Darius Supreme

[Transmutation - Unique Ability

Cost: Unique

Description: You are a living Philosopher's Stone, able to convert any substance or matter from one form to another. This ability has its own unique cost for conversion and ruleset listed below.

Rule 1: The ability to transmute is tied to your available Conversion Points. At your current stage, you will be capped to 1000 Conversion Points.

Rule 2: Conversion Points refresh each day at 12 am. Unspent Conversion Points are discarded and replaced.

Rule 3: Only items and small sentient organisms can be transmuted at your current stage.

Rule #4: You can only transmute items that already exist in the world of Faust.

Rule #5: Items that are owned by the user can be converted into Conversion Points. Conversion Points gained in this manner can exceed the limit and will not be discarded upon reset.

Rule #6: Static Transmutation is possible.

Rule #7: Batch Transmutation is possible.

Rule #8: Partial Transmutation is possible.]

Darius looked through and almost burst into laughter. His heart was filled with joy as he had gained everything he expected and more.

At the Amateur stage, he had been capped to 10 Conversion Points per day which had been barely enough to allow him to do anything back then.

He had naturally greatly appreciated the increase to 100 Conversion Points at the Journeyman stage. With it, and careful allocation/planning over the past 6 1/2 years, he had been able to build Safemoon and create an industry.

However, it paled in comparison to his new daily limit. This was not even accounting for the fact that Rule #5 allowed him to effectively double that.

Since he normally used extremely diluted drops of Lunar Dew to do this, it wasn't wrong to say that Darius effectively had 2,000 CP to spend every day!

It may not seem like much, but there were some crazy things he couldn't have made in the past that he could now. Casting his mind back, Darius recalled a few.

[... Newborn Dungeon Core(Darkness) into a Newborn Dungeon Core(Light, Dark, Death)?... will cost 526 Conversion Points.]

[… Newborn Dungeon Core(Darkness) into a Fledgling Dungeon Core(Light, Dark, Death)?... will cost 1,245 Conversion Points.]

[… Holy Silver Divine Door into a Pure Silver Divine Door?... will cost 344 Conversion Points.]

[... Holy Silver Divine Door into a Dark Silver Divine Door?... will cost 465 Conversion Points.]

[... Holy Silver Divine Door into a Silver Divine Door?... will cost 883 Conversion Points.]

[... Holy Silver Divine Door into an Iron Divine Door?... will cost 3423 Conversion Points.]

[... Holy Silver Divine Door into a Holy Iron Divine Door?... will cost 222 Conversion Points.]

[... Holy Silver Divine Door into a Holy Gold Divine Door?... will cost 201 Conversion Points.]

[… Silver Ando Coin into an Entry Token?… will cost 245 Conversion Points.]

Some of these were still useful, while others were not so. For example, the Holy Metals could simply be mined from Pokterr after Miranda had set up the entire continent to be infused with Source Energy.

Naturally, it wasn't just limited to the Holy Metals, but plant life and all sorts of resources would re-appear below the ground in due time.

The Entry Token was something he still planned to use to enter Gravitas, though the time wasn't right for it. On its own, it would only grant him a 1 days pass, though all Darius technically needed was 3 seconds with Miranda for her to enter their database.

As for whether Miranda had the power to rapaciously devour the entire continent's network, she and Darius doubted it, which was why it had yet to be done.

However, Miranda had built many servers and spare computer processors to speed herself up, not to mention that once the satellites went up, she would be able to access a wealth of computing power.

Long story short, Gravitas' days as a technical superpower was numbered and they didn't even know it yet.

Darius then remembered that there were some other more precious things that he still couldn't transmute even with 2,000 CP, like True Dragon Blood which had cost 6,770 CP, or Lunar Dew which was 345 million CP.

However, this problem was moot for Darius now. It might have been an issue at the previous stages, but ever since he had gained access to Static Transmutation, everything changed.

How else did he have so many resources? He would buy average tier products and Static Transmute them for floor-level prices in terms of CP, then provide them to Safemoon to sell.

Otherwise, his 200 CP a day would never have been able to feed the entire buyer market for Safemoon's goods and still have time to do his own business.

During these few months he had been away from Safemoon and hadn't Transmuted anything, the city should have collapsed without an influx of new goods.

Static Transmutation had been able to solve that.

Now with 2,000 CP he could expand his production. He could finally undertake one of his most important tasks for conquering Faust, the production of an elite army trained with his resources.

Yeah, the metal warriors were great, but he couldn't have them directly linked to him just yet. He wanted to attack Faust on two fronts, as a mysterious entity from Pokterr (and Ludo) as well as himself, Darius, through Safemoon.

For the mysterious entity who kidnapped Demi-Gods and seemed to be affiliated with the Dragon Ancestor, he could use the metal army to instill fear.

As Darius, he could handpick humans and train them using high-tech VR/AR simulation with Lunar Dew level resources after making them sign the Soul Paper of course.

It was said that on Earth, the warriors that Sparta had trained were on average, worth at least 10 men from other states.

Naturally, Darius didn't plan to go so low. His goal was to have even a single footman of his be 50x stronger than the strongest warrior in any kingdom on Fallon!

Just thinking about this left Darius feeling extremely hopeful for the future.

Another piece of good news was that Partial Transmutation had finally arrived!

This was something he had desperately needed and desired back when he had been limited to his measly 10 CP allowance, though he was sure a certain AI had a hand in hiding it from him for this long.

If he had it, his early days would have been significantly easier. Still, it could be helpful going forward, especially if one considered the fact that Darius could now slowly make things like True Dragon Blood or other Divine items piece by piece.

Darius was thoroughly satisfied with Transmutation. Now that he had scratched that itch in his heart, it was time to check his character sheet, as well as Gunner's and Xela's to see what manner of harm Caesar had caused.

[Name: Darius Stone

Race: Ancestor Dragon (Fledgling)

Stage: Adept

Class: Itemancer

Subclass: Magus

HP: 10,000/10,000 (5000 HP Surplus)

MP: 18,860/18,860 (37,720 MP Surplus)

STA: 4,100/4,100

Level: 41

Experience: 0/4,100

Strength: 100

Agility: 150

Endurance: 100

Intellect: 460

Willpower: 350

Charisma: 100

Luck: 100

Physical Status: Healthy

Mental Status: Calm.

AP: 1

SP: 49

Active: Elemental Breath - Lv.40, Analyze Lv.40, Combine - Lv.40, Lightning Bolt - Lv.40, Group Teleportation - Lv.40, Spawn - Lv.20, Swap - Lv.1, etc

Passive: Magical Mastery - Lv.20, Elemental Control - Lv.20, Draconic Regeneration - Lv.30, Spell Enhancement - Lv.100, Spell Mastery - Lv.100, Mageward Barrier - Lv.100, Spirit Barrier - Lv.100, Channeling - Lv.70, Basic Lancer Arts - Lv. 5, Weapons Mastery - Lv.1, Unarmed Mastery - Lv.1, etc

Abilities: Transmutation (Advanced), Dragon Transformation (Intermediate), Limit Release (Intermediate), Super Instinct (Intermediate), Man of Steel (Intermediate), Intermediate Psychomancy (Advanced), Metamorph (Intermediate), Divine Favor (Intermediate).]

Apart from the new Itemancer skill and the Willpower stat, there was nothing particularly new about everything. His Willpower seemed to be high, at 350 points which meant that magic would have a tough time harming him.

Well, Darius had to pray that his enemies had lower Willpower compared to himself. He doubted humans and beasts would have much if anything.

After all, Willpower was natural magic defense, which meant biological magic sustenance or the natural mage shield Journeyman and above mages had.

Truthfully, adding this stat changed little. A rat that would have been zapped to death would still be zapped to death because it would have 0 magical defense.

A Phoenix that had ungodly amounts of magic defense would have formerly suffered 0 points of damage, would now at least suffer 1 or above due to how the battle damages were calculated.

Unless the gap was big, invincibility towards magic was removed.

Darius then checked his new Itemancer skill, Swap.

[Swap - Level 1 Skill

Grade: Basic

Cost: None

Description: Remove an aspect or trait of one item and attempt to infuse it into another item permanently. The effectiveness of this skill is based on Intellect!]

Darius paused, shocked that such a powerful skill was actually allowed to exist. If he had the requisite criteria, didn't that mean he could pull, for example, the growth/devour feature off the Dragon Ancestor's Lance of Destruction and put it on his Gloves of the Mage?

…!