itive Trap

  Blood slid dowip of the bde, the tinuous and unbroken trail resembling red agate rolling over mbskin.

  Red.

  It was a bright, vivid, lively color, trasting sharply with the cold, merciless gray bde. This red-white opposition, iwined, created a visual impact like a punch to the eyes, stinging, ag, yet more pelling than anything else.

  Shh—

  Li Aozi slowly withdrew the long bde from the skull of the eleventh Camity Armament girl. The cold bde emerged from the warm blood, emitting a sharp, thin whistling soue being soaked.

  Gugugeaaaa...

  Like a strange bird or a malevolent ghost, the sword's cry resohrough the bones of his hand, peing his brain, craving more.

  "Want more..."

  Snap.

  Li Aozi flipped his wrist, bent his left arm, and cmped the bde's ba his elbow joint, slowly drawing the long bde and using his sleeve to gently wipe off the blood.

  It was said that in Tianhuan samurai swordsmanship, there was a "blood shake" teique that could flick off blood with a light shake of the bde, but Li Aozi felt that wiping it with his sleeve was er, as the e wouldn’t get dirty anyway.

  There weren’t many imported swords from Tianhuan, and ordinary meraries and bounty hunters who got one wouldn't keep it, either selling it or keeping it as a treasure.

  Li Aozi remembered that there were no famous cold ons in Frost-Pted. Men there, generally less educated, especially liked firearms and cyberic modifications, as well as hand-to-hand martial arts, which had almost no barriers to learning.

  Tianhuan was different. Their national characteristics made them worship soldiers and personal martial prowess, regardless of background in. All csses revered martial arts and had a strong dueling culture. A Tianhuan citizen itting murder would not be arrested if they joihe military and served in battle.

  Hehe best cold ons iire Azure Star were there.

  Li Aozi, following the 【Dominion】 path, couldn’t undergo modifications or impnts, so Frost-Pted's rare impnts and firearms held no allure for him.

  He wasn't in a hurry to head to Red Arrow. The pce had been peaceful i years, unsuitable for him.

  Li Aozi had long pnned; his destination was Tianhuan, the best pce to hone bat skills and acquire quality ons.

  He knew of two hiddes for [Masterpiece] ons there— pleting Frost-Pted’s quest, he estimated he’d have the level and strength to obtain them.

  As for now...

  "O."

  He looked at the st bio-pod, slowly stepping over the fallen bodies of the boys and girls, moving forward.

  These people’s Omega energy levels were low, so Li Aozi directly extracted and crushed them, st the Omega energy sequences for future enha.

  Currently, none of the Omega energies stored in his ability pods truly suited his needs; he used whichever was useful.

  As frowth potential— apart from 【Iterative Movement】 and 【Por Day Radiance】 having future prospects, he kept 【Directed Explosion】 and 【Ionic Shock】 for supplementing le damage.

  Plop… plop...

  Snow’s buff effect slightly influenced Li Aozi— in his view, the emotionless death of these mind-wiped children seemed particurly ironic.

  pared to Sonya before, the third-geion Camity Armaments were colder and more ruthless, pletely losing human traits.

  They were made into odities, stripped of names aions, reduced to numbers repg their personalities, the term Camity Armament erasing their existence’s meaning.

  Li Aozi recalled the Camity Armament boy he had drained of Omega energy earlier, who seemed to gain a moment of crity before death, tearfully begging for death.

  What had they experienced?

  Where did they e from?

  What kind of modifications and experiments made death a luxury?

  Li Aozi didn’t care. For these children, there was o remember them.

  The only thing the living could do was kill all the Abyss doctors, burying them with these children.

  The st bio-pod stood alone, serene and well-behaved, like the good child in a group who never annoyed anyone. Although always well-behaved, no oiced it.

  Li Aozi didn’t dare be careless.

  The third-geion Camity Armaments had all sorts of Omega energies; during the ret sughter, tha-css Camity Armaments even mao injure him.

  He sheathed the long bde but maintaihe posture for drawing it. The so-called Iaido teique was actually just a surprise-draw teique. With the 【Soul Carved Sword Saint ? Battle Ghost】 enha, he could simply unicate with the bde’s sciousness.

  This way, even if the Camity Armament in the bio-pod had a stroal Omega energy, he could rely on the sword’s unication to perform the Iaido teique.

  Li Aozi thought carefully, sidering Snow’s buff and Nomi’s near-fatal attack— these made him pay special attention to his safety.

  The gravity field silently opened around him. If the Camity Armament in the bio-pod used gunfire or physical attacks, gravity would deflect them. Even if not pletely diverted, he could use 【Iterative Movement】 to move to safety or directly terattack.

  Or he could directly trigger 【Por Day Radiance】. With the blinding light’s strong trol ability, he could defeat the oppo.

  He envisioned various possibilities as he approached the st bio-pod.

  He gave Qiu Ran, who was far away, a look. If there roblem inside, Qiu Ran should immediately close the elevator door aurn to the first floor, waiting for him to ha and then act together.

  'Stay safe.'

  Qiu Ran reminded him from dozens of meters away.

  g—

  Li Aozi raised his sword stance, his eyes lighting up with purple circles.

  His gaze was serious, holding his breath, 【Soul Carved Sword Saint】 activating, exuding a ferocious ghostly aura.

  At the tact level of development, he could begin to unicate with the sword’s sciousness.

  For some reason, the st bio-pod particurly unnerved him, like a thorn in his hand, impossible to ignore.

  The long bde named "Suzan" was already impatient, the ret sughter insuffit to awaken its true 'self,' merely stirring its ferocity, urging Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi gripped the hilt.

  The bio-pod remained silent.

  It seemed the Camity Armament inside hadn’t pleted, prematurely killed by some unforeseen factor.

  Was that really the case?

  Gugeaaa...

  Even the bde began to doubt, emitting a faint whimper, but Li Aozi still trusted his judgment.

  Time passed slowly, and from afar, Qiu Rahe atmosphere growing more tense, as if someone hidden in the dark was watg them.

  "...Fet it."

  Just then, Li Aozi suddenly rexed, his shoulders slumping. He spread his hands, abandoning the standoff and turning to leave.

  "I’m just being paranoid, it’s fine, Qiu—"

  As he turned, Qiu Ran saw the bio-pod silently open, a humanoid figure slowly standing up.

  The figure rapidly ged, donning a yellow-bck sger coat, lifting its head to reveal an indescribably eerie face— eyes set wide apart, features separated vertically but f a precise symmetry, with thick lips, expressionless, hollow eyes fixed on Li Aozi, its muscur tradually aligning with his.

  It spread its arms, sloroag from behind, reag for Li Aozi’s neck.

  "Behind you—"

  Before Qiu Ran could shout, Li Aozi suddenly lowered his body, stepped back half a step, dodged the grab, and flicked the swuard, drawing the long bde.

  Gravity enhahirty times acceleration!

  Soul Carved ? Battle Ghost!

  Ferocious aura ed around the bde, stirring substantial fmes, the bde instantly reag, ly slig a precise bloodline from waist to shoulder.

  Like a monk draping a kasaya.

  "Damn..."

  Li Aozi, after sshing, noticed the corpse’s resembo himself, shuddering violently:

  "How dare the Abyss take this— this isn’t an Omega awakener, it’s a fake person from the terfeit Society!"

  This wasn’t a simple mimic. Li Aozi, seeing the distinctive, horrific face, was deeply shocked by the Abyss’s greed and ignorance.

  The terfeit Society— Phylolith. Civilized predators lurkiween narratives, and fakes were their "citizens" and depes.

  Introdug it this way might be hard for pyers to uand.

  Simply put:

  Phylolith was one of the main reasons the Azure Star was bombed by the Galexy civilization.

  FAL