Rapturous Divide

*Between the Abyss and Arcadia is an endless chasm.*

## Summary

Rapturous Divide is a peak-quality E-Grade skill that Zac gained from his level 76 skill quest for his E=Grade Edge of Arcadia class. It infuses his Life and Death Daos into two sequential swings that send out clouds of Life and Death that create a crack in space to cut in half anything hit by the clouds. Later on when his Dao Control improves he can braid his two Daos together and only needs a single swing to deliver the attack. Zac at first uses Chop, and later on Nature's Edge, to create the fractal to deliver the attack and determine the width of the strike. The strike becomes both more fell and glorious as its proficiency increases.

## Skill Quest

* Rapturous Divide (Class): Split Life and Death. Reward: Rapturous Divide Skill (0/1). **Book 5, Chapter 74**
* Zac stood up, pushed forward by an intangible momentum, and he swiped his right hand through the air as though his hand were a bladed weapon. A shudder spread forward, as the swing actually was infused with the Fragment of the Bodhi. ... However, the moment Zac swung his palm, the fighting stopped, and a clean line of demarcation could be seen. The Miasma spread to an invisible line but didn’t move an inch further. Order had been brought to the area, and life was split from death. This was thanks to Zac’s latest insight into the Fragment of the Bodhi, ... But it had been enough to reach his goal, and Zac opened his Quest screen to check it out. **Book 6, Chapter 7**
* [Rapturous Divide (Class): Split Life and Death. Reward: Rapturous Divide Skill (1/1) COMPLETE] **Book 6, Chapter 7**

## Skill Location

**Left Arm**

A fractal appeared the next moment, taking a spot on his left arm, essentially mirroring the fractal for **[Nature’s Punishment**] on his right. **Book 6, Chapter 7**

## Skill Window

[E] Rapturous Divide – Proficiency: Early. Between the Abyss and Arcadia is an endless chasm. Upgradeable. **Book 6, Chapter 14**

[E] Rapturous Divide - Proficiency: Peak. Between the Abyss and Arcadia is an endless chasm. Upgradeable. **Chapter 898**

## Early Proficiency

* He quickly pushed Cosmic Energy into **[Chop]** as well, and a terrifyingly large fractal blade grew out from **[Verun’s Bite]**. ... However, a change quickly spread out through the blade as a powerful twinned surge of energy shot into the fractal edge from his left arm. ... The blade grew even larger and more robust as a new set of overlapping fractals covered its length, one golden and one black. ... He infused the edge with the Fragment of the Coffin before swinging it in a wide horizontal arc toward the hundreds of enormous eagles ... The fractal edge didn’t shoot toward the beasts like how **[Chop]** usually worked, but it remained attached to his axe while a black wave instead came flooding out from it. The wave was extremely swift, and it covered a large number of the eagles before they even had a chance to react. ... he knew he had only completed the first half going by how the fractal edge had turned pure golden by this point. The air screamed as he swung his axe once more, and another wave shot out, this one looking like a wave of sunlight breaking through the clouds. ... The golden wave passed through the flock of birds as well, and a shocking change occurred. A clear line ran straight across the flock, with the upper side only holding the golden sheen, and the lower side drenched in darkness. ... The odd scene only lasted for an instant before the horizon cracked, the dividing line between gold and black turning into a crack in space itself. Two opposite shockwaves spread out, one toward the sky and one toward the ground. Hundreds of birds fell apart mid-flight, looking like they had been cut apart by a laser. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* ... that single strike had cost him almost 10 percent of his total Cosmic Energy reserves. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* ... soon confirmed that **[Rapturous Divide]** could be used again after three minutes. **Book 6, Chapter 14**

## Middle/Late Proficiency

* No textual information.

## Peak Proficiency

* A ferocious storm slammed into the peak proficiency **[Rapturous Divide]**, but Zac was full of purpose now that he was so close to reaching his goal. **Chapter 808**
* A small golden palace appeared in the sky as hymns of Arcadia drenched the surroundings in life. Meanwhile, a bottomless ravine appeared beneath, almost sucking Zac's soul inside as he looked at it. The space between the two visions was just a hairline, but that thin line was an uncrossable divide that shot toward the two beasts. **Chapter 808**

## Synergy

* Normally, Zac would require around three minutes before he could use **[Rapturous Divide]** again, but the golden energy from the berserking skill was already pouring into the divided skill fractal. It would be a minute at most before he could use it again. **Chapter 1,070**

## Commentary

* The fractal looked a lot different, forming two completely separate lines that didn’t have one single fractal that connected each side. The only fractal until now that had even been a little bit similar was **[Cyclic Strike]**, though these fractals were a lot more intricate. **Book 6, Chapter 7**
* However, he did notice that the two lines looked far more intricate compared to his previous skills, like it was an embroidery using extremely fine silk threads compared to the coarse rope of the F-grade skills. **Book 6, Chapter 7**
* Of course, he knew that he had pushed the skill hard, and he realized now that he didn’t actually need to use a hundred-meter blade to create it. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* He could have activated the skill by adding a small half-meter edge over **[Verun’s Bite]** as well, which would allow him to use the skill in a one-on-one melee battle. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* However, the skill [*referring to Chop*] was still useful, not only as a delivery method for his E-grade skill [*referring to Rapturous Divide*], but on its own. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* He quickly figured out that his maximum limit of the skill was a 150-meter spatial tear, while he actually realized there was a lower limit as well at 75 centimeters. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* Just activating the skill was the cause of over half of the energy expenditure, while the length of the tear added an almost linear expenditure. **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* The strength of the attack was based on the length of the tear as well, with the shorter tear unleashing a more intense wave of destruction. However, the shortest tear was at best twice as strong as the largest one, ... **Book 6, Chapter 14**
* The separate clouds didn’t hold any individual power; they were only useful if they worked together. **Book 6, Chapter 16**
* **[Blighted Cut]** actually took the exact same spot as **[Rapturous Divide]**, **Book 6, Chapter 26**
* [*Wound caused by Sword Intent in Thea*] even exceeding the sharpness of the cuts he formed with **[Rapturous Divide]**. **Book 6, Chapter 36**
* By the time the two energies of **[Rapturous Divide]** reached the wolves, they were all but hollowed out. **Book 6, Chapter 74**
* But the darkness that Zac could see through the cracks rather reminded Zac of the bleak blackness of the Abyss he could glimpse through **[Rapturous Divide]** rather than the empty darkness of outer space. **Book 6, Chapter 85**
* The spatial divide had actually split the creature in two, but it almost looked like Zac’s attack was just an illusion. There were no wounds, no nothing. It was like spatial tears had no effect on the Void Beast. **Book 7, Chapter 26**
* The divide of **[Rapturous Divide]** had only lasted for a few seconds before it was finally overpowered by the frenzied assault of the army. **Book 7, Chapter 30**
* A huge leaf appeared in front of his blade, and it immediately gained a golden luster before a radiant wave flew out, quickly followed by one of pure death. **Book 8, Chapter 38**
* One tree after another toppled as the Twilight Energy in the surroundings was reduced to its base components, pushing the lethality of the skill to unprecedented levels. **Book 8, Chapter 38**
* It tried to erect a barrier; even a D-grade beast’s defenses proved insufficient to deal with [Rapturous Divide] empowered by [Arcadian Crusade] and the ocean itself. **Book 8, Chapter 43**
* The two waves melded, prompting a two-colored sun to erupt a few meters ahead of him. But Zac frowned when he saw that the divide between the Abyss and Arcadia had failed to open up a path out of this place. **Chapter 788**
* Meanwhile, **[Blighted Cut]** was technically a finisher, but it required a few steps to set up. It was also quite cheap, with its finisher being even below **[Rapturous Divide]** in raw damage output. **Chapter 788**
* The creature was too powerful. Even with **[Adamance of Eoz]** and his robust infusion of a Dao Braid, the temple of Arcadia was fast crumbling under the pressure. The Abyssal chasm wasn't much better off, and it looked like it was collapsing unto itself. **Chapter 818**
* He had reached a method Kalo called divergence, and Zac suspected the theories within were the foundation for, or at least related to, **[Rapturous Divide]**. **Chapter 865**
* It [**[Conformation of Supremacy]**] wasn’t nearly as good at dealing with crowds as the explosion of blades **[Nature’s Edge]** could release, but its lethality was close to half of **[Rapturous Divide]**’s while still being a repeatable attack. **Chapter 869**
* Since learning to form his crude Dao Braids, Zac no longer needed to swing twice to activate his skill. **Chapter 883**
* It was actually the vortex on Alea's coffin lid that had grown in size. It probably looked like a gateway to the abyss, one even more palpable than the darkness of **[Rapturous Divide]**. **Chapter 904**
* Thanks to **[Rapturous Divide]** and his study of the theories in the Book of Duality, Zac had a pretty good idea of what Billy or the Realm Spirit were planning. **Chapter 909**
* Simultaneously, a huge hundred-meter leaf appeared in front of **[Verun's Bite**]. The blade was almost as tall as the creature and contained the truths of the Abyss and Arcadia. The blade fell, and the world was delineated. A spatial divide cut the huge creature in two, creating a ten-meter-wide corridor of nothingness. The blade lingered for a few seconds, disintegrating any corpses that tried to move toward the other side of the unbridgeable chasm of **[Rapturous Divide]**. **Chapter 993**