Jiang Mian didn't think too much about it. As long as she could stay hidden, she wouldn't end up having her core dug out and made into a weapon.
If she got rid of the Suppressor, then after reaching the sixth tier, if she ever encountered an opponent she couldn't beat, she could either flee into the Mist or head to one of the more chaotic Base Cities lower in the rankings. Both were good options.
As for the conditions for her next advancement... she'd just learned them: forty Third-tier targets, five of whom had to be "high-quality targets" ranked within the top hundred in their Sequence.
This was the first time there'd been a quality requirement. It would probably grow stricter from here on.
Her appetite keeps getting bigger...
Jiang Mian couldn't help grumbling. Her little body sure consumed a lot.
Fortunately, her ability was useful, and the way to improve it was simple and brutal: eat her fill. There was also the hard-to-argue-with beauty of the numbers.
She carefully tested her newly acquired ability to take on other forms and found that as long as she stayed within the range of [Whirlwind]'s perception, she could maintain a fairly stable connection.
Once she went beyond that range, it couldn't be controlled and began to dissipate.
But now... her range of perception had doubled!
If her range before had been about one street, now it covered almost half of West City!
Once she reached the Fourth-tier, it would be even more outrageous!
As for how long it lasted, it had already been around five minutes since she formed it, and Jiang Mian hadn't felt much of a drain. The environment probably helped, too.
She estimated that as long as it didn't take a major impact, keeping it up for at