Infinite Potential System

Finally? Of course I took a long time to kill it, look at that thing! William retorted mentally.

-Your Companion could have taken care of it for you in a few seconds. Even you could have done so if you used your Illusion Territory. A shame you're an idiot.

Hah! William laughed out of contempt but didn't respond to the usual slander. He couldn't use the Illusion Element.

The System knew his situation as well as he did, but William had to admit that he didn't expect Atticus to so easily bypass the Sun Stone Golem's Forcefield. He worried that Atticus wasn't strong enough, but it seemed he should give the Mythical Rat Snake more freedoms to help out.

There wasn't much time to argue with the System this time, as the room suddenly started to shake. William used the Space Element to detect fluctuations in the surrounding area, but everything was the same. Even on the floors above and below, the shaking continued.

It was the entire Dungeon!n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

-The first-time death of the Boss seems to have changed the Dungeon. I don't sense any labyrinthian shifts on the first through 20th floors.

That far? What does this mean? William asked.

-The layout of the first 20 floors will no longer change, it seems. Above the 20th floor, the situation is unclear.

William thought for a moment and nodded. He could see with the Navigation Radar that the wall blocking the path to the 15th floor had lowered as well, meaning it wouldn't be long before other students discovered the situation.

I can't believe you'd answer my question for free. Wasn't everything supposed to be worth Potential Points?

-If you spent five minutes analyzing the situation, you probably could have figured it out yourself. Too bad you're a lazy hoarder with no common sense.

William's eyes lit up when he heard one his favorite words. If he was a hoarder, that must mean he has a lot of things, right? He peered over to the back of the room, where a treasure chest had materialized immediately following the Sun Stone Golem's death.

-You're sick.

Sick of being handsome? Absolutely! William used the Space Element to vibrate the treasure chest slightly, verifying that it truly was just a regular chest and not a Treasure Mimic.

No sudden movements, no response from the Bestiary, and no Cultivation. The treasure chest didn't seem to be living. William took a single step and arrived at its position, flipping open the lid to reveal its contents.

Inside the treasure chest were three items, two of which were identical brown and grey rocks with unique designs and seemed very familiar to William. He picked them up and carefully inspected the pitch-black lines that covered their surface, finding the quality of the item to be extraordinarily high.

The System labeled them both as Ultimate Earth Roots, granting him merely one hundred million Potential Points for each, but William wasn't too excited. Compared to the other treasures he found in the last few days, these were nothing much.

William first came in contact with Element Roots back in the Five Elements Sect. When he performed well in the Alchemy Competition, he was given a Silver-Ranked Fire Root that increased his skill with the Fire Element by twenty percent.

It wasn't a large increase whatsoever, but to a non-Cultivator like him at the time, this was the difference that allowed him to defeat Yu Ren on the Ranking Board.

The problem was, the effects of the Fire Root became effectively useless after a certain period of time. Once William's Fire Element reached higher Ranks, the effects diminished more and more until there was no bonus whatsoever.

Now he had an Ultimate Earth Root, which was above both the Platinum-Ranked and Gold-Ranked Roots, or three levels above a Silver-Ranked Root. One would think that its effects would be significant even for William, but that was not the case.

According to an appraisal, the Ultimate Earth Roots would each enhance a Cultivator's Earth Magic by over two hundred percent, but it was only useful on Cultivators with Magic below X-Rank. They were both completely useless to him, who had already maxed out all of his Elements by mortal standards weeks ago.

Amongst the students of the Filem Academy, this would definitely be a priceless treasure that they would fight tooth and nail over. No one would think lightly of a two hundred percent improvement to their Earth Magic, and even those without the Affinity could probably gain some resistance from consuming the item.

If they weren't willing to waste a precious item on minimal effect, they could always sell the item to the highest bidder. This was exactly what William thought about doing, though he preferred to save the item for a friend if possible.

He looked at the third item in the treasure chest, which was a small stone tablet resembling a gravestone both in shape and color. The tablet's edges were layered with ice, varying from shades of light to dark blue and colder than the Arctic.

Written on the tablet were only five words, but the letters shifted around so quickly that William couldn't make any sense of the message. In the very center of the tablet was a symbol that showed two hands holding a square plate, which William guessed was instructions on how to read the message.

He leaned forward and reached out, ignoring the biting cold and a harsh wind that nipped at his forearms. His Cold Resistance worked hard to offset the effects of the tablet, but he still needed to use some Fire Magic to assist the Talent.

The moment William grabbed the tablet, his hand froze over completely, his fingers chipping off half a second later. Surprisingly, William felt an unusual tinge of pain that partially bypassed the effects of his Mind Talent. Were his pain resistance not absurdly high, William probably would have doubled over and cried right then and there.

He wrapped both of his hands with torn fabric from the Illusionist's Cloak, grabbing hold of the tablet and orienting it just as the symbol described. The natural cold of the tablet turned the fabric to ice, but his move seemed to be correct as the moving letters arranged themselves in a specific order and remained perfectly still for a few seconds.

"TѠⱤЯ 𐋐ЯЯᄂ, ᔕЯѠꝒ ӼშƝʄѠ'ᔕ T𐋐𖼜შƝЯ"

Great! A useless message that I can't even read! William opened a Space Ring and tossed the stone tablet inside.

He was about to do the same with the treasure chest and the two Earth Roots, but William's mind suddenly went numb as his eyes forcefully closed and a vision appeared.

An icy mountain reaching hundreds of thousands of kilometers into the sky and poking through clouds equally as tall appeared. William's consciousness appeared at the base of the mountain, but flew up on its own at speeds tens of times greater than he could possibly achieve now.

He flew higher and higher, the air colder and colder with each kilometer. Near the peak of the mountain, William's consciousness entered a winding cave that traveled upwards instead of down. He took dozens of turns in quick succession, never hesitating at any of the countless forks and obstacles.

After crossing a seemingly impossible distance, William's consciousness arrived in a massive icy throne room, where a small and frail skeleton sat on a blue throne with rhino-shaped armrests. Its eyes glowed an eerie red as it looked directly at William. It opened its mouth, its teeth bones rattling slightly in the process.

"Xonya awaits you." Experience tales at empire