Chapter 353: Exalted-level Statue (1/2)

”Huh? What do you mean?”

Not only Monady, everyone was confused at my request.

I cannot just make a fabricated reason. Moreover, there's no point hiding it anymore. Besides, after I breakthrough, the progress I will get from the statues will lessen once again.

”Recently, I found out something about the statues in this Dimensional Space. They provide energy to whoever managed to kill or destroy them.”

If we're still just dicing normal Rank 1 Transcendent statues then it won't be that noticeable. However, if I continue doing what I was doing, they will eventually find out about it.

Letting them find out about it by themselves will definitely put me under scrutiny. But if I inform them now while making an excuse that what I was doing before was confirming this theory then it has a higher chance to be accepted.

”…Is that why you keep on barging in when the statue is about to be destroyed?”

”I'm not sure before but after our hunt yesterday, I confirmed it. I apologize for barging in like that. I needed to test that theory.”

”How can we know what you're saying is true?”

”Ask those who managed to land the last hit yesterday. Or better yet, Udann. Can you confirm it for me?”

Before Udann could answer, Irja who's behind me pulled my shoulder and stepped forward.

”Why are you asking him? I can confirm it for you. Right now, I'm feeling my stagnated Transcendent Pathway experienced a lot of progress. I'm about to breakthrough… after 20 long years.”

She opened her palm and a great surge of energy ensued filling the space we were in.

When the others felt it, they unconsciously stepped back to give space for Irja.

Soon afterward, she sat in a lotus position before she started crazily absorbing more energy into her body.

After a while, her eyes opened wide and her Transformation was suddenly triggered.

Her Transformation was triggered and hair became multicolored once again. Unlike before, it shined even more brightly and illuminated every corner of the place we were in.

On both of her sides, the two Lesser Spirits in the form of a bird were conjured and spread their wings.

Following that, two more birds with different colors simultaneously appeared; one green and one yellow.

As soon as that happened, they immediately circled around her as the four birds projected the colored Energy within them and showered Irja in it.

In front of our eyes, her Energy Intensity heightened and her Transcendent Aura grew increasingly stronger.

Her UPL of early 400 has now reached the level of Rowena. If we faced her again, she wouldn't be at a disadvantage anymore. That battle would be about who could outsmart the other.

When the calm returned to the place, Irja opened her eyes and stood up with a satisfied smile resting upon her lips.

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After that display of Irja's breakthrough, Monady and the others were somewhat convinced of my claim. Of course, there were still suspicions so we went for a test first.

Everyone already experienced killing a statue or two outside this space so it didn't need that much convincing once they felt the energy trickling down on them when they focused on it.

Of course, unlike me who could benefit a lot from it, they felt that the increase in their progress was minimal. Because of that, Monady approved of my condition.

Little did they know, they wouldn't be able to absorb it in one sitting. That's why, before they could notice that point, I had us continue and clean up the remaining golden statues.

In around 4 hours I could feel that the total gathered energy hovering on top of my head was enough to lift me to the 5th stage of the 4th realm.

But before I celebrated, I had to leave this space first.

Because of our advantage, some of us were probably already feeling relaxed. To stop that, I relied on Monady and Grenol to help the others refresh their minds that as long as we're here, we're still not out of risk.

”Are you ready? I had Grenol tell those surrounding the Red Core to make sure that no one could escape to catch us off-guard.” Monady asked.

After accounting for the total basketball-sized stones we collected, we decided to not waste any more time and immediately moved to the vicinity of the Exalted-level Golden Statue.

Unlike the regular golden statue, this one's as tall as an Ultimate Metagen.

Perhaps a Metagen can face this statue given enough Brain Capacity and for it to have a solid build. That one's not relying on UPL after all.

I guess I now have another thing to test when I go back to World of Meta. Can a Rank 1 Transcendent in a Metagen evenly fight against a Rank 2 Transcendent?