Chapter 488 - 67: Crushing the Old Progeny!
Shawn began preparing the materials needed for the Ascension Ceremony to demigod status.
The process was quite simple.
Because what is an arduous task for other routes of Transcendents is merely a spell for Shawn. Other routes of Transcendents might waste years just knowing what ascension materials they need, where the materials are located, and how they can be obtained, while Shawn only needs a few seconds.
——Super Sensing (9th Level Spell)!
In an instant, Shawn’s eyes resonated with the cosmos, his mind entered a near cosmic-level ocean of consciousness, akin to some kind of power of the Law of Cause and Effect.
——"Super Sensing (Mind Prophecy Series) [Note - Equivalent to Great Prophecy Art on the Spiritual Energy side]: You elevate your consciousness to a near cosmic level, gaining infinite insight and perception abilities for any kind of creature you have previously seen (including those seen through spells).
During the spell’s duration, the nature, activities, and whereabouts of the corresponding creature will be precisely revealed to you.
When you manifest this superpower, you gain the following information about the creature:
1. Its name, race, alignment, and character profession.
2. A rough assessment of its Extraordinary Level or Life Dice number: Low (no more than 5HD), Medium (6 to 11HD), High (12 to 20HD), Very High (21 to 40HD), Pseudo-God (41HD or above). [Note: HD refers to the Life Dice of Extraordinary Level.]
3. Its location (including residence, town, country, world, existing plane, etc.).
4. The important items it currently possesses. (Only targeted at Legendary Level.)
5. Meaningful actions performed within the last 8 hours, including various details such as locations passed, names or races of creatures fought, spells cast, items obtained, and items left behind, but everything seen has a delay.
6. Its current mental state, allowing direct viewing of the opponent, similar to Remote Viewing Skill.
Crack.
A high-quality Soul Crystal Stone in Shawn’s hand shattered into powder; the ability to exhibit something akin to Great Prophecy Art requires burning Soul Power, which means paying varying Soul Experience Points, which can be substituted through ritual using Soul Crystal Stones.
He had already seen everything he wanted to know.
Mages, after ascending to Legendary, have abilities far surpassing other professional routes. To catch up, they must first ascend to pseudo-god, that is, obtain the Legendary Priest level held by demigods, enabling them to cast Divine Arts like Legendary Priests.
After a warrior ascends to Legendary, wanting to narrow the gap with mages can only expand their Divine Power Pool and then simulate Divine Arts using the Divine Power Pool to possess Casting Ability.
However, the list of Divine Arts they possess are expanded based on the accessed Domain Law.
This gap is not something that can be bridged in a short time; a divine spirit of the Warrior Series wanting to reach Shawn’s Casting Ability requires almost medium Divine Power level. Of course, their ability to hack is still as formidable as ever since hacking is their inborn talent.
The Great Prophecy Art on the Arcane Magic side is more adept at predicting future events, while the Great Prophecy Art on the Spiritual Energy side can directly anchor everything near cosmic level.
With Shawn’s current ability, he can predict past events, but looking directly at divine spirits requires a price and may not necessarily be clear.
Under the pseudo-divine power that even the Divine Eye can’t reach, one basically gets very vague information.
"Found you!" A faint divine glow appeared in Shawn’s eyes.
The next second.
He tore open the Dimension Gate, directly entering the southwest direction of the Bizarre Realm, his figure appearing over a coastal area of the Great Rift Valley.
——Time Mark (2nd Level Spiritual Energy): You can read historical vision of a specific area, knowing important events that once occurred here, with your perception extending backward through time equaling 100 years*your Psion level.
Shawn can currently see events that occurred as far back as 2600 years ago.
Of course, the older the event, the vaguer the view, while for important recent events, Shawn can spy on past historical traces as if personally experiencing them.
Having gained a trace of Divine Format Law, Shawn’s eyes pierced through history, directly spying on traces akin to the Law of Cause and Effect.
——Polarized Cognition (8th Level Spiritual Energy): You make lightning-fast deductions based on subtle clues, models, or fragments of memory in your mind. You can come to reasonable conclusions about a person, place, or object from very little knowledge. During the duration of this spiritual energy, you gain a +20 bonus to intelligence checks. [Supports Arcane Magic research, temporarily adds +20 intelligence to evaluations.]
——Reading Object (2nd Level Spiritual Energy): You can acquire detailed information about previous owners of a non-living object. The psychic traces left by former owners accumulating on the object can be read by this superpower.
This is Shawn’s tracking ability.
Letting him track target traces like Wanderer, Ranger, or Hunter is impossible; he simply doesn’t have the corresponding skills. Shawn’s way of tracking targets is ’cheating,’ and moreover, resonates with the Law of Cause and Effect at a near cosmic level, unless the opponent’s Casting Ability is higher than Shawn’s, otherwise he can find anything he wants to find.
Polarized Cognition was previously used to support Shawn’s research, as a temporary intelligence state of +20 should not be wasted on research into Element Fusion and Elemental Melting Furnace.
His current research results rely heavily on positive BUFFs to break through bottlenecks, including the design of the Magic Energy Armor.
