Chapter 38 (1/2)

Chapter 38: Monsters

“So Han’s really dead?” Pathless Origin tried to ask while hiding his emotions.

Night Walker hesitated for a second, and lightly shook his head, “Nope, he just went into a coma that’s all. I noticed that Han’s index number wasn’t updating for a few days, so I went onto the web servers on Earth, where Han lives, and did a bit of research. As a result, I came across this video about Han that went viral, it seemed like everyone on Earth sees Han as a hero now.”

“That video’s content was very short, it wasn’t everything you just saw. That’s because I found a famous hacker on the dark net and paid him to hack into Earth’s United Government’s Esper Administration. That video you just saw was what we got.”

But suddenly, a strong light came across Night Walker’s eyes, “Pathless, seems like age didn’t set your skills back that much. Han didn’t know you for more than a month and, not mentioning other things, Han’s sheer force of character already resembles you quite a bit.”

Hearing that Han was still alive, Pathless finally let out a long sigh and a bitter smile, “I’m not going to lie, I really got old. Just moments ago when I thought Han was dead, I was actually really disappointed and sorry.”

Pathless continued, “But actually, Han was able to achieve this height was not all because of me. I just taught him how to be a true warrior, and also taught him effective ways to practice for combat as someone who had power immunity, and that was all. Today’s results was more due to his hardworking character.”

Night Walker laughed, “You really think Han’s power is Power Immunity?”

Pathless waved his land, “Of course not, if I can’t even notice that then I might as well run into a wall and die. Let me show you something.”

Quickly, Pathless pulled out a large graph, and which was Han’s power source index’s progression scale. Although verbally he said that he couldn’t care less about Han, but behind the curtains he took the time and carefully summarized all of Han’s progression data into graphs. Below the graphs were a lot of notes Pathless made, it was obvious how much he valued Han.

Night saw the graph and was shocked, “Such a steep slope?”

Pathless nodded, “I’ve never seen it before too. Without a question, he inherited a super soldier’s power crystal. Now that I come to think about it, Han took so much drugs, why was he still able to escape death and survive? You are the expert in this realm you should know.”

Night lost in thought for a brief moment, “To be honest, Han’s survival actually troubled me for a few days as well. It shouldn’t be. An overdose of illegal drugs in one mouthful, not just some 3-star esper like Han, even you might be half ruined.”

“The reason I invited you to meet today was also for solving this mystery. Coming with the training method you taught Han, maybe it can be explained why he was able to escape from death.”

Pathless laughed and said, “Old black, Old black, you told me to stay quiet on the dark net, but aren’t you the same as me? The moment there’s some challenging problem about drugs, you get excited.”

Then, Pathless quickly changed his tone a voice and answered seriously, “What I taught Han was the Extremity Oppression Method, risking one’s life to force out the power crystal’s potential during early stages. I forced Han to train in cold water. Rather than calling this training his body and skills, it is more suitable to be described as training his life.”

“Since I never inherited anyone’s power, I never actually put this method into practice before, Han was the first one. Forcefully activating the full potential of the power crystal, I actually didn’t know what would happen too.”

Night Walker continued Pathless’ chain of thought, “So what you are saying is, maybe it was because Han’s power crystal was too powerful, it protected Han at the most crucial moment and forced Han into a self-defence mode. Kind of like the electric fuse box tripping when the current is too high.”

“And because Han was always practicing in the freezing water, every time he entered the cold water would simulate his zero-degree region to a high degree. And when he fell down into the freezing water, the result that occurred was the unexplained coma situation.”

“Oh right, there’s also something else that’s interesting. Han’s not really a power immunity esper, do you know what his real power is?”