Jeffrey's face turned beet-red, looking like a scolded monkey.Earlier, Ray had asked, if he were stronger than Emmett and fancied Jeffrey, would Jeffrey sacrifice himself for his family?"This… this is ridiculous!" Jeffrey stammered, his voice trembling. Just imagining a powerful man locking him down made him nauseous."And what do you think?" Ray asked coolly. His acting was flawless; there was no way to tell from his expression whether he was serious or joking.Jeffrey's face flickered red and white as a fierce mental battle raged inside him. Finally, he gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead. "I… I am a man! I will never accept such humiliation!" He'd rather die in battle than endure this.Ray chuckled. Double standard much, eh?Paige snorted. "Jeffrey, why aren't you talking about protecting your family now?""Men and women are different!" Jeffrey tried to justify himself. "Since the olden days, only women have sold themselves—brothels, you know? Men don't do that

Ray repeated the process without hesitation.Apart from Gunnr's three main champions and another five captains, every other low-level thug in the area was weak. Most ranked at three- or five-units of power, with only a handful reaching twenty-units. Targeted, swapped, and absorbed by Ray, they barely put up any resistance.It ended so fast, the alert barely triggered before the enemies were gone.However, trouble arose when he attempted to capture the twenty-second enemy.This one was beast-type—and avian, no less. The crucial detail: he awoke just as Ray attempted the spatial swap. The moment he appeared before Ray, he transformed, furiously flapping his wings. Although Ray immediately compressed him into the spatial portal, the gust generated by his wings triggered the alarm.Ding ding ding!The bells on the alarm cord rang incessantly. The entire Fanghold was alerted.The "fan operator" immediately acted, dispersing the dense mist across the enclave, while spotlights swung wi

Thinking of the word fair, Ray couldn't help but chuckle.Fairness… in times like this? What a joke.Besides, the largest sample of the golden substance right now was only around ten units. There was too small a dataset to draw any real conclusions. The chance of jumping from ten units to a thousand—or ten thousand—was slim.But!What if luck favored you and you kept encountering golden snowflakes? Those five- and ten-unit increments could accumulate. That would still be terrifying.Ray's eyes flickered. From his otherworldly storage space, he tossed a dead Jayzepanese ability user across the room."Ah!" Paige shrieked, fear flashing across her face.Even though over a hundred days had passed since the apocalypse began, she'd been carefully sheltered and had hardly ever seen a corpse—never this close. A corpse suddenly landing right in front of her was enough to make her panic.She'd only just awakened her own abilities a few minutes ago; her mind hadn't adjusted yet."This is

Paige couldn't help but glance at Ray.That morning, he had thrown out a total of twenty-six bodies, and all of them were Jayzepanese soldiers. So… Ray was Channing!She then looked at Steve, a faint smile curling on her lips.Praising him so openly, and sincerely, in front of the man himself—Ray must be secretly thrilled beyond words.Sure enough, a faint smile appeared on Ray's face. "The Jayzepanese have completely lost it?" he said. "Using ordinary humans to threaten me?"Hah. Pathetic.Of course, Ray came and went as he pleased. What could the Jayzepanese soldiers even do? Bark helplessly, that's all.Let's see… in just three days, he'd killed eighty-eight of them. The entire Fanghold had only around three hundred members. Most were small fry, but that was enough to make Gunnr wince.And if you counted Alexander… well, that was just icing on the cake.Steve nodded repeatedly. "Those Jayzepanese are despicable! If only I had Channing's strength, I'd go hunt them too—wipe t

"Everyone, fall back!" Gunnr bellowed.The Jayzepanese soldiers immediately retreated, leaving only the elite fighters—Astrid, Kirk, and the others—closing in.Now, even if Ray used spatial swap, it could only target these elites. And these fighters were experienced, each with their own countermeasures—they weren't particularly afraid of being forcibly thrown into his spatial portal.Repeated use of the same trick could always be anticipated and countered.Ray smiled faintly. They seemed to have forgotten one thing.The eight elites didn't attack yet. They knew any strike would be futile. Ray seemed to be in an "invincible" state—but they also believed that no invincibility could last forever.True.But he knew more than one trick.Ray withdrew exile and activated spatial swap. In an instant, he appeared a hundred meters away. At his previous position, a large stone crashed down.Crap!All eight of Gunnr's elite fighters cursed inwardly. They turned in time to see Ray already