Rudrean looked at his powerful Super-A rune-slotted Arcane Path and nodded with satisfaction.

[Voidante of Undying Devotion]

[Rank: Legendary]

[Level: 2 (773/1000 Path EXP)]

[Path Talent: Ardor Ad Vinculum]

—> All physical and magical parameters +150% when you are within 1 kilometer of a person who has your undying love. This boost applies to both you and that person.

[Slot 1: Voidante’s Drive (Super-A)]

—> +300% Action Speed, +3000 resistance to any atmosphere.

—> +4000 Fire, Earth, Wind, Ice, Water, and Lightning Resistance.

—> Active: Can teleport anywhere within a 500-meter radius at the cost of 5% maximum Mana. Can appear next to a person who has your undying love at the cost of 5% of your max mana. Distance and accessibility do not matter.

—> Passive: The lower the vitality, the higher your physical parameters, up to a 200% boost at 30% vitality.

[Slot 2: Spirit Nexus (Super-A)]

—> Whenever you draw blood from your foes, you will gain 1 Spirit Spark. Up to 1000 can be stored, and they can be used to summon Spirit Beasts for 1 hour to 24 hours based on Mana infusion at the time of summoning.

10 Spirit Sparks = Spirit Wolf. (Tracker, Skirmisher)

50 Spirit Sparks = Spirit Tiger. (Hunter)

100 Spirit Sparks = Spirit Turtle. (Protector)

100 Spirit Sparks = Frostbound Giants. (Controller)

100 Spirit Sparks = Devil Bomb (Damage)

[Slot 3: Voidante’s Fury (Super-A)]

—> Every 5% of Mana consumed generates 1 Nihil Fury Blade. Up to 1000 can be stored. These blades can be infused into any attacks and grant them 500 omni-defense ignore, up to 5000 when 10 Nihil Fury Blades are infused. For each Nihil Fury Blade past ten infused in an attack, the damage of the attack increases by 10%.

[Slot 4: Hungry Void (Super-A)]

—> +500% Mana recovery, and it increases by 500% per 10% reduction in your mana pool. (Currently translates to 18% max mana recovery per second at maximum.)

—> When your Mana Pool becomes empty, instantly restore it to full at the cost of 5% of your Vitality.

—> Mana Overload: Activate this to make your Mana Pool remain full for one whole minute. But after one minute, you will be unable to recover Mana for five minutes.

All in all, Rudrean could easily kill average peak Core Genesis powerhouses. After all, not everyone had a Legendary Arcane Path.

Just the parameter boosts he had were enough to make him reach their level.

+150% overall stat boost from the Arcane Path passive when Aelira was near. If Isalyn was also physically present, the boost would become +300%!

+300% Action Speed that increased all types of speed related to the body.

Insane Mana Recovery.

Free Teleportation.

+200% physical boost if he lowered his vitality to 30%.

And a +240% further stat boost when activating his Combat Art.

Even Reina and Romen didn’t have a Combat Art that good. Their Combat Arts gave them a boost of 120% and 135% respectively.

[Isalyn: If someone were to know your parameters and talents... well, good people would nurture you, but those with bad intentions would suck you dry.]

’Of course, no one must find out about my talent,’ Rudrean replied.

’I can’t wait for this to be over now and play some erotic games.’ Aelira grinned. ’We’ll take a mission at some scenic and beautiful place so we can also have a small vacation there.’

[Isalyn: Yes, I absolutely need it. I’ve been trapped here for five days.]

’Anyway, we aren’t easily defeated with our stacked Arcane Paths.’ Aelira smiled.

[Voidandi of Everlasting Devotion]

[Rank: Legendary]

[Level: 2 (621/1000 Path EXP)]

[Path Talent: Ferver Ad Amorem]

—> When you are within 1 kilometer of the person that has your undying love, all physical and magical damage received by you and your other half is reduced by 70% and then shared.

[Slot 1: Voidandi’s Halo (Super-A)]

—> Control Immunity of all kinds against 7-star or below arcane craft.

—> +3000 Omni-Magic and Omni-Physical resistance.

—> Active: At the cost of 5% mana, you can increase the overall potency of any spell or arcane martial art by 100%.

—> Active: Initiate Magic Flux, restoring 100% of your maximum mana by forcefully extracting it from the environment. Cooldown: 30 seconds.

[Slot 2: Zilen Vina (Super-A)]

—> Every attack aimed at you produces 1 Vina, up to 1000 can be stored. A number of Vina can be imbued into any spell or arcane martial art to grant them an omni-defense reduction effect. In attacks imbued with 50 Vina, the affected moves apply 100% omni-defense reduction for 5 seconds.

[Slot 3: Night Reign (Super-A)]

—> Expand a 300-meter-radius domain around the user at the cost of 10% Mana. Inside the dome, the perception and senses of enemies are disrupted, while their perception and space-related powers are sealed. Allies gain a boost in perception to surgical clarity.

[Slot 4: Hexer Tether (Super-A)]

—> Target an enemy with Hexer Tether at the cost of 10% of max mana for 30 seconds. When you take damage, the damage is transferred to the target instead.

...

After resting, the group finally arrived in front of the final boss, at the central arena.

A giant statue of someone sitting on a throne was there, unmoving.

But when the group entered the arena, it lit up.

"Alright, so we are going to try something." Aelira announced and looked at Rudrean with a smile. "Let’s do this, darling."

Rudrean’s eyes flickered as the usual mystical sash and rings appeared around him upon activation of his Combat Art, Unbound Warrior.

Stretching his hand forward, he gestured with it like a pistol as his index finger pointed toward the final boss that was awakening.

One second passed.

The boss’s eyes opened and it came alive.

In the next second, several things happened at once.

Aelira infused 50 Vina of her Zilen Vina rune into Rudrean, boosting his next attack to apply 100% omni-defense reduction for five seconds.

Night Reign expanded into a 300-meter radius, blinding the boss.

Rudrean reduced his own Vitality to 30%, boosting his physical parameters by 200%.

The veins over his body flared as he exerted his physical power to the fullest.

Nihil Fury Blades, a total of 84 out of the 1000 he had stored, infused into his next attack, granting 5000 omni-defense ignore and boosting the damage by 740% with the additional 74 Nihil Fury Blades.

84 Nihil Fury Blades was the limit for him at the moment. One more, and he would lose control of the attack.

With all those boosts on top of his current boosted parameters of 150% by passive and 240% by Combat Art, a bullet the size of a bull expanded in front of his finger, swirling with streams of energy in a controlled, orderly manner.

This was a basic long-range attack of his Combat Art that he sometimes used in combat to kill a monster from afar, but it was boosted significantly in one second.

And in the next second, he released it.

ZOOOOM!

The boss, who had just roared and was about to unleash a large AOE attack all around due to Night Reign suppressing its senses, was hit by the giant bullet first. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

BOOOOM!

In the explosion that followed, an implosion occurred as the damage tore a spatial layer.

It mended just as quickly as it appeared, but the boss’s upper half was entirely gone.

[+100 EXP in Arcane Path to all party members.]

[1 Mystic Rune to each party member, and 1 Super S-rank rune to the one with the highest contribution.]

[Final Reward: Geofray Starviel Clay (10-star) 1000 kilograms.]

[Secret Realm is successfully conquered. It will stay active for 24 hours more for anyone who wish to explore. After that, it will disappear.]

Their points increased by a whopping 100,000 the moment Rudrean put the 1000 kilograms of this material, which was barely the size of a one-meter square, into the storage ring provided by the institute.

"We are rich!" Ryzen cheered.

Riven smiled. "We collected so much stuff. And the institute said they’d provide better than market price, so we are absolutely rich."

"We got a 10-star material? Isn’t that crazy? We got nothing higher than 5-star anywhere else." Aelira blinked.

[Isalyn: Maximum difficulty secret realms of each rank are like that. That’s why the final boss also dropped S-rank Rune despite this being a Foundation-rank Secret Realm. Not even many Core Genesis and Soul Tree rank powerhouse can get S-rank runes, after all.]

"Well, good for us." Rudrean chuckled. "With our arsenal, we can clear maximum difficulty Secret Realm."

[Isalyn: Hoho, but there are also special Secret Realm that rewards people with Unique Runes and Divine Runes. They complete overhaul your rune slot with new and better powers. Those are the real juicy stuff.]

"By the way, we also got this Mystic Rune." Aelira asked as she looked at the one she got. "oh wait, we can see its description."

[Mystic Rune]

-Effect: Superimposing it on a rune slot will randomly modify the rune’s power while keeping its rank.

"I guess we don’t need to use it." Rudrean wryly smiled. "Our Arcane Paths are good as they are."

"Those can be sold and used by others, and they are always in demand because they are rarely rewarded in Secret Realm." Ryzen grinned. "That’s another stack of Mana Stones for us."

"There’s no ranks or restrictions to Mystic Runes, so it can be used to modify anyone’s Arcane Path." Rivera smiled. "Be it foundation-stage or Ascension-Stage. So each Mystic Rune’s price is always higher Tier-5 Mana Stones. In auctions, they can reach even higher."

"I see." Aelira nodded thoughtfully. "But I guess the 10-star resource we got will fetch us the best amount of Mana stones."

"For sure. It’s also a hybrid elemental material, so it can be crafted into powerful custom weapons and items." Ryzen grinned. "If we auction it in a big place, we’ll earn a shit ton."