abnabooks Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Limit Breaker - 2
Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Limit Breaker - 2
Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Limit Breaker - 2Sir Holloway… Lucian Holloway was once an ordinary human from a civilization called Morris, a world more than a thousand years technologically advanced compared to Earth.
He had been working in his university lab, re
She was concerned as Damian was her contractor, and she had placed great hopes in him.
She didn't want to lose her only chance at escaping her powerless life.
"Haha… You wouldn't believe me even if I told you. Even I can hardly believe it," Sir Holloway laughed hysterically, shaking his head.
"What do you mean?"
"He's… evolving."
"What... WHAT?... what do you mean, EVOLVING?"
Shiru's eyes widened in shock.
In the tower, "evolution" had a very specific meaning; it referred to a being's race evolving.
"No… no… this… how?" Shiru couldn't comprehend what was happening.
She had accepted it when Damian claimed to have completed the trials in Hell Mode.
She had believed him when he proved he was strong enough to win 200 consecutive battles without a single loss.
She even accepted that he had defeated both an Alpha Werewolf and a noble vampire.
She had even been willing to believe him when he said he would destroy an entire faction alone.
But evolving without anyone's assistance, without the system's intervention?
This was beyond what she could even define as "possible."
When Sir Holloway said Damian was evolving, she thought she had misheard him.
Then she assumed he was joking.
But when she saw the serious expression on his face, she realized she had no way to refute it.
"How… is this possible? I thought you couldn't evolve unless you were turned into another race by a higher-ranked being, or by triggering the system's evolution function."
"Maybe he completed the system's evolution mission, and the system is evolving his race," Shiru speculated, grasping at any possible explanation.
But unfortunately for her, that wasn't the case.
"If it were the system's evolution, he wouldn't be evolving here," Sir Holloway explained.
"Whenever an awakener completes the evolution mission, the system transports them to a designated location to aid in their evolution based on their chosen path."
"I don't know how he did it, but somehow he broke his limiter and is evolving on his own. As for what he is evolving into... I can't tell."
"He isn't evolving using the essence of higher-ranked beings, yet he is evolving…" Sir Holloway mused.
"A human evolution, maybe?"
"Could he be evolving into a High Human? No, that's impossible. The High Humans are extinct."
High Humans were once considered comparable to noble vampires in the human species' hierarchy.
"If that's the case, then he isn't evolving into a High Human, but rather… a human of a higher rank than an unevolved human, yet lower than the High Humans," Sir Holloway concluded.
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Damian felt like he was submerged in hot water, a pinching sensation prickling all over his skin, similar to a mosquito bite but as if hundreds of thousands of them were biting him at once.
Strangely, however, he didn't feel any pain. It was a bizarre sensation, unlike anything he had ever experienced before.
Even more unsettling was the contradiction—he felt conscious, yet numb; he could see, yet he saw nothing, not even darkness.
"What's happening to me?" Damian muttered.
He could feel himself speaking, yet he did not feel his lips move or hear his own voice.
Still, he knew he had spoken.
Then, suddenly, everything began to clear.
He could finally see the darkness and hear a monotonous voice echoing behind his head.
Slowly, the sensation of his physical body returned.
The darkness around him faded, and the voice became clearer.
It was a sound he recognized.
It was the sound of the system.
As his vision cleared further, he noticed a white substance covering him, though it was still blurry.
A mix of warmth and cold spread through his body as system notifications appeared before him.
[You have awakened the talent: Limit Breaker.]
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[Unique Talent: Limit Breaker]
[Effect: -Every limitation that binds others does not bind you. You have absolutely no limits.
-Every restriction that limits your physical body has been undone.]
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[Due to the overwhelming difference in stats compared to your level, along with the physical boost provided by the numerous types of energy tempering your body continuously, your physical capabilities have far surpassed anything achievable by an unevolved human body.]
[You have the soul to accommodate this change, but your physical body does not. As a result, your body is breaking apart.]
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[Your talent [Limit Breaker], is taking effect.]
[Your physical body is evolving to accommodate your capabilities.]
[Your flesh is being reconstructed.]
[Your bones are being reforged.]
[Your blood is being purified.]
[Your nerves are being reformed.]
[Your organs are being reconstructed.]
[Your energy streams are being reconstructed.]
[Your energy circuits are being reconstituted.]
[Your energy cores are being reconstituted.]
[The hidden potential within your cells is being unlocked.]
[Your genetic code is being upgraded by a tier.]
[You are Evolving.]
[Time Limit: 02(D):00(H):00(M):00(S)]
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Damian couldn't fully comprehend what the system was telling him; all he could hear was the monotonous buzzing of its voice.
His vision remained blurry, leaving him disoriented.
Then, just like that, two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Finally, the blurring and buzzing faded completely, and the system messages became crystal clear.
He could now read the notifications.
"I awakened another talent?" Damian's eyes widened, and this time, he could feel the shock as he read through the remaining messages.
He could see and hear clearly, but he still couldn't move his body.
[Time Limit: 00(D):00(H):00(M):03(S)]
[Time Limit: 00(D):00(H):00(M):02(S)]
[Time Limit: 00(D):00(H):00(M):01(S)]
[Time Limit: 00(D):00(H):00(M):00(S)]
As the timer hit zero, the cocoon-like structure surrounding him suddenly exploded, releasing a powerful wave of energy.
Within the swirling white mist, a figure slowly rose, with only a pair of glowing neon-blue eyes piercing through the fog.