The woman "extracted" from every corpse, pulling a drop of pale golden liquid from each—forty-three in total. She drank half immediately, tucking the rest away for later.She was about to leave.'Strike now? Follow her to her lair and then act?' Ray considered it briefly—and made his decision.'Strike now!'To an ability user, the lair itself didn't matter that much. Knowing its location was one thing; taking action was another."Wait here for me," Ray told Cassandra.A flash of spatial swap.Whoosh. He closed the distance rapidly.Five hundred meters… three hundred… one hundred!The woman suddenly twisted, turning to face him.Though she wore goggles that partially obscured her features, Ray's spatial perception revealed everything. Her expression screamed shock, as if to say, 'How is this person here?!'Ray slowed to a walk, stopping ten meters in front of her, a faint smile playing on his lips. "Looks like Agatha told you what I look like.""Or maybe… you've seen me your

"Ah, ah, ah—now that's the million-dollar question," Athena purred, her voice dripping with honey. Her hips gave a little sway, her waist twisting like it had no bones. "Looks like my panties are about to make an appearance."She shot Ray a playful glance, stuck out her tongue, and winked. "Oh, but with your X-ray vision, you already know I'm not wearing any. Hehe... I'm not lying on purpose!"What a little minx!She was already stunning, but with words this bold and provocative, how was any man supposed to resist?And yet, Ray sat there like a monk who'd taken a vow of silence."That's fine. Just answer the question," he said flatly.Athena frowned. "Are you even a man? Starting to wonder myself. Want to... test that out in bed?"Ray's expression didn't flicker. "Keep stalling. See where it gets you."Caught red-handed, Athena didn't even blush—just pressed her lips together and smiled. "Fine, fine. I'll tell you! It's tied to my ability. I can create ability users whose power

Ray activated spatial compression—three sides pressed, one left open.Boom!Athena shot downward like a rocket, forcibly shoved into motion.Spatial compression was a deadly move, but it could be resisted. Take Mary, for example—flattened like clay, stretched thin, but she wouldn't die. Once her ability retracted, she bounced right back.But try that against someone trapped in otherworldly storage space, and it would be instant death.With otherworldly storage space as the ultimate killing move, spatial compression became nothing more than a supporting trick.Before Athena could even cry out, she was pushed into the otherworldly storage space—vanishing without a trace.Her black energy instantly collapsed as if evaporated.A mere trifle.Ray smiled faintly. Spatial compression combined with the spatial portal—now that was unstoppable.Athena was strong, she was bizarre—but so what?The only real threat she posed would be combat-type attackers moving at super-sonic speed, cap

Athena didn't hesitate for a second. The words came pouring out. "I can split my soul into fragments and get someone to ingest them. That triggers their evolution. Once they become an ability user, within ten to fifteen days, the soul fragments I planted grow strong enough for me to harvest."The so-called harvesting meant extracting that pale-golden liquid."When my powers were still weak, I could only split ten fragments at a time, and only once every three days. But as I've grown stronger, I can now split fifty fragments at once—and I can do it every single day," Athena continued.It was an accelerating process. In the beginning, it was slow—limited by the number of fragments and the ten-day maturation window. But in the mid-to-late stages, the quantity per batch would skyrocket, eventually reaching a scale that was hard to comprehend.Ray clenched his jaw. If an ability like this existed on the other side of the ocean, it would take him ages to even encounter it. Absorbing the

In an instant, Alexander's body went rigid, every hair on him standing on end. He immediately abandoned his target and turned to sprint.Boom! Boom! Boom!Alexander unleashed unparalleled speed and strength. Every earthen wall in his path shattered instantly. And the most terrifying part?A dozen walls broke, yet only a single sound echoed.Think about that—how fast must one be to make the destruction of twelve walls sound like just one?Through spatial perception, Ray saw Alexander surge more than seventy meters in an instant.And this was underground, with thick layers of soil and stone blocking his path. To dash that far, that fast… the explosive power of a physical-type ability user was downright insane.Wait, it gets worse. Alexander had likely absorbed Agatha's abilities. His strength must have skyrocketed, and since a physical-type's power comes entirely from their body—cellular enhancement isn't instantaneous—give him a few more days, and he'd grow even stronger.Ray si