I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 268

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Chapter 268
268: Jackpot! This Is Incredible!(2)
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When leaving the Gold-grade Archive, the branch leader typically checks which martial texts one has taken. Targa was no exception, and he tilted his head in confusion upon seeing the movement technique Dohyun carried out.
‘Hmm… was there such a technique?’
Though Targa couldn’t identify the specific movement method or its name, the cover and appearance were unfamiliar—something he couldn’t recall—so he simply let it pass.
Thus, having obtained the supreme heart method and the highest-level movement technique available at his current level, Dohyun walked toward his party members with a beaming smile, the inspection-cleared textbook held confidently in hand.
The fact that Dohyun approached with such swagger and pride was proof he’d acquired something worthwhile!
“Looks like you picked something good?”
“Huh!?”
“What, what is it!?”
“Hehehehe.”
Hanalin, who had little interest in martial techniques, simply assumed he’d obtained something valuable, while Jiyuchan and Hezway, unlike her, drew closer with gleaming eyes.
Curious about what it could be, they approached, and Dohyun grinned at the two of them before explaining.
“It’s an incredibly good movement technique.”
“Ooh!”
“A movement technique! And it’s exactly the kind I haven’t mastered yet!”
Both Jiyuchan and Hezway regarded Dohyun with considerable satisfaction, eager to learn it immediately, but everything had its proper order, didn’t it?
Having obtained a martial technique, they naturally needed to acquire magic next.
So Dohyun, Jiyuchan, and Hezway were about to set their next destination as Matap. Then, at that moment.
“Let’s visit Matap next time.”
“Huh???” “Eh???” “What?!”
The three reacted simultaneously to Hanalin’s unexpected statement.
With expressions questioning why they shouldn’t go for magic after obtaining a martial technique, Hanalin blinked and spoke.
“Matap is similar to the Heavenly Martial Alliance, but the commissions take longer?”
“Ah, that’s true.”
Hezway acknowledged, admitting he’d almost forgotten what Hanalin mentioned.
If the Heavenly Martial Alliance was considered a place for martial techniques and martial arts, then Matap could be described as a more fantastical establishment.
Beyond simply accepting commissions, research into magic and procurement of various materials were necessary, so while commissions were graded by difficulty like those at the Heavenly Martial Alliance, most commissions were of the time-consuming variety.
Since they needed to procure many materials, this was an unavoidable characteristic.
Upon realizing this, she suggested it would be better to learn the martial technique they’d obtained this time before going there.
Above all.
“I haven’t adapted to the Heavenly Star Orbit Formula yet, so I don’t have the capacity to learn another magic. Yuchan, since you have a movement technique, you two can practice together simultaneously, but since I have magic, it’s better for me to master even one properly.”
“That’s true.”
“An excellent choice.”
“Sounds good.”
Dohyun, along with Jiyuchan and Hezway, agreed.
Well, Hanalin’s reasoning was sound, but they were eager to learn that movement technique Dohyun had proudly brought back right now.
For Jiyuchan, it was a movement technique they could use together as she’d said, so learning it might actually be more useful for mastering the Platinum Sword.
With that decided, their next destination was simple.
A place where one could rest, study, and had perfect facilities for sparring and training!
“Let’s head to the Lodging Building!”
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Around the time a small commotion was stirring at the Heavenly Martial Alliance in the B-Rank Safe Zone of Atlas.
In the Safe Zone of Pagos, located not far from Atlas—roughly a three-day walk away.
Following the ridge of the mountain downward, a massive lake came into view, and the city boasted a serene and beautiful landscape.
However, at the boundary of Pagos’s Safe Zone, a metallic stench of blood and crimson gore stained the ground, utterly at odds with such tranquility.
An Alpaca Humanoid furrowed his brow at the sight of red blood flowing between severed limbs, his eyes trembling as he looked up at the one who had pierced him.
Then.
“Grrrrk.”
As he felt something sharp and scorching pierce below his throat and enter his body, blood erupted from between his lips as if boiling from his neck.
Soon, the heat drained from his eyes, and as the Alpaca Humanoid collapsed limply, the Black Hat Swordsman withdrew his blade and spoke to the Black Robe Figure behind him.
“This one was nothing special either.”
“Wasn’t this supposed to be a merchant who recently rose to B-Grade?”
“I thought he might know something about the Deviants Attack Squad, but it seems he doesn’t.”
Another figure in black robes approached and spoke.
“The other locations yielded nothing as well.”
Seeing the three exchange glances, a frown deepened.
Since they had accepted the commission, they had to succeed, so they muttered.
“A Human Party with someone skilled in short swords….”
As the Black Hat Swordsman murmured this, someone heard and questioned him.
“What did you say?”
“Nothing. There don’t seem to be any additional clues.”
He brushed it off vaguely and summarized the situation.
Then the figure in black robes spoke.
“Those nobles will be troublesome, but they seem to be working on foot as well. A bit longer and we should be able to uncover the clues.”
“Did you leave the cleanup to them?”
“Yes.”
“We should focus on finding the Yongin Clan members.”
“The Yongin Clan, you say.”
Murmuring thus and tidying up the surroundings, as they prepared to move, the figure in black robes spoke.
“They don’t seem to be in Pagos, so let’s head to nearby Atlas.”
“Atlas—information flows well in that place.”
“Newly risen parties rarely head straight to Atlas, but it’s different if they’re Yongin Clan.”
“Right, especially if it’s one of those called the Golden Generation.”
The Black Hat Swordsman nodded as he watched the figure in black robes smile darkly.
Similarly, the Black Hat Swordsman had only recently risen to B-Grade, but the figure in black robes was different.
While not quite at the apex of B-Grade, the figure in black robes could certainly be said to be at least mid-tier or higher.
As the leader of this party, the Black Hat Swordsman and the Black Robe Figure followed his orders.
This was an organization where hierarchy was strictly observed.
The moment when the blade of the Divine Assassin Squad—an assassination organization established by the legendary assassin Majincheon and nurtured by his successor Sashin, who surpassed him—was directed toward Atlas.
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Teaching the movement technique was an extraordinarily simple affair.
1. Prepare a blank notebook.
2. Place your hand on the blank notebook.
3. Voilà! Analysis has written out the interpretation for you!
Through these three simple steps, I copied the Grand Perfection Movement Technique onto two blank notebooks and handed them over.
Since this was a borrowed item, I later created a martial arts manual with a similar cover, filled it with an appropriate A-Grade technique, and returned it.
It was the first time anyone had returned a borrowed book within mere hours, so Targa’s expression was quite worth seeing.
Thus, as Jiyuchan and Hezway headed to the Training Room for their respective cultivation, I made my way to a small private room.
Since Analysis already possessed the Grand Perfection Movement Technique, I could learn it all at once once I settled down—there was no need for worry.
The reason I had come alone was none other than this.
‘I need to examine the heart method.’
The heart method I had obtained this time.
The Heavenly Mechanism’s Myriad Transformations Scripture.
I needed to test it out.
It was already in my mind, but it hadn’t been fully applied yet. To apply a heart method, I had to personally manipulate mana and refine it, which is why it remained incomplete.
This was a considerably important task, which is why I came to the private room.
Even when reading martial arts novels, one follows this basic principle.
Thus, I assumed the lotus position!
Adopting the posture absolutely necessary to use a heart method in martial arts cultivation, I closed my eyes and gazed inward.
“Huuuuh.”
Within that long, thin breath, I could sense it with perfect clarity.
The flow of mana like a great river circulating through my inner being.
‘This is my mana.’
Certainly, as I perceived it, watching the mana flowing through my body in its natural state, I could only nod in acknowledgment.
After learning about the heart method, I could clearly understand that this didn’t align well with martial arts at all.
But then.
‘Did Baek Master also learn a heart method?’
I had such a thought, but it didn’t seem to be the case—Analysis answered in my stead.
[Responding to the user’s thought.]
[In the case of “Baeryujin,” memories have been lost as monsterification progresses.]
[As with “Kraken, Individual Name-Davyjones,” his ‘records’ have been stripped away, and it is ‘analyzed’ that he cannot employ a heart method.]
At Analysis’s words, I felt bitter.
I had thought Baeryujin wasn’t like that, but the fact that I myself had lost memories without knowing it clawed at my chest.
And I thought.
‘I wish I could liberate Baek Master too….’
True liberation from the Black Gate, not through death like Davyjones—or rather, Majincheon.
But it would be impossible, I thought in that moment.
[It is impossible as your current rank is still insufficient.]
Hope materialized before Dohyun’s eyes in the form of text.
Which meant.
‘If my level grows stronger, it becomes possible?’
[『Analysis』 affirms this.]
[『Analysis』 determines that you, the user, are more than capable of reaching that point.]
Watching 『Analysis』 respond to my words, I nodded in agreement.
Then I’d need to put in the effort to make it happen.
With that thought, I began to cultivate the heart method.
Though 『Analysis』 was said to be all-powerful, there were still many impossible things.
Usually, they arose because my level was insufficient.
That’s why elevating my level was the right move now.
‘The easiest way is to raise my stats.’
And this heart method was perhaps the easiest way to raise stats that I could manage right now.
Even when I obtained skills through 『Analysis』 or witnessed growth, easily raising stats, there was a limit set for each rank.
Moreover, the cases where I gained stats from acquiring skills had diminished. Since high-level skills were abundant, the result was that stat increases no longer occurred.
At least with 『Usurpation』 I could gradually accumulate stats, so I recovered somewhat, but those numbers weren’t particularly impressive.
And as stats increased, they became harder to raise, so now I had no choice but to use the method of raising stats through cultivation.
By refining mana, I could increase my magical power further.
That was my method, and I decided to push it a step further.
‘Create a mana heart while forming a dantian to contain inner energy.’
While a dantian was possible with the heart method, I wondered if a mana heart was merely my imagination—but it wasn’t.
I had already confirmed it through 『Analysis』.
Thanks to 『Ruin’s Dragon Solvent』, I could create mana organs like a dragon heart, so I should be able to create something like a dantian.
And if my prediction was correct….
‘Wouldn’t the stats for magical power and inner energy be separated?’
If that happened.
It would be virtually equivalent to doubling my mana.
For me, who always suffered from mana shortage, this could be an excellent method, so I operated the heart method accordingly.
I forcibly compressed and refined the mana flowing within, and during that process, I absorbed surrounding mana to replenish what was lost to refinement, then crammed it into my heart and the dantian below my navel.
It was a crude method, but the absurdly broken effects of the Heavenly Mechanism Infinite Transformation Scripture and 『Heavenly Mechanism Divine Body』 shone brilliantly here.
No matter how much mana churned and struggled within my body, I separated and stabilized inner energy from mana, and as a result.
[A new “Inner Energy” entry appears in your stats.]
[「Inner Energy」 permanently increases by +120.]
[「Magical Power」 permanently increases by +18.]
A grin spread across my face.
This was definitely a goldmine.

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