Chapter 284: Otherverse Emperor (Patreon)

Aalam

More important than Aalam’s race, however, were his classes, of which he still had four.

Heavenly Spark Tricrafter (C-Empyrean)

Master of Laws and craft

Effects:

Increase the effectiveness of the Vitality, Soul, and Attunement stats by 300%

Raise affinity with all Laws by 500%

Remarkably increase the power of crafting category skills

Double the effective size of all soul structures

Skill slots:

6

May not learn skills of the following categories:

Offensive

Stat bonuses per level:

Strength: 3,888

Agility: 3,888

Endurance: 6,480

Toughness: 3,888

Vitality: 7,776

Perception: 7,776

Magic: 6,480

Spirit: 6,480

Soul: 7,776

Aura: 3,888

Attunement: 3,888

Luck: 0

Requirements:

3 peak grade Law Pupae for each of the 12 elements, has the Heavenly Spark Tricrafter King (D-Mythic) class, has personally designed and then crafted at least six Mythic grade artifacts using triforce-based crafting skills

First was the core of Aalam’s power, his crafting class. As a tricrafting class, Heavenly Spark Tricrafter focused on all three energy types—qi, mana, and psyforce—so it didn’t have the normal crafting class boost to psychic category enhancement skills. Instead, however, it doubled the effective size of all his soulstructures, from his many mental forges and core containers to his Ascended Soul Laboratory, and this made it a much better fit, the other more typical enhancements from a Heavenly Spark crafting class useful as well.

The class held five skills, one slot still reserved for any powerful skill he could learn about from the Spirit Smith’s inheritance, and they included enhanced C rank Empyrean grade versions of Runescriber and Triforce Construction, his two core crafting skills.

Then there was Soul Carver, an additional crafting skill which enabled far easier carving of runes into soul material for making temporary skills for himself and his subordinates, as well as creating more powerful artifacts from materials which could hold soul matter.

And, finally, there were two of his four invented skills.

The Zone was a powerful psychic category enhancement skill which, when activated, almost instantly enabled Aalam to enter into a flow state, putting his soul under almost the exact same conditions he’d reach when truly passionate about something, yet also allowing him to remain completely calm. He’d created the design for it while investigating emotional manipulation Laws and skills with Mila, and, while it wasn’t the most powerful of his invented skills, it was his favorite as he’d created it with his wife.

Emperor’s Eyes of Analysis, on the other hand, he’d created on his own. It was a noble category eye skill designed to allow him to see deeper into the workings of the universe, enabling him to see energy flows and the structure of matter like an impossibly powerful microscope through the use of qi, mana, psyforce, and natural energy. And, when combined with the sensory domain from his Ruler’s Domain skill and his newly awakened Third Eye Emperor uniqueness, it enabled Aalam to get that same level of fine detail on anything within thousands of kilometers of himself.

Sage (C-Empyrean)

A master creator of arrays

Effects:

Increase the speed of mastering skills by 700%

May freely fuse mastered skills

Class slots +2

Seriously raise the amount of excess nascent energy which can be held as free stats

Skill slots:

8

May not learn skills of the following categories:

NA

Stat bonuses per level:

Strength: 3,456

Agility: 3,456

Endurance: 3,456

Toughness: 3,456

Vitality: 3,456

Perception: 3,456

Magic: 3,456

Spirit: 3,456

Soul: 34,560

Aura: 0

Attunement: 0

Luck: 0

Requirements:

3 sets of opposing Law Pupae at peak grade or higher, has Soul as the highest stat, has personally invented at least 9 new arrays with D rank effects, has the Virtuous Sage (D-Fabled) class, has the Sinful Sage (D-Fabled) class, has the Elevated Void Sage (D-Fabled) class

The true key to Aalam’s class choices, however, was as always his sage line class, in this case just plain Sage, merged together from the three separate sage line classes he’d had as a D rank.

Sure, the increased speed of mastering skills wasn’t that useful given his control over a universe, and being able to hold extra nascent energy in his soul didn’t make much difference yet given his artifacts and many powerful subordinates, but the ability to freely fuse skills was indispensable, materials to enable such a feat much rarer at higher ranks, and the addition of two class slots, allowing him 2 more classes than should be possible for his race and rank, was the best class effect he had.

Ascended Multi-Core and Ascended Multi-Mind now both gave him an extra 12 core containers and mental forges, bringing his main soulstructures into the ideal alignment of 13 each, unlocking some rather amazing effects. Triforce Law Blast was a standard mage-style offensive skill for attacking at range, something he’d been missing in the past. And Stealth and Polymorph enabled him to travel around the Prime Material without much fear of his identity being revealed unless he met some of the most powerful A ranks or gods.

Ascended Artifact Enhancement, like Mila’s same skill, allowed him to empower the artifacts he used, greatly increasing his power, and Soul Extraction made it much easier to steal the souls of his opponents, enabling him to do things like forcibly separating the souls of those much weaker than him as he’d done with his half brother.

One of the more insidious uses of the skill he and Mila had developed was for him to temporarily extract someone’s soul and place it in his Ascended Soul Laboratory soulstructure, where he had full control and Mila could modify the soul’s memory with ease, before using the same skill in reverse to safely put the soul back in its body. They hadn’t done it much, but, where they had done such actions, Aalam was certain the results would pay dividends for keeping everyone he cared about safe.

Otherverse Emperor (C-Empyrean)

The master of an entire universe

Effects:

Exceptionally increase the power of noble category skills

Remarkably decrease the soul burden of high stat effectiveness

Remarkably increase control over your Territory

Gain minor omniscience in your own Territory

Gain minor omnipotence in your own Territory

Skill slots:

6

May not learn skills of the following categories:

NA

Stat bonuses per level:

Strength: 5,184

Agility: 5,184

Endurance: 5,184

Toughness: 5,184

Vitality: 5,184

Perception: 5,184

Magic: 5,184

Spirit: 5,184

Soul: 5,184

Aura: 5,184

Attunement: 5,184

Luck: 5,184

Requirements:

Has a race with maximum stats equivalent to or above the maximum stats of a supreme grade race, has maximized all stats while at D rank, has increased stat effectiveness of all stats by at least 1100%, has an entire universe as part of his Territory, has control over natural energy

Otherverse Emperor hadn’t been a class he or Mila had ever heard of, though they could confirm it wasn’t a new class to the System as there had been no reward like with one of Mila’s new classes. Still, it was powerful.

A six level increase to noble category skills was strong. And a five level decrease in the soul burden from high stat effectiveness was nearly divine, this single effect, through its interactions with his racial abilities, increasing his effective stats by over 12 times. But it was the control he gained over his Territory which was his best gain.

For Isaiah and Mila, who shared the control over his Territory effects, they were just far more powerful when on Earth or in the Heavenly Soul Universe, but the non-combat advantages they gained were only an increased cultivation speed, a better ability to sense energy, and an incredible improvement in how fast they could master their skills. Sure, Mila likely wouldn’t have been able to form the base of such an overpowered core if she hadn’t had the benefits, and the berserking power of Isaiah’s core likely wouldn’t have been as strong, but, compared to the benefits Aalam had received, these were almost nothing.

Aalam, as the master of the Heavenly Soul Universe, had gained the ability to sense how the entire universe functioned while using his control over his Territory, and this—along with his very high Attunement stat, high affinity with all Laws, and his Law Wings Emperor Uniqueness—was why he’d been able to advance 16 Laws to the Law Dragon level despite being younger than 6,000 years old, something never before seen in the Prime Material.

Even more important, however, Aalam, unlike Mila or Isaiah, specialized in natural energy, and Territory effects were all about natural energy, so minor omnipotence combined with minor omniscience had become the key for allowing Aalam to manipulate natural energy in a controlled manner. The extra control had allowed Aalam to experiment, which had then enabled him to awaken to a Mythic grade Natural Energy Manipulation skill, which had then in turn made experimentation easier, and this had allowed him to advance the skill to Empyrean grade, which had made experimentation even easier.

With his control over natural energy, he could simulate the effects of the Law energy of A ranks, lowering the barrier between him and A ranks even further, and he could perform crafting techniques usually only available to A ranks as a result, making the creation of Empyrean grade C rank artifacts so much easier. He could also use natural energy along with his Soul Carver skill to help himself awaken to pretty much any skill he could get the blueprint for—something not hard to find after they’d advanced the United Federation of Planets to a 4th Tier A rank force after capturing the Heavenly Soul Universe and allowing the System in, enabling them to buy such blueprints directly.

Also, with Aalam’s experience of watching members of the Heavenly Soul Universe awaken to new uniquenesses while within the range of all his sensory abilities, he’d figured out a lot more about uniquenesses, enabling him to help members of the United Federation of Planets descended from the population of Earth to awaken to seven different common uniqueness lines with much cheaper resources than normal.