Chapter 198: Grand Feat "Overstepping Gods as a Mortal

Chapter 198: Chapter 198: Grand Feat "Overstepping Gods as a Mortal

The golden waves of wheat in the Star Realm receded from sight, like a shattering mirror.

Lance felt a powerful force pulling at his soul, yanking him downward with a sudden lurch.

His consciousness slammed back into his physical body in the Material Realm.

The familiar scent of the attic rushed into his nostrils, though the air was still laced with the pungent, metallic tang of ritual pigments.

The very instant Lance’s eyes snapped open...

Rein, who had been waiting quietly at the edge of the room, took an involuntary half-step back.

The moment Lance opened his eyes, the old veteran felt an oppressive aura wash over him.

It was the kind of danger an unarmed person would feel if a ferocious tiger suddenly cornered them in a dead-end alley.

Rein’s muscles tensed instantly, his hand subconsciously tightening its grip on the handle of his oak cane.

However, he quickly suppressed this instinctive reaction with his formidable willpower.

He took a deep breath and walked over to Lance’s side.

"Did you see Chaos?"

Rein asked in a low voice, his tone laced with concern.

"What reward did He give you after the game ended?"

Lance didn’t answer immediately.

He looked to be in rough shape, his brows knitted tightly together.

The moment he left the Star Realm and returned to reality, his system panel had begun to flash and flicker violently.

[Detecting generation of Heroic Achievement information...]

As the system prompt sounded...

An unimaginably vast stream of information was brutally shoved directly into his mind.

It contained the detailed Professional Traits of the [Pale Guard], the effects of two completely different Source Materials—[Crimson Dragon] and [Foreigner]—plus the spatial vertigo from having just left a high-dimensional space like the Star Realm.

All this Knowledge flooded his mind at once, causing a severe, stabbing pain in Lance’s brain.

He felt dizzy and disoriented, and his vision even doubled for a moment.

The transformative leap this Profession ceremony induced in his body and soul was simply too great, so great that he couldn’t fully process and adapt to it all at once.

He even felt a little hungry.

But hearing Rein’s question, Lance fought back the dizziness and focused his mind, checking the final summary on his system panel.

He knew very well what the real reward he stood to gain from this unfair game was.

It was the fact that the god Chaos had personally admitted His defeat to the entire Star Realm.

This was enough to shake the very rules of the Star Realm.

Therefore, it was only natural that he would obtain a brand-new Heroic Achievement.

Lance used his Telekinesis to open the notification flashing with a blinding light at the very top of his panel.

—

1. Participate in a game personally controlled and officiated by the god Chaos.

2. Under conditions of manipulation or absolute unfairness, see through the rules of "guaranteed victory and guaranteed defeat."

3. With the body and wisdom of a mortal, defeat the god Chaos head-on.

—

[Congratulations on completing the Heroic Achievement: "A Mortal Overstepping Gods"]

[Heroic Achievement Effect: When you face a judgment with a probability of "absolute hit" or "certain death," or are in an adverse situation where you are completely "overwhelmed by a difference in Tier," you can forcibly activate "Overstepping" once.]

[In the next clash, the judgment of strength and weakness between you and the enemy, as well as your statuses, will undergo a "polarity reversal." (i.e., the enemy’s absolute attack will definitely miss, or your attack will definitely hit and, ignoring the Tier difference, will reduce the enemy’s Armor by a fixed percentage.)]

[This Effect has a cooldown of one year. (Note: Since a god can cheat, it’s only fair for you to flip over His chessboard, right?)]

Lance couldn’t help but gasp as he read the description.

’What a ridiculously powerful Heroic Achievement Effect.’

This forced reversal ability was in no way inferior to the "Resist Death" he had obtained before.

This was tantamount to forcibly giving himself a chance to turn the tables when teetering on the brink of life and death.

Lance fought through the dizziness and quickly organized his thoughts on his current combat abilities.

’Right now, I have my Resurrection Talent as a safety net, plus the extreme Combat Continuation provided by "Resist Death." Now, I have the absolute reversal effect from "Overstepping Gods" on top of that.’

’These three monstrous abilities stacked together mean that I can never be crushed and taken out in one go by an enemy’s ultimate move.’

’In all future battles, I’ll have an extremely high margin for error and ample room for a counter-kill.’

But as the dizziness subsided, another thought struck him!!

’Who says this Heroic Achievement can only be used once a year?’

He immediately opened his Talent menu, his gaze slowly falling upon the description for his red Talent.

[Additional Effect: After resurrecting, all negative statuses will be automatically purged, and all abilities on cooldown will be reset.]

A trace of a crazed smile slowly crept across Lance’s lips.

’So...’

’This red Resurrection Talent of mine... is this the real game-breaking mechanic that exists outside of all common sense?’

’With this cooldown reset Trait...’

’I can totally use an ultimate move like "Overstepping Gods"—which is supposed to be a once-a-year thing—as a regular trump card that refreshes daily.’

’What’s even more terrifying...’

’If I drag a high-intensity, life-or-death battle out until the stroke of midnight...’

’By exploiting the daily reset mechanic, I could even resurrect twice in a row.’

’That means in an extremely short period, I could pull off a total of three "Overstepping Gods" back-to-back.’

’A full three forced polarity reversals that ignore Tier differences!’

’Even a Legendary Tier powerhouse would probably get three holes punched straight through them if they faced this kind of shameless, consecutive reversal of causality.’

At that thought, Lance felt his breathing grow ragged.

’The synergy with the red Talent... is truly terrifying.’

However, Lance quickly snapped back to his senses, realizing he still hadn’t answered the old veteran’s question.

He sat on the rough wooden floor, shook off the last of his dizziness, and looked at Rein.

The records from *Herman’s Great Achievement Conjecture* flashed through Lance’s mind.

That book mentioned that whenever a new, epic Heroic Achievement was born on the continent, the great bell on the Holy Mountain—in the center of Elcardia, the City of Radiance—would automatically toll, spreading the news to every corner of the world.

He had just defeated a god in the Star Realm and earned an unprecedented achievement.

This was definitely a brand-new Heroic Achievement worthy of being recorded in the annals of history.

Just now, while his system rewards were being tallied, the bell on the Holy Mountain in distant Elcardia must have already tolled, announcing it to the world.

Information like that travels fast.

As soon as the news that Chaos was defeated by a mortal reached this small town, Uncle Rein would immediately connect this major event to him.