Chapter 3

I acquired resources, manuals for body hardening and mana core refinement, and even a technique for cultivating the soul and mind.

Another important moment was when I made my way through the Mortal Kingdom on the King's level. Though it was difficult with cult support, I did achieve it in 2,000 years by becoming King at 2,900, which was considered decent enough, but not outstanding.

After becoming King, I really understood why there are hardly any kings or senior experts on the Mortal Continent.

The reason was that they had hardly any opportunities to develop there, and they could not demonstrate their full potential, because the energy of the world was too low for them there, and the natural suppression of the world limited their power to the top of the Grand master.

It is by the differences in energy between the continents that they were divided into Mortal, Terrestrial and Heavenly.

There used to be a Divine Continent and an Immortal Continent, and beyond them there were two Heavenly Continents, and not just one as now. But an unknown catastrophe has come that wiped out these continents from the face of the earth.

When I heard this story, I thought it was impossible, I knew the difference between the Earth's continent and the Mortal continent, and I heard the difference between the Heavenly continent and the rest.

It was a completely different league, incomparable and therefore a Divine or Immortal Continent would be just as impossible and more powerful than the Heavenly. I absolutely did not believe that their destruction was possible.

I was able to progress in ranks over time, but it was a time of lull, it was at the time when I had reached Epic Rank, reaching its peak, I couldn't make it any further.

Even starting from the beginning, I always ended up at the top not being able to break through.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't go any further. At the time, it made me deeply depressed, and it led me to make a strange decision, to become a Lich. It was almost taboo since the Lich were the public enemies of many beings.

Each Lich is at least at the Legendary level and their lifespan is counted in millennia, but they also have many drawbacks such as weakness for the element of light or the weak point of the object in which they place their soul.

Unfortunately, becoming a Lich is not that easy and only one out of 100 people manage to become a Lich. After many attempts, I finally managed to become a Lich, thanks to which I reached the Legendary level and, having almost unlimited time, started to use it to deepen my knowledge of magic.

I locked myself in an underground lab in some outback to study magic. Over time, I was to be able to match my skill in magic with my skill as a warrior.

After leaving my hideout, I went to the Heavenly Continent, which allowed me to gain even more knowledge.

I joined an organization that had descended from other Liches, it gave me both the resources to research and protect me. I holed up again for many years, during which I discovered the secrets of magic.

And then it happened. I didn't know how many years I had been in hiding, but it was about 60,000 years since I became a Lich.

When I left the retreat, I found out that there was an apocalypse going on. I didn't worry too much about it until the moment. The energy of the world collapsed, and all continents except the Heavenly one were either destroyed or became deserts with no life left.

Most of the connections with the other dimensions were severed, and war fell into the world and the Seraphims appeared.

They were beings of destruction and marked the end to come. Most of them wreaked havoc in the world, under the orders of the Ancient God of Destruction, but not all. Those who managed to break free from the control of the Ancient God of Destruction most often did not participate in the spread of destruction.

During the apocalypse, my strength was equal to the ant, but fortunately, by some miracle, I survived. Everything happened too fast, the events lasted only 100 years.

During this time, almost 99% of life was wiped out, and the rest in time was a fate worse than death. 10 years after the end of the fights we lost, the world began to shake and the earth and sky split in two.

A great hole appeared in the sky, from which a storm of emptiness came, destroying everything without exception.

During the wars, I had the opportunity to meet many powerful experts who made me realize that this event was inevitable and all this is the result of a cataclysm that happened many years ago and at the moment when the heavens part, everything will come to an end.

The entire main plane as well as others will be destroyed, fall into the eternal cycle of arising and destruction.

They all died, be it Divine Experts or whole worlds, and so did I. At that time, I returned again, but with a completely new purpose, because I knew the apocalypse was coming. I also realized that each time I have a maximum of about 70,000 years to develop.

Despite the fact that this apocalypse was a great misfortune, during its duration there was an incredibly rapid development of all areas.

All races abandoned their former intimates and worked together to overcome the crisis. Their joint achievements are undeniable, and of course I have benefited from them. Almost all the disciplines soared so that I was on a completely different level.

I also learned a lot of secrets that helped me continue my progress. Thanks to the acquired knowledge and various secrets, I did not have to become a Litch, but only directly become a Legendary Expert. Working with many other experts, I have developed a powerful technique.

I called this technique Unlimited Consciousness. It allows me to create faithful copies of myself in my sea of consciousness and increase my computing power.

Thanks to this, I was able to increase the amount of my research in various fields, because I was not working alone, I had almost unlimited copies of "myself" to help.

With time, thanks to the technique of Unlimited Awareness and the unlimited time that the returns to the past gave me, I moved faster and further.

I was able to reach the Heavenly level by gaining insight into the laws and finally surpassing that level. Thanks to countless years of time and the accumulation of my knowledge, I reached a level beyond my rank, I was able to fight with people more powerful than me, unfortunately I could not reach the level of God.