Eric's Inner Conflict: Resistance and Helplessness

Saint Dragon charged toward Hercules, its right-hand saber slashing against Hercules's shield on the left arm before Saint Dragon spun into a swift roundhouse kick.

Hercules blocked with its right arm. When Saint Dragon's strike failed, it immediately pulled back, switched its right hand to a shotgun, and opened fire on Hercules.

The instant Saint Dragon fired, Hercules dodged ahead of time.

Julius's brow twitched. "Newtype."

Eric felt deeply conflicted about being a Newtype. He resisted it inwardly, yet he could not deny that being a Newtype, with his keen danger sense and spatial awareness, had allowed him to evade heavy blows in many battles and become one of the Ten Aces.

At first, Eric had thought this power was innate. It was not until Long Fei appeared and the Dion Empire declared the existence of Newtypes that he understood his power was not unique. Many Newtypes possessed such abilities; it merely came down to whose overall capabilities were stronger or weaker.

Eric had never publicized that he was a Newtype, because the people of his country, the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic, had developed immense hostility toward Newtypes under the media's propaganda.

Moreover, once the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic discovered that one of its citizens was a Newtype, even one born and raised there, that person would be taken away by the relevant special departments and subjected to inhumane research and training.

Eric sometimes felt terribly afraid. If the country learned of his identity as a Newtype, he had no idea what fate awaited him.

In fact, it was not only the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic that was deeply hostile toward Newtypes. Under Purvi's incitement and the media hype of democratic nations,

the rejection and discrimination against Newtypes in democratic nations were even more intense than in non-democratic countries.

Quite a few Newtypes