Lex's Purpose

The Blood Pouch Pirate Crew may sound strange, but their strength is considerable. Captain Lex and First Mate Ulif are both Eighth Order Gene Body, each with a bounty exceeding 10 billion Star Coin. Their strategist, Ochier, is Seventh Order Gene Body, and the rest of the crew are mostly sixth-tier or higher. Their overall strength ranks among the top twenty in the entire Long Teng Universe Country.

However, this team has been unlucky; whenever a major event occurs, they are always late for various reasons. This results in insufficient media exposure, and not many people know about them.

"Hey, aren't you going to help? Your first mate looks like he's been beaten up pretty badly." Gu Ding pointed at the two men locked in fierce combat on the battlefield.

While it was said to be a fierce battle, it was actually mostly just Ulif being attacked on his own.

Lancelot summoned countless thick vines with sharp barbs, which emerged from the sand and surged towards Ulif like agile giant pythons.

According to the information Sea Emperor consulted, that vine is called the Desert Poison Dragon, and its barbs contain a large amount of neurotoxins. If an ordinary person is touched by the barbs even slightly, a chunk of flesh will be scraped off, and their nerves will be completely paralyzed, rendering them unable to move.

But to Gu Ding's surprise, Ulif did not dodge at all; he defended himself entirely with brute force, letting the thorny vines lash at him.

In less than a minute, he was covered in blood and gore.

"Do you know what my favorite battle environments are?" Lancelot chuckled as he lashed out at Ulif with his vines. "The desert and the sea. Because these two environments allow me to summon the most powerful vines. The vines are indestructible, and they possess thorns and toxins..."

A thick vine wrapped around Ulif's calf and then climbed up his leg, quickly binding Ulif tightly. The barbed thorns dug deep into Ulif's skin and into his muscles. The vine then began to meander around Ulif, tearing deep gashes into his body, like ravines in the earth.

Then the second and third vines also wrapped around him, Ulif was instantly covered in so many pieces of flesh that he was no longer whole.

The rest of the Blood Pouch Pirate Crew simply watched silently. Lex didn't even watch Ulif's fight from beginning to end; he was still coaxing Liliath to eat candy.

Seeing Gu Ding point to the battlefield, Ochier smiled and shook his head, explaining, "Our first mate has a very special ability. He can turn the pain inflicted on him into his own power and then return it to the other party many times over."

"Are you talking about copying the opponent's moves?" Gu Ding was curious about this ability.

"It's not the technique, it's the effect of the technique." Ochier shook his head. "The opponent is currently using vines to attack. Even if the first mate retaliates with his fists, the effect of the attack on the opponent will still be a vine attack."

"The effect of punching a vine..." Gu Ding found this ability very special.

"This ability is actually a curse ability. The deeper the damage to the attacked person, the stronger the curse power will be on the attacker. When the damage accumulates to a certain amount, the curse is complete, and the curse power on the attacker will erupt, causing instant damage." With this explanation from the Sea Emperor, Gu Ding understood the working principle of this ability.

Ulif, covered in blood, was swaying precariously after being attacked by Lancelot for nearly ten minutes, but he remained standing firm, never falling down no matter how Lancelot attacked him.

Lancelot grew increasingly anxious. He sensed something was amiss, because his opponent was clearly an Eighth Order Gene Body, just like him. He, on the other hand, was only a newly arrived Eighth Order Gene Body; logically, his opponent shouldn't have had any chance of resistance. This was puzzling. After a prolonged attack failed to bring his opponent down, he became increasingly convinced that his opponent's manipulation to attack was a conspiracy.

With that thought, he secretly summoned several vines, concealed them in the sand, and attacked the weakest, Liliath. He no longer intended to entangle with Ulif; as for the Interstellar Pirate present, he would kill as many as he could.

The instant the vines appeared, Gu Ding seemed to see Lex move, and all the vines instantly shattered into pieces. "What did your captain just do?"

"Our captain is a swordsman, and in addition, he has a special ability: speed." Ochier simply stated this without explaining the ability in detail.

"Speed ability can both increase one's own speed and decrease the speed of other people or objects within a certain range," the Sea Emperor explained to Gu Ding. "This is a high-level ability that is very difficult to awaken. Just now, that guy instantly increased his own speed by seven times and slowed down the vines' movements by seven times, instantly cutting the vines into pieces."

Lancelot's attack failed, and he finally realized that the strongest member of the team wasn't the guy he was fighting, but someone else entirely. The opponent's sword speed had been so fast that even he could only catch a fleeting afterimage. He glanced cautiously at Lex; the strength Lex had just displayed was clearly at the peak of Eighth Order Gene Body, no weaker than Military Department General.

Seeing Lex's strength, Gu Ding felt a little relieved. With him protecting Liliath, there shouldn't be any safety issues.

After resolving Liliath's crisis, Lex slowly stood up, turned, and fixed his gaze on Lancelot. "You deserve to die!"

"Muscle man, this is my fight!" Ulif didn't even turn his head. He seemed to sense Lex's killing intent before speaking up to stop him.

"I'll give you three minutes. If you don't take care of this guy, I'll personally rip his head off." Lex finished speaking, turned around, and smiled at Liliath. "Little sister, I'll take care of all these bad guys for you."

Liliath looked at Gu Ding with a helpless expression, as if she had remembered something, "Uncle, are you also going to the location of the superweapon?"

"That's right, Uncle is going to challenge Sharp to make himself stronger!" Lex nodded.

"You didn't come for the Super Weapon?" Gu Ding looked at Ochier.

"While our team isn't weak, obtaining that item is still quite difficult for us; we're aware of that. Our leader's main purpose in coming here is to challenge Military Department General Sharp, improve his understanding of the sword, and increase his media exposure," Ochier patiently explained. He glanced at Gu Ding and offered his sincere advice, "I think with your combined strength, it's best if you don't get involved. Many ninth- or even Tenth-Order Gene Body experts are eyeing Super Weapon; you have no chance of getting your hands on one."

"I don't want to get involved either, but many things aren't a matter of whether you want to or not," Gu Ding shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Meanwhile, Liliath made a request to Lex, "Uncle, take us to the location of the Super Weapon!"

(The strategist still used the name suggested by thegame, Ochier.)

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