Getting to the Tier-1 Advance Grade was an easy goal to reach for normal people in their lifetime, if someone learns a 1-star skill at Tier-1 they would receive even more glory. There were many people with Tier-1 Advance Grade strength, fewer of them learned skills through their talent and became renowned, and even fewer aspire to be Tier-2.
Becoming a Tier-2 wasn't dependent on skills or talents. Talents were just like skills but the difference was that when someone breakthrough to a new stage they can get to know new ways to use their talent or receive upgrades to their talent, they grow with the talent holder's soul. While skills were powerful ways of using energy combined with the affinity of elements one has after a long period of analyzing and studying other monsters or their own talent's affinity.
But becoming Tier-2 wasn't up to some talent or skill, instead it was more up to the physique one has. Once one was done reaching Tier-1 their bones would be very strong, however, the bone structure still has impurities hidden deep inside them, if one attempted to break through to Tier-2 then the body would naturally expel most of the impurities inside the bones, this might result in cracks in numerous parts of the human skeleton and such cracks weren't small, like breaking through a minor stage, and such cracks took time to heal since they were deep and big. If such cracks appear near the skull, which is very rare, they must be tended to immediately otherwise death is also a possibility.
While breaking through to Tier-2 without the impurities hindering the bone structure, the bone structure would automatically fall into place such that it becomes robust and exerts more power with less effort. Once their bone structure is established normal Tier-2 would be able to do things without even needing origin energy, the raw strength of the bones would be more than enough.
That is the reason why many people decided not to break through to Tier 2, after all once one begins the process there is no way to undo it. The worst possible case is that their foundation would be broken and their strength would be stuck at Tier 1 they might even degrade to a lower stage than Advance Grade Tier 1.
But Levi was a totally different case, with his deconstruction talent he had contemplated a lot about it. He tried to use his talent on himself, usually, he would have to look at an object and he would be able to see the components that make up the object.
He discovered that if he wanted to use it on himself, he only needed to think about it and the images of his own skeleton, blood, and so on would appear. He did not see skeleton impurities in those images, probably because those impurities were considered components of the skeleton itself and not of his body, and he would need to deconstruct his skeleton for it instead of his body as the target. However, when he tried to deconstruct his own skeleton, he was not able to see any images.
After thinking about it for the last 2 days before he came to the new mansion. He thought to try it on himself while he broke through. Levi thought that if he broke through while he was expelling his impurities through his body, he would be able to deconstruct them since the impurities would be considered a component of the body.
"Hooh, okay time to break through to Tier-2."
Levi sat cross-legged and surrounded by the cores and blood ready to be absorbed. Slowly, a white mist started forming in the strong cubicle basement. The mist started swirling around Levi before turning into a silent tornado, that soon violently rotated around Levi. Levi only kept his focus on absorbing the energy as fast as he could with efficiency and without taking any hurried steps that would cause him any problems.
Breaking through Tier 2 was very easy as it only needed to accumulate more energy that Tier-2 was supposed to have at its level. Recovering energy and accumulating were two different things, Recovering energy is when one fights and needs to recover energy, while accumulating is increasing the natural capacity of energy within one.
Levi could slowly feel his energy capacity increase and reach a threshold. Levi increased his accumulation speed but no matter how much he absorbed, he wasn't able to surpass the threshold.
"COME ON!" Levi roared while increasing his speed of accumulation which caused tears to appear all around his body.
At this point, Levi was forcefully increasing his capacity to go beyond the threshold that was stopping him from getting to Tier-2. Slowly, he could feel cracks form around the invisible threshold, this was his chance. He took it up a notch and increased energy accumulation again.
"AAAHHHH!" Levi felt immense pain to accumulate beyond his capacity. But he kept the circulation and absorption of energy at a constant speed inside him to help him breakthrough.
CRACK!
"Hmm!?"
Levi felt as if the threshold cracked and he felt empty as if the energy reservoir that was at its brim was upgraded to a new bigger reservoir.
But at the same time to accommodate the more energy, modifications are necessary.
"ARGHHH" Levi felt cracks all over his bones, every part of his bones had cracks ranging from minor to major and some were even critical.
But Levi's eyes gleamed in the pain.
'This is it! Activate!!' He activated his talent amongst the unbearable pain.
And closed his eyes to look at the images that appeared among the myriads of items he could choose to deconstruct. He found the one thing he wasn't able to earlier when he chose his body as the target item to deconstruct.
"Deconstruct it!!" Levi used the energy inside him to deconstruct the impurities oozing out from the cracks that had appeared on his skeleton. He did not remove all of the impurities together but one at a time from his bones so that he would not damage the bone structure from the sudden change.
From time-to-time foul-smelling dust and liquid would appear out of thin air and Levi would throw it into a container he had prepared.
1, 2, 3…5 hours passed.
Levi took out the last of the impurities he could remove from his body, the 5 hours also gave his bone the proper time to adjust. Suddenly he opened his eyes,
BOOM!
The energy around him got absorbed rapidly into his body and into his bones. His bones absorbed energy like a black hole. All the monster cores and blood had dried up by more than 50%, before the speed of absorption slowed down. He checked his body again in case it still has any impurities and stood up.
POP!
He felt as if his bones were making noises as if they were dislocated before and now were back in place. He did not know if it was true but he felt like his bones had turned into a crystal like structure making them unbreakable. Along with that, the intensity of the blood produced was much more than before, his skin had turned red and his injuries were healing at a speed no different from regeneration.
He took a slight drop of blood that dripped from one of the cuts on his body that got mended rapidly. And observed with his naked eye, he felt that the drop of blood was a bit heavy compared to how a drop of liquid should be.
"So this is Tier-2, but I haven't heard of the blood being heavy when one becomes Tier-2, is it my imagination? Whatever let's absorb the remaining energy and start deconstructing the bear and human corpses."
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City Hall, Hans Silver's Office.
"Oh, really?" Hans said while looking at his subordinate with suspicion. It wasn't that he doubted his subordinate but the news he reported was something that was out of his expectation.
"Lord Hans, I wouldn't lie about what I saw. I hesitated earlier since the mission was completed either way. But I thought it was necessary to report you on this anomaly." The man standing in front of Hans was the same guy who was sent to kill Vincent in case he hurt Levi.
"You saw with your own eyes that Levi gouged out Vincent's heart with ease and slept like it was nobody's business."
"Yes, Lord Hans"
"Fine, I will believe you for once. Where is the kid now?" Hans sighed before accepting his subordinate's information and asked about Levi so that he could personally confirm his suspicions, if what his subordinate said is true, then Levi is a genius like James that should be nurtured. The only problem was his family.
But Hans wanted to confirm the news before thinking ahead.
"I knew Lord Hans would ask; he has currently shifted to a new mansion in the city."
"A mansion!? Where did he get the money for it?" Hans was shocked for a kid to have a mansion in the city all to him, only Tier-2 deserved such treatment and other Tier-1 Heir of rich family.
"That… I don't know." The man said awkwardly since he hadn't investigated too deeply into it.
"Oh, bloody hell! Let's just meet this kid up front. If he is good let's offer him a position within the City's Defense. I was troubled since Vincent's position was empty after he would leave the city."
saying that Hans Silver and his subordinate began their trip to Levi's new mansion.