Chapter 1725: Stars Fall 19

Drip, consuming 67 points, strengthens the strength attribute.

"Drip, strengthening, please do not move."

White light bursts.

As a mercury-like substantial energy tinged with red fell from above his head, Lin An stood solemnly in the exchange point, motionless.

Unlike before, when exchanging attributes could be completed instantly.

This time, it's obviously not that simple.

"Reddish... power..."

Listening to the continual muscle rupture sounds inside his body, although so faint as to be hardly detectable, to Lin An whose perception far surpasses that of a typical Fifth Level, this sound was like a cable exploding inside him.

He could even imagine those muscles being torn apart like rubber bands.

His body trembled slightly.

Under the incessant infusion of red-and-white energy, Lin An lowered his head silently, merely enduring the pain enough to drive a typical Third Level mad.

Compared to this inhuman torment, he cared more about the strengthening effect.

"Muscle reorganization?"

"It seems that when the attribute reaches 1100 points, my original body structure can no longer support it."

"I just don't know what it will ultimately become."

A faint anticipation and excitement flashed in the depths of his eyes.

It's not that he has a masochistic tendency.

For Lin An, this round of attribute strengthening up to 268 points can be said to be the key to his strength's qualitative leap!

Body System Fifth Level!

Once he crosses it, in regular combat power he will have the capital to crush War Star Level beings!

His muscles kept expanding and contracting; visible to Lin An's naked eye, as his whole body's muscles writhed as if alive, the pain of muscular reorganization grew ever greater.

Those few short seconds felt like an eternity.

The muscular reorganization strengthening was no different than burning every inch of flesh and viscera to ash and regenerating them!

Almost as Lin An's face turned pale, wishing he could pull his bones out of his flesh, in an instant, as a solid-seeming red light pillar instantly fell onto his head, the tone signaling the end of strengthening also sounded instantly.

"Ding! Strengthening complete! Current strength attribute has reached the limit!"

"Next stage strengthening requires a star core! Flesh of War Star Level or higher beings! (Note: the flesh consumed during next stage strengthening will affect your strength traits!)"

The information flashed and vanished.

Without time to ponder the system's hint, Lin An suddenly felt his whole body sink, and with a boom he seemed to become an iron warship, pressing the ground beneath his feet down by a third!

What is this?!

Under the pressure inherent to the Star Battlefield and the surging mass of his body, at this moment his weight actually seemed greater than a mountain!

So heavy!

Reacting extremely quickly, the instant Lin An realized he resembled a high-density celestial body, he activated a repulsion effect, yanking himself up from the ground.

Counteracting his own weight with repulsion rules, Lin An stared wide-eyed, and only then did he feel somewhat better.

"My body..?!"

In his estimate, his mass had probably already reached 1,100 tons! And under the Star Battlefield's gravity bonus, that number reached an astonishing over 100,000 tons!

Calculated using osmium, the densest metal on Earth, his density was forty-nine point six eight times greater than osmium!

Although similar situations had occurred before, Lin An could also realize that as his bodily strength increased, his density and mass would increase as well.

But with such a sudden massive increase, Lin An couldn't help but feel speechless.

Especially..

"Shattered Star, Silver Star, Dead Star... the Body System usually requires devouring an entire planet's civilization..."

"For the next level strengthening, I need to consume a star core and high-level flesh?!"

His thought speed was incredibly fast.

In an instant, Lin An thought of the connection.

He originally thought these rank titles represented destructive power, but now it seems they might also hint at what this level of the Body System would turn him into.

An even higher-level Body System might mean a single person's mass rivals a star!? Even that ultimate powerhouse beyond comprehension's limits, a single person could be a black hole!?

His face changed repeatedly, although Lin An didn't care much about his appearance.

But thinking that perhaps he might later become something like a neutron star, Lin An couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.

If there weren't rules to counteract his own gravity, wouldn't it mean he'd die wherever he went? Just standing casually on Earth... no, merely the gravitational effect from his supermass would be enough to rip a planet apart...

If it were the ultimate mass of a black hole...

In an instant, Lin An suddenly recalled what Klein had told him about some ultimate existences.

"Even light, they can 'eat'—such monsters."

He fell slightly silent.

Lin An gave a bitter laugh and then thought no more.

Just holding a testing mindset, he lightly clenched his fist and instantly punched forward into the space before him.

In an instant, as his whole body seemed to be carried along by the punch's force, a minuscule spatial disturbance suddenly spread like ripples.

The force unleashed by this punch was actually far greater than before!

Lin An suddenly startled, as if realizing something, instantly mobilized magnetic field reinforcement.

He threw a punch, and as successive air shockwaves erupted like consecutive explosions at the fist's forefront, they ultimately formed a piercing screech that struck the distant wall.

"Boom!!"

Watching the effect he produced, Lin An's eyes instantly flashed with a look of astonishment!

Strong!

Although it looks ordinary, he could also achieve this on Earth, and even far more violent than this effect!

But you should know, he is now in the Stellar Battlefield!

The material strength here is such that even a Fifth Stage can't cause much destruction!

With careful perception, Lin An even feels that if he throws a full-force punch in coordination with the rules, this punch could shatter the void bare-handed!

If he goes all out on Earth, he could probably pierce the Himalayas with a single punch!

"War Star Level... no! Stronger than the rules of War Star Level?!"

"A bare-handed strike releases the power of the rules! Is this the might of the Body System?!"

Taking a deep breath, Lin An felt quite excited.

To be honest, he didn't expect the body strengthening effect to be this good! In his view, a mere few points of strengthening, although capped at the limit, would only increase by a few points, and the biggest change should be the final damage reduction effect.

But he never expected that once his attributes reached the Body System Fifth Stage standard, his strength would already undergo a qualitative change!

Taking a deep breath, Lin An couldn't help but look at his slender, white hands; although still human in appearance, in his eyes his body had clearly become an indestructible weapon of war!

He faintly felt some regret.

If he had known the effect would be this good, he would have started strengthening his attributes earlier.

In his contemplation, Lin An also had some doubts. Based on his current effect, the system's plan should focus more on body strengthening.

Moreover, after using the White Bone Ring to cap the limit, he also reached 1100 points, but the effect wasn't as good as now!

This obviously wrong situation is truly unreasonable.

"Perhaps... the force gained through trickery is simply added on? But real strengthening would transform the body?"

"I can feel that after my body's reconstruction, there is an additional strand of red power."

"Not only that.."

Lin An's eyes flickered, and he also thought of more.

"Over sixty points of strengthening can bring such a huge increase, which seems wrong, but in reality even a Star-Destroying Level couldn't produce that many points..."

After contacting Hei Di and others, he knew how hard it was to obtain points. Even if obtained, no one would be willing to spend them on attribute enhancement, not even to exchange for rules.

This thing is basically for giving civilization a continuation of life!

For most Fifth Stages, they trade time for power, trying to slow the Apocalypse process, relying on themselves to gradually grasp and study the rules.

Only Lin An, forced into this situation, had no choice but to strengthen his strength as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, Lin An guessed he would also be reluctant to consume so many Apocalypse points.

His approach is basically cheating and squandering!

"It doesn't matter! Waste is waste!"

Unwilling to waste more time thinking about the principles, for Lin An he looks forward to what his combat power will become after his body breaks through the Fifth Stage.