Ye Chenyang studied Chen Xu standing before him. He... seemed a little familiar.
Chen Xu. His ability was Sequence 47, [Phantom Performer]. Its effects were similar to those of [Mimic], but all he needed to activate it was a material.
At this point in time, his opponent should still be around Fifth-tier.
He wasn't an official Awakened. Most of the time, he worked as a bounty hunter, and he was active only in the north. He even had a bit of a reputation.
Why had he appeared here?
Something was definitely fishy!
In his previous life, Ye Chenyang hadn't headed north until he reached the sixth rank, when he'd gone to help fight [Withering] and [Formless].
[Withering]...
Right, when [Formless] appeared later, the territory it occupied had been right in the northeast.
After it "started over" and escaped there, it might have grown to that extent because of its countless ties to [Withering].
The first [Withering], from a hundred years ago, had been the first target they went after. It had fallen before it could even rise, so the authorities didn't know what its specific abilities were.
But from the details he remembered, Ye Chenyang could roughly infer that
his opponent had some kind of death-foretelling ability. Its limitations must have been quite severe, though. Otherwise, he wouldn't have ultimately been able to take it down with a desperate slash.
He hadn't expected that even though he'd taken the initiative this time and gone after [Formless] ahead of schedule, his opponent would still interfere.
No, that wasn't right.
If he hadn't gotten involved, and someone else had targeted [Formless] instead—someone like [Doom], for example—the outcome would probably have been the same.
As for Chen Xu before him...
Even if he was a bounty hunter, no amount of money could make