Chapter 411: The First Divine Step

The notification hovered in front of Luke, huge and impossible to ignore. It felt like the sum of every step he had taken so far, from waking up inside the Forgotten Temple Dungeon to stumbling into the tutorial and somehow beating it. Even the title notifications had been shoved aside for this one.

**You have evolved from Rank F (Half-Demon) to Rank E (Half-Demon)!**

Congratulations, Assassin and Witch. You have taken your first, crucial step toward becoming a deity. Your strength has risen significantly, your body has grown sturdier. Your soul has gained power, and your shell has become more resilient. From here on, you will walk many paths, now that you have taken the true first step.

Your attributes have been completely reshaped to fit the new configuration of your body. Due to the limitations of your mortal shell, your previous attributes could not be drawn out to their proper potential.

– At Rank F they were: Strength, Agility, Endurance, Vitality, Perception, and Intelligence.
– At Rank E they become: Strength, Lethality, Agility, Dexterity, Endurance, Vitality, Toughness, Perception, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Willpower.

Your attributes have been recalibrated to reflect their true nature. After all, an Assassin should not be focused on raising Strength, but Lethality. Your Health Points will now replenish on their own over time. Your body can even burn HP when necessary to heal injuries. And naturally, your lifespan has been extended by an additional 100 years beyond what you would have normally lived.

Only you can continue walking the path toward divinity. Many perish, many give up, and few succeed. It is up to you to decide how your story ends.

Race Bonus per Level: 2 points to all attributes and +5 Free Points.

The notification collapsed by itself the moment Luke finished reading the very last word.

“Looks like a lot changed for me,” he murmured, trying to process everything. For the first time, he realized he would live longer than his family.

Life’s cycle dictated that children outlived their parents. Everyone was born knowing that. But knowing he would live so much longer than all of them left a strange weight in his chest. He did the math quickly. Maybe he would have reached seventy, eighty if he got lucky. But now… he would live at least to one hundred seventy. Maybe two hundred.

He wouldn’t get sick like a normal human, whether because of the system or his blood. Most illnesses that ravaged the elderly wouldn’t touch him. No brittle bones, no high cholesterol, no diabetes, no malignant diseases like tumors or cancer. He would live a healthy life not because of good habits, but because his body was built to stay strong.

“As you reach the peak of a higher Rank, your lifespan grows with it,” Samael remarked. Maybe he understood what Luke was thinking, or maybe he was just reciting the script the system had handed him.

He continued, “Someone at race level forty-nine in Rank F gains fifty extra years. That one final level that pushed you into Rank E changed you completely. Now you’ll live an additional hundred years beyond what your race normally would. Congratulations. The farther one is from death, the more reason there is to celebrate.”

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Luke let the thought settle. If leveling up a race also increased his lifespan, even indirectly, that was good to know. It wasn’t just about rising in rank.

But that also meant something else: a Race Level at Rank E might not add only a single extra year of life. It could be much more.

“The average is ten additional years per level,” Sigil said, reading his thoughts without hesitation. “One Race Level at Rank E is expected to give you that. And when you reach Rank D, you gain a large bonus. For example, you just earned fifty extra years on top of the fifty you accumulated leveling to fifty.”

Ten years for a single level?

That was… undeniably not human. If he went back to living a normal life in modern society, he would naturally outlive his own children.