Absolute Ability User Plan

"Level 6 Shift Project"----

Cold words silently laid out a mad and cruel plan on the screen.

By having Academy City's number one esper, "Accelerator," systematically slaughter twenty thousand clones of "Railgun," his "Personal Reality" would be adjusted through actual combat, allowing him to break past the limits of Level 5 and evolve into the unprecedented Level 6 "Absolute Ability User."

Twenty thousand kills.

This had already gone beyond the scope of an "experiment." It was a one-sided massacre.

There was no doubt that this experiment had already crossed the bottom line of humanity----

Zhang Qi's fingertips rested on the screen. His gaze was calm, yet the temperature in the study seemed to drop by several degrees.

What he found strange was not the plan's cruelty, but its "crudeness."

This "Level 6 Shift Project" was far too simple and brutal----

He did not hesitate any longer, lightly tapping the keyboard with his fingertips.

Before long, an encrypted map appeared on the screen, several red dots blinking in different corners of the city.

Those were the locations of the research facilities involved in the experiment.

The night was the best curtain.

Zhang Qi silently merged into the city's shadows, darting toward the nearest set of coordinates.

It was an abandoned industrial park on the edge of District 7, the target building an utterly unremarkable warehouse-like factory.

Yet before he could get close, a pungent odor mixed with ozone and burnt plastic rushed into his nostrils.

Zhang Qi stopped, frowning slightly.

He pushed open the half-closed iron door, its hinges letting out a piercing groan.

The sight inside was nothing short of a complete mess.

Every piece of equipment, from precision control consoles to massive cylindrical cultivation tanks, had suffered devastating damage without exception.

The metal casings had melted under intense heat