Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener

Sterl remained in the posture of throwing a punch, and the destructive shockwave rapidly spread throughout the entire royal vault.

For the Kingdom of Orichalcum, the center of the royal city should have been the temples where many gods resided, but in reality, that wasn't the case.

If everything in the royal vault were to be taken out and used, it could even create ordinary gods in bulk. So, in comparison, the royal vault was the true core of the entire royal city.

Now, under this destructive shockwave, the once solid royal vault began to tremble violently, and countless cracks appeared on the vault's barriers.

Although the vault was massive, it was still too small to withstand the impact of two monstrous forces. The shockwave couldn't dissipate properly and was instead concentrated entirely within the vault, causing catastrophic damage.

Some items, located closer to the center, were completely disintegrated by the shock, shattering into piles of rubble.

Seeing this, Sterl's eyelids twitched. In his eyes, the rare treasures of the royal vault had long been seen as already his. Now, seeing them destroyed right under his nose felt like having his flesh cut away. It was a painful blow.

However, at this moment, Sterl couldn't afford to focus on such things. With the power of Star-Bone Body augmenting him, he continued to clash against the divine sword.

If the royal vault looked this bad, the rest of the royal city was in no better condition.

The power from within the vault was being dispersed across the royal city, sharing the immense pressure the vault had been enduring.

This caused the entire royal city to suffer a devastating blow. Towering buildings crumbled and collapsed, while even the ground, which demigods couldn't leave a trace on, cracked open with deep fissures.

The entire royal city seemed like a fragile porcelain artifact, constantly on the verge of shattering.

Fortunately, just then, a brilliant energy shield rose from the royal city, stabilizing it. If this situation continued to worsen, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Please don't let anything happen..."

Outside the vault, Diana's face was filled with worry. The shockwave from earlier had been so strong that she could barely keep herself upright. This only heightened her anxiety.

She had already experienced the pain of losing Sterl once. If it happened again, she wasn't sure if she could bear it.

Inside the vault, the Power of Star-Bone was depleting rapidly. Sterl could only inject more soul power to prolong the duration of Star-Bone Body.

Luckily, the power of the rainbow-colored divine sword was also being drained at an incredible speed.

But after a while, Sterl suddenly felt a sharp pain. To his shock, the fist he had, which was as strong as Stellar Crystal, had actually torn open a bloodline!

His defense... had been breached!

Sterl's pupils constricted, and a sense of foreboding crept into his heart. But before he could react further, a crisp cracking sound echoed.

He watched as a visible crack appeared on the blade of the rainbow-colored divine sword where it had made contact with him. The crack spread rapidly, coursing through the entire sword's body.

Without hesitation, Sterl unleashed the remaining Power of Star-Bone within him in a single, forceful surge.

Boom!

The rainbow-colored divine sword suddenly exploded, shattering into a kaleidoscope of colorful ice crystals that scattered throughout the vault's air. At the same time, the Power of Star-Bone within Sterl had been drained to its last drop. If that final bit of energy was exhausted, he would once again fall into that vulnerable state.

Sterl immediately deactivated Star-Bone Body, and the power within him receded like a retreating tide. He quickly checked the soul reserves in his Purgatory Space, and with a small sigh of relief, he noted that they had increased significantly.

The productivity of the mother unit had grown substantially, and the output had risen accordingly, so his soul reserves were now quite abundant. For now, at least, he wouldn't be lacking in high-level soul power.

Even if something unexpected happened, he could pour a large amount of soul power into the transformation process, converting it into high-level soul energy, which would then turn into Power of Star-Bone, allowing him to reactivate Star-Bone Body.

But for now, it seemed that the royal city's suppression had been forcefully resisted.

Suppressing his aura, Sterl scanned his surroundings. After the rainbow-colored divine sword shattered, the light on the vault's barrier noticeably dimmed.

It was clear that the Suppression had drained a great deal of the royal city's energy. Furthermore, the city's integration with the world wasn't fully complete, meaning it couldn't pose any real threat to Sterl.

"The strength of that Divine Power is far greater than I expected. True Divine Power should be far more potent than the power the royal city just unleashed..."

Sterl thought to himself, analyzing the situation. The royal city, like the Hall of Valor, was a treasure that could rival true Divine Power.

But there was a huge difference between something that merely rivals true Divine Power and the real thing. The former was just an object, whereas the latter was imbued with a variety of mysterious and unpredictable abilities.

The rainbow-colored divine sword had been enough to break through the defense of his Star-Bone Body. If it were true Divine Power, dealing with it would have been much more difficult.

Moreover, after this battle, he had gotten a rough sense of his own strength, but his power would now be exposed to the forces of the upper realms of Orichalcum through the royal city. This could potentially lead to a targeted attack from those powers.

However, Sterl wasn't worried. So what if his strength was revealed? He had never been concerned about that issue.

For him, his strength grew stronger every day, and whether or not it was revealed made no difference.
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Especially now, after returning to the main world, the refresh speed of his cheat evolution ability had become once a day.

Every day, his Soul Prison's Eerie Eyes or Star-Bone Sacred Body would see a significant improvement. This process wouldn't last for long, meaning in the short term, his power would experience another explosive growth. At that point... perhaps he would finally be able to contend with true Divine Power.

Moreover, with the legendary story nearing completion, once Sterl advanced into legend, the experience and resources he had accumulated up to this point would be enough to instantly level him up by several hundred tiers! Breaking through into demigod rank—or even god rank—would no longer be an issue!

With this thought, the faint sense of urgency and crisis that had been hanging over Sterl's mind disappeared. The early accumulation was so vast that, for now, all he had to do was patiently wait to reap the rewards.

Taking a deep breath, Sterl restored himself to peak condition. Even after the intense battle he had just fought, his vitality was so robust that he could quickly recover. His endurance, while not yet limitless, was more than enough for a few hundred more battles like the one he had just faced.

After calming his breathing, Sterl landed on the floor of the vault. Having withstood the royal city's Suppression, the prompt from the [Transcendence] system had vanished.

Clearly, in the eyes of the [Transcendence] system, Sterl had now gained the qualification to freely explore and enter the royal city's vault.

Looking at the countless treasures before him, Sterl's eyes gleamed with excitement.

Since his first visit to the royal city's vault, he had been coveting the wealth accumulated over countless years by the Orichalcum kingdom. Especially some of the treasures—some of them could provide enormous benefits to him even at his current level.

However, even though he had endured the Suppression from the royal city, all the treasures were sealed, and he couldn't access any information about them.

Sterl casually grabbed a floating spherical object. There was no prompt from the [Transcendence] system.

Next, he activated his Star Insight. This ability allowed him to probe into the information of most objects and beings.

However, this time, he was met with a setback. Through Star Insight, the spherical object appeared as:

[???]

[Category: ???]

[Description: ???]

[Abilities: ???]

[???]

Sterl frowned. Aside from the question marks, he couldn't even identify the object's name.

Clearly, this was the last line of defense set up by the royal city to prevent its treasures from being stolen in the event of an attack.

Not only that, but Sterl also faintly sensed that if he tried to forcibly remove this item from the royal city's vault, under the power of the seal, the item would instantly shatter, losing all of its value.

Even if it were destroyed, it would never benefit the enemy!

This discovery left Sterl feeling quite irritated. While he had used the excuse of testing his strength, his real purpose, of course, was to acquire the vast wealth accumulated within the vault over the years.

With these treasures, combined with his cheat evolution, his foundation would grow rapidly.

Moreover, his Starry Battle Armor was obtained here, and perhaps he could find other parts of the Stellar Set within the vault.

Even one Starry Battle Armor had provided him with so much help and enhancement. If he were to gather the entire set, it would activate the abilities of the Stellar Set, transforming him into the Lord of the Endless Stars!

Just hearing the name made it clear that this would be an overwhelmingly powerful ability!

But now, this plan had been ruined before it even began.

"Shameless! The victor becomes king, and the loser becomes a bandit—that's the truth! And they actually pulled this stunt on me…"

Sterl muttered in frustration, though if he were in their shoes, facing a certain death situation, he would probably try to destroy everything of value to ensure that his enemies couldn't benefit from it. It was all about playing dead rather than allowing anyone to gain from his downfall.

But now, there was no way he would just give up. He had been eyeing these treasures for so long; how could he just walk away?

With a thought, a Scroll of Appraisal appeared in his hand.

This was an item he had obtained in Hell. It could appraise most valuable objects and break the seals on them.

However, the scroll was only of divine quality, meaning it would most likely fail to break the royal city's powerful seal.

Sterl gripped the scroll in one hand and held the spherical object in the other, waiting patiently.

Soon, Sterl's eyes suddenly snapped open.

The evolution ability of his cheat had refreshed. Without hesitation, he immediately began to evolve the scroll in his hand.

A strange, divine force surged into the scroll, rapidly enhancing its power!

For single-use items like this, Sterl had tried evolving them before. In most cases, one evolution was enough to bring the item to its peak.

And this scroll was no exception.

After the evolution was complete, Sterl checked the scroll's new abilities, and a smile finally appeared on his previously frustrated face.