Abyssal Invasion, I Wield Dark Authority – Chapter 7

Ch 7: Authority!

After a total of six times.

Sure enough, the plus sign on Vitality has also disappeared.

This made Qin Jin-Nian frown slightly, and then he looked at the data panel.

【Vitality +1.】

【The stat effect takes effect immediately, and the changes in appearance will gradually appear within the next 3 months.】

【Your Vitality has reached 10, which is the limit of your current ‘Cultivation’. Please break through your ‘Cultivation’ before adding more points.】

Let’s not mention the first two lines. When he saw the last line of text, Qin Jin-Nian was stunned…

Current ‘Cultivation’?

He quickly looked at the panel again, and then under the 【Rank】 section, he saw the 【Cultivation】 section.

And now, on his ‘Cultivation’, there was a big ‘None’ written…

“……”

Damn it, what the hell is this? It’s actually level-locked?

Qin Jin-Nian’s face darkened a little, and he smelled the scent of pay-to-win.

But after searching the panel up and down, he didn’t find any recharge channels, which made him secretly relieved, but also a little puzzled…

It’s okay to say about Cultivation, he can understand it. And now his Vitality and Mental Strength are both at ten, so he can indeed start cultivating.

But this 【Rank】…

What the hell is that?

How the hell am I supposed to improve it?

Qin Jin-Nian was a little speechless.

Finally, looking at the remaining 98.14 stat points, he felt a pang of pain.

He thought he could take off in one wave, but he didn’t expect that he would still be stuck.

Stuck, stuck, stuck…

Stuck my ass!

For a moment, he felt a little depressed, but there was nothing he could do.

In the end, he could only shake his head and sigh.

In any case, the improvement brought by ten points of Vitality is still significant.

Now, he feels that the weakness in his body has completely disappeared, replaced by a full sense of power!

Although… he still looks very thin.

“The appearance change will slowly show in three months?… That’s good.”

Qin Jin-Nian looked at the panel again and exhaled.

“That’s right, there are also Shadow Points…”

Thinking of this, he looked at the Shadow Points.

227.29…

“Stat points correspond to the Vitality and Mental Strength stats, so these Shadow Points… should correspond to Authority, right?”

He thought in his heart and looked at the Authority position.

And as expected…

The Authority section has changed.

He now has three Basic Authorities.

【Dark Eyes】.

【Shadow Control】.

【Shadow Devour】.

Now, a flashing little plus sign appeared.

However, it’s not after the three Authorities of ‘Dark Eyes’, ‘Shadow Control’, and ‘Shadow Devour’.

But it directly appeared after the 【Authority】 entry.

This made Qin Jin-Nian stunned, and then with a thought, he pressed the little plus sign.

Suddenly, words appeared on the panel.

【Current Shadow Points 227.29, can be used to upgrade Basic Authorities: ‘Dark Eyes’, ‘Shadow Control’, ‘Shadow Devour’.】

【You can also consume Shadow Points to awaken new Basic Authorities. Requires 10,000 Shadow Points. Insufficient Shadow Points to awaken.】

【Unawakened Basic Authorities: ‘Shadow Body’, ‘Shadow Armor’…】

“There are still Basic Authorities that haven’t been awakened… But to awaken one… it actually requires 10,000 Shadow Points?”

Never mind, never mind.

He only has 227 points in total… 10,000 points?

Suddenly, he realized that he was still so poor…

“Sure enough, Good Sister is ultimately just one of many Weird, and even just one of countless Good Sisters and Good Brothers behind that Flesh Mountain Weird… The benefits it brings are not as great as I imagined.”

Qin Jin-Nian thought in his heart.

He felt like he had gotten rich in one wave just now, but now it seems that it’s just so-so.

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But it’s also fortunate that this is the case, otherwise, if there really was a Weird that could give him tens of thousands of Shadow Points after killing it… then he would probably be staying very peacefully in the other party’s stomach right now.

“I wonder how many Basic Authorities there are in total…”

Qin Jin-Nian glanced at the last line of text on the panel again…

Only two were shown… ‘Shadow Body’ and ‘Shadow Armor’.

But the ellipsis behind it is very spiritual.

If there are no accidents, there should be more that are not displayed… Unless this panel is messing with him.

Since he doesn’t have enough Shadow Points, Qin Jin-Nian didn’t think much about it, but instead looked at the three Basic Authorities above that could be upgraded.

Actually, there’s not much to consider… Dark Eyes and Shadow Devour are naturally very useful, but for Qin Jin-Nian, the top priority is to improve his combat power.

Yesterday’s incident was enough to show how dangerous this world is.

If it weren’t for Shadow Control being so powerful, then he might have transmigrated again by now.

But the fact that killing a monster directly made him fall into a coma also directly caused his ‘insufficient firepower phobia’ to explode severely.

Now, among the three Basic Authorities, the only one that can directly improve combat power is ‘Shadow Control’…

Of course, it should be upgraded first.

Thinking of this, Qin Jin-Nian no longer hesitated, and with a thought, he said.

“Upgrade ‘Shadow Control’!”

Suddenly, a line of text appeared on the panel…

【Shadow Points -100, you upgraded the Basic Authority ‘Shadow Control’.】

【Basic Authority ‘Shadow Control’, upgrade successful. Current Level: Lv: 1…】

Just after the panel popped up the prompt, before Qin Jin-Nian could fully see the emerging text, a terrifying force burst out of his body uncontrollably.

He only had time to see a mass of pitch-black mist, as if something was emerging.

But before he could see what it was, the next moment, his entire consciousness seemed to be shocked, and he fell into a state of absent-mindedness.

At the same time, the shadow under his feet suddenly burst open.

It went from the two-dimensional world to the three-dimensional world in an instant.

Like evil spirits dancing wildly, wantonly flaunting, and frantically raging!

Qin Jin-Nian, at the core, stood there with a dazed and absent-minded expression, his eyes without focus.

Fortunately, although this shadow came to the three-dimensional world, it still seemed to be just an ordinary shadow. Its frantic rampage was just like the flickering of light and shadow, and there was no substantial damage.

After raging like this for a while, after about ten seconds, the wanton black shadow suddenly retracted, and the entire room seemed to suddenly empty.

In an instant, it returned to the shadow under Qin Jin-Nian’s feet.

Then, everything returned to calm.

A full moment later, Qin Jin-Nian seemed to wake up from a dream and broke away from his absent-minded state.

First, he was dazed for a moment.

What did he see just now?

But when he tried to recall it carefully, he couldn’t remember it.

After a moment, he shook his head.

He probably had a hallucination.

Forget it, let’s see what changes there are after the upgrade…

Thinking of this, he looked at his shadow with some anticipation…

The Shadow Power has already demonstrated its power in last night’s great battle.

A weakling, relying on Shadow Power, actually suppressed and killed a Weird in this room… and throughout the entire process, the other party hardly made any effective resistance.

The reason why Qin Jin-Nian fought so hard was because his Mental Strength was seriously holding him back.

Otherwise, killing that thing would have been even easier!

Now that the Authority has been upgraded, it will obviously become even more powerful.

“It seems… a little different…”

It was clearly the same shadow, but in his perception, it seemed to be different.

Thinking, he moved his mind, and instantly, a tentacle protruded from the shadow under his feet…

From the outside, it was still pitch-black, no different from the previous shadow.

But Qin Jin-Nian could feel it… it was different.

It seems… more solid?