Chapter 198: The Legacy “With a Mortal Body, Transgress Against a God”

The golden wheat waves of the Astral Realm rapidly faded from view like shattered mirrors.

Lance felt a powerful pulling force dragging at his soul before violently yanking it downward.

His consciousness slammed heavily back into his physical body within the Material Realm.

The familiar scent of the attic once again entered his nose, while the air still carried the pungent metallic smell of ritual paint.

The instant Lance reopened his eyes—

Ryan, who had been quietly waiting at the perimeter, uncontrollably stepped half a pace backward.

The moment Lance opened his eyes, the old soldier felt a wave of pressure rushing directly toward him.

That sense of danger resembled an unarmed ordinary person suddenly being stared down by a ferocious tiger within a dead end.

Ryan’s muscles instantly tightened, while his hand subconsciously gripped the handle of his oak cane.

However, he quickly suppressed that instinctive vigilance through sheer willpower.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped over to Lance’s side.

“Did you meet Chaos?”

Ryan lowered his voice as he asked, concern mixed within his tone.

“What reward did he give you after the game ended?”

At this moment, Lance did not answer immediately.

His condition looked rather terrible, his brows tightly furrowed together.

Because the instant he escaped the Astral Realm and returned to reality, the System Panel began violently flickering.

【Detected: Legacy information is being generated…】

Along with the System’s notification sound—

An unimaginably vast stream of information was forcefully shoved directly into his mind.

Within it were the detailed class traits of 【Pale Sentinel】, the effects of the two completely different Source Essences 【Red Dragon】 and 【Outsider】, and additionally, the spatial dizziness from having just exited the Astral Realm’s high-dimensional space.

All this knowledge erupted simultaneously, producing severe stabbing pain within Lance’s brain.

He felt dizzy all over, and even his vision developed brief double images.

The leap-like transformation brought to both his body and soul through this Class Advancement Ritual was simply too enormous—

So enormous that he still could not completely digest and adapt to it all at once.

He even felt slightly hungry.

But after hearing Ryan’s question, Lance still forcibly endured the dizziness in his head and concentrated on checking the settlement information displayed on the System Panel.

He understood very clearly what the true reward he obtained from this unfair game actually was.

That was the fact that the god Chaos had personally acknowledged his defeat before the entire Astral Realm.

That was enough to shake the rules of the Astral Realm itself.

Thus, he naturally obtained an entirely new Legacy.

Using his thoughts, Lance opened the flashing line at the very top of the panel.

——

1. Participated in a game personally controlled and ruled by the god Chaos.

2. Under circumstances of complete unfairness and manipulated inevitability, saw through the rules of “certain victory and certain defeat.”

3. Using a mortal body and mortal intellect, directly defeated the god Chaos.

——

【Congratulations. You have completed the Legacy: “With a Mortal Body, Transgress Against a God”】

【Legacy Effect: When you encounter an attack judged as “absolutely unavoidable” or “absolutely lethal,” or when trapped in a hopeless situation of overwhelming “hierarchical strength suppression,” you may forcibly activate one instance of “Transgression.”】

【During the next clash, the strength judgment and status between both enemy and self will undergo a “Polar Reversal.” (Meaning the opponent’s absolute attack will definitely miss, or your attack will definitely hit and ignore rank disparity while reducing the opponent’s armor by a fixed percentage.)】

【Cooldown Time: One year. (Note: Since gods are allowed to cheat, then flipping over their game board is only reasonable, right?)】

After reading those descriptions clearly, Lance couldn’t help inhaling sharply.

What an overbearing Legacy effect.

This forcibly reversing ability absolutely rivaled the “Reject Death” ability he previously obtained.

This effectively meant directly granting himself one more chance to turn the tables at the line between life and death.

Enduring the dizziness, Lance quickly sorted through his current combat system within his mind.

Right now, he possessed a resurrection talent as his ultimate safety net, in addition to the extreme combat endurance brought by “Reject Death.”

And now he also gained the absolute reversal effect provided by “Transgress Against a God.”

With these three monstrous abilities stacked together—

It meant enemies would never be able to instantly crush and eliminate him with a single overwhelming ultimate attack.

In all future battles, he would possess absurdly high fault tolerance and ample room for counter-kills.

But after the dizziness slightly eased, another thought suddenly struck him!!

Who said this Legacy could only be used once a year?

He immediately opened the talent panel, his gaze slowly landing upon the effect of that red talent.

【Additional Effect: After resurrection, all negative conditions upon the body will automatically be removed, and all abilities currently on cooldown will be reset.】

A trace of madness slowly crawled upward along the corner of Lance’s lips.

So...

This red resurrection talent of his was the true monster-level mechanic completely detached from all common sense?

With this cooldown-resetting property—

He could completely treat “Transgress Against a God,” an ultimate move supposedly usable once per year, as a regular trump card refreshed once every single day.

Even more terrifying—

If he deliberately dragged an intense life-and-death battle to the transition period around midnight—

Then by exploiting the daily reset mechanism, he could even resurrect twice consecutively.

That meant that within an extremely short period of time, he could unleash “Transgress Against a God” a total of three times at maximum capacity.

Three complete forced Polar Reversals that ignored rank disparity!

Even if the opponent were a Legendary Realm powerhouse, facing such shameless consecutive reversals of causality, they would probably still end up being stabbed through with three holes by him.

At this thought, Lance felt even his breathing becoming slightly hurried.

The synergy between red talent mechanics—

Was truly terrifying beyond words.

However, Lance quickly regained his senses.

He realized he still had not answered the old soldier’s question.

Sitting upon the rough wooden floor, he shook away the lingering dizziness within his head before raising his eyes toward Ryan ahead of him.

Within Lance’s mind, the records from 《Hermann’s Legacy Hypothesis》 rapidly flashed past.

That book mentioned that whenever a brand-new epic Legacy was born upon this continent, the giant bell atop the sacred mountain at the center of Radiant Capital Elcadia would automatically ring, spreading the news throughout every corner of the world.

He had just defeated a god within the Astral Realm and obtained an unprecedented achievement.

This was absolutely a brand-new Legacy worthy of entering history itself.

During the time his System rewards had just been settling—

The sacred mountain in distant Elcadia had undoubtedly already rung the bell announcing his achievement to the world.

Information spread incredibly quickly.

As long as the news that Chaos had been defeated by a mortal reached this small town—

Uncle Ryan would definitely immediately connect this earth-shattering event to him.