[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-gain-a-god-tier-talent-every-level":3,"chapter-i-gain-a-god-tier-talent-every-level-i-gain-a-god-tier-talent-every-level-chapter-397":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Gain a God-Tier Talent Every Level",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},165187,328,"Chapter 397","i-gain-a-god-tier-talent-every-level-chapter-397",397,"\u003Cp>The battle—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if it could even be called that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>lasted less than three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu moved first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of quadrillions of exalted souls detonated simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shockwave alone should have been enough to level a mountain range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izparut raised his staff once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single rune unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the explosion—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>simply stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not deflected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not absorbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As though the concept of \"explosion\" had been quietly removed from the equation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Kid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu's voice reached Rei through their soul-link.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strained. Tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a man trying to sound calm while already understanding,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with perfect clarity,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that he was going to lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whatever you're planning—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do it now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei was already moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not toward Iz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not running—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>calculating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes swept the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God-Tier · Lighthouse of All Laws fed him information in real time:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iz's magic radiated outward in layers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each layer a different school,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each school containing hundreds of sub-disciplines,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all of them active simultaneously,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all of them watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no blind spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No angle of approach that wasn't already covered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is there truly no path?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei's mind worked at full acceleration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ascension Apex State continued stacking—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Layer after layer building silently,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>irrelevant to the outcome but still accumulating,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because stopping meant giving up,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Rei did not give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu collided with Iz's outermost defensive layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound it made—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was not the sound of power meeting power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the sound of something enormous\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>striking something immovable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deep, hollow reverberation\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that shook the bones without moving the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"HAHH—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Billions of death souls detonated against Iz's staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For one instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just one—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the infinite radiance around Iz wavered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a gap in his defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a weakness in his magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a shift in his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Iz—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even a Level 9 Mage—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had directed 0.003% of his focus toward Ansu's assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>0.003%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any other context,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that number would be meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against Iz,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it still meant almost nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rei was not looking for victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was looking fordistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The word surfaced in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had two unfulfilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had structured carefully,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>deliberately,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as a safety net.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To survive an encounter that should have killed me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't known when he would need it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't known what form it would take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the wish existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And wishes, once made through the Lighthouse of All Laws—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had a way of bending reality toward their fulfillment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fantasy into reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Make it real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei did not speak the wish aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already written into the structure of the world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>waiting for the moment it was needed most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space fractured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not violently—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not explosively—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but quietly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the way ice splits under sustained pressure:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a thin, precise line appearing in the fabric of the air\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>directly in front of Rei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw himself through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ANSU!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He roared the name as he crossed the threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*\"I'll drag you in—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>grab on!\"*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already in pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iz's counter had arrived the instant Rei moved—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not as punishment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not as fury—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but with the calm, mechanical precision\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>of a man completing a necessary task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black staff swept once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single arc of ninth-tier force\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>passed through Ansu's spirit body\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>like a blade through smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hollow cavities opened across his form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His soul-light guttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one withered, spectral hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>caught the edge of the fracture\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as it began to close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei seized it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they fell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>through the crack,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>through the between-space,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>through somewhere that had no name and no light—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fracture sealed behind them without a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei lay still for a long moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>staring upward into nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body reported damage in sequence:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>three cracked ribs from spatial compression,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>magic reserves at critical low,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>soul essence nearly depleted,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ascension Apex State—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>still stacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He almost laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still stacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu was beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or what remained of Ansu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spirit body had been torn through in a dozen places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light leaked from the gaps in slow, dying pulses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like a lantern someone had shot arrows through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His single visible eye found Rei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The look in it was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...You owe me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei said nothing for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're alive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Barely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That counts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu made a sound that was not quite a laugh and not quite a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts drifted into Rei's mind, fragmented:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Never thought my first real battle in this era...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...would be against something like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...That wasn't a mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...That was a principle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had stared directly into Iz's magic through the Lighthouse of All Laws\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and seen not technique,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not accumulated power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but something closer to a natural law—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>magic that did not feel like something Izused\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but something Izwas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 9.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boundary between mortal and something else entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said the contamination can't be saved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said I'm already destined to become what destroys the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei stopped the thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed them flat and held them there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to assess what remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to check the Wishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he needed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he reached into the structure of his magic—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to understand what that fracture in space hadgivenhim\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in exchange for tearing reality open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something had entered him through the crossing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something that hadn't been there before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was enormous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it tasted like the end of everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rei opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared into the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Forbidden Magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He breathed once, slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Iz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You came to kill me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You said there was no way to save me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But you used that spell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historical Extraction—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>knowing I would survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing what I would take from you in the crossing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness did not answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ansu's presence flickered beside him, dim and wounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them lay still in the silence between spaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Rei—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for the first time in a very long time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>did not move immediately toward the next goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossibly, unreasonably alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And thought about what it meant\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that his master had come to kill him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and somehow, in doing so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had given him exactly what he needed\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to survive what came 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