Worldwide Class Change: Minimal Effort, Maximum Reward!

Lin Yi moved into the next cluster at the pace he had maintained for four days. Not rushing. Not slowing. The rhythm of a hunter who had found the precise interval between engagements that maximized output without creating recovery gaps.

The first monster was already oriented toward him when he landed on the entry island.

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[Gravestone Colossus]

Threat Level: 131

HP: 58,900 / 58,900

Physical Attack: 1,680–1,940

Physical Defense: 1,520–1,780

Magic Resistance: 890–1,040

[A construct-type monster native to the mid-tier island clusters of the Allheaven Expanse. Its body is composed of compressed gravitational stone, making standard strikes less effective than technique-based attacks. Generates a pulse aura that releases shockwaves at irregular intervals. The shockwave frequency increases as HP decreases.]

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Construct-type. Compressed gravitational stone composition. He had encountered two of this classification yesterday in a different cluster, enough to know that Celestial Sword Qi’s energy discharge component was significantly more effective against compressed matter than conventional blade pressure. The stone composition that made it resistant to standard strikes was simultaneously vulnerable to energy that disrupted the compression bonds holding it together.

He released Celestial Sword Qi in the concentrated single-target mode he had developed over the past week of usage, the arc narrowing from its default wide sweep into a focused beam that delivered the same total energy output into a smaller contact point. The strike hit the Colossus’s central mass. The compression disruption rippled outward through its body.

It did not fall from one strike. That was expected. The HP total required a sustained engagement. The pulse aura released its first shockwave as the damage registered, the irregular interval making the timing unpredictable rather than rhythmic.

Lin Yi tracked the next pulse through the faint energy buildup that preceded each release, a three-second pattern that the pulse aura couldn’t suppress entirely. He moved at second two of each cycle, repositioning before the release, then closing immediately after. Three exchanges. Four. The Colossus’s HP declining with each focused strike.

On the seventh exchange, it fell.

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[Gravestone Colossus Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +14,200]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +14,200,000]

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He was already moving to the next island.

[Astral Serpent]

Threat Level: 134

HP: 63,400 / 63,400

Six exchanges. Finished.

[Astral Serpent Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +15,600]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +15,600,000]

The next island had two.

[Astral Serpent ×2 Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +15,600 × 2 = +31,200]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +31,200,000]

Level notifications began appearing in the panel feed with increasing frequency as the morning progressed, each one arriving after a smaller interval than the last because the experience per kill was climbing while the gap between levels at this range, though large in absolute terms, was being consumed at a rate that the amplification made sustainable.

[Level Up! — Level 149 → Level 150]

[Attributes increased. Free points allocated automatically per distribution priority.]

[Level Up! — Level 150 → Level 151]

[Level Up! — Level 151 → Level 152]

He cleared the first cluster fully and crossed into the second without stopping, the Greater Qilin keeping pace beside him with the effortless movement of something that had stopped operating within the same physical limitations as the terrain around it.

The second cluster’s monsters were uniformly in the level 135 to 142 range.

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[Voidclaw Ravager]

Threat Level: 138

HP: 71,200 / 71,200

Physical Attack: 1,890–2,140

Physical Defense: 1,340–1,560

Magic Resistance: 1,220–1,480

[A predator-type monster with four independently articulated limb-claws that can operate on separate attack trajectories simultaneously. Capable of maintaining aggressive pressure from multiple angles in a single engagement. Its speed is its primary threat. Endurance is lower than its attack profile suggests.]

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Four independent attack trajectories. He had not encountered this classification before. The first exchange established the pattern, two of the four claws operating on a forward-high-forward-low combination while the remaining two covered lateral retreat angles. The design was intended to eliminate the standard dodge options by covering the most common repositioning paths simultaneously.

He didn’t use standard dodge options.

Phantom Void Step chained three transitions in two seconds, the spatial repositioning bypassing the claw coverage entirely by removing him from the physical space the attack pattern was designed to control. He materialized above the Ravager’s reach arc and drove the Celestial Lord Blade downward into the gap between its forward and lateral limb joints, the point where the independent articulation required a structural connection that was necessarily less reinforced than the limbs themselves.

The strike hit clean.

The Ravager’s HP dropped by thirty percent from the single exchange.

Three more engagements finished it.

[Voidclaw Ravager Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +18,400]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +18,400,000]

[Level Up! — Level 152 → Level 153]

He kept moving.

[Crimson Tide Drake]

Threat Level: 141

HP: 79,600 / 79,600

Eight exchanges. Finished.

[Crimson Tide Drake Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +21,000]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +21,000,000]

[Level Up! — Level 153 → Level 154]

The Greater Qilin moved alongside him from island to island as the cluster clearance continued, its evolved presence adjusting to each new environment the way something that had been through a fundamental change adjusts to everything that follows. It did not participate in the combats directly. That was not its role in this stage. Its role was presence, a stabilizing awareness at his flank that the monsters registered and factored into their threat responses, slightly disrupting their behavioral patterns in ways that created minor openings.

Minor openings were sufficient at his current output level.

The third cluster of the morning opened into a wider island formation, the monsters here beginning to push into the level 142 to 149 range. The density was slightly lower but the individual engagement complexity was higher, each monster requiring careful pattern reading before the efficient exchange sequence became clear.

He worked through them methodically.

[Nebula Titan]

Threat Level: 144

HP: 86,300 / 86,300

[Nebula Titan Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +23,800]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +23,800,000]

[Starborn Predator] 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Threat Level: 146

HP: 91,700 / 91,700

[Starborn Predator Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +26,200]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +26,200,000]

[Level Up! — Level 154 → Level 155]

[Level Up! — Level 155 → Level 156]