Levi swept his gaze across his character panel, pausing for half a second on the Development Abilities: 'Martial Mastery', 'Mage', 'Ice Flash', and 'Electro Flash'.
Currently, disregarding the 'Spirit's Six Rings', his most powerful magic was undoubtedly 'Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu', which resonated from the 'Tenkajin-constellation'.
More precisely, it was the 'Musou no Hitotachi'—the ultimate fusion of the Raiden Shogun's own martial arts and the Authority of Thunder from the world of Genshin.
In the DanMachi world, this skill, which sat somewhere between a martial art and magic, could simultaneously benefit from damage bonuses for Electro Element, Magic, Martial Arts, and Electro Flash, in addition to the amplification from 'Wishes'.
It could be said to occupy every possible advantage.
However, it was clear that even counting the Musou no Hitotachi, Levi's strongest output without entering a 'Possession' state was currently just over one-third of the power of the 'Spirit's Six Rings' from back then.
To continue improving, there were only two methods.
The first was to increase his Five-dimensional Ability Stats.
This was exactly what he had been doing during the day.
The second was to evolve the 'Musou no Hitotachi', which was originally a fusion of martial arts and the Authority of Thunder, through the consciousness space. He aimed to transform it into a composite magic formed by the fusion of martial arts and two or more Elemental Authorities.
To put it more plainly, it was to allow the Musou no Hitotachi to benefit from even more Development Abilities and elemental damage buffs without changing the magical energy output!
At the dining table, after listening to Levi's upcoming plans, Hestia and Hephaestus could not help but exchange a glance.
"What do you think?"
"Theoretically feasible, but in terms of concrete practice, it should take quite a lot of time."
"That won't be a problem. My Levi doesn't have much of anything else, but he has always been in a state of having an inexhaustible supply of items for researching skills."
Hestia was referring to the 'Proficiency Increase Tickets'.
With those things, even if Levi spent 10 hours a day burning at least 3,000 tickets per hour, it would still take three days to use them all up.
Converted into time within the consciousness space, that was equivalent to over 20,000 years.
That should be more than enough to deduce a magic spell.
Moreover, in order to obtain other Elemental Authorities next, he was going to pull on the gacha anyway, so the tickets would only pile up more and more.
Because his 'Luck' level was already very high, across twelve rounds of paid pulls, he had only been 'spooked' once.
The consumption of 'Valis Vouchers' totaled 650 million.
After obtaining twelve high-rank Constellation Exchange Tickets, Levi did not hesitate. He directly converted six of them for the 'Rex Lapis Constellation' of the Rock God from the world of Genshin.
Zhongli, that old fogey who had lived for over 6,000 years, definitely had a lot of good stuff hidden in his hands. No matter how he thought about it, pulling for him wouldn't be a loss.
And the facts proved just that.
[Rex Lapis Constellation]
[Carried Magic:]
* Skill: Dominus Lapidis · 6-Star (-): Consumes 500 Mind. Condenses a Stone Stele on the ground, dealing one instance of AoE Geo Element damage. Grants the caster a Jade Shield with an absorption capacity reaching the limit of the Endurance stat. While the shield exists, the defense of nearby enemies is drastically reduced. If multiple Stone Steles exist in the area, they will resonate every three seconds, dealing Geo Element damage to hostile targets within range.
* Burst: Planet Befall · 7-Star (-): Consumes a minimum of 1,000 Mind (no upper limit). Condenses a massive Star Rock in the air. Upon impact, the Star Rock explodes, dealing massive AoE Geo Element damage and Petrification to all enemies in the area. Damage and range are corrected by the amount of Mind consumed. The Petrification status can be lifted by the caster or will naturally expire over time.
[Constellation Bonuses:]
* 1-Star Bonus: Removes the limit on the number of Stone Steles created by Dominus Lapidis.
* 2-Star Bonus: Upon the descent of Planet Befall, grants a Jade Shield to the caster and all allied units.
* 3-Star Bonus: When the Jade Shield takes damage, the shield's strength is drastically increased.
* 4-Star Bonus: The attack range of Planet Befall is drastically increased, and the duration of Petrification is drastically extended.
* 5-Star Bonus: Damage of Normal Attacks, Dominus Lapidis, Stone Stele Resonance, and Planet Befall receives a drastic correction based on the Endurance stat.
* 6-Star Bonus: When the Jade Shield takes damage, it restores the Life Force of the shield holder. The recovery efficiency is directly proportional to the power of the attack received.
Spending one night and one morning living through Zhongli's long life, Levi not only directly obtained the 6-Star Skill, 7-Star Burst, and 6 Constellation Bonuses inherent to the Rex Lapis Constellation.
The 'Petra Honing' buff inherent to the 'Cold Edge Martial Arts', which had already been upgraded to 7-Star previously, also saw a slight improvement.
This wasn't the end of it. Aside from the anticipated 'Geo Arcanum (Fragment)', 'Alchemy', and 'Serenitea Pot', the 'Talismans' were directly merged into the 'Primordial Runes' due to his past operations.
In addition to that, there was actually another Arcanum that appeared on his character panel after the resonance:
[Geo/Space Arcanum (Fragment) · 7-Star]
* Obtain Development Ability: Geo Flash S / Void Flash S.
* Can independently compile 4-Star, 5-Star, 6-Star, and 7-Star Geo/Space attribute magic, or perform a certain degree of re-compilation on mastered Geo/Space attribute magic. Magic obtained through this method does not count towards Falna Magic Slots.
* Geo/Space attribute Mind consumption is super-tier reduced.
* Growth speed of Geo/Space attribute magic proficiency is super-tier increased.
* Power of Geo/Space attribute magic is super-tier increased.
* Geo/Space attribute resistance is super-tier increased.
* Pharmaceuticals 3-Star → Alchemy 6-Star (-): Obtain Development Ability Mixing S. Master Liyue Alchemy and Liyue Pill Refinement.
* Serenitea Pot · 6-Star (-): Obtain Development Ability Formation S. Master Spatial Item creation.
* Primordial Runes · 7-Star (-): Obtain Development Ability Mystery S. Integrates complete Genshin World Talisman knowledge. Can manipulate the surrounding environment and objects through hand-drawing, spirit speech, engraving, etc. The degree of manipulation is directly proportional to the understanding of Primordial Runes and Talismans.
Good lord, seriously, good lord. Zhongli, you really hid it deep enough!
To think it was related to the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles—although Levi had actually seen this scene with his own eyes during the resonance earlier.
But on second thought, it was reasonable.
The Primordial Pyro Archon was bound to the Shade of Death, the Primordial Hydro Archon could borrow the Authority of the Shade of Life, and the Anemo Archon Venti had explicitly stated his relationship with the Shade of Time in the game. Thus, Zhongli, as one of the original Seven Archons, naturally should also have a trump card hidden in the dark.
However, this meant he had to carefully consider the next Constellation he needed to resonate with.
Levi currently had two trains of thought.
The first was to gamble on his luck and see if he could obtain the complete Water Authority through the Hydro Dragon Sovereign Neuvillette's 'Leviathan Judicator Constellation'.
The second was to resonate with Venti's 'Carmen Dei Constellation', subsequently obtaining the two fragmentary Authorities of Anemo and Time.
Originally, he was actually leaning more towards the first option.
A complete Authority absolutely stepped into the domain of the DanMachi gods.
But considering that he currently already stood at the very apex of adventurers, taking a step forward—while not necessarily letting him ascend to godhood completely—would absolutely be no problem for achieving the status of a Demigod.
Plus, resonating with the Hydro Dragon's Constellation ultimately had an element of gambling.
It would be better to be safer and choose two fragmentary Authorities as a guaranteed floor.
After some thought, Levi ultimately resonated with the Carmen Dei Constellation.
As a wind spirit, Venti's true body was much younger than Zhongli.
Coupled with the fact that he spent almost all his time sleeping after becoming the Anemo Archon.
It took less than four hours from start to finish for Levi to experience this one's life.
[Carmen Dei Constellation]
[Carried Magic:]
* Skill: Skyward Sonnet · 6-Star (-): Consumes 400 Mind. Summons a Wind Domain at a designated location, dealing one instance of Anemo Element damage to enemies within and knocking them airborne. If the caster is within the Wind Domain, they gain the ability to fly for three seconds.
* Burst: Wind's Grand Ode · 7-Star (-): Consumes a minimum of 1,000 Mind (no upper limit). Condenses an Eye of the Storm at a designated location, sucking in all nearby enemies and dealing continuous medium-power Anemo Element damage. Damage and range are corrected by the amount of Mind consumed.
[Constellation Bonuses:]
* 1-Star Bonus: When attacking with a bow and arrow, automatically condenses an Anemo Element homing arrow.
* 2-Star Bonus: After Skyward Sonnet hits an enemy, the target's Defense and Anemo Element Resistance are drastically reduced.
* 3-Star Bonus: When the Wind's Grand Ode magic ends, restores 15% of the Constellation holder's total Mind.
* 4-Star Bonus: After using Skyward Sonnet or Wind's Grand Ode, Anemo Element damage is drastically increased.
* 5-Star Bonus: Skyward Sonnet can provide flight ability to allied units.
* 6-Star Bonus: After Wind's Grand Ode hits an enemy, the target's Anemo Element Resistance is drastically reduced.
[Anemo/Time Arcanum (Fragment) · 7-Star]
* Obtain Development Ability: Anemo Flash S / Time Flash S.
* Can independently compile 4-Star, 5-Star, 6-Star, and 7-Star Anemo/Time attribute magic, or perform a certain degree of re-compilation on mastered Anemo/Time attribute magic. Magic obtained through this method does not count towards Falna Magic Slots.
* Anemo/Time attribute Mind consumption is super-tier reduced.
* Growth speed of Anemo/Time attribute magic proficiency is super-tier increased.
* Power of Anemo/Time attribute magic is super-tier increased.
* Anemo/Time attribute resistance is super-tier increased.
The skills obtained after resonating with the Carmen Dei Constellation were obviously quite a bit worse than the Rex Lapis Constellation.
Aside from the anticipated Anemo Arcanum (Fragment) and Time Arcanum (Fragment), there was only an additional 'Way of the Thousand Winds' evolved from 'Archery of the Age of Gods'. After being absorbed by Levi's 'Cold Edge Martial Arts', it transformed into 'Thousand Winds Baptism'.
[Cold Edge Martial Arts · 7-Star (-)]
* Obtain Development Ability: Martial Mastery S.
* My Way is Cold Edge: Attack Power is super-tier increased.
* Petra Honing: For every martial art or Taijutsu mastered, Defense gains a medium increase (Effect increased after resonating with Rex Lapis Constellation). Can be stacked up to ten times. Currently mastered martial arts/Taijutsu (10/10): Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu 3-Star, Guhua Sword Style 3-Star, Favonius Bladework · Two-Handed 3-Star, Hunter Archery 3-Star, Tachin Setsu-to Spear Style 4-Star, Church Spearmanship 3-Star....
* Musou Tempering: For every martial art or Taijutsu mastered, Attack Speed gains a medium increase. Can be stacked up to ten times. Currently mastered martial arts/Taijutsu (10/10): ...
* Extreme Evil Soul Forging: For every martial art or Taijutsu mastered, Mental Abnormal Resistance gains a small increase. Can be stacked up to ten times. Currently mastered martial arts/Taijutsu (10/10): ...
* Night Fire Soul Casting: For every martial art or Taijutsu mastered, Attack Power gains a small increase. Can be stacked up to ten times. Currently mastered martial arts/Taijutsu (10/10): ...
* Thousand Winds Baptism: For every martial art or Taijutsu mastered, Life Recovery Efficiency and Mind Recovery Efficiency gain a medium increase. Can be stacked up to ten times. Currently mastered martial arts/Taijutsu (10/10): ... (Unlocked after resonating with Carmen Dei Constellation).
Besides this, there were two max-level logistic skills that Levi felt he would basically never use—'Performance · 3-Star' and 'Singing · 3-Star'.
That being said, just the existence of two 7-Star Arcana alone was actually already worth the ticket price.
Counting the Geo Arcanum (Fragment) and Space Arcanum (Fragment) obtained during the day, as well as the 'Lightning Arcanum (Fragment)' acquired even earlier.
Levi now held a total of five Fragmentary Arcana.
Setting aside Time and Space for now, if he could perfectly integrate Geo and Anemo into the Musou no Hitotachi...
When that time came, just the 'Corresponding Elemental Magic Power Increase' and 'Lightning/Anemo Flash S' inherent to the Arcana alone, stacked in multiple layers, would be enough to catch up to the 'Spirit's Six Rings' in terms of raw power, or even surpass it!
A smile emerged on Levi's face.
However, he did not impatiently begin the deduction of the ultimate move exclusive to him. Instead, he pushed open the bedroom door, ready to have dinner with Hestia and Hephaestus.
The next second, his superhuman five senses allowed him to hear a familiar yet unfamiliar female voice from the hall on the first floor.
"Hestia, I beg you, just let me become your dependent god. I promise to be obedient."
"Hephaestus, don't just watch from the side either, help me persuade her! You can't just ignore your sister now that you've made it ashore yourself!"
"..." x2
Sitting on the sofa in the hall, Hestia and Hephaestus sighed in unison after hearing their close friend's statement.
"Artemis, I know you were scared by the encounter in the Great Tree Sea ruins earlier, and thus want to make a tangible change." The twin-tailed goddess pinched the space between her eyebrows, which was aching slightly. "But isn't this appearance of yours a bit too much of a change?"
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