I Became the Only Non-mage in the Academy-Chapter 270: Transcendence (2)

The power I chose was simple.

‘Power Surge. And Maximization.’

[Related colors exist.]

[Discovered Absolute Stat Purple.]

[The owner of Absolute Stat Purple exists. You can steal the power by killing the opponent.]

“……Huh?”

This was completely unexpected.

I stared blankly at the blue window in confusion.

But it was not strange.

I was not the only one who had discovered an Absolute Stat. The Giants and Dragon Gods who opposed the outer gods could also had this possibility, and even the outer gods themselves.

However,

I could steal this power?

I hurriedly tried to organize my own power.

I was strong.

In terms of just power alone, I was nearly invincible now. But did that mean I was guaranteed to win?

If asked this, I would be somewhat doubtful.

‘There are many powers I don’t know about.’

Absolute Stat.

They were powers determined by ‘color’.

The powers I knew of were only ‘White’ and the ‘Black’ I possessed.

Moreover, in the case of White, there was no way for me to win no matter what I did now.

If they judged themselves to be at a disadvantage, they could turn back time to fight, and if you asked if that’s weak, it definitely wasn’t.

And the mention of Purple suggested there were other colors too.

In the worst case, there could be stats as fraudulent as White.

[Absolute Stat Purple's owner is curious.]

[Absolute Stat Purple's owner is looking at you.]

…Wait a minute.

They were looking at me?

Then I felt some kind of ‘gaze’.

-…What’s this? I thought it was a Giant after my power, but it’s a human?

‘Giant?’

-Ah, you’re a newbie who hasn’t had the power for long. You can speak with your thoughts, so say something.

A light tone.

Within it was the voice of a man filled with amusement.

‘Why would a Giant target you?’

-That creature craves power and has a strong body. My power, which starts with ‘Surge’, must have been tempting to him. But without getting ‘Sun and Moon’, it’s all pointless…

As he spoke up to that point, I felt the ‘gaze’ getting closer.

They were coming.

I could instinctively feel that the being speaking was approaching me.

I was pondering how to cut this off.

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The power of Black.

When you knew nothing, cutting it off seemed the best choice.

I brought out the Black.

And I blocked the gaze just like that.

-…Wait, how did you get the Achromatic?

It said with a voice mixed with confusion.

The voice was gradually fading. With it, the gaze was also moving further away.

-…Giant…be…careful…

It made an incomprehensible sound.

Roughly, it seemed like a warning to be careful of the Giant.

‘Kim Ara’s ancestor…’

I frowned.

The Giant and Dragon God.

They started appearing in the very late stages.

When the evil gods invaded Earth.

When the gods of the Hundred Temple were dying one by one, trying to stop them.

‘They are necessary.’

It’s not that our strength was lacking.

Given time, either I or Kim Seo-hyun could handle it.

The evil gods were strong, but that didn’t mean we were weak.

‘Roughly about a year.’

We could even fight the true evil gods that had descended here.

But there was a problem.

When the evil gods invaded here, we needed beings to protect against their attacks.

‘This is giving me a headache…’

Thus, I had to do my best.

I needed to expand my forces, nurture the kids as much as possible.

So first, I had to decide on a color. I pondered for a while.

Purple would be the best, but there was another power close to it. I contemplated until the very end.

[You have acquired Absolute Stat Blue.]

The Absolute Stat I obtained was blue.

Fortunately, this time, there was no overlap with anyone else.

‘Those who acquire colors are rare in the first place.’

I gained another reason to get stronger quickly.

The more colors I preempted, the better.

And the nature of this newly acquired power was simple.

Waves.

And the transmission of power.

A power where the role leaned more towards support than the main. Actually, I wanted this.

Because Black seemed to be the strongest in terms of attack power.

‘I should test this out…’

I had a power that spread widely, but I couldn’t imagine how strong it was.

There was something to look forward to.

The achromatic that the Purple owner mentioned.

It proved that my Black was indeed a special power.

It showed that the path I had walked so far was not wrong.

‘And now, with Blue.’

I spread my hands wide.

Black gathered in my palm, forming a sphere.

‘Since it’s the first time, let’s keep it simple.’

A power that could nearly kill with just a touch of the highest rank was condensed.

On the other hand, the newly obtained Blue formed into a sphere.

Woo-woo-woong!

Looking at this, I could somewhat estimate the power.

‘Since it’s still at level 1, it’s hard to apply…’

Even with just this, I could understand the nature of the power.

Waves.

It had a power that spread widely around.

And one more thing.

The longer the power was maintained, the more it expanded.

I mixed the Blue into the Black sphere.

Crackle-crackle-crackle.

Pzzt-zzt-zzt!

The two powers repelled each other.

Perhaps because they were Absolute Stats, they had a strong will to dominate each other. They were selfish and unwilling to accept anything other than themselves.

‘Make it lighter.’

I made the Blue lighter so that the Black sphere could easily accept it.

After all, my main power was Black.

Blue was just an auxiliary power.

So, I only infused the characteristics of Blue into the Black power.

As the Black sphere met the blue color.

Kuuuuuuuung!

It turned into a massive Black sphere tinted with Blue.

‘Roughly… ten times the size?’

The power felt… about three times stronger.

However, it fully contained the characteristics of Blue.

Hooooooong!

The circle grew bigger and bigger.

It expanded by consuming everything around it.

That was the nature of Blue.

‘This…’

How strong could it be?

I could roughly guess, but I wanted to experiment with this power.

‘What a pity.’

However, unfortunately, truly unfortunately, this place wasn’t my training ground.

It was a special training area created by the Merchen family for their successors.

I dispersed the sphere.

I should experiment with this later in some quiet place.

‘Maybe somewhere like a desert…’

I’d look into that later.

[You have harmonized Absolute Stat Black with Absolute Stat Blue.]

[Absolute Stat Blue increases by 1.]

[The skill, Dark Sword (Ex), changes to Dark Blue Sword (Ex).]

…This was good.

As a gamer, I wanted to see how strong this could be in practice.

But there was no opponent.

Even with just the Dark Sword, there was no one to match it, and I couldn’t swing this at our allies.

Swallowing my regret, I got up from my spot.

It should be time for everyone to wake up by now.

Sakhalin Island, Russia.

A man was loitering around in this area, close to Japan’s island region.

“Does it make sense to use someone like me, a high-class personnel, just because some people went missing?”

The man started to move, grumbling.

He had joined in because there were many reports of people going missing in this place.

For him, who might soon reach the highest rank among the upper-tier heroes, to participate in such a mission…

But there was no choice.

To stay in the Association, he had to meet his quota, and he had recently missed out on missions because he partied too much.

The man, carrying two axes as large as an adult on his back, recalled his recent party.

‘That Lucy girl, she was quite sharp…’

With a sinister smile, the man continued his patrol. Even if it was just formal, he was an upper-tier hero.

His only flaw was his fondness for women, but he was diligent about exploration, which is why the Association chose him.

After moving for 8 hours, he found nothing.

‘That’s odd…’

Hence, it felt ominous.

The mountain was eerily quiet.

There were no sounds of birds chirping or insects crawling. It was as if all life had vanished from this place. With this unsettling thought, the man turned back.

His intuition told him something was wrong.

In this world, intuition was crucial; it had kept him alive until now.

The man headed towards the city to report this strange phenomenon.

Deep in the mountains, communication was poor. As he made his way to the city, the sense of foreboding grew stronger.

‘What…’

The city was silent too.

It wasn’t just the mountain. Common city sounds like car horns, people chattering, or someone shouting… none of these were heard.

It was as if there were no people in the entire city.

But that couldn’t be.

Wasn’t this where he had stayed just days ago?

Could the entire city’s population have disappeared in the few days he was away?

Thump-thump.

His heartbeat was unusually loud. The man quickly kicked off the ground, grabbing the two axes from his back.

A chill ran through him.

Something swept over him. The man quickly took a stance.

“……What?”

The last thing he saw was something grotesque. If you mixed and mixed humans, would you get something like this?

Countless arms, countless legs. A pit devouring them. And then,

Crunch.

With the sound of something being bitten, the man lost his life.