After chatting briefly with Nicole and Johnny regarding their upcoming tasks and course of action, Arnold decided to call it a day and head back to his family. It was only then did he learned what had been going on in the world. Apparently, while they were busy trying to destroy the tree, there was an explosion of Xenoic energy. Every warrior could feel the reverberation of the explosion and not only that, it would seem everyone's ranks had been upgraded by at least one grade.

But that wasn't all. Just like the warriors, every dungeon around the world reacted to the explosion in their own unique way as well, by sealing themselves... thankfully none of the warriors who went to the dungeon were missing and even those who were inside the dungeons were able to get out as usual.

Arnold was a bit surprised to hear the news. After all, none of them had felt such an explosion from where they were at, but then again, if the explosion only made the warrior's grades go up by one level, he wasn't sure there would be much difference in his level even if the explosion happened right in front of his eyes. 

However, just to be sure, Arnold went ahead and checked Nina's levels and she wasn't lying. Her rank had shot up from A to S+. Next, he checked Orco's rank and sure enough, he was already an SS ranked warrior at the age of 19 months. Arnold didn't forget about Aiden and although his abilities had not manifested yet, his potential was ranked at B. This newborn baby was stronger than Arnold was before getting the system! 

Well, in other words, Aiden had the potential to be a B ranked warrior. However, there was a thing about potentials... they could increase as people grow as well. For example, if someone had the potential to be B ranked warrior, then there was a high chance that they could as well become A or even S ranked warrior. 

'Hm... I am not too worried about Aiden or anyone in fact. I would never want any one of them to go through what I did.' Arnold thought to himself while rocking Aiden to sleep, 'I might as well check the rewards while I'm waiting for this cute brat to sleep.'

Arnold opened the inventory to take a look at the rewards he had received. His eyes fell first on the quest shop coins. Well, those little circular black coins did exactly as the name suggested, they were the exchanging currency required to buy anything from the quest exclusive shop.

However, system sama informed him that the quest shop wasn't active yet as the first task wasn't over in many worlds. So Arnold would have to wait to check what kind of things did the shop had to offer. But he could already bet there were going to be quite a few interesting things he could get his hands on.

Next up were the small plant-like thingies called the Saplings of life. Judging by the name Arnold could feel that these were going to be one of the rarest things he could have gotten his hands on. And he was correct, but even he hadn't thought these saplings were going to be so... potent and unique.

Basically, whenever these plants were planted, the area within a kilometre's radius of them, became a no-kill zone. No matter what an opponent tried to do to get past the sapling's defence, they could not hurt the ones under their protection.

However, there was a condition associated with the plantation of the saplings as well. Once the saplings had been planted, the one who planted them had to at least take care of it once a day, or else they would shrivel up and die, but they wouldn't die alone. If even one of the saplings perished the others would perish as well.

Arnold could not believe his eyes as he read the description of the saplings. Apparently, it was an exclusive reward for him too, as he was the one who had destroyed the world tree. He could now comprehend a bit why the gods went haywire when he got rid of the tree. Zeus would have been especially pissed because now, Arnold could now participate in the war without worrying about his family.

"Not gonna lie, the rewards are better than I expected them to be." Arnold smiled before placing the baby Aiden back into its crib, "Now you sleep, while daddy works okay?"

After the saplings were the affinity boosters. These vials of black liquid did exactly as their name suggested, they boosted a specific affinity inside the consumer's body. In his case, it was a few Nature affinity boosters. However, the effect of the boosters was only temporary so Arnold had no reason to try and test them out immediately. It was better to save them for the upcoming rounds.

The token of gratitude was nothing much just a piece of proof that he had survived the first round of the war. That's all there was to it. Then there were the material boxes. Arnold already knew about them so he did not pay any attention to them for now. He would just use them to craft new weapons and armours for him as usual.

Then he quickly opened up the unique title he had received and he was surprised. He knew it said it was a unique title but Arnold hadn't expected it to be such an obvious title.

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You've achieved a new title! 

Name: [Earth's Strongest Vassal]

[This is an exclusive title earned by Arnold Ling, the Immortal One's vassal for coming on top in the first round of the War of the Worlds.]

Effect: Increases the effect of all the titles and skills by 10%, shortens the cooldown of all the skills by 20% and gives you a new passive skill: [Regeneration].

After stepping out of combat (not dealing or receiving any damage) for 10 seconds, heals the user by 2.5% of the maximum HP per second.

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"It was obvious, but the effects aren't bad at all." Arnold smiled before looking at the last thing among his rewards, "Now what do we have here..."