I am the God of Technology

Chapter 132  The Genetic Limitation 

Dante was surprised by the effectiveness of this 1st rank spell. On paper, it was like a very weak version of the famous Planetary Devastation, but the most it could do in the hands of a Novice Mage, even a peak one, was to disrupt, slow, unbalance, and trap.

It was like trying to run forward with a vacuum cleaner behind you, pulling you back. However, due to the fact that Dante was space element specialized, the spell was already boosted by 50% per each rank Dante was.

So as a 1st Rank Novice Mage, his 1st Rank spells were 50% stronger than the base. At the 2nd Rank Adept Mage, it was 100% stronger than the base. At 3rd Rank Advanced Mage, it was 150% stronger than the base.

'The base' here did not refer to the spell itself but rather the spell in the hands of an average non-specialized mage at the same rank. So a 2nd Rank Adept Mage with three Spiritual Cores of Fire, Poison, and Ice who used this spell would only be able to use it at base strength.

But a 2nd Rank Adept Mage with three spiritual cores of space, wood, and earth, for example, would be able to use the spell with a boost of 150%. If he had two spiritual cores of space, that was 150% + 150%, which was 300%! If it was three, then 450%!

This is also why specialists were more revered in the Magus World, because imagine a 9th Rank Mage who had 10 Spiritual Cores of just fire. If he used a simple 1st Rank fire spell, after the various boots from his specialization, he might be able to beat a fellow 9th Rank Mage who had cores of different elements that use a spell of the 7th rank!

However, even with this boost, Dante could not achieve such a crushing effect with the spell. The real reason was his incredibly high Intelligence and Spiritual Power which was technically at the 3rd rank of mages, which was the Advanced Mage.

If an Advanced mage used this 1st Rank spell at full power, coupled with the boost, then yes, they could achieve the same effect Dante did, but for weaker monsters. E Rank Monsters were just one level above the bottom, so naturally, it worked.

Dante tsked and walked over, placing his hand on the compiled corpses before using Absorption on them. Immediately, Dante reached his power cap and was even overloaded by nearly double the amount, causing him to grunt in pain and explode with hellfire in all directions while a wave of power from his mind caused space to crack around him like a shattered mirror.

｢Player Name: Dante

Player Race: Human

HP: 7500/7500

Strength: 500 -> 750

Agility: 500 -> 750

Dexterity: 500 -> 750

Intelligence: 500 -> 750

Constitution: 500 -> 750

Vitality: 500 -> 750

Mutation Index: 0% (Safe)

Radiation Index: 0% (Safe)

Superpowers: Quantum Entanglement, Absorption.｣

Dante checked his SDI and was disappointed. No wonder there was so much energy that went to waste and exploded out of him, it turned out that his assumption that his limit would double with each breakthrough was wrong.

It seemed that at the level of his genetic quality, his limit would increase by 250 points with each round. That meant that in order to reach the 2000 stats limit to be able to safely penetrate Beatrice after activating his Bionics to the max, he would need to break his gene limit and absorb stats 5 more times.

This was not in line with his plans at all. It made him a bit exasperated as he had honestly not rated the Raging Blood Halberd Technique and the Primal Ape technique much, rather focusing more on his Inferno Ascension and Void Speaker Chant for the future.

In his mind, he would practice the physical techniques until he reached the basic gene limit and then work on them slowly while focusing 99% of his time into the magical arts. Now, it seemed he had to balance out his time even more, because the Raging Blood Halberd Technique had a total of 6 levels and so too did the Primal Ape technique.

If his speculation was correct and he could breakthrough his genes with each level of each technique back to back, he had a total of 9 more chances. 4 from the Knight technique and 5 from the External Martial Art.

If he couldn't interchangeably breakthrough and could only do so with each collective level, then he had at best 5 more chances with there being a possibility of only 4. This made his face darken as he hoped the worst wouldn't happen.

Dante didn't bother to continue onward. He directly moved his body to the top cavern and then cast his Quantum Distortion spell in himself, putting his virtual body into a pocket dimension at the lowest settings and investing all his current spiritual power into it so that it would last longer.

He then left the Apocalypse World with his real body and went straight into the True Martial World. He then rose from his bed in his room and went to the courtyard to see Jia Susu practicing diligently since she had already cleaned up.

When she saw Dante, her eyes lit up. "Senior Brother, do you need anything?"

Dante was about to speak but paused. Hey, since he was here, why not throw out some more bait? The previous ones had been dodged, but could they dodge this one?

"Go and fetch 100 bowls of level 4 Blood Energy Soup. I am about to break through into the Martial Warrior level." Dante stated casually.

"Yes!" Jia Sus said with an obedient expression, but she suddenly took two steps and stopped. Thunder seemed to explode in her had her training plan laid out for her. She first cultivated to the Martial Warrior realm peak to raise her blood energy greatly before brain as she finally processed Dante's words, and then turned to look at him as if he were a humanoid beast.

What the heck, about to break through?! However, he had only been practicing for about a month and a half in total and he was about to break through?!

Let's not talk about the average person, even the almighty Shui Binglan who had set new records in Green Wind City and even Green Feather Province had taken over 4 months to break through to the Martial Warrior level.

Unlike Dante who was left on his own due to his age and raw power, Shui Binglan had been carefully nurtured by the elders and had her training plan laid out for her. She first cultivated to the Martial Warrior realm peak to raise her blood energy greatly before cultivating her Internal Art with her enhanced body stats to maximize her transformation of internal energies to internal force.

However, Dante had been dual cultivating since the start and even took time for etiquette classes! Not to mention that Jia Susu, as the one who managed his affairs, knew that he had not been practicing for the last two weeks even though he claimed to be in seclusion.

It wasn't that she entered his room to see him sleeping on the bed, but it was simple logic. He normally drank a huge amount of level 4 blood energy

 soup each day that caused Acquisition Elder Wu Jian to hunt martial master demon beasts like a madman until he even unconsciously swung his sword in his sleep.

He had not ordered any for the past two weeks, so that was an obvious tell. Of course, he could be focusing on his internal art, which was probably what everyone else thought, especially since Dante did not come to the practice area for so long.

But err… how to say?

You see, even if that was the case, it was impossible. Jia Susu was the closest to Dante in this hall, and she knew that whether he practiced his External art or Internal art, there was always a commotion.

There were shockwaves, intense waves of heat, or something else. It had been dead quiet these two weeks, so Jia Susu knew that he didn't practice much, if at all.

Even if Dante solo cultivated for one and a half months nonstop, him breaking through so soon would be shocking and set a new record across the entire Great Song Kingdom, if not the entire Onodera Continent.

But he split his time to do other things and outright stopped for a long time!

Was Dante really human and not some reincarnated Martial God? Jia Susu thought so, and even if you showed her evidence otherwise, she wouldn't believe it. It was the only way she could explain what she was hearing right now.

Jia Susu ran out of the courtyard in a daze, continually bumping into people and things until she found herself in the resource hall. Since she was Dante's registered servant disciple, she didn't need to take his token along and said exactly what Dante said.

Naturally, after speaking, the deacon in charge of marking and handing out resources froze and glanced at the dazed Jia Susu with an expression of incredulity.