Chapter 1030: Danger and Opportunity
The name sounded pretty cute, but it was an excellent item with extraordinary effects. Most Defense Artifacts took damage in place of the Player. If the force of the attack exceeded the item's limits, it would be destroyed. But this one was different: it didn't take damage for the Player. Instead, it let them avoid a fatal attack before it landed.
Xu Huo thought of the two times he had used Holder's Death. The first time, the glasses man had dodged it with a strange, bent-over movement. Back then, Xu Huo had thought it was an instinctive response from a highly evolved Player. Now, considering this item, he realized that what had let the man dodge successfully hadn't been instinct—it had been this item.
He couldn't be sure whether the item had been responsible for the second dodge, either. But Kitty Borrows Three Lives could save a Player three times in one day, and only when the item judged them to be at high risk of death. Yet when Holder's Death had pierced the man's chest, the item seemed not to have worked... Had it not had time to activate, or was a pierced heart not enough to kill the glasses man?
Xu Huo turned and walked over to the body beside him. He crouched to examine the wounds on both sides, then cut open the chest around the heart. Although it wasn't very obvious after death, a few short tendrils of flesh had grown around the wound left by the metal bead.
Was this self-repair?
Players had strong healing abilities, but they couldn't grow new muscle tissue in the blink of an eye. Only a Super Evolver should have such powerful recovery abilities!
Super Evolution could broadly be divided into self-control and control over