Ghost Shadow slipped the diamond-shaped golden shard into his backpack without a moment's hesitation.
His heartbeat had not even quickened after killing an Area Lord.
Calm was an assassin's first rule.
He quickly picked up the Epic Tier leggings and several rare materials, barely glancing at their attributes before checking the warning traps around him.
Only after confirming that no new threats were approaching did he reopen his backpack and focus on the strange shard.
A Divinity Shard.
It contained the power of law.
Ghost Shadow ran a fingertip over the item icon. He knew better than anyone that this thing was probably worth a hundred times more than the Epic Tier leggings.
Equipment would eventually become obsolete.
But something tied to gods and laws often represented an entirely new realm, a path to a higher level of power.
This was the true reward of the Trial of the Gods.
He told no one. He locked the shard away in the depths of his backpack, then vanished into the thick fog once more.
The hunt had only just begun.
Meanwhile, Falling Leaf Town's respawn square and the official forums were in an uproar.
Ghost Shadow's terrifying score of 125 weighed on every player like a mountain.
No one was competing over who had suffered more anymore. Everyone had turned their attention to the name that had left them all in the dust.
"It's definitely a bug! I've reported it! Level-seventy-something elite monsters can slap a level-eighty tank to death now. How could he possibly kill a lord and a bunch of elites?"
"Exactly! A lord! Fifty people from our guild tried to take down the Hydra in the Misty Swamp, and we wiped seven times! He killed it alone? Give me a break!"
"Someone from Sword of the Firmament