Arlon was happy.
No—he was more than happy.
He felt powerful.
He felt alive.
This wasn't just another level-up. It was something else entirely. A threshold. A line crossed into a new realm of existence.
He had never seen anything like this before. Not in this life, not in the last.
In his previous life, he'd made it to level 250. That had felt like a miracle at the time.
A limit that few could even dream of reaching. But now—this was different.
Level 300 wasn't just a number.
It changed something inside him.
He could feel it in every breath he took, in the way his mana surged through his body, in how the world around him seemed just a little slower now, a little more within his grasp.
There were many more things he could feel after reaching this level.
It was exhilarating.
And yet…
That thrill came with something else. Something darker.
A thought. A whisper.