Ye Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
Of course, he knew how the previous owners of "Carnage" had died.
The Anomaly Equipment "Carnage" was named Carnage because the set contained an intensely powerful desire to kill. Every time Ye Jiu donned that armor and gripped those two weapons, an uncontrollable urge rose within him to slaughter every living thing in sight.
Especially the instant he put on the mask, he would even experience a brief sensation of "forgetting himself."
In that state, he was no longer Ye Jiu, the Qualified User of the Anomaly Equipment "Carnage," but one of the Black Armored Cavalry who had charged into battle and fought blood-soaked wars more than a thousand years ago.
But the reason Ye Jiu had become the best-performing Qualified User in Carnage's history was not his exceptionally high synchronization rate with Carnage. It was because he could always hold fast to himself and resist being controlled by that killing intent.
Without exception, Carnage's former Qualified Users had gradually had their minds and bodies eroded by the desire for slaughter through battle after battle. The thrill of cleaving flesh and breaking bone was as addictive as an illegal drug... and the golden demon mask covering their faces would continuously amplify that pleasure, drawing Carnage's Qualified Users deeper into it.
When a Qualified User completely became Carnage's puppet, that was when Carnage could unleash its greatest power.
Strictly speaking, a Qualified User could not be considered Carnage's operator, nor could they be called Carnage's "living CPU"... They functioned more like a limiter.
They used human will to contend against the "instinct" of Anomaly Equipment.
And using this Anomaly Equipment meant gradually releasing that limiter, trading ever-loosening restraints for the Anomaly Equipment's immense power.
An experienced Qualified User could grasp the proper "degree" of release—maximizing