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DIVINE LUNAR SOVEREIGN PHYSIQUE.

A supreme divine physique born from the primordial moon that governs tides, dreams, silence, and eternal night. Never-before-seen physique created for the purpose of serving an eternal sovereign.

Lunar Affinity: Grants Lunar Affinity (SSS).

Lunar tidal wave: Grants absolute control over lunar tidal waves capable of freezing matter, calming souls, and suppressing madness inside a being; it can help in eroding chaos, madness, rage, and corruption, and can help calm down disturbances caused by evil energies.

Yin Immunity: The host is completely immune to all forms of cold, illusion, mental interference and dream manipulation.

Lunar blessing: Moonlight restores mental clarity and soul purity. Fatigue, fear, and mental exhaustion are continuously cleansed; emotions remain stable under moonlight.

Sovereign Moon Pressure: When used with hostile intent, it weakens emotions, makes them unstable, and forcibly subdues creatures aligned with illusions, dreams, spirits, and mental corruption beneath lunar authority.

Dream invader: The host possesses dominion over dreams and subconscious realms. They may invade dreams or manifest illusory dream constructs into reality. The target needs to be weaker than or equal to the host’s strength.

Silver illusionary manipulation: the host can create lunar illusions targeting a weak-minded adversary.

Moon sovereign transformation: the host transforms into a being that radiates immense lunar fluctuation that may influence several targets and draw their attention toward the host; hosts attract the attention of the opposite gender, can influence someone’s emotions with their words, and freeze their hearts to feel a single emotion constantly.

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William carefully read through the effects of his newly awakened Divine Lunar Sovereign physique, his expression gradually becoming more thoughtful with every line he examined.

The more he read, the more he realized that the lunar element was quite a profound element.

He could see effects related to dreams, illusions, emotions, souls, and mental influence.

"It’s absurd..." William muttered softly to himself.

The more he thought about it, the more unbelievable it seemed that planetary or celestial elements could overlap with so many different conceptual domains at once. A single physique connected to the moon somehow governed cold, dreams, emotions, souls, illusions, mental influence, tides, corruption suppression, and subconscious authority altogether.

William slowly exhaled while stretching his back slightly.

Some descriptions only vaguely hinted toward deeper aspects related to souls and mental domains, but he could already understand the general nature of the physique.

Naturally, his thoughts drifted toward his Sun God physique as he tried to strike a contrast between these two divine physiques.

The Sun God’s physique represented purification, heat, vitality, restoration, and overwhelming life force. Even its destructive properties felt crazy.

Moreover, now he possessed another special flame called the lunar tidal flame. Now he possessed 3 special flames: the stellar fire and blood flame from Elavlin, which he would integrate with soon once she returned from her mission, and now he had another one in his arsenal.

William could not even begin imagining how these powers were coexisting inside his body without conflicting with one another.

However, he also understood that his current knowledge was still extremely limited. He had only scratched the surface of the system and the truths hidden behind these divine physiques.

Eventually, as he unlocked more information layers and reached higher levels of cultivation, those questions would naturally answer themselves.

For now, there was no point in overthinking it.

His fingers slowly moved toward the strange mark resting at the center of his forehead. The faint symbol remained completely still, yet William could vaguely feel a mysterious connection hidden within it.

"Orion," he called calmly, "I think Nir placed this mark on me. Can you tell me what it does?"

A moment later, Orion’s mechanical voice echoed inside his mind.

[It is a special mark placed by Nir upon your forehead. It appears to function as a connection medium between the two of you. At present, the mark remains dormant. Once the Hero Program officially begins, I presume additional functions of the mark will reveal themselves.]

William narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Can’t you analyze it right now?"

[I can attempt to do so. However, I advise against it.]

"Why?"

[The mark would need to be activated first for a proper analysis. If that happens, Nir will immediately realize that you managed to activate the mark without her assistance. Considering the current circumstances, avoiding such a development would be preferable.]

William remained silent for a brief moment before nodding slowly.

"Understandable."

He decided not to pursue the matter further. There was no reason to recklessly attract unnecessary attention from someone like Nir, especially when he still lacked information regarding her true intentions.

Pushing the topic aside, William stretched lightly before a faint smile appeared on his face.

"It seems I should finally start shopping."

[Certainly.]

William’s gaze sharpened slightly as he gave his next command without hesitation.

"Purchase one thousand system binders for now."

[Ding!! One billion SP has been deducted from your balance.]

[Ding!! Number of binders: 0 → 1000]

William nodded in satisfaction.

He had already decided who those binders would be used on.

The upcoming batch of first-year students entering the World Academy.

A few months from now, the academy will induct an entirely new generation of talented students. Among them would be countless future geniuses, hidden monsters, protagonists, side characters, future villains, and individuals who would eventually become major figures across the world.

To William, they represented opportunity.

An enormous one.

"System," William suddenly asked, "how much time has passed since I joined the World Academy?"

[Host, approximately six months have passed.]

"What?"

William’s eyes widened in genuine surprise.

It honestly did not feel like six months at all.

Ever since he had started entering the domain of the infinite and repeatedly experiencing time dilation, his perception of time had become increasingly distorted. From his own perspective, it almost felt as though years had already gone by.

Training, battles, system missions, dimensional experiences, and continuous evolution had completely blurred his internal sense of time.

Yet in reality, only half a year had passed in the outside world.

William rubbed his forehead lightly.

"That’s honestly ridiculous..."

Once he calmed down, his thoughts immediately shifted toward the academy’s future induction period.

If only six months had passed, then the next admission cycle should still be around five months away.

That created a problem.

Initially, William had planned to obtain the incoming student list directly from the academy beforehand and bind promising individuals early. However, if admissions were still several months away, then registrations likely had not even begun yet.

Which meant there was no official list to access.

William frowned slightly.

He still remembered a few important names from the original novel’s storyline, but that knowledge was far from enough. There were only a handful of notable characters he could remember clearly.

And unlike before, William no longer intended to limit himself to a few individuals.

He wanted to scale up and start mass binding. So that he had a large enough network of people that could let him skip cultivation and let him focus on other things.

Just as he was thinking about the issue, Orion suddenly spoke again.

[Did you forget that we have been preparing for this day for a very long time?]

William’s eyes immediately sharpened with realization.

"Wait... you mean...?"

[Yes.]

A slow smile formed on William’s face as understanding dawned upon him.

However, another concern quickly surfaced.

"Wouldn’t that take an enormous amount of time?"

[That is something you will need to figure out yourself, Host. Personally, I believe you are capable of accomplishing it.]

William chuckled softly at Orion’s response. It seemed like Orion had faith in him; that was rare coming from someone like Orion, who only knew how to act like a bitch.

Still, another issue remained.

"What about the vampires finding out?"

Orion answered without the slightest hesitation.

[Then scheme if you must; deceive those bloodsuckers.]

William burst into quiet laughter after hearing that response.

"Fine," he said while a dangerous glint slowly appeared in his eyes. "Then let’s begin with the economic takeover of this continent."

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[A/N: Overlap of abilities is completely normal; I do it intentionally sometimes just to express the full scope of the ability or concept; there is no downside. In this Chapter yin immunity overlaps with many other types of immunities and resistances, and that is completely fine since these abilites were meant to be wielded by different individuals and not the same guy]