[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything":3,"chapter-sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-chapter-63":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","SSS Awakening : I can Adapt to Everything",{"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},1385262,1836,"Chapter 63: First Phantom","sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-chapter-63",63,"\u003Cp>The ambient mana inside the gate was entirely different from the real world. The real world mostly had pure mana, spread over the area of the whole world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While inside the gate, the mana was a mixture of pure and Dark Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark mana was heavy, corrupted, and stained with the malice of the Calamity Beasts. To a normal human, or even a standard Exterminator, absorbing this mana directly was a death sentence. It was poison, guaranteed to cause severe mana toxicity, internal ruptures, and eventually death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Hide possessed a completely different foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed the S-Rank passive skill: Dark Abyssal Core. This allowed him to absorb and use Dark mana without harming his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Focusing inward, Hide located the dense, cold center of his being, just besides his heart and opened the floodgates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the corrupted mana in the surrounding swamp reacted. It didn’t just drift toward him; it rushed him. Swirls of dark, violet energy seeped out of the damp earth, the dead trees, and the corpses of the vipers, spiraling rapidly into Hide’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body absorbed it like a starving man drinking water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no pain. Instead, a wave of profound, chilling clarity washed over him. The Dark Abyssal Core spun furiously, refining the chaotic dungeon mana into pure, condensed dark mana, storing it deep within his system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood there for a full minute, draining the immediate area dry, until a familiar warmth settled in his chest, signaling that his core had reached its absolute limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide opened his eyes. They glowed with a faint, dangerous dark violet light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He activated the talent mentally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark mana he had just absorbed violently surged outward. It didn’t form a neat circle or an elegant spell-matrix. It bled from his pores and rushed from his shadow, pouring out in the air as a thick, inky flood. It spread across, hissing and bubbling, forming a formless, swirling puddle of pure darkness roughly three meters wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puddle churned randomly, thick tendrils of mist grasping at the air as if hungry for a shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide reached into his inventory. He didn’t even look at the F-Rank and E-Rank cores he had just purchased at the Trade Center. If he was going to build his foundation, he wasn’t going to start small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he possessed a perfect core to start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core of the Lesser Calamity Lord, the master of the Dark castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was heavy, radiating a freezing pressure that made the air around it shimmer. Hide held it over the churning puddle of dark mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take it,\" he whispered, and threw the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the C-Rank core touched the darkness, the puddle erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark mana consumed it and the puddle expanded rapidly into a chaotic, formless pillar of pitch-black energy that reached the canopy of the trees. The wind whipped violently around it, bending the surrounding vegetation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide watched the chaotic energy pull itself upward, waiting for it to stabilize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn’t. The dark mana lashed out randomly, chaotic and untethered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It needs a shape,’ Hide realized instantly.’The core provides the power and the anchor, but the talent is generative. It builds what I tell it to build.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want a standard knight in armor. He didn’t want a generic humanoid foot soldier. He wanted something that matched the raw, overbearing violence of the Calamity Lord the core had come from, refined into a perfect killing instrument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide closed his eyes, focusing his mind entirely on the swirling pillar. He grabbed hold of the connection through theDark Liegetalent, forcing his will into the chaotic mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Tall,’ he commanded internally. ’Built for speed, but heavy enough to crush bone.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pillar of darkness shrieked, the mist compressing inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Claws that can tear through steel.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark mana folded over itself. The chaotic tendrils snapped into place, solidifying into hard, jagged edges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent wind died down as the swirling puddle vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing before him was a towering figure, easily four feet tall. It was clad in seamless, pitch-black plating that absorbed the dim light of the swamp. Its limbs were long and powerfully corded with dark muscle. Its hands ended in wicked, jagged talons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of a face, it possessed a smooth, featureless visor that glowed with a faint, bruised-purple luminescence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked less like soldier and more like an executioner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entity slowly lowered itself to one knee, bowing its featureless head toward Hide. The cold, absolute loyalty radiating from it through their mental link was staggering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A holographic window flickered to life in front of Hide’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>--\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Phantom Soldier Formation Successful]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please assign a name to the newly formed Phantom Soldier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>--\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide looked down at the towering, kneeling beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have to think about it for long. He wanted a name that represented the absolute ceiling of what he intended to reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zenith,\" Hide said aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entity’s blank visor flared with a bright violet pulse, accepting the designation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system window updated immediately, displaying the full stats of his creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>--\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Name:Zenith\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Designation:First Phantom\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anchor Rank:C\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Current Level:1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rank Evolution : 1\u002F25\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skills:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark Slash] (Active):Allows the user to release a strike of compressed Dark mana from a weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Phantom Step] (Active):Allows the user to briefly merge with the surrounding Mana, drastically increasing movement speed and evading physical attacks for 1.5 seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>--\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide read through the stats twice, a fierce, genuine grin breaking across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An entity anchored at C-Rank, possessing an armor-piercing attack and an evasion skill, fully obedient, and capable of leveling up independently. And this was only at Level 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zenith,\" Hide commanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive beast stood up instantly, its towering frame casting a long silhouette over the damp earth. It looked down at Hide, waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hide opened his inventory and pulled out the heavy, pristine Beginner’s Sword he had received from the system. He tossed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zenith caught the heavy blade out of the air effortlessly. The dark mana from its gauntlet immediately bled into the steel, turning the polished silver blade pitch-black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go into the swamp,\" Hide ordered, his voice cold and steady. \"Kill everything you find. And bring me the Gatekeeper’s head.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zenith didn’t speak, the towering beast simply blurred, merging with the dim light of the trees, and vanished into the underbrush without making a single sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>P\u002FS - If you like the Story so far, please help it by giving power stones and Golden tickets. There would be mass releases after milestones as said in Auxiliary Chapter. Thanks.\u003C\u002Fp>",1095,"2026-06-05T22:37:19.149Z",1,"novelbin.me","dd5ae87f5fa630798c44fbb46564a2bcb61bfe99aa6e025dbda80d6e4a0ec020","sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-chapter-64","sss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-chapter-62",123,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsss-awakening-i-can-adapt-to-everything-cover.jpg"]