The first is to test how much amplification my body gives me compared to the other" Wallace thought. He already finished his meal so he wanted to get used to his ability and also find out more about his body. There's a machine in front of him that Vincenzo gave him. The latter told him that it was a potential testing machine. The base cultivation in low-stage evolver which Wallace currently is. It has a prescribed stat, so punching with all his strength will determine how much stronger he is than a normal low-stage evolver. He flexed his body as he took a step bang and with his full strength,
"Bang" He hit the pad on the machine. Expecting to see a number, it did not show any reaction rather something surprising happened. From the pad, the machine burst into splinters. His face twitched severely when he saw that. Vincenzo on the other hand saw what happened and his eyes widened when he saw that.
"That's a machine designed to take the strength of a fucking high-raked evolver and their strength is usually hundred times that of a low-stage evolver. He just broke that into pieces with a punch" He thought as he looked at Wallace like a monster.
"Take this" After some time, he brought out another machine.
"This is designed based on a quasi-divine realm strength. It's the highest-grade machine used to test a low-stage evolver only used by those large families in the middle of the universe. Let's see what you are capable of" he said as he dropped the machine on the ground in front of Wallace. Going through the same procedure, he punched the machine with his full strength.
"Bang" Cracks quickly spread around the machine and it looked like it would soon shatter but it still was able to hold on to that insane strength before quickly displaying a number.
"Motherfucker" Vincenzo shouted when he saw the number ten thousand on the screen stating that Wallace's body strength is ten thousand times greater than that of a low-stage evolver. This means his strength and speed are 10000 times greater than that of a low-stage evolver which means somewhere in his body something is amplifying his body by 10000.
"Ah, even a ten-spiked Shura is nothing in front of you," Vincenzo said surprised.
"With this, you are unmatched in the evolver realm".
"Hmm," Wallace nodded his head.
"Let me leave you to train," he said as he left the training room.
Wallace sat on the floor, he closed his eyes as he could feel astral energies in the air enter his body due to the rotating nodes in his body but they were being discharged because they were not being converted. He started to run the cultivation technique through his body and immediately he felt the mist of energy in his body start to condense at a visible rate. One minute later, a drop of silvery liquid has been fully condensed and transferred to his stomach. He also noticed the dark heart absorbing the astral energy mist in his body but it was already filled up, he saw them being converted to dark energies before being transferred through his leg into the shadow. He focused on his shadow and he saw a dark space in front of him with dark energies swirling around the space, in some places of the dark space, he saw pools of black liquid had formed. He saw ten pools of the dark liquid.
"Looks like there are some things I still have to experiment with," he thought.
A low-stage evolver must condense ninety-nine drops of astral liquid before they break through to mid-stage. It's an endeavor that's not easy because the body must undergo a lot of strengthening. The more the body is strengthened, the more astral energy it can take because the astral energy is quite volatile and a strong body is needed to be able to take the energy. To do this, a low-stage evolver will go on killing beasts, eat their skins, bather in their blood mixed with a lot of volatile crystals, and do a lot of training so that the body can fully absorb the energy. It's simply tempering the body and some people usually meet a bottleneck when their body potential has been exhausted. That's what Wallace learned from Vincenzo.
Beasts that are usually used are not on Earth because Earth was colonized a long time ago so they have to leave the planet. The most talented one took a year to reach mid-stage evolver. Somehow, Wallace does not have this problem. He is condensing a drop of astral energy every minute and if it continues like this, it will only take over one and a half hours for him to break through to the next stage.
He continued to condense the astral energy and in the blink of an eye, two hours had passed. He opened his eyes.
"I have already condensed one hundred and twenty drops of astral energy but I'm still nowhere near the breakthrough point," he thought as he looked up. From what his body is giving him, it feels like he could still go on and absorb one thousand drops of astral energy.
"Well that will be for another day, these should be enough for me to experiment with what I want to do," He said. First, he looked at his crystallized fair skin and he could faintly discern the ring of ling spread across it. They are all connected to the nodes across his body. He controlled his astral nodes to absorb the mist of astral energy in them but it was not enough as drops of astral liquid left his stomach region and circulated his astral node. They were all absorbed by the nodes into the ring of light spread across his skin. Ten drops were absorbed at once into the ring of light before it shone and soon the outline of scales appeared across his skin boosting his defense.
He waited for some time and saw that the scales were still shimmering there.
"Bang" he attacked his hand and he did not feel anything but the scales dimmed. His astral nodes automatically absorbed astral mists in them and allowed it to reinforce the scales which returned to its original form.
"Looks like this boosts my defense and once it's activated, it will continue to automatically absorb energy to maintain itself unless I want it to stop," He thought. He nodded his head satisfied at the result. He went to one of the shelves in the training room and took a weapon. He has learned from Vincenzo that guns and other conventional firearms can do nothing to those with abilities. The difference between a normal human and a human with ability is like the difference between a human and an ant, it can't be breached by anything. Earth is just one of the planets that has been colonized already so there are no outside threats to awakened humans but other un-colonized planets have primitive beasts that are stronger than humans and because of this weapons have been developed by evolvers. Weapons are divided into one star to five stars with one star being the weapon an evolver can use and five stars being the one a unity realm expert can use.
He took a two-star weapon and slashed it across his skin but it only left a mark. He then raised it and slashed at his skin with force. It cut into the skin but a metallic sound was heard as it hit his skin. He got an overview of his defense ability. A one-star weapon once wielded by those at the peak of the evolver realm should be able to wound him a little. A two-star weapon when wielded by someone at the beginning stage of the Divine realm will injure him fatally if not cut through him but with the help of the scales, he should be able to block it. He has tested his strength, defense, and speed. He decided to test his newfound ability.
He triggered the ability as the space ten meters around him turned into a golden world. He checked and saw that he was losing a drop of astral liquid every second, which meant within a minute and some seconds, his astral energy would be depleted. He did not feel stronger in this world but he felt as if he could control all elements in this world, even destiny. Noting can happen without his permission in this world. He can form hundreds of him in an instant with the same strength as him. He can command lightning and can create fire. He felt as if he could bend the rules to do whatever he wanted to his opponent. He disappeared from where he was and arrived in another space.
"Teleportation," he thought. Just when he wanted to go on, the space quickly receded into his eyes, and everywhere turned normal. He has depleted all of the astral energy in his body.
"It will be kept as my ultimate move," He thought.