Dimensional Invasion: I Can Fish for All Heavens

Chapter 306 Shadow King - Cheng Xiaoyu Template, the Special Identity of the "Player"
Kimchi Country, suburbs of Seoul.

Dozens of mutated creatures lay dead in the ruins, their blood staining the entire street.

On this bloody battlefield, a young man dressed in a black suit and white shirt stood quietly. He had a handsome face and an indifferent expression, with only the blue light flashing in his eyes revealing his extraordinary aura.

"stand up."

As the indifferent voice fell, the shadows on the ground suddenly twisted and writhe.

A figure, black with blue flames interspersed among the corpses, slowly rose from the shadows and gradually solidified, revealing itself to be the likeness of those dead mutated creatures.

But their aura was even more terrifying than when they were alive, each one radiating a suffocating pressure.

The young man looked at the warrior who had emerged from the shadows, his gaze remaining calm:

"They're just a few dozen third-tier mutated creatures. Is dealing with them really going to be a hassle for me?"

"It's a bit of a waste of this ability."

"Hunter Xiao Chengyu, your strength is already the most powerful in our country."

"Even on a global scale, you are one of the most powerful superhumans."

A woman in a tight-fitting combat suit approached, looking at the young man in front of her with admiration in her eyes.

Her delicate oval face, fair skin, and slender figure were encased in a form-fitting combat uniform.

Her features were impeccable, with only a slight unnaturalness on her cheeks revealing traces of artificial enhancement. However, this did not detract from her overall beauty; on the contrary, it added a touch of aloof elegance.

Xiao Chengyu didn't turn around, but simply gave a faint "hmm".

He raised his hand, and the shadow warriors immediately turned into black mist and dissipated into the air.

As the woman said, he was indeed the strongest superhuman in the country, but such a title meant nothing to him.

"In this era of the descent of the heavens, what is the mere pinnacle of a nation?"

A slight smile played on his lips, and his voice was so soft that only he could hear it.

The Great Xia Dynasty, a lighthouse, a Russian bear, and cherry blossoms.
In countries that have survived two waves of spiritual energy, there are generally holders of celestial treasures or powerful individuals with special abilities.

The same is true for South Korea, the land of kimchi.

Although there is currently only one holder of the Heavenly Treasure in the entire Korea, namely him, the Heavenly Treasure he obtained, or rather the Heavenly Character Template, is the one with the strongest potential among the Heavenly Character Templates that have appeared so far.

Because what he obtained was a template derived from "Shadow King Cheng Xiaoyu".

Cheng Xiaoyu, the protagonist of the "I Level Up Alone" world, was originally an E-rank hunter known as the "weakest weapon on the surface." He risked his life to earn money in the dungeon to pay for his mother's medical expenses and his sister's tuition.

He was supposed to die at the Temple of Kathon, but his strong will to survive, along with his unwillingness to accept defeat and his obsession, aroused the interest of the Shadow King, thus giving him the opportunity to become a "player".

The monarch wanted to see if this person was qualified to be his "container".

After becoming a "player" and obtaining the "system", Cheng Xiaoyu rose from the weakest E-level hunter to an S-level powerhouse, and eventually became the second-generation Shadow King.

The power possessed by the Shadow King is unimaginable. According to the description in the novel and the Great Xia's account, its strength even reaches the level of a single universe or even a multiverse.

However, this is just the accumulation of data after the work was created; it did not have such powerful strength initially.

Although he obtained Cheng Xiaoyu's template, it was not the later version of him who had reached the level of a monarch, nor even the S-class hunter version. Instead, it was the original template of him who obtained the "system" at the Temple of Caternon.

Even so, it was enough for him.

Cheng Xiaoyu's strength essentially stems from his special identity as a "player" and the growth potential granted by the "system".

However, the real world is different from the work itself, so the way the "system" is presented is naturally different from that in the work.

There was no attribute panel that appeared in front of you, no data-driven stat allocation system, and no fancy quest prompts.

Instead, a more fundamental way of acquiring power has emerged.

Every time he personally ends the life of a mutated creature, he can feel a surge of pure energy flowing into his body, which tangibly enhances his strength.

Although it is the strongest growth-type ability, it requires the most primal killing to gain power.

However, he doesn't dislike it.

Sometimes, though the probability is ridiculously low, new skill information will suddenly appear in his mind after killing certain powerful mutated creatures.

It's like the "drop" mechanic in games, except the drop rate here is practically like winning the lottery; so far, he has hunted thousands of mutated creatures, but has only acquired a handful of skills.

However, the "Shadow King" profession was awakened by him after his strength reached the second tier; and he also obtained the most core abilities of the "Shadow King", which constitute the cornerstone of his power system: "Shadow Revival" and "Shadow Army".

These two names were given by himself. Such a powerful skill should not be simply described as "extracting shadows" and "storing shadows".

And the function of skills is naturally the same as their names.

The former grants him the ability to transform the shadows of dead creatures into shadow soldiers, forcibly extracting the remaining spiritual power from the deceased and reshaping it in the furnace of shadows, transforming it into soldiers belonging to him.

The more powerful one is in life, the longer one is dead, the higher the probability of failure. The latter has all the transformed shadow soldiers dwell in his shadow, summoning and recalling them is only a matter of a thought.

Before a shadow dies, it doesn't consume much spiritual energy, but reviving it after death consumes a great deal of spiritual energy.

With his limited spiritual power, he couldn't sustain the deaths and resurrections of too many shadow soldiers.

Based on his assessment of his own strength, and according to the power level classification of extraordinary individuals in the Great Xia Dynasty, he should currently be around the fourth level.

Despite possessing the most promising character template among all the "character templates in the world" and the special identity of a "player," he should logically be the person whose strength increases the fastest in the real world; but in reality, he can't even touch the tail of the first tier.

Ye Xuan, the strongest in the Great Xia Dynasty and the strongest in the world, who is called a "god", has a normal combat strength of the sixth rank. With the treasures of the heavens, his strength has reached the seventh or even eighth rank.
The Great Xia Guardian, the holder of the Morax template, Elder Zhong, Zhong Shanhai, has also reached the sixth rank, making him the second person in the world to reach the sixth rank.

Cao Cao, the leader of the "Great Wei" organization, is the only fifth-tier powerhouse among humans who, through his own strength, forced the US's S.H.I.E.L.D. to treat him as an equal, even subservient to him.
The gap is too big.

Xiao Chengyu stood there, letting the breeze tug at the hem of his suit jacket.

He gazed eastward, the blue light in his eyes flickering.

The fact that Elder Zhong of the Great Xia Dynasty was able to quickly reach the sixth rank can be attributed to the power of the "Rock God Morax" template.

But Ye Xuan and Cao Cao are different; their strength comes entirely from their own talent.

Especially Ye Xuan, that man's growth rate is simply against the norm.

I heard that he broke through to the fifth level in less than ten days after obtaining the template, a level that even the original owner of the template had never reached.

"The gap in talent can sometimes be so large that it's hard to accept."

Xiao Chengyu spoke softly.

Just like in the world of "I Level Up Alone," the chasm between an E-rank hunter and an S-rank powerhouse is an innate and insurmountable gap in talent.

But the most terrifying thing about "players" is their ability to break free from this fateful constraint.

Every hunt, every death, makes him and his shadow army stronger.

Just like Cheng Xiaoyu in the original work, he started from the weakest E-level and eventually stood at the top of the world.

Hearing Xiao Chengyu's whisper, a hint of confusion flashed in the eyes of the woman beside him. She looked at the strongest person in South Korea, not understanding why he would suddenly sigh about the "gap in talent".

Is he lamenting the gap between himself and other superhumans?
That is indeed the case.

As the sole holder of the multiverse character template in the Korean nation, he had long since stood at the pinnacle of power in this country.

Even the tycoons bowed down before him, willing to help him reach the pinnacle of this world.

Wealth, power, and beauty.

Everything is at his fingertips if he so desires; the resources of the entire country can be used at his disposal.

However, he didn't care about any of that and was only interested in hunting mutated creatures. He even ordered them not to reveal his identity as the holder of the "All-Heavens Character Template" and to treat him as an ordinary superhuman.

Therefore, to the outside world, they only stated that they had awakened the supernatural power of a "necromancer".

Even now, other countries and people do not know that "Xiao Chengyu," the strongest person in South Korea, is not a superhuman, but the holder of the "All-Heavens Character Template."

Why are you hiding your true identity?

"If the people knew that you had inherited the template of the 'Shadow King'..."

She had asked him cautiously before.

"boring."

"Those empty titles will only bring unnecessary trouble and slow down my growth."

Xiao Chengyu simply interrupted her coldly.

He insisted on presenting himself as a "necromancer" and refused all media exposure.

In this country where there are no other holders of the treasures of the heavens, even without the identity of the holder of the "Heavenly Character Template", he is still revered as a god as the "strongest".

But what about the world?

Whether it's Great Xia, Lighthouse, Russia, the British Empire, France, or even the nearby cherry blossoms, none of them have ever paid any attention to their country's "strongest".

If he were willing to reveal his identity as the holder of the "All-Heavens Character Template," not only South Korea, but the entire world would be shocked.

"Let's go to the next place."

Xiao Chengyu's indifferent voice rang out in the air, interrupting the woman's thoughts.

She immediately composed herself and respectfully bowed her head, replying, "Yes."

(End of this chapter)