Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener - Chapter 673

Chapter 673: Chapter 673: At All Costs! A Frenzied Push Forward!
“Enough. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. No pain, no gain. At this point, there’s only one option left.”

Sterl said in a low voice, a look of regret flashing across his face, quickly replaced by anger.

Since the Spatial Portal wasn’t reliable, he would simply force his way through the barrier between the different layers of Hell and break in directly!

With a shift of his thoughts, thirty million Hellish souls immediately began to form within Purgatory Space. Without any hesitation, he sent all of them into the Soul Devourer Sphere for refining.

Before long, the thirty million souls vanished, and the Soul Devourer Sphere had accumulated three hundred thousand points of soul power.

“Come on then, let me see how you plan to stop me this time!!”

“Soul Devourer Sphere, fill me up!”

With the command given, all the three hundred thousand points of soul power, just refined in the Sphere, were immediately poured into Sterl’s body.

In the next moment, a powerful, overwhelming force surged from his body, as though it could shatter everything in its path.

“Yes… this is it! This is the power! Unbeatable, indestructible! Nothing can stop me!”

Sterl’s body expanded once again to nine meters in height, his massive form now covered with countless divine markings. Despite not being an actual god, he radiated an aura more potent than even true gods—an aura of immense divinity and nobility.

Unlike the first time he had been infused with soul power, this time Sterl quickly mastered the power.

Although the amount of soul power was slightly less than last time, it was still terrifyingly immense—there was hardly any difference between extremely powerful and incredibly powerful.

Yes, this was Sterl’s plan.

The last time, after the infusion of soul power, he had been able to shatter Hell with a single punch, his senses capable of piercing through multiple layers of Hell at once, uncovering everything in his path. The barriers between different Hell realms had felt like paper.

So, since the usual methods were easily sabotaged by those hidden forces, why not just throw caution to the wind and ramp up the intensity?

If it meant consuming some resources, so be it. He would advance at the fastest speed possible, leaving those damn insects with no chance to resist!

Sensing the terrifying power emanating from Sterl, the Will of Hell felt a sense of dread.

“Here it comes again, that power. Even those monsters won’t be able to block this terrifying force!”

The Will of Hell could hardly contain its shock. Last time, it had been too stunned to truly grasp the intensity of the situation, but this time, Sterl exploded right under its nose, even giving it the distinct feeling that Sterl was targeting it personally!

The first layer of Hell was already incredibly fragile, and it had been devoured by the invaders, leaving only an empty shell. Now, under the impact of Sterl’s presence, it was showing clear signs of imminent collapse.

“Wait for it…”

Sterl growled, then shot into the sky, delivering a single, devastating punch.

The space in front of him collapsed instantly, and the barriers between Hell’s layers were forcibly broken open.

With absolute power, Sterl breezed through fifty layers of Hell, not encountering the slightest resistance!

When he reappeared, he found himself at the fifty-first layer, one that should have been dealt with long ago.

“Didn’t expect this… I’m back!”

Sterl sneered, then expanded his senses, instantly enveloping the entire layer of Hell.

Suddenly, everything in the fifty-first layer of Hell was exposed in his mind.

Then, with a single step, distance seemed to lose all meaning. In an instant, he was hovering above the battlefield.

Over the course of this single day, the attacks on Hell had become significantly stronger. In just a day, even the Legion of Hell, which had been barely able to hold its ground, was mostly destroyed.

At this moment, on the battlefield, Hell’s forces were reduced to only a few million souls and several gods, desperately resisting.

At this rate, in less than half a day, they would be completely annihilated.

Sterl snorted coldly. The Phantom Purgatory activated instantly, pulling the souls of all the invaders into it. He then took another step, covering tens of thousands of miles in an instant, arriving before the core of the invasion.

Before the black light even had time to form, the Phantom Purgatory had already yanked away the invading souls.

He didn’t immediately begin refining them. Instead, he struck again, piercing through several layers of Hell. In less than a second, he had pulled the entire invading force from layers fifty-one to fifty-three, as well as the soul of the core entity, into Purgatory Space.

Immediately after, Sterl began refining them. One second later, aside from the barely alive core entity’s soul, every other invader and the souls of Hellish creatures gathered by the entity had been completely refined, turning into Sterl’s soul puppets.

At this point, only two seconds had passed!

Yet Sterl’s soul power enhancement could last a full ten seconds!

“Keep going!”

“I will make you pay dearly for this!”

He let out a roar like that of a demon god, and with terrifying power, once again shattered the Hellish barriers, advancing to the fifty-fourth layer, then the fifty-fifth, the fifty-sixth…

With his overwhelming strength, the core entities had no chance to resist. Sterl’s speed and efficiency were simply too fast.

Even if they wanted to fight back, it was meaningless in the face of power capable of shattering Hell itself. Not even the core entities’ full force could stand up to it.

By the time ten seconds had passed, Sterl had advanced to the sixtieth layer!

An average of one layer per second—no hesitation whatsoever!

This monstrous speed wasn’t just terrifying to the invaders; even the Will of Hell, who should have been his ally, was shocked. It tried to gather the bestowed blessings and The Authority of Hell to give to Sterl, but found it couldn’t keep up with his pace.

The speed at which it could condense its blessings and authority was slower than Sterl’s advance!

The Will of Hell never imagined it would one day be completely outpaced like this.

“Has the power boost run out?”

Feeling the empty void of the sixtieth layer of Hell, Sterl’s expression remained calm as the power quickly faded away, the familiar sensation of emptiness returning.

However, he didn’t pay much attention to that. Instead, he glanced at the situation within Purgatory Space. Earlier, he had used up two hundred thousand soul power for the accumulation, and just now, he had refined thirty million souls for soul power infusion.

Before his advance, the number of Hellish souls in Purgatory Space was down to around one hundred million. While it seemed like a lot, in reality, it only translated to one million soul power.

Now, however, the number of normal soul puppets in Purgatory Space had grown to a staggering one hundred and eighty million!

The thirty million soul puppets he had consumed had all been replenished, and there was even a surplus of one hundred percent.

But Sterl wasn’t pleased. He had pushed through ten layers of Hell and destroyed over ten core entities, yet had only gained a mere eighty million soul puppets. This was far from normal—almost half of what he should have received!

This meant that if he hadn’t been thrown into the Endless Void, wasting a day, he would have gathered a total of one hundred and sixty million soul puppets by now!

Moreover, the two hundred thousand soul power and thirty million soul puppets shouldn’t have been consumed either.

When he did the math, he realized he had lost at least one hundred and thirty million soul puppets, or one hundred and thirty thousand soul power!

Thinking about it, he felt as if his heart were bleeding.

His hostility toward these mysterious invaders grew stronger, but Sterl seemed to have forgotten that these souls and resources were never truly his—they belonged to Hell.

“Good. I want everything you’ve made me consume to be thrown back out!”

He spoke coldly, his voice dripping with frost. The majority of these souls had been transferred to the eight core layers of Hell. This meant that as long as he advanced through the last eight layers and harvested all the core entities, he would not only recover the lost resources but at least regain most of them!

With this thought, Sterl felt a slight sense of relief. There was no way around it—he was terrified of being poor. His apparent wealth was unmatched, even by the gods, but very little of it was actually useful to him.

He had worked hard to obtain the Soul Devourer Sphere, only to have his soul power stolen—who could endure something like that?

These vile insects must die—every last one of them, without exception!

Without hesitation, Sterl consumed another thirty million soul puppets, refining them into soul power, which he then infused into himself.

The power that had just vanished returned once again, and Sterl became that unstoppable force—the god who could slay gods and destroy Buddha!

With a mighty punch, he broke through to the sixty-first layer, then surged forward with unrelenting speed.

Sixty-second layer… sixty-third layer…

One layer after another of Hell was forcibly liberated, and countless core entities were slain at his hands.

Such massive upheaval naturally drew the attention of the forces behind the core entities, but Sterl’s speed was simply too much for them to handle.

The ordinary insects bred by the core entities couldn’t stop him in the slightest. Even the battle-ready core entities seemed like fragile insects in front of Sterl, killed with a single punch!

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to stop him—it was that they simply had no power to do so!

Another ten seconds passed, and Sterl stood on the ground of the seventieth layer of Hell. He glanced at the two hundred and forty million soul puppets in Purgatory Space, then immediately gathered another thirty million soul puppets, refining them into soul power, and once again extended his power for another ten seconds.

Since he had decided to end this quickly, he had to push all the way through. Otherwise, there would be no point in this approach.

The same method, the same speed, and the same easily crushed resistance.

When the ten-second soul power enhancement ended, the seventy-ninth layer of Hell was effortlessly claimed by Sterl!