4: Chapter 4: The Terrifying Three Sequences!

"What? A System?!"

Su Ming, who was on the verge of losing consciousness, felt a roar explode in his mind!

He shuddered violently, struggling back from the edge of darkness by sheer force of will.

"As expected, Heaven doesn't starve the blind sparrow."

He just knew it; the System wouldn't mistreat any transmigrator from the Blue Star Dragon Country!

Gritting his teeth, Su Ming used the last ounce of strength in his arms to roll over, propping his back against the edge of the bed.

"System, come out! Let me see what you look like!"

There was no response in his mind.

"Hello? System?"

"Don't act so cold and aloof. We're family now, so at least make a sound."

[Host, please view the status panel directly. This System does not possess a chat function.]

Su Ming's eyes lit up.

"View panel!"

The next instant, a blue, semi-transparent panel that only he could see slowly unfolded in the center of his vision.

[Host: Su Ming]

[Realm: Tier 1 · Black Iron]

[Life Form: First Life Form (Carbon-based Mortal)]

[True Mass: 76kg (+)]

[mass points: 0]

[Promotion Progress: 7.6% (Need to consume 924kg of pure mass to promote to the next tier)]

Below the talents were three slots emitting a dark golden glow.

[Sequence 1: Mass Amplification] (The evolved form of the original F-grade talent "Increasingly Heavy") Your True Mass increases by a fixed 1% of its current value daily (No upper limit).

[Sequence 2: Mass Reconstruction] (The repaired form of the side effect "Osteoporosis") Your body's load-bearing capacity increases synchronously with your mass. When your life form undergoes a transition or metamorphosis, your body will automatically reconstruct. You can also actively consume mass points to perform emergency repairs on damaged body parts.

[Sequence 3: Mass Devouring] Your body becomes a microscopic black hole. Through direct contact, you can devour any solid matter containing mass and energy, converting it into mass points for storage. Active devouring will allow you to break through faster.

Su Ming stared at these words for a full ten seconds, confirming that he wasn't dreaming because he had fainted from pain.

Then he narrowed his eyes, beginning to understand and digest these three "God-tier cheats."

Sequence 1, Mass Amplification.

Increases by 1% of the current value daily.

The previous F-grade talent only increased by 0.1% per day; now it's directly increased tenfold?

As a top student who consistently ranked first in theoretical classes, he was extremely sensitive to numbers.

The power of compound interest is a terrifying existence that 99% of people in this world underestimate.

His current body weight is 76kg.

Increasing by 0.1% daily, over 365 days, it would only rise to about 110kg.

Combined with the side effect, his ultimate fate would be that of a flabby, useless weakling weighing over two hundred jin who would fracture a bone just from walking.

What about that 1% daily increase?

He closed his eyes, running through the calculations in his head at lightning speed.

Today 76kg, tomorrow 76.76kg, the day after 77.53kg...

1.01 to the power of 365...

Su Ming calculated silently for a few seconds, arriving at a number that sent chills down his spine.

His weight after one year would skyrocket to—2872kg!

"Nearly three tons!"

Su Ming gasped.

One is 110kg, the other is 2872kg.

Both increase by a little bit every day, yet the results differ by twenty-six times.

A Tier 1 adult Ironclad Pig weighs at most 2 tons.

And he, Su Ming, even if he did nothing, lying around watching shows and playing games every day.

Would turn into a 2.8-ton humanoid monster in a year.

This number would continue to snowball!

The second year, it would reach 108 tons!

That's the weight of a Tier 3 beast, right?!

As for Tier 4, he hadn't even seen one yet.

And the panel even wrote three words—No upper limit.

Einstein said compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world; he certainly didn't deceive me.

He didn't dare to calculate what his weight would be in the fifth or tenth year.

That number would be so large it would have no physical meaning.

Or rather, by that point, he himself would be the physical meaning.

However, he also knew that relying solely on passive growth was too slow.

Only reaching over two tons in a year wasn't even enough to fill the gaps in the teeth of that S-grade Zhao Kuo.

He needed it to be faster.

Su Ming swallowed, his gaze shifting to the second sequence.

Sequence 2, Mass Reconstruction.

The moment he finished reading the description, Su Ming subconsciously moved his limbs.

Then he froze.

His body was indeed no longer heavy.

On the way back from the Awakening Hall, his bones felt like they were filled with mercury, and his knees protested with every step he took.

But now, that sense of oppression had vanished completely.

He tried bending his legs, standing up, and squatting down again.

There was no strange noise from his kneecaps; he even felt his bones were sturdier than before the awakening.

"Bone load-bearing capacity increases synchronously with mass..."

Su Ming whispered the text on the panel, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

This meant that no matter how high Sequence 1 pushed his mass.

One hundred kilograms, one thousand kilograms, one hundred thousand kilograms!

His bones would automatically adapt; they would never be crushed by his own weight.

It turned out that the despair-inducing side effect "Osteoporosis" wasn't eliminated; it was directly flipped into supporting infrastructure.

It was like building an engine that would never blow a cylinder.

Wait!

Something's not right!

Su Ming's brain raced, and he suddenly realized a more terrifying physical blind spot.

"What about volume?"

He looked down at his body.

His physique hadn't changed at all.

He was still that 1.85-meter, lanky teenage frame.

So, the question arose.

Mass is increasing, volume remains unchanged.

Then what is changing?

"Density!"

Su Ming sat up straight abruptly, a sharp gleam bursting in his eyes.

With his 1.85-meter lanky frame, his volume is about 0.075 cubic meters, and his density is about the same as water, around 1050kg per cubic meter.

But what if his weight skyrockets to 2872 kilograms in a year?

Volume unchanged, mass surges to nearly three tons!

2872 divided by 0.075...

The density will reach 38,000kg per cubic meter!

The density of steel is only 7800, and tungsten is only 19,300.

In other words, in one year, the average density of his body will be five times that of steel! Twice that of tungsten!

His bones, muscle fibers, blood, skin—every single cell will be reconstructed by mass into a super-high-density form!

This means that ordinary bullets hitting him wouldn't even break his skin.

Alloy swords and blades hacking at him would only shatter on the spot.

Those defensive-type Awakeners in the academy.

Some rely on Earth Escape techniques to cover their body surface with rock armor.

Some rely on Metallization talents to harden their skin into an iron shell.

And him?

He doesn't need to add anything.

By virtue of his physical density alone, he is already standing at the ceiling of carbon-based life.

And this density is still growing at the speed of compound interest!

"What if it reaches 108 tons?"

Su Ming clenched his fists tightly, his breathing becoming heavy.

"My muscles, blood, internal organs, even the molecular structure of a single hair, will be infinitely compressed and densified!"

"Ultimate mass is absolute defense."

He looked down at his right arm.

There were still scorch marks left by Zhao Kuo's fireball and the faint pain of a hairline fracture.

Right now, this injury could still cause him pain. But the corners of Su Ming's mouth curled up slightly, his eyes surging with irrepressible anticipation.

Once his density increased a few more times, that S-grade fireball Zhao Kuo was so proud of would probably be like roasting an iron door with a lighter.

Just then, a line of small text popped up on the panel:

[Detected hairline fracture of the right ulna, moderate burns to muscle tissue, 18% muscle tissue damage. Repair requires consuming mass points: 20 points.]

"Son of a bitch, Zhao Kuo!"

He cursed under his breath, then glanced at his mass points: 0.

"Poor."

Su Ming sighed.

Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice; no matter how strong the repair function is, it's useless if the account balance is zero.

But it didn't matter.

Because he still had the third sequence.

And it was the most important sequence of all.

Sequence 3, Mass Devouring.

"Microscopic black hole... Through direct contact, devour all solid matter containing mass and energy, converting it into stored mass points."

Su Ming read this passage over and over three times.

All. Solid. Matter.

Su Ming slowly looked around his low-rent apartment.

Everything in this room, theoretically, could be eaten?

Su Ming suppressed the restlessness in his heart to try it out and began to rethink.

The true terror of this Sequence 3 did not lie in itself.

The description "devour all solid matter" was already perverted enough.

But what would happen if it overlapped with the "passive growth" of Sequence 1?

Su Ming was excited again and again and again...!

The most critical part of the compound interest formula is not the interest rate, but the principal.

This is not addition.

This is cheating on the base of an exponential function.

"This, this, this... this is absolutely insane!"

Unable to hold back the ecstasy in his heart any longer, he impatiently pressed his left palm onto a thick theoretical textbook on his bedside table.

He silently chanted in his mind.

"Devour!"