Prestige Grinding : I Can Reset My Level

Once he had accumulated what felt like the equivalent of a few [Soul Pearls], Triple-Seven stopped gathering raw Soul Power and focused.

During the World Update, Sora—guided by the Mother Orb—had created hundreds of items for the world. He had observed other orbs and mimicked their techniques in manipulating Soul Power and other energies to forge both simple and complex items. Triple-Seven remembered the "recipes" of many of those items, but without Sora's mastery over the different energies, he wasn't confident he could replicate them perfectly. To make the process easier, he decided to use an actual item as a template.

Holding the energy in his palm, he began to compress it. The Soul Power, once calm, started to rotate. Slowly, it formed a dense violet sphere. As it spun faster under his control, the sphere shrank in size.

'This is the easy part…' Shade thought, watching sweat start to bead on his brother's forehead as Triple-Seven began drawing in Mana and forcing it to merge with the spinning Soul Power.

'Without [Mana Evolution], life sure is hard. While Sora is making this effortlessly, the rest of us are out here struggling,' he thought, thinking of Sora's unmatched control over Mana. Using his fingers to guide the energy, Triple-Seven began infusing strands of Mana into the sphere of Soul Power. At first, the two forces clashed. Mana was either repelled or devoured on contact. But he did not give up, carefully guiding each strand until it was accepted. With every successful fusion, the sphere darkened. Once enough Mana had been absorbed, he began releasing Mental Power around the orb and repeated the process.

Shade watched quietly. After several minutes, he finally relaxed as Triple-Seven succeeded. A fruit appeared in Triple-Seven's hand. Shade took a step forward and inspected it. His eyes moved from the newly created fruit to the original one in Triple-Seven's right hand.

"It looks identical to the original… Did you check it?" he asked.

Triple-Seven looked disappointed as he tossed the newly formed fruit for Shade to catch. Shade confirmed the result and grinned, until Triple-Seven spoke again.

"F-Tier affinity is trash. It cost me ten damn [Soul Pearls] to create one. And I didn't even unlock a [Supreme Skill] after achieving such a feat..."

Shade stared at the fruit in disbelief. "Ten [Soul Pearls]?! This shouldn't have taken more than two! How are we supposed to use this method to reach EX-Tier?"

Triple-Seven shook his head. "My control over [Soul Power] isn't good enough. Too much gets wasted in the process. We need someone from the Soul Power Company to handle this. They're way more efficient at conversion."

Shade raised an eyebrow. "Sora or Alius would be perfect for this. Should we ask them?"

Triple-Seven frowned before shaking his head. "We're meant to support them, not rely on them. I already contacted Twelve. He said he'll send someone in a few hours. Until then, let's keep going. What's your current affinity with [Shadow]?"

Shade glanced at his interface. "I'm level 1 with a basic, classless body… So right now, my [Shadow] affinity is C-Tier. And that's only because my talent level."

Triple-Seven tossed him another [Shadow Fruit]. "Absorb one and see if it makes a difference."

Without waiting for a reply, he sat down and began condensing a new fruit. A few minutes later, he looked up to see Shade shaking his head.

"No change. It didn't improve anything. Pure waste at this level."

Triple-Seven didn't respond. He just nodded and kept working in silence. After half an hour, they had ten. After an hour, twenty.

Triple-Seven stopped condensing fruits and sat up. He materialized five of them in front of him. As the fruits floated in the air, a system notification appeared: