Chapter 366: Potential (2)

Kim Minwoo checked the buff duration time floating small at the top of his status window.

[Physical Potential Liberation: Remaining time 8 minutes 12 seconds]

The time he could maintain the senses of a Necromancy genius, who might or might not appear once in hundreds of years, was now less than an hour.

When the time ended, the terrible restriction of -999 would strike his body again, and the genius senses would scatter like fog.

If it were an ordinary Awakened, they would have put on a desperate show trying to create even one more skill during this short time.

‘Cases where an SSS-rank pops out in a single shot are a bit rare.’

It was the same for geniuses like Seo Yerim or Park Siwoo.

Normally, it was a relief if an SS-rank or S-rank skill was created.

SSS-rank was a skill grade that could not be seen easily unless one luckily gained inspiration and their luck exploded.

‘Since I created one, I've extracted the value for now.’

Skill creation?

It was good of course, but eventually, as time passed and the restriction was applied again, it would become difficult to handle those skills 100% perfectly with a genius's senses.

If so, what was the most perfect answer. It was to solidify this temporary genius into a permanent spec.

“Open the shop window.”

[Diamond Grade Product List]

[11. Mythical Grade Equipment Random Draw Ticket (Required Achievement Points: 20,000 points)]

[12. SSS-rank Bound Skill Book (Required Achievement Points: 30,000 points)]

[13. Large Fragment of Divinity (Required Achievement Points: 50,000 points)]

[14. ????]

……[Currently Held Achievement Points: 78,800 points]

Kim Minwoo's gaze was fixed on the most expensive 50,000-point item, [Large Fragment of Divinity].

Divinity.

Literally a fragment that forms the status of a god.

Reflecting on his experience as stagnant water in the past, the vessel was important for such a transcendent fortuitous encounter.

Because if the talent and potential of the one absorbing it were trash, no matter how good an item they ate, they would catch indigestion or it would degrade into a half-baked ability.

‘Elixirs were representatively like that.’

The elixirs eaten with the talentless Kim Minwoo's body often failed to exert their full roles, as if catching indigestion.

Thanks to that, he had to chew and swallow two or three to obtain the stats that others would gain by eating one.

If he was really unlucky, it could even be ten.

But now?

‘My talent on the Necromancy side is currently in the state of a universe-class genius officially certified by the system.’

The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth curled up viciously.

On top of that, the divinity was a death attribute very closely related to Necromancy.

‘Then if I smash the divinity in, in this state? Wouldn't the absorption efficiency surpass 100% and just inflate like crazy?’

He poured the most massive water when the genius's vessel was wide open.

Kim Minwoo pressed the purchase button without hesitation.

Ttiring―!

[Consumes 50,000 achievement points!]

[Purchased 1 Large Fragment of Divinity!]

A brilliantly shining golden fragment dropped down from the empty air.

Kim Minwoo grabbed the fragment without hesitation and pushed it into the vicinity of his heart.

Paaaaat―!

At that moment, the entire office was engulfed in a blinding flash that seemed like it would burst out.

[The fragment of divinity fuses with your body!]

[The divinity of death you possess greedily swallows the pure fragment!]

[Currently, your Necromancy potential has reached a transcendent figure!]

[Genius senses pull the fusion efficiency of the death attribute divinity above its limit!]

[The condensed divinity of death resonates intensely with the skill you just created, Conductor of Death (SSS)!]

“Let's gooo!!”

[A fusion exceeding the system's expectations occurs!]

[The skill Conductor of Death (SSS) swallows the divinity and evolves into the realm of authority!]

[A new authority, Maestro of the Underworld (EX), is unlocked!]

“……Kuhahahak!”

Kim Minwoo burst into laughter like crazy.

His expectation hit the mark perfectly.

When he stuffed in a mere 50,000-point fragment in a universe-class genius state, the SSS-rank skill absorbed the divinity and instantly evolved into an authority approaching the EX-rank!

It was truly a historical great success of stagnant water, perfectly breaking the system's rules and sucking up the profits.

However, it was before he could even fully enjoy the lingering joy.

Ureureureureung―!

Suddenly, the system window floating in the empty air itself began to fluctuate while blinking blood-red warning lights.

[Warning! Causality is severely twisted!]

[Due to the abnormal growth and authority unlocking of a single entity, an inflection point that will have a massive impact on the world line has occurred!]

[The system's balance protection protocol is activated!]

Ttiring!

[Gold Grade Product List: The sale of the Physical Potential Amplification Potion is permanently suspended. (Status: Sold Out)]

“……Huh?”

Along with the blood-red alarm, the Gold shop's list was forcibly updated. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

A pitch-black line was drawn across the Physical Potential Amplification Potion item that had been selling for the price of gum, 1,200 points, and the words [Sold Out] were clearly stamped next to it.

Kim Minwoo let out a hollow laugh as if he was dumbfounded seeing that sight.

“You're blocking it now? This bastard system, is truly as petty as can be.”

It was a situation where it closed the shutters in a sudden fright only after he sucked a mere 1,200-point doping potion, created an SSS-rank skill, and on top of that, swallowed a fragment of divinity to evolve it into an EX-rank authority.

“Well, it doesn't matter. I already got my money's worth.”

Kim Minwoo shrugged his shoulders without lingering attachment.

Because if he invested 1,200 points and extracted an EX-rank authority that would smash the system's balance, he had already sucked out all the possible value down to the bone.

It was a perfect surplus business with nothing left to be desired.

Furthermore…….

Kim Minwoo's gaze headed toward the buff icon still flashing at the top of his status window.

[Physical Potential Liberation: Remaining time 5 minutes 12 seconds]

“Only buying a new one in the future is blocked, the currently applied potion effect isn't forcibly turned off, is it?”

The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth once again drew a vicious arc.

The system was flustered and took follow-up measures, but the universe-class Necromancy genius buff wrapping Kim Minwoo's body was still briskly alive for a little over 5 minutes.

5 minutes is more than enough time to boil and eat a cup ramen.

“Before that…….”

He had to first check just how crazy an item the EX-rank authority that evolved from chewing and swallowing 50,000 points worth of a divinity fragment whole was.

Kim Minwoo pulled up his skill window with a face swollen with anticipation.

Ttiring!

[Maestro of the Underworld (EX)]

[An authority of a god born through the intervention of the divinity of death, which can only be handled by one who has reached the end of Necromancy. The legion of the underworld now plays a perfect symphony of destruction at your fingertips.]

[Effect 1. Absolute Resonance: The conductor (Master) and the legion are perfectly connected on a soul level. Can grant the conductor's divinity to the Legion Commanders without limit to temporarily elevate them into proxies of a god, or conversely, concentrate the mana and life force of a legion of hundreds of thousands into the single conductor with 100% efficiency.]

[Effect 2. Orchestra of Death: While the conducting continues, all attacks of the legion fuse into a single massive disaster. The more entities that resonate, the power is amplified infinitely, ignoring physical limits.]

[Effect 3. Finale ― Encore: Just once, with the conductor's authority, instantly resurrects the entire annihilated legion to 100% condition without mana consumption, and grants an immortal state for 10 minutes as long as the caster does not die. (Cooldown: 30 days)]

“Wow…….”

During his days with the SSS-rank Conductor of Death, precise control and power inflation were about the end of it.

However, when it ate divinity and evolved into EX-rank, the scale itself changed.

‘It concentrates the mana and life force of the legion into me with 100% efficiency?’

That meant if he summoned 100,000 skeletons and then concentrated their power into himself, Kim Minwoo himself would become a walking raid boss with the durability and mana of 100,000 people.

On top of that, what about effect number 3, Encore.

Not only did it resurrect the entire legion at no cost, it made them invincible for 10 minutes.

It meant that even if the grandfather of an Outer God came, as long as he himself didn't die, they would have to get ganged up on by a swarm of skeletons that received an invincibility judgment for 10 minutes.

‘If the power of Descent is even mixed in here…….’

That power would transcend imagination.

Going beyond simply his durability getting tougher, a flawless one-man legion wrapping his main body—which had absorbed the mana and life force of the undead—with an invincibility judgment, and indiscriminately firing damage transfer and wide-area destruction skills.

He even felt a bizarre certainty that even if the main body of an Outer God descended right now, he would never be helplessly pushed back.

“Hahahak! I really finished this spec-up splendidly.”

Kim Minwoo clenched his fist tightly.

The destructive power flowing through his blood vessels.

His hands were itching to the point where he wanted to go somewhere and explode this overwhelming feeling of omnipotence right away.

‘Just in time, perfectly good sandbags are waiting.’

Kim Minwoo's gaze headed toward the empty air.

The place that came to his mind was exactly the Heavenly City.

Hadn't he recently been crowned as the divine entity of District 1, obtained a free entry pass to the Heavenly City, and perfectly turned the tide by sweeping the lower districts?

‘Now the next target is District 5.’

There, higher existences useful for the Legion Commanders' soul devouring, including the divinity crystals that would raise his divinity, were scattered about.

Especially Yoo Honbi, the big shot of the Demonic Cult coiling in the upper district.

When he sliced away the Demonic Cult dispatch team and Lee Seokjun in the past, she was the super powerhouse he intuited he would inevitably clash with someday.

If it were in the past, she would have been a formidable enemy he would have had to agonize over for a long time even with thorough preparations, but it was different now.

The word fear did not suit his current self, who had unlocked an EX-rank authority and physically smashed even the rules of the system.

“Yoo Honbi? With my current self, she's merely a very excellent prey for soul devouring.”

All spec-ups were perfectly finished.

Now it was time to extract the value while ruthlessly showing off those vicious specs.

Kim Minwoo smiled beamingly and pulled out the Heavenly City Free Entry Pass from his inventory.

“Shall I slowly go up. To District 5.”

Paaaaat―!

Kim Minwoo's form scattered smoothly from the office along with a blinding cluster of light.

The eve of the storm.

It was the moment the overwhelming march of disaster toward District 5 of the Heavenly City began.