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I can’t run away... Tch, he did want to run and then beco a Dusk rcenary, but there was no choice in the matter.
Accumulating more rit points could grant a chance to retain them, four hundred at a ti. Zheng Yichen asked if more rit points could exempt him from being a Proxy Agent.
Tia’s response was very cold.
——No!
By the way, Zheng Yichen got 44 rit points this ti, which could be considered his biggest harvest yet. What ca to mind was the person who brought the light pillars.
Those people were wiped out by him, akin to farming a large wave of monsters, yielding quite a number of Gold Coins, right?
Adding the remaining rit points from before, he now had 63 rit points.
When it ca to the consumption of rit points, Zheng Yichen always kept it low. Aside from crafting equipnt, Dusk rcenaries also spent rit points on their own enhancent, like after obtaining a certain powerful creature’s ’material,’ they could get strengthened in Dusk.
The words Tia told Zheng Yichen were also applicable to the Dusk rcenaries; Dusk didn’t care what kind of beings were working here, as long as they were capable of communicating.
Even if Zheng Yichen beca ntally ill, he would still be Tia’s Proxy Agent, the kind that couldn’t escape.
As his strength increased, Zheng Yichen started to notice things he hadn’t before. Take Hunter Arno, for instance. He had never felt anything wrong with the man before, but in their recent interactions, Zheng Yichen distinctly sensed sothing abnormal about Arno that a normal person wouldn’t have.
According to Hazy City, Arno was an extraordinary creature as well.
Therefore, identity and the like were not important. What mattered was if you could communicate and get the job done. Dusk rcenaries had many ways to beco stronger, like being strengthened after obtaining certain materials.
The gorilla that was once very powerful in close combat—if Zheng Yichen could get so enhancent material, blood or heart, either would do—he could bring those to Dusk Territory and use rit points for an enhancent to strengthen himself.
Different materials entailed different costs, and the potential derived from strengthening varied as well.
"What will ultimately beco of this world? Will it gradually recover, or continue to stay the sa?"
Xiya said, "Maintain the status quo, the world resources that have been drawn away will not regenerate, and that kind of impact doesn’t matter to the people of this world."
"Dusk doesn’t care about many things, as long as this world doesn’t break, right." Zheng Yichen clicked his tongue, stood up, "I’m going back."
"Okay."
The familiar sound of the door opening rang, and Zheng Yichen imdiately felt the change in the environnt. As usual, he left the room. This trip was his shortest yet, less than half a month. There was only one fight, but it almost got him killed.
After being influenced by demonic thoughts, his idea was to kill his way up the Sky Pillar to the Devouring Faction’s stronghold, considering that a lot of high-end strength was pulled from there, indicating the environnt of that world was very advanced. Going there would definitely spike his strength.
He would go there, slaughtering away, directly plundering the life-source of creatures to quickly recover from his poor state, to avoid new forces being deployed there to take him out while he was still weak.
If the Sky Pillar hadn’t been retracted, he really would have gone through with it.
Even after returning to Hazy City, Zheng Yichen still felt sowhat weak.
In that world gnawed by the Devouring Faction, who knows how many creatures were wiped out due to environntal reasons. Along the way, he occasionally encountered so small animals, but he didn’t think of killing them for health point regeneration.
In his state influenced by demonic thoughts, he would likely have killed anything he saw, wanting to talk nicely? Sure, after his own condition was maxed out, then we can talk. There’s nothing else worth bleating about.
After leaving a note, Zheng Yichen left Dusk Cathedral and headed ho: "I’m back."
"So quick this ti?" Katrina, who ca upon hearing him, reached out and touched Zheng Yichen to ensure he wasn’t injured, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is the normal situation." Zheng Yichen hugged the young woman, opened the fridge, took out a bottle of drink, and sat down on the sofa, "I was just cleaning up the aftermath, and after finding the root of the problem, of course it was quick..."
The key is that Dusk didn’t screw him over. If Dusk had screwed him by assigning him a task he couldn’t handle, there’d be nothing to say, he’d just be done for.
"I’ve brought back so good stuff for you."
When gnawing on the Sky Pillar, Zheng Yichen bled quite a bit, and the nature of that blood had changed due to the Sky Pillar’s energy.
In the witch workshop, Eileena looked at the blood Zheng Yichen brought, glowing and seeming like a fluorescent agent or so kind of radioactive material. She drew a small sample of the blood with a syringe, then went over to a workbench and took out a white mouse from a jar.
"This is to test the nature of the blood," Eileena explained to Zheng Yichen. She then dropped the blood onto a round plate on the table, which emitted a faint glow.
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The originally gray magic array formation was imdiately dyed a light blue as she pressed the little white mouse down onto it. Stimulated, the mouse let out loud squeaks disproportionate to its small size.
Afterward, the little white mouse turned into a crystallized mouse, but its color was not that transparent. One could still see the blood vessels within the mouse that had crystallized but hadn’t changed color.
"This can be used as a spellcasting material," Eileena said, looking at the crystallized mouse. "Also, this blood lacks Divinity; whose blood is it?"
"My blood."
Eileena reached out and lightly touched Zheng Yichen’s face, seemingly discovering sothing. She took out an incense burner, lit it, and placed it beside her. The swirling white smoke enveloped Zheng Yichen as Eileena’s face drew close to his cheek, listening intently for sothing.
After a while, she opened her mouth and said, "The seed of evil has already taken root..."
"Can you explain that in a way I can understand?" Zheng Yichen scratched his cheek, which felt ticklish where Eileena’s ear had brushed against it.
"It ans that evil has begun to grow in your mind, stemming from your soul. You need to find a way to overco it and dominate it," Alina explained. Noticing Katrina’s worried expression, she continued, "It’s a type of power; as long as you can still use it, it won’t disappear. Katrina’s Blessing Magic won’t help either."
"It’s a multiple-choice question: either you completely abandon this power or, like taming a beast, you conquer it and subdue it."
"Then I choose the second option."
Eileena smiled at Zheng Yichen, "We believe you can do it."
After leaving Eileena and Katrina’s workshop, Zheng Yichen took a shower and returned to his bedroom. Lying in bed in his pajamas, it was undeniable that the evil Eileena referred to was demonic thoughts.
Normally, Zheng Yichen could not feel this, nor did it have any tangible effect on him, but once he used Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, the influence of the demonic thoughts would imdiately surface. Under the influence of demonic thoughts, he would not seem insane, but it wasn’t anything good either.
Even if Eileena suppressed the demonic thoughts with Blessing Magic, it wasn’t of much use; doing so ant he wouldn’t be able to employ Demonic Abyss Seven Kills. It was a question of choice—be conservative?
Did his current situation afford him the luxury to be conservative? Who knew what kind of enemies he would encounter in the future.
Just like in this battle, if he had not used Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, even with Asura Battle Intent affecting the enemy, the end result would have been death by attrition.
At that mont, Moss had found so way to escape the influence of Asura Battle Intent. Without the ability to clear the field, there was no need to spell out his predicant; he would truly have been killed.
And this was just the beginning. The Devouring Faction didn’t play by the rules: they had brought over a hundred thugs for this fight. If he encountered them again next ti, they might be able to muster an even stronger force to gang up on him.
The effect of being ganged up on in a high-level environnt wasn’t that significant, but what about a low-level one?
Click—
The door opened, and Katrina sat down beside Zheng Yichen, her expression filled with worry and hesitation.
"What’s wrong?"
"I want to beco a Dusk rcenary."
Without a second thought, Zheng Yichen said, "No!"
It was not a matter of his ego, but rather that Katrina’s current capabilities did not suit the role of a Dusk rcenary. This girl was a witch, yet she was the kind of White Witch whose magic was mostly supportive, with little offensive power—even the magic she had encountered lacked potency.
"If you really want to help , then logistical support will do. My situation isn’t suitable for bringing others along," he said.
If he was called by Dusk, it was inevitably to clean up the ss: "Or are you thinking of operating solo? If that’s the case, you’d better be prepared for the slaughter."
Katrina fell silent. This wasn’t what she had in mind. She wanted to beco a Dusk rcenary to help Zheng Yichen, not to act alone and cause him worry.
If she couldn’t act together with him, then even becoming a Dusk rcenary would be of little significance. Having learned that Zheng Yichen was tainted with ’evil’, Katrina felt déjà vu, reminiscent of witches who touched black magic to gain power.
Initially, they’d dip in just to solve so current troubles, but once they’d dabbled in black magic, it wasn’t so easy to break free. She wanted to stay by Zheng Yichen’s side so that if he ever fell into a ntal quandary, she could offer sufficient help.
Zheng Yichen reached out and pinched the girl’s cheek: "Trust . Also, if you have any thoughts in the future, discuss them with . I’ll give my advice. Don’t keep your troubles hidden."
It wasn’t until a few days after his return that he contacted Ahn Qi; during this ti, he barely left ho, waiting for Eileena’s research results and reflecting on and deepening his understanding of Demonic Abyss Seven Kills.
Without settling the difficult-to-control demonic thoughts that ca with the technique, no matter how well he used it, it was not completely mastered. Zheng Yichen was well aware that under the influence of demonic thoughts, he beca ’distorted’.
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