Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 421: Gaze

To illustrate the way that the effort divinity worked when aiding cultivation, let me use a dumbbell weight as an analogy, a magical dumbbell that has two functions: first if it would set its weight to the maximum its user can lift. if the user lifts it, the user is immediately able to double the maximum weight they can lift.

In simpler terms, let's say that person A can only carry a weight of one kilogram before his body breaks down. when person A lifts the magical dumbbell, he will increase his capability immediately, he will become capable of lifting two kilograms, after one single lift, the magical dumbbell would then weigh two kilograms and if person A lifts it again, he would become capable of lifting four kilograms, the dumbbell would increase its weight to four kilograms and the cycle continues.

That is how cultivating divine power felt when one was linked to the effort divinity. And that was why the four gods got angry at Yunan for cutting off their link. When working with the divinity of effort, the gain was proportional to how much you commit, the more you pour in, the more you gain in return.

This type of training aid was very suitable for rushed power-ups, just like the ones Yunan and his friends required, and that made the effort divinity all the more valuable. Deciding to take things a bit faster due to the time dilation, he linked Debauchery party to the effort divinity as well, giving them an easier time with their assignments.

While he was meditating on the effort divinity, Yunan understood why he had never heard of a god who claimed the domain of effort, the road there was not easy, to grow a divinity from the ordinary size to that of a planet was no easy feat, and that was the minimum size that is required to allow ascension, the effort divinity was a path with no end, either you are good enough to push long enough to take step after step, or you fall midway and never reach even godhood.

Calling effort tiresome was an understatement, it demanded that one had enough will to go through anything and come out alive. if one even lacked that much will, they were unworthy of control over the domain of effort. As for Yunan, he had his will tempered through facing death daily, he even had the gall to face off against the main god of death in this universe when he was no more than an ant to the god, but he still swung his blade as if he would never succumb, not to death, never to death.

As he let his consciousness drown in the domain of effort to power up his control over it, he sent a message to all his subordinates in the prison planet, "10 years, if you are not ready by then, then be left behind" and just like that, his presence vanished from the universe, he was now fully focused on his divinity, the one that could be unmatched in all of creation. Not even the primordial of the limitless would compare when effort grew beyond the scope of what was identified as primordial.

Yunan had already understood why the effort domain was the strongest, as long as creation existed, the effort would exist, there was nothing to do to stop it from being born, unlike limitless, all, null and the rest of the basic concepts, effort itself was not born as part of the process of creation, it was a product of it, an offspring of creation.

If the primordials feared something that was on a level higher than creation, Yunan had nothing to fear, for the act of killing him from this moment forward, one would have to terminate all creation, a feat that should not be possible for anything that had an existence. Now, this is what being overpowered means, no matter how strong his opponent is, they have no chance but to suffer him until he is capable of killing them.

When the message Yunan sent arrived with the link to the effort divinity, not one subordinate dared to take it easy, ten years was no longer than a blink of an eye to most gods, but to those blessed with the aid of the divinity of effort, ten years was an eternity of struggle, one could grow to heights they would have thought impossible before, and unbeknownst to them, they will push Yunan forward in his path as much as they pushed themselves.

Not only will Yunan receive all the efforts of his subordinates to power up, but he would also gain access to enlightenment and insight into their domains, he might not have the same delicate control because he lacked the related divinity, yet that did not mean anything, from now on, as long as any god used the effort divinity to advance even one step, Yunan would benefit just as much, he would grow able to control as many domains as he had subordinate gods.

This, in turn, meant as long as Yunan was attacked by any god who used any domain from Yunan's arsenal, Yunan would be nearly immune to their powers, meaning that Yunan would never be damaged by any god who had less control than him in the same domain. Think to be an unkillable immortal was overpowered, well guess again, being an unkillable immortal who is immune or resistant to almost everything, including the power of death, well now you have a truly overpowering character.

Far above universe Hosana, an eye suddenly open in the void; where myriad universes roamed, each rotating like small moons around an entity or another, those entities shuddered and shrieked, the eye that looked down on them all was bigger than the void they occupied, they feared it, hated it and desired it, yet all they could do was cower in fear and shiver like scared mice, they were mighty beings, but not mighty enough.

The eye scanned the great entities with little interest, it was awakened by a threat it felt, it scanned the universes and their owners, it found nothing, it combed every thread of fate across all universes, still nothing, it then closed in again, as if wondering how long has it since it last awakened, maybe that was a dream? Was it infected by the little mice and their meagre existence? Heh, it found the idea funny, it has been too long since anything funny happened under the gaze of the giant eye.