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Chapter 60: A Fair Deal
Tang's face changed.It wasn't anger. It was the opposite of anger—a slight, automatic sharpening, the way a blade comes a fraction looser in its sheath. The room's air thickened, and Ethan found himself short of breath before he'd decided to be.Tang pulled it back.The pressure vanished as fast as it had come.Ethan let the breath out slow. Was that on purpose? A warning shot? Am I about to get told my price?Tang himself was frowning. He hadn't meant to do that. It was the wound. The thing inside him—foreign, old, fighting his own strength every minute of every day—was getting harder to hold. When it broke loose, it broke loose in front of people. He couldn't afford that. The line was thin, and the whole country was watching it.Outside, the war was the only thing keeping him alive. Four maxed-out SSS-ranks held the four approaches, a human wall the monsters couldn't climb. But the low-tier pressure under them was getting worse. People died every single day. That was why a cabbage
Chapter 59: The National Lord
"Find him," Tang said. "Right now."It wasn't hard. Ethan Su was enrolled at the Special Occupation Academy. The school kept its roster on a central registry. Tang's people had a location inside of ten minutes.A teleport array was already warming up. Tang sent word ahead.The school's only on-site teacher—a man missing more than half his sight and most of one arm—read the notice and thought his comms had glitched. The first person in the country wanted to see a freshman who'd arrived three weeks ago.He sat with it for a minute. Then he thought about the rumors. The boy who'd punched a test plate hard enough to ring it. The boy a dead senior teacher had taken a shine to. The boy the headhunters couldn't find. Maybe it wasn't crazy.The Special Occupation Academy kept its roster on a central registry, and the boy's file was locked tighter than most. The old teacher had spent three decades in this building, and he'd learned to stop asking about the things that didn't explain themselves
Chapter 58: It's Him
The military won the peanuts.Ethan had listed them in lots of ten, starting bid ten million. The lot walked away for a hundred and ninety million. The Federation's procurement officer stared at the screen for a long time after the hammer fell.General Duo Meng didn't yell. That came later."Dammit." He turned the small bag over in his hand. Ten peanuts. "Nineteen million. Ninety. One hundred and ninety million—for peanuts. If I hadn't jumped the bid at the end I wouldn't even have these."He was swearing, and he wasn't sorry.He waved over ten soldiers. Quick. Strong. Heavy defense. Spirit-types. Ten different builds, ten different Classes, lined up in front of him."Eat one each. Tell me what changes."They shelled them. The two kernels in each skin went down. A hot current moved through each body, fast and sharp, and died away inside of seconds.Then the room started talking over itself."General. Strength. I'm up a hundred jin.""Spirit—up nine.""Defense. Fifty points.""Speed. F
Chapter 57: Eighteen Points
Hongyuan held the cabbage at arm's length and made himself close the lid.A hundred million dollars. If he ate it and gained three points of something useless, the clan would have his skin on the wall. He was not the talent in this family. He was the buyer. The buyer didn't test the merchandise. The buyer wrapped it carefully, locked the desk drawer, and walked it down the hall to the one person who could.The An family had been a name in the Capital for four generations. Not old money—not Liu-family old—and not flashy new. Manager was their Class line, generation after generation, and a Manager ran people the way a conductor runs an orchestra. It was how the clan had survived without a single war-god among them: by buying the right thing, at the right moment, before anyone else understood it was worth buying. Hongyuan's job was to find those things. His brother's job was to spend the clan's fortune on them.The hall to the patriarch's office was quiet. The doors were closed. Nobody g
Chapter 56: The Whole Platform Loses It
He sat down with the listing screen and made himself think, for once, about why he was doing this.He could have stayed in the wilderness. Grown at his own pace. No school, no gravity rooms, no generals ringing bells. He'd weighed it once, on the way up here, and turned it down. The valley was quiet, but quiet in the way a locked room was quiet. He was eighteen, and he had questions—about the rifts, about Song, about why the sky had split open one hundred and twenty years ago and nobody on the street could tell him what was really out there. A boy alone in a field didn't get those answers. A school did.He also had a problem he couldn't train his way out of. His domain invincibility bought him sixty seconds. Sixty seconds was enough against one target. It was not enough against a wall of them. The day he met something strong enough to survive the domain, or fast enough to outnumber it, raw strength was all he'd have.The school was teaching him how to use it.He looked at the dummy's
Chapter 55: Thirty Thousand Kilograms
Two days. Ten thousand batches. The cauldron ran hot and cool and hot again, and Ethan fed it herbs until his hands smelled of bitter root and his storage bin of raw materials looked like it had gone through a shrink ray. The brews came out uniform, one after another, twenty times the potency of anything a normal Alchemist could bottle. He didn't even have to think about the steps anymore. The Class did them for him.Alchemist Level up: Level 4.Five thousand experience to Level 5. He inventoried what was left. Enough ingredients for a hundred batches, maybe. He did the subtraction once and didn't like it: a hundred batches wasn't five thousand experience points. Not even close.He finished the last batch, stretched until his shoulders cracked, and checked the time. Four in the afternoon.He hadn't tilled in days. He could feel it in his joints, the way a farmer can feel rain coming in his knees.The signature weapon didn't just sit there while he held it. Every swing put a little str
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