Inside [Portable Space].
Chu Yunyi crouched on a cargo crate, eating one Tumor Aberration after another.
Like eating jelly, he devoured several huge clumps of Aberrations in an instant.
Among them,
was an Intelligent Brain Aberration.
The Intelligent Brain Aberration was completely dumbfounded. They were usually the ones who ate people. This was the first time they had seen a person eat them!
The somewhat intelligent Intelligent Brain Aberration wanted to beg for mercy.
But before it could do anything,
Chu Yunyi opened his mouth and swallowed every last Aberration inside [Portable Space].
Under the effect of NO.10 [Food is Heaven], they instantly became nutrients, replenishing his strength.
After gaining this ability,
Chu Yunyi had noticed one small downside.
That was:
No matter how much he ate, he couldn't get full, nor could he get hungry.
It wasn't a bad thing,
but Chu Yunyi figured that perhaps he'd never experience the feeling of being full again.
Always feeling six-tenths full wasn't exactly strange. It was simply nothing out of the ordinary.
Chu Yunyi lay down and fell asleep.
As the saying went,
lie down after a meal, and live to 999.
Before long, he drifted into a nap.
Round Table Dreamscape.
Chu Yunyi's consciousness arrived, and he immediately used his Control Power to aim at two yellow balls.
There had been seven yellow balls to begin with, and five had already been pocketed.
His current Control Power was just enough to handle two, so there was no need to check their information before deciding.
They were all adults.
Of course, Chu Yunyi wanted both!
'Bang!'
'Bang!'
Two shots, two hits—both balls sank!
The two yellow balls on the Round Table vanished into the pockets, becoming Chu Yunyi's new abilities.
Chu Yunyi picked them up to inspect:
[NO.16 [Blood and Flesh Feast]]
[Quality: Yellow]
[Description: You can turn defeated individuals into food. Their taste and appearance will change, but their nutritional value will remain the same]
[...]
[NO.17 [Rapid Recovery]]
[Quality: Yellow]
[Description: Your injuries can heal rapidly, and you can even regrow severed limbs. Your recovery speed can increase depending on how much you eat]
Chu Yunyi took a closer look.
Although he had no eyes in the Round Table Dreamscape, only a Consciousness Entity,
"Now that's something."
"They're all related to eating?" Chu Yunyi wasn't sure what to say. He took another look.
Then he remarked:
"This NO.16 [Blood and Flesh Feast]... It's just like Majin Buu's ability, isn't it..."
"But now that I have NO.17 [Rapid Recovery], I can give NO.12 [Fighting Saint Body] a try."
Chu Yunyi considered it.
Before, he hadn't wanted to use NO.12 [Fighting Saint Body] because he didn't want to suffer serious injuries, much less put himself in a bad state.
But now, with NO.17 [Rapid Recovery], things were different.
It would greatly speed up his recovery from serious injuries.
If possible,
Chu Yunyi wanted to use the two skills to create a loop of getting badly injured, recovering, getting badly injured again, and recovering again.
By "grinding" his passive ability like this, he might be able to break through his limits in an instant and attain a superhuman physique.
Of course,
the process would probably hurt a lot, and Chu Yunyi hadn't exactly prepared himself for that.
But then again,
overcoming fear was the first step. If Chu Yunyi couldn't even do this,
he might as well find a safe world to lie low in and live out a relatively boring life.
Although...
that did sound pretty great, actually.
But that wasn't what Chu Yunyi wanted. His life now was like playing a power fantasy game, and he was already hooked. He couldn't stop.
Kill monsters and get superpowers? Who could possibly sit still after that!
He didn't dwell on it any longer.
Chu Yunyi prepared to wake up, and his presence in the Round Table Dreamscape gradually faded.
Outside Night Star.
Chu Yunyi opened the entrance to his space and stepped out.
After looking around, he found several Aberrations, all of them nothing but skeletons.
These Aberrations were the easiest to deal with.
With a few glances, NO.14 [Welcome and Farewell] appeared beside them. A few slashes later, they were finished.
Characters flashed across his mobile terminal.
Chu Yunyi checked it and saw that 120 Credit Points had been added.
The Credit Points he'd gotten before had come entirely from the Tumors.
He didn't know
why the Tumors earned so many Credit Points. Perhaps no one had ever truly managed to deal with them.
Perhaps
if you locked a Tumor inside a completely sealed container for forty-nine days, it would starve to death.
But that wasn't very practical.
After all, Tumors were semi-liquid, and they could squeeze through even the tiniest gap.
Making a seamless structure was easy.
But making a seamless container that could be carried around, expanded whenever you wanted, and sealed at will was difficult.
Even though Night Star had plenty of advanced technology, this sort of thing hadn't become widespread.
Besides,
Chu Yunyi had the feeling that Night Star wasn't what it appeared to be, because there was something unreasonable about every aspect of this world.
First,
although Night Star's city was large, it wasn't so large that it couldn't be breached.
Second,
Aberrations could be found just a few hundred meters outside the city. So why didn't they gather and attack? By all rights, humanity should have gone extinct in this world long ago.
Third,
if technology was already so advanced, why not build purely mechanical soldiers to operate remotely? Why insist on sending cyborgs to hunt Aberrations?
All in all,
Chu Yunyi felt that the secrets were probably all in the Upper City.
But...
what did any of that have to do with Chu Yunyi? He just wanted to earn some Credit Points, activate a set of Nano Skin, and buy a good blade that could cut through anything like mud.
Then he'd leave and go back to Blue Star.
He wasn't some savior. He just needed to look after himself.
"Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on this person"—but he wasn't that person.
Traveling through countless worlds, gradually becoming stronger, gaining supernatural powers, and even acquiring power beyond the gods—that was what Chu Yunyi wanted.
At that moment,
Chu Yunyi gathered up the corpses of the skeletal Aberrations and piled them together.
He casually picked up a rib covered in blood and flesh.
NO.16 [Blood and Flesh Feast], activate.
Chu Yunyi didn't even blink. The Aberration's eerie rib in his hand instantly became a steaming, charcoal-grilled rib, fragrant with black pepper and lemon.
"!"
For the first time, Chu Yunyi was genuinely surprised.
This ability felt especially suited to him!
And so,
Chu Yunyi took a small folding stool out of [Portable Space] and began to feast.
It was just that the food made from these Aberrations was mostly roasted meat.
It was getting a little too greasy.
For the first time, Chu Yunyi thought that crushing the [Gluttony Trait] had been a mistake.
If he still had that ability,
he could probably eat faster, instead of chewing meat now with a completely bewildered look in his eyes.
He still couldn't get full...
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