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Chapter 659 - Unbeatable history
🕑 Added 2025-04-22 15:59:59 +0000 UTCThe end of the demonic invasion was as abrupt as it was uneventful. While Sofia let her birds commit war crimes out of her sight, sipping on some hot tea, the event just ended.
[All demon lords have been slain, the demonic invasion was repelled!]
It had been less than half an hour since the death of the second demon lord, and it seemed another group had managed to get the third one down.
Did Happy Cloud do it? Or maybe Saria?
[EVENT: Last group standing - Demonic invasion, COMPLETE!]
Without more warning, the group was teleported back to their room, where they were now surrounded by all of Sofia’s skeleton birds.
“Well, that was fast,” Mornn said, the teacup still in her hand.
Sofia nodded, setting her own cup down on the table, “I just hope this didn’t cut out survival timer short…”
“Surely the trial would not be so porrly designed…” Kuli commented, “We will know soon. But at least the first place is ours.”
“One more,” Sofia said, “We’re all on a perfect streak so far.”
“Barely,” Mornn said with a sigh, “It really wasn’t easy to win the hunting event. If it was not for my experience fighting drakes to mine the ore for my swords I wouldn’t have stood a chance against Tartaros and your sister. Doubt I’ll be so lucky every time.”
“Nyeh, same here…” Kuli said, leaning back on her chair, “I only won against Xeros because I knew his tactics too well and managed to use them against him, it was lucky none of the other strong contenders picked the commander event.”
Everyone received a notification, the results were already in.
[Last group standing - Demonic invasion : Event rankings]
‘By default, only your score and 4 closest ranks will be displayed, you may search through the full rankings including historic data at your own leisure in your system logs’
[Rank 1 - Historic 2nd - Eternal Lights]
[Rank 2 - Historic 19th - Holy Human Empire]
[Rank 3 - Historic 20th - Obsidian Mountain]
[Rank 4 - Historic 228th - Executors]
[Rank 5 - Historic 360th - Templar Tempest]
[Detailed results for Eternal Lights:
Tier 3 event - Maximum point reward : 50 000 000 TP
Rank 1 point reward: 100 000 TP
Survival Time reward (MAX) : 100 000 TP
Demon slain :
Lesser Demon slain: 1 100 676 / 1 000 000 = 27 517 TP
Common Demon slain : 165 223 / 150 000 = 247 834 TP
Elite Demon slain : 23 / 35 = 1 495 000 TP
Lord Demon slain : 2 / 3 = 31 516 668 TP
Trialees slain : 28 (No reward)
Penalty for dead members (Final score -12.5% for each) : -0 TP
BONUS - 1 Intact Demon heart retrieved : 5 000 000 TP
Total earned : 38 487 019 TP]
‘You have received rank 1 reward : Ark’s Gold Star Pin *1!’
‘You have received 38 487 019 tournament points!’
‘Current balance : 68 587 020 points’
“Ah shit… They expected us to kill all three demon lords by ourselves for the maximum point?” Mornn complained, “That’s so unfair…”
“It looks like holding onto that demon’s mana heart was a good idea, at least,” Sofia said, but that does come up a bit short… As expected the point repartition is really top heavy… Sending the birds was almost useless even if makes for a funny point recap.”
“That’s to be expected,” Kuli said, “If not every shop would be empty of any uniques by now. I imagine usually the first place goes to fake trial takers so most people can’t even acces the shops to get the unique items, let alone have the point to buy them…”
“I can’t believe someone actually beat us in the historic records,” Sofia complained with a frown, “They’d have to kill all three demon Lords before anyone else and without losing a single team member… Maybe I should have killed all the fakes from the start to prevent them for stealing a lord.”
“Well… That wouldn’t have been so easy, you know. And do you really want to kill your own sister right from the start like this, even if she’s fake?” Mornn commented, “It’s too late now either way, lemme check the historical ranking, I have to admit I’m curious about the first place group.”
[Last group standing - Demonic invasion : Historic rankings]
[Rank 1- EA DELUX EDITION - 65 000 000 TP ]
[Rank 2- Eternal Lights - 38 487 019 TP ]
“What in Sun’s name–” Mornn cursed under her breath, “They have almost twice our score… These fuckers killed every single demon and got the bonus points thrice?”
“The group name is quite strange,” Kuli noted.
Sofia agreed that he name was weird, “I wonder if the person who got Historic second in my first wave event was from the group. Their name was Jewel of truth, I think, the timed score was also stupid, like under a second.”
“Maybe we could ask the Seraphs about the historic ranks,” Kuli suggested, “this one seems a bit strange, honestly… A perfect score like this–”
She was interrupted by a system notification.
‘You have received a new quest’
Wait, already?!
[Third wave: Individual Historic trials]
[For the third wave of tournament events, you must choose to compete in one of two historic individual events. In Historic events, you do not compete with other trial takers, but with their historic rankings. Gold star pins will be awarded to players ranking within the top 0.1%, Silver pins 0.5%, and Copper pins 1%]
[Available third wave events:
Fresh start at sea - Lost island
Unavoidable death - Awakening of the slumbering god]
[Event: Fresh start at sea - Lost island]
[You are stranded on one of Gamma-b-13’s very peculiar magical islands without any of your magic or items, can you survive the natural disasters, the mosters and the island’s hidden dangers, and make it back to the Ark by yourself? Be wary, the sea is even more dangerous than the land.]
[Event: Unavoidable death - Awakening of the slumbering god]
[Cultists on Gamma-b-13 have awakened an immortal old god sleeping in the planet’s abyss. You are its target, and it will stop at nothing to get you. For how long can you defy a god’s will and survive? Only one thing is certain, you will die.]
Oh, it’s fully individual, so I guess there’s no need to wait for everyone to be done with the second wave…
Which one is the best…
“I will be going for the island,” Kuli announced first, “I can’t even fly, I don’t think the other event is for me…”
“Same here,” Mornn said after a bit, “I’m just not very fond of a fight I can’t win. And if it’s ‘a god of the abyss’, I’m expecting water-related attacks and stuff like that? Not my best matchup. What about you two?” she asked, as Sofia and Pareth were still silent.
“Hmm… I’m thinking in terms of points… How much do you think I would get for killing an immortal god?” Sofia asked, completely seriously.
“Sofia…” Kuli said, “I think you need to refresh your memory on the meaning of the word immortal…”
“It is not like I am unaware of the word’s meaning,” Sofia answered, “But need I remind you I finished the first timed trial with a negative timer? Sure the description says the thing is immortal and it says it will kill the trial taker no matter what… But what if?”
“Well I won’t stop you,” Kuli said, “Getting a gold pin should not be too hard for you anyway, seeing how hard you are to kill.”
“True that. And I will have Pareth with me, so. Should help a lot.”
After taking a few more minutes to relax, the group started their new event. Sofia was particularly eager, hoping that despite the underwhelming results of the demonic invasion event, she would still be able to buy her third specialization point that very same day.
All she needed to do was to perform well in the historic trial.
Upon accepting the trial’s teleportation, Sofia, Pareth, Pestle and Bookie found themselves on an island’s sandy beach. The sun was shining high above their heads, the ocean was calm and the palm trees behind them swung lightly in the salty breeze.
“Bookie,” Sofia said, looking at the sun above with a wide smile, “It’s no exaggeration to say… It’s your time to shine.”
“Immortal against immortal!” Bookie rejoiced, throwing his hands in the air.
“Pesle kill god. Very leg,” the fairy on his shoulder confidently said.
Despite the sun in the sky technically not being Sun’s sun, at this moment, her blessing worked anyway, so Bookie and Pestle shone with a golden hue under the light, making them completely immune to damage.
“Be careful still, this only works while you stay in the sun, Pestle,” Sofia warned, “If you dive into the god’s body like you tend to do, it will no longer work.”
“Pesle know!” The fairy indignantly said.
“Alright, alright. We’re all good then. Now where’s that ‘god’?”
Sofia extended her mana senses as far as she could, scanning the sea first. She expected that the god of the abyss would come from there, but she could not even come close to reaching the bottom with her mana and found nothing of interest, so she turned to scanning the island instead.
Rather large volcanic island, I can’t cover all the way to the other side…
Are these pointy things like huts? A village? It’s on the far end so it’s a bit blurry… I don’t feel the presence of anyone though… Unless the people there have no mana at all, the village should be empty.
“I found something,” sofia told the skeletons, though it was entirely useless as she was already broadcasting her thoughts to all of them at the moment, “let’s go check it out.”
Comments
Tejing
That historic 1st group has quite the team name... Whoa, the 3rd wave right away? They always got some time to rest and visit the shops before... Yeah, no question which one fits Sofia better here. Sunlight's definitely a perk. No telling if the sunlight will still be visible when the battle is going, though. Corrections: I just hope this didn’t cut out survival timer short… out -> our Surely the trial would not be so porrly designed… porrly -> poorly for the maximum point? point -> points to prevent them for stealing a lord. for -> from the natural disasters, the mosters and the island’s hidden dangers mosters -> monsters “I found something,” sofia told the skeletons, sofia -> Sofia
Striving Spark
I feel like Sophia is going to permanently break this trial - not just by what she does now, but with the fake she leaves behind for other trial takers to deal with.
E
Suspect the EA DELUX team is either the admins or tools they created ("Jewel of Truth" sounds like a thing rather than being) meant to benchmark/stress-test/play-test the trial. The team name is something I don't see the System assigning on its own and I could see the hero admin assigning that name as a "meme" basically saying they bought the pay-to-win edition of the game.
Jonathan Wint
I bet EA DELUX EDITION Exploded, destroying the Planet and dimensions.
Emily Gurnavage
Sounds like it, yup. Nothin else makes as much sense.
Rat with a Pick
Wait did Pestle kill 28 people while the rift was open?
Atlas Dwarf
Can the fake trial takers grief the unique, one of a kind items for a trial? Like are the fakes able to buy the uniques from the shop, thus the real people aren't able to buy them for that trial.
Mornn
I don't mind the occasional chunky comment (｀• ω •´)
Songy
Some attempted analysis of the event report (Note: this got way out of hand, but I kind of don't want to erase the text so... have fun? ^^'): Saria's group got third while the shitty god's meat-puppet (aka Scripture's Oracle) should be the one in second place. Both also have positions right behind each other in the historical ranking (19th and 20th respectively). At the same time, Happy Cloud's Executioners were in forth place and only got historic 228th. As a result, it is likely that Saria and the meat-puppet both got credit for the demon lord, seen as they are so close to one another in both rankings. This also indicates that both teams lost the same amount of people. The difference in historic ranking between Saria and HC can have three possible reasons: A) They didn't get credit for the demon lord B) they lost more members than the other two teams C) they got significantly fewer low value kills Based on their historical position being within the top 250, it is more likely that they did get credit for the demon lord but either scenario B) or C) happened. This is because even a significantly reduced point total with a demon lord kill would get significantly more points than without the kill-credit. In addition, there is a high likelihood that there were at least 226 teams with powehouses strong enough to take on a demon lord in at least a larger group. The opposite assumption that there were less than 226x4=904 individuals since the system's creation that partook in this event and were not able to do so is less likely. Furthermore, if there is a cost for sharing a demon lord kill between teams, based on earlier assumptions, the historical ranking of Saria and the Oracle means that at most 18 teams have managed to solo one or defeat multiple demon lords.
Ceasar Salas
Thanks for the chapter!
Wensber
Thanks for the chapter!
E
A rare L for Sofia (relative to her goal of breaking the trial)
Libery
And Pesle kill god. Very leg. (Pestle?) or is it her way of speaking?
Cyclone001
I wonder if it has any essense to steal. Sofia needs a few more.
Libery
Trial would not be so porrly designed (poorly)
Tetrisman87
But she was STILL hungry...
Cyclone001
Did EA buy up id software for them to have the DOOM guy in their Deluxe edition? I haven't kept up on their acquisitions. The unkillable god sounds like excellent practice for Sofia. Very kill! Much leg!
John Grizzly
Wonder if this gods body could count to her skill
BOT
So far Sofias aspirations is doing good on living up to her race's name of "Great unhinged luminescent bone calamity of the gods and reality as it stands as well as everything in between"
Lazy Monster
Well, to paraphrase Orator, “Immortality is a lie after all even a Lord can die.” This can be a nice warmup for Scripture. Also maybe they are sending some sort of reanimated god corpse like Sofia has the potential to do with Suffering and Gluttony will just eat the damn thing.
Mornn
Whoever it was, they didn't get the all star pin ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)
Tom Asciola
Yes, Pestle. Very leg, indeed.
Quentin Cozzi
Thanks for the chapter!
Daemion
[Rank 1- EA DELUX EDITION - 65 000 000 TP ] ... so, a pay-to-win group? Or that's the admins testing the trials? That result is too perfect to be real.
ArtTheGreat
Time for the very hungry Sophia to eat a god
Matt Grayson
Good to see Mornn and Kuli doing so well, too. "Immortal God, huh. How about if it never existed in the first place?"
JHD
Thanks for the chapter!
