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Chapter 414: Cosmic (1)
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As soon as Yeongwoo placed the coin in his mouth, dotted lines ford along the outline of his body.
He had entered a sort of modification mode.
「Character Settings」
| Appearance |
| Stats |
With his considerable wealth, he could have significantly increased his height, but Yeongwoo’s focus was already on his stats.
‘I've already passed the height threshold, so the cost-effectiveness isn’t great. It’s better to raise my stats instead.’
Height differences were quite significant in battles between Earthlings, but in space, that wasn’t the case—Yeongwoo knew this well.
In a place where all kinds of species were mixed, so opponents could be dozens of ters tall.
Besides…
‘Even Chairman Dogo isn’t particularly tall for a spacefarer. And yet, he still goes around beating up governnt officials.’
In space, strength and status mattered far more than height.
And soon…
‘I’ll gain power beyond Earth’s limits…!’
As Yeongwoo internally shouted this, he selected ‘Stats,’ causing a detailed display of his current attributes to appear before his eyes.
『Character: Jeong Yeongwoo07』
[Strength] 35,800 (19 35,781)
[Endurance] 25,448 (21 25,427)
[Durability] 26,598 (13 26,585)
[Senses] 33,600 (24 33,576)
‘Hmm…’
His current cash holdings were about 37 billion.
However, the amount he could actually use was closer to 26 billion.
This was because he had to pay taxes on the wedding gift money tonight.
‘Still, I can’t just burn through all 26 billion. Like Mom said, I need to keep so for family expenses and upgrading the city level.’
So how much should he invest in his stats to make a wise decision?
‘Let’s start with 10 billion.’
Converting 10 billion in cash into stats ant a whopping 10 million stat points.
Considering that his total stats had just exceeded 100,000…
‘…Am I gonna die from this? From becoming too strong all of a sudden?’
For a re human like Yeongwoo, it was an unfathomable realm.
A total stat value reaching 10 million.
‘Well, the Chairman can split a spaceship in half with just a sword, so I guess this makes sense?’
Since he was still new to the cosmic world, Yeongwoo could only speculate.
But soon, the secret behind the strength of the upper echelon would be revealed.
‘Let’s do this.’
Determined to push his physical capabilities to their limit today, Yeongwoo began pouring his entire 10 billion karma into his stats. The dotted lines around his body flared red.
Swoosh!
No wonder—the stats were increasing by 30,000 to 40,000 per second.
—What the hell?
“Yeongwoo, are you okay?”
Sensing sothing unusual, his parents, Jiseon and Jeonggu, tried to approach him, but ‘Administrator’ Kubu quickly blinked.
―The family head is swiftly burning through the wedding gift money. It would be best not to interfere right now.
Just as Kubu said, Yeongwoo was essentially setting fire to the fortune acquired from his parents’ wedding gifts.
With his stats rising by over 30,000 per second, he was consuming approximately 120 million karma every second.
Fwoosh!
—That bastard… he’s not spending all our wedding gift money, is he?
If Yeongwoo was a newcor to space, then Jiseon was a newcor to motherhood.
The idea that seeing your child eat is enough to make a mother feel full didn’t apply to her in the slightest.
—Hey, you brat! Do you even rember how much that guy’s weekly salary is?!
Pop!
The mont Jiseon pointed at Kubu in frustration, Yeongwoo’s stat-burning suddenly stopped.
Fwoosh!
—Huh?
“Y-Yeongwoo?”
As his parents flinched, Yeongwoo turned to look at them, his pupils now shimring gold.
“…I can’t raise them any further.”
-What? What do you an?
“My stats. They won’t go past one million.”
True to his words, Yeongwoo’s stats had stopped precisely at one million per attribute.
『Character: Jeong Yeongwoo07』
[Strength] 1,000,000
[Endurance] 1,000,000
[Durability] 1,000,000
[Senses] 1,000,000
Additionally, the extra fields that used to display his innate stats had disappeared.
As if Yeongwoo’s ‘human phase’ had truly co to an end.
‘What… What is this? Is there a stat ceiling? Or is it a limit to the human body?’
As he looked down at his body in bewildernt, a delayed wave of ‘pressure’ suddenly crashed down on him.
Crunch!
“…Kuh!”
The side effects of his extre stat increase manifested as a massive ntal and physical strain.
“Khaaaaah!”
Even his berserker talisman couldn’t suppress this overwhelming force.
Golden flas burst from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
Crackle!
—Holy shit?!
“Y-Yeongwoo! Your nose is…!”
As their son spewed flas like a shattered brazier, Jiseon and Jeonggu were too shocked to approach or retreat—they could only stomp their feet anxiously.
“Ku-Kubu! What the hell is going on?!”
Terrified, Jeonggu turned to Kubu for answers, but the administrator simply blinked again.
―It appears that the family head is on the verge of transcending his innate existence.
There wasn’t a hint of hesitation in Kubu’s voice.
After all, Jeong Yeongwoo07 was now the master of the household Kubu served.
So the brief pain he was experiencing as he transcended his human limits was rely a rite of passage that any loyal retainer should accept.
“Kkeeeugh!”
Of course, Yeongwoo himself had an entirely different perspective.
“A-Are you kidding …?! Is there no way to stop this?!”
The unbearable pain—no, an imnse, inescapable fear—was suffocating him.
Then, suddenly…
“Hik!”
His eyes landed on the Aratubank lying on the ground.
At the mont his body began to collapse under the pain, he had unknowingly dropped his shield.
“…!”
The first thing that ca to Yeongwoo’s mind was Aratubank's defensive properties.
【Immunity】
| This shield cannot be destroyed and can block most non-physical damage and ntal attacks.
【Shared Pain】
| The Redfoot ancestors will bear half of your pain. Your pain will be significantly reduced, and emotional suffering such as guilt and sorrow will also be alleviated.
Gathering the last of his strength, Yeongwoo clung to Aratubank, causing the spirit inside—Song Jungho—to recoil in shock.
∴ What the hell is this brat doing?!
But Yeongwoo had no room to process the other’s bewildered voice.
“Haa…!”
The mont he hugged Aratubank, the pain miraculously halved.
‘Whoa, as expected of a myth……!’
Even so, the ntal pressure remained imnse.
It felt as if so transcendent force was trying to suppress the presence of a newly ascended powerhouse.
An overwhelming pressure, sothing that made the very idea of resistance seem impossible, was crushing Yeongwoo’s entire consciousness.
Then—
Ssssssshh……
The flas erupting from his body subsided, and at the sa ti, the unknown oppressive force weakened.
“Are you… are you insane? I almost died just now.”
As Yeongwoo finally managed to catch his breath, Jiseon spoke up again, picking up where she had left off earlier.
—Did you just say the stat limit is 1,000,000?
“Yes. Even if you have money, you can’t raise it above 1,000,000. No, to be precise, the stat-increasing function itself is disabled.”
Yeongwoo had never thought that his stats could rise infinitely, but he hadn’t expected a hard limit to be imposed either.
—Wait, so does that an the chairman and the executives all have their stats capped at 1,000,000?
Jiseon's sharp question.
But Yeongwoo had no knowledge to answer that.
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“I don’t know. The cap might be different for each race, or maybe…”
Yeongwoo trailed off, then imdiately pulled out Bastard and stabbed it into his own thigh.
Squelch!
—What the hell, you lunatic.
His thigh was effortlessly pierced, and blood began gushing out.
Yeongwoo quickly checked his stat screen.
To his surprise—
『Character: Jeong Yeongwoo07』
[Strength] 1,250,000
[Endurance] 1,000,000
[Durability] 1,000,000
[Senses] 1,000,000
Thanks to the effect of the jewel Masochism, his Strength had increased exactly by 25%.
‘As expected.’
Even though his stats had hit the cap, external boosts still applied.
“We can surpass the stat limit using equipnt effects.”
—What? So, in the end, it’s all about equipnt?
“Hm.”
An equipnt battle.
That made sense, but it didn’t fully explain the overwhelming strength of the top-tier beings.
‘So just having good gear would make as strong as the chairman or Mara? That doesn’t quite add up.’
Of course, if soone was covered in dozens of mythical-grade items, it might be possible, but that was practically unfeasible.
Moreover, since the stat cap was 1,000,000, Yeongwoo now had a whopping 6 billion still left unspent.
“I ended up with a lot of leftover money.”
—Oh? Then why don’t you hand that money over to us—
Before Jiseon could finish her sentence, Yeongwoo’s eyes suddenly turned bright blue.
Flash!
—Oh, co on, what now?
Jiseon instinctively took two steps back.
anwhile, Yeongwoo was too absorbed in the strange text appearing in his vision.
「You have reached the ‘End.’」
‘…The end?’
He had a vague idea of what it ant.
It likely signified that he had reached the absolute peak of growth possible through conventional ans on Earth.
‘Then what’s next? Don’t tell I’m stuck at the bottom just because I’m from Earth?’
The universe was a place of karma and opportunity.
Having dared to summon third-class beings for a ritual, Yeongwoo had no choice but to believe that.
No matter how much of a backwater planet he ca from, he was certain that with the right lineage, he could establish a family and survive in the universe.
That’s why he had founded Renaissance today.
‘Didn’t they say I have a eting with the board later? I better show them sothing impressive.’
As Yeongwoo stared at the word End, the text in his vision vanished—only for golden waves to suddenly flood his sight.
「Prestige Level has now been unlocked!」
“What?”
Prestige.
It was a familiar term.
In the universe, prestige was the asure of one's existential power.
It was the reason beings like Mara could suppress lesser creatures with just a glance.
‘But there’s a level system for prestige?’
As Yeongwoo blinked, golden letters slowly engraved themselves at the center of his vision.
Flash!
[Prestige Level: 0]
Then, the golden waves swirling around the edges of his vision all surged upwards at once.
Sssssshhhhh!
‘W-What is this?’
Before he could react, the number 0—his current Prestige Level—began to glow red.
「Assessing initial Prestige Level.」
“……?”
「 1 for surviving a Reset.」
‘What the—’
「 1 for dungeon breakthroughs.」
「 33 for possessing a Myth.」
‘Huh?’
Just having a Myth had instantly added 33 points to his Prestige Level.
It seed each accomplishnt had its own weight, almost like earning experience points for a character level-up.
And then—
「 0.1 for encountering a 4th-class being.」
「 0.2 for battling a 4th-class being.」
「 2 for encountering a 3rd-class being.」
「 0.1 for possessing 10 billion Karma.」
The Prestige Level gain began to slow down noticeably.
‘So, the higher the level, the more experience it requires.’
「 0.5 for being a Family Head.」
Even Family Head carried significant weight.
And finally—
「Prestige Level has been finalized at 37!」
With that, Yeongwoo’s “placent test” was complete.
[Prestige Level: 37]
|90/100
Required Karma per point: 130 million
Prestige Level 37, with 90% of the requirent filled for the next level.
He didn’t know exactly what kind of position this gave him in the universe, but one thing was certain.
「Lesser beings detected nearby. Caution is advised when using Prestige.」
What he had joked about earlier—killing people with just a glance—had now beco his reality.
‘W-Wait, is “lesser being” an official term?’
A chill ran down his spine.
The term “lesser being,” which high-ranking entities used so casually, wasn’t just arrogance born from strength.
From their perspective, the beings around them truly were lesser creatures.
And now, based on his Prestige Level of 37…
—What’s with this guy? Why does he look like that?
“Yeongwoo, are you okay? You don’t look so good…”
Jiseon and Jeonggu, sensing sothing was off, felt an inexplicable chill as they observed Yeongwoo.
Then, Yeongwoo’s lips curled into a grin.
“Haha, you lesser beings!”
—…What?
“What are you waiting for? Bring my eyes and my spear at once!”
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