Absolute Cheater

He leaned against the stone wall behind him and stared at the empty recovery chamber. Nothing else to do now except think. Wait. Heal.

Then, almost casually, he muttered to himself, "System… fuse all stored items, cores, and materials into something usable. Use Infinite Fusion."

[ Fusion Command Acknowledged. ]

[ Processing Inventory… ]

[ Fusion Initiated: Converting 4,328 Rare Materials, 128 Law Crystals, 72 Weapon Fragments, and 11 World Artifacts… ]

[ Estimated Time: 12 Hours ]

"Good," Asher whispered, resting his head back. "Let's see what you make."

He closed his eyes—not to sleep, but to think.

He had climbed 1,679 floors.

He had killed thousands of bosses, faced monsters of every realm and law, and forged his legend without fanfare or audience. And now, for the first time… he was still.

Not defeated.

Just… still.

But inside, that same will burned.

The next time he rose…

Varkhel would fall.

And nothing else in this Tower would stop him.

The hours passed slowly.

Time in the Tower's recovery chamber didn't flow like the outside world—it was calm, quiet, suspended. Asher sat unmoving, his arms crossed loosely, legs extended in front of him. His scythe rested by his side, inert, still glowing faintly from the last fight.

He had no wounds left—physically. But the toll on his core, on his soul and essence, was deep.

That fight on Floor 1679… the Demon Lord had been different.

A peak Star-Forger entity, with perfect mastery of two advanced Laws—Dominion Flame and Soul Shackles. Its blows weren't just physical. They burned his soul, locked his movements, corrupted his healing. The longer the fight dragged on, the weaker Asher became.

And still, he pushed.

He remembered the final strike clearly—him lunging with everything, burning all his aura, his mana, even his own lifespan if needed. The scythe struck true… but the Demon Lord hadn't died.

Asher had collapsed seconds after, the floor ending in failure.

He hadn't failed in skill.

He'd simply run out of everything.

[ Fusion Process: 97% Complete. ]

His System chimed softly, pulling Asher from his thoughts.

He sat up straighter.

"Finally."

As soon as the Fusion progress reached 100%, a lot of notifications appeared in front of him.

The light from the system screen bathed Asher's face in a pale glow as notification after notification scrolled past.

[ Fusion Complete. ]

[ 183 Items Fused Successfully. ]

[ 27 New Equipment Items Created. ]

[ 42 Techniques Refined. ]

[ 11 Law Catalysts Born. ]

[ 3 Unique Core Enhancers Constructed. ]

[ 1 Star-Grade Relic Forged. ]

"Woah," Asher muttered, blinking slowly. "So many things fused and created."

He waved a hand, dismissing most of the lesser results—armor upgrades, consumables, secondary talismans. All valuable, but not what he needed right now.

Instead, he focused on the highlighted section of his system:

[ Filtered Display: Strength-Enhancing Results Only ]

Five items hovered in the air before him, each pulsing with serious power.

1. Star-Forger Relic: Crimson Soulbrand Mantle

Effects:

Boosts Blood-based techniques by +6000% raw potency and increases their casting speed.

Stores 30 Soul Recovery Charges that trigger upon reaching critical health, restoring 30% soul and 50% HP over 3 seconds.

Drains 8% of enemy vitality on each hit and converts it to stamina, Health and mana.

Provides passive resistance to soul corrosion and bleeding status effects.

"Hmm, this is good," Asher mumbled. "Especially the last effect. I can basically keep fighting as long as I hit my enemy."

2. Internal Core Modifier: Law Circuit Node

Effects:

Grants the ability to store and switch between 100 active Laws mid-battle without needing to reset or recover.

Dramatically increases Law resonance speed and fusion success rate.

Provides a +1500% boost to comprehension speed of the Laws.

"hmm, another useful one" Asher nodded.

3. Sanguine Supreme Art Evolution

Type: Soul-Blood Hybrid Cultivation Art

Core Nature: Fusion of Blood, Soul, Time, Shadow, Life, and Destruction Laws

Focus: Extreme adaptability, continuous evolution, and dominance through sacrifice and resonance.

Stage 1 – Crimson Vein Awakening

Laws Integrated: Blood Law + Life Law (Lesser Form)

Effect: Enhances vitality, healing, and battle instinct. Blood becomes semi-sentient, able to react to attacks independently.

Unique Skill – Vital Bloom Armor: Blood hardens over wounds into protective living armor. Heals and defends simultaneously.

Passive: Blood resonance grants +500% combat awareness in melee range.

Stage 2 – Soul Thorn Bloom

Laws Integrated: Soul Law + Pain Law + Blood Law

Effect: Every attack embeds soul thorns into the opponent's spirit. These thorns feed off enemy intent, weakening their next moves.

Unique Skill – Thorned Retaliation: When struck, releases a burst of spiritual backlash that stuns enemies and copies part of their technique.

Passive: Absorbs fragmented soul energy from slain enemies, enhancing soul durability.

Stage 3 – Shadow Pulse Dominion

Laws Integrated: Shadow Law + Time Law (Echo Variant) + Blood Law

Effect: Allows brief 'afterimage delay'—Asher can execute an attack that repeats 0.5 seconds later in a shadow form.

Unique Skill – Crimson Echo Severance: Deals dual-timed strikes; first hits physically, second strikes through shadow echo, bypassing armor.

Passive: Shadow blood trails left behind can explode if enemies follow too closely.

Stage 4 – Reaper Heart Ascension

Laws Integrated: Death Law + Soul Law + Memory Law

Effect: Combines reaper abilities with memory tracing. Can recreate any move seen once by burning blood.

Unique Skill – Bloodline Extraction: Deals fatal strike; if successful, steals a Law Fragment from the opponent for 10 minutes.

Passive: Memories of death are stored in the heart; if Asher is killed, he returns once with 50% strength, consuming all reserves.

Stage 5 – Sovereign's Scarlet Cataclysm

Laws Integrated: Catastrophe Law + Blood Law + Destruction Law + Space Shatter

Effect: All attacks rupture space around them. Scythe swings leave trails that persist for seconds, erasing anything they touch.

Unique Skill – Crimson Collapse: Creates a collapsing blood vortex that drags in enemies and disintegrates them.

Passive: Space around Asher becomes unstable when angered, reducing ranged accuracy of enemies by 70%.

Stage 6 – Eternal Sanguine Crown

Laws Integrated: Time Law (Grand Flow) + Eternal Law + Blood Sovereignty

Effect: Ascends Asher to a unique blood-time domain, where only his blood flows naturally. Others are slowed, frozen, or reversed.

Unique Skill – Final Sanguine Edict: A full-domain annihilation technique. Turns enemy blood against them, reversing time on their wounds, endlessly reopening them.

Passive: Becomes immune to time-manipulation Laws; once per day, can reverse his own death by 10 seconds if soul is intact.

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