Chapter 201 - Pure Destruction (2/2)
”Sure thing, Master!” Theresa hastily replied to Aurus, a slightly corporeal screen appearing in front of his field of vision not long after.
Whoosh!
At the very instant the screen had appeared in front of his field of vision, Aurus went ahead and hastily skimmed through it, only to be left at a loss for words as he forced himself to ask Theresa, ”Are you sure…these are…my stats?”
”Indeed, it is, Master! That's your stats, calculated by the Transcending Existence System millions of times to make sure there's no margin of error!” Theresa replied in a cheerful tone, increasing Aurus's level of disbelief as he looked at his stats.
Yes, he was feeling intense disbelief at how high his stats had become.
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[Aurus]
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[HP]: 2,032,998/2,032,998
[FP]: 239,903/239,903
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[Tenacity]: 46,332
[Vitality]: 84,942
[Spirit]: 243,507
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”240,000 Attack…” Aurus felt the most disbelief when he was looking at his Attack stat. His Attack stat was so high that it's more or less six times as high as his Defense stat. ”Am I a glass cannon or something?”
Eventually, Aurus accepted that these were his stats, letting out a soft sigh as he commanded Theresa, ”Could you convert these stats to Pseudo-Animate terms? A Pseudo-Animate that hasn't undergone a Power Baptism, to be specific.”
”As you wish, Master!” Theresa soon replied to Aurus's question, hastily changing the values on the slightly corporeal screen in front of Aurus to smaller values. Although he let out a sigh of relief after his stats had changed its value, it was more or less due to the conversion factor. Looking at the current Attack stat on the slightly corporeal screen in front of him, he still needed 757 points of Attack to destroy a pillar.
And that was just one pillar.
Of course, that did not mean that Aurus needed another 757 points to destroy two pillars at the same time. He just had to increase his attack to a high enough level for him to be able to send an attack with a wide area of effect that would surely fulfill what he needed.
Then again, Aurus already knew what he had to do in order to bridge the gap in terms of attack. With this in mind, he looked at Theresa and told her, ”Theresa, minimize the screen in front of me to where I could only see the Attack stat. Keep the same conversion. Also, when [Supreme Deification] reaches the maximum level, evolve it as fast as possible.”
Noticing the serious aura radiating from Aurus, Theresa responded to him in a serious tone as it hastily manipulated the slightly corporeal screen in front of Aurus's field of vision, saying, ”As you wish, Master. I've adjusted the size of the screen and moved it to where it wouldn't block Master's view.”
”I've also enabled the automatic evolution of [Supreme Deification] for now,” Theresa added, to which Aurus only replied with one word.
”Good.”
”[Supreme Deification].”
Whoosh!
In an instant, the aura radiating from Aurus had intensified by multiple times, giving him the feeling that he had the power to destroy mountains and rivers with a single move. Of course, this was just a feeling and not the real effect of the skill, with the real effect of the skill being quantified as Aurus looked at his current Attack stat.
[Spirit]: 1,464.
A few seconds later, Theresa's voice could be heard near Aurus, saying, ”[Supreme Deification] has evolved to B-grade Mortal level!”
Hearing those words, he took a look at the Spirit stat once more, noticing that it has increased by over a hundred points. What Aurus was doing right now, since there was still a lot of time, was increasing the grade of [Supreme Deification] to a decent enough level. He was solely relying on his greatly improved comprehension speed right now, hoping that it wouldn't take a long time for the skill to reach a decent enough grade while waiting.
Of course, he was not idling around, just waiting for [Supreme Deification] before he made a move. In the off-chance that there were only a few seconds left before he could unleash an attack, he was now preparing his attack beforehand, conjuring a hundred swords around his body before congregating it over his head.
Whoosh!
”To think that the ultimate art [Lucifer's Claw of Damnation] would become a normal move in [Spellswords of Ruination],” Aurus muttered as he let out a chuckle, focusing his sense of vision towards the congregation of swords as Theresa told him that [Supreme Deification] had reached A-grade Mortal level.
With the swords now congregated over his head, he then manipulated every one of them to fuse as one, transforming into a giant claw made out of swords. This claw radiated an aura that it came from the underworld...as if this claw came from Lucifer himself.
”This is the first time I've used such a skill, but the power it exudes might be more than enough for me to kill Chonk by myself without a problem,” Aurus muttered as he stabilized the claw made out of swords with his FP. A couple of minutes later, Theresa told him that [Supreme Deification] had reached S-grade Mortal level, his Attack stat now close to 2,000 points.
It was then that he decided to stop waiting for the next evolution after [Supreme Deification] reaches X-grade Mortal level, thinking that it was enough of a boost as long as he used that skill. And so, with that in mind, Aurus waited for a few more minutes, with Theresa eventually telling him, ”Master! [Supreme Deification] has reached X-grade Mortal level!”
”Cancel the automatic evolution, Theresa,” Aurus told Theresa, to which Theresa hastily responded as it replied, ”Automatic evolution has been disabled, Master!”
”Alright then,” Aurus said with a chuckle. Just as he was about to activate the skill he had in mind, a stray thought in his mind took over his whole train of thought, prompting him to ask Theresa, ”Theresa, how many times can I amplify my stats before my body implodes from the power?”
This thought came into his mind after remembering a player in ISE that relied on active buffs that increased his stats. One day, that player went ahead and activated all of his active buffs, increasing his stats to an unimaginable level for someone at his existence level…only for his body to explode in an array of various colors. After that, he lost all progress on his account, forcing him to start all over again.
Of course, Aurus knew that his current life wasn't a game, so if he amplified his stats too much, he would surely die from the implosion of such power. And with that, Theresa replied to Aurus's question, saying, ”Master's body can only hold an amplification of 100 times at most before Master's HP is constantly decreased.”
”I see,” Aurus said as he brought up the description of [Supreme Deification] while making sure that the claw made out of swords was still together. After closing it, he then brought up the description of [Dark Universal Blade], letting out a slightly crazed chuckle as he closed it, muttering, ”A factor of 72 times…I wonder if I could fight an Animate with that much power?”
”[Dark Universal Blade]!” After checking through the descriptions of those skills, he then activated the skill that he last checked up on, amplifying the aura surrounding him to an outstanding degree. Not only that, but since Aurus's Attack stat had greatly increased, the power held by the claw made out of swords had increased as well, giving off the aura that it was not just Lucifer's claw that was in this large stone room, but instead, the claws of all of the great demons in the underworld…combined.
Aurus had a hunch that the power imbued within the claw made out of swords was more than enough for him to destroy at least 10,000 pillars. After taking a look at the small screen that showed his current Attack stat, this belief was more solidified, prompting him to manipulate the claw as it moved towards the pillars in a circular fashion.
[Spirit]: 17,568.
”[Spellswords of Ruination]…”
”[Hundred Sword Embodiment]…”
”[Lucifer's Wrathful Claw]!”
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Bang!