[{"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-99":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},1480652,1927,"Chapter 99: [99]: Simulated Deletion, The Dead Man’s Pass","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-99",99,"\u003Cp>Drifting through the Juncture felt like being stuck in a very long loading screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no sky and there was no ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only an endless void filled with the floating corpses of deleted video game servers and assimilated planets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian stood on a massive floating chunk of asphalt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a piece of an old highway that had been violently ripped from a modern city. The faded yellow lines offered the only color in the swirling purple smog around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He coughed, his chest rattling violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh, fuck me.\" He groaned and leaned heavily against the twisted metal railing of the highway chunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spat a thick glob of black code onto the asphalt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It immediately sizzled and ate a small hole into the pavement before turning into raw static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His new green UI flickered in the corner of his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Status: Void Toxicity Building.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Base File Corruption at 12%.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void Toxicity was slowly chewing through his foundational code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not ticking down a standard health bar like a poison debuff. Instead, it felt like a cold numbness that was steadily turning his internal organs into dead pixels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did not find a Server Filter soon, he was not going to die. He was just going to cease existing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really need to find a pharmacy.\" Sebastian muttered while wiping his mouth with the back of his black leather glove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked out across the abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the coordinates he had extorted from the chained Admin, Outpost Rust was about three miles away. It was hidden inside the skull of a dead space leviathan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But navigating the Juncture was incredibly tricky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the Earth server to process his magical commands, his flight spells and teleportation skills were completely locked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to rely entirely on his newly compiled [Concept of Mass].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He focused his mind on his own body and specifically targeted the mathematical value of his physical weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not cast a spell. He just edited the number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dropped his mass to near zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt impossibly light. A strong sneeze could have easily sent him into orbit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian bent his knees and jumped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he essentially weighed nothing, the kinetic force of his Demigod-tier physical synchronization launched him across the void like a bullet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sailed over a half-mile of empty space in just a few seconds and soared past a floating Gothic cathedral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he approached a cluster of floating rocks, he flipped the script in his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forcefully increased his mass to two tons right before impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He landed feet-first on the stone, his heavy boots cratering the surface immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nailed it.\" Sebastian grunted and adjusted his torn leather coat. \"Who needs an airplane when you can just bully physics?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to prepare for his next jump when a massive red warning flashed across his entire field of vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CRITICAL WARNING: DATA PURGE STORM APPROACHING.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[EVACUATE OR SEEK ABSOLUTE COVER.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian frowned. \"A what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked to his left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coming out of the deep purple smog was a massive tornado.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was not made of wind or dust. It was a swirling vortex of jagged red error codes and blinding white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a localized hurricane that literally erased matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian watched in absolute horror as the edge of the storm touched the floating Gothic cathedral he had just bypassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no explosion and there was no crumbling stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cathedral simply wiped out of existence. It was deleted layer by layer as the red code washed over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit. That is not a storm. That is a server wipe.\" Sebastian’s eyes went wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was heading directly toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frantically scanned his immediate surroundings. Floating debris would not save him. A stone wall would just get deleted along with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed something shielded. He needed a container built to survive the foundational wipes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About a hundred yards away, resting on a flat piece of dark metallic asteroid, he spotted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a sleek white cylinder. It looked like an escape pod ripped straight out of a futuristic space shooter game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had a heavy blast door and a glowing blue control panel on the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please be unlocked.\" Sebastian prayed to a god he didn’t believe in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dropped his mass, jumped with all his might, and shot across the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed his mass back up to a solid ton and crashed heavily onto the metallic asteroid right next to the pod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>VWOOOM-VWOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Data Purge Storm was accelerating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deafening sound of raw data being shredded filled the vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The edge of the asteroid was already starting to pixelate and vanish into the red vortex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian scrambled to the pod’s control panel and slammed his hand against the biometric scanner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BEEP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A holographic red text box popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Access Denied.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Biometric Scan Complete. Entity Status: ALIVE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This vessel is a Stasis Morgue Drive. Only DECEASED data may be preserved.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have got to be fucking kidding me!\" Sebastian yelled at the panel and hit it with a heavy fist. \"It is a digital coffin? Who designs a door that only opens for dead people?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storm was less than fifty yards away. The asteroid beneath his boots was actively disintegrating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not have time to hack the terminal and he did not have time to find another piece of cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the scanner. It needed a dead body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian let out a frantic laugh. \"Fine. You want a corpse? I will give you a corpse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not have his pain receptors turned off anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void Toxicity had completely bypassed his old UI settings. This meant he felt every ache and every agonizing sensation his body processed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed his right hand directly over his own chest right above his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not use a blade. He used the only tool he had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Concept of Mass.\" Sebastian whispered with a trembling voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not target his whole body. He targeted the specific localized coordinates of his own physical heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he increased its weight to five hundred pounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"G-GAAHK!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pain was absolute agony. It was immediate and catastrophic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His chest cavity violently sank inward as his heart instantly became heavier than an anvil. The sheer crushing weight ripped his internal veins and arteries from their connections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart violently stopped beating. It could not pump. It was a block of solid impossible mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian’s eyes rolled into the back of his head. Blood exploded from his nose and lips as his biological systems completely crashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He collapsed forward and his heavy dying face slammed directly onto the biometric scanner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision faded to black. The cold embrace of actual physical death washed over his brain. He was flatlining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Access Granted.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Entity Status: DECEASED.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Opening Morgue Drive.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a hiss of pressurized air, the heavy white blast doors of the pod slid open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian’s lifeless body tipped forward and tumbled into the dark interior of the cylinder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CLANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doors violently slammed shut and locked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than a second later, the Data Purge Storm washed over the asteroid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The metal rock was instantly deleted from reality. But the white pod remained as its shielded body successfully deflected the red error codes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the pitch-black pod, Sebastian lay dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his consciousness did not fade into the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his physical brain shut down, the advanced memory drive of the pod recognized an anomaly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It grabbed his fading digital soul and forcefully sucked it into the pod’s internal hard drive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new prompt flashed in the darkness of his dying mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Initializing Memory Dive. 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