"WHAT?!!!"
Alex couldn't believe what he was seeing. From the moment he closed his eyes till he opened them, it only felt like a few days at best and a week at worst.
But what he was seeing was beyond him.
"Two fucking years…"
Even in a place abundant in energy, it took him this long to level up. Imagine if he relied only on low-level void creatures' cores. It would have taken him decades to get to the level of strength he had now.
And while he didn't know exactly where his strength was, he understood it was only the first breakthrough.
"By now, my family and everyone else would think I'm dead and gone."
The feelings of sadness that washed over him killed his mood if there was even one. In a place like this with nothing and no one to interact with, anyone would go crazy.
"I have to get out of here."
Just thinking about what his family and friends could be going through gave him the strength and determination to find a way out of the veiled space.
He had been hoping another cosmic mana wave would display him out of here, but there had been nothing so far. He only had himself to depend on.
Alex looked around and spotted a nearby rogue planet the size of Earth that was still teaming with vegetation that had absorbed mana for who knows how long.
The number of resources on that planet could change many lives, but Alex was not interested, at least, not at this moment.
He planned on getting to that planet, but first…
"Let's see how much energy this core can produce and what I can do."
Cultivating for two years for one breakthrough would definitely mean the amount of energy he carried in his body should be beyond his imagination, despite the size of the core.
Closing his eyes, Alex focused on his void core. He drew upon the energy, circulating it through his body and feeling his cells come to life as they vibrated with the infused mana and void energy.
'Even with the energy I have now, that technique is still beyond me.'
He recalled one of the rewards he got from challenging the Celestial Tower where he had to fight wraiths in a lightning storm to arrive at the monolith.
'In due time…But this should be doable at the very least.'
Light was the element of speed that imposed the speed limit on all matter in the universe until the universe went to shit. It should be capable of so much more.
Both hands blazed with the light element as he took on the Voidflare form and appeared like a being set ablaze.
The very space around his body shook from the intensity of his Voidflare form. Alex abruptly opened his eyes and explosively shot from his spot as he blazed through the void.
"It's working!"
He was right. He absorbed more energy than he imagined, enough to allow him to take flight. And his speed was no joke either.
Within seconds, he closed the distance and arrived in the planet's orbit. He was going in hot and did not slow down.
'I don't feel my energy being depleted at all.'
The vortex was still channelling energy through his body, blending with his mana to exponentially increase his power output.
Years of bathing in all kinds of energy had changed Alex in ways he didn't realize. His cells were slightly mutated as they now carried a little bit of void energy signature.
Alex plunged into the planet's atmosphere, but he underestimated his entry speed. In a split second, the ground was already before him.
"Shit!"
He thought fast to break his speed and did a forward flip and landed on his feet… or that was what was supposed to happen.
*CRACK!!"
*BOOOOOOM!*
Like a meteor, Alex went right through the planet and came out of the other side, shocking himself.
"Eh?"
Swiftly putting out his Voidflare form, Alex managed to slow down enough to turn around.
"I-impossible…"
He was in a state of shock.
A planet of similar size to Earth was blown to pieces from just his landing! It was ridiculous.
What did this mean? It meant if he performed a similar stunt on Earth without having proper control over his strength, he could destroy the whole planet.
"How do the others do it?"
The debris of the planet with its vast resources scattered in the void, being shot out at high speeds in every direction.
Starting from Class D, hunters had the power to destroy planets if they went all out with those at Class B and above doing it with a flick of their fingers, the gesture becoming easier as the rank rose.
Alex looked at his hands like they were foreign objects to him.
Although his movements were sluggish and uncontrolled due to inexperience, Alex had not yet performed any tasks that required his strength.
He simply flew.
However, the momentum from his landing was enough to make a planet go boom.
"This is almost close to a Class A hunter's power?"
His guess may be wrong as he did not have any references, but that was what he believed. A wave of excitement rushed through him but he managed to suppress it.
Now was not the time to feel glad when his family and friends could be mourning his 'death'. Still. he would have to do further tests to find out where his limits lay.
"I should be careful…"
With his first test successful, he decided to test his attack power next. His energy was still as high as before.
He focused on a particularly large planet fragment that was the size of the moon and then released short bursts of his light ability to aid him in moving the way he desired.
"Here goes nothing…"
The planet was destroyed by his Voidflare form. Now, he wanted to see how his physical strength and light abilities would fare.
Alex managed to flip as he threw a kick that conjured a large arc blade. The blade zoomed towards the moon-sized debris and grew larger the farther it moved away from him.
*ZING!*
The arc blade cleanly cut through the fragment, travelling from one point to the next in less than a second.
Alex gulped in fear of his own power. That attack barely took anything out of him!
It was a ridiculous sight.
With just one level up, Alex gained the power to destroy worlds.