Chapter 63: Merit Points
Darian opened his eyes and saw Rhea staring at him seriously.
"I think I got really close to the second ring... did I go too fast?"
"You did." She nodded. "Well... it's happened a few times before. But every time, it was with a Supreme Spiritual Guardian at the Ancestral level."
She sighed and nodded to herself. "The greater the danger, the greater the rewards. You must've gotten a chance, right? Maybe you managed to kill a bunch of Risen at once."
She finished by looking straight into his eyes, clearly waiting for an explanation.
Darian was speechless. Supreme Spiritual Guardian? He'd heard the legends from Niara, about people who had an Ancestral-level awakening — she was probably talking about that. But obviously, that hadn't happened to him.
"And the others? What happened to the nest?" he asked.
She nodded. "Everyone made it back. No one knows much, but the nest was definitely destroyed. Everyone got more Merit Power than usual — since they all helped in the victory."
'The Risen Lord and the nest...'
Darian thought it over, starting to understand. That Risen Lord ended up destroying the nest and saving all the Summoners.
But... everyone made it back? Then he really had managed to create that opening in the abyssal heart and... that voice kept its promise.