NOVPUB"Cat Boss, how do you feel?"
Lanci looked down at the motionless Little Black Cat and asked.
It seemed to have been caught in a mental universe storm.
Compared to him and Hyperion, who had just reached sixth-order and had not yet stepped into the seventh-order Extraordinary and Holy Realm, Cat Boss was the first among them to truly touch the eighth-order, a domain comparable to the Great Priest Loren and Bishop Askesan of Annihilation.
"...Meow meow meow? Have I really become an eighth-order Divine Beast?"
Cat Boss still couldn’t believe the changes happening within itself.
Although its race meant it was still very weak, it was indeed now eighth-order, on par with the likes of Great High Priest Loren and Bishop Askesan of Annihilation!
"Indeed, I feel you’ve become much stronger."
Lanci nodded.
When Cat Boss was seventh-order, it already had the strength comparable to fourth-order.
Now that it had reached eighth-order, it shouldn’t be underestimated even among the fifth-order.
One could say it was currently the weakest battle strength in their team.
Its Mana bar wouldn’t run out just by using [Roaring of the Storm Dragon] once.
"Meow?"
Cat Boss raised its head, looking at Lanci’s serious and thoughtful expression.
It always felt like Lanci was thinking about something very impolite!
Before it could confront Lanci, it noticed a new change.
[Reward Settlement: Break of Dawn Storm (Eighth-order Epic Equipment Card), Calila’s Shadow Weave Record (First-order Epic-level Material), Demon Fusion (Sixth-order Epic Equipment Card), Her Golden Moment (First-order Epic Artifact), Complimentary Gift (First-order Common Item).]
Soon, several orbs enveloped in different hues appeared before their eyes like stars.
One of that orbs drifted towards Cat Boss, while the remaining four headed for Lanci and Hyperion.
"Eighth-order Epic...?"
Cat Boss stared at its own most dazzling orange orb in amazement.
It was its first time seeing an eighth-order Magic Card, and even a natural Epic Card at that!
Eighth-order Magic Cards, even in the Southern Continent Card Maker Association, rarely appeared in auctions.
As for natural Magic Cards, they often come with magic principles related to the challenges of the Shadow World and not of this era, hence they usually possess a higher value than artificial cards of the same quality and order.
Naturally, this had to do with their ultimate SSS grade settlement in the seventh-order Shadow World; if it were B or A grade, obtaining rare-quality natural Magic Card would have been great.
"Cat Boss, what attributes does it have?"
Lanci and Hyperion also looked over at Cat Boss, curious about the legendary eighth-order Epic.
Even if it was an Encapsulated one, only Cat Boss, who was eighth-order, could identify its attributes.
As Cat Boss trembled and gently touched the orb with its paw, a necklace made from a rare metal with an orange sheen appeared in its grasp.
[Break of Dawn Storm]
[Category: Equipment Card]
[Grade: Orange Epic]
[Order: 8]
[Effect: When releasing Wind Magic, it can trigger an additional absolute Immune Field by consuming Mana, which can be triggered up to three times every twenty-four hours.]
[Note: The mad winds of dawn swept over the pitch-black Snowfield, covering the helpless sanity and carrying the belief named "Light" towards everyone who witnessed it.]
"This metal... can only be found in specific veins on Naikarisu Island, and the refinement process is incredibly complex, resulting in only a tiny amount of this durable yet lightweight product. However, I lack the ability to forge it."
Lanci recognized the material of the necklace at once.
The surface of the metal was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the soft glow of the morning’s first light, and the inscribed Curses seemed to tell of dawn and rebirth.
The irregularly shaped gems embedded at the juncture changed color with the light, ranging from deep orange to bright sky blue, just like the unpredictable nature of the sky.
"This Wind-attribute Epic... It’s somewhat similar to the [Wind Illusion] created by Carlen during the last academic visit from the Arolan Kingdom, right?"
Hyperion recalled.
After witnessing Dean Loren’s Original Slabs of Wind, Carlen, a Gold-level Card Maker from the Arolan Kingdom Academy, created a fourth-order Sacred Spell Card with the wind attribute. Its effect was to provide an opportunity for Extreme Evasion every twenty seconds if there was a chance to dodge, costing Mana upon triggering.
There was only one reason Hyperion remembered that Card so vividly—it was also then that Lanci created the source of all evil, an Imitation Stone Tablet of Wind.
"Meow meow meow, is it very impressive?"
Cat Boss, as a layman, almost felt its heart leap out of its chest while listening to Hyperion and Lanci discuss the Magic Card.
"Even Dean Loren probably doesn’t have such Wind-attribute spells and items,"
Lanci seriously evaluated, chin in hand.
This [Break of Dawn Storm] was also a protective Wind-attribute Spell Card, but it was of an entirely different dimension compared to [Wind Illusion].
"Meow meow meow~ meow meow meow~♫"
Cat Boss was so delighted with Lanci’s high praise from the Platinum Level Card Maker that it started to sing and twirl around happily. Not used to wearing a necklace, it wrapped it around a few times and turned it into a beautiful bracelet, tying it around its left paw. 𝚗o𝚟pub.𝚌𝚘𝚖
Seeing Cat Boss happy made Lanci smile with satisfaction.
Soon enough, Cat Boss would progress from imitating Loren to surpassing Loren.
When it eventually used [Break of Dawn Storm] in the southern Cerryti Empire, Bishop Ivanos of Destruction would only be able to say, "How has Great High Priest Loren kept such a skill hidden?" "Can’t I even break through his Immune Field?" "Loren, to what extent do you wish to belittle me?"
