Chapter 353: Long Awaited Summit
Zach looked at the undead and said, "I don't think Cerberus is telling the truth, but if you cleared all the floors of the remaining dungeons, I should have gotten some EXP. But I haven't received anything."
[He is saying that you should get them once they return to your shadow. They are carrying the EXP with them.]
"Did you guys level up?"
[They did.]
"Hmm. I can't see their levels for some reason. Go in my shadow, and one of you will come out again," Zach ordered.
All the undead demons, including the injured ones, went into Zach's shadow, and one of the rank demons came out as Zach ordered him to.
[Leveled up!]
[Leveled up!]
[Congratulations, you have surpassed level 100!]
[New events are now unlocked!]
[New locations unlocked!]
[New realms unlocked!]
[All the limitations and requirements of items have been removed!]
[Congratulations, you have gained a reward for reaching level 100!]
Zach looked at his level and muttered, "I was expecting to level up by one, but I leveled up by two. Not bad. Good job, you guys. I am honestly impressed."
Cerberus pushed the rank five demons aside and said, [If you had sent me with them, I would have had you leveled up by 10.]
Zach chose to ignore Cerberus and turned to the rank five demons: "As promised, I will name three demons who had the most kill count. But I have decided to name five instead.
Three who had the most kill count, and two who assisted the most in the killing. Can you call them out?"
The demon nodded and called out to the four demons. They stood beside each other in the line and lowered their heads.
Zach pointed his finger at the rank five demon and said, "You step forward."
The demon knelt down in front of Zach to honor him. Zach placed his head on the demon's head and uttered, "For now onwards, you shall be called Urluk."
Zach glanced at Cerberus and Victoria, who arrived a few seconds ago, and asked, "How is it?"
"I don't really know. They are demons, so maybe those names suit them?" Victoria responded.
"I suck at naming, so my confidence is lower than ever," Zach muttered.
"How about you? Do you like the name?" he asked the demon.
The demon nodded in response and his body shined as he evolved after being named by Zach.
'My soul power decreased again as soon as he accepted the name!'
Zach was planning to eventually name all the demons as they evolved, but he confirmed that his soul powers were being used whenever he named someone.
'Is it because now we are connected by soul? Soul contract, huh?' he wondered. 'Aria and I had signed a Soul pact, which was similar to this one, but since it wasn't me who named her, it remained unchanged for the most part.'
The second demon knelt down in front of Zach and named it "Udril."
The third demon did the same, and Zach named it: "Yagdril."
The fourth demon knelt down, and Zach named it: "Vyul."
The fifth demon did the same, and Zach named it: "Olurd."
'Damn! I lost too much soul power. I hope naming them would be beneficial in the long run."
Zach clapped his hands and said, "You may go now."
The demons disappeared into Zach's shadow to rest.
"Hmm. The given time for the summit has almost ended, but the numbers of players didn't increase much compared to the last five minutes."
Zach decided to look at the supposed reward he received upon reaching the level 100.
'What the—!'
The reward was the third piece of the '????'.
"Now I need the last piece, and hopefully, I will get something I can use," he muttered.
Ninia approached Zach from the side and said, "My Lord, it is time."
"Yeah." He took a deep breath and grabbed Ninia's hand, which surprised her.
"...!"
"Yes… my Lord?"
"I want you to repeat my words, but loudly."
"Okay."
Zach gave his well-planned speech and told them the merits and demerits of joining his religion. Ninia relayed his words to everyone without changing even a single word.
Zach could have done that himself, but he was well aware of Ninia's fame in the kingdom. Many players purposely injured themselves just so they could come to church to see Ninia and get healed.
Zach used that as a trap to hook most of the players. After hearing the benefits of joining his religion, they didn't pay attention to the disadvantages.
The summit lasted for three hours, and many players joined it afterward once their friends called them.
A total of 100,000 players stayed in the kingdom, while most were in different cities. Out of 100,000, 96,900 attended the summit, but 6000 of them left in between the summit, and 5000 left after the summit ended.
Out of the remaining 89,900, 75420 players joined Zach's religion, and 10480 didn't.
Zach assumed that those who left in between and after the summit, as well as the ones who didn't join his religion, were already worshiping one of the Gods' Impact gods. So even if they wished to join Zach's religion, they couldn't, as the punishment for leaving a religion of the Gods' Impact's god was death.
'Holy shit! My dream goal was getting fifty thousand players, but I somehow ended up getting over seventy-five thousand! My plan to use Ninia as an anchor worked!'
Zach had already prepared the sigil for his religion but had yet to find a way to mark his worshippers. Even if it took Ninia, Victoria, and Aria's help, marking 75,420 players and over 1000 NPCs was going to be time-consuming and exhausting.
'I will find a better way by tomorrow,' he uttered inwardly.
"Hopefully," he then added.
He asked the players to drop by the garden again tomorrow to claim their rewards.
One by one, the players started leaving, and before they knew it, the garden was empty.
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Total players in the game- 1,481,833
0 new players logged in.
26 players died.