Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 635 - 250. Contempt Maxim

Chapter 635: 250. Contempt Maxim

When you look up at the stars, the once unimaginable Starry Abyss, is now within reach.

The universe’s timeline is incredibly chaotic, and the vast territories give each civilization its own calendar, making communication extremely difficult.

It is said that the origin of the narrative level is to solve this problem, and the final result is the Inherent Time Domain.

It should be said that the emergence and significance of the Inherent Time Domain have far exceeded the original purpose of its discovery.

After the gods beyond the Abyss fell one after another, the narrative level seized the divine right of ascension, monopolizing the Path of Ascension to Godhood.

Now, narrative is no longer a simple technology but a symbol representing a new era of hegemony.

In today’s world, even though narrative-level civilizations don’t have this worry, not all civilizations want to join the narrative.

Weak civilizations cannot protect the Inherent Time Domain and even risk allowing invading enemies to complete their conquest as if on a highway.

Powerful narrative civilizations can not only protect their citizens at the fastest speed but also use it as a springboard and sugar-coated bullets to expand outward.

People used to call these colonial governments, in the Starry Abyss, it’s called integrating into the narrative.

The Starry Abyss layout is now very clear and obvious:

Join the grand narrative, use your civilization as paint to depict their dreams.

Or, establish your own sect and become a Sage who writes the narrative.

Of course, there’s another forbidden and absurd path... that is to corrupt and decay, becoming part of the "Society."

As an individual from all living beings, how will you choose?

——[Contempt Maxim]1.99.ver

End of the first season sprint, countdown: 10 days.

Fiery Summer Mall price: -70%

Plop.

Closing the tablet, Gio Zio let out a deep breath:

"Phew... Finally, it’s this day."

"Why are you so nervous? It’s not like you’re going to participate in the team competition, it’s just the individual competition. Didn’t you already appear many times during the domestic qualifiers?"

Summer Yubing glanced at him, irritated:

"Of course, I’m not telling you to play mindlessly, relax, don’t be nervous."

"But this is my first time on the international stage, facing those with rich tactical experience, from various colonies and exoplanetary provinces. Among them are ace bros, technical stream big streamers, and players tailored by professional studios."

"Don’t you usually play black games with these people? You should be very familiar with their tactics and skills."

"That’s different!"

Gio Zio tugged at the collar of his tracksuit, looking at the athletes and spectators coming from all directions of the sports center, immeasurably nervous, and trembling uncontrollably, saying quickly:

"Usually, it’s Cumin Powder and Garidon carrying me, but besides those five, I don’t know anyone, lots of foreigners and aliens. So many people, I feel like I’m going to die, can’t breathe——how about I forfeit now and go home..."

Summer Yubing, speechless, raised her hand and slapped him on the butt.

Smack!

"Ouch! What are you doing?" Gio Zio jumped in fright, muttering.

"Just a reminder."

Summer Yubing said blandly:

"You’ve come a long way to get here. After beating all the domestic players, now you surrender without a fight. Be careful that domestic netizens will blow up your private messages, cyberbully you until you quit the game."

"——how could they!"

"You’ll be labeled: Foreign war outsider, internal war expert, and you’ll never clear that name in your life."

"No, no, no! I’ll go!"

Gio Zio’s skin crawled, and the thought of being insulted online and offline made his face pale in an instant.

"That’s the spirit." Summer Yubing nodded in satisfaction, patted his shoulder, and tiptoed to whisper in his ear: "I’ll go to the spectator stand. If you make it to the top eight, I’ll give you a special gift..."

"I’ll try not to get eliminated in the top sixteen..."

Gio Zio smiled wryly, then took a big swig of his sports drink, striding into the hall, found the athlete’s entrance, and handed over his competition ID.

[Check-in complete, data uploading...]

[Please verify your identification information:]

[Athlete Name]: Gio Zio

[Gender]: Male

[Age]: 19 years old

[Nationality]: Terra Federation - Mother Star - Fiery Summer Country

[Event]: eSports- "Starry Abyss"- Individual combat competition

[Competing Character]: ’Caramel Snail’

[Ingenious ID]: #2403 (beta tester)

[Transferring your character data from "Starry Abyss" to local...]

There were no problems, and the data was clear without any missing procedures.

Gio Zio nodded, then the information in front of him changed again:

[Please verify your character data]:

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[Game Nickname]: ’Caramel Snail’ #2403 (beta tester)

[Draft Character Original Name]: Saga Qi

[Species]: New Generation Homo sapiens - Sky Ring Ethnicity

[Template]: Elite Descender (Damage to ’Descenders’ +7%)

[Faction]: Baizhu Star - Newbie City - Leoz Mercenary Corps (Position: Scout)

[Total Level]: lv.80

——[Main Profession]: [Destroyer] System——[Sword Master] lv.60 (MAX)

——[Secondary Profession]: [Mutant] lv.20

[Health Points]: 12,000/12,000

[Qi Power]: 9,700/9,700

[Attributes]:

Strength——101

Dexterity——66

Constitution——98

Charm——60

Will——15

[Talent]:

[Occupational Talent: Pathway of Sword Intent]——Your cultivation of Qi Power has reached supernatural excellence, and your understanding of swordsmanship has reached perfection. Each practice of "Qi Refinement Technique" will grant you the Qi Surge effect, [Strength], [Dexterity], [Constitution] checks +15, lasting for 10 natural days, stackable up to three times. ——From [Sword Master]

[Occupational Talent: Mutation]——Your genetic potential is initially unlocked, resulting in periodic [Mutations], which might change your appearance or grant some boosts.——From [Mutant]

Mutations acquired so far:

[Turbocharged Lung Lobes]——Your lungs are reconstructed, permanent +15 yards to movement speed, +10% to sprint speed, +60% to stamina recovery rate;

[Strengthened Implant Body]——Your flesh will transform into a biomechanical armor of your consciousness. Each body is regarded as ’implant’ gear, which can be enhanced and modified through gene fragment transformation and transplant.

[Frost Guard Musculature]——Your muscles won’t shrink or stiffen in cold, and when controlled by ’freezing’, ’solidification’ skills, you can deduct 12% of current max health to break free, and gain a 15-second Dominator Body effect.

[Specialty]:

[Extraordinary Physique]——As Gamma Rank, you’ve reached the basic level of Cosmic Citizen. From cells to the whole body, your constitution surpasses mortals. Any damage from low-level targets to you is only 80% effective (including physical armor penetration, spell penetration, true damage).

[Crane School: Combat Posture]——As [Martial Artist], you chose a more direct and efficient path, increasing attack speed by 180% during melee attacks.

[Perpetual: Brutal Sword Intent]——Long-time communication with fierce sword spirits caused irreversible impacts on your body; you became more obsessed with dissecting enemies and mastering sword skills. Equipping sword weapon types will arouse their sword intent, extending the melee attack range to 5 meters.

Perpetual Effect: If the main attribute is [Strength], the attack range extends to 12 meters.

[Beyond the Blade]——When advancing towards the target, if their back is to you, increase movement speed by 10%, and the next attack is guaranteed crit.

[Agile Skills]——With agile actions, clean and precise, you know how to adjust your power, making your bursts more powerful and precise. Removes casting delays for combat skills.

[Perpetual: Willful]——You possess strong charisma and terrifying ambition. When you’re the team leader, others’ favorability and your favorability synchronize. Team members absolutely cannot question your decision, even if it’s wrong, they will believe without hesitation.

Perpetual Effect: When your main attribute is [Charm], all attribute checks are based solely on [Charm].

[Arcane Energy]:

Core Arcane——[Soul Engraving Swordsman: War Spectre]

[Soul Engraving]: Gaining power and skill boosts upon killing enemies with sword weapons, the more you kill, the more self-awareness the weapon gains.

[War Spectre]: Equipping sword weapons’ prerequisite is [Charm] instead of [Strength] and [Dexterity].

Development Level: Contact Level

(Development Level ranks: Perception, Contact, Master, Mastery, Dominate, Sovereign, Usurpation)

Rented Arcane——[Eye of Truth], [Sequence 9: Gravity], [Sequence 56: Waning Moon], [King’s Carriage Displacement]

[Skills Possessed]:

"Burst of Qi""Worldview: Materialism""Swordsmanship Codex""Sky-breaking Slash""Meteor Sword Dance""Shadow Stepping""Crane School: Flickering Technique""Crane School: Coexist Slash""Breakthrough Charge""Crane School: Domineering Body";

[Hierarchy]: Gamma Rank (3)

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"Hmm, everything checks out. Equipment is complete too."

Gio Zio nodded.

"After confirming, please follow the guide to the competition area."

With the guide’s help, Gio Zio quickly arrived at the competition room. The warm and cozy indoor setting eased his nerves a bit. After some checks, he was allowed to enter the game pod to prepare for today’s match.

[Descend complete]

[Welcome back to Starry Abyss]

[You have entered the competition server—Leistad-116 Planet]

The distant windmills turned slowly, and the dreamy pink sky indicated that he had left Baizhu Star and arrived at the exclusive competition map.

"The first match is not on our home turf, a bit unfortunate."

The competition maps were randomly selected from many initial planetary servers and rarely repeated.

Caramel Snail stood up from the preparation bench, stretching his body while observing the surrounding terrain.