"When was the last time you checked the Timeline Ranking Board?" Noticing my sudden freezing of posture and the dead look in my eyes, Renni proceeded with caution, especially after she realized her mistake in not only yelling at me in excitement but also violently shaking me.
"It’s been a while, probably a couple of years…I’ve been meaning to do so, but I didn’t think that I had done anything So noteworthy as to shoot to the top or anything….then again, I suppose my taking over the Henry Potter franchise and killing multiple other Returners may constitute acquiring multiple years of progress…." Letting my words trail off, I split my attention between monitoring Jennifer and asking Arkadia for my current Rank.
’Arkadia, inform me of my overall rank on the Timeline Ranking Board.’
[User Taylor Lawrence Jörgensen, Alias Nexus, is currently ranked First on the Timeline Ranking Board.]
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"What in the actual FUCK! WHEN THE HELL DID I MAKE IT TO FIRST PLACE!" Jumping to my feet, knocking over Renni in the process, and kicking the flailing Jennifer to the side, I began pacing around the room, half excited and half filled with anxiety.
Being in the top 10 was fine and all, but reaching first place was definitely out of my expectations. While part of me was hyped about taking the first-place spot, the other half was annoyed to no end.
Being in the first place, for anyone else, wouldn’t be that big of a deal; however, for me, it meant that more and more people would be searching for the person at the top.
It didn’t take a genius to understand what came with being in the highest ranking on the board, a lucrative reward, unlimited benefits, and all for the taking if you could locate the person.
’I never intended to reach the top three, as it would inevitably paint a target on my back, but what’s done is done. Arkadia, show me my progress for Event Quest One.’ Ignoring the strange look I was receiving from Renni, I spoke the command to open the event quest tab…and felt my head spin before forcing myself to sit down.
{Quest One: Help Expedite the Descent of Arkadia.}
{Quest description: OMITTED.}
{As a being …}
{NOTE: …}
{Since this is a ...}
{The top 10 Influences on Arkadia’s Descent will receive more lucrative rewards.}
{Descent of Arkadia: 8233 Years.}
{Current Influence: 481 Years}
[The Repeatable quest, "Help Expedite the Descent of Arkadia." will be altered upon each completion; the new quest requirements are…]
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by five years,} (Complete)
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by ten years,} (Complete)
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by 20 years,} (Complete)
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by 50 years,} (Complete)**New
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by 100 years,} (Complete)**New
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by 250 years,} (Complete)**New
{Push the Descent of Arkadia by 500 years,} (Incomplete)
{ 3 SUB-QUEST’S HAVE BEEN COMPLETED}
{You have one available reward for passing the 50-Year Sub-Quest!}
{You have one available reward for passing the 100-Year Sub-Quest!}
{You have one available reward for passing the 250-Year Sub-Quest!}
{If you would like to claim your rewards, state the command, "Claim Event Quest Rewards" at any time}
’Stop…breathe…calm your mind…let’s think about this logically, what in the hell have I done to jump over 400 years in the Descent progression suddenly… it wasn’t the Returners; that much should have only netted me a couple of years at most, and even altering Harlow’s life would have at the VERY most gotten me 10-15 years.’
’I don’t think it was the Henry Potter franchise, as that shouldn’t have such a large scale shift…the Fae…it has to be the FAE!’ Jumping to my feet, I once again began pacing around the room.
Every time I would get close to Jennifer, I would bunt her like a kickball across the floor, not hard enough to hurt her, but just enough to move her out of my path.
’The Fae are considered a hidden species until after the Acclimation of Alpha Particles, and shouldn’t have shown up yet, but did because of that crazy Returner bitch; even so, each one has a massive lifespan…no it wasn’t the younglings it was the Elders, by killing the elders, then wiping out a chunk of their young population, I caused drastic damage to the Race, thus aggressively lurching the Descent Timeline by a large chunk...’
’Arkadia, show me the Timeline Ranking Board, ’ I thought while preparing myself for what I would see.
{1st Place: Nexus = 481 Years.} *+448 Years*
{2nd Place: TeraNova = 136 Years.} *+25 Years*
{3rd Place: F**k, STOP, ARKADIA DON’T PUT THAT! = 106 Years.} *+15 years*
{4th Place: Look I Did the Thing = 100 Years.} *+3 Years*
{5th Place: Devastator = 86 Years.} *+19 Years*
{6th Place: Bladestrike = 85Years.} *+2 Years*
{7th Place: HydroLift = 56 Years.} *+8 Years*
{8th Place: Aelsthsa Greenleaf =40 Years.} *+11 Years*
{9th Place: Moira Hazelcraft = 36 Years.} *+7.5 Years*
{10th Place: Terunotaku = 35.5 Years.} *+5 Years*
Apart from my insane lead over the other returners, the rankings had shifted quite a bit, starting, of course, with me leapfrogging everyone and, more importantly, knocking TeraNova down to 2nd.
Directly under us, F**k had jumped Look by six years, securing 3rd place, and knocking the former 2nd place down to fourth.
Devastator had been putting in work, passing Bladestrike, and HydroLift dropped down to my former position at 7th.
Lastly, some jockeying occurred at the bottom of the top 10, with Terunotaku dropping down to 10th place as Aelsthsa and Moira passed him, making me wonder what was going on with the future Yokozuna.
"You really didn’t know…if my memory can be trusted, you’ve been moving around the Rankings for a little while now, until last week…about two weeks ago, Nexus wasn’t even in the top 10, then all of a sudden in a little over a week, you flew past everyone and secured first place several days ago." Watching me as I sat there on the floor with my legs crossed, Renni suddenly spoke up.
"I don’t make a habit of checking the ranking board for every little thing I change…but I think I figured out what caused that massive leap; tell me, Xilia, before the big jump happened, was I sitting between 5th and 8th place?"