Infinite wealth In A New World - Chapter 317

Chapter 317: Infinite Skills: Primordial Stone
​{Bahamut’s Bloodline Skill Unlocked: Bahamut’s transformation.}

{Take the form of a humanoid dragon, which increases two ranks above current rank (Duration: 10 minutes).}

{Master a new skill: Soul Reaper.}

{Soul Reaper: Instantly deal damage to the target.}

{Congratulations, The Dimensions of water, fire, and darkness have been born.}

​Sunny slowly opened his eyes, the world now sharper, the air thicker with a barely contained power that thrummed in his veins. He felt the profound, tectonic shift that came with mastering the Sixth Order, a leap that placed him among the true powerhouses of this realm.

​”Amazing,” he muttered, the word a soft exhalation of wonder. He looked over his shoulder, the majestic, shadow-draped wings of his new draconic bloodline unfurling slightly, feeling the sheer space they commanded. The remaining Soul Ghosts, swirling vortex of anguish and malice, sensed the change instantly. Without hesitation, they shrieked and turned, their forms blurring as they fled the radiant core of his power.

​”Running?”

​A grim smile touched Sunny’s lips. He didn’t need to move. Standing slowly, he focused the new, terrifying clarity of his soul. His latest skill, Soul Reaper, was an echo of his draconic nature, a pure act of annihilation. With a thought, he marked the fleeing creature, and the ghosts, simply fractured, shattering into motes of shimmering, dead energy that instantly funneled back into him.

​{Master current rank can’t be increased.}

​The surge of Exp abruptly stopped, dead-ending against an invisible, frustrating barrier.

​”….?!”

​Sunny froze. His anticipation of the next evolutionary jump—the expected, glorious climb to the seventh order—was brutally halted. A deep frown creased his brow, the taste of victory turning to ash.

​”Why is that?” he demanded, his voice low and edged with annoyance.

​{System’s Level is too low.}

​”That’s no problem,” he reasoned quickly, the logical part of his mind calculating: “I just gained hundreds of billions in Exp from these Ghosts. I can simply upgrade the system after getting the soul stone, and then get stronger myself.” He offered a confident, if slightly strained, smile. The System’s next response, however, made his eyes widen in genuine surprise and alarm.

​{Won’t happen, Master.}

​’What the hell?! Why?!’ His inner joy from moments ago evaporated, replaced by a cold spike of panic. He couldn’t afford to be stuck at the Sixth Order. The World was calling him, and his enemies were already Ninth Order, perhaps higher. Bahamut’s Transformation was a powerful, two-rank boost, but a mere ten-minute window of Eighth Order strength was a temporary fix, not a foundation.

​{For future leveling, Master needs Primordial Stones.}

{Need one Primordial Stone to enter the Seventh Order.}

​The name—Primordial Stone—felt ancient, vast, and impossibly distant to Sunny.

​”Okay. How can I get a Primordial Stone?” he asked, his tone shifting from frustration to laser-focused determination. The discovery of a new, essential resource, especially one that blocked his main path to power, was a crucial piece.

​”I need to know this… I know most of my enemies have soul immunity, or at least powerful soul defenses,” he thought, his hand subconsciously moving to his chest where his Soul Armor skill resided.

“If they didn’t, their true enemies would have annihilated them long ago.”

From the start, Sunny never took himself as Lilith’s true enemy, he wasn’t qualified, yet.

“My Soul Armor grants me immunity to soul attacks, but I am still weak defensively against raw, physical power above my rank.”

​{Primordial Stone can be gotten from two places.}

{First: God rank secret realms (Can only be found in the Supreme World), which will be guarded by a Tenth Order powerhouse.}

{Second: Me.}

​”Huh? So you can give Primordial Stones? How?” Sunny asked, a flicker of hope igniting in his chest. This would simplify everything. The Supreme World, God-rank realms, Tenth Order powerhouses—those were problems for a much stronger, much later Sunny.

​{System must be upgraded to the highest level for Master to unlock Primordial Stones.}

{To achieve that, Master needs to retrieve the third Omni soul stone In the soul secret realm, found in the Supreme world.}

​Sunny let out a long, ragged exhale. The hope was dead, violently crushed. He wanted to yell, to punch the ground, but he simply sat down, the weight of this new reality pressing down on him. All the Exp he gained would now be banked, useless until he acquired this mythical stones. This was not a roadblock; it was a vast, cosmic chasm placed directly in his path. He hadn’t even entered the Great World, let alone the Supreme World.

​He let the magical smoke dissipate, his glorious wings receding, his horns shrinking back until he was simply a man—a very powerful man, but still just a man—sitting on the scorched earth of the burning city.

​”Hey, System.”

​{Yes, Master.}

​A strange, philosophical question slipped out, reflecting his momentary despair.

​”Do you hate me?”

​{…}

​The System remained silent for a beat, a gap so profound it felt like a refusal to answer.

​”Because if you do… you’ve done a masterful job,” he continued, looking up at the smoke-choked sky, spotting the graceful figure of Josephine descending towards him.

“At least you could have gotten me to the Seventh Order before placing me into this hell. You know there is an evil child waiting for me in a week, and he’s a Ninth Order. Bahamut’s Transformation will only make me Eighth Order for ten minutes… The difference in strength between ranks is not linear, System. It’s exponential.”

​WHOOSH!

​The System screen flashed, pulling up the extensive catalog of the Skill Store.

​{Why is master afraid of a Ninth Order when you have infinite skills?}

​Sunny blinked, staring at the sheer volume of skills available for purchase with his unlimited personal wealth. He had been so focused on his own cultivation path that he had completely forgotten the ultimate cheat code he possessed.

​’I actually forgot I could buy unlimited one-use skills with my personal money!’ he realized, a slow, predatory grin spreading across his face. The skills were disposable, one-shot trump cards, but their collective power…

“With them, the threat level of this ‘Child of Destruction’ changes completely. If my core skills can’t defeat him, I will fight fire with fire… or rather, I will fight his Ninth Order strength with a storm of a thousand borrowed, god-tier skills.”

​A wave of calm washed over him. The urgency of the Primordial Stone remained, but the immediate, soul-crushing terror of the week ahead receded.

​Josephine landed softly before him, the Knights, Fifth Order powerhouse, all Sunny’s summons, giving her a wide berth. She walked to him, silent, and sat down beside him, not saying a word about the transformation or the silence. She simply rested her head on his shoulder, a small, tangible act of grounding in a world of cosmic chaos.

​’The best part, I have unlimited Personal money… Now… why am I feeling excited to see this child of destruction?’ he thought, leaning his head against hers.

​It was her silent acknowledgement of his burden that was his true anchor. She didn’t press, didn’t panic, she simply was.

​After a moment of shared quiet, Josephine slowly lifted her head, her emerald eyes gazing into his. She didn’t speak. In the heart of the war-torn, burning city, with thousands of Fifth Order Knights silently holding the perimeter, she leaned in.

​And she kissed him.

​It was a soft, deep kiss, a moment of profound peace that ignored the Rank barriers, the Primordial Stone crisis, and the looming threat of the Ninth Order enemy. It was a kiss of sanctuary, a simple, human affirmation that even on the path of a demigod, there was still room for love, for life, and for hope. In the fiery ruin, amidst the ash and smoke, Josephine and Sunny shared a lovely kiss, the most powerful and vulnerable thing either of them possessed.

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[Author: Yep! You heard that right, all Fifth Order summons.]

[Whenever Sunny increases in rank, All his summons increased in ranks. Not only that, all his subordinates who have been linked by the system also increased in rank, some, more ranks higher, due to his massive rank boost.]