Legendary Achievement Reward

Inside Tianyuan City, Jiang Chuan stood there in a daze. He truly had not expected this achievement to trigger a world-wide announcement!

Did that not mean every race in the Source Realm now knew about this!?

Thankfully, he had hidden his name!

Otherwise, a giant hand might suddenly descend from the sky at this very moment and crush him to death on the spot!

"Apex of Ten Thousand Races... That sure sounds like it'll draw a lot of hate!"

Jiang Chuan grinned wryly.

Still.

Completing this achievement had actually come with a special reward.

First was a Legendary title:

[Sovereign of the Source Realm]

[Title]

[Rank: Legendary]

[Effect: Passive. You are the sole king of the Source Realm. While wearing this title, HP +1,000,000, Mana +1,000,000. You are immune to suppression effects from all realm levels and intimidation effects from higher races.]

One million HP!

One million mana!

Jiang Chuan opened his status panel. His health and mana bars had surged a full thousandfold, jumping straight from four digits to seven!

"Does this make me a tank now?"

He muttered to himself, clenching his fists as he felt the surging power within him.

But he also knew that health alone was useless. Against a true powerhouse, a single attack could deal hundreds of thousands of damage. One million HP merely meant surviving one extra blow.

The true value this title gave him

was not the one million HP.

It was the two special attributes afterward—immunity to realm suppression and immunity to higher-race intimidation.

What was realm suppression?

Simply put, when a second-tier class user fought a first-tier class user, even if their attributes were not far apart, the second-tier user could still firmly overpower the first-tier one due to the gap in their levels.

Higher-race intimidation was even more disgusting. Some races were born with mental pressure.

Lower races would have their legs go weak just standing before them.

They would not even be able to lift their hands.

With immunity to both, Jiang Chuan's shortcomings of being low-level and born human had been completely made up for!

The title could be hidden after being equipped.

With a thought from Jiang Chuan,

a brilliant golden light flashed over his head and vanished in an instant.

The other reward was a special contract:

[Nightmare Contract (Tier 1): Legendary. Use on any Tier 1 secret realm to unlock the Nightmare difficulty challenge for that secret realm. Complete the challenge to obtain an exclusive reward.]

"I haven't even cleared a secret realm on normal difficulty, and I'm jumping straight into Nightmare?"

Jiang Chuan scratched his head.

Still.

This contract had arrived at just the right time.

His attributes had hit a bottleneck. He had to level up before he could continue growing, and secret realms happened to be places where he could kill monsters and gain levels.

Nightmare difficulty

would surely grant more experience than normal difficulty.

The only problem was that combat classes could only choose a class after reaching level ten. As a lifestyle-class Decomposer, he had attributes but no skills. He could not seriously expect to punch monsters with his fists, could he?

Though he could punch them...

With his attributes, one punch per minor monster would not be a problem.

But that would be far too undignified.

He should get himself a weapon first!

Jiang Chuan did not go to Artisan Pavilion.

Although he had already spent one million and become their highest-tier Diamond member,

Artisan Pavilion was a marketplace for high-end equipment. They would not have beginner gear for level one, so going there would only waste time.

Jiang Chuan casually found a weapon shop on the street.

The storefront was not large.

A battered wooden sign hung above the entrance, reading [Old Iron Weapon Shop]. Several wooden racks stood by the door, filled with all kinds of swords and sabers.

Jiang Chuan walked in.

A burly, bare-chested man was forging iron before an anvil.

Sweat streamed down his back, and the constant clanging was painful to the ears.

"Boss, I'm buying something."

Jiang Chuan called out.

The burly man did not even raise his head. "Look around yourself. Call me when you've decided."

Jiang Chuan did not mind. He walked over to the shelves and began browsing.

Sabers,

swords,

spears,

axes.

Every kind of weapon was displayed in abundance.

There was everything.

He picked them up one by one to test their feel. Finally, his gaze settled on a single-handed saber.

The blade was not long, just over two feet. Its edge gleamed coldly, while the hilt was wrapped in anti-slip hemp rope. It felt heavy and solid in his hand.

"How much for this saber?"

Jiang Chuan asked, holding it up.

Only then did the burly man glance over. "That's a Black Iron single-handed saber forged from Parasol Steel. Three thousand eight hundred. No haggling!"

Three thousand eight hundred.

Not expensive.

Jiang Chuan had already saved nearly three hundred thousand. A few thousand was naturally no issue.

But on second thought, he felt that charging at monsters with a saber in hand was not elegant enough.

And what if the monsters could breathe fire?

What if they were poisonous?

Close combat was still too risky.

He put down the saber and turned toward the shelves on the other side.

This side sold ranged weapons.

Bows,

crossbows,

throwing darts.

There were also short spears meant for throwing.

The selection was quite varied as well.

Jiang Chuan picked up a longbow made of dark hardwood.

The bowstring was twisted from the tendons of some exotic beast. He tested it with a pull; it had at least a hundred pounds of draw weight, but it was still far too light for him with his 100 points of Strength.

"Boss, what about this bow?"

"That's also a Black Iron weapon. Ranged weapons are a little more expensive. Four thousand five hundred if you want it!"

"How powerful is it?"

The burly man set down his hammer and finally gave him a proper look. "What level are you? What class?"

Jiang Chuan answered honestly, "Level one. Decomposer."

The burly man's expression immediately became rather strange. "A level-one Decomposer, and you're buying a weapon to fight monsters?"

"Is there a problem?"

The burly man fell silent for two seconds, then shook his head helplessly. "This bow has an effective range of fifty meters, and it's powerful enough against Tier 1 monsters. But as a Decomposer, can you even draw it? You'd be better off trying the crossbows beside it. Those take less effort."

Jiang Chuan said nothing. He raised the longbow, nocked a test arrow, and aimed at a target on the wall in the shop's rear courtyard.

He drew the string to its fullest, then released it.

The arrow tore through the air with a sharp whistle and struck the bullseye with perfect accuracy.

The arrowshaft still hummed as it trembled. It had sunk deeply into the wood, and a crack appeared in the earthen wall behind the target.

The burly man wore an expression of utter disbelief, his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.

"This... You really are a Decomposer?"

"Genuine article."

Jiang Chuan lowered the bow and nodded in satisfaction. Though he had not practiced in over a decade, his experience as an archery enthusiast in his previous life remained.

"I'll take this bow. And two hundred iron arrows to go with it. Do you have them?"

The burly man nodded woodenly, then went into the back room and carried out two barrels of arrows.

One Black Iron longbow and two hundred refined iron arrows.

Jiang Chuan also selected a set of leather armor.

The total came to a little over thirty thousand.

He slung the bow over his shoulder, took out twenty arrows and placed them in a quiver at his waist, then walked out of the weapon shop.

He glanced at his reflection in the shop window.

Clad in leather armor.

With a bow on his back and arrows at his hip.

He finally looked somewhat like a combat class user.

"No, I still need to prepare a melee weapon. If a monster gets close, I can't be empty-handed."

After giving it some thought, Jiang Chuan turned back and bought that Black Iron single-handed saber as well.