Instant Death!

Xu Zhi could no longer remember whether she had felt even a trace of cowardly fear when she first saw this question. All she knew was that now, she was very confident in this "competition."

She felt she was being a little arrogant, but then again, she had cheats. Why shouldn't she be arrogant?

"Don't tell me I haven't even entered the arena yet?"

The girl propped her chin up with one hand and held the game console in the other, asking casually.

[You have long since been within it.]

The Narrator's answer did not surprise her. If she had not even found where the competition was, that would have truly surprised her.

"Source power."

Xu Zhi pondered to herself, then suddenly thought of something. "Then what would happen if I ate a core containing source power of another attribute?"

She admitted that her thoughts were a little scattered. The idea had simply popped into her head, but once it did, she felt like she was practically a genius!

[How did you even think of that?]

The Narrator seemed unable to hold back and voiced its first-ever doubt.

Xu Zhi smiled and replied, "It just suddenly occurred to me."

[.Your idea is correct. Consuming source power containing other attributes will also cause attribute conflicts, but because of the source power, your affinity for that attribute will increase, provided you can withstand the trouble caused by the attribute conflict.]

[But actually, there is a gentler method.]

[You merely need to find it yourself.]

"Heh."

Xu Zhi gave a cold laugh. "You really are addicted to speaking in riddles."

The Narrator fell silent.

Xu Zhi did not press it and simply changed the subject.

"Why do I feel like you're becoming more and more human?"

The Narrator remained silent.

A sly glint flashed through Xu Zhi's eyes. "That sounds like a bad thing. Should I throw you away?"

The Narrator was silent.

"You still won't say anything? How boring." The girl curled her lips and gave up on her childish probing.

Of course, she would never truly throw away the game console. She had only been teasing the Narrator and probing it a little, but it did not take the bait at all.

Feeling a little bored, Xu Zhi switched the screen back to the Familiar interface. After waiting a while longer, Doggie and Xiao Zhen finished leveling up.

Through the screen, she could clearly see the changes in Doggie and Xiao Zhen. How should she put it? Xiao Zhen had become even more majestic than before. Its body seemed to have grown larger as well, and its form was sleeker. Even standing quietly atop a tree branch, it looked like a creature painstakingly crafted by the Creator.

As for Doggie... it had turned into a silver-white wolf.

"Whoa, that's so cool!"

Xu Zhi blinked and praised it. She actually had a wolf as a pet!

After admiring the appearances of her two Familiars, she opened their status panels.

Doggie's species had indeed changed to wolf.

[Familiar: Wolf Lv15

Mind: 280

Body: 1700

Traits: Strength Lv6, Smell Lv5, Vigilance Lv3, Sharpness Lv4, Intimidation Lv4

Special Ability: None]

Its Body attribute had increased dramatically. Beyond that, it had directly gained a new Level 4 trait: Intimidation.

"Is this Intimidation something like Conqueror's Haki in anime? Like, you shake your tiger body and everyone falls over?"

Xu Zhi let her imagination run wild, since the name really did sound similar.

But then she thought of the battle roar used by the big bear she had defeated before. Maybe it was something along those lines?

In any case, Doggie had become much stronger after reaching Level 15. That was a good thing!

"Wait, can it still be called Doggie now?"

Xu Zhi hesitated for a moment, but if she had to change its name, she truly could not think of a good one.

Doggie it was, then!

After looking over Doggie's panel, Xu Zhi opened Xiao Zhen's page.

Strangely, Xiao Zhen's race had not changed. Or rather, its description had changed from falcon to Gyrfalcon.

[Familiar: Gyrfalcon Lv15

Mind: 480

Body: 1500

Traits: Sharpness Lv5, Agility Lv8, Endurance Lv5, Strength Lv4

Special Ability: Instant Death Lv1]

"Huh?"

Xu Zhi looked at the screen in surprise. A special ability??

[Congratulations. Your Familiar is exceptionally gifted. Upon raising its creature level, it independently grasped a spark of inspiration and comprehended the extraordinary ability: Instant Death.]

[Instant Death: As the name implies, when your Familiar activates this extraordinary ability, its attacks may cause the target to die immediately. Instant Death cannot be resisted, reversed, or altered.]

[However, as an extremely powerful extraordinary ability, the energy it consumes is not something your Familiar can currently withstand. At present, when the extraordinary energy within its body is full, your Familiar can use at most two attacks before exhausting its extraordinary power.]

[Furthermore, the higher the Instant Death level, the higher its activation rate. At present, its success rate is less than one in ten thousand.]

[Please work hard to raise your Familiar's level.]

The success rate was less than one in ten thousand, and it could only be used twice before running out of strength. It was practically useless, yet Xu Zhi was still so excited that she nearly jumped up.

"A god-tier skill!"

It could grow. Its upper limit was not fixed!

It was only Level 1!

"Xiao Zhen, are you really a messenger of the gods? How are you this amazing?" The girl's eyes shone brightly, brimming with delight.

Now that she had gained a little foundation, rather than having an ordinary extraordinary ability that could be useful in the early stages, it was better for her Familiar to possess an extraordinary ability that was weak early on but terrifyingly powerful after it grew.

After all, she now had the space and time to let her Familiars develop.

Still delighted, Xu Zhi reached through the game screen and tapped the little heads of her two Familiars. "Keep it up, you two."

During the battle with the big bear, Xu Zhi had already noticed that her three Familiars shared a certain degree of tacit understanding and mutual awareness. She could therefore set her mind at ease and focus on reading.

Recently, she had begun reading books about weapons and martial arts. Her body had recovered, and with Doggie and Xiao Zhen leveling up this time, Xu Zhi felt that her physique was no different from an ordinary person's. Still, reading these books was only armchair theory. Perhaps she should ask Shen Jinwen for guidance.

She had not looked for Shen Jinwen much over the past few days. She wondered how she was doing.

With that thought in mind, Xu Zhi saw that it was only around three in the afternoon and that night was still a long way off. Better sooner than later, so she picked up the game console, got to her feet, and planned to head to Shen Jinwen's residence.

But as she passed the window, her gaze unconsciously swept outside, and she saw several figures moving through the fog.

Xu Zhi halted and stopped by the window.

There were four figures outside. They moved quickly and quietly, their manner cautious. They did not look like fanatics, but rather normal humans.

Who were they? Why had they come here?

As she watched their clear silhouettes in the fog, Xu Zhi suddenly realized belatedly that her eyesight seemed to have improved considerably as well.

Was it because her body had recovered? Or because of her extraordinary ability?