Chapter 1186: Rank Four
Feylis was a little too late.
Sein’s elementalization reaction had already reached a tipping point back when he emerged from the Faceless Secret Realm on the Knight Continent.
On top of that, Sein had spent over five hundred years inside that secret realm.
During that time, he had inherited a massive amount of legacy knowledge left behind by Master Jorces and even absorbed more than half of the abundant elemental energy within the realm itself.
By all accounts, absorbing that much elemental energy and enough understanding of the truth to trigger a qualitative shift, Sein should have ascended to Rank Four long ago.
However, the appearance of the Faceless Mask had successfully suppressed his breakthrough.
He had held himself back on purpose—wanting to build a stronger foundation so that, when the time came, he could go even farther.
Like a tightly compressed spring, the more pressure applied, the more explosive the force became when finally released.
And the “mini lesson” he received earlier from Feylis had pushed his next elementalization reaction and lawful body formation to near-perfect conditions.
As a result, the Faceless Mask had reached its limit.
The moment Sein lifted just a corner of the mask, the fragile balance he had been barely maintaining finally collapsed.
Originally, he had planned to break through after the faction gathering.