Why the Fuck?

The black halo shattered and reformed.

A portal through space and time opened, and Kang De opened his eyes as he lay in bed.

Strangely enough, no matter when or where he traveled between worlds, whatever position he was in, whatever state he was in, Kang De would always end up lying properly in his own bed after returning to Earth.

The sensation of space shifting had made his first few dozen crossings extremely uncomfortable.

But it was much better now.

He jumped up.

He had never felt so anxious and excited.

Element Extraction.

He didn't know what was behind this sudden supernatural power. Perhaps it had something to do with what Tina had done, or perhaps with the mysterious altar where he had just been... but it didn't matter.

None of that was most important.

What mattered was... this ability could break down tangible, material objects.

It could annihilate them completely.

He thought of the white mist surrounding the residential compound. Neither physical impacts nor fire could disperse or destroy it. Those mysterious substances were like iron bars, trapping him as a lonely prisoner.

So... would it work?

He rushed out of his room, intending to rappel down the building, only to discover that he didn't have his rappelling gear on him. This crossing hadn't been planned, so he rushed out of his apartment.

He seemed to remember something and stopped, looking at his neighbor's apartment.

That's Old Wang's place. Better not.

There were three apartments on each floor. He went to the third and pressed his hand against the door.

His mind spread out, his spiritual sense enveloping it layer upon layer.

Element, extract.

The wooden door gradually disintegrated into nothing.

This ability worked on Earth... too.

Multicolored orbs of light floated and spun in the air. A few were conspicuously bright, while more than a dozen were small and dim. He reached for one of the orbs.

Element, passage.

He pressed his hand against the wall to the side.

As his spiritual sense spread out, the new element filled an area two meters tall and half a meter wide. His mind stirred, and he knew the element had been applied, so he stepped forward.

He passed through the wall.

It was like a superpower he had fantasized about as a child.

"It takes a lot out of me and tires my mind... It should depend on the wall's strength and the quality of the element. It takes time to take effect and can't be made permanent..."

Kang De waited a moment and sensed that the passage element had dispersed. He reached out and knocked on the wall. It thudded; sure enough, it had become extremely hard again.

"It works..."

His excitement grew, and he turned and raced down the stairs.

He ran down twenty or thirty flights without stopping.

That amount of exercise was nothing to him now.

He rushed downstairs and into the compound, sprinting all the way. He kicked open the west gate, turned north, passed one car after another on the road, and finally reached the edge of the world.

The intangible yet substantial white mist was right in front of him.

It cut him off from the city under siege, from the outside world, from civilization.

Trembling, he pressed his hand hard against the white mist.

His mental power spread out.

Enveloped it.

Prepare... decompose...

Kang De suddenly let out a shout and staggered back, clutching his head.

In that instant, he felt as though his head was about to explode.

Element Extraction couldn't even activate. This seemingly ordinary white mist was ten thousand times more complex than a cell phone. The elements it contained were layered upon layers, unimaginably intricate, like an ocean of light.

What the fuck is this? What is it?

Is this a fucking conceptual weapon from a level-four civilization?

Kang De staggered backward, shaking his head desperately. Then he noticed a change in the white mist.

It had begun to flow like the tide.

It was the first time in the past year that he had seen the white mist move.

As though a whirlpool had formed in the sea, the white mist churned. In an instant, a colossal wave surged into the air. Kang De's expression changed abruptly; he could distinctly sense a powerful surge of energy roaring toward him.

Fuck!

Though he didn't know what was happening, he promptly backed away, turned, and ran.

But even his crystal-enhanced body couldn't outrun the transmission of energy.

In an instant, the torrent of energy engulfed Kang De. He opened his mouth to shout, but all that came out was a string of muffled noises. The torrent didn't seem to care about manners at all; it wrapped around him and started pouring straight in, surging through every inch of his body.

"...Fuck!"

Kang De shook his head free and took a deep breath. He had nearly suffocated.

"Stop!"

"I'm almost full!"

"It's going to overflow!"

"I'm bursting!"

He struggled with all his might, freeing one arm from the invisible torrent of energy and waving it desperately. He felt the churning energy filling his body, which was swelling more and more like a balloon. He even felt that if he didn't do something soon, he would explode on the spot.

The sensation of this torrent of energy pouring madly into his body...

It was like elements.

Like when he extracted and absorbed elements.

But it was far more violent, and nowhere near as pure as elements. What the fuck was this?

But he could only try whatever he could.

Kang De struggled desperately. Only one of his arms was free of the torrent now, and if he didn't want this energy to blow him apart, he had to find a way to channel it into an object.

Just like the "enchantment" experiments he had done before.

But now he could only move one arm.

There was only one choice.

The watch... on his wrist.

It was a waterproof outdoor watch, a very ordinary, common model he used to tell the time.

Kang De clenched his fist and desperately directed the energy that had forced its way into his body, pouring it into the watch in an unending stream. He frantically channeled and released the energy until its inflow and outflow reached a balance, and until the energy gradually calmed under his direction and control.

Until the energy's hidden surge subsided.

The laws of the other world were recognizing and constructing it all.

The inheritance of the Armor-Donning Ritual was still continuing.

After an unknown amount of time, Kang De slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Fuck... what happened..."

He breathed deeply, sweat pouring off him as he lay on the ground, staring up at the sky.

He could feel a strange energy flowing through his body, the same surge that had just rushed into him... only now it was perfectly calm, no longer violent.

He raised his hand and looked at the watch that had taken in a large quantity of mysterious elements.

"...Huh?"

The black outdoor sports watch had turned silver-white, and its design was somewhat different too.

It even looked a little familiar.

He slowly sat up, his expression growing astonished.

Then he reached out and gently pressed the knob on the watch.

With a click, the watch face flipped upright. There were special notches on it, just like... a sight.

Then he pressed it again.

A nearly imperceptible sound rang out, and he clearly saw an extremely fine silver needle shoot out of the watch and strike the body of a car.

This thing, this thing looked like...

"Detective Co[beep-]'s tranquilizer watch..."

Kang De was utterly shocked.

He thought back to what he had just done. It was actually much the same as his previous enchantments.

Except that before, enchanting had required him to extract elements and attach the resulting elements to another object.

This time, he hadn't extracted anything, nor had he specifically drawn out any elements. He had just shoved that violent, complex torrent of super-mixed elements the fuck inside all at once.

Simply put, it was probably like the difference between precise heavy construction and a fucking ten-pull.

How had he ended up with something like this...?

This was an item that didn't exist in the real world, was difficult to make, and existed only in "fantasy."

What was the principle behind it?

"So..." Kang De murmured, "why the fuck?"

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PS1: Didn't see that coming, did you!

PS2: As for uses for the cheat, including the kind of use shown today, I'm planning to take suggestions. If you're interested, leave a comment in the inline comments—but of course, there's no need to mention tits and things like that. Fuck, do you think I need you to tell me that?