Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1514: Getting serious

With his understanding of how the path system operated, Rain grasped the concept of pushing skills beyond their limits by forcing them to consume more energy. Just as he could wield skills even without physical equipment, he surmised that he could compel the path system to break its own boundaries, harnessing its power to greater effect.

In that moment of clarity, amidst the chaos of his suffering, Rain saw a path forward—a strategy to turn the tables on his enemy and unleash the full potential of his abilities. By manipulating the path system to his advantage, he could unlock new levels of power and resilience, turning Arel’s own tactics against her in a battle of wits and wills.

With this revelation burning bright in his mind, Rain steeled himself against the pain, channeling his newfound knowledge into a plan of action.

"How do I apply this to passive skills?" Rain thought. "I have some time since Lonos isn’t here, but I should hurry up with the experiments."

Arel didn’t have time to react to Rain’s thoughts either, so he soon found the answer to that question... It was easy, thanks to the information path. Passive skills worked by making the body adapt automatically to certain situations and experiences, so Rain... by using the Information path, he compressed all the experience of the skills and made it lose five hundred levels, but the effectiveness of the skill doubled...

"His resistance to fire is improving again... what is going on? Did the plan backfire somehow?"

As Lonos manipulated the flow of time within Rain’s mind, accelerating it to a staggering 86 thousand times its normal pace, Rain found himself thrust into a maelstrom of accelerated thoughts and sensations. In the span of a mere second in the outside world, he experienced an entire day’s worth of events, his consciousness racing forward at a dizzying pace.

For Rain, this temporal distortion was both a curse and a blessing. While it granted him an abundance of time to think and strategize, it also subjected him to an onslaught of intensified pain and mental exertion. Each passing moment felt like an eternity, with thoughts and perceptions colliding in a whirlwind of rapid-fire cognition.

Amidst this turbulence, Arel came to a realization. By granting Rain such an extended period for contemplation, she had inadvertently provided him with an opportunity to exploit his accelerated thought process to its fullest potential. In giving him ample time to strategize and adapt, she had unwittingly tipped the scales in his favor, empowering him to outmaneuver her with his newfound clarity and resolve.

"He is using the information path in a way that Rais didn’t... the situation and the pressure made him think of that... I have to solve the situation before it becomes a real problem."

The skill Fire Immunity leveled up.

The skill Fire Immunity leveled up.

The skill Fire Immunity leveled up.

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Rain thought of learning ways to use the information path where Rais couldn’t, but he failed since he didn’t consider the basics... that Rais didn’t use the paths system in the first place. Letting the overseer do everything for him was also wrong since it would give too many limitations.

Still, not everything was roses... the strain of doing something new for the first time made Rain pretty tired... or maybe it was because his mind was working many times faster than usual. Compressing all the experience of Fire Immunity was also tiresome since Rain made those memories a lot more fresher and the pain more vivid.

"Since it is like this, I guess I will just do my part and keep my word. He can endure even the solar flares now... it is impossible to tell what his body can withstand in the future."

The giant hands from the surface of the red Star emerged again... and they moved to crush Rain with all their might. While he solved several problems, he still couldn’t move his body as he wanted.

In the end, the hands grabbed him, and they began to crush his bones and burn his body little by little.

Despite the excruciating agony of his bones being ground to dust, Rain’s mind remained focused. Each moment of torment threatened to push him to the brink of surrender, yet he clung to consciousness with an iron will, refusing to yield to the pain.

Amidst the ceaseless torment, a spark of inspiration flickered to life within Rain’s mind. As he grappled with the searing agony of his shattered bones, he found some relief in the clarity of thought that emerged from the crucible of suffering. With each wave of pain that crashed over him, he delved deeper into the recesses of his mind.

It was in this crucible of agony and introspection that Rain’s latest revelation was born. Driven by the relentless pressure of his torment, he stumbled upon a new strategy, a gambit born of desperation and fueled by the unyielding determination to survive.

Lvl 75: Energy Dispersion - Disperses accumulated energy surges or concentrations, releasing controlled bursts of energy to disrupt opponents or power

Lvl 80: Energy Transformation - Transforms the very nature of energy itself, converting it into exotic forms such as dark energy, quantum fluctuations, or gravitational waves for esoteric purposes.

Lvl 85: Energy Mastery - Attains mastery over the fundamental principles of energy manipulation, transcending mortal limitations to become a true master of energetic transcendence. Increases power and efficinecty of this path skills by ten percent per level.

Lvl 90: Energy Nexus - Establishes a personal nexus of energy convergence, serving as a focal point for the practitioner’s vast energy manipulation and facilitating unparalleled feats of energetic prowess. You can turn some objects and points into an storage spot of energy.

Lvl 95: Energy Ascendance - Ascends to a state of energetic ascendance, becoming one with the very essence of energy itself and transcending the boundaries of mortal existence to become a living embodiment of energetic power. You can take over objects with vast amounts of energy; higher levels increase the objects that you can use.