The Yin Sword that Yeon-woo had mastered was on a completely different level from the numerous skills and powers that existed within the Tower. The Tower’s system recognized each player who entered as data. Whenever this piece of data achieved something, it would receive a commensurate award and its stats would be adjusted. This process strongly influenced a player’s growth and made a player more dependent on the Tower’s system.

This meant that the closer a player was to transcendence, the more that player would become exposed to their dependence on the Tower’s system. Yeon-woo wanted to tear this dependence relationship apart. However, his master the Martial King had never completely escaped from the system’s influence during his lifetime, and in the end, the Martial King could not surpass Allforone.

Overcoming this dependency was not as easy as it sounded, and Yeon-woo had chosen to take a different approach. He would start all over from scratch. The Martial King had achieved a power level similar to an emperor level through exuviation and transcendence and yet could not overcome the system. That implied that it was impossible for players to become independent of the system through...