Inside the Contract Space, Yina, who had been soundly asleep within a colorful bubble, suddenly shimred with a dreamlike, colorful light.
"Eh?"
She opened her eyes, emitting a soft sound of surprise, and stretched out her fair, small hands, feeling her strength swiftly restored by a significant margin.
Yina quickly realized that this must be due to John's level increase outside, which had reverberated to her.
With a flash, she instantaneously appeared on John's shoulder.
Her sudden ergence startled John.
He asked in astonishnt, "How did you co out?"
Yina had been severely injured before, and coupled with the restrictions posed by John's power level, she spent most of her ti in a deep slumber.
Furthermore, given her critically low HP, which seed almost on the brink of death from a re touch, John rarely allowed this Stellar God to wander out.
To his surprise, she had taken the initiative to co out today.
Perched on John's shoulder and yawning, Yina said, "Just ca out to see what you were doing."
Then, her curious gaze surveyed the surroundings.
The sky roared with tempestuous winds, and the deep, dark forest echoed with the howls of beasts, resembling the wails of ghosts.
Yina's face paled, and she instinctively shuffled closer to John.
Noticing the scorn in John's look, her cheeks flushed with embarrassnt as she hastily justified, "I'm not scared, I just... just felt a bit cold, yes, that's it. It's just too chilly!"
With those words, she even rubbed her hands together for emphasis.
John looked at her as if she were a fool, saying, "I never said you were scared. Why the rush to defend yourself?"
Yina's actions froze, and she beca sowhat infuriated with embarrassnt.
She glared at John with annoyance, exclaiming, "You are really annoying!"
After scolding John, Yina huffed back into the Contract Space, presumably to go back to sleep.
John's lips twitched.
He wondered how Yina ever ca to be the sovereign of the Stellar Realm.
Not only was she lazy and incredibly weak, but she also seed to lack intelligence and courage...
It felt like a disgrace to the dignity of deities...
Shaking his head, John cast aside these thoughts and did not delay any further.
He needed to hurry and complete the realm to secure the highest clearance rewards.
Just as John was preparing to continue leveling up, Yina suddenly ran out from the Contract Space again.
She mumbled to herself, "I was so angry at you, I almost forgot the important stuff."
Before John could even ask, she quickly tapped him with her small hand.
Instantly, colorful lights illuminated from John's body, accompanied by a notification that appeared before him:
[You have received the "Blessing of Stellar God"!]
[Your attributes have increased by 20%!]
[The experience you gain has increased by 20%!]
...
Staring at the notification, John was astonished.
This type of blessing wasn't new to him.
During his ti in the Crimson Realm, the Crimson Demon had bestowed upon him a similar blessing.
However, John hadn't expected Yina to possess this capability as well.
It was sowhat beyond his expectations.
Yina, the seemingly foolish mascot, might warrant a reassessnt in John's eyes.
He felt it was necessary to adjust her standing in his mind.
Noticing John's surprised expression, Yina proudly tilted her chin upward.
She commanded in a haughty tone, "Foolish mortal, having accepted my blessing, you are now my divine servant. Rember to offer strawberries, chocolate, and snacks daily!"
John rolled his eyes at her words.
He suspected that Yina hadn't forgotten to bless him but had instead rembered to ensure he would buy her more snacks and food.
Shaking his head, John agreed to Yina's demands to appease her and sent her back into the Contract Space.
Then, he unfurled his Wings of Blood and began to collect the equipnt scattered on the ground.
John inspected the loot and equipped two bronze-tier items that were sowhat decent, slightly enhancing his attributes.
Currently, he did not possess any lv20 equipnt of superior quality, nor had he prepared any in advance.
However, this was not a concern.
Within the secret realm, he could take the opportunity to farm for more, saving the expense of purchasing them.
With a thought, John's vast ntal power swiftly expanded, covering a two-hundred-ter radius entirely.
"ntal Perception!"
After being trained by Victor and the others, John's mastery over ntal Perception had greatly improved, eliminating the need to close his eyes and prepare as he had in the past.
As his ntal power spread, every entity within a two-hundred-ter radius ca under his control.
However, he soon frowned.
The commotion caused by the Ice teorite had frightened the monsters in the area, and now, they had almost all fled.
In his perception, only a few level-ten-plus monsters remained in the area, clearly insufficient to satisfy John's needs.
If he wished to level up as efficiently as before, it would likely take a considerable effort to find more monsters.
The forest stretched as far as the eye could see, its vastness unknown, and his two-hundred-ter perception range was ultimately too limited.
John paused to think and then had an idea.
He extended his mind power as far as possible, no longer focusing on detailed observation of the area's contents.
In the blink of an eye, John's ntal Perception expanded to a thousand ters.
Simultaneously, his eyes suddenly glowed with a red hue.
"Blood Sensing!"
Suddenly, it seed as though John could hear the sound of blood flowing.
Within his ntal Perception, figures appeared like flas, akin to thermal imaging, incredibly magical.
It worked!
John couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise on his face.
He had felt that combining ntal Perception with Blood Sensing might produce remarkable results, but the outco exceeded his expectations.
Now, all monsters within a thousand ters were as visible to him as lanterns in the dark night.
Without hesitation, John dashed toward an area dense with monsters, where about twenty or so gathered, including one elite-tier.
In John's eyes, they had already beco potential attribute points and experience.
While still in mid-air, his staff glowed with a fiery red light.
An intensely hot fireball quickly ford in the sky.
"Pyrokinesis!"
"Elental Mastery" not only boosted John's attack power but also his control over various elents.
Basic elental skills, originally fixed in shape, required John to expend a significant amount of mind power to morph into different forms.
But now, those skills easily transford into various shapes in his hands, greatly enriching John's arsenal of attack thods.
Under John's command, the massive fireball in the sky suddenly split into two, then four, and so on.
Within a few breaths, the dim sky was dotted with small fireballs, blazing like stars.
The monsters in the forest had by now noticed John's presence.
Witnessing the sky ablaze with flas, fear was evident in the eyes of many monsters.
John, of course, showed no rcy.
With a vigorous swing of his staff, the myriad of small fireballs plumted like a torrential downpour, as if a teor shower had suddenly descended from the heavens.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
The dense fireballs exploded among the monsters, bursting like brilliant fireworks, illuminating the dark forest with their radiance.
"-3868!"
"-5252!"
"-4173!"
...
A flurry of damage numbers rose up.
The sounds of explosions, mixed with the monsters' roars and screams, echoed throughout the entire Slaughter Forest.
After unleashing Pyrokinesis, John did not cease his actions.
His eyes glead with a black light as a rich aura of darkness erupted from him.
"Dark Marsh!"
A vast expanse of black marsh appeared upon the earth, enveloping all the monsters within its grasp.
Black, withered arms stretched out from the marsh, seizing those monsters attempting to flee.
Despite their desperate struggles, they were powerless.
"-13947!"
"-15873!"
"-12759!"
...
Another series of damage numbers ascended.
Kill notifications simultaneously appeared before John.
[You have slain a lv18 "Demon Monkey (Normal)", earning 25000 experience points!]
["Blood Absorption" activated, you have gained 0.2 spirit attribute points!]
[You have slain a lv16 "Four-Winged Bat (Normal)", earning 19000 experience points!]
["Blood Absorption" activated, you have gained 0.1 spirit attribute points!]
[You have slain a lv25 "Giant Wood Serpent (Elite)", earning 63000 experience points!]
["Blood Absorption" activated, you have gained 0.5 strength attribute points!]
...
In just a mont, more than half of the twenty or so monsters had perished at John's hands.
A torrent of experience flowed into his body, his experience points skyrocketing at an alarming rate.
[Your level has increased to lv21, you have received 20 free attribute points!]
The familiar level-up notification appeared before John.
He glanced at it and realized that with each level, he now required over five hundred thousand experience points.
As his level increased, the required experience would beco increasingly daunting, and the monsters progressively harder to slay.
For many high-level awakeners, it might take years to advance even a single level.
However, for John, such hurdles were naturally not an issue.
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