"I was bewitched by him from the very beginning!"
Facing the smiling Derik, Lin Sanjiu was roaring at Mrs. Manas inwardly, even though she still looked like that terrifying muscle-bound humanoid on the surface.
"He said we have to follow the rules in this space …" Her voice sounded annoyed. "His ability was very clear from the beginning — this is the Home of Refinery!"
As if he had sensed the thoughts of the muscular man in front of him, Derik suddenly burst into laughter.
"Every time! Every time someone holds on until I show up, I admire the look on their faces when they find out the truth. "He straightened his tuxedo, and the corners of his eyes and cheeks squeezed out layers of smile lines. "… Now it's time for me to start a tradition before the war. I think it will bring me good luck. From the looks of it, I'm afraid you've realized something, right? "
The blood-red figure nodded.
"That's right," Derik said contentedly. "From the start, you shouldn't have identified Derik. This is because the process of identifying Derik is a process of filtering and refining. "
Lin Sanjiu sighed inwardly. This was exactly what she was thinking.
The correct method would have been to not identify Derik from the start. Instead, he would have had to face the attacks from the hundreds of people in the space. This was the simplest and most promising method. After each round of identification, the number of people would be reduced by almost half. It seemed like it was much easier. However, the people who disappeared did not really disappear. Instead, they were 'refined'.
It could be understood this way: Every identification process was actually a refining process, and the refined combat power would be poured into the remaining people.
This kind of "refinement" did not only compress their combat power, but it also developed powerful skills and skills by eliminating the useless and retaining the good. This was also the reason why these people only used their fists and feet to attack in the beginning, but later on, evolved abilities appeared.
The purpose of the Home of Refinement was to fuse the combat power of a few hundred people into one person — Derik, who was in front of him, was born.
"That's to say. This shortie alone is equivalent to hundreds of people? "Mrs. Manas murmured.
Before Lin Sanjiu could reply, Derik had already spoken in a dreamy voice.
"A few hundred evolvers, all of them people who died in the House of Refinement over the years. After they died, they became my nourishment. From their bodies, I absorbed the strongest abilities, chose the strongest physical bodies, and obtained the most amazing skills … I am their concentrated form. And far surpassing them … This kind of feeling of being at the top of the crowd, I think you won't understand. "
Lin Sanjiu stared at him without saying a word, but her mind was trying to figure out what cards she could play.
"However, all abilities are limited by checks and balances … This ability can't be refined from the start. It has to go through a process of attack and identification. I'm not satisfied either, "Derik smacked his lips and said," Luckily, my camouflage worked, haha! "
Lin Sanjiu's facial muscles contorted into a grimace.
"Come, become a new member of the Home of Refinement. When you die, everything about you, including your evolved ability, skills, and battle consciousness, will become a part of me … Isn't that good? "
As he spoke, Derik's body gradually turned into a smoke-like substance. Starting from his head and shoulders, the smoke-like substance drifted out bit by bit. Soon, it reached Lin Sanjiu's thigh bone.
"Corrosion? Poison gas? Or something else? " Lin Sanjiu's higher consciousness immediately leaped into the air. After she dodged the smoke-like substance, she thought to herself. As long as it was a smoke-like attack, it couldn't escape from these few effects.
Seeing that the smoke-like substance had already filled the entire space within ten seconds, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help activating her [Defence Forcefield]. She planned to resist it with her higher consciousness. However, to her surprise, when the smoke-like substance touched her higher consciousness, she didn't feel anything.
Every strand of higher consciousness flowed smoothly, as if the smoke-like substance didn't exist.
If it wasn't for Derik's maniacal laughter that echoed in the space, Lin Sanjiu would have thought that it was just dry ice. Lin Sanjiu almost thought that the smoke-like substance was just some dry ice before the performance.
"Is there a trump card?" She thought cautiously.
However, after some time, other than the fact that the smoke-like substance was getting thicker and she couldn't see clearly, she was still fine. In fact, after fighting for such a long time, she suddenly floated in the air without doing anything. To Lin Sanjiu, this kind of rest was very satisfying.
The red humanoid floated in the air and occasionally waved its arms to disperse the smoke-like substance. From the skinless face, Lin Sanjiu could see a hint of doubt. Derik's laughter stopped abruptly when he saw that.
"Huh?" The voice in the smoke-like substance sounded a little surprised. "It has already been a few minutes …"
Lin Sanjiu looked up at the smoke-like substance beside her. She gestured an "eight" to tell him that eight minutes had passed.
Not only was she unscathed. She even deactivated her [Defence Forcefield] to conserve her combat power.
"That's not right! Don't you need to breathe oxygen? " Derik's voice suddenly became louder. He seemed to be angry at Lin Sanjiu's leisurely attitude, "Even if posthumans have special physiques, no one can go more than five minutes without breathing —"
He couldn't continue after that.
The red humanoid not far from her was clutching his stomach with one hand. His shoulders were twitching and his head was thrown back. If she added a little more sound, it would be the idiom "belly laughing".
"No wonder I'm fine! The smoke-like substance is used to dilute the oxygen! " Lin Sanjiu was laughing so hard that tears were coming out of her eyes. "He made such a big fuss, it scared me …"
Mrs. Manas was also laughing non-stop. She had been on tenterhooks a moment ago. Now that she had finally relaxed, it was inevitable that her laughter lasted for a long time.
"Sigh, I hope that's not his only move …" Lin Sanjiu finally managed to control her laughter. Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly saw the smoke-like substance around her retreating rapidly. In the end, it gathered at a single point and formed Derik again.
The dwarf's face was flushed and his eyes were gloomy.
Anyone could tell that he was very angry after being mocked by Lin Sanjiu's killer move, which no human could avoid.
"I think you jinxed it again …" Mrs. Manas mumbled.
Derik laughed sinisterly. His parted lips revealed half of his teeth.
"So, you don't need to breathe … Why don't you try this move?"
"[Human's Bane]!" (To be continued)
PS:
2 pink votes from Thanks Bubbles, 2 pink votes from Ah Yu, 1 pink vote from Mirror V Balance and Princess Xia Li, 3 pink votes from Nausica (a lot), 2 pink votes from Wistarialan!
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