Wandering Scavenger

"How is the situation at present?"

"The user has remained within a large public cemetery area for eleven days, absorbing a considerable amount of deceased souls' traits. Based purely on energy-level enhancement calculations, he should currently be at the peak of the Third Tier. He is expected to break through within the next day or two and become the first user in reality to enter the Fourth Tier."

Li Yun blinked and carefully studied the middle-aged man on the light screen. He was slumped behind a wall, thin and gaunt, his clothes tattered and covered in dust, his cheekbones especially prominent.

With both hands supporting his chin in the same pose as Commander Ikari, Li Yun remained expressionless. "His Shadow Fiend bloodline can indeed theoretically raise its energy reserves simply by absorbing souls most of the time, but absorbing and controlling so many soul fragments at once will surely bring considerable hidden conflict and backlash."

This was naturally no baseless claim. Others might not have been able to see it clearly, but Li Yun could distinctly make out faint black mist rising and falling around the increasingly "dim" figure, with even traces of spirituality drifting outward.

—That was what happened when the remnants of souls were "evaporating."

Strictly speaking, this man was clever and restrained. He only took small tastes, never attempting to continue killing and plundering souls. Instead, he lurked within this vast cemetery, waiting for "prey" to deliver itself to him.

Especially the young and middle-aged Muslim dead who had fallen in war, their bodies eventually sent here.

A life cut short—particularly the resentment, grief, rage, and obsession of dying young—would undoubtedly allow the soul traits lingering after death, already short-lived to begin with, to retain their "shelf life" for longer!

Thus, by voraciously devouring outside supplies, this