Lin Yuan carefully thought back over his earlier actions, his attention turning to one particular detail.
After he had destroyed the crystal, when the Red Anglerfish had attacked him in fury, something inconspicuous had happened.
At the time, the Red Anglerfish had fired a beam at him. It had paused on the surface of his body for an almost imperceptible instant before striking him.
Lin Yuan stared at his current A-rank transcendent energy reserve of 0/10, lost in thought.
He distinctly remembered that when he had upgraded the Energy Storage Tank to A-rank, its reserve should have been 7/10.
Afterward, killing the Crawlers Elder with one strike and shattering the crystal had consumed 5 points of energy.
He should still have had 2 points left.
Those 2 points had been consumed at some unknown moment.
Now, it seemed that when the Red Anglerfish had attacked him, those 2 points had resisted the attack for an instant.
Approximately 0.2 seconds.
"My A-rank transcendent energy can counteract the power of authority?"
Lin Yuan murmured to himself.
If that was truly the case, it was simply incredible.
Transcendent energy suppressing transcendent skills of the same rank could still be explained by the comparison of a steel block against a steel blade.
But A-rank energy counteracting the power of authority went somewhat beyond Lin Yuan's understanding.
After all, Authority Power overwhelmed ordinary transcendent power on a fundamental level.
The difference between the two was like the difference between a solid and a gas.
Under normal circumstances, the gap between Double A-rank and S-rank experts in terms of their bodies and transcendent skills was not large.
But the Authority Power that S-rank experts controlled through relics widened that gap to an unbelievable extent.
Until an S-rank expert exhausted the Authority Power within their relic, a