Overpowered Wizard

The Star System paused at the appropriate time.

Everyone was lost for thought.

That was … a lot of achievements.

Zarian came out with so many that his total number of achievements jumped from thirty to forty.

Hannah had also gained ten achievements. The others followed suit, with Bianca having nine, Naomi grabbing up eight, and Gilbert coming in last with seven, which was still an impressive amount from one crawl.

Zarian imagined everyone was paying close attention to the Dragon Goddess Banisher achievement. That confirms it. Bianca actually banished Ariana from Corma. Holy shit. What would Bianca get from that achievement and how pissed off was Ariana still?

Foodie broke the silence. “I’m going to have to work hard to become like Father and the rest of you. I don’t even know of anyone who had this many achievements at once.”

Zarian combed his fingers through Foodie’s hair. Softly, he urged the Star System once more. “Let’s finish up, please.”

<[10] End Results.>

<However, the trials and tribulations to come will be quite dire!>

<While staying within my parameters, I must stress that grave danger is afoot! As Freedom Leaders and the central source of great controversy, you will be tested in the times to come!>

<With that said, you have one week before all major events resume! This includes the Mythical Wolf Dragon Regional Event!>

“Damn,” Gilbert said.

“It was bound to happen,” Naomi muttered.

“Yeah, it was,” Zarian murmured.

<As stated earlier, those you’ve raised and connected with at your Ride-or-Dive Village must run the event without you and come out successful for this event to yield full rewards for you and them.>

<If you’ve done enough, they should be able to stand against the wolf dragons and wolf kobolds.>

<Although, the event won’t be an easy one. As much as your people have prepared, so have the side of the wolf dragons! A war like no other will be imminent!>

<The same could be said for many conflicts that have been on hold across the Star System.>

<Great changes are on the horizon. New forces may emerge, giving rise to new adventurers, outsiders, and challenges.>

<Most importantly, such events have shifted the balance across the realms, especially for Lesser Worlds like the one you’re on currently.>

“And what does that mean?” Zarian asked.

<It means you should talk to Ekri the Tailor.>

<He and the other Carrowmore Barons hold enough privilege with the Star System to be forewarned of the balance shift and the consequence of such. This largely affects the Carrowmore Thousand Year Tournament, which I imagine is something you wish to take part in.>

Zarian growled softly.

His dislike for Ekri had simmered down as of late.

He wouldn’t mind having a chat with him as long as it was necessary, but he wasn’t looking forward to doing that right now.

He wanted to go out and test his new abilities and new stats. He wanted something tough enough to fight to see the difference between the version of him before Operation Save The Cook and the version of him now.

With a glance, he noticed Naomi looking at her nails.

“He’s around here, isn’t he?” Zarian asked.

The Star System answered indirectly.

<If you’re not planning to ascend soon, then all roads lead to Carrowmore eventually. Great changes are coming! The Carrowmore Barons know the truth! And the next Thousand Year Tournament may be the most pivotal in all of Corma’s history!>

<Main Quest (Mythical): All Roads Lead to Carrowmore!>

<You have the option to ascend even though that’s not currently recommended with the cosmic events unfolding. However, if you ascend and surpass the First Ascension Star Trial, you will find better opportunities to grow at a faster rate in a Greater World, which is in the next realm above.>

<Main Quest 2 (Mythical): Call upon the Star System and start the First Ascension Star Trial!>

<Party Review Complete! Please carry on!>

“Does that mean we’re not going for the Forgotten Kingdom Dungeon, Zarian?” asked the Runic Artificer, sounding meek and doubtful.

“I’ll be fucking damned if we put that aside again, Hannah. I won’t do that to you.”

Zarian swept up his daughter into his larger and longer arms. His parasite throne turned into a majestic and nightmarish cloak that flapped behind him.

His powerful tail unwound from around his waist and waved off to the side, with Foodie’s eyes swiveling from side to side and watching the tail like a cat.

Zarian watched her in return before glancing back and noticing his new sword waiting on the courtyard floor. With a flex of aura, he yanked it off the floor and sent it straight into his cloak’s pocket dimension. Then he turned to the others.

“Okay, here’s the game plan. Let’s all look at the achievements together here. Because any of those could be trait upgrades, trait combiners, and maybe even skill combiners. If we come out with skill combiners, I’ll head over to the strider camp and shop around.”

“Can I join you?” Hannah asked. “At this point I should be capable enough at controlling aura to copy skills. However, I might not be as … delicate as you are.”

Zarian imagined Hannah’s way of copying skills would be clunky and hard. She might outright hurt people by accident.

She would also make her profile more inefficient if she copied too many Level 0 skills.

Para nudged him with a clever thought: Hannah’s Aura Generator would make the Level 0 inefficiency less of an issue for her. That and I imagine she can use the skill copies as study material for her enchantments.Perhaps this can speed up our grimoire research.

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Para’s points were solid ones, Zarian realized.

Hannah spoke up again. “I might not even copy the skills fully. It would just be interesting to see if I can. It’s more important that I can study another person’s profile competently, even if it takes some force.”

“Yeah, that sounds about right.”

“Can I get a Level 0 Parasite Cloak?” Naomi asked.

Zarian and the others paused from hearing that. Even Para expressed some shock inside of Zarian’s mind before she spoke aloud.

“I’m not sure if that’s safe. A Level 0 version of me would lack certain runes,” Para admitted. “What if it actually tries to eat you?”

Naomi shrugged. “If we get skill combiners, I’d merge the Level 0 you with some other skills. I want to squeeze as many topline abilities into my alpha skill section as I can. I think the difference between alpha and beta is even greater. Like beta is a bigger drawback for us, the Master Rankers.”

“Yup, there it is. They’re the Master Rankers while we’re non-rankers or something.” Gilbert shook his head. “I can already feel the treatment of being lesser.”

“Maybe they’ll be nice to us. We’ll be their special non-rankers!” Bianca suggested.

“We’re the good non-rankers, huh?”

“Super good non-rankers!”

Zarian shook his head at Gilbert and Bianca’s shenanigans.

There was indeed a significant division. Their lack of rank was notable, making them seem ‘lesser’ in some ways.

The sharp difference in qualities compounded the issue. Going from the legendary Madness Wizard to the mythical Conquest Wizard made Zarian feel much greater. Hannah probably felt the same as a woman who went from the legendary Runic Engineer to the mythical Runic Artificer.

Regarding Naomi, she felt like she was in between two worlds after leaving behind the epic Rumble Psion to become the legendary Tempering Cultivator.

To Zarian, Naomi was technically greater than Bianca and Gilbert because she was a Master Ranker. But she seemed lesser than Hannah and him because she wasn’t mythical.

It felt weird having those divisions, but they’d gone through this before. They’d begun their run in the Infinita Star System with a vast difference in qualities, power, and stats between members of their party.

This was nothing new for them.

“You’ll be Master Rankers soon,” Zarian said to Gilbert and Bianca. He smiled at his cute goblin daughter he still hoisted in his arms. “You, too.”

Foodie nodded seriously. “Yes, Father. I won’t disappoint you.”

Turning back to Naomi, Zarian said, “We’ll have to play that game carefully, because a Level 0 version of Para is dangerous. But you got a point. Alpha is better than beta by a large degree now. I can sort of feel it, too.”

Zarian sighed. “I’m actually in a worse position because with Lion Prince being similar in origins to Overwhelming Darkness, that’s two alpha slots locked up for me. I’m not shifting Para down to beta. I’m not shifting the spider network down to beta, either. So … I’m pretty screwed.”

“What if you combine me with the wizard hat?” Para asked softly.

Zarian shivered. He felt Para becoming distressed in his mind and quickly said, “You don’t have to do that, Para. We don’t know what would happen to you in the end. And you’re still growing, still learning. Any sort of skill combiner or even skill advancement could change you forever.”

“Yes, that’s what I fear,” Para said. “Thank you … I just thought it would be easier for you.”

“I don’t do things easy. Not at the sacrifice of those I care about.”

Zarian moved on as he let his words weigh on Para. He looked at everyone and smiled at them proudly. His tail flicked with enthusiasm under his billowing cloak.

“There’s a lot to go over,” he said. “But damn it, guys, we did it. We accomplished our main quest. We hit the Level 100s or close to it. And we’re snowballing hard. There’s still much to do. And … we have some hard decisions to make for our profiles and for what’s going on in the world.”

“My mind can’t race any faster. There are so many factors to consider and theorize on,” Hannah murmured. “Unless … I get a Level 0 version of the High Rune Mindframe skill and combine that with another skill or two. There’s bound to be some mental enhancing skills among the mortals down in the basin.”

“Mortals? Seriously?” Gilbert pointed out.

“Leave her be. Hannah’s practicing to be a boss goddess.” Zarian waved off Gilbert’s indignation. “I’m serious, though. We worked our asses off. If you want to enjoy that a little, go ahead. Besides, we’re not killing people for not kissing the ground we walk on … right, Hannah?”

“Hm? Oh? Well … no. I wouldn’t be that depraved,” Hannah said meekly. “I wouldn’t stop them if they decide to do so, however.”

“You’re so funny when that ego of yours flip-flops,” Naomi quipped.

“Yup. That’s it. I gotta be the fun police. If y’all start acting up, I’ll rein you down to earth. Especially the apparent ‘saint’ and ‘boss goddess.’” Gilbert raised his hands and performed air quotes.

Shaking his head at the silly Christian, Zarian said, “Either way, that’s why we have a week to enjoy the changes and get past certain kinks. I’m proud of you guys. And I don’t think anyone here is going to be a major jerk about our privileges against innocent people. Now … let’s open up these achievements and–”

“WAIT!” Bianca screamed.

Zarian and the others blinked at her in confusion as she strode around stiffly. She moved behind Zarian and made a strange request.

“Put down the wonderful chama, por favor.”

Zarian had no idea what she was doing. She was keeping her mind blank on the spider network.

He did as requested and set Foodie down. Then Bianca scooped Zarian up by the armpits and raised him from behind.

“Gilbert, you know this, right?!” Bianca shrilled.

“Huh? Oh! OH! YES! GOD BLESS YOU, BIANCA GARCIA! GOD BLESS YOU!” Gilbert bellowed before breaking out into song.

Bianca joined him. Then Hannah joined in while smiling from ear-to-ear. The nail on the coffin was Naomi, who sang with an evil glint in her eyes.

As they sang, Bianca walked Zarian over to the nearest castle cliff edge. She hoisted him as high as she could.

The twin suns shone extra bright for some reason.

Eventually, Para realized what the others were doing and reiterated her discovery in Zarian’s mind.

Oh, I get it! This is based on a song in a motion picture media originating from your old world. The motion picture is called … The Lion King … a movie, as you would say. Is this song supposed to be in honor of you?

Zarian let his grumpy mood become answer enough. Para soon realized this was a joke at his expense, and Gilbert was eating it up the most, finally having his revenge on Zarian for the Zombie Jesus joke.

Once they had their fun, Bianca placed Zarian back down on his feet. They opened up the achievements and made it rain rewards.

Everyone was stunned once again by the results. Their stats ballooned by a lot. If they weren’t walking gods among mortals of the Lesser World prior, they certainly would feel it now.

Even Gilbert struggled to stay grounded with all that he’d gained.

There were less item drops this time around, but that was fine. A deluge of stats from a bunch of epic and legendary achievements was nothing to snub at.

The most significant rewards were the trait combiners and the skill combiners for sure.

Zarian, Hannah, and Naomi – the Master Rankers – had come away with three trait combiners and two skill combiners in the end.

Bianca and Gilbert – the non-rankers – had come away with two trait combiners and one skill combiner.

The extra trait combiner and skill combiner for the Master Rankers came from the Level 100 achievement and Master Rank achievement. Gilbert and Bianca had something to look forward to in the next few levels.

After adjusting to their new stats, Zarian and Hannah went straight for the adventurer camp. It was time to pick out some skills from the incredibly weak non-ranker livestock.

“Ugh,” Zarian grumbled as the two flew. “I have to catch myself from being prejudiced.”

“It is quite difficult. They’re not like us,” Hannah admitted. “We really are the masters.”

“Let’s try, at least. They can’t help being what they are.”

The Master Rankers landed at the edge of the camp. They did their best to contain their obvious power and appear as grounded individuals.

Yet, the non-rankers seemed to act out of sorts as the two approached them.

One man, a Level 53 Power Archer, lost his sense of judgment and shot a rare quality arrow at Zarian. The archer put all of his traits, skills, and relevant stats into that shot.

With a flick of his tail and a strident crack, the Conquest Wizard swatted the projectile out of the air. He barely felt anything from that and suffered no real inconvenience.

The scared archer would’ve been better off shooting his arrow at a mountain. Mountains were less imposing than Hannah’s annoyance.

With a minor flex, she altered the runes in the archer’s gear and turned them scalding hot for his level. The non-ranking man screamed and hopped around, forced to strip out of his gear as the nearest adventurers trembled in terror.

Zarian smiled, as if the violent exchange was a trivial thing. Besides, the leaders had arrived to reestablish order. He strode toward Dawson and Gisella for a meet and greet.

“How do you do, fellow people?”

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