Anthony arrived in a serene plane, there were grass, trees, and birds. He closed his eyes and inhaled the fresh air, then exhaled; he could feel the mana dancing and cheering at his arrival, and he could feel it was the purest form of mana, the primordial mana.
After looking around for a while, he set the time dilation to 1:5, in which 5 years here was a year outside, a timer hung up in the air showing a year's worth of time.
He then sat down and started cultivation; the speed at which he drew mana surprised him, he kept drawing it like a vortex, it was moving endlessly, he thanked the being for the divine realm, because if not, when he cultivated outside, it would cause a ruckus.
Thirty minutes later he entered F rank, an hour later F+ rank, he stopped his cultivation and was shocked.
In an hour he got to the peak of the F rank, he couldn't believe it, he checked his foundation and saw it was perfect, his physique passively built a perfect foundation for him, all he needed to do was cultivate.
He closed his eyes, steeled himself, and started cultivating at full force, as he was cultivating he tapped into the knowledge from his bloodline and physique and shared it among his two million compartments, though the compartments still weren't enough to process it all.
Just like that, time slowly slipped by, and one and a half years passed. He woke up from his cultivation, seeing that he had advanced to the B rank; there were system notifications, but he left them for now, he would check them all when he left the realm, even inside the realm he left a thought compartment to always sign in because he couldn't miss those rewards.
He could have advanced faster, but the higher the realm he climbed, the more absurd mana he needed to absorb to reach the next rank, because his physique and bloodline were no different from black holes, if he cultivated outside he might be in the D- rank because the amount of mana he needed was way too outrageous, normally after a breakthrough he would hold over 100 times mana for someone in his rank and would also be stronger since he was using primordial mana.
But this was canceled because of the passive skill, Infinite Mana, but he didn't care.
You might say he has infinite mana, so why train, why not just cast the techniques and skills infinitely, but can his soul and body handle such a burden?
Every breakthrough nourishes the physical body and the soul, which increases lifespan, so he couldn't just cast them anyhow.
After looking at his rank, he smiled, then went into work mode again, started going through the endless knowledge he had, studying the magic part, integrating it with his body, studying every element and mana from its lowest building block, relating and applying it to his spell casting and mage way of life, but it seemed endless; he didn't care, he couldn't just become a god out of nowhere, and like that another year and a half went by.
He exhaled, thinking of his previous life, how he was an orphan, worked hard, landed a job, had no friends, how he died and how he was here with a loving family; he remembered all this, then he stopped reminiscing after he finished eating.
The only rest he got was when he was eating and taking a bath; aside from this, no rest.
After eating, he took a bath, the divine realm had no house or cottage, so he directly bought a house from the system, he came out to an open field, held his sword that his father had given him, and started practicing according to the physique knowledge of swords.
After some months, he switched to a sabre, then to an axe, a bow, daggers, short swords, a pole or rod, and a spear; he trained in all weapons.
He didn't want to train them initially, but he felt it was a waste if they accumulated dust, so he trained each weapon at month intervals, revising the knowledge of the weapons as he trained in his thought compartment. It went on and on and a year and a half was gone.
He only had half a year remaining here; he used it to go through his knowledge again, the ones he hadn't touched before he went through them, but it all seemed endless; he didn't complain, due to his memory he remembered it all and embedded it into his way of life.
Half a year went by and he opened his eyes, he was already A+ rank, as he reviewed his knowledge he had cultivated so he wouldn't waste his time. He stood up and glanced upward and then bowed to the being, whom he didn't know if it was watching.
After the bow, he said, "It's time to leave." He went into his room from the basement of the house he bought from the system and came to the mirror, and said, "I have become more handsome," admiring his muscles and six-pack; he stood there salivating at his body.
Then he changed clothes to the one he wore before coming to the realm.
He looked at one of the skills he awakened after he advanced in rank since the being placed restrictions on some skills, but it didn't matter since he didn't wish for many skills anyway; that was why he had the sign-in system which gave 70% skills to make up for this shortcoming, but it all depended on luck, for all he knew, the remaining 30% might appear throughout a year, leaving the remaining 70% in the dust, but it was just speculation.
He activated the ability, "Concealment."
[Concealment: The host can hide his entire existence and anything related to him, and be as if he doesn't exist in the first place, can conceal mana rank and change it to what the host wants to display.]
(The mana rank is another name for power rank, for those that are confused.)
Immediately he activated it, his aura changed to that of an F- rank.
He then accepted another skill he unlocked.
[Passive: Battle Experience: Gives the host the battle experience of all weapon masters and mages he knows.]
All sorts of battle experience flooded his mind, it was as if he was the one that fought; his aura shifted to that of an expert.
The skill was supposed to come with another skill, but it looks like the being locked the other skill, and that was supposed to be his last skill he wished for as he spent most of his time choosing which system would help him the most, tsk tsk, he clicked his tongue and left the house, then he accepted two skills he won from the sign-in system.
[The All Seeing Eyes: Able to see through all things, able to gaze at the past, the future, the present, falsehood, emotions, and more. The limit of the eyes can only be determined by the host and how the host uses it, the skill Mana Eyes has automatically been fused into All Seeing Eyes.]
He was happy though, the eyes came with a lot of passive skills and active ones; it took him some minutes to adjust to them.
[Infinite Regeneration: Host is able to regenerate immediately after he is injured, the host can regenerate his head if decapitated, his heart if squashed, the host can even regenerate from the atomic level.]
He was truly speechless for this skill; he was like a cockroach now, he could even use this to lure people and bring their guards down, he smiled as he thought of this.
With a thought he left the divine realm.