Sometime later, Nocturn's Testing Facility...
Levi had booked a fine private room by using his Baron-rank privileges... the room led to a massive training ground with the latest and best equipment in the Boundless Void. He didn't even have to pay much for it.
"Create a Tier 5 dummy,"
Levi ordered while stretching out... his arms and legs bending like they were made out of thick rubber.
In an instant, a silver humanoid dummy manifested in front of Levi.
"First, standard strength."
He tightened his right fist and kept his mutations dormant... the Nine Senses Seed had enhanced his spiritual prowess primarily, but the Sun Seed focused on his physical strength.
After taking a deep breath, Levi smashed the dummy square in the chest with his fist, putting everything he had into it.
The dummy toughened through the punch, its chest showing decent cracks. Levi ignored them and focused on the result readings above.
-Punching Force: 52 N.-
"52N... not bad, this is the entry level of Solarbound rankers."
Levi nodded in satisfaction after his physical strength finally hit the Solarbound rank... if his Nine Senses Seed's evolution didn't enhance his spiritual prowess, he would have broken through it a long time ago.
"Now... let's see if the mutation will change the score even without sunlight around."
Levi activated the Star-Forged inscriptions and felt his body almost tripling its weight... this was the maximum weight the bones could reach while he could still control it decently.
"Damn... I don't know if I will ever feel comfortable with this." Levi frowned, lifting his arm with some difficulty.
Compared to the ease and comfort of lighter bones, he felt like he was standing on the ocean bed... every movement he made took great effort to make it look natural.
However... Levi gritted his teeth and summoned every ounce of his strength to throw a single punch with perfect form.
His muscles screamed in protest, trembling violently under the strain, yet he forced himself into a perfect stance... Sweat dripped down his face as he tightened his fists, every joint aching as if resisting his command.
With a savage roar, he launched a single punch. Its motion was slow and agonizing at first; each millimeter felt like a battle against the crushing weight of his Star-Forged Skeleton. Yet, as his fist cut through the air, leaving a twinkling trail of golden light, and struck the dummy's chest, Levi felt an immense release of force, shattering it as if it offered no resistance at all!
The dummy exploded into fragments as Levi's feet sank deeper into the dirt... the immense force was so powerful, he couldn't even maintain his balance after.
Thud.
He hurled himself into the ground, feeling the muscle strain of his entire arm on the brink of collapse from the recoil. It was painful, tingling, and yet, Levi couldn't get rid of a wide grin from his face... his ears had captured the results the moment he delivered his punch.
-Punching Force: 68 N...-
"Haa...hahaha... this is insane."
Levi turned on his back and laughed, feeling like he was being punked... he could now throw a punch as powerful as an average Third Stage Solarbound Daywalker. Yet, he couldn't even throw it properly due to his body still incapable of dealing with the extra weight.
Nevertheless, the fact Levi was capable of throwing such a punch was an immense upgrade... it meant the foundation was established, all he needed to do was work hard on enhancing the rest of his physical qualities... either through lifting weights, potions, or whatnot. The weight itself wasn't an issue, but the fact the rest of his body was still not used to it.
His muscles screamed in protest, trembling violently under the strain, yet he forced himself into a perfect stance... Sweat dripped down his face as he tightened his fists, every joint aching as if resisting his command.
With a savage roar, he launched a single punch. Its motion was slow and agonizing at first; each millimeter felt like a battle against the crushing weight of his Star-Forged Skeleton. Yet, as his fist cut through the air, leaving a twinkling trail of golden light, and struck the dummy's chest, Levi felt an immense release of force, shattering it as if it offered no resistance at all!
"Divine Grade mutations are meant for Royal Radians and such races... their potential is high enough to keep up with your growth until the very end." Ash'Kral smiled, "You are the one who is supposed to keep up with them, not the other way around."
"Good, I always preferred it this way."
Levi turned off the inscriptions and swiftly bounced off the ground like a monkey... then, he ordered the system to manifest five metallic dummies in a formation.
"I should test the second Sun ultimate while I am still here."
Levi grinned as he recalled the information of his latest unlocked Sun ultimate ability. But first, he ensured that the system was on standby to save him in case he was badly hurt.
He took a deep breath and bent his knees a little while bringing his fists close to his hip... then, he held his tightened fist with the other hand and uttered solemnly, "Stellar Fission... infancy stage."
In an instant, tiny golden particles were emitted from Levi's body and gathered in the center of his tightened fist... Slowly, the light condensed, moving in a circular motion as Levi focused every ounce of his willpower.
Before long, a small, radiant sphere began forming at the center of his tightened fist... it was an intensely dense core of concentrated solar energy that radiated an unbearable heat. Yet, Levi's palm wasn't burnt at all!
The Star-Forged Skeleton had enhanced his heat resistance just like his Sun Skin did... with each mutation, his heat resistance was slowly morphing into an immunity like the Radians' owned!
Whoosh! Crack!!
As the nascent star's core was born, the atmosphere and ground were the first to show their respect... the wind and dirt got dragged into the core by the faint gravitational pull, but as the core grew brighter and brighter with each passing second... Levi was fully surrounded by a storm of dirt, grass, fragments, and wind circling his fist nonstop!
"Stellar Fission... a necessary process for the birth of stars, now wielded in my hands."
Levi's grin got wider as his hair and clothes flailed all over, bathing under the blinding illumination... Levi felt as if he was holding a miniature sun in his fist.
It wasn't far-fetched to call it as such.
//Ultimate Ability: Stellar Fission
Description:The user channels their internal solar energy into a concentrated star core formed within or outside their body, compressing it into an intensely dense, radiant sphere of pure energy... Once stabilized, they can agitate the core, triggering a controlled fission reaction that causes a devastating nuclear-like explosion, rivaling the destructive force of a miniature sun.//
The description was short for an ultimate ability... but this was all it needed for anyone to feel absolute dread arise within their hearts.
How couldn't they? Levi was holding a genuine ultimate that could create nuclear explosions!
Many abilities were described as nukes for their destructiveness... but this one was different. If Levi used the term nuke, it meant using a nuke!
As sweat dripped from his forehead and his muscles strained under the immense gravitational pressure he was generating, Levi let out a deep exhale.
Then, he hurled the little sun's core like a comet of pure solar energy, leaving a blazing trail of golden light that kept pulling dirt, grass, and wind along its journey!
Levi shielded himself with an aetheric and void mixture barrier... then, he stood and watched as the sun-core landed in the middle of the dummies' formation.
Ka-boooooom!!!
They were obliterated instantly upon impact, fragments vaporizing in an explosion of searing heat and blinding illumination!
Levi got hit by the explosion's aftershock, his clothes, and hair flailing wildly, but he didn't move an inch... his body was no longer weak enough to be moved by anything. His bones' density made him feel like an unmovable mountain, which was one of the main reasons he got the mutation. How could he wield the power of the stars if he could be affected negatively by their gravitational pull?
"Now, that's a pretty little nuke..."
Levi smirked as he watched a mushroom cloud rise in the air after more than two kilometers of surface area were vaporized.
This was nothing more than just 5% of his ultimate... he could create far, far deadlier nukes than this.
"Slowly... I am slowly getting there."
Levi's expression suddenly turned cold, feeling more confident by the day that he could erase the Bishop's empire and his entire existence off his planet!