisms that were far more complex.
For example, Sylas' first na was decided by the system purely based on what his legal na was. However, his true legal na was Sylas Brown, so why did it appear as Sylas Grimblade to the system?
He was certainly not the only one who was experiencing such a thing. And most importantly for this case, it wasn't just sothing people dealt with either.
There were certainly various nas that people called this place. So nad it after the large number of Dire Wolves in the region, so extended the na of the Arctic Circle further north to this region, and there were so that even called it Evergreen.
But the last was not only the most rare of the nas; to combine it with the word "Territory" was too on the nose for Sylas to have said it by accident.
Lucius had only learned of the official na of this region after receiving this Quest. It was simply impossible for Sylas to know it unless he was privy to the Quest as well... unless there was another wild coincidence that he wasn't aware of.
Not sure what to do, Lucius subconsciously checked his Quest notifications to ensure that he hadn't mistaken sothing. But that was when he saw sothing that shook him to his core.
When had Sylas beco a part of the Quest's contingent? He was the Quest Originator; he hadn't approved of such a thing. How was this possible?
There was no denying it. Lucius was shaken.
And he realized now that the calmness of Sylas' reaction wasn't just because he was rich, and it wasn't because he felt like he could get away with what he wanted no matter what Lucius said either...
It was because he already had Lucius by the balls and he knew it.
Lucius knew more about the rit Leaderboard than most, and it was in large part because of it that he didn't dare to take things too far with Sylas.
Still, he had begun to doubt it sowhat. The number of rits Sylas had already accumulated simply didn't make any sense. It made one feel as though the rit Leaderboard was broken or that Sylas had found so sort of loophole to exploit.
However, right now, he was forced to believe it.
The rit Leaderboard was one that asured the contributions one made to their ho world. The strongest worlds across the universe were all under the control of one power. Those that were split between several factions tended to be the weakest of them.
The rit Leaderboard, in its simplest form, was an easy thod of dividing resources and the focus of a world across factions and their leaders. Essentially, it was a thod of avoiding all-out conflict and focusing on helping a world to evolve: the true main purpose of the system.
However, it was also said that when there was a by-far-and-away king or queen, the purpose of the rit Leaderboard had a chance to change and could provide an opportunity.
A rit War that would decide the Emperor of a World.
Of course... Lucius knew too little about such things. In fact, even the ancestors of the Grimblades knew next to nothing, and these were just tidbits he had picked up on.
What he didn't know was that it would take far more than so Stars of rit to trigger such a thing. For one, one had to actually be the owner or highly related to the owner of a city large enough and strong enough to lay claim to an entire world in the first place, and that was just part of the issue.
All Lucius did know was that having a large amount of rit allowed you to gain the favor of the system and skirt so of its rules... at least in regard to events of high importance to the future of a world...
And what was more important than the future ruler of a Territory of the Aether Plane? Not only that, but the rging of this Territory with Earth was going to make or break the foundation of two highly important areas.
There were few things that would be more important to the system than this.
But what Lucius didn't know was that it was even worse than this.
The Title of "Originator," which Lucius was temporarily granted for this Quest, was fluid. It could change, only lasted for a short ti, and was only applied to highly specific events like
this one.
However, the Title of "Progenitor" represented sothing wholly different. It ranked even higher than what it would an to beco the Emperor of a World.
A Progenitor could only appear before a World completed its Summoning. They were an existence akin to the Ancestor of a world.
Should a Progenitor be successfully born, their Path of Progress would beco inextricably linked to the World.
On the one hand, this ant that a World's fate, whether good or bad, would directly be tied to this Progenitor.
However, by the sa token... it would open up a secondary system, one designed not just to advance the Gene State of a person...
But of an entire World!
Unlike people, the talent of a World was practically set. It could be downgraded depending on external action, and it could be upgraded slightly with a great deal of effort, but such things took an obscene amount of resources and ti that could only be counted in generations.
However, Progenitors unlocked the system's favor, allowing them to Level Up their worlds like they would themselves.
The Path of the Progenitor had been opened up to Sylas. aning... the day he managed to gain Earth's complete Favor would be the day he was nigh invincible while standing in its
midst.
And now, with a simple sentence, he had barely shown Lucius a part of his cards and forced him into a corner in a single move.
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