Re-Awakening: I Ascend with a Legendary class

Chapter 608: Breakthrough Time, Keymaker

Everyone was already a Tier-5 lifeform except for Natalia and Kayla.

But the difference between them and the rest of the group no longer meant much, not after what Lily had done inside King’s Mountain.

The sheer amount of resources she had collected was bordering on ridiculous. Even compared to their first S-rank game, the numbers had doubled, and that alone said everything about how outrageous her gathering method had become.

Lily had not simply searched the mountain herself.

She had turned the entire battlefield into her harvesting ground.

From the lowest slopes to the high altitudes where Tier-10 monsters roamed freely, she had placed Dreadling Gates one after another. Every gate continuously produced Dreadlings, and within a short time, thousands of those creatures were roaming across the colossal mountain like a living network.

Their task was simple.

Find resources.

Collect resources.

Deliver resources.

At first, that might have sounded inefficient, but Lily had stored thousands of effects in her first deck’s card—Dreadbirth Tree. Its evolved version allowed her to imprint effects she weaves into all of her dreadlings, so she weaved one effect that could allow all of her dreadlings to transport items from one to another.

So Lily had chosen one effect that made the entire process absurdly efficient.

That way, all resources instantly entered her storage.

Saffa leaned back in her chair at the garden table, staring at the floating inventory screen with a grin that was slowly spreading across her face.

“Well,” she said with a low whistle, “we are going to be rich.”

Clovelle did not even try to hide her excitement. She rubbed her palms together slowly, her eyes gleaming behind her glasses as she studied the glowing rows of resources.

“But first,” she replied, her voice calm but clearly eager, “we are going to be strong. Let’s use the resources and start breaking through.”

No one disagreed.

They had already completed their second decks.

That meant the requirement for breaking through to Tier-6 was fulfilled.

The only remaining step was to consume the stat-enhancing resources, maximize their bodies and energy systems, and trigger the breakthrough.

But Tier-6 was not merely another increase in power.

It unlocked something far more important.

The Third Deck.

Every deck originated from a True Concept that a player had comprehended. By selecting one of those concepts as a catalyst, a third deck could be manifested.

Without wasting time, the group headed for the Cultivation Mountain of Vorara City.

The mountain stood at the center of the floating metropolis like a colossal white pillar rising toward the sky. Its surface was carved with ancient runic channels that carried enormous streams of Pulse upward through the structure. Floating cultivation platforms surrounded the peak like halos, and cultivators from across the layer gathered there daily to refine their power.

When Almond and the others arrived together, their presence drew attention immediately.

Nine powerful auras stepping onto the mountain at once caused subtle ripples in the surrounding energy field. Some cultivators stopped meditating. Others turned their heads curiously as the group ascended the spiral terraces without hesitation.

They climbed higher and higher until they reached one of the highest platforms near the summit. From there, the view of Vorara City stretched endlessly beneath them. Floating districts shimmered in the sunlight, sky bridges connected distant islands of architecture, and the endless sky of Layer Two arched above them like a cosmic ocean.

They sat in a wide circle.

And the breakthroughs began.

Pulse surged into motion as the resources dissolved into streams of energy into their bodies.

Natalia’s aura awakened first, spreading outward in layers of golden resonance. Waves of sound rippled invisibly through the air while threads of light shimmered around her like the beginnings of an orchestra preparing to perform.

Kayla’s aura followed soon after. Life and decay spread quietly from her position as grass sprouted between the stone tiles of the platform before withering and returning again in endless cycles.

They broke through to Tier-5. But they had already met the requirements of Tier-6, so they began the breakthrough to Tier-6 right away.

Almond sat calmly at the center.

His aura did not erupt outward like the others.

Instead, it folded inward, forming deep spirals of violet energy that bent the surrounding Pulse slightly toward him.

When the resources were fully absorbed, the moment arrived.

Deck manifestation.

Almond’s consciousness drifted away to a familiar darkness as the voice and interface appeared in front of him.

It was time to choose which one of his five Concepts he was going to use for the third deck’s manifesting, and his choice was already made.

True Concept—Keymaker. Almond felt that he could be a real game changer for what this entire world of layers represents.

John said nobody had reached the peak on the other side yet. Nobody knew the ending and what lay past it.

But Almond wanted to do what no others had done. And he grew his arsenal of powers to achieve the impossible.

A key did more than open doors.

A true key controls access.

It decided which paths could open and which would remain sealed forever.

The Keymaker was the architect of gateways, the authority that defined entry and denial across dimensions and possibilities.

Inside the endless darkness where Almond’s consciousness floated, the concept did not appear immediately. For several moments, there was only silence and the feeling of infinite emptiness surrounding him. Then the darkness shifted in a way that could not be called movement but was still unmistakably a change. Something vast began to emerge far beyond his awareness, as though a horizon was slowly forming in a place that had previously contained nothing at all.

A faint ripple appeared beneath him.

Then another.

The darkness gradually revealed a surface.

It was water.

But not ordinary water.

An ocean stretched in every direction beneath his consciousness, perfectly still and completely colorless. It possessed no reflection, no hue, no light of its own. It was an achromatic ocean, a boundless sea of pure conceptual stillness where even the idea of color seemed to have been erased.

Above the ocean floated shapes.

At first, they were distant silhouettes.

Then Almond’s awareness sharpened, and the shapes became clearer.

Locks.

Gates.

Doors.

Chains.

Seals.

Some resembled ancient iron gates tall enough to imprison mountains. Others were complex mechanisms made of countless interlocking rings that rotated slowly in silent patterns. Some appeared as enormous doors carved from unknown materials that seemed older than the stars themselves.

Each of those structures hovered above the achromatic ocean like celestial bodies waiting to be awakened.

At the center of the endless horizon stood a single gate far larger than the rest. It towered over the ocean like the entrance to a forgotten realm that had never been opened.

Before the gate floated a key.

The key was colossal, easily the size of a city tower, and yet it rotated with elegant precision in the silent void. Its structure was constantly shifting. The teeth of the key rearranged themselves endlessly, forming new patterns every few seconds as if the key could adapt to unlock anything that existed.

Almond did not need the system to explain the meaning of the vision.

He understood it immediately.

This was the conceptual form of Keymaker.

The concept was not simply about creating keys. It was about governing access itself. The ability to determine which paths could be opened, which powers could be released, which barriers could be bypassed, and which doors would remain eternally sealed.

And now, a spark of creativity and exotica would use this Keymaker True Concept as a catalyst to bloom out his third broken deck.