"Class will be ending in an hour. Keep at it, everyone!" the Professor announced to the students while everyone else was focused on the Mana Circuits in their hands. The bottom half of his lab coat billowed behind him while he walked around, its behavior reminding so that their professor was actually of a ferret's bloodline.
Tenningbrew stopped at one particular desk and looked at William calmly, noticing that he had barely moved since a few hours ago. Despite this, the boy appeared incredibly focused, beads of sweat pouring down the sides of his face.
It seems I've found myself quite the student. No wonder he could Ascend at such a young age...
the Professor nodded in satisfaction and turned to the side. He didn't dare disrupt William's concentration at a critical mont like this.
Contrary to the Professor's misunderstanding, William wasn't working on his Mana Circuits at all. The sweating was entirely due to one piece of information that ca in a few minutes ago.
Not only had the Heavens reached the Slightveil Plane, the System had also discovered that they numbered over a hundred individuals! To make matters worse, most of them were in the Solar Deity Realm, while half a dozen might even be above that!
It took the System almost two hours to subtly gather this information, and William almost wished he hadn't asked for it. There was nothing he could do to a single Solar Deity Cultivator, much less a hundred of them!
The Solar Deity Realm was the next Realm after the Deity Realm, which in turn was above the Initial Deity Realm. William was rely at the bottom end of the Ascension Realm. His enemies outnumbered him by a hundred tis, and they were three entire Realms above him.
While a three Realm gap could be easily crossed in the Mortal Realms, Cultivation after the Ascension Realm was vastly different. If the difference between a human non-Cultivator and a Core Formation Realm Cultivator was around twelve tis, the gap between soone in the Ascension Realm and the Initial Deity Realm alone was one hundred tis!
That was just a single Realm. William didn't have a solid understanding of the Realms above Initial Deity, but he guessed the gap couldn't be anything less than a few thousand tis. Maybe even tens of thousands.
-The Heavens are disappearing from my detection range. They've split up and seem to be searching various personal Dinsions scattered around the Plane.
Damn it, how much ti do I have?
-Depending on the size of the Dinsions they are searching, it could be a few hours or up to a day.
A few X-Rank Talents isn't enough. I need to be stronger!
William cursed his weakness.
If he could learn skills like Efretta's Spell Reversion that turned his opponent's attacks against them, William would be in much better shape. Naively of him, however, he relied too much on the effects of his Talents to improve.
Almost all of my Talents are percentage bonuses... but zero tis a million percent is still zero. Without the System automatically granting the bare-minimum knowledge to use so of these Talents, I'd be useless!
I need to improve quickly, but there's not much ti. What can I do?
William scrolled through the Status Panel for a second ti, searching for a Talent that he could use to improve his chances of survival. This ti, the intent wasn't to use Points to upgrade it, rather raise the fundantal skill.
My goal isn't to fight, so offensive Talents are off the table.
William ntally crossed off a few dozen Talents. Even if he could close the gap between the Heavens mbers, he knew that fighting now would only lead to more trouble later.
If he killed the young masters, the parents would co next, as so would say. No, the goal was to run or hide, not fight.
Hide!
William's eyes lit up.
He was already inside the school's Dinsion, which counted as a form of hiding. The fact that he hadn't been located yet proved that hiding was a good strategy.
William narrowed down all of his Talents to include ones only related to escape and hiding. There was the Hunter, Not Hunted bonus effect from the Hunter Talent, which gave him a forty percent chance to detect his enemies first.
That's pretty useless right now...
William scrolled up to the next Talents.
Misdirection... useless.
Stealth? Would putting on camouflage work?
It's already enhanced by an additional two hundred percent from the Master Thief Talent, so it's much stronger than your everyday X-Rank...
William imagined putting colored paint on himself to blend in with the environnt. He wanted to try it imdiately, but he was in the middle of class at the mont. Just in case, he sorted out the necessary items within his Space Rings and mixed together so plant material to create paint.
Oh right, it's disabled in this area.
What else is there... Fitness?
He opened the information panel, condensing so of the details of the bonus effects that weren't very useful to him at the mont.
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Fitness (Mythic): (X)
Effects:
-Speed increased by 20000%
-Jumping strength increased by 20000%
-Balancing ability improved by 20000%
-Flexibility improved by 20000%
-Ti to reach maximum speed reduced by 20000%
-Reaction ti improved by 20000% Experience more on empire
-Resistance to physical fatigue 20000%
-Full-body muscular ability 20000%
-Immunity to the effects of knockback
-Wall-scaling improved by 20000%
-Ability to redirect your velocity in another direction 20000%
-Your hands can be used with 20000% finer detail and grace.
X-Rank Bonus Effects:
-Narrowly dodging an attack grants you a 30% speed boost for ten seconds. Duration is tripled if you dodge a life-threatening attack.
-Accelerated Reflexes: When faced with killing intent or targeted by physical or magical attacks, ti is slowed by 96 tis from the Host's perspective only.
-Reflexive Learning: When narrowly dodging one or multiple attacks, one random attack within one ter of the Host will be selected and be partially comprehended by ten percent.
-Speedy Recovery, Maxed Out, Running On Empty, Fit, Physique, Power, Steady Hands.
Next rank up: Requirents Locked. Upgrade the System to S-Rank to unlock the next Rank.
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Hmm, there's a lot of bonus effects, but I can't really improve my strength in a short amount of ti. It would take at least 7-10 days to see any progress. Not to ntion, could that really work in this case?
-You'd need to perform so type of strenuous activity that tears your muscles without causing increased injury.
William ntally nodded. It made sense.
Okay, then there's really only one option.
William scrolled to the Magic Talents section and checked the information on the Illusion Affinity.
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Illusion Affinity (Legendary): (X)
Effects:
-Illusion-related Mana Control, Magic Power, and Mana Efficiency 1920%
X-Rank Bonus Effects:
-Domain of Illusion: Take complete control over all Illusion Mana within a radius of 100 kiloters. Can be countered by opponents with Illusion Domains of greater strength.
-Territory of Illusion: An improved Domain, designed to modify any individual or material within its range to take the form the Host desires. Effects are lessened when targeting opponents of significant strength.
-Primary Law of Illusion (90.1% comprehension): You understand almost the entirety of the Illusion Elent's Primary Law. Your Illusion Elent has been enhanced greatly by your comprehension, and you notice sothing different about your Illusion Mana. There may be even more effects. Comprehend the Illusion Elent or visit the Realm of Illusion to learn more.
-Illusion Elental: Transition between reality and illusion seamlessly. Proceed with caution.
Next rank up: 1,000,000PP and one Deity Illusion Shard.
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It had been a long ti since William looked at the stats on so of his Elents. There was a lot of new information that didn't show up previously, especially sothing about a Realm of Illusion, but he didn't have ti to think about that.
What mattered the most right now was improving the Illusion Elent as much as possible before the Heavens found him. But how?
A spark of lightning to his right suddenly shot upward and distracted William from his thoughts. It slamd into the ceiling with incredible force, scattering until it had spread to all four corners of the classroom. When the sparks dissipated, the stray Lightning Magic had left a scorch mark about as wide as William's body.
He looked at the culprit, an embarrassed Mikaela Mirov with a left hand that had turned completely to ash. When she saw William looking at her, she quickly hid her hand beneath the desk and gave him a glare.
"What are you looking at? I just used a little too much power, that's all." she turned away from William while Professor Tenningbrew contacted an aide with the Life Elent to have Mikaela's wound healed.
"Thanks!" William bead. Mikaela's accident had just given him the answer he was looking for.
It was right in front of the entire ti! I need to improve my Mana Circuits! Even a slight improvent multiplied by almost 19 tis from the Illusion Affinity will have a huge impact!
"Huh? What the fuck are you thanking for?" Mikaela looked at William with a mix of confusion and annoyance, which only intensified when she realized that he wasn't listening anymore.
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