The office's soundproof door had barely slid open when the click of high heels came through.
Holding an encrypted, ultrathin tablet, Simona strode up to the desk. She gently set it down, swiped the screen open, and brought up the compiled data.
"Boss, the first round of Compound V injections has been finalized. Five thousand people in total."
Simona's voice was as brisk and efficient as ever, with a perfectly measured professional smile on her face. "According to all our live tests at the underground firing range, aside from a handful of people with unusual constitutions, the vast majority of adults can only awaken abilities up to LV3 after receiving the drug. This is the ability model Jade Balance compiled from the previous experiments. Please take a look."
Reclining in his spacious leather chair, Lucian casually picked up the tablet.
He swiped a finger across the screen, and rows of detailed data immediately came into view.
Lucian had long had a clear idea of how much Compound V could improve an ordinary person. Although Sister Sage had refined Vought International's original formula a second time, removing most of its fatal genetic defects, an ordinary person's physical foundation imposed limits. Becoming as powerful as Homelander in a single leap was impossible.
The first line on the tablet displayed the most prominent overall assessment:
[Overall classification: bottom-tier urban combatant. Difficult to kill quickly with standard military and police small arms; a single individual can directly contend with more than ten fully armed ordinary civilians.]
Below that overall assessment were four main categories of manifestation:
``` [Physical enhancement: strength reaches the ton-level threshold. Handgun bullets can only lodge in shallow muscle tissue rather than penetrate the body. Capable of punching through a standard brick wall thirty centimeters thick with bare hands.]