Chapter 879: Assessment (1)

It wasn’t arrogance per se, but the fact that Klaus had just declared that none of his team members could get through his mental defence was too shocking.

Of course, Nyxthar, Eren, and Veylor believed him.

While this new version of Klaus wasn’t the one they had followed, they knew enough to understand that the Paragon they had followed several years ago was still the same. And though his words sounded arrogant, he indeed had the strength to back them up.

Klaus was no simple person, and with 68 minds connected to form the Hivemind, he was indeed capable of creating a mental domain within a battlefield.

Of course, Klaus was only using three parts of his mind for this experiment, but it turned out his team members were much weaker mentally than he had expected.

An hour later, after Danny and the others passed out, they stirred, and Klaus took them away. Others would come to clean the bodies and extract the cores. Their job had been to kill the zombies, and they had done a remarkable job.

When they returned, they all surrounded Klaus, with Lily even jumping onto his lap. Naturally, her sisters became jealous, but when Nirvana and Fury arrived, they lightened up a bit.

“Let’s start,” Klaus said, and everyone calmed down. It was time for the battle assessment, and Klaus planned to address everything he had observed on the battlefield.

“First of all, you all did well. You’ve proven how much you’ve grown as warriors this past year. I am really proud of all of you. However, I have a few people to congratulate and perhaps give a few rewards to motivate those who won’t receive any reward”

Some smiled while some remained silent…They knew how their battles went, and so they knew they couldn’t have done any better.

“First, Nyxthar, you were remarkable throughout the battle. From start to finish, you never made a single mistake. I paid quite close attention to you and saw no flaws in your combat… You were remarkable.”

“This is why I will be giving you this.” Klaus flicked his hand, and a fruit appeared in his hand. It had a reddish-pink colour with some golden lines running around it.

“This is the ‘Seven Strand Innate Fruit.’ Eating it, if you are lucky, you can awaken many Innate abilities. It can be an Innate Body Constitution, Innate skills, Innate Aspects, Innate Domains, and many more.

Of course, I can assure you that eating it will benefit you more than you think.” Klaus threw the fruit to Nyxthar, who caught it and stored it away.

“Thank you, Master,” Klaus nodded.

For reasons Klaus didn’t understand, after becoming a Transcendent, his 9th core now contained some of the rarest plants in the universe.

It was a shocking sight when he first saw it.

Still, the senior had explained that his core was much different from others. While growing edible plants inside the soul sea wasn’t something one could achieve until they became divine (a god), he was already able to do that.

Just as he inherited weapons from his past lives, it seemed he had brought some plants with him as well.

Of course, Klaus had already suspected his 9th core wasn’t like the others.

The first was for weapons, the second for lightning and chaos, the third was blood-related, the fourth for ice and illusion, the fifth was all about darkness, the sixth was filled with music, and the seventh with hatred and soul pain.

The 8th core was now filled with the concept of laws. He didn’t know what Kaden had done in that life, but he knew he had faced the heavens, and in doing so, he had sacrificed his memories. But Pickle Berry had been his backup plan to help him remember.

Essentially, all eight cores had no sense of life growing within them. They were filled with pain, sorrow, suffering, or darkness.

However, the 9th core was the only place he felt at peace.

At first, it was filled with greenery. Now that it had become a sovereign core, some plants had started growing, and it had expanded so vastly that it encompassed even water bodies and much more.

So, growing plants in his soul sea was now a possibility.

Klaus turned to Hanna. “You were amazing, Hanna. I knew you could utilise the Ten Thousand Divine Body Heavenly constitution when I gave it to you. It turns out I was right…”

Hanna smiled upon hearing Klaus’ compliment.

“Of course, you could have done better, considering you had 30 bodies on the battlefield. There is so much you can do with the many bodies you could create, and for that, I will transfer a skill to you.”

“It is called ‘Switch’.”

“Like its name, it allows you to switch positions with your divine bodies. So instead of piling all your bodies in the same place, you can spread them out on the battlefield and switch between them as you fight.”

Klaus pressed his hand against Hanna’s forehead and passed the skill to her. With a smile, she moved and sat beside Kathy.

Klaus turned to Kathy next. “You were also amazing, Kathy. Just like Nyxthar, I tried to look for where you fell short, but it seems your opponents weren’t that strong, so I found nothing wrong.”

“So for now, you can have this.” He handed her the fruit. “It’s the ‘Blood Emperor Lightning Fruit.’ When consumed, it boosts your comprehension of the lightning element by one stage. This means, after consuming it, you will reach the ‘perfect’ stage.”

“Thank you,” Kathy said, taking the fruit. Klaus nodded and then turned to Miriam…

“Before I say anything, can you tell me why you didn’t use any active skill during the battle?” Klaus asked.

Miriam smiled. “I did use an active ability, but not on the sword. Instead, I used it on myself.”

“How does it work?” Klaus asked.

“It’s a skill that turns my body into a blade. This means whatever I hold in my hands becomes a sharp weapon, and since I have sword intent, this manifests in my every movement.

If you didn’t look closely, you might think I wasn’t using any skill, but I used one, and that alone allowed me to do more than I expected.

Merely moving my arm was like sending countless sword arcs at my targets.”