NOVEL NEXT Chapter 202: Breakthroughs, Eldritch Father
"I am back!" John clenched his fist and looked at his reflection in the mirror he created using Molding Essence.
He was a bit taller, and there were faint black patterns below his two eyes that soon disappeared.
'I feel strange, but better than ever.'
"Brother John!" Chuthulos' avatar appeared right beside him, excitement bubbling in his eyes. "I knew it!"
John smiled. "Naturally, I wasn't going to kick the bucket. I still have a lot to do."
"John!"
Yuna and Jibril arrived quickly on their flying monsters, their faces blooming as soon as they saw John.
"What's up, girls?" John grinned.
Both of them vanished with different effects and appeared before John, hugging him tightly.
…
John got the general gist of the current situation.
And looking at the development over the past sixty days, he was delighted.
Tamers had regularly gone out to fight and train.
The resources had increased a lot in the wilderness alongside monsters thanks to the calamity, but with the tactics and the teleportation rings, Tamers worked hard to train and became strong.
Thousands of Emperor-rank Tamers broke through to Sovereign-rank.
And those below also made significant progress, with many reaching Emperor-rank.
Since Tamers started treating their Pet Monsters like family because of John's rules, everyone could use the full potential of Soul Synergy.
So during Soul Synergy, Tamers were way stronger than Monsters with their stats directly boosted by 100% of the amount of their Pet Monsters, making them strong and increasing their survivability.
The billions of people had already settled in the advanced city that John had designed to fit in 10 billion people, and various production lines and companies had started for daily necessity items, with Tamers bringing raw materials from outside in large chunks in the storage pouches and storage rings.
"Where's Azelis? And Max, too. I don't sense their presence here."
"They've ascended. Sister Azelis took the helm of the new organization up there. Things are already getting hyped up there from what we know," Yuna said and smiled. "They all want to see Mr. Sirius."
"Well, Mr. Sirius is no more." John rubbed his chin, thinking. "It's time to bring in another identity from Vault Curio Traders."
"Brother John, it looks like you are ready." Chuthulos grinned.
"Yep." John grinned back. Standing up, he looked at the sky. "It's time to ascend. I don't want to hold back the overflowing power inside me right now."
Jibril and Yuna were confused, but John vanished after he finished speaking.
Since he died inside Doom Veil, he was still there in the cosmic darkness.
But in a blink, he vanished and ascended, appearing in the large magical sea where humans and demons who crossed the doom veil would appear.
A single high-ranked world was connected to multiple lower-ranked worlds, so people from other lower-ranked worlds connected to this second-layer world also ascended here.
Naturally, John didn't even show himself to anyone because right after appearing there, he entered a spatial layer with his Voidspace mastery and began teleporting great distances upward.
And while he was doing that, he had already broken through to Legendary-rank.
Sovereig-rank tamers had Soul Palaces. The soul palace fully matures when they reach soul power of 10,000, which automatically forms a soul embryo in the center, reversing the position of their soul.
Previously, the Soul Core, Soul Crystal, Soul Pond, Soul Lake, Soul Sea, and Soul Palace were inside one's soul avatar, but after reaching the peak of Sovereign-rank, a soul embryo forms in the Soul Palace, which shifts one's soul avatar there, alongside their complete essence of soul.
And to break through to Legendary-rank, the requirement was to concentrate the full 10,000 soul energy at once in their soul embryo, but without shattering it.
If the soul embryo shattered, the Tamer would lose 5000 soul power, and also injure their soul, setting them back.
But the 10,000 soul energy also needed to be concentrated at once to create Legend Spark, so this delicate process required absolutely high control.
Well, John did it while teleporting since he had an abundant amount of pure essence power flooding his entire soul space, thanks to completely merging with the Rune of New Beginning.
As soon as he formed his Legend Spark, the limits of his physical and soul broke.
The stored essence power began making his physical body and soul strong rapidly.
Sovereign-rank had peak physical stats of 2000, and soul power at 10,000.
Legendary-rank had peak physical stats of 5000, and soul power at 25,000.
In just a minute, John reached the peak of Legendary-rank.
Not only he, but all of his pets began getting stronger automatically, as there was still a lot of unused pure essence power.
Except for Noctelith, who was already at the peak of Legendary-rank, the other six monsters ranked up instantly to Legendary-rank and started getting stronger.
'I might as well transform them now.'
John's eyes flickered as a dark purple whirling symbol with jagged patterns in the center appeared in his eyes.
He was not a human anymore.
He was half-human, half-eldritch.
And after acquiring the origin of Eldritch, completely merging with the Rune of the New Beginning that was literally made from the creator of Eldritch, John acquired the power to bestow the Eldritch attribute.
He bestowed it on everyone, except for Alfred, who already had it.
In Monster Paradise, all of them released a burst of energy that soon vacuumed back, sucking in spirit energy from the atmosphere for a bit.
Shortly, all of them were encased in exotic cocoons like Alfred was encased.
But John wasn't done yet.
His teleport distance and speed significantly increased as he continued to grow stronger and reached the peak of Legendary-rank.
But in just a minute, he had crossed tens of thousands of kilometers already.
He saw some floating islands after a certain distance and was surprised.
But each of those large islands had a volatile atmosphere.
The islands were as large as hundreds of kilometers to thousands, and were raging with giant hurricanes, storms, dark clouds with colorful lightning.
He could also feel many dangerous presences.
Suddenly, danger bells rang in his mind, and he instantly went inside Monster Paradise.
Chuthulos sighed in relief. "That was a close call, brother John. You were just directed by a rather powerful Calamity-rank Monster."
John was sweaty all over just because of that single moment of danger he felt.
"How powerful are the calamity-rank monsters?" John muttered. "And I still have a lot of unused pure essence power. I should break through to Mythical-rank, but I need to stabilize your Legend Spark first."
— Strength: 5000
— Defense: 5000
— Speed: 5000
— Soul Palace: 50,000/50,000
"Peak of Legendary-rank, just like that." John chuckled.
"Brother John, Mythical-rank is exactly twice as strong as Legendary-rank. Their maximum physical stats cap at 10,000, and their Soul Power caps at 50,000."
"As for Calamity-rank…they are significantly more powerful at the peak. Soul Gears of Legendary-rank and Mythical-rank Monsters have minor differences, but soul gears at Calamity-rank become much more powerful. Each calamity one overcomes significantly makes them stronger. Tamers can't have soul gears, but I have fixed that problem for us by creating Abyss Labyrinth and the Eldritch Gear Forge." Chuthulos grinned."
"Calamity-rank's main benefit lies in the boost of Physical stats," Chuthulos waved his hand, showing a chart.
First calamity — 20,000 Physical stats — 60,000 Soul Power
Second calamity — 30,000 Physical stats — 65,000 Soul Power
Third calamity — 40,000 Physical stats — 70,000 Soul Power
Fourth calamity — 50,000 Physical stats — 75,000 Soul Power
Fifth calamity — 60,000 Physical stats — 80,000 Soul Power
Sixth calamity — 70,000 Physical stats — 85,000 Soul Power
Seventh calamity — 80,000 Physical stats — 90,000 Soul Power
Eight calamity — 90,000 Physical stats — 95,000 Soul Power.
Ninth calamity — 100,000 physical stats — 100,000 soul Power.
John's eyes widened. "What the fuck?"
Maximum physical stats of Sovereign-rank capped at 10,000.
But Calamity-rank freaking reached 100,000!
"The difficulty lies in that crossing calamity can automatically increase one's soul power by five thousand. But Tamers and Monsters need to increase their physical stats themselves by pairing Monster Geno Arts with powerful resources to increase their physical stats. And they also need to learn and master strong moves since Pet Monsters cannot be used to defend against calamities. If you summon a Pet monster for aid during a calamity, its power increases threefold. If you summon two pet monsters, their power increases by sixfold."
"And that's not all. It would also impede the progression of your Pet monsters since they have their own calamities to pass through."
John's eyes glinted. "This calamity-rank is interesting."
"Of course, it's the final barrier required for one to cross if they want to ascend to the final layer of this Primostrial Cosmoverse—the realm of gods." Chuthulos wryly smiled.
"Oh yeah, you will have to dissolve your contract if you want your Pet Monsters to enter Demi God rank. Because even if they pass all calamities, if they are still bound by contract, the laws created by Monster gods will prevent them from entering the Demi God rank."
Chuthulos proceeded to tell John about the information he had shared with Azelis and others.
John was amazed. "So that's how it all started, and the situation of this cosmoverse."
He grinned. "Well, my buddies will be my buddies even if I dissolve the contract."
"Indeed." Chuthulos smiled. "And they are Eldritch-attributed now, so you still have a connection with them. Because you are now the father of Eldritch, having the purest source of Eldritch within you."
"So I am your father, too?" John cheekily laughed.
Chuthulos laughed. "Technically, yes."
…
John went out and instantly teleported away from the location.
This place was a bit too dangerous.
He needed to find a secret and safe location in the sky somewhere, empty and free of space.
This higher-ranked world was too big, so there was no lack of such space.
Soon, he found it and then contacted Azelis via the rings they had.
With his Voidspace attribute, communication wasn't a problem anymore.