Chapter 290 Breaking Through To Rank-6 (Upper Elite Realm/6-Circle)

Genesis Weapon store, Imperial City;

At the first-floor residence, Mark was still on his bed, sleeping peacefully while everyone else in the city already woke up and started going to their work.

Meanwhile, the store was already opened and Allen was managing it. Song Yue's work starts at 9 and Mark insisted that she doesn't have to work early in the morning.

Feeling a little bit of pity for Allen, despite knowing that he is only a robot, Song Yue accompanied him downstairs, just sitting there in a corner and reading the newspaper.

Her father aka the Black Knight hasn't arrived yet as he was also strictly told only to report to the duty at 9. The arrangement was done in such a way so that Song Yue feels like the Black Knight was a hired person.

Anyway, back to Mark, while he was sleeping soundly, the system was refining the ether energy in the background.

The mandatory notification sounds rang in his ears continuously and woke him up.

*Ding! 382,700 ether points were added to the character.

*Ding! Your overall Ether points crossed 1 million. You are qualified to break through to the next rank.

*Ding! Note: Your overall skill power will remain unchanged as they will be depending on stats.

*Ding! Proceed with the breakthrough?

"Haaah"

Letting out a yawn, Mark lazily looked at the holographic screen floating before him. "Oh, it's already over? Great."

After washing his face to clear drowsiness, he returned to the bed and sat down before proceeding with the confirmation. "Yes, please proceed."

*Ding! Congratulations, you successfully broke through to rank 6.

*Ding! Your share of revenue increased to 70%.

*Ding! You completed the main quest-II and received 16000 credits.

*Ding! You received a new main quest.

*Ding! You received a new summon, Thunder Shark

*Ding! You received a new summon, Ice Tiger

*Ding! Your bloodline skills have been upgraded to level 6.

*Ding! You received a new bloodline skill, Blizzard Wings.

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Absolute Freezing (Lv6): Freeze your surroundings for 180 seconds. Range: 300 meters. Cost: 100,000 EP (ether points), CD: 30 minutes

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Ice bolt (Lv6): Conjure any number of ice spears with your ether energy to attack your enemies from far away with each spear containing 110% of your magic power (Int). Range: 300 meters. Cost: 20% ether energy. CD: 0 seconds.

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Blizzard Wings (Lv6): Create a pair of indestructible icy wings, which can be used to fly, block the incoming attacks, or attack the enemies with a blizzard.

Flying: 10 EP of consumption every second.

Block: Up to 150% defense stat points. Cannot fly or attack. The back will also be vulnerable. No ether consumption. And no external items can augment this feature (original defense points).

Attack: Generate a blizzard for ten seconds with the power of 100% intelligence stat points. Cost: 10000 EP. Range: 300 meters. The host is immune to the reduction of visibility due to the blizzard.

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"Okay, now, this is a cool one." Mark nodded in satisfaction. The indestructibility and the kind of defense it provides greatly gave him a sense of safety. Of course, he was also excited to fly in the sky.

"Anyway, let's get going…"

Closing down all the windows, he opened the inventory to take out the stat pills. Earlier day, he swallowed them one after another to cross 5 points except for strength, not wanting to use precious advanced grade stats pills.

Of course, there's a second reason too. It is that for every 1 point in the increase of strength, 0.4 defense stat also increases. This is what Mark observed while improving his stats. Taking strength from 1.5 to 3.9 already took Defense to 5.96 (rounded off to 5.9 according to the system's calculations).

Hence, taking any more will make him breakthrough to rank 6, which he doesn't want at any cost because it will render all of his advancement pills useless.

It was only in the evening did he finally realize something after remembering the gift of Yuan Menzi, the ether crystals combined were worth more than 750k gold coins.

Realizing that he could just make a breakthrough anyway, he absorbed the crystals altogether and let the system do the rest of the work while he was sleeping.

And now that he broke through to 6-circle, he intended to bring the other stats to greater 6 points but less than 7 points as he doesn't want another breakthrough.

After calculating the required amount of stat pills to reach his target, Mark put away the remaining and then started consuming them one after another.

*Ding! You consumed the intelligence pill (intermediate) and increase the intelligence stat by 0.3 points.

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*Ding! You consumed the intelligence pill (intermediate) and increase the intelligence stat by 0.3 points.

He consumed five pills one after another.

"Okay, that will reach my int to 6.7. With the amulet of magic, it will further raise to 8.37 or 8.4 to round off. Now, I could just kill anyone under the Demigod realm by striking them with a lightning bolt as long as they are unprepared.

And if they are prepared, I can still summon the lightning clone and take them out. There are also my ether weapons like the M134 minigun, Attack helicopter, and the Missile Defense system. I can roast them from far away.

Hmm, coming to the missile defense system, should I upgrade it again? I can afford to pay 840k credits now but whether it is a diamond grade or crystal grade, there won't be much change.

I need a huge transformation with it, and for that, I should upgrade it to atleast Mythril grade. So, that means three upgrades.

If my calculations are right, then, the second upgrade will cost more than 6 million credits and the third upgrade will cost more than 50 million credits. When I think about it, even the present amount didn't feel much.

To gather such huge amounts, not only I might have to bring all the emperors and independent kings to the auction but also sell them even more powerful weapons than the last time. Well, not necessary to be powerful but even missiles with a higher range will do the job.

I hope, by the next year, I will be able to do that. During the past few months, my life was changed so much. I was struggling to sell a pistol worth 5 gold coins and now, there are millions in my inventory. Who knows, by the next expo, I might even earn billions…

Anyway, let's stop thinking about the things far away and focus on the present."

2 intermediate-grade strength stat pills raised his strength by 0.6 points. At the same time, his defense stat is also raised by 0.15 points, crossing the 6-point range.

2 intermediate-grade defense stat pills raised his defense further by 0.6 points.

2 intermediate and 1 advanced grade agility pill raised his agility by 1.6 points.

3 intermediate-grade vitality pills raised his vitality by 0.9 points.

1 intermediate-grade resistance pill raised his resistance by 1 point.

In the end, his inventory had 5 advanced grade strength pills; 3 intermediate and 5 advanced grade intelligence pills; 5 advanced grade defense pills; 4 advanced grade agility pills; 5 advanced grade vitality pills; and finally, 4 advanced grade resistance pills.

"System, show Character stats"

Name: Lu Zhen (Mark Spencer)

Rank: 6

Strength: 4.5

Intelligence: 6.7 (+25%)

Defense: 6.8

Agility: 6.6

Vitality: 6.1

Resistance: 6.1

Charisma: 9

Luck: 2+5

Bloodline: Blizzard Pegasus

Attribute: Lightning, Ice, and Space (locked);

Spirit path: Summoner

Ether quality: High

Ether energy: 1,035,630

Special Skills: Ultimate Defense I, Ultimate Defense II, Thunderblast, Lightning Clone, Seal Breaker, and the Devil's Hand

Bloodline skills: Absolute freezing, Ice bolt, Blizzard Wings

Assistants: 2 (Allen Spencer, Alina Spencer)

Store branches: 1

Lifespan limit: 235 (210 years left)

Available credits: 7,208,146

p Available Credit limit: 189,500/189,500

Net worth: 11.2 million gold coins

Total Debt: 0

Credit debt: 0

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"Okay, the preparations are complete. Now, let's go and meet my dear partner in crime to urge him to start the war. Allen has yet to start the pilot training, and even if Shang Fu sends a once-in-a-decade genius who has the ability to learn how to properly fly the aircraft in a couple of weeks, it will still take a long time for the runways to be built anyway.

The Imperial palace won't be able to deploy them, and by the time everything is ready, I should convince Feng Wu to merge his kingdom with the Western Moon. Perhaps, I will be able to earn more from either side if war starts between Western Moon and Phoenix Empire."

To implement his plan without wasting any time, Mark decided to visit Kunyu bandits right away. However, after reaching downstairs, he realized that he had to delay it because of the letter sent by the Imperial Palace.