A Shadow
Author: Campoccino
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[You Have Cleared a Main Quest]

[You have killed the lord of the city.]

[Bonus is granted for the following achievements:]

[Achievement: End of Beginnings]

[Information: You have brought ruin upon the great city that is said to be indestructible for hundreds of years.]

[Reward: +50 Allocation stats to all party members.]

[Achievement: Genocide]

[Information: You have massacred ninety percent of the population of Genesis City.]

[Reward: Total number of kills made this day under the crest of deprivation will increase by thirty percent.]

[Achievement: Reign of Chaos]

[Information: Kill more than a thousand humans in less than twenty minutes.]

[Reward: One new skill from the given category.]

[You have leveled up 10 times!]

[You are now Level 130.]

These are only some of the many achievements that Merlin acquired that day. There are others but they are too numerous to state one by one. The items, the souls of the dead that he automatically consumes. The status points that have to be alloca
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