Jade turned to Darol and said ‘I’m going to evolve now, do you need anything?’ Darol sent psychic signals indicating confusion and said ‘What does this ‘evolve’ entail?’ Jade said ‘When we evolve our race changes and our stats go way higher than what they were before we evolved. You don’t evolve?’ Darol replied ‘No, I was always a Champion Arachni from when I was born till date. My stats have increased and so has my Rank but I’m still a Champion Arachni’.

Jade was intrigued and wanted to ask many questions but he held himself back and asked ‘How did you guys increase your Rank? There were no Rank 21 or 22 monsters in Nigeria when you guys attacked me’.

Darol sent another signal of confusion tinged with curiosity and said ‘We just have to gain en-code and eat to increase our stats. When our stats increase our Rank increases, isn’t that the same for you?’

Jade sent a signal of realization and said ‘I was Rank 11 before I killed your parent. I would like to ask more questions but I need to evolve now, it could take a while so do you need anything?’

Darol said ‘No, I can wait till you’re done’.

Jade teleported to another room in his portal storage that only had air; no gravity, no platforms, no light, just air. He said to his IP ‘I want to evolve now’. His IP said ‘Acknowledged’.

Jade’s vision drowned as he entered a trance. His IP showed a screen.

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[Titles possessed: 5:

Freak (Divine)

Vast One (Divine)

Space Artificer (Legendary)

Space-Nuclear Artificer (Legendary)

Space Blacksmith (Legendary)

Hidden Quests completed: 5

Impossible Quests completed: All

Job Quests completed: 1: Hunter job

Evolution Quests completed: All

Evolution Tickets: 2/2

…Excess en-code detected. Exchanging the excess encode for an evolution ticket.

Evolution Tickets: 3/2

…Excess en-code detected. Moving on.

Number of Creatures killed: 2 million+: ~99.99% monster; `0.01% Human; both humans and monsters have been killed.

…Processing battle information.

Combat Class: Illustrious Magic Armamancer

Transcendent stats:

Intelligence (Superior)

Intelligence Specialization:

Ingenuity: Space

Soul: Soul Glyphs: Dread-Smith and Space

Energy (Superior)

Energy Form: Fundamental Concept: Space

Sense

Sense Orientation: Perspective: Void Vision

…Searching for additional Classes.

Additional Classes:

Grand-Master Engineer

Superior Research Mage

Master Teacher

…Assessing double evolution candidate.

Quest grade: SSS

Combat grade: X

Additional grade: SS

Total grade: SSS

Comment: Fucking amazing, if you had more time you could have totally improved your Quest and Additional grade. As expected of Jade, as expected of the stealer of men.

…Computing evolution options…]

Jade smiled when he saw the comment and said smugly ‘Of course I’m super amazing! I’m sure no one had such a high rating like me’.

[Comment: Would you like to see the top grades in the planet?]

Jade said ‘You mean those that are beneath me? Sure show me!’

[Top 10 creatures (Total Grade)]

[1. *******: X

2. ***: X

3. ****: SSS+

4. *******: SSS

5. You: SSS

6. Satoshi: SSS

7. ******: SSS

8. *****: SS+

9. ****: SS+

10. *******: SS+]

Jade stared at the list in surprise and said ‘After all I’ve gone through, I’m not number one? Even if I’m not number one, I’m still not number two or three but number 5? How?’

[Comment: There were other people who went through even harder circumstances than you and still came out on top, number 2 and 3 for instance. There are those like number 1 and number 4 who just had too many things going well for them compared to you. Your suffering is not what is graded but how great you become at what you do. You can still increase your grade as long as you are alive so don’t worry too much. And grading isn’t everything, if you’re good at something that no one else is good at it will not show in your grade but it will give you advantages.]

Jade thought about it and choose not to worry. He asked ‘Are you the one that spoke to me after I escaped the Infant Ocean Master?’

[Comment: Yes, I do this only for those who I have a lot of hope for. Fernandez was one of them, but you killed him.]

Jade laughed and said ‘I knew you were trying to stall me! You must be really pissed now, all your plans down the drain’

[Comment: It’s fine. These things happen]

[Evolution Options]

[Asgardian (Space) (Heimdallr): Asgardian with extremely advanced spatial senses and reality senses. He possesses a space-psychic Soul Extension, Gjallarhorn and a space-astronomical familiar, Gulltoppr.]

[Space Soul (Ouranos): A literal personification of space. He has extremely advanced space manipulation capabilities. Some current features will be removed such as energy organ, physical body and physical senses.]

[New World Titan (Baldr): Possesses a body that is made of a combination of Material Space (Space) and Matter-Energy (Tron) (Reality) know as Cosmos. The titan possesses a cosmic energy organ and has cosmic energy circuits. His body is nigh-impervious to damage and can be easily modified and it has a natural talent for Rune technology language.]