The strategy was to avoid violating the Absolute Trait and crack it from an angle that the Absolute Trait did not involve.
Branding someone else's Inner Demon into one's own heart and actively spreading the Inner Demon was the hidden rule of this doomsday.
Everyone had yet to discover it. Or perhaps "discover" was not quite the right word. Its "strategy trait" had passively formed an ordinary ability.
This ordinary ability was just like that of a society member who had activated Mental Power—nothing more than Mental Sensing and mental suggestion.
By making use of active propagation and the established rule that an Inner Demon could attack its source, it had managed to fight back before gaining freedom.
The same applied when facing Mo Qiong's black-flame possession. The strategy Mo Qiong had pieced together was to realize that the black flame's power was merely that of ordinary fire, then survive by using heat dissipation and Danmu's fire resistance.
D's Inner Demon had used the same method to form an ordinary ability: it could control the heat absorbed by its body, gather it together, and release it as a fireball.
Even the remnant cat's Inner Demon possessed this ability. It was as ordinary as could be, but it happened to be enough to crack the false black flame.
That allowed it to wear the black flame like Mo Qiong without dying.
"When one encounters abnormal difficulties and terrifying dangers, one can always crack them, use rules to counter rules, and tenaciously avoid directly confronting a trait in order to survive. Isn't this precisely the method that frail humans can rely on most?"
"D-Class Personnel struggle to survive amid the fear of the unknown. Their only path to survival is to find the strategy. Otherwise, they can only die in despair, using