[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier":3,"chapter-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-69":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Awakening a 10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier in the Apocalypse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1480597,1927,"Chapter 69: [69]: Urban Warfare, Absolute Zero","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-69",69,"\u003Cp>THROOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deafening crack of a mana-conducting railgun going off nearly ruptured the eardrums of everyone on the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of pure blue kinetic energy shot from the edge of the Sky-Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hit the massive spider-demon dead center. The tungsten slug completely ignored the monster’s Void Shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SPLAT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Crawler simply ceased to exist as a solid object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive beast exploded into a spectacular shower of black sludge and severed metal legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer force of the impact blew a hole clean through the skyscraper. It rained shattered glass and spider guts onto the streets below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hell yeah! Give ’em the good stuff!\" one of the Abyss Knights cheered as he slammed another heavy slug into the breech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian steered the floating platform directly into the heart of the financial district.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The streets below were rivers of blood. Thousands of Void Crawlers were swarming over the wreckage of military blockades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They happily munched on flipped tanks and screaming stragglers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Valerie! Extraction!\" Sebastian yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see them!\" Valerie shouted back. She was standing at the edge of the platform and her dark hair whipped wildly in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of fifty terrified civilians were trapped on the roof of a burning bank building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five Crawlers were scaling the sides with their mandibles snapping hungrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie slammed her carved oak staff against the basalt floor of the fortress. Her blue eyes flared with brilliant light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aegis Bridge!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive shimmering pathway of hard-light kinetic energy shot from the edge of the Sky-Fortress and slammed directly into the roof of the bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It formed a solid glowing blue ramp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"RUN! GET ON THE BRIDGE!\" Valerie screamed at the civilians. Her voice was magically amplified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people didn’t hesitate. They scrambled onto the magical pathway. They sobbed and slipped as they ran toward the hovering fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, they’re swarming the bridge!\" Wraith warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Crawlers had crested the roof and immediately lunged onto the hard-light construct to chase the fleeing humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hold the bridge, Valerie. I’m going down,\" Sebastian said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wait for her to argue. He didn’t grab a parachute. Sebastian simply stepped off the edge of the Sky-Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind roared in his ears as he plummeted toward the blood-soaked intersection fifty stories below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer mass of his twenty-percent physical synchronization made him fall like a literal meteor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He aimed for the highest concentration of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian hit the asphalt with a catastrophic impact. A massive crater formed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sent a concussive shockwave that flipped ruined cars and threw dozens of the smaller Void Crawlers into the sides of the buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly stood up from the center of the crushed pavement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dust settled, revealing the man in the ragged black coat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire swarm of hundreds of bio-mechanical spiders turned their glowing red eyes toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hissed and their mandibles clicked rapidly as they registered the massive mana signature standing in their dining room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come and get it,\" Sebastian whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his digital inventory. He bypassed his heavy swords and his basic combat skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached for a specific skill book he had ripped from the corpse of Velkhana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Item: Frost Breath]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: 4 Elemental Magic]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t read it. He crushed the glowing blue crystal in his bare hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Action Registered: Learn Frost Breath.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Nexus Glitch Activated: Proficiency x10,000.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system practically wept as it was violently forced to process lifetimes of absolute elemental mastery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Frost Breath leveled up to 10\u002F10! Max Level Reached!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evolution Requirement Met! Frost Breath evolves to Tier 5: Glacial Roar!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proficiency Overflow Detected! Glacial Roar leveled up to 10\u002F10!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[WARNING: Concept Threshold Breached. Thermodynamic Law Unlocked.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Glacial Roar evolves to Conceptual Law: Absolute Zero.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian felt the terrifying stillness of the universe download directly into his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood the fundamental mathematical concept of completely removing all kinetic and thermal energy from a physical space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swarm of Void Crawlers lunged at him from all sides. A tidal wave of gnashing teeth and sharp steel legs crashed down on his position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian took a deep breath. His lungs filled with raw glitched mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Freeze.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a wave of pure blindingly white stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conceptual law of Absolute Zero erupted from Sebastian’s mouth and washed over the entire city block in a fraction of a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The effect was horrifyingly absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hundreds of leaping Void Crawlers didn’t even have time to fall to the ground. They were flash-frozen instantly in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their corrosive acid spit froze into solid harmless yellow icicles before it could hit his coat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roaring flames of the burning cars around him were instantly extinguished. The fire itself was frozen into bizarre solid sculptures of red and orange ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temperature dropped so violently that the very air shattered and rained down as microscopic snowflakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian stood in the center of a perfectly silent frozen graveyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually raised his boot and tapped the leg of a massive frozen Void Crawler suspended inches from his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TINK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spider-demon shattered like a cheap dropped wine glass. The absolute removal of thermal energy had made its bio-mechanical armor entirely brittle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It exploded into a million pieces of harmless frozen dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A chain reaction followed. The sheer weight of the frozen monsters caused them to collapse under their own mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SMASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of elite Void Crawlers simply disintegrated into piles of frozen grey slush and shattered glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire intersection had been cleared in a single breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up above, Valerie was straining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civilians had made it across the bridge, but the physical toll of maintaining a massive hard-light construct in the real world was catching up to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian looked up. Valerie was on her knees on the edge of the Sky-Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hands were shaking violently on her staff. Blood was leaking freely from her nose and tracking down from the corners of her eyes. It was a horrifying sign of real-world mana burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drop it, Valerie!\" Sebastian yelled through the comms. \"They’re across!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I can’t... the stragglers...\" Valerie choked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two more civilians were desperately climbing up the roof to reach the fading blue bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie screamed and her muscles tore as she forcefully pumped more of her life force into the magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bridge flared bright. It held solid just long enough for the last two people to throw themselves onto the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they were safe, Valerie collapsed. The hard-light bridge shattered into a million useless sparks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian watched her fall. He felt profound respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t just a rich girl playing a game. She was willing to bleed out her own eyes to save people who couldn’t save themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wraith, get a medic on her,\" Sebastian ordered smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down the ruined frozen street. The swarm was endless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands more Crawlers were pouring out of the distant subway tunnels. They were drawn to the massive spike of magic he had just used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian cracked his neck as his breath plumed in the unnaturally cold air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, bugs,\" he murmured as his eyes glowed with that terrifying silver light. \"Let’s see how much of this city I have to delete.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1204,"2026-06-06T03:26:14.952Z",1,"novelbin.me","d72417fe538da4ba3b35c585a1a193b1e5c20c33818665627ccd8d70d7361e2d","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-126","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-125",198,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fawakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-cover.jpg"]