"Damn, you really want to kill with pain that bad?" Aurelian groaned, dropping to his knees as waves of agony assaulted his body.
This ti, far more intense than ever before. His body lit up in a resplendent purple glow, illuminating the dungeon as glyphs and runes ford in the air, weaving intricate formations before slamming into his flesh, engraving themselves into him, rewriting his very being.
The purple light swelled incandescently, enveloping him completely and forming a radiant shell of light that cocooned his body.
Then the real changes began. The branded runes dimd as their power ebbed into his flesh, reforging his entire structure to house sothing no mortal vessel was ever ant to wield.
As it unfolded, his will synced with his blades one last ti, issuing commands before even his consciousness was dragged into the agony of being reforged.
The blades responded instantly, spinning above the corpse of the level 31 acidic sli. A black hole blood, devouring the carcass before collapsing in on itself. Even before the notification blinked into view, all that energy was mystically drawn into Aurelian’s attributes—channeled into Constitution. Warm energy flooded him, and the grimace lining his face eased as vitality surged through him. The process had beco natural now, the Infinite Mana Pathways sinking deep into his mind, anchoring a concept beyond comprehension. His skin shimred faintly, a wondrous sight unseen even to him.
Had he been awake, casting his taphysical vision, he would have witnessed ethereal strings stretching across his form, carving into him a structure that radiated an aura ancient enough to border on divinity.
The blades hovering before him buzzed violently, their surfaces glimring as they were drawn into the purple light. Synced to his will, they were dragged deeper, even as they resisted. Cracks spread across their surfaces, splintering and reforging them again and again. Each ti they pulled back, the light swallowed them whole, siphoning the energy until they were forced to absorb it.
The devilish black hue tinged in crimson was flushed out, replaced by torrents of purple energy. They shattered and reforged in endless cycles, their fras expanding monstrously from two ters to three. Their aura grew by the second, wavering between pure corruption and radiant purity, unable to decide which to embody. Finally, they exploded into motes of splendiferous light, releasing a shockwave across a hundred ters. Yet the shell of light around Aurelian remained untouched.
The scattered motes were drawn back into the purple cocoon, reforged with it as the core. Their new forms erged, dazzling to behold.
One blade hovered at his side, its three-ter fra cloaked in a nacing black hue. Wisps of abyssal smoke drifted from it, sizzling the air with corruption.
The other, similar in size, radiated a pure incandescent light. Its edges glead white-hot, exuding an aura of untainted purity that stood in stark contrast to its twin.
If he had been conscious, he would have noticed the notification blinking before him.
Seconds blurred into minutes, minutes into hours, as the purple glow dimd. Its radiance had acted as a beacon, drawing hordes of beasts. Acidic slis surrounded him, staring at the cocoon as though it were a divine treasure about to be born. Those foolish enough to attack had long been reduced to ash.
Deep within, a figure slowly ca into view. The purple energy sank into his body, muscles arched to perfection, midnight-black hair streaked with silver-white strands. His allure sharpened even further. His eyes fluttered open, revealing swirling vortices of abyssal and crimson light.
A notification rang out.
[Ding! Congratulations! The host has successfully rged with the Infinite Mana Pathways!]
[Construct I awakened: Converting Finite into Infinite.]
"Finally," Aurelian breathed, a smile tugging at his lips as mories surged through his mind, secrets and chanics unraveling as if reclaid from a forgotten past.
Snapping his fingers, a robe draped itself over him, replacing the tatters shredded by his transformation. His gaze shifted to the horde of beasts surrounding him, their gazes locked onto him in awe and hunger.
He ignored them. Lowering his body, he extended an index finger toward the ground. A whisper escaped his lips.
"Heavy as the ocean."
A blue hue covered his fingertip, and even before it touched the floor, the air scread in protest. When it landed, the ground collapsed instantly, forming a massive crater. The shockwave propelled him upward, rocketing ten ters into the air.
"Light as a feather," he whispered again, and the sa glow enveloped him. His body descended slowly, weightless, until he touched down.
"It worked," he exhaled, exhilarated. The mories synced seamlessly with his body, unlocking the function of the Infinite Mana Pathways.
It hadn’t granted him infinite mana per se. But sothing just as terrifying.
The ability to compress mana to unimaginable levels. To shift a drop of mana into an ocean. Where another might need 100 mana to cast a single fireball, he could use that sa amount to unleash a hundred. Finite, twisted into infinite.
And this was only the first construct.
The second was bound to be even more monstrous.
His lips curled into a smile as a single thought played at the back of his head.
It was testing ti!
But before he could move, his gaze shifted, his brows arching as he stared at the blades hovering before him.
"You evolved again?" he murmured, eyes glued to them.
They had changed, drastically. He mused aloud, "Black and white, swirling like fish chasing each other... damn, that’s so straight-up Taichi vibes right there."
The sight sparked old mories, but he shook them off, snapping his focus back to the horde of slis charging at him, likely furious after being cheated out of the treasure they had expected.
It was long overdue anyway. Ti to end this and clear the damned dungeon. He had lingered here far too long; now, all that remained was to devour a few more beasts to awaken his third supre record.
His feet lit up with a dim blue glow as mana coated his steps, his figure vanishing from where he stood.
In less than a heartbeat, rippling shockwaves echoed through the dungeon as slis burst into misty explosions of blood, torn apart beneath the ruthless assault of a single youth. The once-nacing E-rank evolved Acidic Slis were reduced to nothing more than scraps of at, helpless prey on his chopping board.
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