Unholy Player - Chapter 477

Chapter 477: Establishing Power Ranks (Part 4)
In the end, they concluded that the [Will] stat, by its nature representing all motion, granted the body the ability to endure and move under heavy gravitational environments with minimal effort and maximum capacity.

Overall, it was a very fruitful experiment for humans. It allowed them to further refine their understanding of the stats, filling gaps in their theoretical models with concrete, recorded reactions.

The door to the endurance test room opened with a mechanical sound, allowing the two subjects to exit.

Zephan, still wearing his lightning garments that crackled softly around his limbs, and Adyr, in his slightly scorched uniform that seemed to be rapidly regenerating itself thread by thread, stepped out.

Soon after, the 2 Elders and the Researchers left their observation room to meet the two anomalies. Their footsteps were quick and slightly unsteady from excitement.

Zephan broke off his idle conversation with Adyr and looked at the approaching white-coated figures. “So how was it?” he asked curiously.

He already gained a fairly good idea of his own defensive limits, but he still wanted to hear what these people thought of him. He wanted to anchor his self-assessment in their cold numbers.

The researchers glanced at the papers in their hands for a moment as they spoke. Meanwhile, a middle-aged woman stood beside them, translating respectfully and professionally, her voice clear despite the unbelievable results.

“Lord Silverlight Zephan, your systemic endurance index is presenting in an anomalously elevated band, and your observed cellular regenerative throughput is operating at a supra-physiological tier, such that regenerative capacity is estimated to account for approximately 20% of your integrated defensive profile across all measured parameters…”

Zephan listened to the woman for a while, then turned to Adyr with a puzzled look. “What does she say?”

Adyr let out a quiet laugh. A translator needing her own translator was honestly pretty amusing.

“Can you explain it more simply, just give a number,” Adyr asked the researchers.

The head researcher frowned slightly. Having their chance to present the full explanation cut short clearly frustrated them; no researcher enjoyed being stopped right when they could talk about their work.

But after a few seconds of thought, he forced himself to keep it simple: “The durability level, based on the newly established PTF standards, is 4 points out of 100.”

Adyr frowned at that and asked again, “Which data is this based on?”

In his view, Zephan, even though he wasn’t a Nether Path Practitioner and didn’t have a defense-focused build, still had solid defense. The number was so low that it genuinely surprised him, leading him to question the validity of the comparison point.

When he heard the explanation, he understood the value was actually accurate after all.

“We basically took the Blood Dragon as the bar.”

There was precisely a 25-fold durability difference between the Blood Dragon and Silverlight Zephan. Put into a simple ratio like that, the gap sounded brutal and, at the same time, very logical.

“What about me?” Adyr’s question this time made the researchers think more seriously. They shuffled the papers in their hands, cross-checking different sheets filled with cramped notes and numbers.

The test had been useful for measuring Zephan, but Adyr had left the room together with him even though he could have held out much longer. For that reason, the data on him wasn’t completely precise and had gaps. Still, after thinking and calculating for a bit, they gave their answer.

“According to the test result, your durability is 11.”

As expected, this value was more than double Zephan’s, but the researchers didn’t stop there. They were clearly unwilling to leave such a complex subject at a single raw value.

“But if we take into consideration the data we collected during your fight against Dragon Rider Sevrak with your Dark Armor and your overall capacity, it is approximately 72 points.”

It was still lower than the Blood Dragon by a significant margin. Even so, it was very impressive, as this time they had also factored in the power of the Rank 4 Citadelith when calculating the value, folding battlefield performance into lab metrics.

Adyr nodded. He found it quite accurate and useful for estimating his strength. “Thank you.” Then he turned to Zephan to explain the results to him, translating the numbers into simpler terms.

Zephan, after hearing the numbers, also found them very satisfying. His earlier fatigue eased slightly due to the validation he received.

The data did not include speed or the dodging and escaping aspects that came with it, which could very well be considered under the category of defense.

Even so, it was still valuable for him to know to what degree his body could endure direct damage without relying on evasive maneuvers.

“Then next, the strength test?” Adyr laughed, looking very eager for it.

He wanted to try his new Spark skill combo and see, against Zephan’s silver light column, how it would be categorized. He was still unsure whether the Researchers had a reliable way to measure it or if their instruments would fail to keep up with the scale.

And indeed, they really did have a method to measure it with very high accuracy. It was something they had clearly prepared long before this day.

The researchers walked in front, with the Practitioners following behind them. The group moved to a different section of the floor and stopped in front of a door.

Even the door to the strength test room looked different from the previous one. It wasn’t larger but actually smaller, denser in build, with thicker framing and heavier hinges.

When the head researcher opened the door using his handprint on the digital screen, a wave of pressure leaked outward, as if the inside had been sealed under compression.

With a mechanical sound, the thick door slid open, revealing the reinforced interior.

When Adyr and the others walked inside, the interior turned out to be smaller as well, almost half the size of the previous room. All the walls were covered in a gold-colored material that gave the space a muted, metallic glow.

Adyr found the color and material quite intriguing and took a moment to study the walls. Noticing his interest, the head researcher began speaking with a proud expression, clearly pleased to finally be presenting this part of their work.

“The walls of this room are covered with the gold sand you brought.”

Adyr turned to the head researcher, visibly surprised. “You managed to process the sand?”

The sand he had given them was from the Tower of Worth’s arena, which he had expected them to forge into new weapons for him.

But for a long time, the researchers were unable to find a way to process it. It was extremely durable and not very suitable for melting and reshaping.

Now, seeing they had somehow covered all the walls of the room with this material, he couldn’t help but feel expectant, curiosity stirring beneath his calm expression.

Unfortunately, the head researcher shook his head.

“Sorry, we are still not able to fully process and shape the material, but we managed only to change its consistency.” He walked up to the wall and touched it as he continued explaining. “It’s not that the entire walls are made of the gold sand, but rather a coating we produced using the gold sand as the core material. It’s only a very thin outer layer painted over the reinforced carbon walls beneath, but even so, it increased the durability by 160%.”

The fact that a mere coating could more than double the durability of the walls was an astonishing breakthrough in every sense. It hinted at what might be possible if they one day learned to shape the material fully.