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Sohow, everyone within the world of Bestia felt it. Not just when she defeated all those powerful robots imbued with the Heaven Fragnts, but the mont the Heavenly Demon managed to do the impossible and forged into Anna’s physique and spiritual body sothing incredible.
The remaining mortals, the remaining immortals, and the two wounded Venerables sitting over their thrones felt it. The Heavenly Empress looked into the skies, her eyes widening.
“Anna…?” She had already grown slightly worried that she hadn’t co back yet.
Yet that powerful presence she felt in the distance was unmistakenly hers!
“What’s happening to her? Did she… Could it be?”
Her golden eyes widened for a second as she imagined sothing she could have never thought possible.
anwhile, within the largest tallic tree in the world of Bestia, composed of pure silver tal and blue neon circuits, sothing deep within it also reacted.
Its artificial intelligence, which continued to grow with each passing day, with each passing battle, and with each passing year, slowly began to evolve even further.
It simply couldn’t accept that its creations were defeated so easily—the creations it carefully weaved into existence to even beat the strongest immortals and even beco actual threats against the Venerables!
It began processing information faster, calculating it, running simulations, and then beginning to create new digital blueprints and new beings using all its materials.
It simply couldn’t let this strange variable co here and ruin the efforts it had spent years making and destroy the legacy of their makers.
And at the sa ti.
Inside the dark palace of the Heavenly Demon, as the crow-beast man was dozing off over his crimson throne, trying to recover from his exhaustion, his servant ca running.
It was a young, gray, and black-colored fox beast man no older than Anna herself. He opened his small fox jaws and scread.
“Please forgive for this intrusion, Lord Venerable!”
RUMBLE!
“Hmm?! Agh! What is it?! I was sleeping!”
“Y-Your disciple… She’s awake!”
“Oh… She is?! That soon?”
The Heavenly Demon imdiately got up from his throne and looked into the distance, swiftly spreading his wings to go see her.
“Well, so be it! Now she’ll have to show the extent of the powers she has gained through my efforts!”
Excited over the prospects of Anna’s new powers, which he helped create, he flew towards her room.
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(Anna’s POV. Half an hour ago.)
The cold wind coming from the window slowly woke up, as I felt a slight chill run down my entire body. I looked around; I was still wearing all my clothes, my entire set of armor, and accessories.
However, there was now a white mantle covering , and it was incredibly uncomfortable to be like this. So I quickly used my Inventory function to unequip my armor, finally feeling less restricted in my movents.
“Phew… Well, now—ah, right.”
And then I quickly realized I wasn’t in the cave anymore. I thought I might have passed out there, but with my familiars watching over , I would eventually wake up after a short nap.
But I wasn’t there at all!
I was inside a very fancy-looking palace interior, whose aesthetics were heavily influenced by ancient Chinese architecture.
It seed slightly like the one the Heavenly Empress had, but much darker and, er, edgy?
There were sharp weapons hanging all over the walls as decoration, and even the hanged heads of mighty beasts.
…And people.
It didn’t strike as hard because the people of this world look like animals, but I am fairly sure so of those heads look too small to be just a normal beast.
Yep, I think I know where I am right now.
I am inside the palace of the Heavenly Demon, the evilest man in this entire world and also the strongest.
Evilest… Maybe not anymore. Even after confronting him, I think he has llowed down after growing weaker and then fighting the invaders.
But the title of Heavenly Demon is usually given to cultivators such as these, leaders of the orthodox faction, the pinnacle of evil!
Ruthless, selfish, utter psychopaths.
Yet, despite being very threatening, He was quite kind compared to other Heavenly Demons that would appear later on.
Although he still gave a terrible quest—right, the quest!
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I quickly gave the command, as the system notifications that were hidden appeared in front of .
Ding!
[Congratulations! You have completed the {Special Quest}: {The Heavenly Demon’s Hellish Trial}!]
[Rank: SS ]
[Congratulations! You’ve done the utterly impossible and destroyed over thirteen thousand S Rank foes and above, freed the island from the three chanical production facilities, and even gained the Heavenly Demon’s recognition before the Quest were to be registered as complete.]
[For that and more, you deserve a trendous reward for your efforts and ti spent doing this! The Main Quest of this Class Change Trial Scenario will reveal itself once you achieve certain conditions, which are very close to be achieved. Pay attention to everything around you.]
[Step 1: Hunt all chanical Beasts within the underground caverns: 13.538/13.538: Complete]
[Step 2: Destroy all three chanical Production Facilities: 3/3: Complete]
[Step 3 (hidden): Gain the Heavenly Demon’s recognition: 1/1: Complete]
[Completion Rewards]: [50.000 Plot Points] [Ki Restoration Potion (S Rank)] x10 [Ki Enhancing Pill (S Rank)] x10 [Skill Level Elixir (S Rank)] x10 [Random Martial Arts Scroll (A Rank)] x5 [Primordial Martial Beast Heart Fragnt (??? Rank)] x1]
Oh, nice! The rewards are insane! Nice, very good! It HAD to be sothing this good, at the very least. I did way too much, right? Yeah, it is well deserved! I almost freaking died after all.
Is it almost double the reward from the previous quest? No, it is double the rewards, plus so martial arts scrolls as well. The Plot Points are nice, because I’ll be using them pretty soon.
Now, I wonder… Hm?
[The {Seamless Abyss} is looking.]
[They speak words that you cannot understand.]
[They wiggle their tentacles. Could it be recognition? It cannot be comprehended.]
What?
[The {Seamless Abyss} has given you a Title.]
[You acquired the Title: [Bane of Artificial Intelligence]
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[Bane of Artificial Intelligence]
A Title rewarded to soone who has slain over 10.000 beings that could be catalogued as Artificial Intelligence.
You’re the bane of robots and everything else that could be considered “artificial”. The mont you appear, they will fear you, and their bodies will naturally beco weaker and rustier.
And you won’t stop fighting until you slay them all…
Effects: 500 Strength & Vitality. Grants access to the {AI Slayer} Ability.
{AI Slayer}: Whenever you’re fighting a foe that could be catalogued as Artificial Intelligence (AI), your Damage Dealt increases by 200%, you can ignore 50% of their Defenses, and All your Stats increase by 50%.
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[You gained 500 STR and VIT permanently after obtaining this Title!]
This is… a pretty good Title, all things considered! It might be extrely situational in most other cases, especially back on Earth. But while being in this world? It has suddenly beco a sharper weapon than Gram.
“Thank you, I guess…”
[The {Seamless Abyss} closes its eyes, then opens them again.]
[Then closes and opens them again, and again, and again.]
[Their tentacles wiggle across the void.]
I don’t know if they’re happy, excited, or just being an incomprehensible eldritch horror beyond my comprehension. Whatever the case, I guess I should be grateful.
“Thanks again; this might be a real ga changer here... I’ll use it well.”
[…]
I guess it finally stopped sending ssages.
I should concentrate on what to do now and what has just happened.
First things first.
What the heck happened to my body?!
I sat down and went back into the bed to realize sothing very strange. As I was browsing through the system notifications, I noticed my arms were glowing blue and gold.
And then there were, like, tattoos? But they were made of light. They disappeared just when I realized it, but it did freak out a bit.
“Err… Let’s see. I do rember dreaming that sothing weird happened to my Spirit Body.”
Spirit Bodies are the representation of a body’s supernatural form. Everybody with so supernatural energy develops a Spirit Body below their normal body. It is where the Pathways of Ki, Mana, and other energies recede, alongside the Three ridians and any other Supernatural Organ.
Yet these tattoos that appeared over my arms and then legs, and then the rest of my body, weren’t normal. This didn’t co from any Skill or Technique either. I was fairly sure and confident that sothing had happened to before.
I closed my eyes, concentrating my energies and senses into my own body.
And there it was.
I felt it.
FLASH!
“Oh… Just who… Who did this to ?”
All the impurities accumulated inside my Spiritual Body were completely gone and cleansed. My ridians, which seed rather weakened and slightly cracked, had been healed completely and were looking pristine.
And above all, the Parthways of Ki looked just as pristine as gold. Flowing endlessly with this energy across my body, perhaps ten tis as thick as before!
“This is amazing…”
My Physique, my Inner Martial Core, and even my Cosmic Heart Core, they were all together, sohow fused? No, they were connected. But not a re connection of temporary magical energies or cosmic energies.
No!
It was a permanent connection, one as strong as the blood vessels transferring blood across my entire body. And such incredible connections were all made using a black and white “thread” made of...
Heavenly Ki Essence?!
The energies of the Murim Worldlines heavens are an incredibly highly refined energy, said to be a step below Primordial Ki Essence, which is what has been thought to be the energy the Heavenly Golden Dragon uses to create Murim Worldlines.
And of course, it cos from the fragnts of Heaven themselves! But I didn’t do this; who... Who the hell did this for ?
They completely healed and even improved entirely. Although my Physique has yet to evolve or change, this connection will probably help imdiately improve it once it reaches max rank. The sa is true for my inner martial core.
No, it feels more like, by just training these new permanent connections and by letting my energies flow everywhere, I could probably already begin awakening this new power.
Like this…
FLASH!
I released a bit of cosmic energy, celestial energy, demonic energy, and Ki.
And all of them danced around one another, fusing together brilliant golden light and deep darkness, slowly swirling together as cosmic energy kept them together.
Usually they would be making a ss inside my body, exploding against one another, flaring my body to gain trendous power but also great exhaustion and burden.
However, this ti, they harmonized, dancing around one another.
Slowly, sothing surged, and visions within my head appeared.
The origin of all, as the endless streams of energies converged into one.
A swirling mass of Chaos.
“Chaos… Ki?”
As I held in my hands a small strawberry-sized sphere of amassed Chaos Ki, sothing I never thought I could create at all without killing myself, soone stepped inside the door.
“Hahh… I wonder if the young lady is- Ah! Aaaahh! S-She’s awake- Eek!”
A gray and black-colored young fox-beast man stepped in, only to drop what he was holding, seeing the sphere in my hands.
And then, the sphere released its aura, which I was unable to properly control.
FLUOOOSH!
RUMBLE!
A shockwave of darkness was unleashed as I saw the fox man run away from the room while the entire palace trembled suddenly. I panicked a bit and quickly deactivated the sphere of chaos ki, realizing how dangerous it was.
“I-I can’t fucking believe it…”
Chaos Ki was sothing that couldn’t be made normally, like, at all.
It required certain conditions to be made, but because the origins of all the ingredients were so conflicting with one another, creating it was almost impossible.
Yet my body has beco the perfect recipient to create it without problems?!
I had conjured Chaos Magic before, but it was much weaker and also unstable.
But this was…
Did I just comprehend a bit of the Dao of Chaos, now that I think about it?
I did see a vision out of nowhere!
“Holy shit…”
BAAAM!
However, my train of thought was quickly interrupted as a tall crow-beast man stepped inside the room.
“My disciple! You are awake!”
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