Awakened: Evolving to Godhood

[You've gained a total of 100 skill essence of the demonic-ranked technique, Energy Radiation!]

[Would you like to use 50 skill essence to learn it?"

Everything now made sense to the handsome man. The dark book was similar to the trial ground. The creator of this technique only wanted the people who passed his challenges and gained his acknowledgment to learn the technique he created using his entire life as an example. Passing even one of his challenges would net a few skill essence to the person who can use them to learn it.

"Yes, I would like to learn it."

Who wouldn't?

It was a demonic-ranked technique, feared and desired by even the members of the higher races.

[Congratulations! You've learned a demonic grade skill, Energy Radiation (entry-level)]

[Description: You can discharge energy to up to a hundred miles and launch an impossible to evade attack at everything within that range.]

An instant after those words left his mouth, a large amount of information entered Elliot's mind. It showed him how to control the energy after discharging it out of his body. It told him how to infect the energy in the surrounding by using the energy he discharged from his body. It told him how to take control of the energy in his surrounding. It told him how to make a virtual ability kingdom!

[You've gained a new skill, "Virtual Ability Kingdom: Evil Genius Invasive pursuit."]

It allowed him to gain such an understanding of his essence of life and spiritual energy that he gained an ability kingdom of his own, albeit not as good as an actual one.

But it was still better than having none!

He had used 50 skill essence to learn it. Now, he only had 50 left. Elliot turned his gaze and looked at the number of skill essence he needed to upgrade it to to the next level and saw that he needed 200 points, almost four times the initial amount.

"The intermediate-level must be really special as it allows one to shatter others into pieces. I wonder what changes it would bring in my use of energy after I reach that level."

Elliot moved to the next page. From what he could tell, the dark book only had a total of eight pages. He had already gone through two of them, defeated their mechanism, and earned all the skill essence he could from them. Only six more pages could give him the skill essence he needed to upgrade it.

The third and fourth pages lacked words. They were empty, as white as the paper of the child who decided to fill his answer sheet with white while remembering all the times he gripped his stick and moved his hand back and forth instead of studying. The whiteness of the sheet reminded the child of the thousands of tissue he had wasted in merely a year and the suspicious white in them—what a sad life.

Elliot was looking for clues. Again with the help of his extraordinary power, he realized that he needed to glance at the blank papers ten times to trigger the mechanism. Elliot did just that. Then, he saw a black whirlpool opening up in the center of the two pages. Whatever it was, it tried to pull his subconscious into another place that he could see was full of monsters. Hope asked whether he wanted to pay 10000 units of the essence of life to break free from the attractive force of the curse that was pulling his consciousness into the alternate space or not, but Elliot declined.

He let the mysterious force carry his consciousness into the other side, which was full of monsters.

[You've entered the dark battlefield!]

[Please kill all of the thousands of monsters to escape this place.]

[The faster you are, the better your reward.]

Elliot found himself in a large endless plain. It was completely barren, devoid of any sort of greenery or even weed. There were beasts all over this place, and they were closing in on him. They moved so fast that they seemed like arcs of shadows or rays of light. A closer look revealed that the monsters he had never seen before, beasts that looked like horses but had wings on their back. Some had black while the other golden. The ones with golden wings looked magnificent, while the others with black wings looked domineering.

"There's no place to run, huh."

Somewhat far behind him, there was a huge wall. It had many cracks in it. Giant insects with unbreakable exoskeletons were also dashing out of those holes. All of them were moving towards him.

He was the target of all the monsters in this place.

However, he didn't panic.

Instead, he smiled and exposed an excited expression on his face.

"Virtual Ability Kingdom: Divine Invasion!"

Elliot didn't use the name Hope gave to the skill. It sounded not too good to him, after all. He made up his own keyword and decided to say that name to activate it. A large amount of energy surged out of his body and spread outwards. It infected his surroundings, allowing Elliot to control the spiritual energy, air, and gravity of the infected area, and the infection spread outwards. Until the gravity, air, and energy in a hundred miles radius belonged to him.

By this time, many monsters had reached near him. Some charged straight at him, intending to flatten him into a meat patty. While the others leaped towards him with their mouth opened and scissors-like teeth revealed. What they wanted to do to him was pretty sensational and nothing short of brutal. They wanted to rip him apart and eat him alive!

"I bestow death to you all!"

A miracle happened under the dark sky! Starting from the beasts who were nearest to him and extending to the beasts who were in the radius of his virtual ability kingdom; everyone got crushed to death!

Their bodies exploded, blood rushing outwards and sprinkling all over the dark ground.

A moment later, the dark battlefield around Elliot looked more like a crimson river!

He was standing in the middle of this place, and there was an uncountable number of corpses around him.

The thing was, all of them died in a moment!

"The attack power of this demonic-ranked technique is too damn perverted! And I am only at the entry-level!" Elliot exclaimed, not having any better words to explain the overwhelming might of his ability kingdom.