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“Well…” Rep. Kim started muttering to himself.

However, Arthur’s figure disappeared without providing Rep. Kim any further information.

Body of Light gave Arthur the ability to photonize his own body, so it wouldn’t have been strange if Arthur was already on the other side of the world at this exact moment.

“… Why? For what purpose?”

However, whether Arthur disappeared or not, Rep. Kim Hyun-Dong continued muttering to himself as he remained troubled. He soon fell deep in thought.

Rep. Kim Hyun-Dong didn’t know; and he would never know.

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To him and the rest of the world… Seyoung had become an incomprehensible being, a mysterious and baffling existence.

***

“Is the investigation over?”

“Yes, Mr. President. As we initially expected… Arthur seems to have entered Level 20.”

A sigh flowed out of the mouth of the President of the United States after hearing the results of the report from his aide.

“Didn’t you say that Level 20 was a state that no one would be able to reach within the next 50 years?”

“However, Epic Heroes are immeasurable existences.”

Epic Hero was a code name that the United States government gave to the three members of the Heaven above the Heavens.

The three were also popularly called the Outer Gods in the mainstream, but many government officials chose not to use this nickname because it sounded too excessive to be used as a nickname for mere human beings.

“Did you find out more about how he’s able to use his abilities without manifesting?”

“In fact, amongst Masters who have experience in manifesting, there’s a popular hypothesis circulating around. Mana exists on Earth, but there are no spiritual pathways, so it is impossible for us to exert supernatural powers. However, if one becomes a transcendent being, one will be free from the restrictions of the natural environment, and one will be able to freely use one’s abilities, even if one doesn’t possess the heavenly and perfected body that is given when one manifests…”

“So, you’re saying that Arthur can use his transcendent power in an unlimited fashion? He’s no longer restricted by the manifestation time?”

“That’s right. Mr. President. In addition… He is not limited by space, perhaps because he is different from the other so-called Grand Masters. According to satellite information, we observed that it took him less than 0.001 seconds to travel from Japan to Korea.”

“Is there any method to contend against him?”

“There is no confirmed method. After reviewing the information and report of his battle with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, even a national military could not contend against him, and he has no fear of killing. The only family member he cared about was killed by a Japanese right-wing group.”

“Ugh. Hahaha… Those Japanese have really turned the whole world upside down.”

The President frowned with a dejected expression.

The President quietly muttered a racist remark about the Japanese under his breath, which would have been a big deal in the past, but no one stopped him at this time.

The problem that Arthur, who had now become a knight of vengeance, presented was too serious for any nation state.

Even the United States, the most powerful nation state on Earth, couldn’t go up against or handle a single transcendent being, so if Arthur were to ever get angry at them, Arthur could wipe out the entire United States.

“Get in touch with them! From Arthur to Merlin and Cruze! If we can’t control them, we should at least avoid the worst situation, being their enemy.”

“Yes, sir.”

Seeing his aide lower his head, the President emphasized the last point once more.

“Remember. Absolute appeasement is our main stance and policy, so don’t offend any of them!”

“Yes, Mr. President.”

After politely bowing once more, the president’s direct secretary left the Oval Office.

Left alone in the Oval Office, the President buried himself deep in his chair as he fell into thought.

“An individual that the entire human race can’t handle, even if everyone worked together…”

The President of the United States of America, Reynolds, who was previously the most influential human being in the world, gave a bitter smile as he continued to read through his aides’ reports.

“He is truly a modern god.”

*** Contractors ***

Lancelot controlled his breathing. He focused his mind and took a step forward while maintaining a high level of concentration. Even though he was walking, his legs were firmly planted on the floor, as if they were rooted to the ground, and his upper body maintained a stable posture without even a hint of shaking.

And soon, at a certain moment, his body turned slightly.

Ripple.

His muscles tightened and filled with explosive power. His extremely elevated spirit and mind radiated an aura, and that emanating aura soon covered his entire body.

Soon, his muscles, which had been squeezed and tensed, were released, and the rotation that started from the lower half of his body was transmitted to his arms through his knees, waist, and shoulders, and for an instant, the tip of the spear he was holding blurred.

Whoosh!

The surrounding air twisted into a spiral and burst out.

His spear’s domineering momentum was enough to pierce through everything that stood in its way! It was a stab that could be called a spear stab with a soul, but the man who delivered the stab changed his posture without any change in his facial expression.

Hundreds… thousands… tens of thousands…

It was a movement that he had repeatedly done an ungodly number of times, so, there was no wasted movement in his spear stab strike.

Whoosh!

He stabbed again.

Whoosh!

And again.

His spear stab repeatedly cut through the air. It was a foolish way of training his skill, but there was not a single inkling of hesitation or wavering in his movements. He was determined to carry out his rote learning and training.

‘Looks like it’s almost done.’

In DIO, one could acquire skills by repeating specific actions or by attaining knowledge.

This was exactly how a user with a Rank 9 skill, a novice who literally knew nothing about the skill, could progress in upgrading a skill. And from that point on, the skill rank would increase after the user accumulated enough training points in that skill’s [training level], and when the skill rank rose, various titles or special abilities could be obtained.

Merlin’s special abilities, [Swimming] and [Water Affinity], were such skills.

However, the important thing was that training and developing a skill required more than just simple repetitive effort and action. In order to raise one’s skill rank, the skill must be ‘successfully’ performed, so it was impossible to raise a skill’s rank with failed training attempts.

However, the truth was that ‘successful’ performances of a skill became increasingly difficult to do once the skill’s rank and a user’s training level exceeded a certain threshold.

The required successful performance requirement increased by 10 times each time the skill’s rank rose, so at Rank 9, one could successfully perform a skill at the appropriate Rank 9 level requirement, which was 100 times, to upgrade one’s rank to Rank 8, but for Rank 7, 6, or 5, one needed to successfully perform the skill at the appropriate rank for a 1,000… 10,000… and then 100,000 times… Like this, the successful performance requirement rose as one’s skill rank rose.

In particular, once one reached a skill’s Grand Master rank, where a skill was perfected and became an ultimate skill, the Ultimate rank, also called UT rank, began. The necessary training points to succeed and rise within the UT ranks was in the hundreds of trillions. This lofty requirement, which was widely known amongst the higher-level users, was something that often put the users off and caused many to give up on further upgrading their skill’s rank.

Currently, Lancelot’s training level was as follows.

/[Skill: Spear Art

Successful Performance of Spear Art

…

9 Trillion / 10 Trillion

Succeed in performing the spear skill one rank above your current skill rank.

10%

0 / 10

Succeed in performing the spear skill two ranks above your current skill rank.

100%

0/1

Spear Art

S Rank

Training Level Progress: 99.9%]

As the rank of the skill increased, the skill’s training window became simpler.

Field training and failed training attempts had long since disappeared as requirements from the skill’s training window, and from some point onward, the required number of successfully performed skill was no longer shown as an exact number; the skill window would only show the largest, rounded unit.

Once one entered a skill’s AA Rank, the smallest accruing training unit shown in the training window was at a trillion units, so it became impossible for a user to check whether or not the training values were accumulating after successfully performing a skill once or twice.