Free Web NovelChapter 1: Chapter1-Infinite Attribute Point System!
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The Divinity Altar trembled violently. Amid a blazing sea of flames, the Fire God Divinity slowly emerged.
John’s breathing grew heavier as he climbed the divine stairway one step at a time.
"It was worth laying low and developing in secret for a thousand years. Now, the throne of the Fire God is finally mine!"
He threw his head back and laughed. Reaching out with one hand, he seized the Fire God Divinity, which instantly fused into his body!
John’s aura skyrocketed at a terrifying speed.
Within the divine temple, bells and drums resounded in unison. Divine maidens sang hymns of praise as flowers rained down from the heavens.
A golden avenue unfurled before him, descending until it came to rest beneath John’s feet.
At this moment, all the heavens were celebrating the birth of a new god.
John took a deep breath. Just as he was about to step onto the golden avenue and enter the divine temple—
Boom!
A deafening explosion suddenly thundered from the outer reaches of the universe.
John froze in place and abruptly turned around.
At some point, an enormous crack had appeared in the cosmos beyond the heavens!
From within the crack, torrents of chaotic time poured forth.
Wherever those temporal currents swept past, the universe shattered in massive chunks like a broken mirror!
Beneath the torrent of time, all things were annihilated.
John’s expression changed drastically. He immediately activated the Fire God Divinity, attempting to flee.
However, in the very next moment, he was horrified to discover that the entire seven-dimensional space he occupied was collapsing into lower dimensions!
Six dimensions, five dimensions...
John could only watch helplessly as his divine robes, divine power, and even his divine body disintegrated like scattered particles.
The position of Fire God he had only just obtained instantly crumbled away, vanishing as though it had never existed.
When the universe finally collapsed into a single dimension, John’s vision went black, and all his senses disappeared.
...
"No!"
John’s eyes snapped open.
His pupils gradually focused, and his blurry vision slowly became clear.
The very first thing he saw was a glaring debt collection notice.
[Remaining Total Debt: 10,000,000 dollars. Please repay the full amount within one week, or compulsory enforcement measures will be taken!]
John looked around.
A cramped rented apartment. Worn-out furniture. Peeling walls.
Then he checked the date.
January 29, 2049.
The game CREED had only been live for one month!
"I... have been reborn?"
John turned his gaze toward the pile of trophies on the bedside cabinet. The most eye-catching one had a small line engraved across its surface:
Presented to John, Number One Mage of Overlord Guild.
"Heh... Number One Mage."
John let out a self-mocking laugh as a distant memory surfaced in his mind.
In his previous life, he had once been the number one mage of Overlord Guild, a top-tier guild in another wildly popular game.
Relying on his personal mechanics and deep understanding of the game, he had pushed the fragile mage class to its absolute limit!
He moved more like a ghost than an assassin and perceived danger more sharply than a hunter.
"There was a time when I was glorious too."
John opened a drawer and took out a stack of photographs.
They showed him during a massive public event, standing onstage while countless people below looked up at him with admiration.
Back then, John had attracted an enormous following through his strength alone. His popularity had completely crushed even the hottest entertainment celebrities!
The commercial value he generated by himself was equivalent to half of the entire guild!
At the height of his fame, Overlord Guild had even promised him in private that the position of vice guild leader would definitely belong to him.
But on the day before the appointment was finalized, the position was abruptly handed to someone else.
"Heh..."
John sneered coldly and pulled out a wrinkled poster.
Printed across it was a glaring headline:
[Overlord Guild’s New Vice Guild Leader: Nix, a Perfect Combination of Looks and Strength!]
Nix.
The son of the guild’s chairman and the younger brother of its guild leader, Hollens.
A brat who had only just turned nineteen and had not even accumulated a thousand hours of playtime.
During his first dungeon run, he had not even been able to find the entrance.
Naturally, the young and prideful John had been unable to swallow such humiliation. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
Half of the entire guild’s revenue had been brought in by him. Eighty percent of its dungeons had been conquered by him.
So why should some useless brat who did not even understand the rules of the game steal his position?
In a fit of rage, John had left Overlord Guild, even at the cost of shouldering an astronomical penalty for breaching his contract!
With his skills, there was no place in the world that would refuse to accept him. Or so he had believed.
Unfortunately, he had underestimated how shameless and filthy Overlord Guild could be.
The moment John withdrew from the guild, smear articles and fabricated rumors appeared one after another.
They claimed he had cheated and used hacks, resorting to any means necessary in his attempt to climb the ranks.
They attacked his character, accusing him of harassing female players in the guild...
Every imaginable kind of dirty accusation was thrown at him, overwhelming the internet.
John had once tried to livestream and clear his name, but due to a massive wave of malicious reports, his stream had been banned less than one minute after going live.
Worse still, Overlord Guild was one of the most influential guilds in the gaming world.
No matter which other guild John tried to join, he was rejected at every turn.
The world was vast, yet there truly seemed to be nowhere left for him to go!
The once-renowned Number One Mage had been completely reduced to a despised stray dog beneath the machinery of capital.
In the end, John had been forced to hide in a tiny rented apartment under an assumed identity, surviving by taking shady under-the-table jobs for others.
Even after being driven to the brink, however, he had never been willing to admit defeat.
Determined to make a comeback, John exhausted the last of his connections and scraped together a sum of money from every possible source, finally purchasing a gaming pod for CREED.
As the world’s first fully immersive VR game, CREED had swept across the globe within just one month of its release.
Guilds large and small throughout the entire gaming world had rapidly flooded into the game.
The number of players had surged to three billion in an incredibly short period of time, and it was still increasing by hundreds of millions every single day!
Ding-dong!
While John was lost in thought, the doorbell suddenly rang.
His eyes lit up.
"Judging by the timing, today should be the day my gaming pod arrives."
John immediately got up, opened the door, signed for the delivery, and had the staff install it, all in one smooth sequence.
The silver-gray gaming pod took up nearly half of his small rented apartment.
John locked the door behind him and opened the gaming pod with practiced ease.
He could not have been more familiar with this game.
The pod lid closed over him, and a cool sensation enveloped his entire body from head to toe.
John’s consciousness sank into darkness.
...
[Iris Verification Successful!]
[Brainwave Connection Successful!]
[Welcome to the world of CREED!]
The darkness receded like the tide.
John entered the character creation interface.
[Please Name Your Character ID.]
[Outlander]
It meant a wanderer from a foreign land.
In his previous life, his ID had been Outmage.
In this life, he had decided that he would no longer limit himself to the mage class!
John smoothly completed the opening procedures, and before long, he arrived at the talent-drawing stage.
"In my previous life, I only drew an A-rank talent. I wonder whether this life will bring me any surprises."
The talent interface had only just unfolded when—
In the next instant, the entire screen transformed into a chaotic mess of garbled code.
John’s pupils contracted sharply. At the same time, a notification sounded beside his ear.
[Host Detected. Attribute System Binding Initiated!]
[Notice: A large quantity of Temporal Turbulence Factors has been detected within the host. Beginning origin-tracing analysis...]
[Analysis Complete. It has been detected that the host has cumulatively slain 99999...99 enemy units, whose combined attribute points total 99999...99!]
[Cumulative attribute points have fulfilled the system upgrade requirements. Upgrade commencing!]
[Upgrade Complete. System has evolved into the Infinite Attribute Point System. The host may obtain attribute points by devouring the corpses of enemies!]
The successive notifications nearly left John unable to react.
A system?
The system that had never appeared even after he had waited his entire previous life?
An uncontrollable surge of ecstasy rose in John’s heart.
It had arrived an entire reincarnation late, but it had finally come!
Before he could even steady his breathing, another notification sounded.
[Divinity Residual Fluctuations detected within the host’s soul. Beginning deep analysis...]
[Analysis Complete!]
[Divinity category carried by the host’s soul: Fire God.]
[Beginning conversion into an in-game talent...]
[Conversion Complete. Congratulations, host. You have obtained the SSS-rank talent: Heart of the Fire God!]
John’s breathing came to an abrupt halt.
"An SSS-rank talent?"
A talent of the highest rank—one that not a single player had ever obtained in his previous life!
But it was not over yet.
For the umpteenth time, the system notification rang out.
[It has been detected that the binding of this system was delayed. Total delay duration: one full reincarnation. Compensation will now be issued to the host.]
[Calculating compensation...]
[Compensation Content: 30,000 Initial Free Attribute Points!]
John’s eyes instantly blazed with excitement.
