The Office War...
After hearing Dean Xue Jia's roar, Dr. An froze completely.
Her intelligence was already exceptionally high, yet it still took her several turns before she suddenly understood what Professor Xue Jia meant.
There was no mistake. Dean Xue Jia's analysis of the First-Generation Researchers was flawless...
They were far too powerful.
Having mastered the Abyss, they had already become invincible in this world.
Because the Genesis Hard Drive was in their hands, they could seal The Beginning at the deepest level of the Abyss.
They could also guide an Ultimate to descend at a certain stage, or even prevent it from ever having the chance to descend into reality.
They could even use their understanding of the Abyss and Ultimates to target their weaknesses and exploit or strike at them.
That was precisely why most of the Ultimates descending now were easy to exploit, with obvious weaknesses.
And the ones they ultimately kept under their control were the easiest to control: "Nothingness," and the Abyssal Worm, whose humanoid consciousness was weak to begin with.
Neither possessed much ambition, yet both had powerful defensive and offensive instincts...
Likewise, because they controlled the Abyss, they could conduct bold experiments without restraint.
The Tyrant Legion, for example.
They had no fear of failure, because they could throw failed experimental subjects into the Abyss at any time and let it digest them freely.
The Abyss was their strongest support and their shield.
With the Abyss in their grasp, no person or faction could stand against them.
And with the Genesis Hard Drive in their grasp, no one could take the Abyss from them...
That was why Dean Xue Jia had proposed this plan.
To raise the power that the First-Generation Researchers feared most, deep within the Abyss, by one level.
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