Chapter 84_ Awakening (2)

"I'm depending on you, partner!"

With those words, a certain feeling fills Intellectual King Solomon.

Depending on me? This person says he needs me, when I am simply processing and assisting him.

It was the birth of genuine emotion which was sprouting from within. But, felt at the same time, a sense of fulfillment.

Ah, I am now in the midst of eternal bliss.

« As you wish, my Master! All possible skills to obtain have been successfully acquired and all knowledge gained has been optimized and successfully transferred. »

Intellectual King Solomon awakened and with thoughts of answering Lexus's wishes, brought forth ever more precision.

[Your comprehension and understanding about yourself has drastically increased.]

[All skills...]

[You have overcome your limitations and have taken one step closer to becoming a true legendary transcendent.]

With the activation of Plunderer and the Dragon's Eye on him, and the result of consuming the Vermilion Fruit, his overwhelming strength, mana, skills, intelligence, and even all his stats, Lexus widened his eyes and realized something he overlooked before.

"I mastered the core and the very essence of my being!"

With the various influx of information rushing straight to his mind, Lexus felt an extreme delight. It wasn't easy to achieve. It was always within his grasp but it left, like it was saying that a mere human wouldn't be allowed its powers.

Magic power entered deep in his bones. Everything in his body was crushed and remade which felt something tingle through his entire body.

It was like he realized and saw a new world.

Seeing that Lexus stopped moving and was being distracted, the clone tried to slash his sword towards him with Mortality Sword but, the sword strikes didn't reach him at all. To be exact, there's no precursor of it being activated at all.

The stoic expression of the clone suddenly froze. It just realized what happened. All of his skills were plundered by the true Lexus, leaving him with zero skills.

Yes, the clones lost all skills he has copied from the original.

As expected of Intellectual King Solomon. To perfectly answer his expectations, no, much more than that, within such a short amount of time.

"Judgment... Something's wrong!"

The clone who supposedly couldn't feel emotions, couldn't help but feel uneasy. He tried dealing a fatal strike towards Lexus but his attempt failed. It was because, the whole body of Lexus turned into a flock of bats, successfully evading the clone's blazing attacks.

When the bats reformed his body, the clone saw a wide grin on his face.

'Worrying about the clone since I'm fighting my amazing self?

The expression of Lexus at this moment was so tranquil and peaceful. After stealing all the skills on the clone, his abilities really became some sort of out-of-this-world stuff.

"Above and below. Throughout the heaven, hell and the earth. I alone am the honored one."

[You have perfectly understood the concept of a legend, transcendent and status.]

With the simultaneous increase in all of his skill levels, Lexus felt revitalized. Although it was only the difference of a few minutes, it was vastly different from before.

His 'rank' had changed.

He felt an overpowering confidence that he could do anything.

「 At this moment, he might have become the strongest legend of all time. 」

Madra knew what was currently happening to Lexus at this moment. Because of how great Intellectual King Solomon is, Lexus received a sudden enlightenment. Yes, it was enlightenment of being reborn as a complete and true legend. The same enlightenment Madra felt when he achieved the status of a legend as the Undefeated King.

In the case of the current generation, it was the enlightenment that Piaro received, resulting for him to become a legend. The experience that Lexus didn't feel before as he simply inherited his status as a legend and didn't pioneered it as his own.

「 As expected... My intuition was indeed correct.」

Madra nodded in satisfaction.

「 Surprisingly... This kid is not afraid of death. 」

Lexus is completely reckless when he faces monsters and even the clone, completely trusting his defense. People usually hesitate a little because they're afraid of dying or getting hurt, but he doesn't have that.

Innate talents are not the only type of talent. People can awaken talents one by one in their lives. The most difficult of these, is the talent to overcome the fear of death.

As Madra was being impressed with the sudden changes in Lexus, the white haired young man looked at the clone with a smile.

Looking at the clone that had a cool eye glass, he could feel that the air around him wavered as he sensed murderous aura radiating from the clone. However, Lexus paid it no attention as he found it no big deal. The clone and Lexus then moved forward at the same time. Boom! Their blades clashed against each other, but instead of the sound of metal ringing against metal, they produced explosions.

In the blink of an eye, two blades clashed again multiple times. Shifting his foot, Lexus then slashed the clone as soon as he found an opportunity. Intense killing intent radiated from his sword with the magic power that burst from his dragon heart.

[Critical!]

[You have dealt 120,000 damage to the target.]

[All buffs on the target will be disabled.]

[All healing effects on the target will be disabled.]

Seeing the number of damage he inflicted, Lexus narrowed his eyes. Taking into account that the clone has greater stamina stats than him despite stealing all of its skills, the damage he had dealt was not small at all.

Lexus became aware of one thing after he succeeded in plundering the skills of the clone. Just like the case of the Dragon Heart, the clone didn't have his Perfect Status Immunity but only has the status resistance that is the common privilege among the legends.

In other words, the clone was filled with flaws unlike his perfect and flawless existence. Feeling the tremendous threat since the clone lost all of his skills, the clone's magic power and sword energy burst out.

「 How can mana and sword energy have this form? 」

Madra was familiar with sword energy. He was a prominent swordsman and able to skillfully use sword energy. But this was the first time he had seen such a changeable sword energy without the assistance of skills but just with pure control. This wasn't just sword energy, but also mixed with magic!

"Dragon's Roar!"

[You have developed the breath of a dragon! By reproducing the power of a transcendent being, the power of your sword energy and mana is greatly increased!]

The attack fired by the clone blew out in a straight line. The strong energy that stirred the earth. Despite losing all of his skills, the clone utilized his mana and sword energy combined that was reminiscent of a dragon's breath.

The clone then spat a beam of magic power like the Fire Dragon's Breath, seeing that magic power was gathering in the mouth of the clone, Lexus tightened his grip on his sword. Boom!

As the breath was released, Lexus took a deep breath as he watched the breath that was approaching towards him at an extreme speed. Lexus then swung his sword as he focused on a certain characteristic of being a Sword Saint, allowing him to cut the breath into half.

A mix of black and red lights exploded out of Virulent. His sword energy powered up by his magic power from his dragon heart, burst out in a web-like formation.

The beam of flames were torn apart by the sword energy mixed with fire and darkness. Boom! A very loud explosion appeared behind Lexus where the breath that was cut landed. Even though he managed to slice the clone's imitation of Fire Dragon's Breath, he didn't let his guard down. The clone then appeared in front of him with its incredibly high movement speed and slashed the sword it held and targeted his neck.

Lexus managed to avoid it barely as the clone was still so fast. His concentration reached the peak as he attempted to multitask. If any normal player were in his place, they would have been logged out already as the amount of mental energy would exceed their limits.

It was a safety protocol that a player would be logged out if his brain was being overworked as that could cause many negative effects to the player. However, Lexus wasn't showing any sign of discomfort as if he was far from his limit.

"It's my turn, right?"

With a smile, Lexus speaks to the clone. At this moment, Lexus showed the clone what the real deal is.

Fire Dragon's Breath.

Lexus released the dragon race's greatest power along with the dragon heart that symbolized them. A massive tsunami of black flames soared high up, as if it would blow away everything in his vicinity.

! ! !

The clone spread his sword energy to stop the breath, just like what Lexus has done earlier. A wave of sword energy rolled around him like splashes of water but it wasn't enough to stop the overwhelming Breath.

[You have dealt 1,500,000 damage to the target.]

[A legend doesn't die easily. You can resist all attacks for 5 seconds with the minimum amount of health.]

Because of a legend's immortality, it saved his life. A single breath of condensed flames had split the heaven and evaporated the sea.

Literally.

Lexus's mouth curved upwards.

The clone's health fell to 1 and it entered the immortality state. As Lexus expected, the clone needed to gain the advantage in these five seconds.

Mortality Sword.

Ferocious black flames emerged from his sword and Lexus instantly made a powerful shock wave of black flames. However the target wasn't the clone. It was the clone's God Hands.

The sword technique was unfolded and five flaming energy blades flooded towards the thirty cloned God Hands. With the manifestation of Heart Sword, the artifacts with infinite durability were all equally cut. Of course, the God Hands quickly self repaired but the delay it made gives Lexus a massive opportunity.

Limitless Missiles.

He summoned his own God Hands which rapidly fired thirty Limitless Missiles at the clone. A flash of lights struck the clone, which made it cease all movements. Thanks to the support of God Hands, 2 seconds of the immortality state was wasted and the clone wasn't able to immediately cover the gap.

As Lexus lifted Virulent, another sword appeared in his other hand. It was Brilliance that was transformed from one of the God Hands with Pagma's Successor hidden piece.

Unlike the current state of the clone, he was able to wield both swords simultaneously. At this moment, he became a dual wielding swordsman.

As soon as his Dragon's Eye, Keen Intuition and Super Sensitivity caught a weakness after 5 seconds passed, Lexus then slashed horizontally on the side allowing Lexus to cut an arm of the clone.

Left with a single arm in a single second, the clone was at a disadvantage as it faced two swords in Lexus's hands while it only remained with one. Before allowing it to regenerate its arm with Regeneration stats, Lexus targeted the throat of the clone.

As Lexus slashed the clone in the throat— he doubted that the clone could copy his wits and mentality, although the clone was a copy of himself and many other attributes of the clone were greatly higher than his, it was far from a perfect copy of him.

Unlike Greed's case in the novel, he doesn't lack the control to be defeated by the clone when its intelligence is only a fraction of his.

"Thanks for the fun but unfortunately, you're not me."

Lexus coldly stated as he never totally thought of the clone as himself. Lexus then dealt the killing blow to the clone whose immortality has ended. The clone raged as it turned into a particle of light.

[You have won a fight against yourself.]

[You have succeeded in beating the 41st island!]

[You have obtained 1,000 points of major stats from your opponent.]

[You have acquired 1 skill level point from the mission clear reward.]

Lexus sheathed his sword. This time, his gain was enormous

"Very good."

It was strength that transcended the concept of level. A noble pride could be seen in his smile of satisfaction.

[Skill Level Point]

[Increases the skill level of a specified skill by 100%.]

"Um."

Raise the level of any skill?

Lexus thought for a moment and was belatedly thrilled. His fists clenched as he shuddered. It was a state where he couldn't contain his joy.

[The skill, Intellectual King Solomon, has been enhanced.]

[Intellectual King Solomon has changed to Divine Wisdom Core Ciel.]

He immediately raised the level of his first ever skill when he transmigrated in this world without hesitation.

[Divine Wisdom Core Ciel - Lv.Max]

Rating: Myth

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