Chapter 792: Enhancement, Physique of the Primordial Man - Tier 5
Kaito Shirogane had housed the soul of the Demon Lord of Absolute Evil, Azi Dahaka. Therefore, whether it was the power of Another Cosmology: Avesta or other Demon Lord Authorities...
Kaito Shirogane had imprinted them all. That kind of imprinting was just like how he naturally began to possess the capabilities of the Six Eyes after housing Satoru Gojo.
Kaito Shirogane's body was like a sponge perfectly adaptable to any power system, accommodating everything.
In the original timeline of the Little Garden world, during the final battle between Azi Dahaka and Izayoi Sakamaki, He successfully replicated Izayoi's Truth Unknown Gift using the power of Another Cosmology: Avesta.
Kaito Shirogane reached out his hand, grasping the continuously shifting and expanding blood, and attempted to equip it.
The next moment, a wondrous sensation arose within him.
It was like a long-dried riverbed suddenly being struck by raindrops again, or a traveler dying of thirst in the desert seeing an oasis once more.
The hearty feeling of long-awaited rain after a severe drought appeared. That drop of blood merged into his palm almost instantly and vanished.
[You have equipped the Miracle Armament: Third Star Particle]
Under the gaze of the Goddess's ruby-like eyes, a massive amount of star particles began to proliferate within Kaito Shirogane's body, then surged madly through his blood.
That acceleration grew faster and faster, bringing a terrifying amplification to Kaito Shirogane's bodily functions.
But the next moment, Kaito Shirogane's Physique of the Primordial Man began to produce an overloaded tearing sensation.
This is...
Before Kaito Shirogane could react, the blood, accelerated to its limit, instantly burst through the confines of Kaito Shirogane's skin.
Bang!
Kaito Shirogane exploded out of nowhere into a pool of blood mist. Then, under the Goddess's watchful eyes, flesh and blood rapidly regenerated.
Above that cloud of blood mist, the newborn Kaito Shirogane completed his rebirth in just a few seconds.
After rebirth, the star particles within Kaito Shirogane's body still accelerated madly. His body remained unable to withstand this level of acceleration and collapsed a second time.
Reborn again, collapsed again...
Kaito Shirogane repeated this cycle within the Goddess's residence.
"Although it's a Miracle Armament, it's ultimately still a type of bio-armor. You can unequip it~"
The Goddess seemingly offered a kind reminder, but Kaito Shirogane showed absolutely no intention of accepting the favor.
He realized where his special feeling towards this drop of blood came from; it came from his similarly unnamed [Essence]!
From the Halloween Queen, Kaito Shirogane had heard an explanation.
[The Unnavigated Sea].
Just as humans and ants view the world differently, ordinary people and Reincarnators view the world differently, and ordinary Reincarnators view the world differently from guys like Kaito Shirogane.
The higher the tier of existence, the more one can see the truth of the world.
After reaching the level of the Halloween Queen, one could already realize the existence of the [Observer].
Various worlds, various powers, and various destinies are all generated through observation. It is the will cast down by a sufficiently high-dimensional existence. Simply by being observed, the world begins to generate, and the world begins to operate.
In certain mythological systems, there are similar concepts. For example, in the White Elephant's mythology, the world is merely a dream of the Creator God.
When the dream ends, the world dissolves into illusions; when the dream begins anew, the world reboots.
This bears some similarity to the relationship between an Observer and lower-dimensional beings.
However, since there is an [Observer], there must also be the unobserved.
That which has been observed collapses into specific worlds, characters, destinies, time, and everything else.
That which remains unobserved is like a sea of chaos; nothing has been decided yet, but it harbors the qualities to become anything.
In the eyes of the Halloween Queen, Kaito Shirogane's body contained the qualities of the [Unnavigated Sea].
This was the reason she believed Kaito Shirogane could break the boundary between human and god and touch the Abyssal Domain in just thirty days.
That kind of thing could no longer be described by words like aptitude or talent. Even with the assistance of the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment, ordinary humans, gods, or even Dragon Species and Astral Spirits shouldn't have experienced such rapid enlightenment.
Rather, long-lived and immortal species like gods, Dragon Species, and Astral Spirits, having millennia of lifespans, would instead take a considerable amount of time because they had ample time to comprehend it.
Even among these existences, not just anyone could possess combat techniques of the divine domain. Only Origin Candidates like Son Goku, or Heavenly Realm leaders like Indra, possessed sufficiently profound combat techniques to wander within that domain.
Other gods could more or less only touch upon a move or two.
That was far from comparable to something like the [Martial God's Ultimate Intent].
The Halloween Queen believed that the Martial God's Ultimate Intent was a generalization similar to the essence of the [Unnavigated Sea]. Because he inherently possessed the foundation to evolve into any power, Kaito Shirogane could acquire such a terrifying ability so easily.
Possessing the terrifying essence to push any ability into the divine domain and even the Abyssal Domain!
And that destructive move that fused all power and collapsed it into chaos itself—Singularity of Demise.
That power further corroborated the Halloween Queen's view.
Kaito Shirogane naturally listened humbly to the Halloween Queen's opinions; after all, she was one of the most powerful plot characters he could come into contact with.
In terms of power level, she naturally possessed a high-level perspective that others could not.
Therefore... the reason he could use the [Third Star Particle] wasn't because of the layer of Azi Dahaka's Another Cosmology imprinted within him.
But because the nature of the Third Star Particle itself was closer to the Unnavigated Sea?
The Third Star Particle was a miraculous creation, a substance that shouldn't exist but did, a third state of particle beyond matter and antimatter.
If such a thing existed, it should only exist within the unobserved chaos...
After obtaining the [Physique of the Primordial Man], Kaito Shirogane realized that standing within the Space would always be judged as standing upon the world.
Therefore, he would receive a continuous stream of life force.
Although the constant acceleration of the Third Star Particle causing the collapse of his Physique of the Primordial Man was an accident, since it could collapse his physical body, it proved this thing could affect him!
And for Kaito Shirogane's currently increasingly powerful and terrifying physical body, the things capable of producing an effect were becoming fewer and fewer.
He wanted to improve; he wanted trials!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Kaito Shirogane exploded time and time again, but was reborn time and time again. This level of injury could not be considered fatal for him now, possessing high-tier immortality and constant auto-regeneration.
And as long as his life force was continuously replenished, it couldn't even leave a scar.
[Authority: Physique of the Primordial Man has been upgraded. Current: Tier 3]
Squelch~ Bang!
The Tier 3 Physique of the Primordial Man had clearly received a considerable increase in both life force and hardness.
Kaito Shirogane calculated in his mind; under the acceleration of the Third Star Particle, his body held on for about three more seconds before exploding.
Moreover, before exploding, there were obvious signs of tearing on his body, which meant his body had begun to adapt and react to the Third Star Particle.
It wasn't instantly destroyed.
Kaito Shirogane continued to repeat the cycle of explosion and rebirth just like this.
The Goddess, however, put away her expression. With a wave of her hand, she teleported Kaito Shirogane directly back to his personal space. Seeing that she wouldn't be able to extract any more high-quality [Information] for a while, she was unwilling to watch him repeat this clumsy enhancement process.
She could tell that this little rascal, just like when he insisted on anchoring his talent back then, possessed a completely incomprehensible level of confidence in his own power.
He was certain he could adapt to that Miracle Armament. No matter what the cost was, no matter how much time it would take, he was unwilling to waste even a bit of performance and attributes...
"Truly... greedy."
[Authority: Physique of the Primordial Man has been upgraded. Current: Tier 4]
Crack, squelch~ Bang!
Inside Kaito Shirogane's personal space, Li Qingzi had just entered when she saw the guy who had grown powerful to the realm of monsters explode into a cloud of blood mist.
She froze in place, her aloof face filled with astonishment.
—
But the next moment, she saw that the cloud of blood mist didn't dissipate; instead, it condensed and instantly grew flesh and blood.
Li Qingzi lowered her eyes again, realizing that the Space hadn't judged her slave contract as dissolved.
Perhaps... this level of injury can no longer be considered fatal to him at all...
Li Qingzi didn't know if she let out a sigh of relief or a sigh of regret.
She was getting further and further away from this guy she had once chased down a mountain in the Dragon Ball world, to the point where she could no longer even feel his power.
Li Qingzi turned and twisted the doorknob. Thanks to the resource acquisition efficiency of the current Paradise and its increasingly mature intelligence network, coupled with the fact that Mercenary Tao no longer restricted her resources...
She could finally restart her own enhancements.
Before Li Qingzi left, she saw the purple-haired Ichinen Seishi also enter the space. This top-tier Reincarnator retained the title of [Death Sword], so she couldn't be considered falling behind.
But for a Reincarnator, lacking ambition essentially meant falling behind. Every moment, Reincarnators were initiating deployment missions, and every successful deployment mission allowed Reincarnators to obtain massive resources for enhancement.
Staying in place actually meant falling behind and being surpassed.
Li Qingzi had already heard that a few equally famous newcomers had emerged among the East District rookies. They also stood out during their rookie trial missions and rapidly enhanced themselves in the subsequent missions, breaking through the First Step.
Just like she had once done. Just like... Mercenary Tao had once done.
Huu~
Exhaling a breath of stale air, Li Qingzi twisted the doorknob and entered the shantytown. She needed to start a new round of deployment after a brief enhancement.
Ichinen Seishi, however, looked away from Kaito Shirogane, whose body was still continuously cracking and exploding, and spoke proactively, "Eclipse, you're also going for the next round of deployment, right? Given the interval cycles and our power tiers, it's highly likely we'll be deployed to the same mission this time~"
She showed intentions of proposing cooperation. Previously, Ichinen Seishi hadn't shown much respect for this "slave senior," Li Qingzi. But the other party's strength had also progressed rapidly, even touching upon the Concussive Pulse of the Spiritual Light.
This changed her mind, leading her to consider teaming up with her under Mercenary Tao's command.
But hearing this, Li Qingzi suddenly curled the corners of her mouth, revealing a smile that felt familiar to Ichinen Seishi.
That cruel smile hiding arrogance was exactly identical to Mercenary Tao's previous expression.
"Have you developed fear because you've stagnated?"
"You... have become weak."
Saying this, Li Qingzi turned into a beam of light and vanished from the personal space.
She finally experienced a sliver of the look Kaito Shirogane had given her back then.
So, when one's own strength rapidly grows, those guys who once looked down on you truly would reveal such a weak posture.
But it had been almost half a year since Kaito Shirogane said "You've become weak" to her, spanning an unknown number of task deployment intervals.
Can I still catch up to that guy...?
Ichinen Seishi hadn't expected her proactive goodwill gesture to receive such an answer. Anger welled up in her heart, but then, she heard a terrifying laughter ring out behind her.
"Hah, hahaha... Hahahaha!"
The sound waves almost turned into visible white air currents, wreaking havoc within the personal space. Wherever they passed, furniture turned into dust.
Although these items were cheap and could be regenerated by the Space at any time, just being able to cause this level of destruction simply by laughing aloud...
Ichinen Seishi clearly realized there was an insurmountable chasm between her strength and Mercenary Tao's.
No, she should say that she might be separated from Mercenary Tao by more than two tiers.
And the distance between each tier was far greater than the gap between herself and those high-tier Reincarnators!
Compared to when he had to activate that transformation to defeat the combined efforts of herself, Mahakala, and Su Qingqiu, the current Mercenary Tao was already a hundred, a thousand times stronger?!
Ichinen Seishi wavered for a moment before her gaze steadied again, and an intense killing intent emanated from her.
[Physique of the Primordial Man has evolved. Current: Tier 5]
[Physique of the Primordial Man (Tier 5): The body of a Primordial Man. Standing upon the world is like standing in your own kingdom. Can generate up to 30% immunity against any power system or Authority. Life essence is identical to a god of the same tier. Authorities below Tier 5 cannot produce any effect.]
Kaito Shirogane's body finally stopped exploding easily. He could feel the Third Star Particles surging continuously within him. The endless acceleration brought about a qualitative change in his bodily functions.
The simplest point was that his Constitution and Strength began to mutually transform and amplify each other.
Every point of Constitution effectively provided an amplification equivalent to two points of Strength;
And every point of Strength effectively provided an amplification equivalent to two points of Constitution.
This amplification was akin to an independently calculated [Efficiency].
The Third Star Particle made it so that when Kaito Shirogane's body possessed the strength to shatter mountains and the earth, it simultaneously possessed the resilience to withstand that power, and vice versa.
Although the attribute points appeared unchanged, just this single effect of the Third Star Particle effectively caused Kaito Shirogane's Strength and Constitution to be doubled during combat.
Combined with Kaito Shirogane's unique multiplicative enhancement system, the actual boost was even more terrifying.
Kaito Shirogane was very curious. When Amatsu judged that the outcome between him and the West District's [Yoko] was unknown, did he possess the [Third Star Particle] at that time?
Is that woman really that powerful?
I really want to... try it out.
Once this thought emerged, it became impossible to suppress.
Within the Infinite Dimensional Space, it was indeed difficult to cross between the East, West, South, and North Districts. Aside from those top-tier primary worlds, it was rare to encounter Reincarnators from other districts.
But... the real world was different.
In the real world, with Kaito Shirogane's current Magnetic Field Rotation power that defied gravity, coupled with the Sky Dance Technique, he could easily reach any place!