As for him…
The gains were far bigger than expected.
Aside from the 363 million Apocalypse Points he still had left, his biggest harvest was the upgrade and transformation of his Chaos Wings.
When he wiped out the star system of the Destroyer Swarm, every single interstellar bug in that entire system was killed. A vast, unimaginable amount of sinful power was absorbed by the Wings of Sin.
Relying on that power, he forcibly pushed the Chaos Wings from Lv.7 to Lv.8.
What was weird was that the Chaos Wings now felt kind of lopsided.
Even though the Chaos Wings were one whole, the power of the Wings of Sin and the Wings of Redemption were actually separate. This Lv.8 had been raised purely by the Wings of Sin—there was no change at all in the Wings of Redemption.
Still, the Wings of Sin had changed dramatically.
At the most basic level, every aspect of its abilities was stronger, and the Sin Apostles it could convert were stronger, too.
In fact, among everyone, the strongest weren't the ones with the most overpowered abilities like Yukino—it was Marin and Mrs. Yukinoshita.
Because their Sin Apostle bodies had already been raised to Lv.6.
Their physical strength was the highest among all of them; even Yukino's ice power would find it extremely hard to injure them.
And beyond that…
All the traits the Twelve Wings of Sin used to possess had turned into real, controllable abilities—numerous ones, and wildly diverse.
Tatsuki called them the Seven Deadly Sins, each sin representing its own power.
And sinful power as a whole could also be subdivided into seven kinds of sinful power, each corresponding to one of the seven sins.
[Gluttony]: Demon Beast Creation and Famine Bestowal
Both were upgrades of the Gluttony Witch Daphne's abilities.
Demon Beast Creation: Use the power of Gluttony to freely create demonic beast lifeforms with specific traits.
Famine Bestowal: Condense a demonic eye with the power of Gluttony. Anyone who meets its gaze will be cursed with endless hunger.
[Lust]: Allure of All Living Beings and Reality Rewrite
Allure of All Living Beings was an upgrade of the Lust Witch Carmilla's ability.
Reality Rewrite should be an upgrade of the Vainglory Witch Pandora's ability—though he didn't understand why Pandora's power was categorized under Lust.
Allure of All Living Beings: Gather an aspect of seduction with the power of Lust and bewitch all living beings.
Reality Rewrite: Use sinful power to directly alter certain things in reality according to his will, with additional effects including manifestation, rewriting history, and affecting the future.
The special thing about Reality Rewrite was that it relied on sinful power as a whole, not any one of the subdivided seven-sin powers.
[Greed]: Gene Control
Greed was special as well. It didn't come from the Witch of Greed, Echidna—it came from the interstellar swarm.
Gene Control: Use the power of Greed to copy a lifeform's genes, modify them, fuse them, and grant genes to lifeforms.
[Wrath]: Twisted Healing
An upgrade of the Wrath Witch Minerva's ability.
Twisted Healing: Use the power of Wrath to heal while simultaneously inflicting pain upon life.
[Envy]: Eroding Shadow
An upgrade of the Witch of Envy, Satella's ability.
Eroding Shadow: Condense a shadow that erodes all things with the power of Envy.
[Sloth]: Eternal Sleep
An upgrade of the Sloth Witch Sekhmet's ability.
Eternal Sleep: Use the power of Sloth to plunge life into eternal slumber.
[Pride]: Judgment of Good and Evil
An upgrade of the Pride Witch Typhon's ability.
Judgment of Good and Evil: Use the power of Pride to erode those in pain and pass judgment on good and evil—evildoers will suffer so badly they'll wish they were dead.
All these abilities made Tatsuki see the limitless possibilities of the Chaos Wings.
If the Wings of Sin could evolve like this… what about the Wings of Redemption?
The thought only lingered for a moment. There were more important things right in front of him.
Tatsuki licked the corner of his mouth. The main event was here—open the ability enhancement function.
With 363 million Apocalypse Points, he was going to spend what he could and jack himself up fast!
First, he confirmed his SS-rank abilities: Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and Origin of Space—both from Lv.8 to Lv.9.
[Ding! 100 million Apocalypse Points consumed!]
[Ding! Origin of Space has been upgraded to Lv.9!]
[Ding! 100 million Apocalypse Points consumed!]
[Ding! Myriad-World Mystic Eyes of Death Perception has been upgraded to Lv.9!]
He didn't choose to raise the Chaos Wings with points, because he could level those up on his own. Better to spend points on other abilities.
Next were Vector Manipulation and Zanpakutō Dominator at Lv.7. Upgrading each to Lv.8 cost 25 million Apocalypse Points.
[Ding! Zanpakutō Dominator has been upgraded to Lv.8!]
[Ding! Vector Manipulation has been upgraded to Lv.8!]
Then came Gluttony and King of Time at Lv.6.
Gluttony counted as one of his scalable abilities now.
If Gluttony had been upgraded back then, it would've taken off the moment it swallowed an entire star system's explosion in the Apocalypse Game… what a waste.
After thinking it over, Tatsuki decided to push both abilities straight to Lv.8.
[Ding! Gluttony has been upgraded to Lv.8!]
[Ding! King of Time has been upgraded to Lv.8!]
With 53 million Apocalypse Points left, Tatsuki casually maxed out Intuition too—though this danger-sense sixth instinct didn't seem like it would get many chances to shine.
[Ding! 650,000 Apocalypse Points consumed!]
[Ding! Intuition has been upgraded to Lv.6!]
Lv.6 was already the cap for an A-rank ability.
Compared to S-rank abilities, the gap was like heaven and earth. Right now, S-rank abilities could still be raised up to Lv.9.
"Anything below S-rank is just an ant."
Tatsuki sighed, and he had a feeling that this might be the limit for S-rank abilities.
SS-rank abilities, though, could still be raised to Lv.10—and that required 1 billion Apocalypse Points!
[Note: Ability levels are different from Apocalypse star ratings; they don't stop at 12 levels.]
An even more absurd number.
This time, he'd basically tricked the Apocalypse Game and freeloaded hundreds of millions of Apocalypse Points.
To scrape together 1 billion the normal way… that was practically impossible.
[Human]: Tatsuki
[Points]: 52.35 million
[Apocalypse]: omitted.
[Abilities]:
B-rank: Physical Enhancement (Lv.4), Lightning Dharma: Yin Lightning (Lv.4), Six Powers (Lv.4), Armament Haki (Lv.4), Observation Haki (Lv.4)
A-rank: Intuition (Lv.6)
S-rank: Gemstone Vector Manipulation (Lv.8), Zanpakuto Dominator (Lv.8), Gluttony (Lv.8), King of Time (Lv.8)
SS-rank: Myriad-World Mystic Eyes of Death Perception (Lv.9), Chaos Wings (Lv.8), Origin of Space (Lv.9)
That was his current build.
He closed the Apocalypse chat group.
In the instant it took Tatsuki to exhale, he immediately felt the change in his body.
Endless power surged.
Every kind of force swelled, and he felt as if his perspective was rising at insane speed.
When it finally stabilized…
His vision held the entire universe—an almost infinite cosmos—yet in his eyes, it became the finite within the infinite…