Chapter 264: New Discovery

Joo Joowon still could not actively use this passive ability like Byeol could, but if he looked at it from another perspective, something passive might not necessarily be impossible to push into action.

Vitality Harvest had gone through the complicated design of a Mage Apprentice and could silently steal the enemy’s life force. However, no matter how well it was concealed, once too much energy had been lost, the enemy would still notice it.

This skill was restricted to being used only during combat because once the body was not in an intense state of confrontation, it was very easy for supernatural beings to notice even the slightest changes in their bodies.

Then, was it possible to make the disturbance even more concealed?

Improving something was far easier than creating something from scratch, and Joo Joowon naturally thought of the Palace of Destiny. As long as it was a living being, it would inevitably form connections with everything in the world, and for him, starting from the stars was the simplest method.

A tiny disturbance in fate could make a person fall from heaven into hell.

After his soul had been infused with starlight, he had become especially sensitive to changes in the starry sky, so this idea naturally appeared in his mind.

Then how should he trigger this kind of change?

Everyone’s astrological chart was basically fixed. After all, their year, month, day, and time of birth could not be changed. However, ordinary people would not easily reveal such important birth information to him. Yet, not actively revealing it did not mean that it could be protected.

A person’s appearance could roughly determine their age range, while Star Fortune and Star Fiend could identify a person’s zodiac sign. By reasoning backward from these clues, the margin of error would basically not be too large. The astrological chart formed this way could be used to trigger the enemy’s Star Fortune, naturally causing fluctuations in the enemy’s fortune.

Joo Joowon had only roughly imagined it this way.

His mental strength was not yet high enough to easily touch such a profound field. At most, whenever his own destiny affected someone else, he would faintly sense which unlucky person had once again taken the calamity meant for him.

However, if it were combined with Astral Combat, the enemy’s Star Fortune would be undergoing intense changes. This kind of change was like a sudden torrential rain or a landslide on a mountain road. The disturbance would be far too great, making it immediately easy to identify during this period.

Even so, everything still remained only at the stage of an idea. Joo Joowon had merely used his own [Astrology] skill to predict whether doing this would cause any unpredictable danger. He had never expected that the skill would undergo a change because of it.

Was this his own achievement?

Joo Joowon shook his head. No matter how confident he was, he did not think that he, a supernatural being who had only just entered the field, could already improve a skill.

He was still only at the stage of making guesses. If he wanted to succeed, he would definitely need to conduct repeated tests in the future. Yet now, he had achieved the result in one step. Rather than saying it was his achievement, it was more like Byeol’s achievement. When the astrological chart was arranged for the first time, it had coincidentally hit the mark perfectly, deducing the most suitable astrological chart, one with strong concealment and that was also suitable for changing formations. At that time, he would only need to add the enemy’s Main Star into it to trigger it.

He still remembered the game’s description of Byeol’s [Heavenly Pardon].

[ When Heavenly Pardon enters one’s destiny, one gains more with less effort, turns disasters into blessings, increases fortune, and strengthens one’s aura.]

Joo Joowon was certain that when he broke through into the supernatural realm, Byeol must have used the [Heavenly Pardon] skill on him. His breakthrough had been far too easy. It was completely different from the situation where a mortal stepped into the supernatural realm, with one step leading to life and the next leading to death. It was also extremely inconsistent with the description of the information transmitted by the game.

In a world with mysterious energy, even if it was the lowest level low martial or low magic world, the people living in that world would naturally be nourished by the mysterious energy. Therefore, although it was difficult for them to enter the supernatural realm, they could still have a one or two-tenths chance of success.

But in a world without magic, the possibility of entering the supernatural realm was less than five percent.

Their bodies and souls became "dull" and "numb" in a world without magic, and even the best natural talent would be "contaminated." Therefore, even if they accidentally received the favor of mysterious forces, it was still difficult for them to truly enter the supernatural realm. On the other hand, the new generation, who had bathed in mysterious energy since childhood, could easily surpass the achievements of their predecessors.

This was an extremely normal phenomenon. It was like how humans had gradually evolved from eating raw meat and drinking blood to reaching their current state. The level of the world itself would naturally affect the direction of human evolution.

Therefore, in a certain sense, comprehensive datafication had actually lowered the difficulty of entering the supernatural realm for most players.

But Joo Joowon was also one of these "mortals." He did not think that his little bit of talent would be anything outstanding in a great world similar to that of Mage Apprentices. He was simply the tallest among the short people on Gaia.

Yet according to the information transmitted by the game, aside from those existences that were already supernatural beings from birth, among the group of mortals who entered the supernatural realm, someone in his situation definitely belonged to the group with the best circumstances.