Ancient Battlefield, Iron Rank Division:
[Opponent Match…]
[60 seconds before the fight]
“A stone dune…” Maximus scanned the place already formulating possible scenarios.
“I wonder if I can see the stats of the opponent,” Maxius muttered, looking at his opponent on the opposite side.
Suddenly a virtual screen pops up.
[Ben Goh: Rank 3 Iron
Battles: 1,232,573
Wins: 314,124
Losses: 729,937
Ties: 188,512
Battle Power: 8,329]
“A veteran…”
Seeing that his opponent had over a million battles to his name, he became serious.
As the seconds ticked by before the battle began, his opponent, Ben Goh, stepped forward.
“A rookie, huh? It’s kind of impressive that you got here in your first fight.”
“You must be from some powerful family, right?”
“Hehe, it would be my honor to teach you a lesson,” Ben Goh said, talking endlessly as if his mouth were a machine gun.
“Did you get your wins by drowning your opponents in your nonsense?” Maximus said, picking up a sword.
In the preparation round, you can choose all kinds of weapons.
There are also armors, robots, mechanical weapons—anything you can think of.
However, it’s all limited to the same tier as the match.
“Tsk, such a sharp mouth for a newbie.”
Seeing that he couldn’t provoke Maximus, Ben Goh didn’t waste any more of his saliva.
[Fight Begins!]
Ben Goh didn’t speak any nonsense; he immediately attacked Maximus with a magic spell.
Seeing that Maximus chose a sword as a weapon, Ben Goh hoped to kite Maximus.
“Hmm, about an 800 mana amplitude,” Maximus murmured as he calmly dodged the spell.
There was only about a 200 mana amplitude difference between them, so he wasn’t in a hurry.
…
A few minutes passed by.
As Maximus continued to dodge all around the place, Ben Goh became impatient.
“What’s wrong, newbie? Is that all you can do?”
Maximus didn’t reply but continued dodging.
What Ben Goh didn’t know was that all over the place were concealed delay spells.
He had already learned this during a previous match.
Sometimes, the difference in mana amplitude is like heaven and hell.
Without sufficient firepower, all kinds of strategies are useless.
Looking at the impatient Ben Goh, Maximus smiled.
“What’s wrong? I can still do this for a few hours.”
“Don’t tell me you’re already done,” Maximus teased.
“That won’t work, newbie,” Ben Goh sneered.
In over a million battles, what kind of opponent hadn’t he faced?
A few more minutes…
“Looks like your Soul Will isn’t that strong,” Maximus said mysteriously.
“What do you mean?” Ben Goh shuddered as he felt like he was about to die.
“Goodbye~”
Boom!
The concealed delay spell formed an array, attacking the unprepared Ben Goh.
If Ben Goh had a little more soul will, he would have detected the delayed spell long ago.
Moreover, Ben Goh had underestimated him too much.
Ben Goh had let him run around the place for a few minutes without becoming suspicious.
“I guess that’s why his winning rate is less than half,” Maximus thought.
[Victory!]
…
Ancient Battlefield:
“Easy~” Maximus bragged, looking at Tintin’s disappointed face.
“Tsk, what a weakling,” Tintin complained.
“Hahaha, it should be beginner’s luck.”
[Maximus Shadowcrest: Rank 3 Iron
Battles: 1
Wins: 1
Losses: 0
Ties: 0
Battle Power: 8,330
Reward: 1-day energy equivalent]
“What does this mean?” Maximus asked, looking at his reward.
“It literally means that the world origin will give you energy according to your one-day training,” Tintin explained.
“How about the resources and environment? Does it affect anything?”
“No, this kind of energy is on par with the top elemental pool.”
“So the only restriction is your aptitude.”
“So smart?” Maximus was amazed at such a convenient thing.
You know it only took a few minutes to earn this thing.
Twenty-nine more fights, and he can master another elemental soul path.
“Don’t be so excited, host.”
“After you lose, you will get a cooldown before you can fight again.”
“Oh, fair enough. But how long?”
“It depends on what rank you lose at.”
“For rank 3, there is a cooldown of one day.”
“That’s enough…”
Although he was not sure he would win every fight, he was still confident in his winning rate.
“Then another fight…”
…
12 hours later.
[Maximus Shadowcrest: Rank 3 Iron
Battles: 345
Wins: 344
Losses: 1
Ties: 0
Battle Power: 8,673
Reward: 344-day energy equivalent]
“Tsk, a pity…” Looking at his winning streak, he sighed.
Each match he won added points to his battle power stat, which meant that each match was stronger.
“But this is equivalent to over eleven months or 11 elemental soul paths,” Maximus suddenly got excited.
Maximus thought that he would get stuck in the tier 4 elemental mage for at least a hundred years.
But with plucking the wool of the world’s origin, it’s much easier.
“Let’s convert the energy first, then wait for the cooldown.”
…
Maximus’ Manor:
Maximus slowly opened his eyes.
Spreading his consciousness, he saw his wives and children still busy with their tokens.
“It looks like the virtual world is a little addicting.”
Thinking about it, if he hadn’t lost, he would still be fighting right now.
Shaking his head, his thought came back to absorbing the energy reward.
“First, upgrade affinity…”
The energy reward is equivalent to individual training, so if he had low talent, it would be useless.
[Potential Points: 20,572,171]
“A little less.”
Upgrading affinity from legendary to transcendent required at least 11 million.
“Just upgrade to Divine,” Maximus compromised.
[Metal Affinity: Rank 4 Legendary (0/100k)]
[1.1 million PP+]
[Metal Affinity: Rank 6 Divine (0/10 m)]
After he upgraded his affinity to metal, he proceeded to use the reward.
Soon, otherworldly energy descended into him.
The energy was very pure and neutral, making it suitable for any element.
Maximus began to manipulate this energy as he constructed the Metal element soul path.
1 day of energy…
10 days of energy…
30 days of energy…
50 days of energy…
100 days of energy…
“Huh!” Maximus opened his eyes, looking at the newly constructed soul path. 𝞸𝗏𝑳xt.𝗰𝗈𝑚
“It took a hundred days.”
“A pity.”
Maximus thought that he could master 11 new elemental soul paths today.
But without enough potential points, he could only use a hundred days’ worth of energy for one instead of 30.
“Next element…”
[Wind Affinity: Rank 4 Legendary (0/100k)]
[1.1 million PP+]
[Wind Affinity: Rank 6 Divine (0/10 m)]
Using the 100 days’ worth of energy, he was able to construct the wind elemental soul path.
…
[Ice Affinity: Rank 4 Legendary (0/150k)]
[1.65 million PP+]
[Ice Affinity: Rank 6 Divine (0/15 m)]
1 day of energy…
10 days of energy…
70 days of energy…
“Huh, only 70?” Maximus muttered, feeling the ice elemental being constructed using only 70 days’ worth of energy.
“It should be because I already have the water element.”
“Then can I master another element?” Maximus thought as he still had 74 days’ worth of energy.
…
Maximus already had the Fire and Earth elements.
So he wanted to try how much it would take to master the Lava element.
[Lava Affinity: Rank 4 Legendary (0/200k)]
[2.2 million PP+]
[Lava Affinity: Rank 6 Divine (0/20 m)]
Soon, 60 days’ worth of energy was consumed as he constructed the Lava elemental soul path.
“Nice, another element,” Maximus smiled.
Now he only needed to fight a few more times to accumulate energy reward.
“But it seems to be short in potential points again.”
Maximus couldn’t help but sigh at this problem.
It’s always short, halting his progress.
“Just fight more,” Maximus got determined.
Although he can’t do anything about the potential points, he can accumulate more energy through grinding.
“It’s just that I’m too weak…”
[Maximus Shadowcrest:
Soul Tier 4: Elemental Mage – lvl 1
Body Tier 4: Sky Knight – lvl 9
Soul Amplitude: 605
Soul Will: 281
Life points: 16,517,110
Potential Points: 14,522,171
Magic Crystal Points: 3,125,934,234]
“I’m about to become a Tier 5 Lunar Knight.”
“But it’s still useless.”
In the ancient battlefield, your tier will be forcefully tiered down to match the rank division.
“To upgrade soul aptitude, I need to study…”
“But what to learn?”
“I should go back to my plan earlier.”
In the beginning, Maximus was full of ambition, hoping to fully master and be able to create all elements.
However, due to the lack of Life points, he shelved that idea.
Now he didn’t have much use for the Life points and needed to upgrade his soul amplitude.
“Just right…”
[1118 types of Tier 0 spells: Initial (5 million/112 million)]
“It seems that the other spells I mastered didn’t add up,” Maximus wondered.
Maximus manipulated the system to see what happened.
After a while, he found the answer.
“I see.”
The previously mastered spell did add up, but it added in each individual mastery.
“By the way, the Arcana Library seems to boost my comprehension when I add points.”
He remembered that when he added Life points to his cultivation manual.
The points he got were double than normal.
“Just right, I also need to get the complete Gaia’s Primal Genesis manual.”