"Man! Percival packs a punch," Godfrey groaned as he sat in a tube full of icy water, leaning his head back so he could see the ceiling.
His ocean-blue eyes gleamed as he remembered their fight. Percival was indeed strong, strong enough to go head-on with him in his full boxing mode.
After pondering for a while, Godfrey shut his eyes and appeared in Mountain’s chamber. After Mountain rose to his peak, 6.0, his chamber suddenly lost its brightness, and even he couldn’t enter for the past two weeks, but now he was allowed in.
Godfrey stared at the eight-foot-tall knight seated on the stone throne. Mountain had changed, not only did he grow bulkier, a sign that he gained a lot of solid muscle mass, but the fan-shaped crest atop his great helm now had a short gray plume, like a brush.
The insignia of a sword and shield had changed. It now had a spear right in the middle.
Mountain rose to his feet, looking much bigger than before as he lifted up his Achilles Shield, hung his longsword at his back, and took hold of the long golden spear, almost four meters tall.
As if yearning to show him his new capability, Mountain assumed a stance, and his Achilles Shield grew slightly bigger with root-like designs spreading out to the edge.
It looked thicker and a bit darker than the Achilles Shield. Mountain slammed the shield with his spear, and the roots gleamed softly. He kept slamming it and finally struck the shield into the ground.
The stone floor exploded in ripples as a force burst out, destroying a pillar until it reached the wall.
’It can absorb blows and retaliate with the same force.’ Godfrey couldn’t finish his ponder when, at Mountain’s silent command, the shield became a golden dome. It still had the design of the shield but was more translucent, and it covered him.
Godfrey touched the translucent dome. It was cold to the touch but strangely solid. It didn’t look like it, but it felt like metal.
This skill had to be a higher form of an Adaptive skill, it surpassed Advanced, as that was where Achilles Shield stood. This was an Ascendant skill.
"Bastion," Godfrey muttered. "That’s what I’ll call your new shield."
Mountain retrieved the shield. The dome vanished as Bastion reappeared in its metal form.
"What about your spear? Can it do—?!" Godfrey’s eyes widened as the spear suddenly elongated, swooshing past him. The four-meter-long spear had grown to ten meters in the blink of an eye.
Amazed, Godfrey took the tablet to check out Mountain’s new build.
Summon: Knight-Captain of the Golden Order
Type: Hybrid
Tier: 6.0
Potential: 7.2
Description: [All-round Heavy Infantry Captain, leader of the greatest heavy infantry. Possesses a great round shield able to protect citadels and crumble terrains, a spear capable of elongating to great lengths, and a longsword for close combat. Granted a titan’s strength and can copy three skills at once in Black-Out State.]
"You broke past your limits... quite easily," Godfrey said, blinking several times. He knew how rare and lucky it was for a summon to break past its limits and become a higher version of itself, but all he did was increase Mountain to his peak, and the evolution began on its own.
Like he once thought, it seemed like he was simply raising some of these knights back to their true strength. What should have taken a lucky encounter or years took just four months and three weeks since he awakened.

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