Chapter 168: Three days, the Middle-Expanse Cluster! Bypassing Exhaustion through faction

After a while, Sylvia finally let go of Caelus.

"Are you done?" Caelus asked speechlessly.

Sylvia was being extra greedy today.

Sylvia didn’t listen to any of that. After the small kissing session, she began kissing all over his face.

"Hey, I’ve probably been out for a while. At least let me take a shower," Caelus said speechlessly.

"I used Cleanse on you daily," Sylvia said with a smile. "You don’t need a shower."

"Oh." Caelus nodded in understanding, hearing this.

In the end, Sylvia stopped after a few minutes, once she was satisfied.

"Never fall asleep again," Sylvia said with a cute pout. "It felt strange, not kissing you for 3 days straight."

"It’s already been three days?" Caelus was surprised.

But on the other hand, it was not that bad.

The fact he recovered so quickly meant something.

He checked his status window.

[Name: Caelus Kross]

[Faction: Chaos]

[Level: 7 (0/1,400)]

[Race: Chaos Perception Dragon - Chaos Ring]

[Lifespan: 135 Years]

[Class: Ender Of Origin, Hollow Inferno Controller]

[Profession: Blacksmith (Tier 3: Silver II) (25,000/25,000 EXP) (Capped), Engineer (Tier 2: Bronze II) (5,000/25,000 EXP), Dungeon Master (Tier 3: Silver II) (25,000/25,000 EXP) (Capped), Miner (Tier 3: Silver I) (13,000/25,000 EXP), Artificer (Tier 1: Iron II) (0/25,000 EXP)]

[Aspect: Chaos Perception Eyes (Mythical, 3-Star), Soul-Rending Jaw (Rare, 3-Star), Chaos Dragon Brain Matrix (Mythical, 3-Star), Chaos Fractal Wing (Mythical, 3-Star), Chaos Dragon Body (Mythical, 3-Star)]

[Talent: Endless Extraction (SSS-Rank), Divine Duplication (Lower S-Rank), Elemental King (Lower S-Rank), Projection Frame (Upper A-Rank), Mage (Upper A-Rank), Silk Thread (Upper A-Rank), Blacksmith Forgery (Lower A-Rank), Hollow Sun Authority (Lower A-Rank), Abyssal Tether Domain (Upper B-Rank), Tremor Authority (Middle B-Rank), Laser Manipulation (Lower B-Rank), Matter Assimilation (C-Rank), Dual Wielding (C-Rank), Dexterity (C-Rank), Weapon Light Barrage (D-Rank), Charge (D-Rank), Camouflage (D-Rank), Poison Application (E-Rank)]

[Traits: Telekinesis (Epic, 3-Star), Mental Requiem (Rare, 3-Star), Fighting Spirit Projection (Epic, 3-Star), Holy Ignition (Mythical, 3-Star), Silver Tongue (Rare, 3-Star), Turn Stone into Gold (Mythical, 3-Star), Divine Essence (Mythical, 3-Star), Earth Bending (Rare, 3-Star), Sword Energy (Mythical, 3-Star), Temporal Reset (Mythical, 3-Star), Holy Cleanse (Mythical, 3-Star).]

[Fighting Spirit: Ancient Dragon God (Upper SS-Rank)]

[Halo: Divine Halo (Mythical, 3-Star)]

[MOD: Frost Monarch]

[HP: 270/270 (Recovery: 5/min)]

[CA: 260/260]

[Mind: 360/360]

[Aura: 40/40 (Recovery: 5/min)]

[Aura Rank: Tier 15 (0/100)]

[Rank: Silver II]

[Level: 1 (0/200)]

[Combat Score: 87.49 (Gold II)]

[Affinity: D-Rank]

[Origin Credits: 1,083,293]

[Reputation: 1,575]

[Title: Rookie God (Passive Skill), King of Origin Kingdom, Harvester (Rare), Player Killer (Epic)]

[Skill: Blood Manipulation (Common, 3-Star), Lightning Singularity (Legendary, 3-Star), Lightning Trail (Common, 3-Star), Tremor (Rare, 3-Star), Thunderclap (Rare, 3-Star), Stream (Epic), Laser Shot (Rare, 3-Star), Point-Defense Grid (Epic, 3-Star), Aura Density, Glacial Prison (Epic, 3-Star), Icicle Spear Impalement (Epic, 3-Star), Divine Calculation (Legendary, 3-Star), Spell Creation (Mythical, 3-Star), Ender’s Will.]

[Spells: Jirasad (Rare, 3-Star), Iris (Rare, 3-Star), Refla (Rare, 3-Star), Volcra (Mythical, 3-Star), Tecta (Epic, 3-Star), Xera (Epic, 3-Star), Ferra (Epic, 3-Star)]

[Class Skills: Ender Passives (???,???), Hollow Inferno Tornado (Epic, 3-Star), Origin Reflection (Mythical, 3-Star), Inferno Point (Epic, 3-Star), Origin Lock (Mythical, 3-Star)]

[Profession Skills: Rainbow Light Forge (Tier 3: Silver II), Herb Gatherer (Tier 1: Iron I), Flash Patterning (Tier 2: Bronze II), Golden Miner (Tier 3: Silver II), Apex Forging (Tier 3: Silver II), Refining (Tier 1: Iron I)]

He seldom checked his stats, but there were huge improvements. For starters, his faction level was 7, and his lifespan increased by 5 when his aura rank reached tier 15. His profession levels increased, and he also had the Miner and Refiner professions in the tab now.

Then there were his aspects. He hadn’t gotten a new one in a while, just his fractal wing and chaos dragon body. The talents were still the same, very hard to look at. But he planned on merging more talents.

Traits were still the same with the addition of temporal reset and holy cleanse.

Mod changed to Frost Monarch.

His HP increased from 265 to 270 with reaching Silver II, and so did his CA and Mind. His CA was at 260 and his Mind power at 360 thanks to him extracting more from the mindfolk.

His rank was Silver II, level 1 with his combat score glowing with a silver color, and his origin credits and reputation points were at a huge amount.

His titles remained the same. His Myriad Moves of the Heavenly Sword and Water Dragon Soaring the Heaven were locked behind a rank lock. But he swiftly used his skill evolution cards; he had 33 of them after all, with one being a mythical one, and the 32 others which he could use for any tier.

He swiftly bought back the lost skills. Then there were his spells: Tecta, Xera, and Ferra in the spell tab. His class skills also now showed Origin Lock.

This time around, his inferno controller didn’t grant him a skill. It wasn’t that powerful of a class, after all.

There were also his profession skills. The refining skill and apex forging were there.

Satisfied with the status window, he checked out his challenge domain rewards: a level-up card, 500 reputation points, 1,000,000 origin credits, a soul contract, and a flying ship.

Soul contract. This one could be used on humans as well to make them do their bidding. The item flying ship on the other hand was interesting.

[Flying Ship (Mythical, 3-Star): A powerful artifact that can help you travel the domain space.]

"The domain space? What’s that?" Caelus was confused.

Hearing this, Sylvia spoke up.

"About that," Sylvia said. "The domain has been closed for 3 days now."

"What?" Caelus was stunned. "Why?"

"It’s going through a merge."

"A merge?" Caelus blinked.

"Yes. We are merging with the middle-expanse domain space, a cluster as it called it and it is said to soon merge with another middle-expanse planet, one that will neighbor ours in real life."

Caelus blinked, taken aback.

Only 3 days have passed and things had taken drastic changes, hadn’t they?

This was surprising.

"Alright. Sylvia. I think this is something very serious. You should have said this first," Caelus replied with twitching lips.

"I wanted to kiss you first," Sylvia said with a cute blink.

Caelus sighed.

"Looks like things are changing up."

Sylvia nodded.

"Your divine equivalent exchange should be out of cooldown, right?"

Sylvia nodded. It was indeed out of cooldown, and so was Caelus’s chaos dragon body.

A few days had passed and its cooldown had reset. Practicing aura and reaching tier 15 helped immensely with that.

"Good." Caelus nodded as he stood up. "I have something on my mind."

Caelus grinned.

The thing on his mind was the benefit he had thought of.

He got inspiration for this benefit after getting exhausted from Ender’s Will.

That was to make a benefit that allowed him to skip past all cooldowns and all exhaustion!

He opened up the gacha wheel.

It was time to splurge his 1,575 reputation points for benefit creation!

He began rolling, and surprisingly, it landed on a restricted benefit creator at the beginning.

"Yes!" Caelus celebrated.

Gacha is fun!

This restricted benefit creator had a limit of 5,000 reputation points.

But he was sure it would work within that.

[Benefit: Whenever you level up, your exhaustion and cooldowns are removed.]

[Ding! Authorization error. This benefit cannot be added.]

Caelus clicked his tongue. Maybe per level was too much.

He tried with ranks instead.

[Benefit: Whenever you rank up, your exhaustion and cooldowns are removed. This benefit can only be used by certain individuals of the faction that the faction leader allows.]

[Ding! Authorization Successful! This benefit can be used.]

Caelus smiled. He immediately made it a benefit, but only for him and Sylvia, and others he could give access to.

It was good overall.

"This is smart," Sylvia said with a smile.

The one thing they lacked was ascension tokens. Hence, ranking up to restore all cooldowns and exhaustion was definitely a good deal.

"Now, use your divine equivalent exchange on me. Take the dual wielding talent."

Sylvia nodded. She swiftly took his dual wielding.

And immediately, she went into a 1-day cooldown.

"Oh? It’s only 1 day?" Caelus nodded.

"Then, we can wait for the next day." Caelus nodded.

Sylvia was also fine with this. If it was just 1 day, then wouldn’t it be better to wait a day to ascend to Silver III? They had the level-up card and also the ascension tokens needed for it. Hence, as long as it wasn’t an emergency, they could wait.

He wanted to now check out the item they painstakingly got.

But before that, he opened up the store for the faction.

Since he had 1,000 reputation points, he could unlock the second part of the faction.

And something caught his eye. It was a gacha wheel.

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A/N: A lot of readers been complaining about not seeing status windows. So I added it in this Chapter. It’s either this or I show only the specific part of the window when the main character gets something. For example, if he gets a skill, only the skill window will be displayed and such.