The white-haired man was handsome, with a smile so warm and approachable it drew people in.
If he were on Earth, no man would dare dispute his claim to being the most handsome man alive.
He wasn't pretty in an effeminate way, nor was he a hulking Schwarzenegger. He was handsome to just the right degree—the kind of man whose name could replace the word "handsome" itself.
Nameless looked at Xu Qinqin, thinking she knew him.
But Xu Qinqin merely glanced at the white-haired man, then lowered her eyes slightly and began studying the surrounding terrain.
"You know him?" Nameless had no choice but to ask through a voice transmission.
"Ma Boni, the skill plagiarist," Xu Qinqin replied coolly. "He's a troublesome one. Don't get too close, or he'll plagiarize your skills. Once he succeeds, your skills become his."
"They're just skills. Why does that matter?" Nameless asked, taken aback.
Even if the man plagiarized his skills, wouldn't Nameless still have them?
What truly made someone powerful was never their skills, but how they used their abilities and how strong they were themselves.
Without enough strength, even the finest skills were nothing but Mirror Flowers, Water Moon.
Xu Qinqin glanced at Nameless. "Once he succeeds, if even one person believes a skill belongs to him, your ability will be taken away. Every insight you've gained, every bit of Proficiency—it all becomes his. That's what plagiarism truly means."
"Then how about we kill him first?" Nameless proposed at once.
"His plagiarism has several conditions," Xu Qinqin said. "First, he has to see you use an ability. Second, your relationship with him has to reach a certain level of friendliness. I don't know the exact threshold. Just don't talk to him or go near him. There are other conditions too, but I'm