Formless Ascension: My Affinity Is Limitless

[Status]

Name: Uhtred

Level: 8 (Early) -> 10 (Mid)

Race: Human

Class Grade: Primordial

Class Title: Formless

Core Attunement: Limitless (Compatible with all affinities)

Core Rank: Mortal (Next rank evolution at Level 25)

[Attributes]

Strength: 39 -> 42

Agility: 46 -> 49

Endurance: 35 -> 40

Vitality: 31 -> 39

Intelligence: 25 -> 40

Perception: 27 -> 42

Willpower: 28 -> 38

Luck: 19

The first thing Uhtred noticed the moment he brought up his status panel was the massive leap in his mental attributes. Intelligence and perception had both increased by a whopping 15 points, while his willpower had jumped by a solid 10.

This has to be because of my new metal sense skill, Uhtred reasoned, staring at the numbers. Being able to actively perceive the metallic aspects of cosmic essence in his immediate surroundings was essentially magic. Therefore, the massive increase in those specific attributes simply meant they were what dictated magical capacity.

The next highest increase was his vitality, which had climbed by 8 points, which was also not surprising seeing as his body’s natural healing was much improved. Meanwhile, his endurance had increased by 5 points, while agility and strength had only crawled up by 3 points each.

The differences in his physical attributes were not as drastic, which wasn’t surprising to Uhtred since the Epicyon wolf cores he had just consumed for cultivation were heavily metal-attuned. Unlike the agility cores of the Monitor Lizards, theirs weren’t geared towards body enhancement.

Finally, the last attribute, Luck, predictably, hadn’t budged at all. By now, Uhtred figured that specific stat was governed by entirely different rules.

"Well, at least most of my attributes are above forty points now," Uhtred muttered aloud. Seeing the numbers go up made the brutal, life-or-death struggle he had just survived feel significantly more rewarding.

Uhtred closed his status panel then pulled up the world ranking leaderboard to check where the King Alexei guy stood in terms of levels. And immediately he did, his eyebrows raised slightly in surprise at the contents:

[World Ranking]

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Rank No: 1

Name: Red

Level: 10

Territory Owned: Nil

Dungeons Owned: Nil

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Rank No: 2

Name: King Alexei

Level: 6

Territory Owned: Nil

Dungeons Owned: Nil

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King Alexei was still in second place, as Uhtred expected, but he was sitting at level 6, which was much lower than Uhtred’s estimates entirely.

"He’s only gained one level since the last time?" Uhtred muttered to himself, letting out a short, incredulous huff. He had been working his ass off thinking this guy was breathing down his neck, yet he had only gone up a single level the entire time.

Uhtred hissed, lampooning his own frantic anxiety. Though, in truth, he didn’t really mind it. Even without the perceived pressure from King Alexei, he would have pushed just as hard. That was simply his nature.

Right as he closed the leaderboard, the system flashed a new notice across his vision.

[Congratulations! Full Channel Function Requirements Met]

[All functions and privileges unlocked. Your channel is now registered and visible on the public multiversal registry]

Uhtred had barely even read the notice, when the channel panel on the left side of his view erupted into chaos. A flood of messages started pouring into the interface as entities from all across the Grand Multiverse detected the newly active channel signal coming from this world.

Without a moment’s hesitation, not even bothering to read any of the messages, Uhtred focused his intent on the new controls he’d gotten access to and toggled the stream off.

And immediately, the panel, along with its content, vanished into silence.

"Much better," Uhtred nodded, letting out a pleased, deeply relieved sigh. This was exactly what he had wanted to do during his first interaction with Ascendant Favoured One back when he lacked any form of control over his channel.

"I don’t even have time for sponsors in the first place," Uhtred snorted. He still remembered the Ascendant’s grim warning before he was penalized. But even without that, he simply couldn’t deal with pesky messages at the moment. He hadn’t even finished reading all the new system notices yet.

[Notice: Public channel capacity is limited to 100 occupants simultaneously until Rank Evolution threshold is reached at Level 25]

Uhtred only hummed, noting the restriction and waving it away as he quickly moved to the notice that had intrigued him from the moment it appeared.

[Congratulations! Multiversal Store unlocked]

[You can now purchase items and resources from storefronts all across the Grand Multiverse directly using your multiversal tokens]

Uhtred opened the multiversal store immediately, eager to see what was available and, more importantly, to figure out just how much purchasing power his 300 hard-earned multiversal tokens actually held. Was it a substantial sum, or practically pocket change?

The moment the store panel opened up in his view, the first thing he noticed was that it was split into two distinct sections.

The first section was entirely system-managed. Uhtred quickly scanned the listings and realized everything here was generated directly by the System itself. It was filled with standard utility items, consumables, and temporary magical effects — including the low-grade one-time barrier he had used up at the very start, and also the world pioneer revitalization effect he had received just moments ago.

The second section, on the other hand, held no such system products. Instead, it was an endless directory of actual digital storefronts that looked like they were owned by various advanced races and integrated civilizations across the Grand Multiverse. The sheer volume of sub-shops made it look like a massive online marketplace.

Uhtred quickly noticed that the prices seemed tightly regulated by the system behind the scenes, as there were no major fluctuations between identical resources.

But as his eyes focused on the prices of the contents themselves, he couldn’t help but suck in a very sharp breath.

Looking at the system side of the store, the price tag on the one-time consumable effects he had already used made him let out a loud curse.

[System Store Listing: One time use revitalization effect]

[Price: 1,000,000 Multiversal Tokens]

"Bloody fucking hell!" Uhtred’s expression turned utterly sour. "You should have just let me keep the damn thing and sell it instead!" There was no way in hell he would have willingly consumed that healing effect if he had known it was so absurdly expensive.

His entire brutal, terrifying struggle against the Epicyon wolf pack had only rewarded him with 300 multiversal tokens, yet the medical rejuvenation he’d been granted as a "bonus" cost a whopping one million?

"Just what kind of broken system scale is this?"