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THE KING-LEVEL GENIUS
The Stormbreak Spire rose against the apocalyptic sky like a clenched fist, a defiance of civilization standing tall in a world torn apart. Its walls were not simply stone or metal. They were a dense combination of crystal, metal, and hardened intent, fused by fire and will over decades of broken existence. Every surface of the Spire radiated authority, power, and purpose.The golden path from the System guided Draven, Selene, and Goran up to a vast landing terrace carved directly into the mountainside. The terrace buzzed with activity. Ascendants of all ranks landed, their Qi leaving ripples in the charged air. Some moved with calm precision. Others stomped forward with raw strength. All of them carried the weight of survival in their every movement.When they landed, the first thing Draven noticed was how heavy the air felt not just thick with Qi, but dense with intent. This place was more than a structure. It was a machine of survival, and every being here was either a cog or a co
NEW SKY, TRUE WEIGHT
The air between the peaks was a graveyard of shattered storms. This was no wilderness; it was the scarred frontier of a broken world, where wild Qi was the only true law. Draven flew through it, not as an intruder, but as a natural force within the chaos. To his left, Selene moved with sharp, efficient bursts on discs of silver Qi. To his right, Goran’s platform of stone and wood ground forward like a moving fortress.They were not allies by oath, but by the unspoken recognition of their new station. In the World After, reaching S-Grade wasn't just an achievement. It was a fundamental shift in one's place in the order of things. They were no longer aspirants. They were assets. They were power.The System's golden path arrowed toward the Stormbreak Spire, a colossal, fortress-like peak sheathed in a perpetual, raging tempest. It wasn't just a mountain; it was a bastion, one of the few stable points of human order in a sea of Aura-twisted wilds.A shape resolved in the violent sky ahea
THE VIEW FROM THE SKY
The wind this high had teeth. It clawed at Draven’s torn clothes and whipped his hair, but he felt only a distant pressure. The raw cold of the mountain could no longer touch him. His Qi-refined body hummed with warmth, a quiet furnace burning with the light of his new core.From his position, the plateau looked small. The remaining contenders—Selene, Goran, Lyra, the injured twin, and Vance’s battered group—were like pieces on a stone game board. Their struggles, which had felt so enormous before, now looked like small, frantic scrambles. He could see the strategies forming: Goran planting himself to shield Selene as she prepared a metallic Qi strike; Lyra and the twin moving together, frost and reflections weaving a fragile defense.He felt no triumph. Only quiet separation. He had crossed the line. The frantic competition below was for a prize he had already claimed.The System interface appeared in his vision.[ Status: Draven ][ Realm: Qi Refining, Level 2 of 13 (Grade S Level 3
TRIAL BY ANNIHILATION
With Kael gone, the plateau didn’t calm. The air felt tight, stretched, like it could snap at any moment. Three trios, nine contenders, three spots. The Convergence’s light beat down like a relentless drum, counting down to chaos.Draven stood with Selene and Goran, forming a solid wall of strength. Across the stone, Vance’s group crackled with heat and whispered shadows. Lyra’s trio of frost and mirrored twins waited silently. No one spoke. The only communication was the pressure of the Aura pressing down on them all, heavy as stone.Then it began.It didn’t start with a shout but with a SCREECH—a wave of twisted sound from Vance’s ally, a woman with hands like tuning forks. The air in front of her tore apart, smashing rocks and aiming straight for Lyra’s twins.The twins didn’t dodge. They moved as one, crossing their arms. A dome of shimmering energy appeared around them. The sound wave hit it and bounced back, gouging a deep mark in the plateau floor. Vance’s sound-woman had to di
QI REFINING REALM
One minute inside the Convergence beam felt like a lifetime made of both heaven and hell.Draven stood in the very center of the roaring column of light. The beam did not simply hit him from the outside. It poured straight through him like a river of fire and ice, flooding his veins and trying to rip his soul out of his body. His Cyclic Flow spun wildly, fighting to keep the chaotic power in a pattern, but it felt like holding back a collapsing mountain.He could feel his own Aura, the strong and dense foundation he had built up to Level 13, being pushed to its absolute limit.To his left, Vance was losing his fight in a dramatic and brutal way. The large man was already on his knees. His entire body glowed like metal left too long in a furnace. He no longer controlled the power. The power controlled him. His fire Aura, which had once roared proudly, was now being smothered by a force far too great.“I cannot…” Vance gasped. His voice sounded wet and broken. He tried to stand. Another
RUTHLESS GEOMETRY
The silence on the plateau felt heavy, almost as thick as the pressurized Aura in the air. Only Kael’s painful wheezing and the constant humming of the Convergence could be heard.Draven stood calmly against his boulder. He did not bother looking at the others. He let them look at him and feel the calm certainty that came from his victory.Selene, the silver woman, finally spoke. “The variable is now a constant,” she said in her sharp, mechanical voice. “There are nine of us and only three spots. Random fighting is wasteful. We will weaken ourselves before reaching the top.”Vance, the man who shimmered like heat, snorted. “So what is your better idea, metal mind?”“Alliances,” Selene replied. “Three groups of three. The strongest groups take the spots.”The others immediately began thinking. The twins, Jin and Jax, exchanged a quick look that felt like they were silently sharing information. Shade, the shadow-man, considered quietly, absorbing the light around him.Lyra, the frost-we
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