[New Feature: After the Host lies, the Host can consume credit points to temporarily make the lie a reality]
[New Way to Obtain stellar jade: The Host can obtain stellar jade by consuming credit points, with an exchange ratio of 1000:1. A maximum of 14,400 stellar jade (90 pulls) can be exchanged]
"So, what I said before, that the more credit points I have, the stronger I can become, is manifesting in this way?"
Looking at these two short lines of text, Cipher immediately recalled the lie she had told Claire earlier.
Temporarily setting aside the news about exchanging credit points for stellar jade, the newly added feature alone was enough to shock her.
Being able to forcibly turn her lies into reality—what did that mean?
It meant that her Trickery Divine Power would no longer have limitations.
When fighting an enemy, she could first forcibly gain an ability by consuming credit points, then use that ability to make the enemy believe she truly possessed it.
Once the enemy believed it, she could then use Trickery Divine Power to completely solidify that ability!
Thinking of this, Cipher stared intently at the feature, then uttered a lie.
"I possess the same ability as Reclusive Princess; any creature I touch will return to the River Styx!"
[1,000,000 credit points consumed. Lie made real. The lie will expire after killing one creature (excluding microscopic organisms or plants) or after ten minutes]
As these words ended, Cipher sensed several wisps of purple aura entwining around her, identical to the wisp she had just used.
"Using a million credit points to kill one person?"
Looking at the text and the purple aura wrapped around her, Cipher revealed a smile.
"That's a huge profit!"
But soon, the smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a somewhat worried expression as she looked towards the warehouse.
"Why is there no movement from the warehouse? Even if they aren't fighting inside, there shouldn't be absolutely no sound, right?"
"Forget it, I'll go in and see."
With that, Cipher flicked her turning over coin, then ran towards the warehouse.
...
"Ha... ha..."
Claire was panting heavily, using her sword to support herself.
Her clothes had many cuts and scorched marks.
Although there were only two wounds on her body, both were, without exception, on her neck.
Trickles of blood slowly seeped from the wounds on her neck.
Standing opposite her were Chu, covered in lightning, and Zhen, Senior, holding a small silver knife.
"Ms. Claire, don't make any more futile resistance."
At this moment, Chu, standing opposite her, spoke, "In just over a minute, you've become this disheveled. So, how much longer do you think you can last in your current state?"
However, Claire showed no reaction to Chu's words.
She stared intently at Zhen, her eyes filled with disappointment and confusion.
"Senior Zhen, you've become indecisive."
Claire touched the scars on her neck and slowly said:
"You clearly had two chances to kill me directly, but you hesitated. You didn't strike. This isn't like the old you."
"...My mission is to stop you, not to kill you."
After a moment of silence, Zhen slowly replied.
"Heh, in that case..." Claire gripped the sword in her hand, "I won't defend anymore. Either you kill me, or... I kill you!"
After saying this, Claire raised her sword and was about to charge at Zhen, Senior, to fight to the death.
But before she could take a few steps, a series of beeping sounds came from the terminals of the two people opposite her.
(PS: At this time, the cat had just killed those two people, Divinity Speed hadn't been activated yet, and she was distracted by the system. Don't ask why people still ran away even with Divinity Speed on.)
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Upon hearing this sound, Zhen and Chu's expressions changed slightly. Zhen immediately turned his heads and quickly said to Chu, "They failed, let's go."
With that, he sliced behind him with the small knife, and a dark spatial rift appeared behind him.
Immediately after, he turned and entered the spatial rift.
Upon hearing this, Chu glanced at Claire's direction with some reluctance, then carried Felix and Augie, disappearing into the spatial rift as well.
Not long after (at this point, Cipher had just activated Divinity Speed outside the warehouse), the sensation of death reappeared, followed by a loud bang.
"Dong—"
That was the sound of the door being knocked open by Cipher.
Entering the warehouse, Cipher, with Divinity Speed active, circled the warehouse left and right, trying to find the enemies. But at this moment, apart from Claire holding her sword, there was no one else inside the warehouse.
So, Cipher had no choice but to deactivate Divinity Speed and then quickly walked towards Claire.
She dispelled the aura of death around her and reached out to support Claire.
"Claire, what happened in the warehouse? I couldn't hear anything from outside."
Looking at Claire, who had two wounds on her neck, Cipher frowned and asked her question.
Claire shook her head, pushed away Cipher's hand, then her sword disappeared, stored away in her spatial storage.
"I have a senior who disappeared ten years ago. We thought he was dead, but I never expected to meet him here today..."
Claire pursed her lips, then slowly reached out and caressed the wounds on her neck, continuing to speak to Cipher:
"He sealed off the space of this warehouse, which made it a relatively independent space if it wasn't attacked. That's why I couldn't hear anything from outside, and Boss Cipher, you couldn't hear anything from in here."
"But just a few seconds ago, they seemed to sense something, opened a spatial rift, and immediately left."
"So that's how it was?"
Upon hearing Claire's explanation, Cipher felt a bit annoyed.
She suspected that the people inside the warehouse had sensed her killing those two, otherwise they wouldn't have fled so decisively.
If she had immediately activated Divinity Speed to support the warehouse after killing those two, she might have been able to capture everyone inside as well.
"Boss Cipher, let's go back. Without knowing the teleportation destination of their spatial rift, it's basically impossible to catch up to them."
Claire saw Cipher's annoyed expression and thought she still wanted to pursue them, so she quickly reminded her.
Cipher shook her head, indicating that she had no intention of pursuing them.
"Let's go back first. This time I took out two A+ ranked combatants from the Reverse Current Alliance. They probably won't be looking for trouble with us for a while."
"Okay."