The Experiment Materials Who Were Captured

Indeed, the so-called formation core was none other than Chen Shu.

Seeing that the pink-haired girl in front of him had stopped paying attention to him, Chen Shu released her hand in satisfaction. He felt that he had recruited another player of extraordinary insight for his Lord of Grace.

The last time he had felt this excitement at discovering a promising talent was when he encountered his brother-in-law at Fool's Society.

How nostalgic. He wondered how his brother-in-law was doing now.

It was hardly surprising that Chen Shu was thinking of Cheng Shi. Everything he was experiencing now was still a continuation of the aftermath of Fool's Society. While Cheng Shi was outside participating in the trial, he had remained trapped in the mire left behind by Fool's Society, unable to break free. As a result, he had inexplicably joined the Firebearers, inexplicably fought Old Man, and then inexplicably found a fragment of twisted divinity during the trial. And then, inexplicably...

The last one wasn't inexplicable. That had been his own choice.

Chen Shu was, after all, one of the sixteen Chosen. His eye was sharp enough to see that the divinity he had stumbled upon was problematic, and he was intensely curious about the story hidden behind that "blotted-out" divinity.

That curiosity accumulated as the trial progressed. In the end, he could no longer resist the urge to pry into the secret behind it and sealed the divinity inside his own body.

Of course, ordinary players who did this simply hadn't noticed anything wrong with the divinity and only wanted to swallow their unexpected windfall. Chen Shu was different. He had realized that something was wrong with it, but he wasn't worried about whatever traps awaited him. The reason he had such confidence was that his patron, Silence, had