Chapter 120: Sequence 9 – Sleepless!

[Main Core (Lv.5)]

The core of this pocket dimension that stores all energy collected.

[Core Energy Units]

x1

[Unique Feature]

Soul Phylactery

[Upgrade]

x200 core energy

Once again, the upgrade cost doubled. Nothing surprising there.

The real glaring change was the new special feature!

“As expected, level five really is the milestone. Even the main core gained something unique for the first time! But soul phylactery… is that what I think it is?”

As far as Yu Zhiye knew, that pair of words was basically synonymous to the legendary undead class in fantasy stories: the Lich!

“No way… this cheat of mine didn’t just decide to kill me off all of a sudden right? Right?!”

That would be horrible!!! Gotta know: liches generally suffer from loss of fleshly desires! Including sex drive!

But his little brother only recently graduated from being a virgin! It would suck to lose it all now! He still hadn’t had enough of this colorful life!

Noooo! He didn’t want to live the life of an immortal eunuch!!!

Panicking, Yu Zhiye’s consciousness quickly dived back into his body to do a reality check…

Immediately, he felt the difference. Not in his body. But his senses.

Now, even while his consciousness was inside his body, there was a strange mental connection to something else.

Tracing that weird connection immediately let him sense the entire pocket dimension as if he was accessing the main core!

After a few back and forth, the transition felt smoother than instinct.

“Looks like I should be able to manage my dimension without having to run back inside every time? Cool, cool. That’s definitely an upgrade!”

No more running back and forth just to upgrade something! No more missing timers on his resource generators due to lacking a clock! Real-time access to ward feeds and his servant’s live broadcast!

This was great!

But after the little excitement, the original worries came right back. Yu Zhiye quickly pulled up his status screen.

[Name] Yu Zhiye#6969696969

[Age] 24

[Class] Dimension Lord[+] [XP] Lv. 1 (0/16)

[Affiliation] <ERROR>

[Stats] STR (5.9), DEX (8.1), INT (9.6), CON (7.6), WIS (12.4), CHA (3.8) SAN(0.8)

[Gift] %#%@! Fisherman's Hideout (Black)(E)

[Title] None

Seeing his class, Yu Zhiye felt his world turn bleak. Awww shet! The human class really went poof!

Like that wasn’t enough, even his affiliation and XP went poof!

Last he checked, he was Level 21 with over 600 XP! Why did he lose so much XP and drop back to the start all of a sudden?!

Could it have something to do with his new class?

“Dimension lord, dimension lord… hey, at least it’s not the worst case scenario…”

Anything’s better than his class becoming undead!

Then again, will dimension lord be any better?

Unable to resist his curiosity, Yu Zhiye tapped on the new [+] button…

Following game logic, that opened up a new interface. More specifically: the class interface.

[Class Data]

[Status] Dimension Lord [+]

[Path] Sequence 9 – Sleepless [+]

[Race] Human [+]

The last line let Yu Zhiye breathe a sigh of relief. “Phew~ Still human! That’s good, that’s good…”

Back to the top, Dimension Lord was to be expected, but...

“Sequence 9 – Sleepless?!” That absolutely shocked Yu Zhiye! Since when did he suddenly become a Beyonder?!

Did this happen because of the core upgrade? Hit level five and gain new superpowers? Like for real?!

Right now, Yu Zhiye really felt like a country bumpkin that suddenly picked up a winning lottery ticket.

In a survival game like this, becoming extraordinary should be every player’s goal!

Naturally, he was no exception!

To do so, he originally planned to save up enough to purchase a super powerful potion from that mysterious wandering trader, but now…

Such extraordinary power got handed to him on a silver platter! But… was this actually a good thing?

He could only hope so.

“First, let’s see what this Dimension Lord is all about…”

Selecting the [+] opened up a much more in-depth overview.

[Dimension Lord]

Master of an unknown dimension

[Traits]

<Origin Protection>

<Boon Bestowal>

Master of an unknown dimension? What dimension? That’s obvious. What’s interesting were the traits…

[Origin Protection]

An unknown dimension stands behind you and protects your origin.

[Effect]

Within your territory, reduce damage from all sources by 10(x5)%

Outside your territory, damage absorption reduces to 1(x5)%

“Ohhh! The cliché flat damage reduction in games!”

A very overpowered tank passive! Not only did it reduce damage from all attacks, it basically prevents a player from getting one-shotted! Well… in some cases.

If the original damage far exceeds what you can bear, even damage reduction can’t save you.

And in reality, even if half your head gets cut off, you’re still dead.

“But hey, having some damage reduction was better than nothing. Next is…”

[Boon Bestowal]

Mysterious power from an unknown dimension blesses you with low-tier extraordinary powers

“I see... guess this trait is where my new beyonder power came from...”

The effects weren’t specifically listed, but the description said enough.

Moving on, we finally have… his new extraordinary path!

“Please don’t be any trashy extraordinary path…”

After praying a little to nobody in particular, Yu Zhiye tapped that [+]...

[Sequence 9 - Sleepless]

Extraordinary characteristic acquired from low-tier pollution by an unknown existence

[Traits]

<Mind Over Mattress>

<Night Watcher>

<Sleepless Spirit>

“Uh… what? Pollution? From an unknown existence? That unknown can’t be myself, right?”

Yu Zhiye could only hope it is… because believing otherwise would be too horrifying.

Moving on, he went through each of the traits to learn their effects...

[Mind Over Mattress]

The furthest distance is not the distance between life and death, but between you and the bed

[Effect]

Acquire a <Sleepless> stack every 2H. Sleeping resets stack to zero.

Reading that, Yu Zhiye’s face turned strange. “No way… this can’t be...”

[Night Watcher]

A watcher in the dark grows stronger without sleep

[Effect]

+0.1 STR, DEX, CON per <Sleepless> stack

Reaching stack milestones grant additional effects (Next: x6)

The perks were great... but they only made his face grow even darker. Finally...

[Sleepless Spirit]

Sleep is for the weak!

[Effect]

+1.0 INT, +2.0 CON, +3.0 WIS

That last note basically summarized the entire class in five words: sleep is for the weak!

Yu Zhiye almost wanted to cry tears of joy for his future.

“This… isn’t this just forcing me to grind all day and night?!”

Though this extraordinary path does have the potential to become quite overpowered, Yu Zhiye’s main worry was that his liver won’t last that long!

Staying up late is bad for your health, but staying up forever is countless times worst!

Know that, even gods need to sleep, let alone a little mortal like himself!

Speaking of mortal…

Yu Zhiye looked at his race above. “That, at least, should be normal, right?”

Clicking on the [+] opened a much less complicated overview.

[Human]

A mortal intelligent lifeform possessing no specialization

[Trait(s)]

<Generalist>

As for the effect of the trait...

[Generalist]

A blank slate that can walk myriad paths

Yep, literally a blank slate with no special effects or stat buffs.

Even if that <Generalist> trait looked quite high-sounding, most fantasy novel enthusiasts know there should be limits to the number of paths one could walk.

Besides, the further down the extraordinary road, the higher the chance the human trait itself will get abandoned.

“Well, on the bright side, at least there should be no barriers on the early growth path…”

Except the inherent glass ceilings. Like paywalls, knowledge walls, talent walls, etc, etc…

“Hey, at least I don’t have to worry about those because it seems like my cheat might give me a direct promotion…”

That’s something to be happy about! Still, the fact that there’s no choice in this matter did make him a bit uncomfortable.

“Sigh~” Yu Zhiye shut off the interface. Out of sight, out of mind. In any case, wasting brain power on it won’t change things.

“Now that’s out of the way...”

He finally turned his focus to the last noticeable change…

Right below the magically-floating cube, a bowl-shaped area was now carved into the altar’s top surface like a chunk got scooped out.

“This should be… the new Essence Bowl ability? What’s this for? Holding holy water or something?”

Yu Zhiye checked around, but there were no clues. Even the god mode’s identification didn’t recognize it as a separate item and merely showed the altar’s description.

“Eh… whatever. Sooner or later, I’ll figure out the function. Anyways, it shouldn’t be a bad thing.”

Instead of wasting time on this, Yu Zhiye felt it was best to capitalize on the remaining daylight hours to do things outside while he still can!

And what’s first on his agenda?

“Go! Time to test the new portal!”