[Owned Cards: Commit (108), Optimize (70), Import (100), Exploit (90), Merge (88), Fork (90), Delete (100), Class (85), Patch (120), Mirror (88), Rework (90), Seed (99), Blank (100) & Export (105)]
Cipher observed his cards.
While the cheats were great, skills were also just as useful. It was now time to work on his skills.
He began with Mana Dominion, using two Forks and two Merges to upgrade it to Legendary rank. But he didn’t stop there. He used the same amount of cards again to upgrade it to the realm above that.
[Skill: Mana Dominion (Perfect)]
So the realm above Legendary is known as Perfect in the system, he thought.
Lyra’s Mahayana realm also had the name Perfect in it. If he remembered correctly, it was known as Perfect Being. He wondered what they used to gauge this perfection when there were even stronger realms above that.
Well, it didn’t really matter, he thought dismissively.
Now that he had upgraded Mana Dominion to this level, it meant that as long as he had infinite mana, he could use Mana Dominion to create a mana shield. That meant that even if he distributed all his stats to speed, he didn’t have to worry about not being able to handle the velocity - even without God Mode or Noclip active.
Speaking of mana...
He turned to look at his Mana Recovery. Now that he was S rank, he needed to upgrade it. He spent two Forks and two Merges, taking it to S rank. Now it scaled off his S rank mana.
Not that it mattered much, to be honest.
He glanced at his Optimize collection and smiled.
Of course he was going to do it.
Instantly, 50 Optimize cards disappeared, all going into his Mana Recovery.
Before, he was regenerating over 3000% of his max mana every ten seconds he was out of combat, and over twice that while sleeping. But after the Optimizes, while accounting for the Majin species buff, he was regenerating over 40 million percent of his max mana every ten seconds he was out of combat - and about double that every ten seconds he was asleep.
That meant that currently, he was generating over two billion qi every minute.
With this, he shouldn’t be able to face any significant threats to his life, right?
Someone at the Perfect realm should have about a hundred thousand mana. That meant they should be within range of his instant death ability. Following the rule of mana doubling every realm, for someone to be above his instant death range, they would need to be over fifteen realms above the Perfect realm.
And that was just to be out of his instant death range for a minute. In another minute, they would be back within range.
Currently, minutes were passing and he wasn’t in combat. That meant that as time went on, the chance of anyone surviving against him was steadily decreasing.
Not to mention that he had used 10 Optimizes on Instant Death, meaning technically, he just needed mana equal to 10% of the opponent’s total mana. So the real limit was even higher.
He had basically already become invincible.
He paused, remembering something.
That’s right. He was talking about Instant Death covering beings fifteen realms above, yet he was yet to upgrade Instant Death itself to even cover the Perfect realm.
He quickly used two Forks and two Merges to bring it to the Perfect realm.
Now it was time to go beyond.
He used the same method to upgrade the skill again. Now it was in the Awakening realm. Looking at the naming scheme, it seemed what "Perfect" meant was perfect beginner - so they could truly awaken and begin advancing.
He upgraded again, entering the Resonance realm.
Then the Integration realm.
Then Manifestation.
And surprisingly, after that... God.
He paused.
Did this mean he could kill a god?
Gods seemed like the strongest creatures in the apocalypse, excluding the Eternal Flame and such. The Time God probably made the system. And even if not the system necessarily, he made the whole gates thing - connecting countless worlds to Earth and allowing them to be looted countless times, preserving them and their people.
Now that he thought about it, wasn’t the Time God super OP?
What about the other gods? Were they also just as strong?
Now he was beginning to doubt this Instant Death ability.
What about beings who couldn’t die? Like Elara, for example. Could Instant Death work on her? He wasn’t sure, but he guessed probably not. And she just had some power granted by a god - not a true god herself.
Then this meant that true gods like the God of Time could probably do this casually.
He sighed. It was a good thing he caught himself before wasting all his cards to upgrade this ability. He needed to slow down first and research how gods’ abilities worked.
He looked at the damage. After reaching the Perfect realm, he had upgraded the Instant Death skill five times. With each upgrade costing two Merges and two Forks, that brought the total to ten cards each.
It hurt him to see the number go down, but there was nothing he could do about it.
In fact, it was about to go down even more.
He spent another ten Forks and Merges to bring Mana Dominion to that realm. Now he should at least have some form of defense against a god if the Instant Death thing really didn’t work.
Now he just had 60 Merges and 72 Forks left.
It seemed he still had quite a few remaining even after all that.
Now, what to do with them?
The choices were either upgrading his current abilities - which would reduce this number by a lot - or using Fork to duplicate the god-level skills and use his equally abundant Commits to endlessly print god-level skills, then Merge any compatible ones into super OP skills.
He thought about the two paths and eventually decided on going the commit route. After all, for the number of cards he needed to upgrade a single one of his skills to the god realm, he could have ten god level skills.