Ao Zhan was merely simple-minded, not stupid.
Especially when it came to battlefield instincts, he was far sharper than most!
Earlier, Kaido had sent a voice transmission to Nikita, asking her to replicate Xu Xiao's Talent Ability so she could Amplify their abilities.
After that, Kaido's combat power had surged explosively!
This change clearly did not come from the [Amplify] they had seen before.
After all, [Amplify] did not require calling out the target's name. The target only needed to be within the Talent Ability's effective range.
Moreover, while [Amplify] was active, its user should only have expended stamina.
There should not have been a situation like Nikita's, with her golden hair turning gray and withered, her skin wrinkling and drying up, and her life force draining away in vast amounts.
Combined with the mutation in his own Talent Ability and its extreme evolution, Ao Zhan quickly guessed most of the truth—
Xu Xiao's Talent Ability had probably evolved.
The exact reason was still unclear, but its mechanism had changed from a range-based Amplify that consumed stamina and temporarily raised the rank of a target's Talent Ability, into calling out a name, consuming one's own life force, and triggering the target's Talent Ability to undergo extreme evolution.
And the effect even seemed to be permanent?
That was simply insanely overpowered!
But the effects of an overpowered Talent Ability often came with a price that was hard to bear.
Nikita, who had replicated Xu Xiao's Talent Ability, had only called out Kaido's name before her hair immediately turned dry and white, as though her life force had been drained dry in an instant;
And Xu Xiao was now calling out names one after another...
Could she be trying to completely drain herself dry?!
Ao Zhan's two thick brows drew tightly together.