Chapter 389 (1/2)
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The sap of the false World Tree was also a type of elixir.
The water containing sacred power that coursed through the false World Tree was the reward distributed to those participants who managed to acquire additional points over the base of one million points.
And countless participants came to visit this world covered by the false World Tree to get their hands on that sap.
This was, in a way, manual labor. Basically, one would continue to participate in the missions, earn the sap as a reward, and then repeat this same process over and over again while diligently consuming this elixir.
However, there weren’t all that many participants who managed to fulfill the base condition of one million points.
The majority of them couldn’t meet this condition, and even if they did, they could only barely break past the one million point threshold.
“My current point tally is…”
However, the trio including Su-hyeun emphatically did not fall in the category of “barely passed the threshold of one million.”
They had surpassed that a long, long time ago, and the points they earned after killing the predators were also quite considerable.
[Total points: 17,299,330]
Over 17 million points…
Su-hyeun got to this point tally from the accumulated bonus “additional point acquisition” reward of the golden leaves, all those points that he acquired using his summons, and, finally, the points that he earned after killing a predator.
“‘Even then, I’m still number two in the rankings…”
Su-hyeun could only groan and shake his head after confirming the point ranking one more time.
Despite amassing so many points like this, there was no change to the rankings. Sun Wukong who created two thousand clones to hunt down the parasites still maintained his stranglehold on the number one spot.
And so, the remaining time ticked by.
[Remaining time: 00:00:00]
[You have cleared the first mission.]
[Total points: 17,299,330]
[Excess points: 16,299,330]
[Acquired the sap of the false World Tree.]
[Acquired the sap of the false World Tree.]
…
[The next stage will begin in 30 minutes.]
Several messages floated up one after another. To be more precise, messages popped up 16 times, and currently, in Su-hyeun’s cupped hands was quite a quantity of liquid that pooled in there.
“So this is the sap of the false World Tree?”
Su-hyeun, while looking like an entranced man, brought the sap toward his mouth.
Gulp, gulp…
Then, he cautiously drank it, careful not to miss a single drop.
The moment that the very last drop of the sap of the false World Tree traveled down his throat…
“Huh?”
Su-hyeun’s consciousness suddenly snapped awake.
All sounds and presences around him vanished, but his eyes could still see Luslec and Sun Wukong.
Could it be that time itself had come to a stop?
Shu-wuwuwu…
Only one thing continued to move in this world, and that was the sap of the false World Tree that had entered Su-hyeun’s body.
It was spreading to all corners of his body and continuously stimulating his flesh.
“What exactly is happening right now?”
He tried to move his body, but it didn’t listen to him. It felt like he had become a broken machine with all of its screws missing.
Nonetheless, he could sense the transformation happening to his flesh more vividly than ever before.
The elixir melted into his whole body and began blending with the already-existing magical energy, and the blended magical energy permeated deep into his flesh and internal organs to restructure his physical body.
[Magical energy count has risen by one.]
[Magical energy count has risen by one.]
[Magical energy count has risen by one.]
[You have acquired the qualification of godhood.]
[Your physical body is being restructured.]
Within this world of frozen time, Su-hyeun’s own internal clock continued to tick forward.
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Of course, the time hadn’t really stopped. It was simply ticking forward incredibly slowly—so slowly, in fact, that it was nearly undetectable.
Sun Wukong reached out toward Su-hyeun. Although Su-hyeun couldn’t hear what Sun Wukong was saying, he could still see the latter’s lip movements.
“Hey, little bro, what’s…?”
That was the extent of what Su-hyeun managed to decipher after trying to read Sun Wukong’s lips.
He was probably asking, “What’s the matter?”
That sounded about right, though. From their perspective, Su-hyeun should be standing stiffly on the spot with a considerably dumb-looking expression on his face.
“How long has it been already?”
Su-hyeun couldn’t quite remember how much time had passed him by. It felt like at least several months.
If it was any other normal person, they would’ve gone insane by now. It was utterly boring, static, and also quite frightening.
If there was one saving grace here, that would be his senses slowly coming back to him.
“Restructuring of the physical body, huh?”
In particular, his senses gradually returning to him in this manner imparted a completely new and different feeling from before the transformation.
[Name: Kim Su-hyeun]
[Magic count: 100] [Magic level: 10]
[Strength: 101] [Agility: 100]
[Stamina: 100] [Reflex: 100]
[Death Aura: 99]
[Skill: Leap * advanced]
[Skill: Transfiguration * advanced]
[Skill: Godhood – Flame * advanced]
….
[Fatigue: 34]
Except for Death Aura, all his other stats had reached the triple-digit mark. Additionally, his Magic Level that had been stuck in its previous level also reached the 10th level, meaning he finally reached his target on this stat as well.