Defiance of the Fall

He also tried incorporating cosmic energy into the fractal while swinging , but it also didn’t do anything . He was still missing that feeling that would make his swings feel full instead of empty .

He tried to discern what made the axe-man so strong and made him effortlessly defeat the army . It wasn’t speed . His swing had been slow to the point of almost feeling lazy . It hadn’t been sophisticated or complicated either , but simple and unadorned , just like his axe .

But the swing was sharp . Anything it attacked was cut . It didn’t matter if it were the huge titans , the awe-inspiring defenses of the top cultivators in the army , or even the gates of heaven . Everything that the axe waves hit was split in two .

However , what had made the largest impression on Zac was the heaviness the swing had contained . By that he didn’t mean that the axe grew heavy like the great sword , but it felt like the axe had contained an unstoppable force when falling down . It had felt that the weight of a world was contained in that swing , and it had an unbending determination and intractability contained in it . Anything that tried to impede its path would be destroyed .

Zac didn’t understand how he could know these things . They should be subjective opinions and personal impressions , but it felt like those impressions were rather inviolable truths . That the man’s attack contained these abstruse elements felt as true and real as that the sky was blue .

Zac also somehow knew there was a multitude of other aspects hidden in that seemingly simple swing , but they seemed too far away and elusive for him to grasp onto . He decided to focus on the power and forcefulness for now rather than the sharpness as he felt the heaviness the most clearly in his mind . He was afraid of trying to study both aspects at the same time would be too hard for him to handle .

Zac tried to bring this sense of force and weight into his swing and started to bring more and more cosmic energy into it . His energy started to naturally flow along his pathways , and the whirling sounds from the axe started to sound slightly deeper .

Just as he started to feel that he started to grasp something a blue box suddenly popped up by itself .

Dao seed gained - Heaviness]

Confused , Zac stopped swinging and brought up his status page .

Name

Zachary Atwood

Level

28

Class

Hatchetman (F)

Race

Human (F)

Alignment

Human (Earth)

Titles

Born for Carnage , Ultimate Reaper , Luck of the Draw , Giantsbane , Disciple of David , Overpowered , Slayer of Leviathans , Adventurer , Demon Slayer I , Full of Class , Rarified Being , Trailblazer , Child of Dao

Dao

Seed of Heaviness - Early

Strength

136

Dexterity

57

Endurance

77

Vitality

66

Intelligence

46

Wisdom

46

Luck

64

Free Points

0

Nexus Coins

134780

Zac was shocked when he saw his Strength . He had gained close to 30 points in Strength without gaining any levels .

There were two other changes to his page . The first was that he had a new title , Child of Dao . The second was an entirely new row was added next to the titles , called Dao .

Zac had heard of the concept of Dao somewhere , but couldn’t remember the details . It was a part of eastern mythology or religion , but he didn’t know exactly what it meant . But from context it felt like it was akin to insight or the like .

He had started to gain insight into the weight behind the man’s swing , and he gained a Dao seed .

He began with checking his new title .

Child of Dao : Third in world to attain enlightenment and create a Dao seed . All stats +5 , All stats +5%

The description gave Zac a start . He was only the third in the world to gain the Dao seed . Since the integration into the multi-verse he had constantly been at the forefront , be it with achievements or levels . But he had actually been bested on this aspect .

He didn’t know if someone had surpassed him in level since level 25 and gained a seed the same way as him , or whether there were other ways to get them . But it was a reminder that there were billions of people in the world . He had his lucky encounters , why couldn’t others have theirs?

Besides , he knew he wasn’t a born warrior , and it had taken him an enormous amount of effort to get where he was today . Perhaps there were geniuses that simply were perfectly suited for cultivation and the new world order .

The lost opportunity made him feel a bit depressed , and he swore at himself for all the time he had wasted . Had he gotten to this point a few days quicker he might have snagged a better title .

If the third spot got 5 points in all stat and 5% increase , what did the second and first place get? Perhaps as much as 10 points for second spot and a whopping 15 points for the first?

But Zac steadied his mind quickly , as he knew he couldn’t get greedy . The number of advantages he had accumulated would probably make anyone on earth green with envy if they knew .

Chapter 39 - Guidance

Next Zac wanted to check out the Dao seed . Soon he managed to open a new screen in the system .