A quick bit of navigating the help menus revealed a lot of pieces of information, the most important being that I was not using my Titles to anywhere close to full effectiveness. This was due to each Title having a passive effect, and an active effect, and, as one might expect, the actives had to be activated, done either by focusing your will deep inside yourself… or just using the helpful slider in the app.

  As for what these active effects did? That ranged from becoming able to cut down trees with a touch

  to allowing me to walk on anything for 2 seconds.

  And yes, it did seem to mean literally ‘anything’ seeing as I tested it by taking three steps: off a falling drop of water, a bolt of flaming magic from the Flower of Fire, and mid-air before landing on a cobweb… which I promptly fell through the instant the 2 second limit was reached.

  Studying the list in more detail, the requirements for about half of the Titles I’d inherited from Terraria had changed in some way (such as for Timber!). These Titles had greyed-out active effects, and when I tried activating them, the slider just didn’t work. A quick cross-reference down the list confirmed this; it looked like I’d have to actually fulfil the requirements before I could use the actives for those Titles, which was a pain since some of them looked quite useful.

  However, the requirements for the greyed-out Titles were clearly listed, which was helpful.

  I glanced up at the top of the app page where it was now displaying ‘Active (1/11)’.

  “Out of 11 huh?” 11 was a slightly irregular number for an upper limit, and none of my Titles gave any indication that they’d increase that number. That suggested to me that that limit could increase, but I’d have no way of confirming that until it did, and I had no idea how I might go about doing so. Or maybe it was just out of 11. I’d have to ask someone in the Outpost, though from how my Title requirements had changed, it didn’t look like Titles were exactly common.

  “I wonder… is it a hard cap?” I turned on the active effects of the first available Titles, the counter in the top corner ticking up, until (10/11), (11/11), (12/11). A dull ache spread across my entire body, as though I’d pushed every muscle in my body just a little too far. (13/11). The pain increased, now as though someone had thrashed every inch of me with a carpet beater. A feeling washed over me, my instincts telling me that activating another would be a distinctly baaad idea. I deactivated all the active effects, returning to (0/11). Well, it was a soft cap, but clearly not one to violate without consequences.

  I continued going through the Titles. There seemed to be a few new ones.

  Destroyer Destroyer was pretty mundane, and it was good to see confirmation of the passive effects Tear and I had already worked out for Master of the Abyss Tower, but the really interesting ones were the crafting Titles; I guessed this was the God of Reincarnation’s solution to fitting Terraria's instant crafting into a real world.

  I absent-mindedly got out of bed and wandered down to the kitchen, activating Legendary Craftsman, Temporally Compressed Craftsman, and Ultimate Efficiency Craftsman as I did so.

  I left 5 minutes later with a laden plate, a wide buffet of various foods spread out across a table for Tear to find. It turns out that those Titles don’t completely click with preparing food; I reckon there’re specialised Chef Titles that do the same with food.

  I headed two levels to the crafting floor to really do some testing. Start with the basics: a wooden work bench. Making a work bench required flattening out some pieces of wood with a sharp tool and connecting them together. It didn't really seem to matter what tool was used when under temporal compression, I tested both the laser drill and a copper axe and the difference in time they took to shape the wood was so miniscule it was almost completely insignificant.

  Moving on to something more complicated, I started crafting an iron sword from scratch, starting with chucking some ore into a furnace to smelt. Touching the furnace, I instinctively knew I could accelerate the process, so I did, the metal separating from its impurities (which were pulled directly into my inventory), forming into bars, and rapidly cooling. From there, I could heat and shape it on the anvil in about half a second without putting it anywhere near a furnace. Which was… well… really weird. Forging metal like that had no basis in reality, there had to be some kind of magic involved even though none of it incurred any mana cost at all, not even the temporal compression, which I was somehow using without any conscious thought.

  Through every step, the Titles guided me, ensuring every action was perfect, from adding carbon to the raw iron, to shaping the metal, to sharpening the blade. Overall, the iron sword took less than 10 seconds to complete.

  One extra benefit from the process was that the knowledge and skill imparted by the crafting Titles was retained - I could create everything the long way without any difficulty, should I feel the need to.

  “Hmmm…” I hefted my hammer and got to work.

  Almost a full hour of crafting various random bits and pieces to fill in my crafting experience and skill later, I lounged back in my chair in the Library and scrolled down to the final new Title.

  “Need to summon them at some point,” I muttered, rereading the description slowly, then scrolling to the two Titles that interested me the most. ‘Champion of Terraria’ and ‘Slayer of Worlds’.

  ‘Champion of Terraria’ was a Title that allows the transformation of any race into a Terrarian, which seemed straightforward enough, with the exceptions of the mention of ‘apotheosis’ -becoming a god-and the bit about not being under any god’s authority. Reading the contents of the Terrarian racial gifts was… enlightening. Slayer of Worlds on the other hand, was anything but.

  I scratched my head. “I still have no idea what this means.” I reread the description of the active effect; still no idea, but it sounds interesting. I shrugged and clicked the ‘Y’ option, the line disappearing from the description. As it vanished, the Bestiary app opened itself, its pages scrolling past faster and faster, each of the ‘?’ slots filling with a greyed-out monster name and rough location.

  A grin slowly spread itself across my face. With this, it was more than plausible to actually complete this achievement. A flame deep within kindled into wakefulness, a gleam of predatory intent shining in my eyes.

  fine. Just fine. I hate it though.

  Waaay too OP.