Mutation

Lin An did not believe it.

A girl who had obtained the power of an Evil God would not "sob and whimper" as she displayed her tragic experiences simply to gain sympathy.

Surely she wasn't showing the plot once to an Awakener who had never seen Silent Hill, allowing him to "appreciate" it?

Doing something so superfluous was absolutely not the System's style.

What, exactly, was the true meaning of the phantom trying to express?

The Essence of Power

Based on Lin An's way of thinking, he leaned more toward another explanation.

It was also a theory partially summarized by a Third Order expert in his previous life.

Strength, physique, and Agility—the three major attributes—represented things that directly affected the real world.

And strength was the foundation of humanity's ability to change matter.

Put simply.

If you wanted to change a person's fate, something involving countless factors...

The simplest method was to kill him with a single slash.

Pure, wasn't it?

How do I unlock my Gene Lock?

As he pondered, the announcement for the second stage rang out:

"Second stage commencing."

"Current monster count: 150!"

The number had increased by half.

Lin An put his thoughts away as well and drew Cain's Blade without hesitation.

Time to kill.

Perhaps once he killed enough, all the mysteries would be revealed!

Blood Shadow flashed violently.

One man and one bear charged into the Nightmare that had reappeared.

Beneath the burning stake.

Within the illusory projection, a priest holding a Parchment Scroll coldly read out the charges.

"Ahhhhhhh!!"

The hospital ruins.

The Awakener wrapped in two lumps of deformed flesh melted like a candle.

Even with the shortcut provided by Chen Yangtian, roughly half of the Awakeners still had no way to unlock their Gene Locks.

Large numbers of entirely new monsters