The morning sun rays poured into the room as the sun rose from the horizon. Within the room, Asher could be seen sleeping like a log, his breathing steady and calm as he slept without a care in the world. The morning sun rays finally seed to touch his face, and with that, his eyes finally fluttered open.
He yawned as he shifted from his lying position to a seated one, sitting on the bed with sloppy movents and groggy eyes.
’Hey, System, what’s the ti?’ Asher asked the system ntally as his consciousness fully returned.
[1 p.m., Host]
The system replied with a chi as it had seemingly co to accept its role as a re clock.
Asher sat on the bed for a mont. The one-month training had ended yesterday, and the mont he had returned, he had simply collapsed onto his bed and fallen asleep, not bothering to eat or even bathe, instead rely using Astra Energy to freshen himself up.
Although just four hours of sleep would return him to his peak physical condition with all exhaustion erased, it didn’t an he didn’t know how to sleep in whenever he desired.
’It seems I slept in,’ Asher thought to himself as he swung his feet to the side and got up from the bed. ’It’s been a month since I had such a long and good sleep.’ He stretched as he thought, thoroughly enjoying the feeling.
He imdiately walked toward the bathroom, where he spent over an hour bathing as he soaked himself within the bathtub. Coming out of the bathroom, he simply changed into new clothes and walked toward the balcony. He didn’t bother going to the cafeteria for food; he had enough within his system inventory, and he planned to eat until he was bloated.
Asher sat down with an exhausted sigh. With a wave of his hand, a variety of dishes appeared before him, and he began to eat without pausing. After a few minutes, he patted his belly in satisfaction; he was stuffed.
He remained silent, his eyes shifting toward the other balconies belonging to the Top Ten students. None of them were awake yet; they were all still asleep. Despite waking up late, Asher was still the first to awaken, everyone simply trying to get as much rest as possible after being deprived of it for the last few weeks.
Asher raised his head toward the sky, where the clouds and sun hung peacefully. After a mont of staring, he shook his head and decided to look at his system panel. After all, he had absolutely nothing to do.
’Status,’ he thought to himself.
The system responded imdiately as the status screen opened before him.
[Na: Asher Wargrave
Age: Nineteen
Bloodline: The Wargrave Lineage
Physique: Absolute Physique
Titles: [Youngest Heir] [Tenth Sun] [Disgrace Of The Wargrave] [Unique Body Holder] [The Star’s Heir] [Monster] [Most Loved Wargrave] [Most Talented Wargrave In History]
Life Rank: Firmstar
Sub-Life Rank: Dust
Affinity: Lightning, Star, Space, Gravity, Light, [Hidden]
Strength: 890 → 913 → 1315
Agility: 915 → 933 → 1343
Vitality: 1127 → 1127 → 1538
Perception: 967 → 981 → 1357
Inventory: Platinum coins, assorted cuisine, liters of purified water, triangular wooden talisman, armors]
Asher stared at his system in silence, a smile embracing his lips as his eyes ran through it. The very first change within the system was his age; Asher had finally turned nineteen years old.
He had been eighteen when he gained admission into the Star Academy, and after spending a total of eleven months within the Separate Dinsion, he had aged by one year. During the one-month training, his birthday had passed during that period. There had been no one to tell him happy birthday or give him a birthday cake or anything like that... well, not that he cared for such things, as n usually didn’t.
Even Thalric hadn’t said anything, to which Asher guessed the boy simply didn’t know his birthday date, sothing Asher didn’t particularly care about either. After all, he too didn’t know Thalric’s birthday.
He raised his hand, and on his wrist rested the watch Lyra had given him two years ago, prior to his awakening. His mind drifted toward Lyra for a mont before he shook his head, choosing not to think about her for now.
His eyes returned to the system, and the next change was his Life Rank. Within the month, Asher hadn’t only been attending the training. Although exhausted, he had still carved out a few minutes or even an hour daily to cultivate, hence finally breaking through into the Dust Firmstar Life Rank, which was the sixth Life Rank out of the ten major ranks.
(Faintstar — Kindlestar — Brightstar — Blazestar — Swiftstar — Firmstar — Wavestar — Voidstar — Soulstar — Crownstar)
(sub-Life; Dust — Spark — Flare — Pulse — Radiant)
Asher couldn’t help but smile as he stared at the system. It had taken him only two years to rise from absolutely nothing to this level. He had crossed more than half of the entire power system within just two years. How many people since the dawn of the new era could boast of such absurd talent?
Asher couldn’t help but feel proud. Yes, at this mont, he was genuinely proud of his achievents. Besides, why shouldn’t he be?
After basking within the thought of his own outrageous talent for a mont, his eyes shifted toward his stats.
He froze instantly, his eyes almost falling out of their sockets as he struggled to believe what he was looking at.
The first stat paraters represented his stats at the Radiant Swiftstar Life Rank, the middle paraters represented the gains from the one-month hellish training, while the final paraters represented his current stats after breaking through.
He imdiately ignored the middle paraters. The forr him would have been ecstatic at such gains, but right now, he couldn’t even be bothered with them. His eyes were firmly locked onto the final paraters.
Every single stat had increased by a minimum of four hundred points. To Asher, it was utterly insane, no different from complete madness. The numbers displayed by the system further showcased and inford him of the terrifyingly wide chasm separating each Life Rank.
Asher took a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly as he tried to calm himself down. But how could he possibly remain calm? Four hundred points was simply monstrous. He closed his eyes for a mont before opening them once again and staring at the status screen. Every single stat had now crossed the one-thousand-point mark.
’It seems the system’s words from earlier were indeed true,’ Asher thought to himself.
There was no special evolution when he crossed the one-thousand mark in strength, agility, or vitality. He couldn’t help but sigh in disappointnt, his expectations crushed once more. Although the system had already inford him that no evolution awaited him at that threshold, he had still held onto a flicker of hope.
Still, despite the disappointnt, the increase in power alone was enough to make his heart pound slightly. The sheer difference between his forr self and his current self was astronomical. If the previous Asher could fight evenly against opponents above his rank, then what about now?
Even he couldn’t accurately estimate the extent of his own strength anymore.
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