The elevator doors slowly opened, and Hela stepped out, leading Aidan to a very inconspicuous room.
Squeak--
"Yes, boss, you're here."
Hela pushed open the door and entered, where she saw Tuote sitting in front of the computer and Weier fast asleep on the bed.
"Mmm." Hela nodded and led Aidan inside.
Tuote noticed a strange look in Aidan's eyes behind her glasses.
"Hey Aidan, where did you go? I woke up and you were gone."
Aidan blushed, feeling incredibly embarrassed.
"Uh... I accidentally got taken to the police station."
"Hmm?" Tuote's eyes showed even more doubt, and before he could ask any more questions, Hela leaned closer.
"Have you found out about that [ Soul Snatcher ] ability?"
As he spoke, he looked at the computer screen.
Seeing this, Tuote and Aidan stopped talking about that topic.
"Found it." Tuote adjusted his glasses. "It's an ability that's both very strong and very weak."
"Both very strong and very weak?"
Aidan was a little confused and scratched her head.
"That's right." Tuote nodded.
"The strength of this ability lies in its ability to preserve the souls of the creatures one has killed, retaining approximately 80% of their original combat strength."
"Isn't that pretty impressive?" Aidan said, puzzled.
Tuote smiled somewhat helplessly, "If that's all there is to it, it is indeed quite impressive, but these souls all possess their own consciousness and are completely uncontrollable."
"Huh?" Aidan was slightly taken aback.
Simply put, these dead souls can selectively become the power of the ability users, but since they were killed by ability users, most of them harbor resentment towards them and therefore will not become their power.
"However, according to the boss, that was, after all, the Human Limit combat power. It's likely that he used some method to make many powerful souls his own."
Tuote had been talking for so long, and Hela had been nodding in agreement the whole time, but whether she had actually listened was another matter entirely.
"So how exactly do we defeat him?" Hela finally asked the question that mattered most to her.
Tuote's brow furrowed slightly, and he looked somewhat troubled.
"I'm afraid that's difficult."
"The ability to Soul Snatcher is to keep those souls around the user as if they were guardian spirits. More importantly, no one except the user can see or touch those souls."
"These souls, however, can interact with the outside world and attack enemies."
Hela nodded slightly. "So they can hit me, but I can't hit them."
"That's right, at least that's how it is with most attacks, unless they can directly attack the soul."
As he spoke, Tuote sighed, "Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to attack the soul."
He moved the mouse, browsing through the files on the computer.
"But after searching for almost a day, there are still no cases of attacks that have actually penetrated the soul. At most, there are people who can use the soul as their own power to attack, but whether such attacks are effective against other souls is unknown."
"Attack the soul..."
Aidan lowered her head slightly, lost in thought.
"Well, I might be able to..."
Hela and Tuote turned to him and said in unison, "Really?"
Aidan nodded, opened his hand upwards, and a seemingly ordinary pixelated knife slowly appeared in his palm.
"My weapon can cut down anything, and as for souls... if it's as I understand it, it should be able to as well."
After he finished speaking, blue pixels, like flames, suddenly appeared on his right eye.
"And I can also see souls."
In Aidan's view, Hela and Tuote each have a pixelated heart of a different color inside their bodies.
Tuote was white with a slight reddish tinge, while Hela's was an extremely scarlet heart, much larger in size, and constantly darting around in various parts of her body.
This made Aidan, who had seen countless souls, swallow hard.
Hela's eyes lit up instantly, her pupils turning into star shapes, but she remained expressionless.
"Alright, then you can deal with him."
Hela patted Aidan on the shoulder, entrusting him with such an important task, and then her pupils returned to their round shape.
However, Tuote, standing nearby, seemed somewhat worried.
"But the opponent is also at the Human Limit combat power. Can Aidan handle it alone?"
Hela lowered her head and thought for a moment, then looked up at Aidan with her big, watery eyes.
Will we win?
"This..." Aidan's eyes darted around uncertainly.
To be honest, he didn't have much confidence, not for any other reason, but entirely due to his deep-seated inferiority complex.
Actually, upon closer reflection, he didn't have many impressive achievements to his name.
He has almost never won against any powerful opponent in a one-on-one fight.
Even when facing Ye Linwan, who was also at the Human Limit combat power, Aidan could only cut off one of her spider legs before fleeing in panic.
Aidan didn't even consider herself to be a true Human Limit combat power, so she lacked confidence in that regard.
However, the moment his eyes met Hela's, an indescribable emotion surged through him.
This feeling made him want to fulfill all of Hela's requests no matter what.
"We will... we will win! We absolutely will!"
"Okay, that's good." Hela nodded in satisfaction and patted him on the shoulder.
"Alright, you two continue discussing. I have other things to do, so I'll be leaving now."
After saying that, he turned to leave.
"Um, wait a minute, boss!"
He had just turned around when Aidan called out to him.
"What's the matter."
Hela stopped immediately, turned around, her long white hair drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and her exquisite face was aimed at Aidan, causing the latter's heart to skip a beat.
"Well... there's something I'd like to ask."
Aidan blushed, lowered her head, and dared not look at Hela.
But then, as if remembering something, her expression slowly turned somber.
"So, who is the person I need to defeat...?"
"Oh, it's the Night Star."
Just as she finished speaking, Hela thought for a moment and changed her words:
"No, according to Wang Canxin, they should be called Gravekeepers, because the Light God Society going to seize the Tree of Terra, so they need to eliminate the people guarding it."
Aidan's eyes dimmed almost imperceptibly for a moment, then she forced a smile and nodded at Hela.
"Understood, boss..."
Hela nodded, turned around, and pushed open the door to leave.
Seeing that Hela had completely left, the forced smile on Aidan's lips slowly disappeared, and she lowered her head, lost in thought.
"You don't want to oppose the Night Star?"
After an unknown amount of time, Tuote, who was behind Aidan, spoke up while reviewing documents.
Aidan's body trembled slightly. He opened his mouth, then closed it again, as if he had a thousand words he wanted to say.
But in the end, he could only manage a strained "I don't know..."
After saying that, he also pushed open the door and left.