Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener-Chapter 741: Racing Against Time!

Fay’s soul form had already vanished. Looking at the empty scene before him, Sterl couldn’t help but feel a sense of disbelief.

The terrifying beast from the ancient era, the powerful Divine Power-level Fay, had actually fled.

Sterl’s eyelids twitched slightly as his deep, focused eyes gradually returned to their normal state.

"As expected of a powerful Divine Power being, their sense of danger is on a whole different level," he couldn’t help but mutter.

Faced with Fay’s imminent release of a devastating attack, Sterl certainly didn’t just stand by and watch. Instead, he activated his most powerful soul ability, Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes.

But as soon as Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes had been activated, Fay had made the decision to escape without hesitation. It was clean and decisive, without a moment’s pause, completely ignoring the dignity of a powerful Divine Power.

However, Sterl knew that any powerful Divine Power would hesitate to endure the full force of Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes, especially the Phantom Purgatory ability.

Even a great god would suffer the lowest level of soul damage if dragged into the Purgatory Space.

As for a powerful Divine Power, while their soul forms might be tough, whether they could withstand the full force of Phantom Purgatory was another question. Even if they could endure it, the immense soul damage was something they would rather avoid.

After all, this kind of real soul damage was very difficult to recover from, and that was the case even for powerful Divine Powers.

The stronger one was, the better their recovery abilities, but the resources and costs required for that recovery also grew exponentially.

Fay wasn’t willing to take that risk. As soon as Sterl activated Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes, he sensed an overwhelming danger. If he didn’t retreat immediately, the consequences would be severe.

Moreover, from their previous clash, Fay had realized that even if he unleashed his most powerful abilities, he would have a hard time driving Sterl out. Thus, engaging in a head-on battle was pointless.

Compared to his soul, his physical form was the true strength of the beast Fay.

"They should be getting restless by now."

Sterl was well aware that his actions had already crossed the line for the gods of the Orichalcum Kingdom, and they would undoubtedly try to stop him by any means necessary. Since they couldn’t expel him from the core space, it was certain that real pursuit would follow.

"I have to speed up."

He placed his hand against the previously unknown space. The battle with Fay had ended quickly, and the areas of the core that had been eroded hadn’t begun to recover.

As Sterl’s soul energy spread out, the previously empty space continued to expand outward.

It continued for the better part of the day before he finally stopped.

Not because the erosion was complete, but because his soul energy had been completely depleted!

For his soul’s energy reserves to be completely exhausted—this was beyond his expectations!

Looking at the tenth of the core he had already eroded, Sterl’s thoughts shifted, and his soul form detached from the core.

His soul returned to his physical body in the Glory Plaza, beneath the statue of the great divine. Sterl’s eyes quickly regained their sharpness.

"It’ll take about ten minutes to fully recover my soul energy," Sterl murmured to himself, feeling the rapid restoration of his soul power.

But the next moment, he hesitated slightly, an unsettling premonition rising in his heart. He could feel that his cheat had somehow refreshed!

It was at this moment that he noticed Augustine, who was standing nearby, looking panicked and terrified. Augustine had only just begun to calm down.

"How long was I gone?" Sterl asked.

"U-uh, two full days, my lord... Little Dragon almost thought you..."

Augustine trailed off, still shaken. From his perspective, when Sterl had touched the statue, it seemed as though he had been assimilated. He stood there motionless, his breath completely vanishing.

For a full two days, Augustine had thought that Sterl’s soul had dispersed, because he had seen other beings’ souls dissipate in the same way.

This had frightened him greatly, and he regretted telling Sterl about it in the first place. If Sterl had fallen, not only would he have to face the possibility of his own demise, but without this support, the purifiers would have found and killed him sooner or later.

"Two days have passed?"

Sterl’s eyes narrowed. There was no doubt about it—time inside the core moved differently from the outside world, at a nearly four times faster pace.

This was likely designed to prolong the time that the soul’s will within the core could exist.

Previously, all the places Sterl had entered had faster time flows than the main world, so this was the first time he encountered a place with slower time flow.

"I missed an opportunity."

Two days had passed, meaning he had missed one of his evolution chances. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that. Sterl quickly allocated his new enhancement point to Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes.

Soon, the second upgrade to Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes was complete, greatly boosting the power of the ability.

He then placed his hand back on the statue, and his soul form re-entered the core.

"Six hours, I’ll leave every six hours. That way, I won’t waste my evolution chances."

Sterl glanced at the large empty space he had eroded and pressed his palm against it once again.

He didn’t know how much time the powerful beings of Orichalcum Kingdom would allow him, but before that, he had to complete the full erosion of the core while maximizing his own strength.

Fay’s probing had made Sterl realize that beings at the Divine Power level were not as simple as he had imagined. Their soul strength alone could reach levels that were more than capable of countering his own. The true power of such beings would be even greater.

Pushing these thoughts aside, Sterl focused entirely on eroding the residual energy left behind in the core.

Six hours later, on schedule, he withdrew, spent his evolution point to enhance Soul Prison’s Eerie Eyes, and then returned to the core to continue his eroding task.

Meanwhile, the Legion of Hell, stationed at the center of the Alpha 8 world, had also gathered around the Orichalcum Kingdom’s royal city.

This was, of course, an order issued by Sterl during a break in his operations.

Revenge from the Orichalcum Kingdom could strike at any time. With the Legion of Hell in place, they would provide a brief moment of defense if needed, buying him some precious time.

The main advantage was that the flow of time within the core was much slower than the outside world. Even if Sterl sensed imminent danger and had to retreat, the process would still take much longer compared to the outside world.

For a powerful divine being, even a split second could result in numerous actions.

Time passed quickly, and six days had gone by before Sterl knew it. Throughout this time, Augustine stayed close to him, but there was a subtle unease in his heart.

He had noticed something—Sterl had not been affected by the remaining power of the great divine within the core. In fact, Sterl had been inside the core the entire time.

Clearly, Sterl was eroding the core!

This discovery nearly caused Augustine to faint in shock. His heart raced with dread.

On one hand, he was in awe of Sterl’s power. He had already known that Sterl was incredibly strong, but this was beyond anything he could have imagined. The power left behind by a great divine was supposed to be insurmountable, even if it was just a fragment!

For Sterl to affect the power of such a being meant that he might possess the potential of the great divine himself, something that seemed almost inconceivable.

However, what truly kept Augustine awake at night was the fact that Sterl’s actions were akin to desecrating a tomb!

The royal city wasn’t just the foundation of the Orichalcum Kingdom—it was far more significant. It didn’t take much thought to know that those beings in the upper realms would undoubtedly retaliate fiercely against such a transgression.

But now, Augustine had completely aligned himself with Sterl. There was no way he could stop what was happening, and if he made any move that looked suspicious, the vigilant gods of hell surrounding them would not hesitate to dispose of him.

Inside the core, Sterl was fully absorbed in controlling his soul energy, relentlessly washing away the surrounding remnants of the divine soul.

Aside from exiting every six hours to refresh himself, he didn’t stop for even a moment.

He also discovered that, in addition to using his own soul energy to erode the power, the soul puppets within Purgatory Space could also assist in eroding the divine remnants.

But only high-quality souls, those that had been fused and could be refined into higher-tier soul power, could do the trick. In other words, the soul puppets that could be refined into high-level soul energy.

Therefore, he released all the soul puppets he had created over the past few days, significantly increasing the speed of the erosion.

In the days that followed, the entire core had been eroded by him by more than half. The originally golden core space had gradually been replaced by an empty void.

However, he still couldn’t immediately imprint his own soul mark on the core. He had tried several times during this process, but each attempt resulted in an attack from the golden orb above.

It was only because his soul body was strong enough that he dared to make such reckless attempts. Without that strength, he wouldn’t have even considered it.

"Continue!"

The Purgatory Space opened, and more than two thousand souls rushed out, sacrificing themselves by crashing into the remaining golden core barriers.

Each of these soul puppets could refine a little bit of high-tier soul power, roughly equivalent to one-tenth of a normal god’s soul.

Two thousand high-quality puppets were the total output of ten mother bodies in a full day’s work.

Under the relentless assault of these puppets, another large section of the core dimmed. Sterl seized the opportunity, increasing his soul power output to make the erosion more intense.

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"It’s almost done. At the current rate inside the core, it will take no more than half a day to completely erode all the remaining soul energy."

Sterl kept his vigilance high.

Ever since Fay’s soul body had come to expel him, there had been no further interference.

It seemed that the high-ranking beings from the Orichalcum Kingdom had given up on the royal city’s fate.

However, Sterl knew better. Such a situation was impossible. As the overseers of the core, they were certainly aware of the core’s current condition.

The reason they hadn’t come to interfere was definitely because they were preparing for an even stronger storm.

Now, it was a race against time. If Sterl could successfully take control of the core before the storm arrived, he would gain an absolute advantage.

On the other hand, if the Orichalcum Kingdom’s powerful beings managed to delay or even repel him, it wouldn’t be long before the soul willpower inside the core would recover, and all his efforts would be in vain!