Utopian System

"The next level awaits," Elio responded, grateful for the distraction. Though when he glanced sideways at Zara, the intensity in her eyes promised their conversation was far from over.

The night would be long again today, but perhaps that wasn't entirely a bad thing.

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The book floated before Elio, its pages emitting a soft glow in the darkness. As always, the question appeared in bright letters:

"Do you wish to face the fifteenth challenge?"

Elio nodded, and the world around him began to dissolve.

He breathed deeply, remembering the four levels he had overcome in recent days.

Each challenge presenting a new element, a new world, and new monsters to face.

The world took shape slowly, revealing a landscape that defied all earthly comprehension...

The silicon mountain rose before Elio like a gigantic crystalline prism, its multiple facets reflecting and refracting light in hypnotic patterns.

Each surface was a perfect mirror that multiplied the landscape in infinite iterations, creating a view that challenged comprehension.

This was level 15...

Since level 11, a new dynamic had been introduced:

There was an enormous mountain 10km high that he had to climb.

At the summit, he had to face the fall through the tunnel that was basically the tunnel from challenges 6 to 10, but vertical...

All the increase of whatever affected him, he had to face while gravity urged him to act at full speed.

And then he would fall into the final chamber... To face the monsters.

While contemplating the new challenge, Elio mentally reviewed the previous four levels.

The elements and their respective representatives were:

11th Level - Phosphorus, the Jellyfish of Illumination:

Resistance: 110

Defense: 11

Magic Damage: 11

Its mastery over this reactive element allows you to catalyze energy reactions. Its presence enhances metabolic processes and creates self-sustaining light networks.

12th Level - Magnesium, the Bearded Dragon of Brilliance:

Resistance: 120

Defense: 12

Magic Damage: 12

Lord of explosive light and structural integrity, its control over this alkaline earth metal grants you power over intense illumination and mineral formation. It can generate blinding flashes and strengthen molecular bonds. Its presence stabilizes chemical reactions and reinforces mineral structures.

13th Level - Aluminum, the Armadillo of Protection:

Resistance: 130

Defense: 13

Magic Damage: 13

Master of protective barriers, its mastery over this versatile metal allows you to create and manipulate reflective surfaces and defensive structures. It can generate lightweight armor. Its presence enhances defensive capabilities and multiplies light effects.

14th Level - Potassium, the Exploding Ant of Volatility:

Resistance: 140

Defense: 14Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Magic Damage: 14

Lord of violent reactions and ionic balance, its control over this explosive alkali metal grants you power over chemical chaos and energy release. It can generate purple critical explosions and manipulate ion channels. Its presence catalyzes violent reactions and enhances energy transfer efficiency.

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Level 11 had shown him an open world.

The world that stretched before Elio was a vision that defied all earthly comprehension.

A landscape constructed solely with ten fundamental elements (Elio's first 10), where absence was as significant as presence.

The ground beneath his feet, a crystalline matrix of carbon interlaced with veins of iron and nickel, reflected light irregularly, creating metallic patterns that lost themselves in the horizon.

The atmosphere itself told a story of chemical precision, dominant oxygen but carefully balanced with hydrogen and helium. This balance created invisible currents where occasionally matter fragments seemed to float against gravity, as if dancing in an elemental waltz.

Nitrogen and neon contributed to create a sky that subtly changed color according to local concentrations, while fluorine occasionally generated ephemeral flashes in the heights.

In the distance, everything seemed to repeat infinitely, the same patterns of carbon and iron, the same crystalline structures that rose like monuments to chemical simplicity.

There was no life, no variation beyond the predetermined interactions of these fundamental elements.

Lithium created occasional reddish flashes when interacting with the oxygen in the air, like warning lights in this alien landscape.

But near the phosphorus mountain, the world took on a new dimension.

Luminescent veins extended from the base like roots of light, each marking where the new element began to interact with the ten fundamentals.

Each time a new phosphorus vein found an oxygen-rich deposit, small explosions of light marked the encounter, like fireworks in slow motion.

Its encounter with hydrogen created crystalline formations that grew before Elio's eyes, phosphates that glowed with their own light.

The veins extended kilometers in each direction, transforming the monotonous landscape into a complex network of chemical reactions.

Caverns near the mountain revealed crystalline deposits where phosphorus had been working longer.

The air here was different too.

The constant reactions created thermal currents that made the atmosphere seem alive, carrying bright particles that traced visible patterns in the air.

It was a world that operated under strict and limited rules, but still managed to create complexity through the precise interaction of its components.

The mountain rose as the epicenter of transformation, a core from which the new element integrated into the existing world, redefining the possibilities of what these ten fundamental elements could achieve together.

A lesson and a metaphor for Elio's growing power.

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Climbing the enormous phosphorus mountain, with its bright veins, had been just the beginning.

In the chamber, 64 bioluminescent jellyfish waited, each capable of manipulating the new element, their translucent bodies illuminating the internal caverns with hypnotic flashes.

Elio had had to use the potion during the fall because his resistance wouldn't have been enough to withstand the corrosive reactivity of pure phosphorus that increased as he approached the chamber.

With the potion it was easy for him to eliminate all the monsters, but he couldn't help feeling that it had been a dirty trick from the goddess to hide that the fall was basically the tunnel but with a much faster progression.

Elio Von Elian's Statistics

Skills:

{5 Basic ones}

{5 Heaven's ones}

Magical Phosphorus

Familiars:

Fire Salamander(Merged - 1)

Wind Swift(Merged - 1)

Illumination Jellyfish (16,017,777,600 / 1,000,000,000,000) (New)

1st Fusion (+100)

Emblems:

Wind, Fire, Water and Earth

Level 11

Mana: 110/110

Resistance: 110/110 (+1100)

Stamina: 21/21

Attack: 11 (231)

Magic Damage: 11 (+11)(+100)(+110) / (232) A

Strength: 11 A

Defense: 11 (22)

Magic Defense: 11 (+11)(+11) / (33)

Speed: 11

Perception / Agility: 2.1 A

Superior Mana Dagger x10 / Attack 5 ⟮10x(1856/1856)⟯

God Elemental Weapon (11) / ((Attack 220) (Magic Damage 110))(7716/7790)

Divine Elemental Resistance Cape / Magic Defense 11

Divine Helmet

System's Armor 11 / ((Defense 11) (Magic Defense 11) (Magic Damage 11) (Resistance(1100/1100))

Portable oral oxygen stone

Balance: 0 mana points

And it seemed the god had grown tired of inventing names for the elemental skills...