Infinite Potential System

William looked at the new abilities of his Elemental Territories one by one. Each had their own benefits to use in battle, but he noticed a few things related to the Elements that weren't particularly used when fighting.

Create a molten lake with Fire? A frozen lake with Ice? An Ocean with Water? Create landmasses with the Earth Element?

Can I create my own World at this point? William wondered to himself.

His Seal and Poison Territories didn't have as obvious effects as the Common Elements, but weren't they just establishing the rules of the environment? The Poison Territory would create miasma as forbidden zones for others, while the Sealing Territory would restrict those that entered.

If William could handle the immense Mana Cost when using his Territories, he could control all of Efretta by himself!

My Mana Regeneration is already insane, so I can handle most of this already, but the amount of time would already be insane. I could probably build that City I talked about with my friends before, though.

William realized he was getting off track and returned his attention to the System Panel. While he would love to create his own City or Continents, he had System Quests to complete, a Master to help Ascend, and Points to spend. The rest could wait until later.

Onto the Rare Elements! System, upgrade my Light, Darkness, Curse, Blessing, and Death Elements to X-Rank!

-487500 PP

In a flash, another half a million Potential Points were gone while the System upgraded his next batch of Elements. The Light Element was surprisingly calm, while the Darkness Element was only able to corrode his skin a small amount before receding. Neither were able to force out William's Recovery Talent.

The Curse Element messed with William's flow of Mana and made it more difficult to move around, but the effects were so minimal it could hardly be compared to the Seal or Chaos Elements. Other than being immune to William's Mana Lord effect, the Curse Element wasn't anything special.

The Blessing Element was one of the few like the Life Element that didn't inherently attack William, while Death was the complete opposite. Absorbing his lifeforce directly, the Death Element eventually aged William to 386 years old, twenty years more than before.

Compared to William's 3600-year lifespan, though, it wasn't worrisome. Unless the Death Element stole two hundred years, he didn't mind too much.

How can I be upset with an Element for its natural functions? That would be like telling a bird not to hunt for food in the morning!

Without my Recovery Talent, I might have lost thousands of years of lifespan. If it takes away twenty years of my lifespan, it must be able to steal even more from my enemies! William thought in excitement.

He looked at the effects of his new Territories. The Light Territory had a wide-range blinding effect, while also greatly enhancing the speed of him and his allies inside. The Darkness Territory could also blind others, but with the absence of light instead. Additionally, Darkness would slow anyone designated as an enemy.

Together, the Light and Darkness Territories were perfectly suitable for each other, while clashing at the same time. If he cast them separately, they could each blind, but when cast together there would be no blinding effect, though the gap between his and his enemy's speed would be immense.

The Blessing and Curse Territories had the same effect as their Domains, but on a whole other level compared to before. Not only did the radius of each Territory increase, but their effects were greatly enhanced, more than double what the normal Domain had.

--Upgraded Title: +5000 PP

-Seven Colored Mage (Mythic --> Celestial): You've acquired seven Common Elements and Seven Rare Elements, raising them all to X-Rank. Spells are 100% more Mana Efficient.

POTENTIAL POINTS: 2,399,105

I still have plenty of Points left, let's use them all! William thought to himself as he moved on to the Epic Elements.

System, raise my Necromancy, Blood, Sound, Summoning, and Dream Elements to X-Rank!

-675000 PP

The Necromancy Element started first, filling William with negative emotions that targeted his deepest desires and worst fears. The effects were supposed to be intense, but William was surprised to find that the upgrade to SS-Rank was even weaker than he remembered the B-Rank upgrade being. In fact, he hardly felt a thing!

-The Necromancy Element targets the soul. Your Soul Strength is much higher than it was before, so it can't breach your defenses at its current Rank.

William nodded in understanding, watching silently as visions appeared in front of him. Friends and family members would appear and say mean things or die repeatedly, but William wasn't flustered. The Necromancy Element was like a poor actor, and the visions were more like cardboard, they hardly looked real at all, and the lines were scripted.

Even the emotions that were supposed to fill William with rage were suppressed in an instant. It was hardly comparable to what he had to frequently deal with when suppressing the Humanity statistic.

The Blood Element was next, but it was almost just as useless as the Necromancy Element. It tried to drain the blood in William's body through his pores, but his Hard Body Talent had tightened up many aspects of him, not even a drop of blood could leak out.

Other than a weak nosebleed, William had little trouble dealing with the Blood Element. The Sound Element sealed his sense of hearing and jarred him from the inside with soundwaves, but he only lost a year of lifespan, nothing much. The Summoning Element had no effect whatsoever, and the Dream Element wasn't able to pull him into the Dream World because his Soul was too powerful.

With the Hard Body Talent to deal with the physical Elements and the Soul Strength to handle the non-physical, William had become mostly immune to the effects of such unorthodox Elements.

The Epic Elements were turning out to be easier to handle than the Rare ones!

William stole a glance at the effects of his new Elements.

-Territory of Necromancy: An improved Domain, designed to automatically bring to life all beings killed within its area. While the Territory is active, any creature or human corpse up to one Realm above you will be completely under your control. The longer the Territory is channeled, the more range it covers. Does not affect other beings with the Necromancy Affinity at or above the Domain level.

-Territory of Blood: An improved Domain, designed to control the blood of any being within its area. The longer the Territory is channeled, the greater control you gain.

-Territory of Summoning: An improved Domain, designed to create a summoning zone for your Companion Beasts. Regardless of distance or number, the Host may summon all creatures under their control. Creatures are sent back to their previous location when the Territory is closed.

-Territory of Dreams: An improved Domain, designed to manifest the Dream Element in the real world. Physical abilities become useless, and power is determined by Soul Strength.

As William scrolled through the list of Talent upgrades, he found each new Territory to be more interesting than the last. The Summoning Element alone would have amazing potential as he increased the number of Magical Beasts under his control.

These are true Epic Elements! I can only imagine how terrified someone would be if I summoned all of my Companion Beasts to a battle...

William didn't regret upgrading his Elements one bit. Even if he ran out of Potential Points, he decided to upgrade as many as he could today!

Before William could continue, however, he was interrupted by a System notification.

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SYSTEM RANK: (B --> B+)

-182,239 Extra Potential Points added to progression towards the next System Rankup.

Next rank up: 9,817,761PP

*New Changes:

-System has reached version 2.5 and has improved the Ask Function. More information is available upon the Host's request.

-Host's concealment from the Heavens have improved slightly.

-Host can now absorb Superior Veins.

-Two Additional Farm Slots.

-Upgrading Farms will now count towards System Rank up.

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-Certain trigger words will no longer result in a memory wipe.

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William scrolled quickly through the System upgrade and nodded in satisfaction when he saw the two additional farm slots. He needed as many as possible to raise his Comprehension and was somewhat worried that he would forever be limited to just the few Elements.

Just as he was about to close the System panel, William noticed the last message. What do you mean, memory wipe? System?

-Exactly that.

Have you been wiping my memory? How did I not notice?

-It's hard to remember something you've forgotten, isn't it?

...Why would you wipe my memory?

-No reason. You'll find out when the time comes.

William shook his head and opted to not argue with the System further. Just the fact that it mentioned the memory wipe was enough sincerity. If the System wanted, it could avoid mentioning it the entire time and he would be none the wiser.

Which led William to his next question: Why would the System choose now to say something?