NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 173: Next stage already?!
Tarish and the 6th stage Saviors were gobsmacked. They covered their mouths in shock.
As unbelievable as it sounded, Atlan was advancing to the next stage of the Student realm at this very second! They wouldn't mistake that glow for anything else.
If there was a word that transcended a genius, then even that wouldn't be enough to describe Atlan in his current state.
After all, it hadn't even been a month since he was drafted into Genesis City and he was already consolidating his power realm to the 3rd stage of the Student realm!
It took him one week to go from 1st to 2nd. Now, it took him another week to go from 2nd to 3rd!
That was insanely fast.
Tarish and the others finally understood why there were a lot of skeptics who didn't believe all of Atlan's feats.
It would have been more believable if Atlan performed a mission every day during those two weeks. But he didn't! He only had two missions during those times!
And even though both of those trips to the Remedium ended up having an anomaly happen, it was still unbelievable to think that he was deemed critical to the completion of the mission by the Genesis God Himself. He wouldn't have given Atlan that much experience if that wasn't true.
But when they considered the facts, it wasn't all that absurd to think about. After all, he participated in this 6th stage Student difficulty mission while only being in the 2nd stage.
He proved crucial in killing off the Ifrits. If he hadn't used his Physique LifeSkill to prevent the Ifrit clones from destroying the construct, then they wouldn't have completed the mission in the first place.
And if Tarish considered the thought that Atlan killed the Sapient Infection Canzers by himself, then it made even more sense. Of course, she quickly removed the thought from her brain because Atlan had no way of disabling their cloning ability.
What she didn't know was that Atlan didn't need an Operator construct at all. He only needed to activate the Angel Power in his bloodline and use the even greater Angel LifeSkill in his repertoire.
It was a proven weakness of any Canzer.
But of course, if Atlan hadn't found the 'root' of the Sapient Infection Canzers, then he wouldn't have been able to kill all of them completely.
His Cherubic Retribution could kill a clone and prevent it from multiplying itself in its death, but he'd need to activate it a couple of thousands of times to completely eradicate the Canzers.
If he didn't think of Geminus' words at that very moment, then he wouldn't have been able to completely kill the Sapient Canzers at all.
Their cloning ability reminded him of the Ballistic Lotus, which also had the ability to spawn multiple clones after its death.
According to Geminus, the way to defeat those kinds of opponents was to find their 'root' and destroy it.
Coincidentally, Atlan saw their 'root' buried deep underground and protected by a large group of clones. He just needed to lock onto it with his Cherubic Retribution LifeSkill and completely eradicate the clones in one go.
"Atlan…congratulations. You are now just days away from becoming a 3rd stage Student."
Tarish walked up to Atlan and congratulated him. After their initial shock, the rest of her team also came to shake Atlan's hands for his amazing achievement.
"You were blessed by the Genesis God!"
"Even He considers you as a Star Porter!"
Atlan smiled and thanked them for their congratulations, but he didn't dispel their assumptions.
They thought that it was the Genesis God who gave him the experience needed to advance to the next stage. That wasn't true.
Atlan had 103,911.2 experience points in his Soul System just waiting to fill up his LifeSkill planets. He wasn't lacking in experience. He just needed time to consolidate his LifeSkills.
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The only reason why he wasn't able to advance his Physique LifeSkill as opposed to his other LifeSkills was because it had a mysterious job attached to it.
[LifeSkills]
Specialty: GLOBAL
—God: (SSS) Grim Reaper Physique
According to his experience, he would only be able to advance this LifeSkill if another God blessed him with experience.
Even though it was filled up with blue wisps of experience, it wouldn't consolidate into a solid layer in his LifeSkill planet.
But only after he got rewarded by the God again, did it finally consolidate into a solid layer.
[LifeSkills]
Specialty: GLOBAL
—God: (SSS) Grim Reaper Physique
——— Consolidating to 3rd stage
——— 47 hrs : 59 mins : 40 s
The bright white glow in his body slowly subsided.
Now that he finally had the time to evaluate his rewards, he looked at what he reaped from killing the Sapient Infection Canzer.
[You have killed a complex creature]
[You have reaped the death of a Sapient Infection Canzer]
[Due to your trait, you have multiplied your rewards by 10]
[You have gained 50,000 experience]
[You have gained 110 F class Mage LifeSkill Spiked Chitin fragments]
[You have gained 120 (1-star) Sapient Canzer Genus]
While the others were celebrating the rewards given to them by the Genesis God, Atlan visited his Soul System and immediately merged all of his new fragments and Genus and used it to upgrade his current powers.
He used up 128 F class Spiked Chitin fragments to upgrade his current Mage LifeSkill: Exploding Thorns of Chitinous Webs.
Since his LifeSkill was merged from the Spiked Chitin LifeSkill, he was able to use its fragments to upgrade his current one.
He didn't know how his LifeSkill would be upgraded, but he guessed that it would lean more towards being a mage LifeSkill with a power made up of Chitin.
Maybe the webs will be as hard as chitin. Or maybe the spikes will get even sharper.
Although it took a total of 301,000 Upgrade points, Atlan found it worth it since his Mage LifeSkill would now become another SR class LifeSkill.
With how useful his Thermal Vision became after becoming an SR class, he was sure that his Mage LifeSkill would also experience a tremendous bump in power.
—Mage: (SR) Bane of Infections: Exploding Chitinous Webs
——— Consolidating the 5th stage
———— 4x F class fragments