Congratulations to Solitary Sword Sovereign for being the first user to break a zone!

The announcement rang out three times as if to cement how great of an achievement it was, and a superb feat it was. Aurora and Rhino gasped and their faces turned ugly.

Knowledge of things like Zone's was not yet widespread. Only the upper echelons of earth had a partial understanding of them. It was however known that the only way to escape one was if the creator died or allowed exit eg by admitting defeat. Breaking a Zone? Had anyone on earth even imagined it possible?

While they were still processing this information, the system spoke once more.

Congratulations! Solitary Sword Sovereign is now the State Lord of 4th Reich. A level restriction has been removed!

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The cultivator clans of old relished in the Conquest System era. They had a unique advantage in that they understood that there was more to the system than simply leveling. If one had a cultivation manual, one would have a much greater advantage than others.

Eventually, thanks to them dropping in dungeons, the rest of the world learned of cultivation. Nevertheless, they were still incredibly rare. Even if one dropped and you learned it, talent and comprehension were still a huge factor. For example, take Will. He was unaware, but he had a powerful mind and a powerful soul. This allowed for his body to possess dual mind and dual mind propagation. Even if Modus wanted to, there was simply no way for him to gift anyone he wanted the skill. It was only thanks to his gifts and Dual Mind Propagation that Modus even dared to give Will the Solitary Sword Sovereign Manual.

Only cultivator clans and large groups had methods of understanding a person's compatibility with a cultivator manual, hence if a normal user found one, they would choose to immediately sell it, as they were worth a lot to the families, but not much to the user.

Some users try their luck from time to time, but it was revealed that less than 1 percent of users who tried their luck were compatible. Which means more than 99 percent had lost the opportunity to make a killing.

There was a hallmark for people who used cultivator manuals. And that was the movement of World Energy. Anyone who was able to cultivate the beginning of a manual properly would become sensitive to World Energy.

As the level cap was removed for Will, World Energy was sucked into his body as if he were a black hole. His body gave off a supremely oppressive pressure even though he did nothing except merely stand there.

Aurora and Rhino were the only ones from the group present who cultivated. Thus Will's sucking in of world energy caused them to take in a breath of cold air. Will was not the first to have banked some levels due to the cap, but he was the first to have caused such a sensation with World Energy, at least according to Aurora's knowledge, and she considered herself quite knowledgeable.

Once the leveling finished, Will took in a deep breath and started revolving the new energy around the SSS pathways to remove impurities. Normally one would have to sit down and properly concentrate to do this, but the SSS manual was an unorthodox cultivation manual without forms. So long as Will designated a few minds, the job would be done prudently. And prudently done it was.

" Level 85 huh, what a loss." Will clicked his tongue in annoyance. He could have reached level 99 he reckoned had he not purified the world energy, hence he was a bit annoyed, but there was no need to stretch the importance of setting up a good foundation. After all, although this was game-like, it was still cultivation based. Certain rules had to be followed.

Naturally, Aurora and co heard Will's declaration. Moving from level 74 to level 85 in one go? Absurd! It sounded really absurd. Not even Musas.h.i.+, Dragonheart, or Golden Lord could claim to have been able to achieve such a feat. Little did they know that he could have surpa.s.sed level 85 by quite a bit.

'Unless…'

The cogs in Aurora's mind started turning, meanwhile, Rhino thought Will was bulls.h.i.+tting. Not to mention she had a few questions for him. She also wanted to buy time for Mein. He was their ally and they needed him alive. She could take this no longer and marched toward Will.

"Listen Solitary, I don't know what you are trying to pull here, but-"

"Rhino stand down!" Aurora's authoritative voice sounded out. Rhino looked back with a questioning gaze in her eyes at Aurora, trying to figure out what was happening, only to see a look she had seen on Aurora's face many times. A look akin to wors.h.i.+p.

Every time Rhino saw this look, she felt like needles were stabbing her heart. But she was comforted because it would only gaze into the distance. But today it gazed at someone. It gazed at Will.

…

Rhino knew what this meant. She was no fool either. She knew that Solitary was a Peerless candidate. Then her mind started working in reverse.

'Breaking through Mein's defenses, Breaking a zone, high-quality cultivation manual…But he has a name! Its Solitary Sword-"

It was at this moment that Rhino remembered a Rumor she once heard, that one could use a t.i.tle as a Username. She simply disregarded this rumor, afterall the system was complicated and rumors of it came in the thousands every month. Yet at this instance, that little rumor resurfaced in her head once again, causing her to look at Will once more. This time, her eyes looked as if they were glazed over while her mouth was wide open to the point that a fly could go in unnoticed.

Aurora's other followers were stumped, they were still shocked about Mein's defeat, but they were no fools either, they noticed they strange interaction between Aurora and Rhino, and how they both looked at Will differently. In the meantime, although Will could see all around him, his focus was on the scared fatty in front of him