446 Smelting Trial 1.9 (1/2)
Time passed quickly and just like that, there's only a year left before the end of the Smelting Trial.
While the other participants gathered as many achievements as they could get, this Smelting Trial turned out to be another seclusion for Raven.
Raven honed his skills even more, as he got to control his outrageous boost in physical strength, he ultimately felt immense confidence. He truly felt unstoppable. Even though he experienced just how absurd his physical strength was during these past nine years of seclusion first hand, the feeling and satisfaction of possessing legitimate strength makes him feel giddy and slight dizzy.
Having the seal released on his Cosmic Energy enabled Raven to perform more complicated techniques with relative ease. Due to the immense capacity this brings him, he no longer has to spend his longevity to cast powerful skills in case of emergency in the future.
What's funny to him is that, performing techniques which costs larger amounts of energy was easier for him to do instead of casting the skills that doesn't consume much.
Due to this, Raven's ability to use simple skills such as energy sensing, climbing on sloped surfaces, and even the simple act of activating his ocular technique became harder to him, so much to the point that he had to re-train himself to do all of those again.
It took him months of constant practice before he was able to use them again, this time they were truly ingrained on his instincts to the point that he could use them unconsciously.
Raven also mastered the [God Slaying Art] which he received from the crown before. He couldn't use this skill before due to its strict requirements. It needed him to condense at least an Immortal Champion's Physique, additionally performing the technique requires an absurd amount of energy. But now, those were no longer a problem to him.
As soon as he mastered this technique, Raven finally understood why it was given to him. The [God Slaying Art] is actually a heaven-defying technique.
The art itself doesn't contain any moves. In truth, it is a unique method to sharply increase the aggressiveness of his Cosmic Energy. Upon mastering the technique, Raven's energy would turn incredibly aggressive to the point that it will pulverize anything it touches. Aside from that, its also incredibly heavy, invasive and destructive - even without Raven using his Destruction Laws.
Once the [God Slaying Art] was invoked, anything that Raven does afterward will cause a terrifying force which is capable to wiping out hundreds, if not thousands, of people. That being said, learning it was challenging to him as well.
It had to be known that Cosmic Energy doesn't refill itself. Raven has to manually convert energies into Cosmic Energies during his meditations, therefore it doesn't mean that Raven had an unlimited supply of Cosmic Energy.
Still, due to his special circumstances, Raven had enough time to focus on mastering the God Slaying Art. After experimenting with the technique, which caused the majority of the forest around him to disappear, he figured that he could only use the God Slaying Art ten times consecutively before running dangerously low on Cosmic Energy.
Raven had to sit down and recover his Cosmic Energy for two whole weeks after that. So Raven didn't dare to do it again.
Ultimately, he decided that the God Slaying Art would only be used as a trump card. He won't reveal it unless he encountered a life-threatening emergency.
With a lot of time on his hands, Raven also improved on other aspects of his strength.