Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener - Chapter 287

Chapter 287: Semi-Transcendent Form
Sterl discovered, unsurprisingly, that the basic form of the Flowing Water Blade of a Thousand Cuts was far more powerful than the original Rain Curtain Sword.

In the illusion where Sterl had initially comprehended the original Rain Curtain Sword, formidable enemies had appeared. Now, those same enemies appeared again within the illusion. Enemies that took a hard-fought battle to defeat with the Rain Curtain Sword were now easily slain with the new platinum skill, as effortlessly as slaughtering chickens!

Moreover, not only was the power of the Flowing Water Blade of a Thousand Cuts enhanced, but the skill’s upper limit was also elevated, possessing the form corresponding to a “Semi-Transcendent Law.”

Semi-Transcendent refers to the Flowing Water Law beginning to advance into the state of Flowing Water divine authority, essentially a quasi-divine realm!

“Sosia and the others gathered intel stating that the quasi-divine realm didn’t come with a corresponding increase in combat power.”

“Either someone deliberately sealed off information about platinum-level skills corresponding to Semi-Transcendent Laws, or such skills are so rare that most demigods and even some gods in the Hall of Valor are unaware.”

A flicker of excitement crossed Sterl’s eyes. Regardless of the reason, it meant that the skill he had just added points to was incredibly powerful!

The former would imply that the skill’s value and significance were too high, causing powerful individuals to collectively erase its existence. The latter would suggest that platinum-level skills of this strength were so rare they could serve as Sterl’s trump card.

Of course, there was now an annoying problem: after the qualitative change, the skill required Flowing Water Law proficiency to reach the perfected level…

And Sterl made a decisive choice…

“I will exhaust all my efforts, my lifelong wisdom, tenacity, and perseverance to break through the Flowing Water Law!”

Blood Force!

Add points!

Swoosh!

With the infusion of ten points of Blood Force, Sterl experienced the effect of the Origin of Chaos for the first time. It was a strange, corrosive light that etched itself into Sterl’s body, twisting and expanding the power of the Flowing Water Law!

Finally, the Flowing Water Law stopped expanding in a bizarre manner and returned to a stable state. Simultaneously, this Law Power was now displayed on Sterl’s panel as—Perfected Level!

Sterl felt an overwhelming surge of knowledge flooding into his mind, elevating his understanding and proficiency in using the Flowing Water Law by a significant margin. Additionally, the various passive augmentation effects of the Flowing Water Law roughly doubled.

Sterl had now fully mastered the key to the Flowing Water Blade of a Thousand Cuts.

“Slash!”

He uttered softly. Instantly, the tiny water vapor in the room transformed into blades, swiftly cutting through the air.

On the surface, everything seemed unchanged, but when Sterl slightly stood up—

The airflow he generated turned the surrounding tables and chairs into flying ash, shredded by the blades formed from water vapor!

Not only had the power increased, but using the perfected Flowing Water Law was evidently much more flexible.

Sterl nodded in satisfaction.

Next…

He continued his seclusion!

Sterl refined all his accumulated experience, reaching level 108, and learned the previously acquired incomplete Iridescent-Level skill along the way.

At this moment, Sterl noticed something peculiar. After his cheat absorbed some Fortune and he broke through to the third class, there was a subtle change.

Sterl’s cheat now granted him a special vision through his novice finger, allowing him to forcibly view attributes of items not belonging to him, such as other players’ equipment and skills, or special items hidden within various entities (similar to Ethereal Crystal fragments).

Moreover, after viewing these attributes, Sterl could now allocate points to items and skills that weren’t his.

“It seems useful, but also kind of pointless,” Sterl mused, as it didn’t seem to align with his style to allocate points to things that didn’t belong to him.

But soon he realized…

Wait, this ability could be quite useful!

Sterl could use his cheat’s new ability during battles with other players to identify whether their equipment was highly valuable, and then consider using a Fate Token to forcibly obtain it.

Yes, this new ability is indeed quite nice!

Because of the cheat’s new function, Sterl deliberately went out for a few rounds. He noticed many legendary demigods had one or two valuable items stashed away, making Sterl almost drool.

However, aside from equipment, he discovered that every player seemed to have a golden document-like thing within their bodies.

Sterl even chose to observe himself and found the same thing inside his own body.

Even with the cheat’s mystical abilities, Sterl could see the document but couldn’t interact with it in any way. The cheat couldn’t even display the document’s attributes.

“What on earth is this thing?”

“It looks like some sort of contract document,” Sterl speculated, feeling instinctively uneasy about the golden document.

But for now, he couldn’t do anything about it.

He even took a short break, leaving the Hall of Valor for a day, using a teleportation scroll to randomly search for players in nearby countries. He found that the golden document was present in everyone, without exception.

Eventually, Sterl concluded, “This thing won’t affect me for now. Perhaps when the cheat upgrades, I’ll be able to truly view and manipulate it.”

He wasn’t worried.

Compared to other players, at least he was aware of the document’s existence, and once the cheat could interact with it, even if the document was harmful, it wouldn’t matter.

He would just allocate points to it, reinforcing it into something beneficial for himself…

Sterl quickly stopped worrying about the document.

Over the next few days, he still had several Law Insight Exchange Vouchers and insight opportunities from his status level.

Sterl decisively invested his efforts into understanding the Arcane Law, because he only needed one insight opportunity to store a large amount of Arcane energy knowledge in his Arcane Soul.

Thus, after completing level training and honing his arcane skill, Sterl focused on comprehending the Arcane Law.

Although he could use Blood Force to add points, Sterl thought it wouldn’t hurt to train a bit more while waiting for his cheat to cool down. Saving some Blood Force in the process wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

In the following days, Sterl wasn’t in too much of a hurry. He wanted to be fully prepared before causing trouble for those demigod guilds.

First, he added points to his equipment. Unfortunately, most of the gear could only be slightly enhanced and couldn’t undergo a qualitative change. After spending about a week, he managed to gather nearly 200 points of overall attribute bonuses.

Then, in the last ten days…

There was still some time left before the one-month deadline Sterl had set.

The members of the Twilight Guild were holding on, driven by the hope of that one-month deadline.

Although Sterl estimated that he could easily crush those demigods, he decided to play it safe. He continued to add points ten times to the Heavenly Curtain core to increase his Hall of Valor privileges.

[You have gained Level 1 Hall of Valor privileges.]

[You have unlocked the following privileges:

① You can currently…

② You have acquired partial enforcement rights, allowing you to temporarily nullify other players’ identity levels.]

[Shares needed to advance to the next privilege level: 0/100]

“Not bad,” Sterl nodded. He immediately thought of several creative ways to use the ability to nullify other players’ identity levels…

At this moment, he was enveloped in an extremely peculiar aura.

It made him appear extremely mysterious and inexplicably ominous.

During these ten days, Sterl wasn’t idle. He spent 0.865 Blood Force on Arcane Law (intentionally pacing his training) and eleven points on Curse Law.

Both reached the perfected level! Additionally, he became proficient in the basic use of both Law Powers.

The Cursed Law granted Sterl several benefits:

– A 200% resistance to various curses, poisons, and negative status effects.

– Enhanced curse effects, amplifying the negative status effects inflicted on opponents.

– Randomly inflicting a negative status effect on the enemy with any damage-dealing skill.

– The ability to detonate negative statuses on opponents, causing massive damage.

– If Sterl obtained an opponent’s body parts like blood or hair, he could perform a remote curse kill, whose effectiveness depended on the relative strength of both parties. This could potentially kill an enemy one tier above him but required extensive energy and rare items.

Sterl wasn’t particularly interested in stacking curses to finish off enemies; he saw it as just another damage method. The remote curse kill, in particular, was something he found too cumbersome to use.

However, the passive benefits of Law Power were undeniable and very practical!

Moreover…

With both Arcane and Cursed Laws reaching the perfected level, Silent Domain’s power surged dramatically! He also mastered its second form, The End of All Things!

Sterl closed his eyes slightly to sense the change. When he reopened them a few seconds later, even he was astonished by the power he felt!

With the inclusion of Cursed Law, Silent Domain no longer merely silenced enemies but also inflicted numerous debuff effects. These debuffs could be directly detonated through Silent Domain, causing much higher damage than detonating them through Cursed Law.

The End of All Things further amplified Silent Domain’s effects. In simple terms, it could now seal legendary abilities and Law Power!

The ability to seal Law Power could be toggled on or off. If activated, the energy consumption would skyrocket, but it meant that Sterl would be able to instantly kill any demigod he encountered. Once enveloped by The End of All Things, the opponent would lose their Law Power, turning them into defenseless prey!

“And this is just with two perfected-level Law Powers.”

“If I had two perfect-level Laws, wouldn’t I be able to seal even divine-level beings?”

Sterl couldn’t help but swallow hard.

Even though Silent Domain couldn’t have points allocated to it, its power was now comparable to Flowing Water, Ten Thousand Blades!

“No wonder it’s designed to face calamities, the Hall of Valor’s pinnacle of wisdom.”

He marveled.

“It’s just… the energy consumption is a bit high.”

However, Sterl also felt a bit helpless. Having just advanced to the third class, his energy cap had increased significantly, but so had the gap in his energy requirements.