Precedence System: I Take My Rewards In Advance

His expression changed.

[FIELD QUEST UPDATED]

[Protect the Forward Healers!]

[Objective: Assist Forward Medical Section Three until the immediate threat has passed.]

[Additional Objective Unlocked: The Western Stampede!]

[BASE REWARDS — FIELD QUEST]

[2,000 EXP]

[All Stats +5]

[Verdant Weave Mastery Level +1]

[Rewards scale according to contribution.]

[Base Reward Status: UNCLAIMED]

[SUB-EMERGENCY QUEST]

[The Western Stampede!]

[Objective: Repel the approaching Magic Beast horde and prevent Forward Medical Section Three from being overrun.]

[Completion Possibility: 1.28%]

[ADDITIONAL REWARDS — SUB-EMERGENCY QUEST]

[INT +30]

[Physique: Insatiable Warbody]

[Grade: Mythical]

[Skill: Wildfire Requiem]

[Tier: Sovereign]

[Fire Mana Affinity]

[PRECEDENCE AVAILABLE]

[Available Claim: The Western Stampede! — Sub-Emergency Rewards Only!]

[Field Quest Base Rewards: UNCLAIMED]

[Claim Sub-Emergency Rewards Before Completion?]

[YES / NO]

Zishan stopped breathing for approximately three seconds.

Then, he began clapping. ”HAHAHAHA! FUCKING YES!”

The Sergeant, who had been ordering several soldiers to reinforce the western barricade, immediately turned toward the source of the extraordinarily inappropriate celebration.

Standing several meters away was the new soldier Commander Holtz had personally assigned to the Eastern Battlefield. The boy was smiling so widely that the Sergeant momentarily wondered whether the approaching horde had frightened him beyond the point of rational thought.

After all, the young man was only Level 20.

”Soldier Walker!” the Sergeant shouted. ”Have you gone mad?!”

Zishan immediately stopped clapping when he realized several people were staring at him. ”No, Sergeant! I’m just very excited about our opportunity to defend the medical station!”

The Sergeant stared at him in disbelief. ”You’re excited?”

”Of course! As a responsible soldier of the Kingdom of Olmost, I consider it my personal duty to protect our wounded comrades from the dangers of this terrible situation!”

The Sergeant’s expression became increasingly complicated. He genuinely couldn’t determine whether Zishan was mocking him or had simply failed to understand the seriousness of their predicament.

”Then, get your ass over here!” the Sergeant yelled at him.

”YES, SERGEANT!” he replied with a salute and immediately hurried toward him, although his attention had already returned to the greenish panel floating beside his vision.

’A MYTHICAL-GRADE PHYSIQUE?! AND A SOVEREIGN-TIER SKILL?!’

He almost started laughing again.

Just how generous was this damned Quest?!

He quickly activated Precedence before the Sergeant could start shouting at him again. He wasn’t about to waste time deliberating over rewards that would ordinarily require someone to survive an entire horde of Magic Beasts, especially when he could get them before the fighting had even started.

[ADVANCE CLAIM CONFIRMED]

[Quest: The Western Stampede!]

[Claim Scope: Sub-Emergency Rewards Only]

[Processing Quest Rewards...]

[INT +30]

[Physique Acquired: Insatiable Warbody]

[Grade: Mythical]

[STR +5]

[VIT +5]

[AGI +5]

[Fire Mana Affinity Awakened]

[Skill Acquired: Wildfire Requiem]

[Tier: Sovereign]

[Perfected Glimpse: ACTIVE — Wildfire Requiem]

[Sub-Emergency Rewards: PROVISIONAL]

[Field Quest Base Rewards: UNCLAIMED]

A strange sensation immediately spread throughout Zishan’s body. His muscles tightened, his senses sharpened, and an unfamiliar warmth began circulating through his Mana channels. He had experienced something similar whenever he received direct Stat rewards, but this time, the changes seemed much more extensive.

His attention was immediately drawn toward the information concerning his newly acquired Physique.

[PHYSIQUE INFORMATION]

[INITIAL BONUS]

[INNATE ABILITIES]

I. Combat Escalation

II. Battle Adaptation

III. Battle Tempering

Zishan’s eyes sparkled as he read the description. If he understood it correctly, he had just received something that would make him increasingly difficult to defeat the longer a dangerous battle continued.

Not only that, but surviving those battles could actually make him permanently stronger!

’WHAT KIND OF BROKEN SHIT IS THIS?!’

[The Insatiable Warbody cannot compensate for the Dumb Host’s poor judgment.]

’Can you stop insulting me for five fucking minutes?! I’m trying to appreciate my blessings here!’

However, something else immediately caught his attention.

His previous Physique had never been properly identified, yet he had somehow acquired another one. He briefly wondered whether ordinary people could even possess more than one Physique, but that question seemed rather unimportant compared to what was happening outside.

After all, he had just received a Sovereign-Tier Skill!

Zishan quickly inspected Wildfire Requiem while following the Sergeant toward the western defensive line.

[SKILL INFORMATION]

[SKILL EFFECTS]

I. Pyre Mark

II. Chain Ignition

III. Funeral Bloom

[MANA SCALING]

Zishan read through the description several times before finally understanding what he had just acquired.

In simpler terms, he could burn several Magic Beasts at once, and those burning beasts could subsequently spread the flames to their unfortunate friends. Whenever one of them died, it would explode and potentially spread the fire even farther.

The only catch was that the initial Mana expenditure determined how many enemies the flames could potentially reach.

His grin widened.

’HAHAHAHA! SO, IT’S BASICALLY A FUCKING PLAGUE MADE OF FIRE?!’

Then, he remembered something extremely important.

His Mana!

A few moments earlier, he had received another thirty Intelligence Points. Each additional point increased his Mana capacity by ten, which meant he had just gained another three hundred Mana in capacity.

Zishan immediately opened his Status.

[Mana: 540 / 540]1

”FUCKING FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY?!”

With his previous Mana at 240/240, Zishan received an additional 30 INT from the Sub-Emergency Quest. Since every INT Point increases his maximum Mana by 10, he gained another 300 Mana (30 × 10). The additional capacity was immediately filled upon receiving the reward, bringing his Mana to 540/540. Moreover, I mistook the Mana Capacity from previous Chapters, but I’ve already fixed it.