Ascension Through Skills-Chapter 478: 90th Floor. The Wizard (4)

The wizard waited leisurely.

Taesan was no longer in the labyrinth.

He had gone to meet Haphran, and together they had disappeared somewhere.

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It was likely that they had traveled to Haphran’s ruined world. What they were doing there, the wizard couldn’t discern unless he went there himself.

“What will he accomplish?”

The wizard felt an anticipation he hadn’t experienced in a long time—a curiosity about the unknown.

A day passed, then another, and finally, a week went by.

At last, Taesan reappeared in the labyrinth with Haphran.

Taesan immediately descended through the labyrinth. The wizard waited quietly, and it wasn’t long before Taesan appeared before him.

The wizard smiled.

The Taesan who had returned was different from the one who had left.

The power within him had settled, calm and subdued. All of Taesan’s energies were now under perfect control, completely contained within him.

“How do you feel?”

“Not bad.”

Taesan looked at the wizard.

“You wanted me to figure this out on my own, didn’t you?”

“I don’t understand you.”

The wizard spoke calmly.

“Not just me, but other transcendents don’t understand you either. Perhaps the Old Gods know something, but they would never deign to answer. In the end, you’ll have to forge your own path.”

A realm unlike any other. A realm that belonged solely to Taesan.

“You need to understand yourself. This was a quest for that purpose. Judging by the results, it seems you’ve made some progress.”

“It’s not at the level you might have hoped, but I’m satisfied enough.”

Taesan had realized that he had been twisted from the very beginning.

This revelation was a significant step toward understanding his essence.

At that moment, something within Taesan had shifted.

The most noticeable change was in his mastery and understanding of both the black energy and the Boundary Line.

With his newfound insight, Taesan was now capable of feats previously impossible.

He opened his inventory. The wizard’s face lit up with surprise.

“That’s...”

In Taesan’s hands were two items: Crystallized Divine Blood and a Drop of the Worldbreaker’s Blood.

“They’ve been refined.”

The two materials were stable, maintaining their forms. Taesan didn’t possess the abilities of a blacksmith, which left only one possibility.

“Haphran must have gone through quite an ordeal?”

“He did enough.”

Although Haphran had used Taesan as a tool, both materials were far beyond Haphran’s level. By the time the refining was complete, Haphran was nearly dead from exhaustion.

Yet his eyes had shone brighter than ever, filled with satisfaction at handling something beyond his own ability. Afterward, he had gone to take a well-deserved rest.

The wizard grinned as he asked, “So, what are you planning to do with those? Make equipment? Use them as material for wristguards?”

Taesan shook his head at the wizard’s eager question.

He didn’t intend to use them in such a simple manner.

Crystallized Divine Blood and the Drop of the Worldbreaker’s Blood.

He had been able to handle these materials before, but the challenge had always been what to create with them.

These were extraordinarily rare materials, far too precious to waste on ordinary equipment. He wanted to use them in a way that would maximize their potential.

Now, he had found a method.

Taesan brought his hands together, placing the two materials in one spot.

[You have activated Chaos Domain.]

The domain formed by Taesan’s chaos began to manifest in the world. The laws of the world twisted and crumbled.

Taesan struck his hands together.

The Crystallized Divine Blood and the Drop of the Worldbreaker’s Blood shattered, starting to merge.

Immediately, an enormous backlash erupted. Taesan’s body shuddered violently. Without the Chaos Domain, the shock would have left him gravely injured.

KRRRRK!

The blood howled, like a beast trying to devour the divine crystal.

But the divine blood wouldn’t yield, exploding with its own power to crush and annihilate the other material.

The two opposing forces, completely incompatible, swelled against each other.

Taesan suppressed the backlash.

The wizard observed with great interest.

While the power of the two materials was formidable, Taesan was now strong enough to subdue them. The feat was impressive, but not beyond the wizard’s expectations.

“...Hmm?”

However, as he watched, the wizard realized something.

Taesan wasn’t merely trying to merge the materials.

Taesan opened his inventory again, pulling out various materials and feeding them into a wristguard. The wristguard seemed to anticipate this, opening its jaws wide.

[You have activated Partial World Modification.]

The laws of the world warped further. The power of the Chaos Domain intensified, and Taesan suppressed the conflicting forces even more.

BOOM!

A massive shockwave surged over Taesan.

The two materials roared like caged beasts, straining to break free of his control.

If all he had wanted was to mix the materials, this level of resistance wouldn’t have occurred.

It was then that the wizard finally understood what Taesan was attempting.

“Harmony?”

Taesan wasn’t simply trying to blend the Divine Blood and the Worldbreaker’s Blood.

He was trying to create perfect harmony, like a yin-yang balance.

The wizard’s face twisted in disbelief.

“That’s impossible.”

Divinity and black energy could never coexist.

Divinity could only extinguish black energy, and black energy could only corrupt and consume divinity. They were fundamentally opposed, like fire and water.

Only Taesan had been able to blend fire and water to create the Boundary Line.

The Boundary Line was something entirely new. While it contained aspects of both fire and water, it was no longer either.

But now, Taesan was attempting to preserve the full essence of both materials while fusing them into one.

He was trying to create harmony without breaking the fundamental principles of fire and water.

This wasn’t something that could be achieved by simply twisting or breaking laws.

It required the creation of an entirely new set of laws.

Taesan’s gaze was calm and steady.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

Rather than crushing and forcing the two powers together, he aimed to unify them while preserving their individual properties.

Taesan compressed the energies further.

[You have activated Fragmentation.]

Power surged out of Taesan, a fragment of himself. The fragment merged with the fused materials.

CRACK!

With a sound like shattering glass, the fusion solidified.

A smooth orb, polished and flawless, formed in Taesan’s hands.

BOOM!

The Chaos Domain dissipated. Taesan’s divine and black energies had been completely consumed.

But his goal was accomplished.

He looked at the orb in his hand, its colors beyond description.

[You have created .]

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No system notifications appeared to describe it. But Taesan understood its nature better than anyone.

This was not a material that could be used to craft any equipment in existence. Nothing could merge with it without breaking its harmony.

There was only one purpose for it.

Taesan clenched his fist, applying pressure.

CRACK!

The orb shattered, and the power within flowed into him.

There was no resistance. That was what the Fragmentation had been for—embedding a part of himself into the orb so it could merge seamlessly with him.

The harmonized Divine Blood and Worldbreaker’s Blood seeped into his body.

Thump.

His heart beat once, powerfully.

The perfectly balanced energy coursed through his veins, spreading throughout his entire body.

The divine power filled the parts of him that the black energy could not, and the black energy completed what the divinity could not touch. Together, they amplified one another, endlessly harmonious.

Transcendent and Old God powers began to coexist within him.

His body broke free from the laws of the world, becoming something wholly his own.

Taesan realized what was happening. His body was advancing into a new realm.

He had once used divinity to reach transcendence.

This had elevated his body and essence to the level of divinity, but it had been incomplete—imbalanced and twisted.

Now, his body had surpassed its limits, achieving a perfect state of balance and advancing to a higher plane.

[Your proficiency with Black Energy has increased by 11%.]

[Your proficiency with Divinity has increased by !@#%.]

[Your proficiency with Immutable Essence has increased by !#$#%.]

[Your proficiency with the Boundary Line has increased by ^^$xx%.]

[Your special skill Apostle of [Chaotic Fusion] has evolved into Chaos Calling.]

[You have obtained [The Vessel of ].]