"Holy crap... What just happened?!"
This strange move shocked everyone!
What's going on?
Why, in the middle of the fight, did he suddenly shove the Shadow King into Dr. Beth's mouth??
Not just Dr. Beth, who had no idea what was happening, even the Red Devil watching was totally confused. Even Raymond, who had been watching as John set up the magic circle from the beginning, was stunned!
Raymond had imagined many possible outcos after letting John take over.
Maybe John would go all out and crush the Shadow King.
Maybe it would be an even match, with John barely winning.
Or maybe he'd lose, and Raymond would have to switch to Tao Pai Pai or Akainu for a long, tough battle.
But he never expected it to end like this...
Dr. Beth was just watching, doing nothing, and now suddenly she beca the center of it all?
"What are you doing?" Raymond asked, a bit speechless.
"Wait, let finish this first, I'll explain later..."
John replied in Raymond's mind and got back to work.
"Don't move"
He first signaled Dr. Beth to stay still, then bit his own fingertip and began drawing on her forehead with his blood.
More precisely, he was drawing strange symbols.
These symbols didn't look like any known language, but clearly ca from the sa system. And he wasn't just scribbling—it was clear he knew what he was doing.
Half a minute later, her forehead was covered in blood-red symbols.
John then drew the final mark on the tip of her nose and placed his palm on her forehead—
"Klaatu Barada Nikto…"
He started chanting again, faster and faster.
At the sa ti, Dr. Beth's eyes suddenly lit up with a yellow glow, just like the people in the yard who had been controlled by the Shadow King.
A furious voice ca from her mouth: "What did you do to ?!"
But John ignored him and kept chanting.
Seeing this, the Shadow King started begging, promising to stay far away from Raymond forever, even offering to serve him.
When that didn't work, he began cursing and yelling threats, saying he'd kill everyone Raymond cared about.
John never looked at him—not even once.
Over a minute later, with a loud scream from the Shadow King, the yellow light in Dr. Beth's eyes slowly faded, and her normal expression returned.
The symbols on her forehead also started to disappear, as if they had been absorbed into her skin.
At that sa mont, Raymond received a system notification:
[Ding—]
[You have killed A-Rank 'villain' Amahl Farouk. You slightly changed the world's path. Developnt Points 300.]
[You may convert Developnt Points into Universal System Points at a rate of 1 to 5.]
[Special Note: Any level of change to the world's path may trigger unpredictable butterfly effects and bring unknown risks. Please proceed with caution!]
"So it is like this!"
Seeing another 300 Developnt Points added, Raymond felt quietly pleased.
He had guessed early on that if eting storyline characters earned him system rewards, then maybe interacting with them could also bring benefits.
When he later joined the Hellfire Club and beca a core mber—"Black Bishop"—the system rewarded him Developnt Points for the first ti, confirming his guess.
However, the interaction needed to be significant—like joining a group and becoming one of its core mbers—for it to count.
Now that he had killed the Shadow King and received Developnt Points again, it confird that killing a major storyline character also t the system's criteria for "interaction."
Plus, with the 50 Exploration Points from earlier after eting the Red Devil, he now had a total of 1,550 Universal System Points in hand.
The gains from this trip were truly great.
Not only did he get revenge for almost having his mory changed last ti, he also earned a huge amount of Universal System Points.
The only concern was the new "special note" from the system—sothing he hadn't seen before.
"Any change to the world's path will bring unknown risks?" Raymond fell into deep thought.
Based on past experience, every ssage from the system had aning.
Like when it told him to explore the Beginner's Guide carefully—he had ignored it and missed a lot of useful information.
After that, he paid close attention to every tip the system gave him.
This ti, the system clearly highlighted two things: "slightly changed the world's path," and "any level of change will bring unknown risks."
If Raymond was right, the system didn't reward him just for killing a Level 4 mutant, but for killing this particular A-Rank villain—the Shadow King.
It sounded contradictory at first, but actually made perfect sense.
He had already noticed that the system's rank ratings didn't depend purely on a character's strength.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Director's SS rank, for example, and others he'd t later all proved that.
He had thought before about what the system's rating was actually based on.
Now, it seed clear that it was tied to sothing the system called the "world's path."
"In other words, the system might be ranking people based on how much they could change the future… The more impact they can have on the world, the higher their rank?"
Thinking back on the people he'd t, this guess made the most sense.
Still, it was only a theory.
But with what he currently knew, it seed closest to the truth.
If he had killed a random Level 4 mutant with no story importance, he might have received no reward at all.
"If an A-Rank gave 300 points… what if I killed the Director…"
A bold thought suddenly ca to Raymond.
But he quickly shook it off.
The Director had always treated him well—he wasn't heartless enough to betray a friend just to level up.
More importantly, the system's warning—"any change to the world's path brings unknown risks"—made him take things seriously.
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