Arc 4Calamity and Flesh Descent

Players uncovered the Hepa Civilization’s history, fought the Calamity Abomination, and carried their new abilities into reality as Titan: Genesis expanded to new players and worlds. The arc ended with Ci Beili introducing Vanguard Across the Realm to Xinglong, a player who had undergone Flesh Descent as a Reconstructor.

  • Zhu Yan interpreted the Hepa mural, and Vanguard Across the Realm led an expedition to the Bile Duct Grand Canyon, where Withered Lurkers attacked the players before the Thunder Messenger destroyed them.
  • Players turned the Hepa Ruins into Emerald City and lured Withered Lurkers into electrical ambushes, but their attacks disturbed a neighboring Hepatic Lobule and released the Calamity Abomination.
  • The Thunder Messengers merged into a golden giant to pin down the Abomination, while its cursed worms and flesh overwhelmed the battlefield, and Gu Yuan then purified the Abomination’s energy and empowered the survivors.
  • Players tested their Reality Projection talents at the Titan Engineering Bureau, and Ban Jianguo launched the New Century Project as one million new activation codes brought more players into the game.
  • Dorm 119’s four members landed on Planet 119, where they encountered dangerous creatures and scavengers, while Long Xingchi died in reality and awoke in the game as Xinglong, a Titan Kin in Flesh Descent.
  • Xinglong joined the Scientific Research Team, reached level 10, and chose the hidden Reconstructor class, gaining powers to revive allies, summon creatures, and devour them to heal himself.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm tested Pain Stripping by destroying eggs in the Void Hive before the Void Reapers killed him, then returned to the City of Light and met Xinglong through Ci Beili.
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Ch. 76Withered Lurker

Zhu Yan used Historical Echo to uncover how the Hepa Civilization was devastated by a black-rain catastrophe and fled across the Bile Duct Grand Canyon to the Gallbladder. The players went to investigate the canyon, where a huge swarm of level 40 Withered Lurkers emerged from the Bile River and surrounded them.

  • Zhu Yan stabilized the flickering mural with Historical Echo and revealed the Hepa People's appearance and role as cleaners within the Titan's body.
  • Zhu Yan interpreted the mural, showing how black rain infected the Hepa People and forced them to create Biochemical Guards to fight the corrupted hordes.
  • The surviving Hepa People crossed the Flesh Sky Road to the Gallbladder, then their leader shut down the bridge and sealed off their homeland.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm led the players to the Bile Duct Grand Canyon to investigate whether the Hepa Civilization had survived.
  • The Bile River boiled, and a vast swarm of level 40 Withered Lurkers crawled from the canyon walls and stared at the players.

Ch. 77Wow! A Golden Legend!

Withered Lurkers overwhelmed the players exploring the canyon, forcing the survivors to retreat to the plaza, where the Thunder Messenger at the H-77 Neuron destroyed the monster horde. Afterward, Vanguard Across the Realm established an H-77 outpost as a base for exploring the Gallbladder.

  • Withered Lurkers swarmed the players, and Tian Ce used Psychic Scream to freeze several hundred before fleeing as low-level researchers were killed.
  • Chen Feng, Dragon Fighting in the Wild, and Brute Force Yields Miracles fought through the swarm while the group retreated toward the Neuron plaza.
  • The Thunder Messenger identified the monsters as invasive species and erased the horde with a golden lightning net.
  • Brute Force Yields Miracles questioned why the Thunder Messenger had not acted sooner, and the Neuron explained that he could not move freely from his post.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm placed a Biological Beacon, established the H-77 Outpost respawn point, and called the players to gather there for future exploration.

Ch. 78Psionic Tide

Players discovered valuable biological materials and new magical research in the Liver, while the Dragon Kingdom’s technological lead triggered a global race to catch up. In the Golden Triangle, Zhang Kuang established the Wild Wolf Special Zone and began building a player-controlled power base.

  • Dragon Fighting in the Wild failed to hire the Thunder Messenger, while Vanguard Across the Realm identified Active Muscle Fiber as a promising Mecha material and Dragon War restarted the Liver expedition.
  • Quantum Mechanics and Lu Ban No. 7 persuaded the Photonic Bacteria Elders to study the Hepa People’s poison-based and flesh-based magic, as real-world researchers replicated a potion that sped mouse-cell regeneration.
  • Other nations realized the Dragon Kingdom had gained a head start in game technology and magic, prompting them to establish research institutes and pressure the Dragon Kingdom to share its discoveries.
  • Zhang Kuang led a strike that killed the warlord Black Crocodile and negotiated with Smith’s envoy for weapons in exchange for helping Smith level up in the game.
  • Zhang Kuang named the conquered territory the Wild Wolf Special Zone and planned to recruit troops, take over industries, and build a state within a state.

Ch. 79Commander

Gu Yuan spent his surging Bio-Energy reserves repairing his Heart Core Shield and expanding his immune army, accelerating the purification of his lungs. Meanwhile, players pursued mecha-building, pet-raising, and food-streaming experiments, with mixed and often disastrous results.

  • Gu Yuan used 5 billion Bio-Energy to restore part of his Heart Core Shield and ordered mass production of Silver Wing Sentinels and elite Silver Wing Commanders.
  • Silver Wing Commanders led Sentinel legions into unpurified bronchioles, causing the lungs' cleared areas to expand rapidly.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou and the Flesh Ascension guild built a bone skeleton and tried turning it into a flesh-powered mecha, but it stumbled and crushed three players.
  • Canyon Summoner tried to tame a Living Flame: Seedling with a Bile Crystal, and the creature burned his arm while its taming progress increased slightly.
  • A pet breeder struggled with unpredictable Blue Slime mutations, while Bear Grylls Possession ate a toxic Ghost Jellyfish tentacle and died from neural toxin overload during his livestream.

Ch. 80Capital University Psionic Department (Trial Run)

Fang Yuan joined the first class of Capital University's secret Psionic Department, where students learned that magic from Titan Game could be studied and practiced in reality. The chapter ended as their instructor demonstrated a light spell and began teaching them how to master magic.

  • Fang Yuan arrived at the sealed Hua Building after agreeing to join a top-secret project and found students and soldiers gathered in Room 201.
  • A general announced that the gathered students were the first class of Capital University's Psionic Department and would study psychic power, or magic.
  • The young instructor introduced the class and handed out textbooks on light magic, basic magic, and related subjects.
  • Fang Yuan saw Professor Gu speaking with the generals outside and recognized that the gathering marked the start of a historic magic class.
  • The instructor demonstrated an Illumination Spell and explained how Spirit Pivot Envoys could unlock Energy Resonance and learn to use light magic in reality.

Ch. 81Shapeshifters, Nirvana Curse

Players rebuilt the Hepa Ruins into Emerald City and began exploring the dangerous wasteland, where Shapeshifters and Calamity Worms threatened them with ambushes and mutation. A Calamity Demon Butterfly’s cursed scales turned a shelter against its occupants, forcing the surviving players to flee.

  • Data Maniac and Tian Ce turned the Hepa Ruins into Emerald City, using the Thunder Messenger’s power to help players rebuild its defenses.
  • Tian Xiao exposed a Shapeshifter impersonating Eerie Revival by asking for the Dragon Kingdom passphrase, then fought off its attack.
  • Crazy Blood Bottle stomped a Calamity Worm, contracted the Nirvana Curse, and died after mutating toward a Nirvana Kin.
  • A Calamity Demon Butterfly scattered cursed scales over the players, causing a Flesh Artisans-built shelter to mutate and impale those inside.
  • The surviving players fled the shelter and scattered to escape the Calamity Demon Butterfly.

Ch. 82Calamity of Extinction, Abomination

Players discovered that the Calamity of Extinction’s worms carried remnants of divine power and adapted their tactics to kill them with electricity. Their mass extermination disturbed a deeper corruption, awakening a colossal entity named Calamity that unleashed a rain of cursed worms upon them.

  • Someone on the History Book found a Hepa epic identifying the black rain as the Calamity of Extinction’s poison spear, while players learned the worms were remnants of divine power left in Gu Yuan.
  • Players discovered that Withered Lurkers were vulnerable to electricity and began luring them into ambushes where Thunder Lords could electrocute them.
  • Players led monster hordes toward Emerald City, where the Thunder Messenger incinerated thousands of Withered Lurkers and the players collected the drops.
  • The players’ extermination disrupted the balance in a neighboring Hepatic Lobule, causing the ground to collapse and a giant mass of corruption to rise from the Abyss.
  • Calamity appeared as a super-giant hostile entity and dropped black liquid that formed cursed worms, which lunged at the terrified players.

Ch. 83Golden Lightning!

Gu Yuan used his Divine Oracle to awaken the Thunder Messenger and attack the Calamity · Abomination, while its falling sludge spawned Calamity Worms around Emerald City. The players fought to contain the curse and protect the city as the battle between the colossal beings raged overhead.

  • Gu Yuan identified the Calamity · Abomination and ordered Emerald City to resist the invaders.
  • The Thunder Messenger awakened, drained the surrounding Psychic Power, and launched a golden-lightning attack that pierced the Abomination.
  • The Abomination counterattacked with tentacles, while the Thunder Messenger dodged and struck back with its Thunder Spear.
  • Black sludge fell from the Abomination and turned into Calamity Worms, prompting Data Maniac to identify electricity as their weakness.
  • Tian Ce rallied the players to defend Emerald City, and Dragon Fighting in the Wild led shield-bearing Divine Guards in a charge against the worm tide.
  • Thunder Lords and Hunters were ordered to blanket the area with electricity and stop the Calamity creatures from entering the city.

Ch. 84Titanization

Thunder Messenger summoned a second unit, and the pair transformed into a golden giant to pin down Abomination as it tried to spread its curse through the Hepatic Lobule. Below, the players struggled against falling monsters and healing spells turned into lethal damage while the giant prepared its final strike.

  • Thunder Messenger evaded Abomination's tentacles, pierced it with a Thunder Judgment Spear, and was forced back by its Nirvana Echo curse.
  • Thunder Messenger summoned Thunder Messenger (Lung B-404), and the two bound Abomination with Double Thunder Prison Chain.
  • The Thunder Messengers merged through Giant God Transformation and grew into a thousand-meter golden giant that pinned down Abomination's attempted self-destruction.
  • Falling worms and cursed flesh turned into stronger monsters, and some Divine Guards and the Flesh Gundams attacked their allies.
  • Dragon Fighting in the Wild was hurt when Cloud Pomelo's healing spell mutated his flesh, while Tian Ce ordered players to use lightning and avoid direct healing.
  • The golden giant pinned down Abomination's head and prepared to deliver the final Execution.

Ch. 85Lethal Tempo

Vanguard Across the Realm rescued Cloud Pomelo and Data Maniac from the Calamity Abomination’s death backlash, while Gu Yuan absorbed the purified energy and rewarded the survivors with divine power. After leveling up to LV.35, Chen Feng unlocked Lethal Tempo and experienced its combat effects.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm used Bullet Time and Flash Step to carry Cloud Pomelo and Data Maniac into the Hepa Great Pyramid’s basement as the cursed shockwave swept across the battlefield, killing more than half the players in H-78.
  • Gu Yuan absorbed the purified energy left by the Calamity Abomination and scattered divine power over the surviving players and Thunder Messengers, healing them and granting experience and permanent attribute increases.
  • Cloud Pomelo and Data Maniac recovered, while Vanguard Across the Realm reached LV.35 and gained enough potential points to unlock a Tier Three talent.
  • Chen Feng unlocked Lethal Tempo, felt his neural reactions synchronize with his consciousness, and spun Origin Fang rapidly between his fingers.

Ch. 86Blooming Everywhere

After defeating [Calamity Abomination], the players spent their new talent points and tested the talents’ Reality Projections in the Titan Engineering Bureau. Chen Feng demonstrated the terrifying combat instincts of [Lethal Tempo], leaving the researchers to confront how radically superhumans were changing.

  • With the battlefield recovering, the surviving players allocated talent points; Thunder King chose [Energy Devour], Tian Ce and Data Maniac chose [Psionic Vision], and others selected talents to strengthen their bodies and healing.
  • Brute Force Yields Miracles demonstrated [Flesh Domination] by reshaping his arm into a shield, and Vanguard Across the Realm told everyone to log off and test their Reality Projections.
  • The players emerged from their gaming pods at the Titan Engineering Bureau, where Director Ban Jianguo and Professor Gu brought them to the testing ground.
  • Lei Zhen confirmed that [Energy Devour] let him absorb electricity as energy, while Wang Daqiang used [Flesh Domination] to alter his appearance and Fang Ce and Li Zihan examined energy with [Psionic Vision].
  • Chen Feng used [Lethal Tempo] to deflect supersonic rubber bullets with a wooden stick, prompting Professor Gu to warn Ban Jianguo that the country needed to prepare for superhumans.

Ch. 87Surrounded by a Pack of Wolves

Gu Yuan repaired his body enough to drive off the predators lurking around him, then opened the eighth closed beta and added one million player slots. As new players spread throughout his body, governments and factions scrambled to secure the codes, leaving Gu Yuan with a growing force against the threats surrounding him.

  • Gu Yuan spent five billion Bio-Energy to heal parts of his lungs and liver and expand his neural network, then used his Life Furnace to vaporize many nearby creatures and frighten the stronger predators into fleeing.
  • Gu Yuan ordered the Titan System to issue one million new activation codes for the eighth closed beta, including random deployment and squad deployment features.
  • Lawmakers in the Eagle Kingdom abandoned their duties to pursue game slots, while Zhang Kuang demanded that residents in the Wild Wolf Special Zone surrender their codes and continued building his legion.
  • Ban Jianguo launched the New Century Project to acquire codes for researchers, Capital University students, and special forces champions, while Dragon Kingdom prohibited public officials from trading codes illegally.
  • New players flooded the beginner villages, and randomly deployed players appeared throughout Gu Yuan’s organs, easing his concern as their numbers began to grow.

Ch. 88Blessed One, Academy Relocation

Four students from Dorm 119 were randomly airdropped into a strange ecosystem inside Titan, while scholars and Capital University students gathered in City of Light B-404 to begin intensive training. The chapter left the students marveling at their discovery as the scholars set out to reach Level 20 and unlock practical psionic research.

  • Dorm 119’s four members all got into Titan: Genesis’s eighth beta and chose the random airdrop mode.
  • Bro Don't, Mind Storm, Wolf in Water, and Light in the Night landed on a purple grassland beneath a vast ellipsoid covered in black scars and began taking screenshots.
  • Mind Storm confirmed they had not left the game, and the four prepared a forum post about the planet-like place inside Titan.
  • At City of Light B-404, Great Wall No. 1 gathered Dragon Kingdom researchers and Capital University students and explained that they needed to reach LV.20 to perceive Magic-Energy Particles in reality.
  • Great Wall No. 1 announced a month of semi-military training, with theory lessons in the mornings and combat practice in the pulmonary bronchioles in the afternoons.
  • The scholars embraced the training after Great Wall No. 1 promised that the first to reach Level 20 could apply to lead a Psionics Laboratory in reality.

Ch. 89Gentlemen

Wings of Freedom used its power-leveling operation in Freedom City to help Congressman Smith reach level 20 and unlock Cerebral Overclocking. Meanwhile, the Male Dormitory Quartet struggled to survive on a dangerous magical planet, where their arrival caught the attention of Titan Gu Yuan.

  • Wings of Freedom hosted wealthy Eagle Kingdom newcomers in Freedom City, where money bought access to powerful leveling teams.
  • Congressman Smith defeated a level 22 Stone Colossus, reached level 20, and unlocked the First-Tier Talent Cerebral Overclocking.
  • Wolf in Water, Bro Don't, Mind Storm, and Light in the Night fought and killed a level 5 Corrupted Horned Rat on the Purple Grassland.
  • The four collected the rat's crystal tooth and slightly poisonous meat, then carried the corpse toward a mountain cave to seek shelter and establish a Respawn Point.
  • Titan Gu Yuan noticed that the four players had descended onto a magical planet orbiting the Magic Heart.

Ch. 90Leap or Cross?

The players tried and failed to cross the acid-filled bile duct by airship and bone chariot, then regrouped to improve their designs. On Planet 119, the Male Dormitory Quartet witnessed a distant magical bombardment and decided to investigate the high-magic civilization at daybreak.

  • Hannibal launched the Flesh Airship Origin One across the bile duct, but living canyon defenses and Acid Spitters destroyed it.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou led the Flesh Ascension Guild's Bone Chariot into the acid river, where Rotten Giant-Toothed Sharks attacked and massacred the players.
  • The two guilds' players discussed upgrades to their failed crossing vehicles after respawning.
  • The Male Dormitory Quartet stayed in a cave at night after a Dark Night Terror Wolf killed Wolf in Water outside.
  • A huge magic formation lit the horizon and unleashed meteor-like fireballs, leading the quartet to plan to investigate the battle after sunrise.

Ch. 91Earth Dragon Turns Over

The four players from Dorm 119 explored Planet 119, hunting a weak bug while avoiding stronger creatures and a camouflaged predator. They reached a black mountain range, only to discover it was a colossal Earth Dragon turning over in its sleep.

  • [Bro Don't], [Wolf in Water], [Mind Storm], and [Light in the Night] reinforced their cave entrance before setting out to level up.
  • The four players killed a level-zero Fluorescent Beetle and gained experience, then sneaked around a pack of level-five Horned Rats.
  • [Wolf in Water] stopped [Light in the Night] from sitting on a dormant level-fifteen Camouflage Maw beside a river.
  • The group traveled to a black mountain range as the Magic Heart's Psionic Tide boosted psychic power recovery.
  • [Light in the Night] realized the mountain range was an Earth Dragon, which turned over and nearly swept the four players away with the wind.

Ch. 92Unspoken Rules? They Stirred Up a Hornet's Nest!

Dorm 119's four players watched a Ghost Leopard kill a Mountain-Bearing Beast, then ambushed the scavengers feeding on its corpse. Their attack broke the scavengers' unspoken truce, and the enraged creatures surrounded them as Bro Don't urged the group to fight.

  • Dorm 119 fled from the enormous creature they had mistaken for a mountain and hid as a Ghost Leopard killed a Mountain-Bearing Beast.
  • The four players waited for the Ghost Leopard to leave, then spotted low-level scavengers dividing the Mountain-Bearing Beast's remains peacefully.
  • Mind Storm, Wolf in Water, Light in the Night, and Bro Don't ambushed the Rot-Tooth Hyenas, killing several before the other scavengers stopped feeding.
  • The scavengers surrounded the four after they violated the rule against attacking at the shared feeding ground.
  • Bro Don't told his roommates to fight back and try to reach level three before they died.

Ch. 93Kill with a Borrowed Knife

After dying again on Planet 119, Bro Don't and his college friends planned to exploit local conflicts on their next attempt, then realized they had no NPCs to enhance their equipment. Meanwhile, Lin Ziye’s Fried Chicken and Beer Squad joined Salted Fish Thrust to overwhelm an LV.20 Mucus Aggregate with a large mercenary and pet force, leaving the boss under attack.

  • Bro Don't, [Wolf in Water], [Mind Storm], and [Light in the Night] returned from the [Biological Beacon] after dying and reached LV.3.
  • The four players decided to provoke public outrage elsewhere to divert danger and chose a new route through the forest.
  • The group realized they could not enchant or enhance their gear because there were no NPCs and Bio-Energy only worked for direct Gene Shop purchases.
  • Lin Ziye assembled the Fried Chicken and Beer Squad and Salted Fish Thrust outside the [Mucus Aggregate (LV.20 BOSS)] room with hired Ancients, Silver Wing Sentinels, and pet troops.
  • Lin Ziye ordered the Ancients to absorb damage while the Sentinels broke the boss’s armor and the squads attacked from both sides.
  • [Redemption] interrupted the boss’s mucus attack, and the group continued striking while the Ancients absorbed its counterattacks.

Ch. 94Listen to the Eagle's Cry

After clearing the A725 Bronchiole Lesion, Lin Ziye and the squads claimed valuable rewards and dismissed their rented guards. Near Freedom City, the Hebrew Guild’s powerful real-world leaders built a Mecha, but Morgan discovered he was too low-level to pilot it safely.

  • Lin Ziye confirmed the dismissal of the two Silver Wing Sentinel Rangers after the squads cleared the A725 Bronchiole Lesion.
  • The squads collected Bio-Energy, experience, materials, skill books, weapons, and blueprints while the Ancient Warlords ate their fill.
  • Wings of Freedom shifted from land reclamation to mercenary work as private camps appeared around Freedom City, including the Hebrew Guild’s lavish camp.
  • Morgan inspected the first-generation Mecha built from a blueprint, while Captain Trump explained that Wings of Freedom had made it with the best materials available.
  • Morgan tried to pilot the Mecha, but the system disconnected him because his level and attributes were too low, leaving him furious over the money he had spent.

Ch. 95Arms Race, Rat Race! Rat Race!

Consortium leaders recognized the Mecha as potentially valuable technology and planned to export its blueprints, while Dragon Kingdom researchers and elite players raced to level up and clear lesions. The chapter left the competing forces pushing to gain an advantage in the new era.

  • A consortium leader urged Mr. Morgan to calm down, argued that the Mecha contained technology beyond Earth's knowledge, and ordered its blueprints and data backed up for real-world laboratories.
  • Donnie worried that the Mecha might be connected to the unusual events in the Dragon Kingdom.
  • Professor Gu, playing as [Ci Beili], tested Mana Bullet trajectories in a lung Lesion Area while directing researchers to conserve mana during combat training.
  • [Data Maniac] spotted a Level 40 BOSS, and Vanguard Across the Realm led the top-player squad at high speed toward its location.
  • Tian Ce, Cloud Pomelo, Brute Force Yields Miracles, Dragon Fighting in the Wild, and the other players worked together to break through the monsters' defenses.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm killed the Crystallized Commander, clearing the H-59 Zone lesion in under three minutes, then ordered the squad to prepare for its next target.

Ch. 96New Life

Dying of genetic collapse in a Capital hospital, Long Xingchi entered Titan: Genesis hoping to reach a level that could save him, but his real-world death instead left him reborn in the game as a Titan Kin. Unable to log out and facing permanent death, he embraced his new life and used his newfound Psychic Power to heal a teammate.

  • Long Xingchi learned that Hepa Type I could not treat his genetic collapse, then seized on his Titan: Genesis beta access as a chance to reach Reality Projection and Titan Blood.
  • Playing as Xinglong, he spent most of his time safely leveling as a Life Weaver while his real-world health deteriorated.
  • Xinglong suffered a fatal collapse in the game as Long Xingchi died in the hospital, but the pain suddenly stopped and he awakened with a healthy body.
  • The system declared that Xinglong had entered Flesh Descent as a Titan Kin in Hardcore Mode, with no logout option or resurrection protection.
  • Xinglong celebrated his rebirth, discovered his innate command of Psychic Power, and instantly restored a critically wounded Divine Guard to full health.

Ch. 97Reconstructor

After Long Xingchi died in reality, he remained alive in Titan: Genesis as Xinglong, and Dragon Kingdom officials recognized that the world was real and protected him. He reached Level 10 and unlocked the hidden Reconstructor class, whose abilities could revive allies and create summons.

  • Xuanhu confirmed that Long Xingchi had died in reality, while Xinglong explained that he could no longer log out and had entered Flesh Descent.
  • Ci Beili and Professor Gu concluded that Titan: Genesis was a real place and that the Titans had guided and reconstructed human souls.
  • Professor Gu appointed Xinglong a protected individual and researcher, and Xinglong settled into a home in the City of Light.
  • Xinglong joined the Scientific Research Team's leveling group and used his instinctive psychic control to heal allies while fighting.
  • Xinglong reached Level 10 and chose the hidden Reconstructor class, gaining abilities to revive nearby allies, create summons, and devour them to restore himself.

Ch. 98Eating, Sleeping, and Provoking Bugs

After reaching level 37, Vanguard Across the Realm unlocked Pain Stripping and went to the Void Hive to test his new talent against the Void Devouring Insect. He fought through the hive’s defenders and evaded the Mother Insect’s cannons, reaching the hive entrance.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm killed the Bloody Butcher, reached level 37, and unlocked Pain Stripping.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm headed to the D-03 Warzone to test his new talent against the Void Devouring Insect.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm used Flash Step and Lethal Tempo to cut through the Void Fleas and Void Crushers guarding the hive.
  • The Void Devouring Insect recognized Vanguard Across the Realm and opened fire with its auxiliary cannons.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm dodged the cannon fire and plunged into the Void Hive.

Ch. 99A Real Man for Five Seconds!

Chen Feng tested Pain Stripping in the Void Hive’s Incubation Chamber, using a five-second burst to destroy high-tier insect eggs before dying. He left convinced the talent was extremely powerful when combined with Lethal Tempo.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm entered the Incubation Chamber and began destroying insect eggs, provoking two level 45 Void Reapers and the Void Devouring Insect.
  • The Reapers and the insect pierced and battered Vanguard Across the Realm, reducing his health to zero, but Pain Stripping locked it at one and erased his pain and stiffness.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm used fully stacked Lethal Tempo and Flash Step to tear through the chamber, destroying a month’s worth of high-tier eggs during the five-second effect.
  • As the effect ended, the Void Reapers tore Vanguard Across the Realm apart, and he concluded that his talent test had succeeded.
  • The enraged Void Devouring Insect fired its cannons indiscriminately, damaging a distant player outpost, while Chen Feng left the game pod and praised Pain Stripping’s power.

Ch. 100Meeting

Vanguard Across the Realm respawned in the City of Light after finding that players could not reach the isolated Planet 119. There, Ci Beili introduced Xinglong, whose Reconstructor class might enable Vanguard to repeatedly trigger Pain Stripping by respawning on the spot.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm saw that players lacked the coordinates or physical route needed to respawn on Planet 119.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm received Ci Beili's message and respawned at the City of Light.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm told Ci Beili that Pain Stripping was powerful but costly, since it required a near-death trigger and carried a long cooldown or another death.
  • Ci Beili proposed a way to erase Pain Stripping's cost by letting Vanguard repeatedly die and respawn on the spot.
  • Ci Beili introduced Xinglong as the only player to undergo Flesh Descent and become a Reconstructor.
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