67: Awakening, compassion for humanity
You were taken from the Foster Center.
At the suggestion of the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets, you arrived at the Tianqi Fortress branch of the Tianchi Ability Science and Technology Research Institute!
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets wanted to conduct a comprehensive examination of you; you truly carried the hope of Tianchi Star.
The energy suppression bracelet was removed!
You felt the Laser Eyes become stronger!
The energy suppression bracelet seemed quite useful after all!
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets conducted a comprehensive examination of your body using the Tianchi Federation's most advanced detection equipment.
The conclusion was reached: your ability had not yet fully awakened.
Laser Eyes was only a part of your ability!
Your body was constantly getting stronger, even if the changes were subtle and weak, but the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets discovered them.
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets was very excited; you were indeed an exception!
And so, you settled into the research institute.
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets would occasionally collect some of your hair, or every few months, draw some of your blood.
You were very cooperative; the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets told you that you were contributing to all of humanity.
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets also often taught you how to guide your ability to awaken naturally.
He did not rush the process but chose to let nature take its course.
The more critical the moment, the less one should be impatient.
After the energy suppression bracelet was removed, you found that basking in the sun was now more comfortable.
You informed the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets of this discovery, and he began his research.
Finally, he looked at you with complex eyes!
Even he felt a hint of jealousy welling up in his heart, but it was ultimately suppressed.
Getting stronger just by basking in the sun!
What kind of outrageous ability was this!
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets wanted even more to thoroughly research you.
He also noticed that after several months, you still hadn't felt the erosion of ability sickness.
At six years old, you had been at the research institute for a year.
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets initially planned to teach you some knowledge of abilities and technology.
But before he even got to the main content, you were already dozing off.
Helpless, the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets could only let this 'incorrigible' child run wild in the institute.
You remained unaffected by ability sickness.
The memories in your dreams became clearer.
You learned some knowledge that did not exist in this world.
When you used the knowledge from your dreams to explain, it was like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou!
Past life, present life, crossing parallel dimensions... who could say for sure?
You accepted the memories from your dream, but you were you, and he was still you!
You felt that you were not affected by the memories, but from that day on, you became more sensible and kinder.
Innate wisdom awakened, past and present lives became clear!
After starting over, Su Wen was Jiang Jun, and Jiang Jun was still Jiang Jun!
You suddenly felt how pitiful this world was, how pitiful Ability Users were when they went mad, and how pitiful ordinary people were!
Your empathy was too strong!
You would involuntarily fall into sorrow.
Endless light bloomed from within you, shining with the bright sun, and sunlight scattered across the world, carrying tiny drops of peace and hope!
Solar Body, Light of Dawn, Light Aggregation, Laser Eyes, Flight, Solar Flare... You suddenly gained many abilities; they were your innate abilities!
They were integrated together: Son of the Sun!
Your ability! Your talent!
An incomparably powerful ability!
Perhaps it had already surpassed the Illumination level!
After testing by the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets, your ability, though newly awakened, already possessed the combat power of an Ability King, even approaching an Ability Sovereign!
Ability User ranks are divided into five tiers based on the Ability User's control over their ability and the influence their ability can exert.
Awakening Realm Ability Users are those who have initially awakened their ability, with an internal ability compatibility of at least one; when compatibility reaches one hundred, they can advance to Transcendent!
Transcendent Ability Masters can control people with their ability, ignite ability light sources, and unleash ability profound meanings!
Ability Kings construct a Star Throne, undergo full-body ability transformation, possess an immortal ability body, and can go anywhere, heaven or earth!
Ability Sovereigns weave a Sovereign Domain, wielding the power of illusory ability dimensions, drawing strength from heaven, earth, and dimensions, dominating the sky, land, and sea, with their ability suppressing all others.
Divine Authority Monarchs Plunder the law authority of the Alien Demon Dimension and intertwine it with the law authority of Tianchi Star!
They devour the Alien Demon Dimension to strengthen Tianchi Star!
Half-step Dimension Lords can transform into a dimension and establish themselves as its master!
In addition to the ability powers you gained, tests showed that you also possessed incomparable strength and speed, and were constantly growing stronger!
You were a Young Monarch! A guaranteed admission to Divine Authority!
You were very powerful, but you showed no pride, nor did you have your usual carefree attitude!
You felt pity for all beings and wanted to save the suffering people.
You proactively sought out the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets, wanting to engage in scientific research, to study ability sickness, and to research whether you could purify or help all beings suppress ability sickness.
To lessen suffering in the world and bring more warmth.
Under the sun, there should be more beauty!
You truly believed that!
But the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets didn't think so!
He thought you must have been affected!
How could a child's personality change so drastically in such a short time?
The Monarch of Heavenly Secrets pulled you in for a series of tests, and the results showed no signs of ability sickness.
But he didn't understand!
Was it the influence of the ability?
Why had a once innocent and romantic child become so compassionate?
Initially, the Monarch of Heavenly Secrets even thought you might have contracted a new form of ability sickness.
Others went mad, but you became a compassionate saint.
It was completely the opposite, wasn't it? ~_~
So, to study you, he once again opened a new research topic; this was already the forty-ninth topic concerning you.
There were too many questions about you!
Even solving just one would be immense progress for Tianchi Star.
However, as the undisputed top expert in both ability and technology, he was still stumped by your unique characteristics.
These would be long-term research projects.
You joined the research team studying yourself, becoming the youngest researcher; although you were a bit slow-witted, you were eager to learn!
In the year since you entered the research institute, the outside world had not been peaceful.
Especially when the news of your conscription into the research institute reached Zhang Chen, the president of the Extermination of Aberrations Society, Zhang Chen launched a fierce riot!
Zhang Chen still remembered the scene when you awakened your ability while wearing the energy suppression bracelet!
At the time, Zhang Chen hadn't thought much of it, only much later did he suddenly realize that you shouldn't have possessed an ability then!
Afterward, Zhang Chen thought you might be special, but since your ability had been Plundered by him, you should live a peaceful life.
He never expected that your ability would awaken again!
Upon learning that you had been taken to the research institute, Zhang Chen imagined over three thousand kinds of tortures the institute would inflict upon you: flogging, dismemberment, dissection, suturing, grafting, breeding... Zhang Chen believed you must be suffering terribly!
And he bore a great responsibility for your suffering, so Zhang Chen began to plan a rescue mission!
Stealing nuclear reactors, destroying thought barrier logic arrays, seizing the Tianqi Global Du Hang Battleship... he caused countless major disturbances!
Zhang Chen, in his self-righteousness, used the slogan of freeing you from suffering, but he wreaked havoc on countless local residents.