SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 55: Hoarding Moon Crystals

Half an hour had passed, and when the clock struck midnight, the starry night sky began to change.

The white crescent moon glowed brilliantly overhead. Then, as if responding to an unseen call, it began to rain down shimmering white crystals.

Oddly, the crystals didn’t behave like meteors. Despite falling from the sky, they retained a slow, graceful descent—untouched by gravity’s force or friction’s flame. It was as though some invisible force shielded them.

From Ainsworth’s vantage point, he counted around twenty streaks of light descending toward different parts of the city. Judging by the pattern, he suspected this celestial phenomenon wasn’t limited to just one place. Other cities were likely witnessing the same event... and receiving these mysterious moon crystals as well.

To confirm, Ainsworth communicated with his believers from the Church of Evolution. The Church of Evolution was located in a different city quite far away from this one.

When Ainsworth inquired about it from his believers, they positively responded that they also witnessed such phenomenon and were currently sending their evolvers to snatch it from the hands of those zombies.

With how diligent his believers were, he didn’t have a good reason to slack off, so he used Freedom of Movement (SSS) to teleport high into the sky and catch the moon crystals before they fell to the ground.

Teleporting twenty times, Ainsworth amassed 20 moon crystals just from this city, and even his believers were also collecting the moon crystals that fell on their city.

After Ainsworth obtained the 20 moon crystals, he decide to spend his energy to travel to other cities in order to snatch their moon crystals as well.

Although his mana, aura, and viral energy were limited, that didn’t stop him from traveling to other cities to hoard those moon crystals.

Ainsworth’s team had already obtained enough moon crystals to complete the moon crystal quota in Main Mission 2, but he wanted to overfulfill it. After all, his goal was to become a D-rank Awakener in his first Otherworld Mission, so he ought to put more effort into completing his Otherworld Mission.

There would be an overall team reward that Ainsworth, Rian, and Dante would receive collectively for completing the Otherworld Mission. Aside from that, there was also an individual reward that would be granted depending on how much contribution a certain awakener in the team made in completing the Otherworld Mission.

It would mostly be the MVP of the otherworld team but there was still cases where more than one member in the team received that reward due to contributing a lot in completing the Otherworld Mission.

Because of that, Ainsworth was motivated to be the MVP of his team and contribute as many as he could in the progress for the Otherworld Mission.

As long as his contribution was enough and the world origins his team had plundered were plenty, it wouldn’t be a dream to surpass the Awakener rank that his sister received in her first Otherworld Mission.

With that plan set in motion, Ainsworth traveled from city to city for an entire hour before he ran out of aura, mana, and viral energy. When his energy was depleted, he returned to his hotel room safely.

From his hour-long haul, he managed to hoard 87 moon crystals. As for why it was that low, it was due to him having to use Ultimate Freedom (SSS) to track the moon crystals that had already fallen to the ground.

Some had already been collected and owned by zombies, so Ainsworth had to find and snatch those moon crystals from them. On the other hand, those ownerless ones were hidden quite well, so he had to use Ultimate Freedom to get the locations of those moon crystals.

Aside from having to expend energy to use Freedom of Movement (SSS), he also had to use Ultimate Freedom (SSS) to track the locations of the moon crystals, like using a radar or map to track treasures in a treasure hunt.

If not for that, he could have gotten more than 87 moon crystals in his haul. Using Ultimate Freedom (SSS) had cost him more than using the Freedom of Movement (SSS) to travel from city to city.

Lying on his bed, Ainsworth checked his system inventory and muttered to himself, "With 87 moon crystals snatched from other cities and 21 collected here, that makes 108 in total currently in my possession."

"I’ve already fulfilled the Main Mission 2 requirement of 10 moon crystals—and even overdid it tenfold. And that’s not even counting the ones the Church of Evolution found."

"I just need to wait until noon to see if I can collect the sun crystals I need. I also have to observe how sunlight affects this world. The moonlight here is bizarre—it speeds up zombie evolution and empowers them. Same goes for evolvers, but it comes at a cost. That is, their zombie virus becomes more rampant and filled with impurities."

"So, I need to determine what kind of effects this world’s sunlight has on both evolvers and zombies. Rian, Dante, and I arrived here in the afternoon, and back then, the sunlight didn’t seem to do anything unusual, or at least, nothing we noticed."

"But since the moonlight turned out to have strange effects, it’s safe to assume the sunlight does too. Maybe yesterday was just a fluke. If I’m right, sun crystals will appear later at noon... and that’s when the real hunt begins."

With that plan in mind, Ainsworth decided to sleep to increase the recovery speed of his energy.

...

After several hours had passed, it was finally daytime.

Waking up at 9 in the morning, Ainsworth used Ultimate Freedom (SSS) to immediately clean himself. He made it so that he had skipped the process of taking a bath but kept the effect of already taking a bath.

However, before he left his hotel room, he remembered something and to determine whether he was right or not, he checked his system stat screen.

[Name: Ainsworth Arthurford

Age: 16

Class: SSS-rank Freedom Freelancer

Sub-Class: S-rank Evolver

Awakener Rank: None (Complete an Otherworld Mission for your awakener rank to be graded)

Strength: E+

Endurance: E+

Agility: E+

Magic: E+

Aura: E+

Viral Energy: E+

Spirit: S-

Charm: SSS+ (Limited)

Luck: S

Talents: God-Level Cooking, God-Level Charm, God-Level Cult Leader

Class Exclusive Skills: Ultimate Freedom (SSS), Freedom Of Movement (SSS), Freedom Of Speech (SSS), Pathogen Control (S), Hive Mind (S)

Skills: {Healer/Medic Type: Healing (A), Accelerated Recovery (B), Detoxification (B), Pain Suppression (B), Herbal Proficiency (C), Stamina Restoration (C), First Aid (C)}

{Scout/Assassin Type: Flawless Disguise (SS), Phantom Evasion (SS), Presence Concealment (A), Tracing (B), Danger Sense (B), Shadow Concealment (C), Silent Steps (C), Night Vision (C), Trap Detection (C), Thermal Vision (C), Steady Hands (C), Weak Point Detection (C)}

{Chef/Cooking Type: Formless Kitchen Knives (S), Spatial Food Storage (A), Create Cooking Utensils (B), Temporary Kitchen Setup (B), Condiment Manifestation (B), Fire Control (C), Instant Grill (C), Food Preservation (C), Vacuum Food Seal (C)}]

Checking his system stat screen, Ainsworth double-checked it before nodding, "As I have expected, my viral energy was included as a stat attribute and now, it has been affected by my SSS-rank Freedom Freelancer class’s class trait."

"Because of that, even if the S-rank Evolver class was merely an S-rank Class, the viral energy I have is still the same as the mana and aura I have. They all have the same capacity and quality, and even my class trait was updated so that I could use any energy interchangeably."

"In other words, I could use viral energy to cast mana-based skills or use aura to use Pathogen Control."

When Ainsworth thought of that class trait of his, he wondered, "What if I abuse that class trait? It allows me to have synchronized stats except for Luck, Charm, and Spirit attributes."

"In other words, all my stats other than those three are at E+ grade, and I could further increase them to D- grade if any of those stat attributes were increased to that, and the rest would be upgraded."

"I could perform self-mutilation and improve my endurance stat to D- grade in the process, but that would take too long. The easiest path I have is to increase my viral energy stat to D- grade by consuming the strange moonlight contained within the moon crystals."

"I have plenty of time left in this world, so I can collect more moon crystals later. Even if I deplete my current resources of moon crystals, improving my power is far more important than the Otherworld Mission."

"Anyway, overdoing the Otherworld Mission was just to get a high starting Awakener rank, and in doing so, I could get rewards that would improve my strength. But if I could use the resources in the Otherworld to improve my strength, I wouldn’t have to rely on Earth’s Will anymore."

Ainsworth remembered that some Awakeners became stronger using the Otherworld’s resources, and the Earth Will didn’t seem to care much about it as long as the Otherworld Mission was completed.

With that in mind, Ainsworth took out his moon crystals and started absorbing the moonlight contained in them to increase his viral energy attribute!