Chapter 107: The Essence of the Tower of the Constellations

“Difficult!”

Over a thousand Chaos coins and a vast accumulation of slaughter progress.

“No, this is too slow.”

Chu Cheng frowned, feeling conflicted inside.

He couldn’t afford to drag this out for years before changing his profession, because once a player’s profession level surpasses 30, advancing to an elite profession again would cause the profession to become fixed. Therefore, changing professions had to happen before level 30.

After level 30, the profession becomes fixed, and the River of the Underworld’s water can only cleanse skills and attributes, not professions.

A year from now, others in the same grade would already be at level 40, while he himself hadn’t even reached 30.

“This profession isn’t good enough!”

“I need to switch to a pure Space Law legendary profession.”

Rubbing his chin, he sent a message to Assistant Instructor Lu Dongrui:

“Teacher, in the Stars Tower, are there any other purely Space Law legendary heroes?”

After a moment, he added:

“Other legendary heroes are fine too. If possible, could you send me a basic dossier on all the legendary heroes in the Stars Tower for my reference?”

Lu Dongrui replied swiftly:

“Don’t you fancy the Void Destroyer?”

Chu Cheng smiled bitterly:

“How could I not? The main issue is the investment cost is too high. I want to see if there’s anything with lower cost.”

“Then you’re thinking too much. Legendary hero professions don’t come cheap.”

“But since you have Space-type talents, if it’s a pure Space Law hero inheritance, the cost can be somewhat lower.”

After speaking, Lu Dongrui sent over a file with a warning:

“This is the basic dossier of all legendary and above heroes in the Stars Tower. It’s not exactly top secret, but don’t spread it around. Delete it after reading.”

“Thanks, teacher.”

He opened the dossier, and instantly a list of hero names appeared before him.

Child of Earth (Legendary): Wielder of the earth’s power, capable of reshaping and shattering the land.

Lich King (Legendary): The fallen king commanding frost and death’s power.

Lord of Desolation (Legendary): A terrifying evil demon from the Abyss of Desolation, master of soul power.

King of Pain (Legendary): An evil ruler from the Devil’s Wind, commanding the power of suffering.

Abyssal Overlord (Legendary): A scourge lord from the endless abyss wind, possessing unmatched strength and flames of destruction.

Child of Space (Legendary): The space master from distorted spacetime.

King of the Devouring Abyss (Legendary): Originating from the Devouring Abyss.

At a glance, these names brimmed with prestige, accompanied by the dazzling legendary suffix. Chu Cheng patiently examined each one.

Some of these legendary heroes were unique to the Stars Tower, others were allies with friendly relations, and by paying an appropriate cost, one could obtain their hero inheritance mark.

After reviewing over a dozen, the next name, glowing with golden light, caught Chu Cheng’s eye.

Thousand-Dark Demon (Immortal): A great being commanding the power of nightmares.

Death Omen Star (Immortal): A lost ancient god born before the primordial era.

Hyperdimensional Traveler (Immortal): A traveler from the hyperdimensional spacetime, master of time’s power.

Lord of a Thousand Stars and Ten Thousand Suns (Immortal): The ruler of endless stars, the original embodiment of chaos.

“Hiss!”

“There are records of four Immortal-level heroes!”

Immortal heroes surpassed legendary heroes by an even greater margin, wielding unimaginable power. Gaining their inheritance would mean an incalculable future.

Chu Cheng was instantly tempted and swiftly checked the inheritance requirements for these four immortal heroes.

But his smile faded the next second.

“How absurd!”

The requirements weren’t absurdly difficult—in fact, they were quite simple. Anyone could apply without any prerequisites.

However—

The Thousand-Dark Demon, a great entity wielding nightmare power, required one’s soul to enter the Nightmare Realm and confront the true essence of the Thousand-Dark Demon hidden there. Surviving this ordeal granted automatic inheritance of nightmare power.

Just the name “Thousand-Dark Demon” suggested a sinister nature.

In the dossier, a note in blood-red letters warned that death in the Nightmare Realm was absolute—no means of resurrection could bring one back, not even the Stone of the True Realm.

Moreover, the death rate upon entering the Nightmare Realm was one hundred percent.

To this day, no newcomer’s soul had ever returned alive from the Nightmare Realm.

As for the Death Omen Star—

To put it simply, this was a primordial abomination.

An existence even more evil and terrifying than the Thousand-Dark Demon.

The dossier recorded a similarly perfect death rate for those attempting its inheritance.

The Hyperdimensional Traveler, a traveler from hyperdimensional spacetime, was neither evil nor dangerous, as one’s strength would be insufficient to perceive them.

This entity was encountered by a god-demon level senior in the Stars Tower by chance, who helped the traveler with a minor favor and thus established contact, leaving behind a time imprint.

Ordinarily, it was impossible to obtain their inheritance, and the Hyperdimensional Traveler had no interest in passing it on. One could only acquire hero inheritance via the original hero mark.

Over thousands of years, hundreds had attempted to harness this power through the original hero mark, but all had perished. None survived even a year after gaining the inheritance, all assimilated into time—vanishing without a trace.

Time’s power erased everything, even the memory of their existence.

Only through special records kept by the Tower’s strong had this mass assimilation been known.

The last one, Lord of a Thousand Stars and Ten Thousand Suns, was the power once wielded by the Stars Tower’s founding ancestor.

An inconceivable existence, its true nature remained unknown—even the god-demon level elites of the Stars Tower only knew that before the founder’s disappearance, a message was left requiring someone to inherit this power every hundred years.

Beyond that, no one else was permitted to inherit it.

A most contradictory command.

Even more baffling was that each heir, born every hundred years, though granted immortal hero inheritance, manifested only the strength of a relatively ordinary lower-tier hero, far below the expected immortal-level might.

Over tens of thousands of years, hundreds had been born bearing this title, yet none had broken through to legendary rank, let alone higher.

Truthfully, this piqued Chu Cheng’s curiosity.

However, the previous Lord of a Thousand Stars and Ten Thousand Suns had appeared only twenty years ago, with eighty years until the next selection. He had no chance.

Absolutely none. The original hero mark also required contact with the source of power, so without the inheritance period, one couldn’t access the Lord’s power.

Among the four immortal hero inheritances, only the Hyperdimensional Traveler held any real chance of acquisition.

The power of time—the strongest law above all, even surpassing space law.

Choosing the Hyperdimensional Traveler was risky, but Chu Cheng—

He was not worried.