Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

"What is it?"

"Your experience."

What experience? My Soul System experience?

"Most Saviors cherish their experience like gold. They hoard it until they have enough to advance to the next level. They don't care if they have to go through tens of missions every month, as long as they earn enough experience, then they'll do anything to get it.

Now, if you tell them that they have to 'waste' their experience on their mutation that only gives them a partial increase in strength, they would look at you as if you were insane. I would know; I've tried and failed to convince hundreds of Saviors to improve their mutation like I have.

If they were given a choice between increasing the mastery of their mutation or increasing their LifeSkill by one stage, then they would most certainly choose the latter. A LifeSkill's jump in power with each stage is very prominent. It makes them feel as if they have become two times stronger than they were before.

And compared to what a mutation would give them, their improvement would only be a fraction of that.

It is logical for them to be hesitant to use up their valuable experience for a mere 1% increase in their fighting capability. That is why most, if not all, Saviors treat mutations as nothing more than an extra weapon. But what they fail to understand is that mutations are like an extra body that is capable of having a different power equivalent to that of a new LifeSkill!

And if you have multiple mutations, you'll basically be a Savior with multiple LifeSkills. Imagine that!

Of course, to achieve that level of power, they would have to sacrifice a lot of experience, effort, and time to do so.

Most people simply aren't that patient. They want the instant gratification of the advancement of a LifeSkill, as opposed to the slow growth of the mutation."

Atlan finally understood why she stayed in the 1st stage Student realm.

"You use all the experience you get from missions to increase the mastery of your mutation?" he asked her.

Her cat ears wiggled separately. "Yes. By remaining in the 1st stage Student realm and completing missions in the Pre-Intern realm, the experience that I get is multiple times more than the normal Savior. It allows me to sustain the tremendous amount of experience points needed by my multiple mutations."

As she explained, Atlan secretly tried to struggle away from her grasp, but any movement he made was completely grasped by her vertical cat eyes. She pushed him down harder.

"What exactly is mastery?" he tried to distract her.

"Just like the name implies, it is how much control you have over the foreign part of your body. The more control you have, the more you can use the full potential of the mutation you have.

For new mutations like yours, it starts as 0% mastery. And as you improve and improve, you'll eventually end up at the first barrier at 10% mastery."

Atlan looked down at his Soul System and saw all of his mutations floating in the darkness of space.

His Angel Wings that shined brightly in the dark, and the reddish black orb of his Gluttonous Soul towered over every single one of his mutations. Their superiority over everything was borne from their 10-star rarity.

Down below was a severed chitinous mouth symbolizing his Canzer Mother Tongue that allowed him to understand all Canzer languages.

Next to it was what Atlan assumed to be a voice box belonging to a Pseudo Canzer, symbolizing his Pseudo Canzer Whisperer mutation, allowing him to speak to their kind.

A tall obelisk made out of obsidian symbolized his Sapient Canzer Polyglot mutation, allowing him to speak the language of Sapient Canzers.

The last was a single leaf with its stomata open, ready to receive daylight and convert it into energy. This symbolized his Photosynthesis mutation that gave him 1 year of SoulTime with every second he spent in the sun.

And when Atlan tried to use his blue wisps of experience to increase their 'mastery' as she said, nothing happened. The blue wisps simply collided with his mutations in the Soul System and did not affect it a single bit.

"How do I increase my mastery?"

She smiled, showing a bit of the sharp canine teeth in her mouth. "It's the same as how you obtain mastery over any skill. You learn from experience, figuratively and literally.

You need to fight an opponent and defeat them using solely your mutations, and nothing else. You cannot use your LifeSkill."

The requirement to master a mutation was completely strict. Atlan was surprised by that. Find adventures at empire

Ever since he was drafted, he was taught by everyone he knew that he should practice his LifeSkills as often as he could. In time, he could create a Giant Hand in his Soul System and activate his LifeSkill almost instantaneously without even any effort. To achieve that, Atlan had to build a habit of always using his LifeSkill in every fight he was in.

Now, Lizzie was telling him that he should forget that built-up muscle memory, and only use his mutation.

That was tremendously hard, to say the least. After all, he spent so much time trying to hide his mutations from everyone because all of his mutations were far too powerful for him to have obtained through normal means. He didn't know how the Operators would react if they saw that his Wing mutation was emanating Angel Power.

He'd have a hard time only using his mutation in a fight against the Canzers.

"I can't use anything else?"

"Weapons are fine as long as they have good synergy with your mutations. Katars, for example, are perfect for my feline mutations and help me fight with a cat-like dexterity. But a two-handed sword will completely hinder my fighting skills.

But absolutely no LifeSkills, or even mutations that do not have a synergy with your current mutation. If you want to increase the mastery of your mouse mutation, then you definitely can't use your owl mutation in the fight. Those two Genus are predator and prey in the wild. They can't synergize.

You have to prove to yourself that your mutation alone is enough—that it is powerful enough to defeat your enemies.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Once you have done that, you will have a window of opportunity in your Soul System where you can pour your experience inside them and increase their mastery."