Chapter 53: Surpassing Previous Limits

Chapter 53: Surpassing Previous Limits

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When I woke up the next morning, my System Scarf finally seemed to react to what I had done yesterday. I kept trying to refine and absorb the Void Essence within me. While Kirby slept over my belly as usual, he freely let me use some of the Void Essence.

It still hurt, but I was able to sleep well by simply depriving myself of most of my senses. Nonetheless, once I woke up, a wave of pain came to me, but I was mostly used to it at this point. I sighed in relief and stopped cultivating it to see the notification in front of me.

[Because of constantly controlling the Essence of the Void itself, you’ve learned the Magic Skill: [Channel Void (S): Lv1]!]

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[Channel Void (S): Lv1]

[Skill EXP]: [0/50.000]

Channel the Essence of the Void that many can’t even comprehend. Let the eternal emptiness and darkness take over your body and manipulate it like many cannot.

Slowly, make it yours. Become one with the Void, one step at a time.

Grants the ability to manipulate Void Essence, transform it, absorb it, and refine it over time. Despite the high Ranking of the Skill, it can only be used properly after a large amount of proficiency has been accumulated.

Level Bonus (1): Increases Void Essence Manipulation, Absorption, and Refinement Proficiency by +35%.

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It was a perfect Skill for my needs. With this, the refinement and usage of the Void Essence were becoming much better. I immediately felt it the moment I equipped the Skill. It felt like I had comprehended the Void Dao by another 3 percent out of nowhere.

If I keep leveling this Skill, it might become easier to understand and refine this energy. Although the description itself is quite eerie, it is as if the System itself is afraid of this power.

The Element of Void...

Huh, well, there was also another thing that popped up.

Ding!

[Due to your great and proficient usage of a foreign energy similar to a combination of the elements of Darkness and Shadows, you learned the [Umbral Essence Manipulation (A): Lv1] Skill!]

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[Umbral Essence Manipulation (A): Lv1]

[Skill EXP]: [0/15.000]

A Magic Skill learned by discovering a new source of energy and power derived from the Element of Darkness.

By absorbing Darkness and Shadows and utilizing Mana, Umbral Essence can be created, manipulated, shaped, and transformed into a myriad of powerful, both protective and deadly, shapes. It can absorb the energies of those it touches, disrupt their magic creation, weaken them, and curse them in a myriad of ways.

Level Bonus (1): Increases Umbral Essence Manipulation Proficiency, Generation Speed, Power, and Effects by +30%.

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This was Umbral Essence, the counterpart of Photon Essence. I had only created it recently, thanks to having absorbed the powers of the God of Deep Darkness. Before, I had to utilize my Black Heaven Physique to manipulate something similar to it.

But now, without the need to transform, I can easily manipulate and create it. And this Skill makes its usage and manipulation even easier for me. I can already tell that this System Scarf is all about facilitating the processes of most things.

The only drawback is the Skill Slots which won’t let me use everything I want.

I can’t equip this skill, unfortunately. But that’s about to change now. I suppose it is about time I get rid of most of the max-level skills.

I’ve been leveling them as I cultivated them before, so most of the equipped skills were max level.

How did I do that? Simply by constantly using them, this System is incredibly easy to abuse, merely conjuring a Skill a million times, and it reaches the max level!

However, I believe not many mortals can do it as I do. Yes, I suppose they cannot completely abuse it.

The only exception were stranger Skills that require specific conditions to level up, different from just constant usage.

Such Skills barely leveled up much, so they weren’t all max level.

Nonetheless, let’s begin with that.

I can combine just any Skill together as long as I have Credits to use, right? So let’s see.

“A-Ah! Sorry, sorry!” I quickly deactivated the Ability. “I was just looking at some new Evolved Skills. Remember my Photon Essence? It has been upgraded, something I never thought possible. I thought I had already perfected it over a thousand years ago... Well, I was wrong.”

“So you used the system to evolve it?” Asked Urbosa. “Well, that’s pretty amazing, I think.”

“Why do you need it to be stronger when it was already so strong it could kill gods anyway?” Merkite asked nonchalantly.

“Hahah, well, that logic is almost flawless, if it wasn’t for the knowledge I have about a certain someone...” I sighed. “A being that vastly surpassed all my strength. Despite how strong I might be, there is definitely someone stronger out there, someone who really, really wants me to. And who’s saying there aren’t other beings like that out there? In these countless worlds, dimensions, and realms... I must be prepared for the worst.”

“I think you’re just being a bit paranoid.” Urbosa patted my shoulders.

“Yeah, just come back to bed and cuddle with us,” Merkite said. “Today’s morning is a bit cold.”

The two girls dragged me back to bed, wrapped their legs around mine, and hugged me tightly. I wanted to test my other abilities, but I guess that’ll be for later. It was very early in the morning, so I decided to sleep for an hour or two more.

Hmmm~ They’re so fluffy, though.

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Two hours later, we were already having breakfast together. I did sleep for an hour and a half more before it got too late, and we had to make breakfast. Hekita was asking for her meals, and she was very hungry.

“Hmm? Mommy, what are you doing now?” She asked me as she was eating a big piece of meat.

“Oh, this?” I asked.

As everyone ate, I was practicing my new Skills. Most of them worked the same, but better. But the one that changed the most was my Photon Essence. Before, it could do a lot of things, from becoming any shape I wanted to paralyzing, cutting, and piercing.

It could blind too with ease. And it could materialize and become a solid object. It could also be used to heal, restoring the wounds of those wounded and helping them recover stamina as well.

It wasn’t just light either; it could become solid and also liquid at will, and it even could transform into lightning or completely ethereal.

However, after gaining the “Divine” suffix, it could do more things as well.

Before, it could pierce, slash, and electrocute, but now it can hack and smash. The solidification it possessed has become incredibly stronger now.

Hekita asked what I was doing because she saw me create a huge hammer made entirely out of gold, which was actually Divine Photon Essence.

It had become different—no longer just light itself, but it resembled metal as if it had become mercury, but gold-colored.

Yet I could freely switch it around between its components.

“Let’s see...”

I summoned a giant Martial Beast, flew into the skies, and hit it with the hammer I created.

BAAAM!

The Martial Beast exploded into pieces.

“Oh, I see, it is really strong.”

This was a Martial Beast of the Venerable Realm, yet I was able to smash it with a single strike.

Before, it required from five to ten hits using Photonic Energy alone and nothing else.

Some might pity the beast, but I was going to hunt it anyway to eat it, so this was a good showcase of power.

“Woow... Mommy’s so strong! The strongest ever!” Hekita clapped. “Are we eating that?”

“Yep! Let me cook it for everyone.” I smiled, kissing Hekita on her forehead because she was too cute.

There were more things I wanted to try out, but first, I cooked this big beast and ate a feast with the entire tribe. I might as well give it to everyone so their cultivation increases.

Although I didn’t want to at first, I’ve already begun to warm up to the idea of becoming their leader.

Seeing how lawless the entire tower is, I might as well just make a new sect—no, a new Heavenly Court.

And take matters into my own hands.

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But first, my date with Peperina!

Without a doubt, I’ll prioritize my date with the cute rabbit girl, of course.

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