At this moment, beneath the six paladins and Evan. Similar blue rifts appeared.
"What is this? He wants us to bring somewhere?" Evan could just walk out with his speed but he didn't do so. He looked at his paladins and gave a command: "Don't resist. I don't know what he intends to do. But if he thinks that he could defeat an Awakened Realm Grade 9. I'll let him know what it means to be at the peak!"
The paladins obediently followed Evan's command. They're not worried about Dylan and the Savage Deer. In their opinion, Dylan was only in the 3rd grade of the awakened realm, while the Berserker Deer was in the 4th grade.
In this continent, realms are divided into small nine realms. First to ninth grade...
The first to third grades are known as small success awakeners, the fourth to sixth grade as great success, and the seventh to ninth grade represents the advancement realm.
If put to the game perspective, levels 1 to 10 were first grade, levels 11-20 were 2nd grade, levels 21-30 were 3rd grade, and so on...
Just like that, Evan and six paladins appeared in a different space. Evan looked around and saw Dylan and the Berserker Deer. Around them, there was nothing but green grasses.
Suddenly, an unknown force acted upon him. He felt his body become weaker and his strength fell to a small realm!
From an Awakened Realm 9th Grade he was demoted to Awakened Realm 8th Grade! Every small realm is equivalent to 10% of overall strength.
"What's going on?"
Confused, Evan looked at the paladins. Just like him, a look of surprise appeared on their face. Most of them were at level 51 and above (5th Grade); now, they actually downgraded to 4th grade inexplicably.
"T-this what's going on with our realm? Why did our realm regress by one small realm!?" One of the paladins looked fearful.
That's one small realm! Every advance for them was hard as fuck! It took him two and a half years to become 5th grade. Only to be demoted just like this?
"What to do? That's two years of progress wasted!" Another one cried out.
Evan clapped his hand and shouted: "Calm down! It must have something to do with this space. It might be only temporary because it would be too unreasonable." Then, he saw Dylan looking at them with a smile. "Am I right?"
At this time, Dylan was satisfied with the effect of the Spatial Dominion. The enemies went down a whole ten levels. As for the small realm, they're talking about? He knew that they were pertaining to the power system of this world. 'System can you update the panel? Give labels to the levels. 1-10 shall be first grade from now and so on...'
The system didn't respond, but Dylan knew that there were changes.
So, he opened his panel to look. There were indeed changes at the top as it displayed what grade he was at.
...
Name: Dylan
Level 49 (Awakened Realm 4th Grade)
HP: 3700/3760
Mana: 920/980
Specie: Human
Profession: Esper: Overlord of Space (A-rank)
Attributes:
...
From level 39, thanks to the Spatial Dominion buff, he became level 49, at the peak of 4th grade!
On the other hand, the Berserker Deer instantly stepped to the Awakened Realm 5th grade!
"You can think of it as that," Dylan responded to Evan. Since the other party was stronger than him. He will give him at least one point of respect. "This is my dominion..."
The odds they had against the seven enemies increased a little. He could fight two grades higher than him. Meaning that his power was enough to hold 6th Grade Awakeners.
The six paladins were downgraded from 5th to 4th grade. He could absolutely crush them! The only problem now was Evan. Although he's only in 8th grade compared to the previous 9th grade. The Berserker Deer can't possibly fight three grades higher than him even with the stacks of innate talents.
"I'll deal with the six paladins. You go and engage with their Patriarch. Be careful though. Don't die on me!"
Around Dylan, the Firebody level 3 fully erupted! Flames soared out of his body causing a sizzling sound in the air. The heat became even more terrifying than before due to the increase of Dylan's strength to an entire small realm.
Seeing this, the four paladins readied themselves. Their bodies released a faint golden light. With the conjunction of their mana, a dome of golden light acted like a barrier.
Dylan bolted straight to the golden dome. The flames around him were like a hungry raging dragon. It collided with the dome head-on. At this time, it only caused a ripple to spread on the golden dome.
The vitality of the six paladins fluctuated. With pale faces, blood leaked out from their mouth.
"Not good, the backlash is too strong! With the combination of our power, we still fell short."
The paladin in the middle clutched his chest in pain. He suffered the most of the backlash just now. He gritted his teeth and endured. It felt as if someone was squeezing his heart.
Once the dome of light is broken, how would they be supposed to fight against Dylan who seems to be abnormally strong for his current 4th grade strength?
"Obviously, he is only one person in 4th grade and we are six combined with our 4th grade strength. Why are we losing!?"
"It's those flames. Once a skill level is high enough. It allows one to fight across the realm. Some who had reached the limit of a skill could even fight one big realm!"
Dylan further poured 10% of his mana to strengthen the flame which caused the dome of light to almost break.
"Ahhh!!!" The six paladins' five orifices began to bleed profusely.
"Good move! If you tried to fight me one-on-one instead of defending. You guys would be on the river of the afterlife by now." Dylan let out a disappointed sigh. "It seems my mode of attack is still lacking. I need more offensive skills instead of relying on just this flame body.
It's great for an area of attack but not suitable for a single attack. It also lacks penetrating power. If I have a skill with a good penetration effect, this dome of protection of yours wouldn't last in front of me."
On the other side, the Berserker Deer erupted with full strength and rammed his antler toward Evan. As a response, Evan punched downward, three golden hands came out from the ground and held the Berserker Deer's feet.
"It's futile!" Evan appeared beside the Berserker Deer with a neutral expression.