From Beginning to End

"Just for a Law Decree, and a pseudo-Law Decree at that—one without complete abilities or traits—such a huge cost wasn't necessary."

The exorbitant Life Points shattered across the ground like splashing water. Even the traces they left behind might vanish completely after a while.

If any bystander had witnessed it, Lu PingAn's actions could no longer be called extravagant. This was pure wastefulness, like using banknotes to light a fire.

"...I know what I'm doing. A 'profession' worth two or three hundred points is enough to let many unlucky people who've been stuck at that bottleneck for half their lives advance. It's something they'd sell everything they owned to buy, while to me, it's just water flowing through a container. It's hard to say how much will remain."

After considering it, Lu PingAn still decided not to heed the advice and continued to "burn money."

"...Some of that water flowing downward will eventually accumulate inside me and become my 'foundation.' And that has always been my fatal weakness."

Lu PingAn had grown too quickly. He lacked far too much knowledge and too many abilities.

A normal Tier 2 Runner would likely have a complete combat style, fighting techniques, years of real combat experience—not to mention a corresponding combination of supernatural abilities. A core Tier 2 Profession Module having seven or eight abilities was perfectly normal; at the very least, it should have three or four.

But Lu PingAn's Tier 2 Runner... well, aside from the Wave Superimposition freely given at the very start of the profession, there was nothing else.

He needed to catch up, to hone himself, to build up experience—but he simply did not have the time.

That was why, aside from fire arts and axe techniques, which he had genuinely accumulated, his other professions all felt somewhat