"How many batches have there been? Wait! She''s already fighting Canzers at the 3rd stage Student difficulty when she''s only at the 2nd stage?"
The swarm of monstersing her way was designed only for those in the 3rd stage Student Realm. She wasn''t supposed to be able to stand a chance against these!
A one-stage difference in the Canzer''s difficulty was a chasm that almost none of the other Saviors could surpass.
Yet she was able to do it.
The fact that she was still able to survive was impressive enough, but the fact that she was still striving on without quitting meant that she was trying to go to the next batch.
She wanted to try and reach the 4th stage difficulty!
Unfortunately, the difference in the Canzer''s hard shells and her thrusting prowess was too hard to ovee.
Not to mention the Canzers getting smarter as the other monsters learned from the deaths of theirrades, she was getting too overwhelmed.
Her graceful movements turned sloppy and forced as she tried to exert more power. This led to gaps in her sword stances that the Canzers were able to exploit.
The weaknesses in DPS were seen in her battle. She might be good at dealing tons of damage to one enemy, but she''s vulnerable to a swarm of theming her way.
She tried as hard as she could, but she still fell short of defeating the final batch of monsters that came her way. She wasn''t able to even touch the feet of the 4th stage Student difficulty.
"I…lost…"
She knelt on the street, devastated at herck of power.
But for the rest of the spectators and thepetitors who knew how difficult the feat she showed, they all pped at her with amazement.
She truly showed the difference in having an S ss LifeSkill. She was able to defeat Canzers a whole stage above her strength!
But that wasn''t enough for her.
As soon as she heard that there was another beginner who was able to beat Saviors two stages higher than his own, she vowed to break his record.
Unfortunately, she underestimated the difficulty in doing that.
"Why are you so down? You won!" Znd went over to Yasmine andforted her.
"But I didn''t get to the 4th stage…" she muttered.
Znd looked back at An and realized that she waspeting with him. He underestimated howpetitive she was.
"Haaa," he sighed. "You kids are so impatient. Don''t worry. You''ll get your chance to outshine him some other time. You''re an S ss talent, you''ll get better much faster and much further."
Meanwhile, An looked at his Soul System and saw his new advancement.
[An]
[Bloodline: Angelic Reaper of Souls]
[Genus]
—1x (3-star) Human
—1x (10-star) Grim Reaper
—1x (10-star) Angel
[Mutation]
— (10-star) Gluttonous Soul
— (10-star) Lightspeed Angel Wings
[LifeSkills]
Specialty: GLOBAL
—God: (SSS) Grim Reaper Physique
———1st stage Student Realm
————(1000 / 1000)
Specialty: Vanguard
—DPS: (SSS) Cherubic Retribution
———2nd stage Student Realm
————(0 / 2000)
[Avable Experience: 12,131.2]
An saw the in his Soul System that corresponded to his Cherubic Retribution LifeSkill.
The blue wisps that gathered at the very core of the were nowpletely solid. It had stabilized into a firm and well-grounded foundation for his LifeSkill.
Inparison, his Physique LifeSkill was still filled with vibrating wisps, with no sign of it ever congealing into one solid piece.
He also noticed that he could advance his Vanguard LifeSkill to the 3rd stage of the Student Realm immediately.
I have enough experience, so why not?
He gained a total of 4000 extra experience just from reaping the deaths of the Pseudo Canzers in thepetition.
With just a thought, he was able tomand 2000 wisps by the side of his Soul System and flood the secondyer of the until it couldn''t take any more wisps.
An invisible barrier prevented the wisps from overpopting the secondyer.
And as soon as the core filled up, another set of words popped up in front of him.
[You have sessfully advanced through the 2nd Stage Student Realm of your SSS ss LifeSkill Cherubic Retribution]
[Consolidation period: 47 hrs: 59 mins: 50secs]
An only had to wait for 2 days until he fully consolidated his power to the 3rd stage Student Realm.
If anyone found out that he was advancing through the stages like this, they would lose their minds and curse the gods for their unfairness.
An''s way of getting experience by just reaping the souls of the dead was nothing more than an overpowered cheat.
As amazing as it sounded, An didn''t like that he had to see the death and suffering of a lot of living beings just to get stronger.
Just as he said that, he suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye.
It was a little twitch, a very minute movement from one of the Pseudo Canzers thaty frozen on the streets. One of its thin cockroach legs moved by a quarter inch.
He didn''t know if it was because of his enhanced physique or because of his attentiveness, but he saw it as clear as day.
"Okay, this week''spetition is over and I think we saw two of the best performances ever. And it was done by two beginners at that! Let''s give them a round of apuse!"
Znd faced all the Saviors in the Remedium and started pping, and all of them followed in turn.
All of them were rejoicing for the recruits. They were more than happy to wee these overwhelming transcendent talents in their midst, especially a capable Porter like An.
CLAP CLAP CLAP
An secretly turned towards Neumann and whispered to him.
"What happens to those monsters?"
When the contestants couldn''t handle the monsters anymore, they quit thepetition, and the monsters were forced to stay still through some sort of invisible mechanism.
"Oh, are you talking about the twitching? Those Canzers are still alive, but they are being forced by the Remedium itself to stay locked in ce."
"What happens to them?"
"They stay there till they die. Don''t worry about them. They won''t be able to move again. They''ll rot in ce."
An looked at the frozen Canzers and felt…pity. Those poor monsters were suffering.
He didn''t like suffering. He didn''t like blood. He was a pacifist.
I need to kill them, he thought.