[Progression Alert]
Skill: Killing Intent (SSS) has increased from E-Rank to D-Rank.
[Host has t the requirents to unlock a new skill effect:]
New Effect Unlocked: Killing Perception
Killing Intent Sense – Detects hostile intent from any direction.
Fear Resistance – Complete immunity to suppression or fear caused by killing intent, regardless of the enemy’s strength. You are no longer shaken by the fear of death. Your will cannot be suppressed.
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Razeal stared at the new effect of his skill, an unpleasant taste rising in his mouth.
"What the hell? Another perception-type skill?"
He scoffed, annoyed.
"System, you do realize I already have a ton of perception skills, right? Like, enough is enough."
[Host, these skills are not under my control, nor can I alter them.]
[Also, this isn’t just another perception skill. This one is unique it allows you to sense killing intent even if the enemy doesn’t release it. Even if soone only thinks about killing you. You’ll feel it.]
[And regarding the second effect... you already know that when you face beings vastly more powerful than you those on a different life level your body and will get suppressed, no matter how much you resist. Now, that will no longer happen. You will not be spressed.]
Razeal clicked his tongue. "Yeah, yeah, I get it, dumbass... but I was hoping for a cool fighting skill. Not more of this passive perception crap.. Again."
[Just work on it, Host. Level it up. The higher it climbs, the more powerful it becos. You’re only at D-Rank now of killing intent (SSS) now, and it’s already giving you effects like this.]
The system went quiet after that, offering no further response.
Razeal let out an annoyed sigh.
"Tch. Easy for you to say. You’re not the one who had to kill 1,000 E-Rank monsters just to level it up to D-Rank. And now it’s 10,000 E-ranked monsters for the next upgrade. If I stick to E-Ranks, I’ll need to kill 100,000 of them just to progress!"
Razeal groaned at the thought alone. His shoulders already slumped.
[If you had killed them outside the System Space, you would’ve only needed to defeat 100 monsters. Killing inside System Space gives ten tis fewer points.]
"Even right now, you only need to kill 1,000 D-ranked monsters to level up. But if you do it inside, it’ll take 10,000. So if you want to level up faster, go outside simple as that."
Razeal’s expression turned a bit grim.
"Yeah yeah, I wish I could go outside too. But I’ve got other skills to work on right? It’s one thing to get stabbed 100,000 tis in here, but outside? I’d be dead for real. Besides, the ti amplification function is worth it. I don’t have ti to waste."
Just as the frustration began to settle in, the system spoke again.
[Host, it’s almost ti for your Academy schedule. You should exit System Space now.]
"What? Already? How long has it been?" Razeal blinked. "Wasn’t I just in the E-Rank Training Zone? That’s supposed to have ten tis ti amplification."
[Correct. Over 10 hours have passed in the real world. Inside System Space, you’ve spent 107 hours.]
"107 hours?!" Razeal stared at the air, dumbfounded. "I trained for more than four days and didn’t even feel it?"
[Why do you think your skills leveled up so fast?]
[Just so you know, you’ve taken endured over 130,000 injuries and died more than 10,000 tis during this session.]
[Total enemies killed: 1,016 Skulltrites in total over the 107 hours.]
[Current Training Status: Wave of E-Rank Skulltrite – 100 monsters per wave]
[Status: Still on Wave 2 – Incomplete (Unable to clear full wave in one go)]
Razeal groaned again. "Yeah yeah... I get it." He scrolled through the stats and sighed.
Over 100,000 injuries... If this were the real world, I’d be in ribbons. 10,000 deaths... That’s gotta be a new record.
***
Currently sitting inside the Royal Academy classroom, Razeal sighed and shook his head irritation simring just beneath the surface.
He didn’t even want to be here.
The academy was a waste of his ti. There was nothing here he could gain no skill, no knowledge, no benefit. But still, he had to attend. Until the duel was completed, he couldn’t disappear.
Sure, he could simply stop showing up. It’s not like anyone could stop him outright. But then again, that would raise suspicion. What if the everyone assud he was planning to escape? What if they started surveilling him, keeping tabs just to ensure he didn’t run before the duel? He wouldn’t put it past them. In fact, Razeal was already half-convinced soone was watching him. Maybe it was paranoia. Maybe not. Either way, the idea irritated him.
He tried to brush it off. It wasn’t like he had anything to hide. Most of the ti, he looked like he was half-asleep anyway. Still, the thought of soone observing him from a distance unseen, undetectable made his skin crawl. Maybe they were using advanced techniques or tools to monitor him. Or maybe it was all in his head. Either way, it gnawed at him.
He exhaled through his nose. For now, it didn’t concern him. They were only able to watch because he was weak. That wouldn’t last. One day, he’d be strong enough to make anyone think thousand tis before having idea of ever spying on him. Hell, even if he caught soone now, he can make them pay sothing they will regret all there life.. Even if not strong enough he have his ways to fuck soone life. But that was the problem he couldn’t sense anything. Whether or not soone was watching, he couldn’t tell.
He shook his head again and sighed.
At the front of the classroom, the professor continued his lecture.
Sothing about danger. Opportunity. The nature of the world. The usual academy rhetoric. But then a few words caught Razeal’s attention.
"As you all know, the greatest threat to our world and perhaps the most significant opportunity is the phenonon known as Multidinsional Overlap... or as so scholars call it, Dinsional Confluence."
Razeal blinked. Alright, maybe this would be worth listening to. Yeah novel had so information about this topic but then again it was never enough.
"Before we dive into what that ans or why this is so dangerous," the professor continued, "we need to cover the basics. First, what exactly are dinsions?"
"Dinsions are separate planes of existence. Entire realities layered on top of each other — each one with its own rules. Different ti flows, physical laws, species, Magic, Physics, Life and death all governed by systems we don’t understand."
"even entirely different lifeforms."
"We don’t know how many exist. We don’t know where they are. We can’t see them, touch them, or locate them not with any tech, spell, or divine sense we’ve developed till now."
"Our best scholars believe that dinsions are separated by invisible barriers. Think of them like invisible national borders. Just because you can’t see the border, doesn’t an it isn’t there. These barriers are impossible to detect with the naked eye or even with most advanced magic. You could search the entire world and still never find the edges of another dinsion."
"So what’s inside those dinsions? That’s the big question. Based on countless reports from explorers and early civilization records, we know that from ti to ti, openings appear between dinsions. These are called Ways."
"At first, no one knew what these were. Just strange phenona. But after many years of study and sacrifice, we learned: they’re doorways. To other realities."
"Beyond these Ways are creatures alien in nature, sotis monstrous, often hostile. Very few are intelligent. Most act on instinct. Aggression. Hunger. We’ve only discovered one or two dinsions that didn’t imdiately try to destroy us. The rest? Constant threats."
She gave the class a mont to absorb the weight of that.
"Why are they so aggressive? We don’t know. So believe they see us the sa way we see them as invaders. Others think their world is dying, and this is survival. Regardless, almost every ti a new Way opens, it ends in violence."
"So how do these Ways form? According to our leading theories, they appear randomly. No warning. No pattern. One day, space just... splits. Portals, rifts, tears in reality. We call this a Dinsional Confluence. It’s when two dinsions briefly overlap and create a passage between them."
She turned back to the board, circling the diagram with his chalk.
"When that happens, travel becos possible. Beings from both sides can cross over. But most of the ti, it’s them coming here. And they don’t co in peace."
"These invasions cause devastation. Cities wiped out. Lives lost. Entire ecosystems damaged by creatures that don’t belong. And the worst part? These monsters co in waves. It doesn’t stop. Once a Way opens, it’s never just one creature. It’s an army."
"But not everything is a loss. We’ve learned to fight back. We are strong, Yes. We’ve learned to step into their worlds. And what we’ve found? Opportunities. Resources. Knowledge. Materials that don’t exist in our dinsion. Rare materials, living tals, dinsional flora with healing properties."
"And the monsters themselves valuable. Their bodies contain elenental cores, rare elent stones, even sentient biomass useful for magic and alchemy. In short: if you survive, the rewards are endless."
"So, you might be wondering what’s the best theory we’ve developed so far about how Dinsional Confluence happens? Well, here’s our leading hypothesis based on our most advanced research."
"Now imagine our world as a single sheet of paper. Flat, familiar. And above it, below it, beside it an infinite number of other sheets still existing and sa equal place. Each one a dinsion."
She lifted three fingers.
"A portal is like soone poking a hole through two pages. A rift is soone tearing a jagged slash through them. And a dinsional collision? That’s soone slamming the pages together so hard they fuse, warp, and twist."
"Also before we dive any deeper into advanced strategy," she said, "you all need to understand the very nature of the threats we train to fight. I’m talking about the ways other dinsions connect to ours the routes through which alien worlds leak into our reality. There are many, but four are the most common. And each one is dangerous in its own right."
She raised one finger.
"First portals. The most stable, the most common, and the most deceptive of them all. Portals can appear anywhere on open land, in your backyard, in the middle of a city. They shimr like glass or whirl like wind. But what makes portals uniquely dangerous is this: once a portal opens, it cannot be closed until its natural countdown ends."
Murmurs rippled through the students.
"Yes," she said, nodding. "Each portal appears with a visible countdown an embedded tir that tells exactly how long it will remain open. So stay open for weeks. Others, months. Until the tir hits zero, that passage to another dinsion remains active and anything can co through."
She paused.
"Sotis, nothing cos. Just a silent, empty link to a barren land. Other tis? Hordes. Monsters. Waves of creatures too mindless or too angry to negotiate. The mont the portal opens, the outco is unpredictable. That’s why every portal is considered a Code Red event."
She turned toward the front row. "The standard response? Full containnt. Barricades. Tactical units. Area lockdowns. Defense teams surround the site and hold the line until the portal closes. There is no other way."
"And while portals are dangerous, they’re also fairly rare on a global scale. You might think "rare" ans safe, but here’s so context: it’s estimated that between 100 to 1,000 portals appear worldwide every single day. That’s the low average. Imagine what that looks like on a bad day."
She held up a second finger.
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Thanks for reading my cute lovely pumpkins
One more Chapter to go before i sleep 😴 ❣️
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