Apocalypse: Infinite Breaker Online-Chapter 68: Using Epiphanies

[Update: Levels have been removed from Unique Decks as they don’t hold relevance.]

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[ Dark Blood Infusion ]

Card Quality: Prime 7-star.

Effect:

—> Triple your foundational Constitution. While this card is active, all healing effects from anything and buffs will not restore your vitality.

—> Every 10 Vitality loss increases your Agility by 1.

’What the...’ Axir blinked. He looked at his status.

[Axir Grimspire]

Level: 177

Power Level: 517,387

Vitality: 21,600/21,600

Mana: 9600/9600

<Basic Stats: 0>

Constitution: 720 (+1440)

Agility: 300 (+750)

Perception: 240 (+480)

Arcane: 300 (+660)

’Crazy. And this is perfect for that card I have. Guess I won’t need to give it to anyone else.’

[ Wailing Misery ] 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Card Type: Passive

Card Quality: 5-star

Cost: 10% Mana Capacity Lock

Effect:

—> The lower your vitality, the higher your Arcane.

—> -1% vitality = 1 + (0.1% vitality) Arcane.

Since Dark Blood Infusion increased his Constitution, his vitality would explode in numbers. And this passive card would increase his Arcane accordingly!

Currently, 0.1% of his boosted Vitality was 21. If he lost 50% of his vitality, his Arcane would increase by 1050!

Insane!

Axir’s eyes blazed with resolve. ’Devil Maine. Thanks for all the information. I am now more determined than ever to acquire as much power as possible and become the strongest to enter the ranks of winners.’

Axir deactivated Dark Blood Infusion as his appearance returned to normal.

Axir quickly returned to the house and saw that Mio was asleep, protected within his basic Mana Barrier.

He looked at the time.

12:55

’Two hours more before I log in.’

Axir sat down in the garden.

It was time to check the Epiphanies. One normal that he had just triggered, and another one given to him by Shiva.

[Shivanta Sunborn Artist Deck]

Rank: Unique

Draw: 10 Mana per star of the card.

Epiphany: 2

Inspiration: 0

<Cards: 7/7>

1. Ananta Sunborn Forge | Prime 4-star.

2. Self-Domain: Librated Drift | Prime 4-star.

3. Liberated Forge Protocol | Prime 9-star.

4. Ash Veiled Skin | Prime 7-star.

5. Domain: Sunborn Spark | Prime 5-star.

6. Darkness Eater | Prime 6-star.

7. Sacrificial Sun | Prime 4-star.

First, he checked the normal Epiphany of the card—Ash Veiled Skin | Prime 7-star.

[Ash Veiled Skin]

Type: Passive

Card Quality: Prime 7-star

Effect:

—> All attacks about to reduce your vitality will forcibly go through damage reduction upon impact. Damage Reduction = 100 damage reduction per 1 Arcane.

—> Your vitality cannot reduce below 20% per one second in any situation.

This was overpowered.

And he had just gotten the Epiphany of this card.

Option 1.

[Ash Veiled Skin (Destruction)]

—> Your vitality cannot reduce below 10% per second in any situation.

—> Gain 100% damage boost for one attack every time you take a hit. This attack ignores defenses. If you don’t attack, the boost stacks up to 10, resulting in a 1000% damage boost.

’Simple and powerful.’ Axir’s eyes glinted. This Epiphany boosted his damage reduction and gave him defense-ignoring damage.

Option 2.

[Ash Veiled Skin (Blazing Blood)]

—> When you take damage, enter Blazing Blood state for 5 seconds. The longer you stay in the state, the higher the boost from the Blazing Blood state.

—> Blazing Blood: -1% vitality, +50% Attack Speed, +50% Move Speed, +50% damage boost every 3 seconds. Up to 100 stacks. Upon reaching 100 stacks, all stacks reset after 1 minute.

’Interesting. This has a much higher ceiling, but I would need preparation of 5 minutes to maximize it.’

If he maximized it, he would gain +5000% Attack Speed, +5000% Move Speed, and +5000% damage boost! This would last for one minute before resetting.

But in that one minute, he would become unstoppable!

’This is good.’ Axir was tempted to pick it, but not before checking the last option.

Option 3.

[Ash Veiled Skin (Rebirth)]

—> Once your vitality drops below 20%, it is locked at 20% for 5 seconds. After 5 seconds, recover 50% of vitality.

—> If your vitality is forcibly reduced below 10%, you will recover 100% of your vitality instantly. (1 minute cooldown)

Axir blinked.

It was a good option, especially outside the game, to save his life.

Axir made his choice.

He picked... Ash Veiled Skin (Blazing Blood)!

The card became a Prime 10-star from a Prime 7-star!

’I’m going to instant-kill the level 500 boss with this.’ Axir grinned.

Next, it was time to use the Divine Epiphany, which he could apply to any card.

’Which card should I choose...’ Axir checked his unevolved cards of the unique deck.

The options were all cards of his Shivanta Sunborn Artist deck, except for Ash Veiled Skin, which had just evolved.

[Domain: Sunborn Spark]

Card Quality: Prime 5-star.

Effect:

—> Upon activating the card, it creates a 1000-meter to 10,000 meters radius domain around you, within which the potency of all fire-related effects from you and your perceived allies is increased by 1000%.

’Hmm... this card can insanely boost all Flame Core effects of my weapons. And it’s a domain, so...’

Axir decided. He would use the Divine Epiphany on this card.

[Please select your option.]

Divine Option 1.

[Domain: Sunborn Spark (Mahakaal)]

—> Within the domain, all beings you perceive as enemies will have their thoughts and actions lag by 0.5 seconds.

—> If you are faster than the enemy, the time lag imposed is increased, up to 1 second.

’Holy...’ Axir’s eyes shone. This was utterly crazy!

’Mahakaal... It’s another title of Shiva, meaning Lord of Time. Damn, I got a crazy divine epiphany.’

A 0.5-second lag might as well be eternal in fights between upper-level beings!

It could decide life and death instantly.

And with the boost of Move Speed, Attack Speed, and Damage from Ash Veiled Skin (Blazing Blood), he would become literally unkillable and all-destroying!

Axir looked at the other options. There were a total of two Divine Options and one normal option.

But he didn’t even need to think to decide.

Domain: Sunborn Spark (Mahakaal) was the best option!

He picked it, and the card transformed.

Domain: Sunborn Spark (Mahakaal) | Prime 10-star.

It became a Prime 10-star card!

Axir stood up.

And then sat down again.

He wanted to fight, but there were no opponents here for him.

Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself.

’Two hours. Be patient and gather your strength.’

Axir decided to make some changes in his Ananta Sunborn Forge.

’I don’t want Volstring Warbow and... Novasun Halberd. Blinding won’t work on advanced enemies.’

He destroyed both of those weapons.

But their Flame Cores were registered, so among the temporary random weapons he would generate using the card Liberated Forge Protocol, there would be Flame Cores of those two weapons.

’Let’s see.’

One Pole Weapon slot and one Hybrid Weapon slot.

After generating new weapons, he decided to rest.

...

Two hours passed by in the blink of an eye.

Axir’s eyes opened as he felt Aunt Kira’s presence in the mansion.

[Aunt Kira: I am back on time. You can log in now.]

[Axir: Alright. See you later.]

Axir vanished as he logged in.

As much as he wanted to go straight to farming monsters and reach level 500 today as fast as possible, which was the first major ceiling, it was also important to enact his revenge and start ruining Jason’s life.

[Axir: Selena, meet me at Suryax Kingdom Plaza. We are flying to an important place, and I have a gift for you.]

[Selena: You’re finally here. Alright. I’ll be there in a minute. Just going to kill this monster.]

After sending the message to Selena, Axir sent a message to Aoi.

[Axir: It’s time. Get the group to the puzzle area. I’ll send you my location after a minute.]