g Birds, Waiting Mantis

  "Fight, keep fighting."

  Anna was immensely relieved by her as, as it was Li Aozi who angered Du Zexin, not her.

  Although it was a case of using oo kill another, and Du Zexin might not be too happy fag her in the end, a little be and pensation would smooth things over.

  Li Aozi's bat prowess was entirely beyond her expectations. For a moment, she doubted if he was the "Level 5 Ied" the professor spoke of.

  But she quickly shook her head, denying the thought.

  The Camity Theory was untenable. Sihe professor had already developed the Camity Armament and Omega Energy Awakening potion, bined with the previously adopted psychiunication by the military—why not focus ohree projects for research?

  Why be obsessed with Camity?

  To research Camity, she had abandoned humanity and would have to forsake bes too—was it worth it?

  Anna knew well that her belief and admiration for sce had long faded with time.

  Researg sce had only wasted her youth in a harsh nd, gaining nothing iurn, not even the preservation of her face.

  But wealth and power?

  Anna began to feel fortuhat she had mistakenly killed the professor.

  Although she would bear great risks for now, potentially sacrifig half of Abyss, the gain was her near-sn trol over the anization.

  As long as she led Abyss Humanitarian in its research, her power ah would stabilize, and she could establish a pany, go publid finance herself, eventually doing nothing but earning from iments.

  Then, her achievements would far surpass the professor's, even sidering... immortality?

  This term was filled with romanticism and nihilism but needed capitalism to actualize.

  Li Aozi's fshing bdes and Du Zexin's r ons—they were like beasts with greater power, easily being sves to that power if careless, how ignorant and simplistic.

  "You should see this, professor."

  Anna sighed.

  If the professor could cleverly use Frost-Pted's power, he could elevate Abyss to new heights.

  Unfortunately, history doesn't allow for what-ifs.

  Zeng—

  A strange low hum quickly approached, and Anna suddenly felt time slow down.

  The Law III agents, f a tactical formation around her, seemed to cramp up, twisting their bodies, throwing their guns wildly, or colpsing in aositions.

  When Anna lifted her head and focused her eyes, something bumped into her arms.

  "Eh?"

  She instinctively raised the obje her arms, finding it was the head of a Law III agent wearing a face mask, his eyes filled with terror, and his eyelids trembling.

  g—

  The sound of swords immediately grabbed her attention as Li Aozi's fierce bde sshed tinuously, tearing through the agents' necks. His swift, brutal, and movements left no room for escape.

  The seemingly pin long knife sparked brilliantly on tact with military rifles, ly slig through alloy and engineering pstic.

  No one could look up at him. He stood like an a king, the agents forced to bow, exposing their necks like fish being filleted or ducks being carved, their lives taken with precise, skilled ease.

  If this was a massacre, it was too effortless.

  It was more like an industrial sughter line, with movements devoid of sloppiness, as precise as a mae, each ageing one cut.

  Human precision akin to maery would be called art.

  Maery as delicate as humans would be deemed perfect.

  The swordsmanship dispyed before Anna was a bination of human and meical prowess—more precise than a mae, mile than a human.

  The war ghost's fierce aura enveloped Su Zhan, its hunger for blood and sughter maing as a faint purple fme on the bde.

  She reized this fme—Nordris's aura would simirly burst out in a bze during power surges.

  That was the aura of a 【Warrior】, bursting from the body, with the high temperature and pressure of the aura dist the air, causing light to refrato a fiery trail.

  This was a simple optical phenomeno ruthlessly divided superhumans from ordinary people.

  Ordinary people without mentorship or potions could train for decades and barely reach this level, while bureaucrats ahy youths might step into Alpha tier as they came of age.

  Sihe dawn of civilization, talent had bee sedary. The wealthy could buy education, while ordinary people had to strive just to reach others' starting lines.

  But now, it seemed different.

  The resonant bde scraped along the wall, leaving a chilling trail.

  Anna wao say something, but Li Aozi casually threw a , tying her up tightly.

  Great, two birds with oone. Now, he could interrogate her and plete dition C.

  But first, he had to greet the Unlucky.

  Li Aozi lightly shook the bde, blood spttering like rain, the ret sughter exuding a poetic brutality.

  But sughter was still sughter. Watg the experience points accumute, Li Aozi exhaled a deep breath.

  "Looks like this Omega Energy is quite useful..."

  【Soul Engraved Sword Saint ? War Ghost】 provided signifit boosts to swordsmanship, akin to an advanced specialty of a 【Warrior】.

  Moreover—Li Aozi felt that swinging the sword brought a uate.

  Unlike gaming, he could truly feel the sword's touch, hear its sound, and move with it.

  Unfortunately, he couldn't savor the moment as he had killed all 25 agents.

  "Ah... that was satisfying."

  At this rate, 【Soul Engraved Sword Saint ? War Ghost】 might evolve soon.

  He examihe purple fme on the bde. Su Zhan, an ordinary imported Tianhuan khough well-made, was just an ordinary on. Now, its bde spirit was awakening beyond simple sughter sciousness.

  Although it was at the Cosi tier (Ξ, the fourteenth Greek letter), its low energy ption a effects were satisfying.

  With the st agent sin, the system notification popped up:

  【You have pleted a settlement dition. Based on your team bes, the actual yield is 225%...】

  The previously killed Abyss nurses and doctors were too low level to t, leaving him with just enough experience for six levels.

  Although his leveling speed was already absurd among pyers, it still couldn't keep up with the current bat pace.

  【Star Abyss】 had a unique leveling mode, with experience calcuted and updated per version, causing initial data inftion and recalg post-update.

  Li Aozi's system patch was the final version, and as an NPC tempte, he didn't need further updates, ued by version ges.

  The advantage was avoiding the plex experienu, with data adapting to ges.

  Li Aozi wasn't strained by version caps, unlike pyers.

  The downside was that his leveling speed was impacted, akin to NPC growth.

  Though he hadn't noticed before, Li Aozi realized that te-version pyers' experience was more valuable than new pyers'.

  "Late-version pyers at level caps sit on piles of experience, while new pyers' experience is trivial... looks like I o cultivate elite pyers."

  Li Aozi wasn't in a hurry—Phase A testing had begun, and the beta wasn't far off.

  As long as pyers saw his ad (bounty), even if one in ten came to spend experien learning skills, he'd profit immensely.

  That's traffietization.

  With that, Li Aozi decided not to cap his level, reserving 25,000 experienutation options, dumping the rest into 【Dominion】.

  【Main Profession [Mutant] upgraded to lv.26】

  【Based on your specialty, you gain the following bes: Charisma +3.】

  Li Aozi shivered, feeling his senses enrich, the cold and dampness of the outside world barely affeg him.

  His mind pondered, gaining new insights into Omega Energy.

  Gravity iwined easily, his trol more precise, anticipating even more spectacur abilities after mastering relevant knowledge.

  "This feeling is unpreted, never activated before, yet Nomi's Omega Energy seems to repair faster—"

  Li Aozi paused, shaking his head, shifting focus.

  This raised his basic attributes to 50 points. With accessories adding 3 points and the 【Perpetual ? Love Hunt】 specialty multiplying the yield by 130%, his actual be was 68.9 points.

  This level approached Beta tier's upper limit.

  Li Aozi felt a faint whisper from the world, but his basic tier was insuffit to prehend it, so he diverted his attention.

  The focus wasn't on this but on Du Zexin, whose main attribute couldn't be as exaggerated as his.

  Even with an anti-gravity system, Li Aozi could crush him.

  Li Aozi cracked his neck, lifted his long knife, and burst out of the hall with a surge of gravity.

  "e on, Unlucky!"

  FAL