Online Game: I Started with Max Charisma and Caught the Goddess's Eye - Chapter 454 454: The Additional Benefits Brought by the Second Awakening Profession Change
Senator Devitt was on the verge of taking control of the Origin Holy Grail, and the overwhelming pressure of that possibility made Sophia feel powerless.
She knew she couldn’t stop him on her own.
If she wanted to prevent this from happening, Luca had to act.
But clearly, Luca was still trapped within the spiritual world.
“Luca, can you hear me? You must return to the real world immediately! You absolutely cannot let Senator Devitt get his hands on the Origin Holy Grail!”
Sophia gave up resisting Senator Devitt.
Instead, she chose to channel all of her remaining strength into amplifying her mental presence—
This way, her voice had the best chance of reaching Luca.
Within the spiritual realm, Luca faintly heard Sophia’s voice.
Although the words themselves were unclear, her voice alone told him everything he needed to know—
Things in the real world had gone terribly wrong.
“The Ancient Gods have already been completely defeated by me. The only real threat left in the real world should be Senator Devitt. If I’m right, he must be about to seize control of the Origin Holy Grail. That’s the only situation that could make Sophia this desperate.”
Even under immense pressure, Luca managed to reach a swift and accurate conclusion.
He drew in a deep breath.
“No matter what, I can’t afford to delay any longer! I have to stop Senator Devitt!”
Though his previous attempt to return had failed, there was no more time left to hesitate.
Once again, Luca gathered every ounce of his strength.
A surge of Dreamweaving Mist formed once more, reconnecting the spiritual world with the dreamscape.
This time, having learned from his earlier failure, Luca didn’t rush blindly toward the dream world.
Instead, he chose to utilize his maxed-out Perception ability—
To carefully perceive the boundary between the two worlds.
Luca slowly closed his eyes.
Without the distraction of sight, he could focus all his attention on spiritual perception.
In the faintest sense, he could feel the presence of a transparent barrier.
This barrier was composed of extraordinarily powerful primal power—
And its nature was unlike any primal power he had encountered before.
“This must be the exclusive primal power of the Ancient Gods.”
Luca muttered to himself,
“No wonder, just before its consciousness completely dissipated, it still boasted so confidently about having set a trap I could never escape. So this was its final trump card.”
Even though he had finally figured out what the Ancient Gods’ last words meant,
it did absolutely nothing to help him out of his current predicament.
“How exactly am I supposed to break through this transparent barrier?
Am I supposed to use one of the Ancient Gods’ abilities to do it?”
Luca was caught in a painful dilemma.
During the previous battle, he had used his Copy Master skill to replicate the most destructive ability from the Ancient Gods’ entire arsenal.
But he had no way of knowing if that powerful skill would be enough to shatter the transparent barrier.
Copy Master could only be used once.
If he used the skill to unleash a surge of primal power and still failed to break through the barrier,
his situation would only grow far worse from that point on.
While he was wrestling with this choice,
he suddenly noticed something—
His power was beginning to recover, albeit slowly.
“What’s going on? Could this be a side effect of the Goddess of Life’s blessing?”
The Goddess of Life had previously helped Luca rapidly regenerate his life force,
and this sensation of gradually recovering strength felt remarkably similar.
That was why he initially drew that conclusion.
But he quickly dismissed the thought.
The blessing mark from the Goddess of Life on his arm hadn’t shown the slightest reaction.
“Looks like I was wrong!
That means there’s only one other explanation left—
This must be an additional benefit granted by my Second Awakening profession change.
Now that I’ve broken past Level 70, my power is recovering much faster than it used to.”
His mood improved significantly.
As long as his strength kept returning, he would have more room to maneuver.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide.
The transparent barrier between the spiritual world and the dreamscape loomed directly in front of him.
This time, he wasn’t going to hesitate.
He immediately activated the copied skill.
A storm of violent primal power erupted from within him—
And the moment it surged forth, it caused a massive disturbance across the entire spiritual world.
The entire spiritual world had become dangerously unstable.
Suddenly, Luca’s mind was flooded with a torrent of fragmented memories—
Fragments that clearly did not belong to him.
These were the memories of countless individuals,
each with lives, experiences, and emotions entirely different from his own.
As they surged into his consciousness, a violent pain stabbed through his head.
The sudden invasion severely impacted Luca’s condition.
And yet, the rampaging primal power showed no sign of stopping.
A tidal wave of immense energy, formed entirely from pure primal force,
was barreling forward.
The ferocious tsunami of energy crashed directly into the transparent barrier between the two worlds.
In an instant, deep cracks spread across the surface of the barrier.
Despite the excruciating pain in his head, Luca charged straight toward the barrier.
The appearance of cracks meant the barrier had become unstable.
He had to strike now—this was the only chance he had to destroy it completely.
This was his one and only opportunity to break through to the dreamworld.
If he missed it, he would be trapped in the spiritual world forever.
He had no way of triggering a second primal detonation.
In this desperate attempt, he had already gathered every last bit of strength he had left.
His entire body was now radiating a brilliant bluish-purple glow—
a sign that he had fully transformed into a being of pure energy.
In the span of a single breath, Luca slammed into the cracked barrier.
The fractures spread rapidly—webbing outward until all the cracks converged at the center.
And then, with a deafening burst, the barrier shattered.
The spiritual world and the dreamworld were finally, completely connected.
Luca successfully crossed over into the dreamworld.
And the instant he left the spiritual realm—
it collapsed into oblivion behind him.
He looked back briefly and muttered,
“Good thing I acted quickly.
If I had hesitated any longer, even if I’d destroyed the barrier,
I would’ve been obliterated along with the spiritual world.”
A deep sense of reflection washed over him—
but he knew now was not the time to dwell on it.
He needed to leave the dreamworld and return to the real world as fast as possible.
But to do that, he had to generate a sufficient amount of Dreamweaving Mist.
During his previous efforts, he had burned through all his remaining power.
Now, he would need to wait patiently—
just long enough for his strength to begin returning.
In the real world, Senator Devitt was now holding the Origin Holy Grail in his hands.
He stared at it with greedy, feverish eyes.
“I’ve finally claimed you!”
He was overwhelmed with excitement—
But just then, he suddenly noticed the air around him growing colder by the second.
Sophia had chosen to strike once more.
Even though she knew her attacks couldn’t possibly harm Senator Devitt,
she still couldn’t just stand by and let him succeed.
There was no way she’d allow Devitt to get what he wanted without resistance.
“You really don’t give up, do you?” Devitt sneered coldly.
“Luca is trapped in the spiritual world—permanently.
Did you seriously think you could defeat me on your own?”
His eyes locked onto Luca’s body,
as he knew full well that Luca’s soul was still hiding within it.
“If you’re so desperate to die, then I’ll just send both you and Luca off together!”
Senator Devitt raised the Origin Holy Grail high above his head.
From his outstretched arm, countless vines erupted, coiling tightly around the artifact.
This was how he intended to channel the power within the Holy Grail.
“Let’s see what kind of destruction you can unleash.”
The vines wrapped around the Origin Holy Grail began to emit an ominous black glow.
The Grail itself started to tremble violently,
its immense power gradually being drawn out.
Infused with the Grail’s power, the vines grew wildly—
And a tidal wave of curses surged toward Luca’s body.
Devitt watched it all unfold with a twisted grin.
It wouldn’t take long for the cursed energy to completely obliterate Luca’s physical form.
Once that happened, both the Luca trapped in the spiritual world
and the Sophia hiding inside his body would be annihilated for good.
The curse, now empowered by the Origin Holy Grail, had grown so potent
that it gained a physical form—
A massive black curtain, which hurtled toward Luca with terrifying speed.
Just as the dark curtain was about to make contact with Luca’s body—
Luca moved.
In that instant, he slashed forward with the Starseeker in his hand,
striking straight at the incoming shroud of darkness.
The sight of this froze Devitt in place.
His face twisted in shock.
“How did you escape from the spiritual world?!
Did the Ancient Gods’ trap… actually fail?”
Facing the stunned Senator Devitt, Luca spoke coldly,
“Don’t you think you’ve overestimated the power of the Ancient Gods… and underestimated mine?
Did you really believe someone like him could trap me in the spiritual world so easily?”
The moment Devitt saw the unwavering confidence on Luca’s face,
he didn’t hesitate for even a second—
he immediately transformed into a mass of vines and fled.
Of course, even in his retreat, he refused to abandon the Origin Holy Grail.
The Grail was dragged underground along with the vines.
“The Origin Holy Grail already bears my mark. There’s no way you’ll be able to take it from me!” Devitt’s voice echoed smugly.
But just as those words left his mouth,
the Origin Holy Grail suddenly radiated a brilliant white light.
The searing glow incinerated the surrounding vines into ashes.
Freed from Devitt’s grasp, the Holy Grail shot back through the air
and landed firmly in Luca’s hand.
