CHAPTER 35: 035 "SSS

Reiger Brillhaut

Lv.1

Strength: C678 → SSS1285

Endurance: C666 → SSS1273

Agility: B772 → SSS1327

Quickness: B793 → SSS1309

Magic Power: F314 → SSS1280

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Loki rubbed her eyes tirelessly, and after confirming multiple times that she wasn’t seeing things, she was finally dumbfounded.

She didn’t even bother to hand the translated inscription over to Reiger but just stared at his back, feeling dizzy.

"Loki?"

Reiger called her tentatively, seeing her like this.

But Loki didn’t respond at all.

It couldn’t be helped.

"So what the hell is SSS———!?"

Loki clutched her head and cried out hysterically.

"SSS?"

Reiger raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised and puzzled, but not as agitated as Loki.

Loki, who did not witness Reiger’s expression, simply clutched her head, looking both mad and hysterical.

"What is this?"

"What on earth is this?"

"Isn’t the proficiency limit of ability values S with 999? How could there suddenly be an outrageous possibility like SSS?"

"I’ve never heard of such a thing!"

Loki was truly shocked.

Although she had only been in the lower world for a few decades, as a main god of one of the strongest families in Olauli, she naturally had a lot of information at her disposal. With her shameless personality, she dared to meddle in affairs and ask questions, and the other deities gave her some face, telling her some secrets of the lower world.

Thanks to this, Loki was quite well-informed and, running the strongest family in Olauli, she undoubtedly knew very well the blessings given to the children (the people of the lower world).

But Loki, being who she was, had never heard that the children’s (the people of the lower world) ability values could break through the upper limit of the S tier, such things as breaking through the limits of blessings.

At least, within the scope of Loki’s knowledge, nothing like this had happened in a thousand years since the fall of the gods.

Of course, it was possible that it had happened before, but Loki just didn’t know about it.

But this was indeed the first time that Loki had seen such a possibility, so she was naturally shocked.

"After all, a total proficiency increase of over 3200 in all abilities is also ridiculous!"

Until now, Reiger’s growth rate had been astonishing, even frightening, but it had never increased by several thousands all at once like this.

Especially in the ’Magic Power’ category, which skyrocketed directly from F to SSS—isn’t that absurd?

The other abilities too jumped not just one tier at a time but improved by four or five tiers all at once—it was as if the absurd opened the door to its mother, arriving right at home.

"Could it be..."

Suddenly, Loki had an epiphany.

She remembered the effects of "Fool’s Obsession," which could not only increase the growth rate and upper limit but also enhance the effects under certain conditions.

——— "The deeper the obsession, the stronger the effect."

——— "The effect is greatly enhanced when traversing perilous situations."

"Fool’s Obsession" also had these two effects, which enlightened Loki.

Facing a level 2 crocodile dragon in a life-or-death battle—how could that not be considered "traversing perilous situations"?

As for how deep Reiger’s obsession was, Loki could feel it; he must have become utterly exhilarated during the fight against the formidable enemy, fully igniting the fighting spirit in his heart, making his obsession incredibly intense.

Both effects were triggered, and Reiger’s skills were naturally greatly strengthened.

Therefore, the magnitude of his growth this time was so outrageous, it increased manifold, resulting in this outcome.

All abilities at the SSS tier!

The wall of possibilities for the people of the lower world known to the gods, the limit of blessings, was broken!

"Loki."

As Loki was feeling mentally bewildered by this, Reiger’s somewhat helpless voice reached her ears.

"At least let me see my ability values."

Reiger was also very curious and eager to see his current ability values.

Loki took a deep breath, then looked at Reiger seriously and hesitantly said, "Don’t be scared, okay?"

Hearing this, Reiger laughed nonchalantly.

Scared?

Impossible.

From Loki’s shouting, Reiger could also roughly guess what had happened.

"All basic abilities have been raised to the SSS tier, haven’t they?"

He wasn’t shocked by it.

Because he had known of this possibility for a long time.

In the original story, the protagonist had more than once grown to this stage after cheating, breaking the theoretical upper limit of ability values.

So, Reiger had known for a long time that above S, there were two more stages, SS and SSS.

900-999 is S.

1000-1199 is SS.

Anything above 1200 is SSS.

This possibility, proven by the original protagonist, was something Reiger also looked forward to, wondering if he could break through the upper limit of ability like him and reach a stage no one else had ever touched.

And it seemed he had succeeded.

Indeed, when Loki handed Reiger the parchment translated into Common Text, Reiger saw his own results on it.

"All abilities SSS?"

That did surprise Reiger a bit.

If he remembered correctly, even the original protagonist only had his best attribute break through to the SSS level, while the rest were just SS.

Yet he himself had achieved SSS ranking in all abilities, earning a perfect scorecard.

Did that mean he was stronger than the original protagonist?

Thinking of this, Reiger couldn’t help but laugh.

"You can still laugh?" Loki had been watching Reiger, observing his reactions, and seeing that he only looked a bit surprised before calmly laughing, Loki couldn’t help but mutter, "This is an event that could shake the whole of Oleria, even the entire netherworld. I don’t even know how to handle or react to this, yet you just laugh it off? Impressive!"

"What else can I do?" Reiger indeed remained very calm, smiling at Loki and saying, "I’ve only been blessed for a few days. You expect shock from me, but I’m barely fazed."

Loki was at a loss for words.

Indeed, considering the short time since Reiger had been blessed, even if you told him others’ limits were S and only he had broken past this to reach SSS, he probably wouldn’t grasp the magnitude of it.

Unlike Loki who had spent decades in the netherworld and had handled innumerable blessings, witnessing such an event would unavoidably shatter his worldview.

If it had been when he’d just arrived in the netherworld, Loki likely would have thought "I’ve struck gold," and that would be it.

Unfortunately for Loki, after decades of building his tribe and mingling in Oleria, his deep-rooted understanding of blessings made it hard to avoid the shakes from the impact.

"Is this the so-called unknown, the so-called potential of the children of the netherworld?"

Loki could only hold his forehead and after muttering to himself for a while, he finally managed to laugh.

"Fine, I suppose I understand now why those detestable colleagues of mine are so crazed about the unknown and the possibilities of the netherworld. Such surprises that even gods find astonishing are indeed thrilling."

Having lived for countless years, the thing gods probably detest the most is monotony.

That’s why they need entertainment.

That’s why they crave thrills.

For that very reason, they are willing to seal away their Divine Power and transform into fragile mortals to carefreely pursue the unknown in this amusement park called the netherworld.

Loki was one of them. After his initial wavering, his heart was filled with excitement and fervor.

Consequently, the way Loki looked at Reiger also changed.

"Good thing you’re a member of my tribe," Loki said softly. "Otherwise, if I’d known there was a child like you out there, I don’t know if I could have resisted snatching you up by any means necessary."

That, undoubtedly, was the choice any deity might make upon realizing the ’unknown’ within Reiger.

Reiger Brillhaut—the child who harbored what the gods sought after.

"Heehee... heeheehee..."

Just thinking that such a child was in his own tribe made Loki uncontrollably chuckle, a secretive and delighted kind of chuckle.

"Stop laughing."

On the other hand, Reiger, having confirmed his ability scores, gave Loki a look and said, "Apart from growth in ability values, are there no other gains?"

Due to the skill "Self-redemption," Reiger had a certain sense and awareness of his ability values.

The skill that allowed Reiger to update his ability values autonomously seemed to be telling him that what he had gained was far more than this.

And that was indeed the case.

"You challenged such a monster at just Lv.1, how could you not have accumulated a monumental achievement?" Loki sighed, speaking with a hint of awe, "Your high-level experience points are also maxed out."

What that meant, Reiger naturally understood.

"Level up." Loki said with a smile to Reiger, "You’re ready to level up."

At this point, Reiger’s eyes lit up.

Clearly, this news was something he was thrilled about as well.

Being able to break through ability limits was certainly a good thing.

But after all, basic ability enhancements were not as significant as leveling up.

If basic abilities were what allowed a person to rapidly train to their limit, even breaking through it, then leveling up was what transformed the very essence of one’s life.

The improvement that came with it was not something a few basic ability upgrades could match.

"So, do you want to level up now?"

Loki confirmed with a cheerful grin.

"Let’s level up."

Reiger didn’t hesitate at all and nodded right away.

His eagerness wasn’t just about power; it was also because he could feel that his growth had truly reached its limit.

At Lv.1, Reiger had fully unlocked his potential, leaving nothing behind.

Given this, staying at this level would be pointless.

Therefore, he naturally wouldn’t hesitate.

But before that—

"Before you level up, there’s one more thing to confirm," Loki said, looking directly at Reiger.

"You need to choose a development ability."

The development ability that could appear only during a level-up,

Reiger had successfully triggered it.