My Salvation Game Became true?!.

Chapter 66: Chapter 66: Double Awakening
 

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Tai Ping Residential Complex,

Fang You didn’t know much about the disaster situations in other places, but he had also come across some unusual information on the internet.

For a major incident like the opening of the Ghastly Realm gate in Nanjiao, early detection and containment meant that it was largely kept secret, limiting the harm and impact.

However, not all disasters could be predicted in advance. As more and more catastrophic events occurred, the existence of Mysterious Evils would eventually become impossible to conceal.

“First, go through the second Awakening, then open the entrance to the organization’s base and then look for suitable personnel.”

That was the plan for today.

At least finish the first one.

He clicked on his character.

‘Prompt: You may guide the “Savior of Destiny” through a second Awakening. This guidance requires ‘Fate Points ×3’ and ‘Mystic Crystals ×9′. The probability of Awakening is 60%, and a failure will necessitate a greater expenditure of resources for a second attempt.’

It should be possible to Awaken, right?

Fang You took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and pressed the button.

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The mysterious energy roiling around him felt like plummeting into an abyss.

This was the second time.

He was mentally prepared, but the shock he felt was even more intense than the first, dozens of times stronger!

It was also stronger than facing those three flesh giants that day.

Back then, he was at a distance, but now, Fang You felt as if he were surrounded by ten flesh giants, with their terrifying insanity hammering at his mind.

He didn’t want to be afraid, but some things can’t be dismissed by sheer willpower.

He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and steadfastly endured.

He must hold on even if he couldn’t!

But closing his eyes didn’t block out the terror before him. Closed or open, it was all the same; ten flesh giants locked around him while an even more fearsome presence began to creep over him incrementally.

Chillingly cold, slimily slick.

It might have been an illusion, but he couldn’t treat his current ordeal as one.

Though he wished to, he simply couldn’t.

Fang You kept enduring, persevering in the abyss, his expression gradually grew vacant, like a sleepwalker in a nightmare.

He had no idea how long it had been, but by the time Fang You regained his senses, cold sweat had drenched his clothes, and he had bitten his lips bloody. He felt mentally drained and had little strength throughout his body.

“Failed?”

“Did the second Awakening fail again?”

Nearby, Black Pupil was pacing back and forth in front of him, somewhat agitated. Seeing the mysterious aura around him subside, it looked at him twice then raised its head and let out a meow, turning into a phantom and darting into the bedroom.

It went back to its novel.

Before Fang You opened his eyes.

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It took Fang You a while to gradually recover. When he checked his phone, an hour had passed.

Upon opening the Savior game, the prompt, as expected, indicated that the Awakening had failed.

But luckily, he was in one piece; his status on the panel showed only ‘exhausted.’

No harm done to him.

It was only his heart that suffered.

“Even with guidance for Awakening, the entire process is still incredibly difficult, and this was just the second one.”

Awakening is too hard, and sometimes determination alone is not enough.

Fang You had to admit, his willpower couldn’t compare to Black Blade. At least, he couldn’t manage to wake up at four in the morning to train with injuries… five o’clock would be the earliest.

This failed Awakening also brought some changes to the panel.

The accumulated amount of mystery had decreased; it had dropped by 10 points.

Still, it met the criteria for Awakening.

‘Mystery: 22.6’!

He gave it a try.

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“Prompt: Do you wish to proceed with the second guidance? This guidance will consume ‘Destiny Points ×4’, ‘Mysterious Crystals ×12’, and the awakening probability is 11%/68%. Failing the third guidance will require more resources.”

The former is the current state, and awakening in his current state of shock would clearly be seeking death, like lighting a lantern in the washroom.

The latter represents the normal state, with a higher chance of success.

Fang You shifted his sitting position, calmed his mind, then took out paper and pen, thought for a while, and started to record.

Failure was a settled fact that couldn’t be changed. What needed to be done now was to find the reason for the failure… Hmm, if you think about it carefully, failure is also a unique experience.

Thinking this way, maybe it’s not so sad after all.

Reflecting on the process just now, the mysterious power still surged, followed by a feeling of falling into an abyss. If there was anything different from the last time, apart from the greatly intensified terror, it was the Flesh Giants.

“Ten Flesh Giants surrounded me.”

“Compared with other terrors, the feeling given to me by the Flesh Giants is the clearest, most direct, and the most terrifying.”

“Is there a possibility that I killed the Flesh Giants, absorbed the mystery from the Flesh Giants, and thus encountered the Flesh Giants during the awakening?”

Fang You pondered.

This possibility seemed not small.

Looking back, he could ask Black Blade to write a reflection on awakening, to see if the peril he faced during his awakening was the two-star Mysterious Evil he had slain.

If Black Blade had the same experience, then his conjecture was highly probable.

“Then…”

“As a three-star Mysterious Evil, could the Flesh Giants also have reduced my chances of successfully awakening?”

This was yet to be confirmed.

His success rate for awakening was indeed low, only 60%. That was definitely not just because he was lacking… at most, only a little bit.

If this conjecture was true, not killing Mysterious Evils above one’s level might slightly increase the success rate.

But then again, how many people could kill Mysterious Evils above their level?

Fang You wrote down his experiences and speculations one by one, bringing the description of the awakening process to an end. Before the failure, his whole being became dazed as if sleepwalking, as if he had a terrible nightmare.

But after all, a nightmare is just a dream. Compared to facing the Flesh Giants directly, this terror was nothing.

It’s not so much that the dazed state caused the failure of awakening; rather, it was the failure that led to the dazed state.

It was a protective mechanism.

It was precisely because of this that he didn’t suffer any trauma after the failed awakening, he was just extremely exhausted.

Fang You tapped the tip of his pen and wrote down his speculation, then closed the notebook.

After resting for a while, he picked up the novice Wooden Sword and began to practice basic Swordsmanship.

Or meditated to rest.

He would also occasionally assign tasks to Black Blade and An Jianyou.

When his state of mind and spirit had both returned to their peak, Fang You took out his phone, opened the Savior of Destiny game, “I’ll try once more, this time I must succeed!”

He pressed down firmly.

The mysterious power boiled once again.

His spirit plunged into an endless abyss, surrounded by ten Flesh Giants so clear and close they seemed to be stuck to his skin.

Fang You bit the tip of his tongue, focused his mind, and guarded his spirit!

Endure, endure, endure, endure, endure!

He didn’t know how long it had been when he opened his eyes, a flicker of golden light flashed in his pupils, and an invisible wave of energy erupted from his body, dispersing circles of dust.

The dust settled on Black Pupil nearby, who had been peering around. It meowed, fluffed up its fur, then shook and swatted.

Fang You stood up.

There was a surge of power within him, his vision, hearing, sense of smell, and so forth were all much sharper. It was as if the shackles binding his body had been completely unlocked.

Without a doubt, he had succeeded this time.

Double Awakening.

“Ding!”

“Prompt: ‘Savior of Destiny’ has completed the Double Awakening, physique +5.8, spirit +3.2, Awakened Ability enhanced.”

(End of Volume One, though I haven’t come up with the name for Volume Two yet.)