Super gene

by Stayrr

The future unfolded on a magnificent scale into the Interstellar Age. Humanity finally solved the space warp technology, but when humanity transported themselves into the other end, they discovered that place neither had a past nor future, nor was there any land under the starry skies… The mysterious sanctuary was actually a world filled with countless tyrannical unusual organism

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Chapter 1817 Queen's Studen

Han Sen did not know if Yisha had gone crazy, or if he himself had snapped. "She wants to take me as a student What? I thought she hated my guts! I thought she'd prefer to skin me alive. Why would she take me as a student, pledging to make me a Duke in three years? Did her mind implode in rage, and this is some strange form of insanity?"

"Or is this all one great, big conspiracy? Will she try and trick me before destroying me? She could destroy me right now, if that is what she wanted to do. But then again, maybe she doesn't know I'm Dollar. Even if she doesn't know, though, why would she find me as a student? Am I getting grossly lucky? Or did Yisha simply get kicked in the head by a donkey, and randomly picked out a student that just so happened to be me?"

Han Sen did not understand. He looked at Yisha, having not the faintest clue why all of this was happening.

Yisha was satisfied with the way Han Sen reacted. She could tell Han Sen was in great shock, and she thought that was because he was unable to comprehend why a deified elite would so willingly accept someone so ordinary.

Yisha was going to take Han Sen as a student, and that was not just a random decision. When the man pointed at Han Sen, Yisha recognized him. She recognized Han Sen, but not Dollar.

When Kong Fei took a lantern to become known as No, everyone heard about it. The elites around Planet Kate knew that Kong Fei had given two deified feathers to two crystallizers.

Because Yisha was headed to Demon Grave, she was near Planet Kate at the time. She too learned about this. She knew Han Sen had one deified feather.

But Han Sen was just wearing his geno armor. He wasn't wearing his Noble stuff, and he didn't have pure crystallizer blood. Han Sen's genes were complicated, so the elite races had all given their favor to Stay Up Late, who had pure blood. No one had made membership offers to Han Sen due to the risk of raising him.

When the man pointed out Han Sen, she didn't think it was purely coincidental. She thought the man was trying to trouble her and make things harder.

Developing Han Sen to the ranks of a top champion and refining the deified feather to become semi-deified… That would have been too much to bet. She didn't know if that would even have been possible.

But the fortune-teller's request had been a strange one. Dukes were not particularly high level or low level. The challenge was definitely possible, so she agreed.

If Han Sen was an ordinary person, Yisha would have just taken him home without even telling him why.

But Kong Fei, who was deified, was still out there. And Han Sen had one of his deified feathers. So, Yisha was willing to take him as a real student. That meant she respected the feather and Kong Fei himself. She wasn't going to invite the trouble of Kong Fei knocking on her door.

It was not embarrassing to take a crystallizer on as an acolyte, especially one that had received a feather from Kong Fei. It was lucky that Han Sen had met Kong Fei; if he hadn't, Yisha would have treated him very differently.

The challenge would be a bit difficult, but she was confident She only had to raise him to the Duke level. Even if he was just a pig, she could still turn him into a Duke in three years.

It was because of all these reasons that Han Sen was brought back to the HQ of the Rebate. It was called Narrow Moon. It was a xenogeneic space that was no weaker than Holy Heaven had been. It covered the sky.

Han Sen found out that Yisha was sincere about taking him on as a student, and there was no ulterior motive for doing so. It was all very strange, yes, but he decided on not returning to the sanctuary just yet.

He knew that if he did come back, he'd still be teleported to right where he was. And that would put him in a bad situation, no matter what

"I can't be sure what is wrong with her, but all in all, I can only suppose it is a good thing. A semi-deified being wants to train me up to the rank of Duke. Such an internship is hard to find! It's better than her finding me as Dollar, at least." Han Sen decided to accept the situation and just go with it.

But she didn't take him as a real student. Everything started with the most basic of routines, and there wasn't even a ceremony to induct him.

The Knife Queen taking a student was a very important event for the Rebate. Now that she had chosen Han Sen—an outsider—many of the Rebate were wondering what she was up to. He wasn't one of them, after all.

The Knife Queen had not married or had children. She had never taken a student before, either. So, the presence of this student meant a lot to the Rebate.

Everyone thought that she would soon become deified. It did not matter that she had no children as of yet, as her lifespan still had many years in it.

But the Knife Queen had suddenly taken a student. It made people start to wonder.

Many of the Rebate Nobles and officers wanted to find out why she had accepted this student. They also wished to learn more about who Han Sen was.

They eventually found out that Han Sen was an owner of one of the deified feathers. Thus, the people quickly came to the conclusion that the Knife Queen wished to develop a half-deified alongside her.

But they worried about Han Sen's talent. He was a non-pure crystallizer, and that meant he was a greater risk than Stay Up Late would be.

Knife Queen didn't explain much, and she wasn't going to tell everyone that she had actually taken Han Sen because of a bet. She wasn't concerned about making him truly powerful. And she was serious about only taking him up as high as a Duke.

Then, it all depended on Han Sen.

Knife Queen's palace covered half the planet. And it was a much bigger planet than Planet Roca. Han Sen was told to go to a garden located in the palace.

"Yes, Master."

"Don't call me Master. Just call me Queen." Yisha looked at Han Sen. She didn't like the first title he had used, as that made her sound old.

"Okay, My Queen." Han Sen nodded.

Han Sen thought that taking an enemy and raising him was unexpectedly nice of her. It was a respectable deed.

"Drink this." Yisha gave Han Sen a bottle.

"What is this, My Queen?" Han Sen asked.

"It is the geno fluid from a Magnet Fruit. It can make your geno armor evolve. You are currently way too weak. You should focus on becoming a Noble first After that, we can keep going and level you up that way," Yisha said.

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Chapter 1818 The Geno Art That Has a Problem

"Thank you, My Queen." Han Sen's eyes felt wet She had been really helpful, and even given a precious gift to her enemy.

Han Sen thought that if she found out he was Dollar, she'd be so angry that she'd most likely stroke out and die.

Seeing Han Sen look so grateful, she misunderstood. Her attitude softened, and she went on to say, "If you heed what I say and take me for your proper teacher, you will become a Duke in three years. With some luck, there is a chance you might one day become a King."

But as for Han Sen's current condition, Queen didn't say much. And the only reason she said three years was due to the instability of Han Sen's body. Otherwise, it would not have taken that long.

"Anyway, drink this geno fluid that once belonged to a Magnet Fruit. And then, practice your geno arts. Focus on evolving for a second time first. It does not matter whether you become a Noble or a xenogeneic; I will take care of you. You will not become a mindless monster."

Yisha sounded confident

"Yes, My Queen." Han Sen did not say anything more. He just opened the bottle and drank its contents.

He was familiar with the smell, and he had many Magnet Fruits at home. He was planning to eat one and see if he could evolve. He didn't expect Yisha would go to such lengths and provide him with the juice. So, he spared no time in necking it down.

When Yisha saw Han Sen do it so quickly, she smiled even more.

Han Sen chugged the geno fluid that contained Magnet Fruit, and then, he felt a weird power soar into his limbs, rejuvenating his cells. Han Sen cast The Story of Genes, and then his Spell armor appeared. The geno fluid had become a raw power that was absorbed by the armor.

Yisha sat where she was and waited for the result of Han Sen's evolution. If Han Sen became a xenogeneic, and his will was lost to the lust for killing, she could recover his will and sense.

After a while, Han Sen's energy started to roll downhill. But still, she hadn't seen Han Sen evolve a second time.

"How can that happen? Did I bring him the wrong ingredient? Maybe that wasn't the geno fluid." Yisha frowned and sniffed the bottle, and then she went on to think, "This is the Magnet Fruit! Why did he not evolve a second time?"

Yisha saw Han Sen's energy had weakened and become normal again.

Han Sen felt depressed about it, too. This was his second time trying to evolve using The Story of Genes, and he had failed this time, as well.

"I am sorry, My Queen. I have failed." Han Sen opened his eyes and looked at her apologetically.

"It's fine. You failed only once." Yisha called for a guard to bring her another bottle. Then, she continued by saying, "Try again. After the first failure, this is sure to succeed."

"Yes, My Queen. I will succeed." Han Sen accepted the second bottle and spared no time in drinking it all.

Yisha looked fairly unconcerned, but on the inside, it was a different story. She felt awful. Magnet Fruit was not something you could buy at a streetside market. They were very expensive, and they were items coveted by many.

And it wasn't just commoners, either. Even many of the high races, who were unlucky enough to have babies that weren't born Nobles, wanted it.

So, treasures like Magnet Fruit could be very expensive to obtain. And there were times when they were completely unavailable for purchase. Even someone like Yisha did not have many to her name, and she would have much preferred to save them.

Ordinarily, one bottle of such geno fluid was all that would be needed for success. Failure was abnormally rare.

Han Sen downed the second one, and that weird power manifested once more. The power surge was stronger than what he experienced the last time.

"Such powerful energy! This is far greater than a Baron. He must certainly succeed this time." Yisha started to feel relieved. After a while, Han Sen's geno armor showed no sign of responding. It didn't look as if it was going to melt at all.

After a while. Han Sen's energy started to dip. And that meant another failure.

"My Queen, I am so sorry." Han Sen felt embarrassed. He didn't know why his Spell armor kept on failing.

Yisha's eyes were twitching. And as she looked at Han Sen, she asked, "What geno arts have you practiced? Let me see."

The fact that he had drunk two geno fluids without success led Yisha to believe there was a serious problem with him.

Han Sen made no effort to hide anything, and he just told her, "I did not write my geno arts down, but I can show it to you."

Yisha nodded, and Han Sen read it out slowly. He himself believed there was a problem somewhere, as failure was not something he often experienced. Han Sen could not tell what the problem was, though. Yisha, being a semi-deified being, might be the one to help him through the slump.

Han Sen only read out a little when Yisha's face looked glum. She asked coldly, "Who taught you this?"

"No one. I bought it out in the markets. It seemed fairly powerful, so I decided to study it" Han Sen was shocked by the sudden question. She looked as if she knew something about it.

In disbelief, Yisha said, "You just practiced this random skill on a whim? And you created a geno armor with it? I am not sure if you are lucky or unlucky, truth be told."

"Is there a problem with this geno art?" Han Sen was shocked.

Yisha said slowly, "It isn't just a problem. But don't you think this skill requires… well, too much… skill? If you had a body like this, you'd already be a god. You wouldn't have to practice. Whoever wrote this was conducting a prank with the intent of harming others. And mistakenly, you generated your geno armor with it. It is impossible to evolve a second time."

What do I do, then?" Han Sen wondered if this really was a problem associated with The Story of Genes.

When he studied The Story of Genes, he had acknowledged the problem. He already knew the requirements were absurdly high and demanding. No one could even start off with the basic requirements, and he had to use the black crystal armor to help him get his foot in the door with its practice.

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Chapter 1819 Not Even a God Can Block I

Yisha frowned. It was obvious that the man had given her a challenge that was harder than she initially thought

Han Sen had already generated his geno armor, so it was too late for him to change technique now. Aside from humans, not many creatures could practice two geno arts in order to create two types of geno armor.

That was because the genes of others were stable, and accomplishing this was outside the realm of possibility. The genes of humans were unstable enough to allow this, but it was still closer to the side that did not allow the fabrication of a second geno armor.

So, Yisha did not consider trying to get Han Sen to practice another geno art and start from scratch. She didn't think it would be possible.

Breaking his geno armor and getting him to rebuild it would be a fruitless endeavor as well. It would permanently damage his body. She could take that risk if he was just an ordinary nobody, but Han Sen had a deified feather. If Kong Fei found out what she had done to him, she might incur his wrath.

"This geno art is harmful, but if he can finish learning the basics, there is the chance of it becoming something very strong and beneficial. Han Sen has managed to generate a geno armor with it already, and aside from deified elites, that shouldn't be possible. And once an elite rises to become deified, their body is locked down. They cannot generate a geno armor, but this man can. Perhaps there really is a chance." Yisha looked at Han Sen as she thought.

"A geno art that cannot be practiced, and yet he has managed to generate a geno armor with it. If he can evolve a second time and become a Noble, with that perfect geno armament, his strength would far exceed that of other Nobles. After that, practicing would be much less difficult for him, and he might achieve a great deal. It's just this first step will be really difficult to take. Very hard, indeed."

Han Sen saw Yisha staring at him and noticed that she wasn't saying a word. He thought to himself, "Did I waste too many of her resources? Does she no longer want me? That's fine. Just let me go without killing me, please."

Han Sen was overthinking things a little, though. Yisha had taken him as a student as part of a wager. And that aside, she was not the sort of person that would give up easily.

"Han Sen, let me ask you something. I can force you to be my student, but I want this to be something that you yourself desire. I am happy to accept you, but I won't make you do this if it is against your will. I can give you a job, though, and you won't have to worry about anything," Yisha suddenly proposed.

"Of course I am willing to be here!" Han Sen hastily told her. He did not know if she was just testing his resolve or not, so he didn't want to share his true opinion. He spoke with firm confidence.

"My training will be hard. Not everyone is able to accept this. And if you are my student, you have to keep that flame of resolve stoked and push through the pain, even when it hurts. If you cannot handle the pain of this, I can give you the job of an officer instead. Regardless of what happens, I want you to know that you do not have to worry about anything else in your life." Yisha spoke coldly, but she was still staring at Han Sen fondly.

"I will endure whatever pain comes my way and go as far as I possibly can. I will give up anything and give my everything, as long as you don't give up on me. I won't disappoint you." Han Sen paused for a moment. With a sad look, he went on to tell her, "On Mosi Mountain, Stay Up Late and I were the recipients of deified feathers. Those high-level races only wanted Stay Up Late, and they ignored me completely. I want to practice too in order to go further. Please, give me the chance no one else did. If I am given the possibility to reach for the stars, I don't mind dying in the effort. Anything is better than staying still, rotting in place."

By the end of his speech, Han Sen felt excited. Even he almost believed what he was telling her.

"Good. If you have this much courage and sense of purpose, I will give you the opportunity. I will help you go further and make those other fool races regret what they told you." Yisha thought Han Sen was speaking from the heart, and she wholeheartedly believed his words. But after this, she still went on to say, "Remember your own words today. I won't blame you if you give up right now and settle for the comfort of a quiet and good life. But if I spend a lot of resources raising you up, only for you to eventually give up and try to run away, you will pay the ultimate price. Not even a deified elite could save you from the destruction I'll bring down on you. Do you understand me?"

"If I try to run away, my head is yours to remove." Han Sen's answer sounded serious.

What Han Sen said, though, was not entirely a lie. The last few sentences were actually quite sincere.

Han Sen was not willing to back down. If he did not aim high in the geno universe, he could not survive. And he couldn't protect his friends and family when they made the jump. He needed to get stronger, so he could get back Golden Growler and Littleflower. There was no way he could back down now.

"Okay. Then, let us continue." Yisha could tell Han Sen was sincere and true to his words, and she was very impressed by him.

Yisha was giving him a chance to leave because it would be hard to begin what he had started. Merely getting past the first stage would cost a lot.

She wanted to find out what sort of character Han Sen had before committing. If Han Sen was weak and impatient, she would rather give up and lose the bet No one could promise her pursuit with Han Sen would pay off, so she had to learn more and consider things properly.

Han Sen's answers and behavior had satisfied her. She was no longer second-guessing herself; she was willing to give this ago.

If Yisha knew Han Sen just wanted to use up her resources to get through The Story of Genes, she'd have been very angry.

"Continue," Yisha said.

"Continue what?" Han Sen was shocked, and not sure what she was alluding to.

"Continue eating, of course!" Yisha said. She waved her hand, and a beautiful Rebate brought forth a number of elixirs.

"Consume them one by one, and cast your geno arts. Do this as many times as you have to. I will make you a Noble, and not even the gods themselves can stop it." Yisha raised her head, asserting her feeling of confidence.

"Yes. I won't disappoint you. I will start consuming them now." Immediately after saying that, Han Sen gulped down the contents of the first bottle.

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Chapter 1820 Spell

Yisha sat on a chair, watching Han Sen gather up power to evolve a second time. She looked at him emotionlessly, as if she was made of ice.

But her eyes twitched sometimes, showing that she was not all that calm.

Her heart was bleeding. After their discussion, Han Sen had used another three Magnet Fruit elixirs, two Thunder geno fluids, two Reborn geno fluids, one Fire and Ice geno fluid, and one Beast Blood geno fluid. They were all the treasures that could force someone to evolve a second time. Normally, one would be enough to accomplish this.

But Han Sen had almost emptied her entire treasury by this point, and he hadn't evolved a second time.

To Knife Queen, that might have been nothing. But they belonged to the One, and she couldn't just take whatever she pleased whenever she wanted.

These were her private items. She was rich, but these items were priceless. They couldn't be bought with money, and Han Sen had yet to evolve a second time. It made Yisha start to feel quite ill.

"I am sorry, but it looks like I have failed again." Han Sen stood up. With this latest failure, he had failed eleven times. "Continue," Yisha said emotionlessly. Her eyes twitched another couple of times, though.

She only had one Boiling geno fluid left to give, and a Cell geno fluid. If those two didn't work, her current investments would have all been for nothing. She wouldn't know how to deal with him after she went gone through these.

She couldn't just let Han Sen go after investing so much in him with no return. If this were to continue, she'd have to pay a big price to gain an item that would instigate the evolution she wanted to see. And that was something that she really, really didn't want to do.

Han Sen grabbed another geno fluid and drank it. Then, he cast The Story of Genes.

The Spell armor was brimming with energy, and it thumped with boundless strength.

And then, all of a sudden, a strange power lit up the armor. It made Yisha's heart jump. All the other symbols and etchings began to light up, too. Not long after, the geno armor was covered in those symbols and scrawls, making it look like a rippling flame.

Yisha was so happy to see this, and she said, "It's going to succeed this time!"

Twelve vials of geno fluid was an investment of goliath proportions. She felt grand relief seeing this. If the final two fluids did not help, she wasn't sure if she would have been willing to dip her hands into the ones owned by the entire tribe.

Amidst the flame-like symbols, the geno armor started to melt. It melted into a liquid that then took on another form.

Seeing Han Sen become a Noble and not a xenogeneic was a great thing, too. If he became a xenogeneic, things might have been even harder.

Yisha looked at the geno armor's shape, trying to figure out what sort of geno armament he was set to receive. A geno art that required so much was sure to yield a fascinating result.

The geno fluid kept swirling and changing, and eventually, it started to become transparent But Yisha's face started to turn, too. It looked perplexed.

Most armors would evolve to create something that was obviously a weapon. You might even find items or enhancements to the armor itself.

But the geno armament that Han Sen created looked very strange. It was not finished, but you could start to make out its shape.

It was a crystallizer kid, complete with limbs and a face.

"Is that a doll geno armament?" Yisha was thinking to herself.

But when the armament had almost finished, Yisha started to look shocked.

In the air, after the geno armor melted, the geno armament appeared. It looked so weird.

It looked like a twelve-year-old girl. Her long black hair reached down to her feet, and her eyes were black, also.

Her skin was white and smooth, like that of a real human. Some parts of her were wrapped up in white armor, and in her hands, she was holding two revolvers. There were names etched into the grips of both guns. Yisha thought it was the language of the crystallizers, so she wasn't able to read the words.

The girl moved her eyes and crouched down against the floor. She lifted her guns and pointed them at Yisha, as if she was guarding Han Sen from a hostile.

Yisha's eyes opened wide as she stared at the girl. She had seen many geno armaments, but nothing like this. This one looked alive. She had a proper lifeforce. She also looked like she had intelligence, too.

For a geno armament to have life like that, and to have armor and guns, her knowledge on what was possible when it came to evolving was wholly flipped on its head.

When the geno armament finished generating, Han Sen looked at the girl and said, "Why is my armament a woman? Is that really my geno armament?"

The grips convinced Han Sen that this really was his geno armament, though. On the grip of the two pearl-white revolvers, the letters Spe were carved into one, and the letters II were carved on the other. Together, they formed Spell. And that was the name of his geno armor.

When Han Sen used his mind, the woman came towards him. When they bumped into each other, she became a white armorset that covered his entire body. The word Spell was written all across it.

An incredible power filled Han Sen's body now. It gave him much more power than the geno armor ever did.

"This is my geno armament!" Han Sen was shocked. He went to check on its information, and the geno body said he had become a Duke behind the word Spell.

"My Queen, I think I succeeded!" Han Sen said, looking at Yisha.

"Very good… now keep practicing." Yisha was still in shock, and she was roused from a slumber of deep thoughts by Han Sen's sudden shout.

Yisha had never heard of a geno armament like this.

"Maybe this guy really can achieve something special. A geno armament like this is strange," Yisha thought to herself.

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Chapter 1821 Favorite Subordinate

Yisha allowed Han Sen to write down the content of The Story of Genes so she could look over it. She wanted to help Han Sen learn and modify the later parts to facilitate his practice.

Because the practice method was so demanding, if no changes were made, it would be much harder to level up and ascend. It would be even harder to generate geno armaments. He would need to be a god to practice it in its entirety.

After the changes, the power would be decreased, but if it weren't edited, then it couldn't be learned at all. This thing was not created for the average joe to fool around with. Because modifying took a long time, she allowed Han Sen to continue practicing for now. And when she was done, they would begin anew.

Han Sen returned to his garden and summoned Spell. He wanted to know what powers she possessed. He was mostly interested in the two revolvers she wielded, and he wanted to know if the guns could fire bullets.

Spell moved by her own volition. She did so with gentle grace, and as she clutched the two revolvers, she was able to fly around effortlessly and shoot the flowers all about

The revolvers could fire bullets and hit the flowers. Her accuracy was good.

But Han Sen noticed that the bullets weren't solid, and they cost energy to fire. Even Han Sen's own energy was drained by the attacks. Spell was Han Sen's geno armament, so it made sense that it could be used as a weapon. But he also realized the more power he was willing to put in, the more powerful the bullets fired would be.

Those bullets did not have any special powers, though. Perhaps it was because he was too low level. Becoming a Viscount might change things.

Barons couldn't unleash powers from a distance. They had no ranged attacks they could use, so at least where Barons were concerned, having Spell was something that was a little overpowered.

Han Sen tested it quite a bit, and he realized he could command and control Spell in battle. Her movements were controlled by Han Sen's thoughts. There was no delay, despite the distance that separated them.

Han Sen did not need to control her all the time, though. With just a thought, Spell could be put to any task, and she'd finish it by herself. She was like a living thing, for the most part, and she possessed a lot of intelligence.

"She's like a real lifeform. Gee, that The Story of Genes is strange," Han Sen thought to himself. He really liked Spell, and valued it far above something like a sword or whatever else he might have gotten. He could do a lot more with this.

Aside from Yisha, though, no one else had learned that he had a geno armament. The news about Yisha using twelve geno fluids to make Han Sen a geno armament did circulate, though.

All the Rebate that heard this could not believe their ears.

No matter how bad the creature was, one or two geno fluids should have made them Noble. And Han Sen had taken twelve. How bad was he?

Many of the high-class Rebates believed raising Han Sen was pointless. If it was so difficult for him to generate a geno armament, becoming a king and refining the feather would be so much harder.

"Don't bother raising a talentless person like that"

"No wonder those elites did not invite Han Sen to join them. He is way too bad."

"I don't know what Queen was thinking, using twelve geno fluids. Even if he does have a deified feather, there is such a low chance he can become deified. How much is it going to cost to get him to that level? The resources she wasted could have made two semi-deified warriors."

All of the Rebate were talking about this. Some ministers and elites had already come to consult with Yisha, informing her that she should give up on Han Sen now.

Yisha did not explain her reasoning, and neither did she take their advice. And she said that when the Narrow Moon tunnel opened up, Han Sen would be a part of it

After that, the Rebate communities exploded with talk of Han Sen and Yisha.

Twelve geno fluids to become a Noble Baron. Already it was seen as a pointless idea, but Yisha felt differently. She still wanted to raise Han Sen up. She even wanted to give him a name for the tunnel. It was hard to take the minds of others off of this idea.

Many of the elites thought that Yisha raising an outsider and taking him as a student meant they had some sort of secret relationship.

Yisha hadn't even performed a ceremony when she accepted him as a student. With the sudden induction, they all believed she knew how bad he was, but she was forging ahead anyway.

Otherwise, why would the queen accept a student so quietly?

No one was willing to challenge Yisha's desires, though. But even so, everyone was determined to continue hating Han Sen.

Han Sen stayed in the garden to practice with Spell. He had no idea people were talking about him the way they were.

Even if he had known, though, he wouldn't have cared. Han Sen might have looked young, but he had gone through life and death experiences few others could equal. He had experienced everything a person could, a long time ago. He was not totally uncaring, but he wouldn't waste many feelings on petty quarrels, either.

Yisha summoned him and told him to practice in Narrow Moon. If he went, that would be the first time he had exited the garden.

"Before you go to Narrow Moon, I will teach you a knife skill. Try to learn as much of this as you can." When she said that to Han Sen, her voice sounded strange.

Han Sen didn't notice, though. He didn't realize how many talented young Rebates were waiting in Narrow Moon to teach him a lesson. Narrow Moon's space tunnel opened once a year, and only Barons could enter. Only ten of them could go at a time. Only the best Barons would be there, as a result.

To claim a spot, you had to be an approved and formally recognized genius. And you also had to have proof to support any claim of excellence. In addition, you had to receive an invite from an elder.

Han Sen had nothing, and yet, Yisha had claimed a spot there for him. People weren't very happy about that, and the young men who had claimed the other nine places didn't like him at all.

Some of the young ones were preparing to teach him a lesson inside the tunnel, because when Han Sen got bullied in there, Yisha wouldn't be able to do anything to save him.

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Chapter 1822 Narrow Moon

Han Sen stood in the garden, watching the many planets clustered in the sky. The evening sky was like the image seen inside a kaleidoscope. The xenogeneic space twisted the dimensions strangely, so that Han Sen could even see buildings on the surface of the closest planets.

Many of the planets were of good size. If it wasn't for the xenogeneic space, the planets would have collided with each other and annihilated everything within range.

But under that xenogeneic space, the planets were fine. They had their own orbits, and they were quite organized.

Looking up in any direction from Narrow Moon, you'd see many planets clustered together. There were circular ones, but also broken ones. Some of them were close, some of there were far. Their numbers were countless. And that was why it was called Narrow Moon.

The planets around Narrow Moon were very mysterious. There were three planets, the names of which were Tianmin, Tianyue, and Tianji. Every year, when those three planets formed a triangular constellation, the center space would reveal a tunnel.

And this was why Narrow Moon was so mysterious. Only Baron class beings could enter. If you were too powerful, the energy inside would crush you, and you would die.

The tunnel would allow ten entrants. There were ten open spots for beings to join, and one spot would be occupied and taken away after each entrant.

Yisha had allocated one spot for Han Sen to enter. Whether or not a benefit could be earned was entirely down to Han Sen.

"Han Sen, you are my student I helped you become a Noble, and I grabbed you a spot to goto Narrow Moon. But from now on, if you want more help from me, you have to prove to me you are worth the investment Otherwise, despite the fact you will still be my student, further chances for special treatment will be void," Yisha said seriously.

"I will work hard." Han Sen nodded.

"No, you need to work like your life depends on it" Yisha frowned.

"Yes!" Han Sen shouted.

Now that she was satisfied, she chucked Han Sen a knife. "The space tunnel is going to open soon. It is too late to teach you knife skills, but I can teach you this one. If you learn this, it should help. It is called Tusk."

Yisha held a knife, and still talking to Han Sen, she told him, "Watch. I will only show you this once."

After that, Yisha drew her knife. She drew it very quickly and brought it right up to Han Sen's face with blistering speed.

And then, Yisha stopped the motion without hurting him.

Han Sen, seeing her strike, knew that what he had seen was from the opening of Teeth Knife. Han Sen had seen it acted out by the knifemind entity. He had already learned it at the time with the knifemind. And while he had only learned the beginning, he was a master of what he knew.

Yisha explained Tusk to Han Sen and asked if he understood. If he didn't and he had a question, she would answer.

"I understand."

Han Sen did not have anything to ask her. After he received the Teeth Knife knifemind, he understood it a whole lot more. All he needed was practice.

Yisha frowned and did not say anything. She left Han Sen to practice it.

She wondered why Han Sen did not ask any questions. And she thought he might have just been pretending that he understood the technique. If he was, that was not a very good student to have. Plus, she was the Queen. And she was a busy person. While she did take time to teach Han Sen, it'd be stupid if he did not cherish what she took the time to teach him.

But Yisha did not think he was too bad, overall. If he didn't suffer a little, at least, he wouldn't cherish anything that came to him easily.

So, she knew there might be trouble when he went through the space tunnel. She didn't have much to say about the matter, and she was willing to accept the possibility he might fail.

Yisha thought failing was no big deal. If Han Sen worked hard, it would still be worth it.

Han Sen went back to his garden and practiced Tusk. He was planning on using this for combat. Han Sen knew many skills, but in case she found out his true identity, it was best not to use it.

Only Barons were going there, anyway. Han Sen figured he'd be going with a bunch of snot-nosed kids of the Rebate. If they stirred up something, one skill would be enough to lay waste to them.

A few days passed quickly. Yisha did not take Han Sen to the space tunnel, and he allowed a Rebate to guide him there.

Narrow Moon had eleven stars. Aside from one of those stars, all of them were Kings. Knife Queen Yisha was a half-deified King, and there was only one other on par with her. That was Moon-Wheel King.

The Rebate had possessed many deified elites at one point, but that was long ago. There were none amongst them right now.

Most of the higher races were like the Rebate, and tended to only have one deified elite. They were the ones who would light the lantern on the race's behalf. But even they would not live forever, and they too would die someday.

But without deified elites, the lesser races were still unable to usurp a lantern and claim it for themselves. Typically, they'd need deified elites of their own to manage such a feat.

It was very hard for the higher races to create a deified elite. So, even across the space of a thousand years, witnessing a fight like the one with Kong Fei was extremely rare.

Out of the ten Kings of the Rebate, Knife Queen was widely regarded as the cream of the crop. Aside from Moon-Wheel King, who was near-enough the same level, the others were far inferior.

Yisha kept practicing, hoping she'd become deified. So, she did not care too much for the business of the tribe as a whole.

Only Barons could enter this competition. And so, the higher tier people wouldn't care too much about it, either. Han Sen did not know about Narrow Moon, and so it was a guard who had to lead him there. The other nine went there without an escort.

When Han Sen arrived, the other nine were already there. They looked surprised that Han Sen had a guard to guide him.

Han Sen looked at the nine of them, and he was surprised to see they weren't all Rebate. Amongst the nine, three of them were of a different race. It seemed the Rebate had alliances with other races.

No one made an effort to speak with Han Sen, but he didn't mind that at all. He felt far freer, that way.

Not long after, the three planets positioned themselves like a triangle. In the center between them, a vortex manifested. It looked like a black hole.

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Chapter 1823 Knife Rain

The Rebate had people guide Han Sen into the vortex. When a white light began to beam from the vortex, Barons could enter one at a time.

Han Sen was put in last place. And seeing that nine of the Barons had already entered, he did not hesitate to go in. As soon as the white light flashed again, he leaped inside.

After Han Sen traveled through the wormhole, he found himself on a planet of sorts. He raised his head to the sky and noticed he was unable to see stars or moons. This wasn't Narrow Moon. He was on a lone planet in the galaxy.

This planet was different from other planets. There were just plain fields stretching out until volcanoes rose out of the earth in the distance. Each volcano was dozens of miles away, and there were no mountains. Not even the slightest hill.

As Han Sen looked around him, he heard a big boom noise come from the closest volcano. It sounded like a roar, and it spat out a pillar of light.

It wasn't just the nearest volcano that was erupting, either. It was every volcano he could see. With all those pillars shooting into the sky, it was a sight to behold.

But Han Sen knew something was wrong. When the volcanos erupted, there was no rising ash cloud or seeping lava. The column of light just shot up into the clouds and made them bright. They covered the entire sky.

The volcanos only erupted for a minute before stopping. Then, there were no pillars to be seen. But in the sky, the clouds were still getting brighter and brighter. They started to empty, unleashing a torrent of rain from above.

And when the rain drew near, Han Sen could tell something was really wrong. It wasn't just water he was seeing. The rain was a bevy of knives.

There were short knives, long knives, narrow knives, big and black knives, wing knives, flying knives. All those different types of knives were falling from the sky, until they hit the ground, covering the land in their abundance.

Han Sen was shocked. There was nowhere to hide or take shelter amidst the knife rain. The best he could do was block.

Han Sen did not have a weapon. He had wanted to bring a knife with him so he could use Tusk, but Yisha said there was no need to. Now he understood why.

This place had nothing but knives.

Seeing that the kniferain would soon reach him, Han Sen grabbed one out of the air right before slashing the volleys away.

The kniferain only lasted a few seconds. Han Sen blocked all the knives assaulting him, and when he looked around, all he could see were knives for miles around. It was something of a knife treasury.

The knives were real, too, not illusions. Han Sen picked up a winged knife and a big black knife. One of them had been made from steel, and the other had been made out of some other metal. They felt good to wield, and as Han Sen used them to block the last of the falling knives, he could see marks left on the blades by the repeated collisions. The weaponry was real.

Han Sen lowered his head and searched for a better one.

"Don't search! This is just the first round, so their quality will be bad. If you want a good one, you're going to have to wait for the seventh round. Assuming you last that long, that is."

A Rebate man approached Han Sen, speaking coldly.

Han Sen looked at him. He looked quite handsome, and he had black bunny ears. He was holding a knife that was shaped like an arrow. He must have picked it up from the rain, as well.

"What's your name?" Han Sen asked the Rebate man.

"Black Steel, son of Black-Moon King." The man stared at Han Sen, going on to say, "Two years ago, I begged my father to meet with Knife Queen. I hoped she would accept me as a student, but I was rejected."

Han Sen, hearing him say this, knew he was not a friendly chap. Trouble was coming.

Black Steel, holding his knife, continued walking toward Han Sen. "The queen took you as a student, but others have a tendency to say you are incredibly weak. I do not believe Queen would be so foolish as to accept one like that. You have to be superior, in some capacity. So, show me what you got."

After that, Black Steel's knife came at Han Sen swinging. It thrashed towards him like lightning.

Black Steel's knife was not a Teeth Knife. His skills were very aggressive, though. The narrow knife might have looked ordinary, but it moved as if it could slay an entire army.

Han Sen's hand swung the winged knife. It looked like he was slashing, but he wasn't. It looked like he was stabbing, but he wasn't. It looked very creepy as it approached Black Steel's neck.

Black Steel swung his narrow knife, and they both collided with each other. The two knives were broken.

"I did not expect you to have learned Queen's Teeth Knife. Great." Black Steel's eyes looked on in excitement. He picked up a random knife from the ground and tried swinging it at Han Sen again.

Han Sen still had his thick black knife, and he used it to employ Tusk. The quality of the blade was bad, so it broke.

They were both fighting amidst the knife rain. When a knife broke, they'd pick up another. Broken utensils were scattered all about. Black Steel was not losing, but he looked ill. Han Sen only used Tusk, and he did not change up his tactics at all.

But that simple skill still kept him in the fight with Black Steel, and he was not losing.

To Black Steel, this entire fight was turning into something humiliating. He met Han Sen's eyes and said, "Is that all you've got!"

"Yes. Before I met Queen, this is all I knew." Han Sen nodded.

Black Steel was shocked. He stopped using his knife and asked, "When did she teach you this?"

"A few days ago," Han Sen said lackadaisically.

Black Steel looked even more confused, and he tried asking, "Aside from this skill, what others do you know?"

"Others, but they aren't very popular." Han Sen could not expose the extent of his Knife Skill, but he was quite good.

Black Steel looked at Han Sen with continued confusion. He threw his knife to the ground and said coldly, "There is no point in beating you now, then. I will fight you once you have learned all of the Teeth Knife techniques."

Han Sen shrugged his shoulder. He was never interested in pointless fights.

"What is this knife rain?" Han Sen asked Black Steel. Han Sen did not think he would be a difficult person to get along with.

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Chapter 1824 Knife Grave

"Queen didn't tell you before you came?" Black Steel frowned.

Han Sen shook his head. "Queen didn't tell me anything. She just told me to come here, and that was that."

Black Steel quietly said, "Queen is indeed different She has her own plans, though, I assume. If she didn't tell you."

After a pause, Black Steel went on to say, "These volcanos are the graves of the knives. A lot of knives are buried here, and the knives come out when the tunnel is opened. They await a new master. We are here to select new weapons for ourselves. We are also being picked by the weaponry. There won't be good quality knives at the beginning, mind you. Later on, there will be a higher chance of finding good knives. But even so, they are rare. You need to get them, but also earn their approval. For that, you will require power and luck."

"Where did these weapons come from, then?" Han Sen asked, with shock.

"I do not know, but this portal opens once a year. Where the knives actually come from, I've never been told. If they are not chosen, they will return to their graves. They await the next host of participants in a year's time, with the hope they might be chosen," Black Steel said.

"Does that mean the weapons we take belong to us?" Han Sen thought to himself. He wanted to collect a few, so he could give them to his family. It would be best to give them to his son, his grandson, and great-grandson, in case he could never return.

"Our race has a rule: only one knife can be taken by each person." Black Steel looked at Han Sen coldly, as if he knew what Han Sen was thinking.

"Oh, really?" Han Sen looked disappointed, but then he asked, "Towards the end, what might their level be? Are any of them deified knives?"

Black Steel's mouth twitched. He knew Han Sen was a greedy person, who was not even concerned with hiding that fact.

He had no clue why Queen might accept a student such as this.

"I don't know. The knife rain will fall once an hour, however. After the seventh rain comes, Viscount class blades will become available. It'll be hard to dodge those knives. Across the years, no one has lasted longer than ten rounds. The best knives that have ever been found were Duke knives." Black Steel answered Han Sen's question.

"Duke class? That's not bad." Han Sen nodded.

Black Steel felt as if he had been talking far too much to Han Sen. Strangely, he was also in a brighter mood. He couldn't help but ask Han Sen, "Did you bring any high-tier armor and weapons with you to this place?"

"No. Queen said I did not have to." Han Sen looked at Black Steel, and it seemed as if he had not brought anything, either.

Black Steel said, "Do you think a Baron can block a Viscount knife rain? The knife rain is not like this, and it could last up to ten minutes. When they fall down, they will come with the full strength of a Viscount's attack. Without high-tier armor and weapons, how well do you think you will fare in the blocking?"

Han Sen looked at Black Steel without speaking. If the high-tier armor and weapons worked, Yisha would have let him bring them. But Black Steel hadn't brought his either, so there must have been a reason for that.

Black Steel continued by saying, "It is actually pointless to bring them. Bringing those items will only help you last a bit longer. But if you bring other items to help you, the knives you wish for will not choose to follow you. They would sooner break themselves than allow themselves to be used by the likes of you. You have to use your own, raw power to obtain the weapon of your choice. It's all down to you, and a modicum of luck."

"During the seventh rain, maybe I can find an Earl weapon. After that, there might be Marquis and Duke. But they are extremely rare, and that really will depend on your luck."

After Black Steel said this, he ignored Han Sen. He took off in the direction of a volcano.

"Where are you going? Han Sen followed him.

Black Steel seemed okay with this. Han Sen thought following a guy who knew the way might be better than venturing out on his own. This way, he could definitely learn more.

"Let's go to the Knife Grave. There might be knives of a higher-tier there," Black Steel said as he walked.

Seeing Han Sen follow him, he stopped and asked, "Why aren't you looking for them by yourself? Why are you following me?"

"It'll take a while for things to reach the seventh round of knife rain. If I come with you, I can learn stuff from you. I will go find them by myself once we reach the seventh rain." Han Sen laughed.

Black Steel hummed and said, "I'm afraid you might not even last seven rounds."

He might have said this, but there was no sign that Black Steel actually wanted to remove Han Sen from his presence. He was headed towards the volcano. He was headed to Knife Grave.

They walked side by side, and when they reached the volcano, Black Steel threw a knife at Han Sen. "You are lucky. This is a Baron knife for you. It is quite rare to find on the first round. With this, you should be able to last a few rounds extra."

"Thanks." Han Sen swung his knife. The knife was smooth to wield.

Black Steel ignored him and kept walking to the volcano. When he was half-way, he found another Baron knife.

"It looks like you have an interest in knives," Han Sen said with curiosity. The knife did not have the word Baron written down on it So, amidst all the knives that were there, he couldn't distinguish one from the other. Black Steel seemed to be able to tell with just a glance. That meant he was probably pretty good.

Black Steel answered, "I have practiced knife skills since I was young, and our family produces knives, anyway. So, I can determine the quality with ease."

"Good," Han Sen thought. He then said, "If you are that good, why don't we co-operate? You select a knife for me."

Han Sen thought there were too many weapons, as they were everywhere. Finding a good quality one would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

With a professional, things would go much better.

Black Steel rolled his eyes and said, "I help you pick and you do what?"

"I will block some of the knife rain for you," Han Sen said.

Black Steel lifted his lips and ignored him. He sat down on a rock and placed the knife on his leg. He closed his eyes and waited for the next round to begin.

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Chapter 1825 Entering the Grave

"Little Black, are you a Rebate? And your father is a King? How can you not have Teeth Knife?" There was still a while to go before the next knife rain came, so Han Sen tried to talk to Black Steel.

Hearing Han Sen call him Little Black, his eye twitched. He held back the urge to cut Han Sen down and simply closed his eyes.

"I know you must be the playful sort. I bet you like hitting on girls or something, to have skipped the years that would have allowed you to learn Teeth Knife." Han Sen was curious. Teeth Knife was so strong, so why was it that Rocks Fall Duke had learned it, whereas Black Steel hadn't?

Black Steel's eyelids twitched. He stared at Han Sen and said, "Do you think everyone is as lucky as you? Teeth Knife is a Rebate skill, but not many people have the ability to practice it. Only six people know it right now, and Queen is the only one that is capable of mastering it I want to learn from her, but she does not think I am capable of learning it."

"You can go and find the other five," Han Sen said.

Black Steel hummed and said, "I want to learn from the best If I can't learn it from her, I won't accept it from anyone less. Queen recommended that I learn another skill, anyway, so I don't need Teeth Knife."

"What is the skill you are learning, then?" Han Sen asked.

Black Steel coldly said, "Cut-Steel Knife."

"That sounds powerful. Is that the skill you were using?" Han Sen's eyes opened wide. He was looking quite shocked.

Black Steel saw Han Sen was only pretending to be shocked, so he could extract more information, and felt his own eyelids repeatedly flicker with a twitch. He stood up and focused on getting to the top of the mountain.

"Little Black, where are you going?" Han Sen asked as he followed.

"I have a death wish. If you are afraid of dying, then I recommend that you don't come any further. When the grave erupts, you'll be slaughtered," Black Steel said coldly. Then, he went ahead to reach the peak.

Han Sen did not believe Black Steel was going to die, and he was quite happy to have finally met someone with a fine temper. He wasn't going to let him go off quite so easily.

So, Han Sen followed him up to the peak. It was like a real volcano there. When Han Sen looked down, it looked like a meatgrinder beneath him, with a sea of knives all lying together. They lined up like the layers of teeth within the maws of a monster. It was a scary sight to see.

At the bottom, there was a red juice. It was lava, presumably. The weapons appeared to be ticking out from the liquid.

"Little Black, can we find a weapon amidst those? The weapons are all together, right? So, the good ones should be easier to find." Han Sen couldn't take his eyes off the Knife Grave.

Black Steel coldly said, "If you aren't afraid of dying, you can certainly try."

Han Sen thought his life was more important. He wasn't familiar with this place, so it was best not to risk it all by trying to venture in.

While Han Sen was thinking about this, Black Steel was actually climbing down already.

"Little Black, why are you going down?" Han Sen looked surprised.

"I am not afraid of dying," Black Steel said simply. He was clutching a knife as he made his descent.

Han Sen decided to follow. The knives were all crisscrossed, and the places you could grab onto were just the blades. It was like you were climbing a knife mountain.

Fortunately, those blades were fairly poor. They were like the ones that had just fallen in the first rain. And since the dull knives weren't currently falling out of the sky, they weren't really dangerous.

"Little Black," Han Sen said, just as he felt the blades start to shake. The steel juice at the bottom was beginning to bubble and boil. It looked ready to fly upwards.

Black Steel gave Han Sen a signal to be quiet He stayed silent, and then the knives and the steel juice became calm.

Han Sen tried to copy him and kept on climbing. It seemed like Black Steel had brought him here just to get him to shut up.

The lower they got, the sharper the knives became. They were surrounded by knives now, and if the knives started to move, Han Sen and Black Steel would be turned into pincushions.

Even if the knives didn't move, Han Sen could imagine the fate that would await him if he slipped.

But Han Sen was not afraid, and neither was Black Steel. In reality, he had nothing to be afraid of. He could always fly for a short time, and here, that would be enough to get him to safety.

And furthermore, he had the Taurus shield. There was no way that the blades of a Baron could harm it. Then again, if Han Sen used the shield, he wasn't sure if the knives would still want him.

They climbed down quietly, getting closer and closer to the steel juice. Black Steel had only decided to come here because Han Sen had asked so many questions. The curiosity of wondering if there were any knives being born also played a part.

But there had only been one rain, and the good knives wouldn't be revealed just yet. Han Sen wasn't too hopeful.

When he looked at the seething steel juice, he saw a pitch-black horse knife resting halfway within the liquid. The air was insanely hot that close to the liquid steel, but the sight still gave Han Sen the chills. Han Sen was thinking, "That's a good knife."

The knife was inside the steel juice. Han Sen tried reaching for it, but he was short by two arm lengths.

He didn't dare to move suddenly. If he shifted his weight too much, it would undoubtedly make the knives move, and the grave might even erupt at a faster pace. Even if their bodies were built of steel, they would still be sliced and diced into dust.

Black Steel frowned. He thought the horse knife was a Viscount class weapon. If he got it now, it would help him reach the seventh round. It was difficult to find a weapon such as that before the seventh rain. That knife might even carry him all the way to the tenth round.

If he gave up now and waited until the eruption, the knife might end up at a random location several hundred miles away. It'd be hard to find it.

But there was no way he could reach it Just as Black Steel was giving up, Han Sen came down next to him and got his attention, then grabbed his arm.

Black Steel understood what he meant Han Sen wanted to lift him and let him reach out for the knife.

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Chapter 1826 Can't Bully People

Black Steel didn't hesitate. He grabbed Han Sen's hand and lowered himself down.

Han Sen grabbed the nearest blade and let Black Steel dangle slowly downwards.

Black Steel's fingers were so close to the prize he wanted: the horse knife. His forehead dripped with sweat, knowing that he was making a risky move. If they did something to detonate the grave, they would die right then and there.

Black Steel's hands weren't shaking, though. He got close to the horse knife that was still half within the juice. And very carefully, he drew the knife out.

He moved with precision, bringing the knife out slowly to avoid creating waves. It took him an entire minute to remove it fully.

Suddenly, a drop of sweat dripped off of Black Steel's face. It fell into the steel juice, and then, shaa! White smoke billowed up.

The steel juice bubbled. The knives began to rattle and shake. They were pointing at the pair, freezing them in place.

After a while, the knives and the steel juice settled down again.

Black Steel put the knife away and nodded up at Han Sen.

Han Sen acknowledged Black Steel's signal and then slowly pulled him up. He brought him back to the wall of knives they had come down from.

Black Steel was now carrying his new knife, which was slung across his back. He signaled Han Sen, and then they climbed back out of the volcano. They did so in tandem, as quietly as they could.

When they both climbed out of the Knife Grave, Black Steel looked relieved. His clothes were soaking wet. The stunt they had performed was too dangerous, and he had very nearly been killed.

Black Steel looked at Han Sen. He noticed Han Sen standing comfortably beside him, as if he was entirely unshaken. Like he wasn't bothered by the risk they had just taken. His forehead was dry and without sweat, like nothing at all had just happened.

"I don't know if he is ignorant or arrogant," Black Steel thought to himself. Regardless, his view of Han Sen was starting to change.

"You own half of this knife, so we should talk about how best we split it." When they were down off the mountain, Black Steel pointed at the knife and said this.

"I don't need it. Consider that my service fee, paid in full. When I need to identify one for myself later, perhaps you can help me with that" Han Sen smiled.

"Do you know what knife this is?" Black Steel asked.

Han Sen shook his head. "What is it?"

The weapon lacked an energy signature, and with Han Sen not being an expert, he could not discern the level of the blade. "This is an Earl weapon," Black Steel said.

"An Earl? I thought it might be higher. I need one that is at least a Duke. You can help me find one like that, okay? With a bit of luck and a sprinkle of hope, it'll be a King. It'd be even better if it was deified." Han Sen looked grossly dismayed, and he didn't seem to think much of an Earl knife.

Black Steel slung the knife back over his shoulder and just ignored Han Sen. He found a place in the foothills to sit down, where they could wait for the next round of rain.

It took a long time for it to come, but it looked set to begin again soon. While they were talking, a loud noise sounded. The Knife Grave erupted and a pillar was fired into the sky. Then, the rain of knives began to fall.

Black Steel took out his horse knife and chucked a Baron class knife to Han Sen. Han Sen's Baron weapon swiftly rose to knock away the knives that were falling from the sky.

That round was mainly about using ordinary weapons. So ordinary, not even Baron weapons were necessary. They got through it with ease.

"Why don't we enter the Knife Grave again? Perhaps a high-tier weapon might now be found," Han Sen suggested.

Black Steel shook his head and said. "After the second wave, many of the weapons on the walls are Baron. Their power will be stronger. If you touch them, they'll immediately start rioting. Unless you can fly in and out, you won't be able to get back down there."

Han Sen looked disappointed, and he gave up on the idea of heading back.

Together, they both endured another two washes of knife rain. After the fifth storm, Black Steel decided to head to the mountain and take a look. He looked at the knives in the mountain, and then returned.

"Little Black, does your family have a deified knife? Does anyone have deified treasure in Narrow Moon?" Han Sen asked, curious what the young man would answer.

Black Steel just ignored him. The best way to deal with Han Sen, he had now figured, was keeping quiet.

After five waves of rain, it would still be difficult to find another Earl weapon. If their luck wasn't too poor, they could at least find a Viscount weapon. Black Steel wanted to find a Viscount weapon right now.

They walked around for a bit before stumbling across three others who were also in the pursuit of another weapon. Those three saw Han Sen and Black Steel, and decided to come over to greet them.

"Black Steel, why are you with him?" A Rebate with gold ears looked at Han Sen and then frowned at Black Steel.

"I stand with whoever I choose to," Black Steel said coldly.

The woman looked a little p*ssed after the rebuttal, and a Rebate man that was beside her said, "Black Steel, don't be so arrogant! You are only the son of Black-Moon King. If you are as good as you pose yourself to be, how come Knife Queen did not accept you as a student, instead of this useless outsider?"

A strange-looking outsider laughed and said, "He couldn't become Queen's student, but he can be friends with the student himself! Ha. Maybe when he gets close, he thinks Queen will soften, and then accept him as the next student."

Black Steel pulled out his knife and swung it with rage.

The outsider raised his knife and fought back. But he only had a Baron weapon, and it was quickly shattered by the horse knife.

To the outsider's shock, he was then cut in half. His blood spread across the ground.

"That… is that an Earl's weapon?" The man and woman trembled. They looked right at Black Steel's horse knife.

The man yelled at Black Steel and said, "Black Steel, are you really killing people here! Do you think you can do anything you please?"

"Whoever insults Queen will die," Black Steel said icily, not even looking at them.

The man and the woman were still reeling from shock. It was supposed to only have been a bit of chit-chat. If this event went public, it'd be a death wish. But if people knew it was the outsider who had insulted Queen, they would think Black Steel had performed a good kill.

"Huh." The man hummed and did not say anything. He looked at Han Sen and said, "The student that Queen accepted must be decent. I want to learn from you."

The man no longer dared to provoke Black Steel, who had an Earl weapon. So, he was going to take out his angst on Han Sen.

"You own half of this knife," Black Steel said, before tossing the horse knife to Han Sen.

The man was angered by this, and he said, "Black Steel! You…"

Han Sen threw the knife back to Black Steel and smiled. "I am Knife Queen's student. Using this would be bullying, so instead, I'll use this."

After that, Han Sen picked up a random knife off the ground. It was ordinary, and didn't even have a rank.

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Chapter 1827 Showing of Tusk

Yisha told Han Sen he had to prove himself if he wished to obtain more resources. So, Han Sen wanted this opportunity to show off. Now that this man had willingly delivered himself on a platter, Han Sen wasn't going to let this chance slip away.

The man, who was named Gauss, looked at Han Sen angrily. If Han Sen had been using the Earl horse knife, he assuredly wouldn't have been as enraged as he was now.

But Han Sen wasn't using the horse knife, and neither was he using the knife he had been keeping with him. He just picked up a random blade off the ground. It was insulting, and that only fueled Gauss' anger.

"I want to see how cocky you can get." Gauss brought out his own pirate knife. It was just a little bit shiny.

That was a Viscount weapon. He had managed to find it after the fourth rain. He was just a Baron, though, and he couldn't make use of all its power. Still, the knife itself had a grand sharpness to it. With Han Sen now making use of an unranked knife, it'd likely crumble and break if the two knives collided.

Han Sen didn't really care, though. He swung his knife and thought it was pretty great for what it was. It was stable to wield, and it was definitely the sort of knife you'd use for chopping.

"Why are you standing there? I thought you were going to teach me a lesson. Come on!" Han Sen said to Gauss.

Gauss' face looked grim. Without saying a word, he stepped forward and tried to attack Han Sen. The pirate knife came like a shadow, trying to ensnare Han Sen like a net

Gauss' knife skills were good. The power and speed showed off a high level of experience.

His technique was no weaker than Teeth Knife, as well. Teeth Knife was not just focused on prowess, though. It was the technique itself, and how it revolved around that teeth power, that made it stand out.

But Gauss was going after Han Sen. Han Sen might have looked young, but he was like an ancient beast Han Sen's skill and experiences could not be remotely compared to what Gauss had endured in his lifetime.

The scary thing was that they were both Barons, yet Han Sen's fitness was far higher than Gauss' or any other Baron's. There might have been some who were as strong as Han Sen, but they didn't belong to the Rebate. No Rebate Baron had that level of power.

Seeing Gauss' knife net coming down to land on him, Han Sen stepped forward. He held up his knife and let the net fall onto it.

Gauss was shocked. His skill was called Shadow Knife, and rather than creating a real net, it made illusions. Many shadows fell from the sky, but one of them would be lethal.

Normal people would not be able to tell which was the real shadow and which were fake, so most would retreat and attempt to block. This was the first time he had seen someone so willing to come against it where they stood. You would need a lot of confidence to stick to your guns like that

And all the shadows Han Sen bumped into were illusions, too. He somehow avoided the real knife.

"How did he know where my real blade was?" Gauss was shocked. He moved his body with the desire of striking again.

But it was too late. The others watched as Han Sen leaped through the net, raced over to Gauss, and drew his knife like a cobra strike.

The sides of Gauss' neck had fanged cuts in them, as if he had actually been bitten by a snake. Blood seeped out of the bite marks.

Gauss held onto his neck as he stumbled back. His face turned pale.

The woman that accompanied him looked shocked. She couldn't use Teeth Knife herself, but she recognized it. Han Sen was using Tusk. All it took was one meager strike to heavily damage Gauss.

In Narrow Moon, Gauss had to be in the top five of his class. His Shadow Knife was not as good as Teeth Knife, but it was still fairly infamous. Gauss also had a Viscount weapon, and the woman struggled to believe he had been unable to block Han Sen's attack.

"Let's leave." Gauss stared at Han Sen as he clutched his bleeding neck. He turned to leave.

He knew if Han Sen had attacked any deeper, he'd have been a dead man.

When Gauss had left, Black Steel turned to Han Sen. "When you fought me, you didn't use all your power."

"Weren't you doing the same?" Han Sen smiled and dropped the knife back on the ground. He went on to say, "Let's go. We should see if we can find a better knife. The knife rain itself will be harder to deal with than those people were. It'll be terrible if I don't get a good one. Oh, and if you can, could you teach me how to identify knives?"

"No." Black Steel refused. Then he walked forward to continue their search for a decent knife.

Han Sen shrugged his shoulders and followed Black Steel. He saw the weapons all about and noticed that they didn't radiate any power. All he could see was that they each looked different.

Black Steel hailed from a family of blacksmiths. Before the sixth round, though, he found a Viscount weapon.

Black Steel gifted the Leaf Knife to Han Sen. When Han Sen held it, he thought it felt different from the others. The texture was different.

In a hall that looked palatial, a Rebate man slowly approached and looked at Knife Queen. "Why take a student like that?

That's not very you."

"Moon-Wheel King, why should you care about which student I accept?" Yisha responded evenly.

Moon-Wheel King smiled. "You don't have to answer to me on what students you accept, but you gave out resources that belonged to the Rebate. For this, you must provide an explanation."

"Is my student not worthy of a spot in the space tunnel?" Yisha said.

"Your student might be worth hundreds of slots, but he is an outsider. Things aren't so simple. Do you really want to raise him?" Moon-Wheel King asked.

"That is my business. Don't worry about it." Yisha looked cold.

"I just want to remind you of our rules. Don't forget them. No one controls the entire race. Not you. Not I," Moon-Wheel King said slowly.

"I know better than you do. There's no need for you to remind me."

"Good." Moon-Wheel King smiled and then left.

Seeing him leave, Yisha frowned. The things he said could not have been just him talking. Other kings must have been whispering in his ear; otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered coming.

"Han Sen, it is all down to you now, and how far you can go." Yisha sighed.

Even now, Yisha was not entirely sure whether or not she should commit to developing Han Sen.

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Chapter 1828 The Two That Did Not Come Ou

Yisha pursued an investigation of The Story of Genes. Revising something so complicated was difficult, and could even yield dangerous results. But if no changes were made to it, learning it would be too hard.

Raising Han Sen to Duke level would be easy, and the resource costs would not be too hefty. But The Story of Genes made things far more complicated than she had anticipated. And raising Han Sen to Duke had been far more expensive than she expected.

There was nobody around, except for a few guards outside the tunnel's entrance.

But Narrow Moon had a lot of people watching the exit, and that included the Kings. They wanted to know more about the student Knife Queen had accepted. They wanted to know what made him so impressive that Queen herself would raise him.

They were different from the ordinary Rebate. They did not believe Knife Queen would spend so much time and resources on some random noob. They were guessing Knife Queen wanted Han Sen's deified feather. And although one deified feather could not make you deified, it had deified genes. It could still help semi-deify an elite.

"Look at the time! They should almost be out by now." Inside the garden, one Rebate King was looking at the exit, talking to himself.

The black vortex flashed suddenly, and someone came out. The Rebate who were watching the exit looked shocked, seeing this person.

"Why is it Gauss?" Everyone was surprised.

Of the ten Barons that had entered, Gauss should have placed much higher. He could have been in the top five, or even the top three. But for someone like him to be the first one out, it was quite the surprise.

Everyone looked at the weapon Gauss had taken. It was the pirate knife. Its power had been unleashed as it left the tunnel. And the Nobles could see that it was a Viscount weapon.

"Just a Viscount?" Many people were disappointed by Gauss' performance. Especially the one who had recommended him. "You are injured! You need healing." The guards saw Gauss' neck wounds.

Many of the elites felt as if something was amiss. The seventh knife rain should be happening about now. Gauss had a Viscount weapon, and he could have lasted another two rounds. There had to be a reason why he had come out now.

Everyone looked at Gauss' wounds, and when they saw them, they were all in shock.

Obviously, the cuts had been created by Teeth Knife. They were not infected by the Teeth power, but you could tell they had been created by the Teeth Knife's Tusk component.

"Gauss was injured by Han Sen!" Everyone was taken aback.

Out of the ten Barons inside, it was likely Han Sen was the only one that knew about Teeth Knife. It could only have been Han Sen who had hurt him.

A King that was sitting in the hall, watching the tunnel, looked strangely at the scene. "It looks like the outsider students are not simple."

"If he had struck any deeper, Gauss would be dead! No Baron should have the control and skill to be this precise! How long have you been teaching him?" Moon-Wheel King frowned.

Even Yisha looked shocked, seeing the wounds on Gauss' neck.

She had taught Han Sen only once, for a few days. Han Sen had used Tusk to defeat Gauss, but at the same time spare his life. Her student was better than she believed him to be.

"Just a few days, and he is capable of this? Is he really that talented?" Yisha thought to herself.

As time passed, more and more Barons emerged. Han Sen was not amongst the ones that exited.

"It's the tenth rain and they still haven't come out?" Moon-Wheel King frowned.

It wasn't just Moon-Wheel King who was this surprised, either. Other Kings and Nobles were still surprised to see that Han Sen had not yet come out.

If he hadn't died in there, it was interesting to consider the prospects of why he had not yet returned.

"I am sorry Dark-Moon King… I have disappointed you." In the hall, Gauss kowtowed before a King and looked very embarrassed.

"Han Sen hurt you?" Dark-Moon King said coldly.

"Yes." Gauss did not dare to lie.

"Tell me what happened, and don't skip a single detail. No lying," Dark-Moon King said. He looked fairly calm.

Gauss' body shook as he explained what had happened.

Dark-Moon King frowned upon hearing the story. "Just one hit? Knife Queen really put everything into that outsider."

The rumors about Black Steel killing an outsider began to propagate, but no one spoke a word about it. Even the elders that had recommended the outsider did not comment on it.

He had said something he was not supposed to, and Black Steel killed him for it. He had it coming. If Knife Queen heard what he had said, his fate would have been far worse.

Everyone wondered why Han Sen and Black Steel still hadn't come out. Seven of them had exited, and only those two were still living inside there.

"If they haven't come out, then that means they managed to make it through the eleventh round. If they are lucky enough, they might be able to find a Duke weapon." Yisha smiled. Han Sen's performance far exceeded her modest expectations.

With Han Sen's performance, if she wanted to invest in him, she'd undoubtedly take less pressure for the decision. Black- Moon King was also happy that Black Steek was still going on. The other Kings and elders felt differently, though. No one knew what they were thinking about.

In Knife Grave, Han Sen and Black Steel were scaling a mountain. They were looking for higher-tier weaponry. Black Steel looked happy, as he took off running towards a knife he had spotted.

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Chapter 1829 The Knife That Destroys the Sky and Earth

After the eleventh knife rain, there were so many knives on the ground. They were all over the place, and there was hardly a place to step.

Han Sen's feet walked across the handles, and Black Steel was standing in front of a knife. Han Sen thought the knife looked fairly normal.

But Black Steel looked surprised. He pulled it out carefully and held it with both hands. He happily said, "This is a Duke weapon!"

"It doesn't look like one." Han Sen saw the dim-looking light of the blade, and felt impartial towards it.

"We are in the Knife Grave. It is still sleeping, mind you: the power is suppressed. Once you leave this place, you'll be able to see how great this is." After that, Black Steel gave the knife to Han Sen. "The knife you have wanted me to find you is this. Now, we no longer owe each other anything."

"You don't want it?" Han Sen waved it around a bit. It felt great, but Han Sen was not wholly satisfied.

"There is still a lot of time to go, so there is the chance I'll be able to find another." Black Steel continued walking. He didn't look back once.

Han Sen followed Black Steel for a long time, and marveled at the amount he knew about the place. After the eleventh knife rain, there were many more higher-tier weapons on the ground. But finding something of Duke class was still not a simple task. Aside from having the ability to spot one, you'd need more than a modicum of luck.

On that giant planet, which was covered in millions of knives, finding a Duke weapon would be harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

There were more higher-tier knives, but the ordinary ones still rained in countless numbers. The ratio of good knives and bad knives didn't change, though. There were just more of both.

Black Steel had randomly given Han Sen the Duke knife, which had surprised Han Sen.

The land was wide. Han Sen and Black Steel were like two ants, afloat in a sharp sea. Knives were everywhere, and the sight of them made Han Sen's eyes go funny.

Han Sen swore he had never seen so many knives in his life before.

Time passed, and Black Steel was unable to find another Duke knife. He hadn't been able to find a Marquise one, even.

It looked like the Duke knife had exhausted both of their luck.

Boom!

The ground began to rumble as the volcano of knives began to rattle and shake again. The pillar fired up into the sky and illuminated the clouds. It made the sky look like an ocean of lava.

"Again!" Han Sen shouted at Black Steel. He pulled out the Duke scimitar and looked up at the crimson clouds.

Black Steel raised his head and stood up straight. He was holding two knives now. One of them was the horse knife, and the other was a short knife. The latter was an Earl weapon.

Boom!

The lava in the sky rumbled and roared like thunder. The knives came soaring down, dripping with the steel juice of their origin.

The sky was filled by what looked like an endless display of meteors.

Han Sen looked grim. They were all Viscount weapons, and they were accelerating as they descended to the ground with full power.

Han Sen was holding a Duke weapon, but its power was asleep. Han Sen needed his power to activate it. But being the Baron he was, there was a limit to what he was able to do. So, all he had to rely on was the sharpness of the blade itself.

In the eleventh rain, Han Sen had seen how powerful a Viscount's sword could be. He and Black Steel had barely managed to hold on and make it through. This knife rain was much scarier than the eleventh, though; that much was for certain.

Pang! Pang! Pang! Pang!

All the knives came racing down like a barrage of infinite missiles. They annihilated the earth, as countless knives shattered into pieces.

The scariest thing about all of this was how the knife rain was falling. It wasn't a shower; it was a fuH-on heavy rain that did not seem to relent.

Han Sen was waving his Duke knife. He clutched it tight, swinging at every knife that looked set to land on him. His finesse insured none touched him.

But Han Sen only had one knife, and he did not have a shield. He cut the knives that were raining down from directly above, but he wasn't able to cut the ones that were in his proximity.

The falling knives exploded when struck, shattering. Many were broken, scattershotting Han Sen. They gave him a number of cuts, proving his Baron armor could not stop them.

Black Steel was faring much worse, though. Han Sen had mutant blood power, so his wounds would not bleed. If he hurt his skin, he could still keep going. But Black Steel could bleed, and he was soaked with the many lacerations that covered his body.

The knives rained down like a bombing run. It was scarier than the blitz. At least bombings sometimes provided a gap or berth to breathe: these knives wouldn't stop for a moment

Han Sen's Duke knife was sharp, but hitting those knives made his arm numb. His hands slowly began to crack.

The knife rain, after lasting ten minutes, showed no sign of stopping.

Han Sen and Black Steel were fighting the knives back-to-back. They both held a side, and slowly, things began to get better.

"This knife rain is lasting too long! We can't hold on. We have to leave!" Han Sen shouted, as he continued slashing and slashing.

"You go first! I haven't found the knife I am looking for," Black Steel said, while swinging his knife like a madman.

"I'll give you mine, and I'll take any," Han Sen said.

"It's yours, not mine," Black Steel said calmly.

"Are you crazy?" Han Sen kept swinging his knife.

"You leave first," Black Steel insisted, continuing to wave his knife.

"F*ck no!" Han Sen slashed, cutting through a number of knives that were about to skewer his head.

Boom!

The sky trumpeted with thunderous sounds again. The lava in the sky seemed to explode. The rain poured from the sky. Knives! Countless knives!

The knives came down like a torrential flood. They streamed down from above with the strength of a raging river. It'd be enough to destroy the sky and earth.

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Chapter 1830 Soothing the Knife River

"Why have they still not returned?" someone asked from the entrance to the tunnel.

Black-Moon King had arrived before the space tunnel, and he was waiting for his son.

When Black-Moon King was young, he himself had entered the space tunnel. He knew how difficult the hardships were on the other side. Right now, those beyond ought to have been on the twelfth round of rain. Since Black Steel hadn't come out yet, there were only two possibilities.

The first option was that Black Steel was incredibly lucky, and he had found an incredible opportunity. The second option was that he was dead.

In the past, Barons had only managed to reach the eleventh stage; that was the height of their power. No one had ever successfully made it through the twelfth.

There was once a son of a king who was so ambitious, he stole a Duke's armor and took it to Knife Grave. He wanted to see how many rounds the knife rain would ultimately last.

But on the twelfth round, the young man came stumbling out with the Duke's armor mostly in tatters.

When he was questioned, the Baron told his father that on the twelfth round, the knives came down like an endless stream. Even his Duke armor quickly broke down under the strain.

The Baron had managed to escape right before the Duke armor was entirely broken. If he hadn't gotten out in time, he would have been killed.

That was why Barons never attempted to take Duke armors with them. That young man's tale told everyone just how scary and powerful the knife rains could become.

Black-Moon King had already been waiting much longer than he had expected, but Black Steel was still inside. That was his only son, and he was incredibly worried. He stared at the black hole-like vortex. He was surrounded by many other Nobles, eager to see the final result.

His hands clenched into a pair of fists, as his own nails dug into his skin. He was never this nervous, not even when he was fighting someone.

Yisha was not in front of the tunnel, but she still frowned and stared toward the entrance.

On the Knife Grave planet, the knife river came down like a tsunami from the sky. It felt as if it was going to cut the entire planet in half.

Han Sen and Black Steel's faces changed. They felt awful. They did not have Duke armor, and neither did they have an escape route.

Suddenly, the knife river was practically above their heads.

Black Steel lobbed his horse knife and took Han Sen's Duke knife. Holding two knives, he jumped at the mass of the river and yelled, "Run!"

The knives came at the river like a whirlwind, tearing apart the skies. Black Steel managed to cut the knife river in half.

It was only for a second, though, and the knife river swiftly managed to bridge and refill the divide.

Katcha!

With the impact he brought against the knife river, Black Steel's Earl weapon was broken against the tide. His hand bled, as a result His other hand, that was clutching the Duke knife, now had a few crevices running across it

The impact with the knife river was too strong. The Duke knife was pushed to the side. The knives rushed by Black Steel like water.

Black Steel looked at the knife river and his eyes moved. He realized he would die this time, and there was no way out for him. Seeing endless knives line up together, so close to his body, it would only take a second for them to chop and dice him into pieces.

But the knives suddenly stopped, and they froze where they were in the air. They hung there, motionless, blanketing the sky. The knives were almost into his flesh and his eyes, but the spectacle had all suddenly stopped.

Sha! Sha!

Suddenly, it was like time began running backwards. The knives reversed course. They moved 100 meters away before coming to a stop.

The weapons started to spin, and so too did the ones on the ground,

Countless weapons were spinning like tornados. They were everywhere, and Black Steel couldn't even have guessed how many there were.

As the weapons spun, they also began to tremble. It seemed almost like they were afraid of something.

Black Steel slowly turned around and looked at Han Sen. Han Sen's clothes were waving as he cast his knifemind. He looked like a beast that was on the verge of ripping the galaxy apart

"How is that possible?" Black Steel looked at Han Sen.

Han Sen possessed a knifemind that was greater than that of Black Steel's father, Black-Moon King. Even Knife Queen was likely inferior to him.

Han Sen now had Black Steel's horse knife. He had planned to use his knifemind and Centaur shield so they could think about what they might do to escape the space tunnel.

The effects of using the knifemind were more surprising than anticipated, however. It looked as if the knives felt his knifemind, and they sought to back-off. Han Sen no longer needed to summon his shield anymore.

Han Sen's knifemind came from the scabbard. The scabbard's knifemind originated with the Rebate; their only deified elite. Han Sen's power was far worse, of course. But even so, his knifemind was deified in caliber. Although it wasn't as good as the real thing, it was still good.

The knives weren't creatures, but when they felt the knifemind, they were shocked. That was why they were shaking, and unable to leave.

Suddenly, a knife fell from the sky and hit the ground. It almost landed on Han Sen's head.

Han Sen fell back and dodged it.

He looked down and saw the knife that was now protruding from a rock. The scabbard and the handle were all rusted, and there was no handguard at all. It looked like a steel rod that was just a little bit curved.

"Weird. All these knives are scared of the knifemind. So, why did this one decide to come down?" Han Sen thought to himself. He knelt by the knife, grabbed it by the handle, and tried to pull it from the rock.

Han Sen wanted to remove it from the rock and see what might have been special about it, but it didn't budge. He tried yanking it a few times, but nothing worked.

"Little Black, why can I not pull this out?" Han Sen asked over his shoulder, just as the knife jerked out of the ground. He tossed it to Black Steel for inspection.

Han Sen put away his knifemind. The weapons then seemed to lose all support, and they all fell to the ground. Within the proximity of a hundred meters, weapons were everywhere.

Black Steel looked at Han Sen strangely, then he looked at the knife in his hands. Then he threw it back to Han Sen, saying, "This is not a long knife with a scabbard. It is a knife's child or a knife stick. It isn't a knife yet. It's half finished."

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Chapter 1831: Dragon's Back

Even the Knife Blank has come out. Is it useful?" Han Sen waved the Knife Blank. It felt good to wield, but it didn't seem to

possess any strange powers.

Black Steel looked at the Knife Blank and said, "It fell down like that without fear, so it is indeed something special. It will be a King class if it can become a real knife."

After that, Black Steel ignored Han Sen. He went towards the knife mountain in search of another knife.

"It sounds really good. How might I complete it, then? Your family is one of blacksmiths, right? Couldn't you help me forge it?" Han Sen asked Black Steel.

"This is a knife growing in Knife Grave. It has life. It isn't a simple material I can use for forging. I can't do that," Black Steel answered.

Ever since the twelfth rain fell, the Knife Grave had stopped erupting. There were no more knife rains as a result.

Black Steel scaled the mountain, and he searched for over six hours. Finally, he found the King class weapon he had been looking for.

As they fervently searched on the inside, the people on the outside grew increasingly worried. This was especially true of Black Steel's father, Black-Moon King. Black Steel had been overdue by many hours, and he still hadn't come out. It made

Black-Moon King's forehead sweat profusely.

"I am afraid they will be unable to return. At this time, a fifteenth rain will have come. At that strength, not even a Duke would stand a chance of repelling it"

"They were too greedy. They should have come out by now."

"Poor Black-Moon King. He only has one son."

As everyone discussed the matter, a white light emerged from the pit of the black hole. Two people soon came out, shocking everyone there.

It was Han Sen and Black Steel. Black-Moon King was made incredibly happy, but only for a single second. Then, so coldly, he asked, "Why are you only conning out now? What did you get?"

Black Steel and Han Sen were shocked to see so many people had been waiting on them. Black Steel heard Black-Moon King's question, and so he brought out his new weapon, drew it, and presented it to him. He said, "Please take a look, Father."

When Black-Moon King saw the knife, he froze. He didn't pick it up, and he had to try to contain his excitement. With forced calmness, he said, "This is your knife. Activate it yourself."

"Yes." Black Steel spoke with respect, and then he inserted his power into it.

The knife Black Steel had brought out looked a little weird. It had been made of bone, from the looks of it. The body of the blade was very straight, but also four feet long. The width of the blade was greater than a man's hand.

Black Steel held it with both of his hands. He put his Baron power inside of it, and then the bone knife roared the roar of a dragon.

And then, swordlight flashed across the sky like a dragon in flight. It roared and zoomed around.

Buzz! Buzz!

Everyone present, who was carrying a knife, looked down as their weapons made strange noises. All the other knives were responding to the bone knife.

"King class knife?" Everyone was shocked, and Black-Moon King laughed out loud.

His son had found a King class weapon. In all the time the Rebate had controlled Narrow Moon, such an event had never occurred.

Throughout all those years, with many Rebate and many different races, so many talented people had gone there. And yet, none had ever emerged with a King class weapon. But this time, it had happened. Black-Moon King's son had done it, and that weapon had accepted his son as its rightful bearer. Black Steel was weak, and he couldn't use the weapon's true strength, but as he grew up, it would adjust. They would grow and become more accustomed to one another, until one day, all of its power could be unleashed.

This was something so many people could only ever dream of accomplishing. Black-Moon King wanted to laugh his head off. He was thinking he'd dream of laughing, too.

"Black Steel, what will you name it?" Black-Moon King asked with a smile.

"I would like to name it Dragon's Back," Black Steel said, as he sheathed the weapon.

"Dragon's Back. Good. Good. Good. Ha! Ha!" Black-Moon King said good three times, and then laughed.

"Black-Moon King, congratulations!" Many other Kings congratulated Black-Moon King.

Bringing out a King class weapon, and then getting approved by it, was a grand achievement. It was a big thing for Black- Moon King, and it looked like Black Steel could be a candidate for becoming the master of the Eleventh Star.

Even Moon-Wheel King and Yisha nodded. Black Steel's luck and growth were good for the future of the Rebate.

After a while, people realized another person had emerged from the tunnel.

Black-Moon King was in a good mood, and so he smiled at Han Sen and said, "Han Sen, what did you bring with you? Let us take a look."

Everyone looked at Han Sen. He and Black Steel had come out together, so there was a chance he had gotten a King class weapon, as well. The chance of that happening would be slim, though. You would need much luck and travel to find one. You couldn't get it by just standing there. But the longer you stayed in that land, the higher the chance you would have of being able to find one.

Han Sen didn't deny what he had earned. He was going to draw it out, as it was a requirement for everyone's weapon to be registered. Hiding it would be pointless.

But as he clutched the handle, he felt as if something was wrong.

The Knife Blank had been like steel. It was really rough, and it felt as if Han Sen was clutching a coarse rod. But the handle Han Sen grabbed now was very delicate. It was like the tusk of an elephant It did not feel like the Knife Blank it had been earlier.

Han Sen frowned and drew it out. It was not the Knife Blank he had seen earlier.

The knife he was holding gave off a purple mist. It was a scimitar, and it looked like the fang of a devil. The knife looked as if it was something made from solidified bad luck. It looked like your blood would be drained by that knife.

Han Sen turned around and looked. The knife was still on his back. He felt weird and thought, "Oh no! Why is there another knife? Where did this come from? I thought people said only one knife could be carried out. If I knew I could bring more than one, I'd have brought enough for my Mom, Wife, Son, Sister, Grandson, Little Angel, and Xie Qing."

Seeing Han Sen's knife, Black-Moon King's expression became strange. He said, "Han Sen, see if you can activate this power."

Han Sen nodded, and then he put his strength into the devil-looking fang.

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Chapter 1832: Evil Knife

The scimitar was activated. It didn't roar like Dragon's Back did. There was not even a wheeze. There was no light shining into the sky; all that could be seen was a dark purple aura.

Buzz!

Everyone's knives leaped out of their scabbards at about half-length, and they all rattled and shook.

It didn't feel as if the knives were responding to Han Sen out of respect; it was as if the knives were all alarmed. They were like dogs, jerking to their feet to scan the area out of fear of something dangerous. It was instinct.

Buzz!

The knife on Black-Moon King's belt was halfway out of its sheath, and then, it suddenly made a cruel noise. It was the sound a beast might make when encountering another that was encroaching on its turf.

Soon after, Black-Moon King's knife was not doing that solo. The knives of the other Kings started to appear hostile, too, as they all looked at Han Sen's new blade.

The blades didn't appear afraid; instead, they just looked very hostile.

Many Nobles were shocked by this. They looked at Black-Moon King, because he knew more of the knives than any other Rebate. Black-Moon King fondled his knife, and eventually it calmed down and retreated into its scabbard. Then, he told Han Sen, "It's okay. But put your knife away now."

Han Sen pulled back the power he had put into the knife to activate it. He was still holding his knife, though, because he had no scabbard for it.

Black-Moon King looked at the scimitar and slowly said, "This is a King class weapon, but it is too brutal. I am afraid bad things might occur if you were to use it Be careful in your handling of this."

When people heard that this was a King class weapon, they were shocked. Two people had found a King class weapon this time.

The other Barons that had left Knife Grave earlier looked at them jealously. The luckiest amongst those was a Marquis. No one else had managed to even get a Duke class knife. Han Sen and Black Steel had drawn out two King class weapons, and the others were pretty sore about it.

"My King, why would you regard this as unlucky?" Han Sen asked. He believed in these sorts of superstitions.

Han Sen hadn't believed in this sort of thing originally, but after meeting Wang Yuhang and Cheap Sheep, his opinions had certainly changed.

Black-Moon King quietly said, "This knife is a murder weapon. It has a murderous presence. If it was an ordinary knife, it all depends on how the master uses it. But this knife has too much of an evil aura of its own. If someone tries to use it, and fails to command that evil spirit, they will be infected and consumed by its nature. The wielder might be drawn to doing unusual things."

"By the way, what will you name the blade?" Black-Moon King asked.

"Its name is Ghost Teeth." When Han Sen activated the knife, a mind or presence came from the blade, telling him its name.

Black-Moon King nodded and said, "If you can activate its power and learn its name, that means you have been approved. Perhaps its evil will have less of an effect on you."

Yisha and Moon-Wheel King were both looking at Han Sen's Ghost Teeth knife.

Moon-Wheel King frowned and spoke to himself. "That is an evil knife. I'm not sure if it'll be a good or bad thing for us, in the long run."

Yisha frowned, as well. She had studied Teeth Knife, and she could feel that Ghost Teeth had a connection or matching with Teeth Knife. If Han Sen used Ghost Teeth with Teeth Knife, the power would be stronger than if he was to use another knife. It should have been a good thing, for Han Sen to have this knife.

But that knife itself certainly felt too evil. Han Sen's level was too low for it, and she was afraid that Han Sen might not be able to handle the evil power.

There was something else that was worrying her, too. She had taught Han Sen Teeth Knight, but Teeth Knife was a private skill of the Rebate. It was created by a Rebate elder, after all. It was perfect for the body of a Rebate, but even so, not many of the Rebate were able to practice it well-enough to command its true power.

Han Sen was an outsider, and while it wasn't hard to learn an ordinary skill, operating Teeth powers should have been close to impossible for him.

Without Teeth power to suppress that knife, the evilness would undoubtedly grow stronger. It was difficult to say how it might ultimately affect Han Sen.

Han Sen heard Moon-Wheel King speak, and he looked at the Ghost Teeth knife and noticed nothing evil about it himself.

"Why do you have a knife on your back?" Black-Moon King saw the Knife Blank on Han Sen's back. He could only see a part of it, but he assumed it was a knife.

When Black-Moon King said that, everyone was shocked. Everyone knew you could only bring one knife out. If you tried to bring two, you wouldn't be allowed out of the tunnel. But there Han Sen was, with two.

At the same time, everyone craned their necks to get a glimpse of the Knife Blank on his back.

"It's not a knife. It's a Knife Blank," Han Sen said, pulling it out and holding it in his hands.

Everyone was shocked. It was a Knife Blank shaped like a steel rod. It was not a knife, and they had never heard of something like this before.

People usually brought out simple knives when coming out of Knife Grave. They hadn't seen a Knife Blank before.

"It doesn't count as a knife? Is that why it was able to exit, as well?"

"What is that thing for? Planet Knife Grave's knives have a life of their own… You can't reforge that."

"The Black family used to repair broken weaponry, but they didn't work successfully. And knives that had a life, would lose it by the time their work was finished. They would end up like normal knives."

"If it is a Knife Blank, it can become a knife, right?"

A duke that was a friend of Black-Moon King said, "My King, do you think this thing can be forged into a knife?"

Black-Moon King looked at the knife and did not answer him. He looked glum and spoke to Han Sen. "Let me take a look at this Knife Blank."

Han Sen passed it to him without hesitation. Black-Moon King looked serious as he took the knife. He inspected every inch of it, looking very concerned.

Other Nobles could see this was strange. They all held their breaths, seeing Black-Moon keenly inspect the Knife Blank. They wondered what he could see in it.

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Chapter 1833: Knife Blank Super Gene

Black-Moon King nodded slightly, then shook his head. The nobles around were confused, and they weren't sure what that meant. No one was going to ask now, though. They were happy to wait until Black-Moon King finished his investigation. They were still very curious about the knife.

Black-Moon King inspected the blade from top-to-bottom, at least ten times. He eventually gave out a long sigh, and with an ashamed tone of voice, said, "It is a shame…"

"Black-Moon King, tell us clearly! What about it is a shame?" Night River King couldn't help but ask.

Black-Moon King held the Knife Blank and said, "Planet Knife Grave is more like a museum for knives. No one knows where the knives come from, but they are relics from a long-ago eon. They weren't forged, and the grave is just a container. Their numbers don't change. So, when you take one out, there is one less there. New ones aren't generated."

"We know that! But what does that mean?" Night River King looked annoyed.

As Black-Moon King continued looking at the Knife Blank, he sighed and said, "This Knife Blank is an anomaly. I am not sure why such material exists there, in the grave. The surface of the planet has been soaking in knifeminds and knifeairs for so long, this Knife Blank was generated. Give it a bit more time, perhaps a few thousand years, and it might become a real knife. And on top of that, a King class weapon. It is a shame it was brought out so early. It is just a Knife Blank. Now that it has left the grave, there is no more knifeair or knifeminds to cultivate it. I am afraid this Knife Blank might be ruined forever."

Hearing him say all this, Night River King asked, "No one can finish it, perhaps through forging?"

"It would be hard. Aside from Planet Knife Grave, where could you find a place with knifeair? And the knives that come from inside there, they cannot be returned once they have left. I am afraid it won't become a true knife." After Black-Moon King said that, he returned the knife to Han Sen. "Although it is just a Knife Blank, and it doesn't have its own knifeair and knifemind, it's still as sturdy as a King class weapon. It counts as King class, fret not."

Many Nobles and Kings were very jealous, hearing this. Although it wasn't fully a King class weapon, it had the makings of one. Han Sen had also received another King class knife, as well: Ghost Teeth. He was the one who had emerged with the most rewards, following the trip inside. Despite their jealousy, the onlookers knew they couldn't say anything. It would be impossible to try to steal the items, too. Han Sen was Knife Queen's student.

"Everyone, take your knives and get them recorded. Then we can return," Black-Moon King addressed Han Sen and the other Barons.

"My King, we do not know what the Knife Blank's name is. How might we record it?" A recorder asked Black-Moon King.

Black-Moon King looked at Han Sen and said, "See if you can activate its power. Although it is only a Knife Blank, it might still have a mind of its own."

Han Sen nodded and tried to insert his power into it.

It was different from how it occurred with Ghost Teeth. When Han Sen used that malicious blade, he only needed a little bit of power to activate it. But this Knife Blank was like a black hole. When Han Sen put power into it, nothing happened. Nothing even moved.

The Knife Blank was like a block of steel, and nothing transpired.

Han Sen expected this, though. After all, the Knife Blank did not have a reaction to his knifemind. Han Sen had a strong knifemind, but his actual strength was far weaker. It would be strange if Han Sen could activate it through his current level of strength.

Seeing the Knife Blank give no reaction, the others couldn't keep themselves from mocking the effort.

"It looks like it has no life, after all. It's just a rod of steel!"

"This world is not as good as you might like to believe. There is no way you could have received a second King class weapon. After your first, don't expect anything else."

"It has no life, but it is hard. You could still use it to practice!"

Han Sen deactivated his powers. As he held the Knife Blank, he shook his head.

Black-Moon King thought for a moment, then said, "If you agree to it, I myself can try and activate it."

"Yes, please." Han Sen passed it to Black-Moon King.

Black-Moon King took the Knife Blank and inserted his power into it. Black-Moon King was a very powerful person, but not even he could an incite a reaction in it.

After that, Black-Moon King shook his head and gave it back to Han Sen. "It looks like the Knife Blank does not have a mind. It is a shame."

Black-Moon King turned around and said to the recorder, "Write down 'Knife Blank,' then."

After the registration was complete, Han Sen said goodbye to Black Steel. He brought Ghost Teeth and Knife Blank with him back to Planet Knife. He was going to meet up with Yisha.

"Show me your Ghost Teeth knife," Yisha said, nodding to the knife that was in his satchel.

Han Sen brought the Ghost Teeth knife out in front of Yisha. Yisha took it and put her power into it, and then, she frowned.

When Han Sen put his power in, it had incited a reaction with his knifemind. She had casually done the same, too, and while she was stronger than Han Sen, there was no reaction.

Yisha frowned. She tried putting a lot of power into it, and eventually, Ghost Teeth started to rattle. It released a purple smoke before trying to escape from her hands and return to Han Sen.

Yisha was shocked. Ghost Teeth knife only managed to escape while she was distracted, but that was not the point

The point was, her Teeth Knife matched with the Ghost Teeth knife. It should have felt her power and accepted her strength, but it resisted her and flew back to Han Sen. That was shocking.

Yisha did not know Han Sen's Teeth Knife knifemind was stronger. The reason it selected Han Sen was because of his deified knifemind. She was half a step behind him, so the blade did not choose her.

Yisha didn't try taking it again. She stared at Han Sen for a while, and eventually said, "You did well. Put the knife away for now. A rule of the Rebate says that if you have a King class weapon, you can own a planet in the Narrow Moons. Get ready."

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Chapter 1834: Planet Eclipse Super Gene

"Get ready for what?" Han Sen asked. Having a planet to oneself should be a good thing, but Yisha's tone didn't make it sound as if it was.

"You are my student now, so I will take care of everything. But if you have your own planet, that means you will have to be on your own. I cannot take part in its development, and you will have to pay taxes. The numbers aren't small, either." Yisha went on to say, "Narrow Moon has a lot of planets, but the good ones have already been taken by the current Kings and Nobles. There aren't many left to choose from. Only the poor and cheap planets, really. If you don't do a good job, make a lot of money, and pay the necessary taxes, it is likely that people will start laughing at you."

"I don't want a planet. I just want to be with you, and have you teach me," Han Sen quickly said.

It would be difficult for Han Sen to find a backer with infinite resources like her. Who would want to give it up in exchange for ownership and residence on a no-name planet that wasn't developed?

Yisha looked at him coldly, and she said, "You are Knife Queen's student. I cannot allow you to hide away from hardships. Besides, this is a law for the Rebate. You are required to go there. If you embarrass me, and you are unable to pay your taxes, I will deal with you myself."

Han Sen feigned bitterness, and he said, "Queen, I am just a Baron. I don't even have a helper. How am I supposed to develop a planet by myself?"

Yisha laughed when she saw Han Sen's expression. "Don't worry! You won't have to pay taxes for the first three years. It is only then that the taxman will come calling. Starting from the fourth year onwards, you will have to pay. The taxes won't be staggeringly high, but the amount you must pay will increase year after year. You are my student, so of course I can help you with this."

"And don't worry about the people. When you have ownership of a planet, you can recruit as many people as you want The Feathers have fallen, so many places are at war right now. It will be easy to nab a few of those." Yisha smiled.

Han Sen did not want to go to those planets, but she wasn't going to give him a choice in the matter. This was something he had to do.

Luckily, Yisha said she would still continue teaching him knife skills. It made him feel much better to know that she wasn't entirely letting him go.

"Ghost Teeth Knife rejected me. Are his skills so talented it preferred him? But he is not of the Rebate, so how could he have learned the Teeth powers? It'd be good for him if he was able to." Yisha watched Han Sen as he left, and she retreated into thought.

"Night River King, Black Steel and Han Sen received King class weaponry. They can both have a planet There aren't many decent ones remaining, so what would you like to do about this?" An officer brought out a planetary chart and displayed it in front of Night River King.

Night River King observed the chart and said. "Give Black Steel Planet Scorpio."

"Planet Scorpio? That is a planet with many mines. There are a lot of rare metals there, and the ecosystem is diverse and balanced. Once upon a time, Rocks Fall Duke offered a grand sum in the hopes of its purchase. And you didn't accept his offer for purchase. Black Steel is a very lucky person." The officer laughed.

Night River King smiled. "Black-Moon King is a blacksmith of the Rebate. Black Steel is talented and has a King knife. He will be something big, in time. Providing him with this planet will be beneficial for the advancement of our race. It won't belong to him totally, though."

"Good thinking," the officer said, with a bow. "And out of the leftover planets, Planet Jadeshell is the richest. Shall we give it to Queen's student Han Sen?"

Night River King shook his head. "I have matters to attend to there. Give him Planet Eclipse."

The officer, when he heard it, seemed stunned. "My King, there are no mines there! There is no water, and neither are there any plants. There are xenogeneics lurking there, and the weather is awful. Considering the number of xenogeneics that are there, it would be difficult for any Viscount to etch out a living. A planet like this is for an Earl or above. Wouldn't it be too cruel to give it to Han Sen?"

Night River King hummed, and he said, "Planet Eclipse may only have xenogeneics, but it is rich with them. He is lucky to receive this special treatment."

After that, Night River King coldly laughed and said, "Han Sen is not one of our kind. And his genes are not stable. We cannot afford to spend vast amounts of resources on him. If it wasn't for Queen, I wouldn't provide him a planet at all."

The officer gave a wry smile. Being sent to Planet Eclipse would be a far worse fate For Han Sen than being sent to a barren planet. Going to those poorer planets wouldn't be dangerous, but the same couldn't be said for Planet Eclipse.

According to the laws of the Rebate, Queen couldn't directly partake in the development of the planet. Han Sen needed to hire people himself. If he was unable to recruit folks of Earl rank or above, even getting started would be a monumental task. Anyone who went to that planet would be in perpetual danger.

"Will Queen agree to this decision?" the officer carefully asked.

"I am in charge of planetary distribution. She cannot say anything about it. And if the boy has a problem with it, he can forget all about it," Night River King said coldly.

Planet Eclipse?" Yisha, seeing what Han Sen was going to be given, frowned sternly. Her urge to help Han Sen was now greater than she expected it to be, and resisting it was difficult.

If Planet Eclipse was owned by a Duke or a King, developing it wouldn't have been too hard. But you would spend so much to earn so little, so no Duke in their right mind would want to go there. It could be a treasure for Barons and Viscounts, but they wouldn't have what it took to develop the planet.

Planet Eclipse was like a flavorless rib of chicken.

Night River King gave Han Sen Planet Eclipse to cause him trouble. That much was obvious.

And when Yisha explained the situation to Han Sen, she told him, "If you do not want to go, it is fine. If you want, stay and learn some knife skills with me."

Yisha was too proud and arrogant to give up easily, but she didn't want to explain herself, either. If she told people she wanted to raise Han Sen up to be a Duke, the elites would probably help her. But Yisha's personality made her despise the act of explaining things. If people tried to stop her, she would be driven to accomplish her tasks all the more.

After Han Sen heard about the planet he was to be given, though, his eyes shone. He bowed and said, "Queen, I would like to go there!"

"Really?" Yisha looked at Han Sen with shock. She had already explained the state of Planet Eclipse to him, but he still wanted to go. That was a surprise.

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Chapter 1835 Recruiting Members

The magnetic fields of Planet Eclipse were a mess. There were frequent magnetic storms, so most tools did not work there. And there were many mountains on the planet, which rendered its landscape a complicated one. It was a harsh place to live.

Many years ago, an Earl had earned permission to develop this place. He built a base in a region known as Mirror Lake, and using that place as a hub, he went out and killed many xenogeneics.

But in under a month of being there, the Earl led an expedition into the mountains and never returned. Not a single one of those members had come back breathing.

The Rebate, of course, sent others after them to pursue an investigation. One Duke spent months in the mountains, searching for what might have become of them, but he found neither hide nor hair of the Earl and his team. He eventually had to stop.

Ever since then, no one had wanted to go to that planet

When Han Sen took over, he wished to make use of the base the Earl had built, for starters.

That encampment was a relatively safe place, when compared to everywhere else on the planet And there only seemed to be Baron and Viscount class xenogeneics in the immediate vicinity to contend with.

As long as Han Sen did not venture into those treacherous mountains, he wagered he'd do just fine.

Still, killing Baron and Viscount xenogeneics was never an easy task, especially for a Baron.

Because Planet Eclipse's xenogeneics were so diverse, there could be a variety of different species in one small area. They didn't operate like ordinary xenogeneics, which kept to themselves or stayed in groups of their own kind.

The situation was made more difficult because of the abilities they possessed. There were too many risks, so if Han Sen wanted to hunt there, he'd have to enlist many people to join him. He could only compete if he was very strong.

Recruiting some members was the first thing Han Sen needed to do.

Han Sen did not expect that he would find anyone good, though. Primarily, he would just be recruiting others for show. His real help would come when he brought Xie Qing King and the others into this universe.

As long as they didn't travel to the mountains like the Earl did, and used the defenses provided by the pre-established base, they could develop the planet over the course of the next three years fairly safely.

Han Sen didn't want to think about the prospect of paying taxes just yet, and he didn't have to. The next three years were tax-free, after all. He'd allow Xie Qing King and the others to get accustomed to the geno universe first, and perhaps bring them up to Viscount

Queen sent out a flying ship and enlisted some men to go with Han Sen for protection. It would be a sour thing to hear if Han Sen was killed.

Queen kept the Ghost Teeth Knife in the palace, because it was not ideal for Han Sen to carry around a knife he could not yet use. It wouldn't help him, and there was a higher chance of the blade getting him killed than anything.

Han Sen took the ship back to the warzone. There were still some areas on Planet Kate that were safe. Han Sen went there and tried to enlist some of the Kate.

Kate and humans shared quite a few similarities. It was easier for them to communicate and live with each other than it was with others.

"The Kate are a weak race, even compared with others of the weak race echelon. Is there any point in recruiting them?" Duke Icebird asked. She was helping Han Sen get his foot in the door, but she wasn't fond of his decisions.

She didn't want to interfere too much with Han Sen's business, though. And Knife Queen had already told her not to influence Han Sen's decisions too much. Han Sen was given free rein to recruit who he wanted to. She shouldn't really help or advise him on such matters.

The ship landed in one of those safer regions, and Han Sen told the men to start recruiting those they could.

"Duke Icebird, you can handle matters from here. I will go out and poke about, and see if I can find some other members," Han Sen told him.

"Queen said we are only here to protect you on the ship," Duke Icebird said coldly.

"I can take care of myself." Han Sen waved and left the airship.

Han Sen walked around in the city and noticed that it was a mess. People moved furtively and often ran off when anyone else approached. Many of the shops and houses were now completely empty. The streets were quiet.

Han Sen decided to enter one of the vacant buildings. He found a room that looked fairly private, and then he brought out Little Invisible and placed him on the windowsill.

"Wait here and alert me if anyone shows up," Han Sen told Little Invisible. The creature then appeared, nodded, and made itself invisible again.

Han Sen used his Blood-Pulse powers and went back to the sanctuary. When he was back home, he summoned everyone and explained the situation regarding Narrow Moon. Xie Qing King, Gu Qingcheng, Little Angel, and all the others expressed a desire to go.

Han Sen hadn't been inside the building for long, but someone had been following him. He ran into the room that Han Sen had teleported from.

The person looked inside the room, but he did not see Han Sen. He circled the room a few times, but he could not find anything.

"Weird! How could I lose him?" The man looked glum. He was an Earl that was a renowned tracker. He felt pretty bad about losing his tail on Han Sen. He did not know how to explain to Duke Icebird how he had managed to lose Han Sen.

Icebird Duke had said she wouldn't protect Han Sen, but Queen had told her that she had to no matter what That was her task.

The shadow looked around the abandoned building and found nothing, so he left.

Han Sen decided to bring Gu Qingcheng first. She was a very calm person, and he knew he could rely on her to not cause any trouble.

Han Sen looked at the window and asked, "Little Invisible, did anyone come?"

Little Invisible revealed itself, and then the colors of its body began flickering like a movie screen. It showed Han Sen what it had seen.

Han Sen saw the person who entered and knew it was the Earl.

"So this is the geno universe? It's different from the sanctuaries." Gu Qingcheng moved her body and felt strange. She wasn't used to the new atmosphere yet

"For the time being, this place is safe. Generate your geno armor here, and I will stand guard," Han Sen said.

"Good." Gu Qingcheng had eaten so many geno fruits that if she had not forced herself to avoid it, she would have generated a geno armor a while ago.

Quickly, Gu Qingcheng found herself wrapped up by a bronze set of armor. Once she began generating the armor, the process flowed smoothly. Her second evolution had begun.

Not long after, Han Sen saw a bronze sword appear in front of her. Her geno armament was a sword, a fitting contribution for her focus on sword skills.

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Chapter 1836 Connect Evolve

"Congratulations!" Han Sen was so happy. Gu Qingcheng had become a Noble on her first go, and that saved him a Magnet Fruit

"I will walk around and sign-up near your ship." Gu Qingcheng then left the abandoned building. She was not scared of the foreign world she had just been brought into. In fact, she was quite curious.

"I hope they don't start up trouble while they're here." Han Sen felt rather depressed. Gu Qingcheng was pretty stubborn, and there was nothing he could do to put a leash on it.

They had a good start, anyway, and nothing bad occurred. Han Sen was confident So, he went back to the sanctuary and brought Xie Qing King on through.

Xie Qing King was even faster. After going in, he generated his armor immediately.

A silver liquid oozed out of his body and wrapped him up completely. He generated a set of silver armor.

Just like Gu Qingcheng, Xie Qing King evolved for a second time without hassle or issue. When the geno armor melted and became something else, he was left with a silver book.

"What kind of geno armament is that?" Han Sen's eyes opened wide as he looked at Xie Qing King and his silver book.

"It doesn't matter. Let's head outside for now." Xie Qing King could not wait to get out of there.

"Remember to get yourself registered at the airship!" Han Sen called out to Xie Qing King's back as he left.

"Okay!" Xie Qing King hollered, but he didn't look back. All he did was raise an okay hand- signal.

"D*mn it! None of them are reliable. I need to find someone amongst them that is." Han Sen went back to the sanctuary and brought out Little Angel; she was a true heir of his.

But Han Sen had worried that Little Angel might end up like Golden Growler, and get taken by some entity.

Little Angel followed Han Sen request and began her process of evolution. Han Sen was focusing more on his surroundings right now, and if there was any movement, he'd throw Little Angel right back into the sanctuary.

Little Angel had two shapes. One looked like a human lady, and the other would become a blonde-haired, white-winged angel.

As this was happening, Little Angel shone and became an angel. A holy light emerged from her body, providing her a holy light geno armor.

Before Han Sen could take a look at the armor, Little Angel was evolving for a second time.

The holy light armor melted into her.

"Xenogeneic." Han Sen was nervous, seeing this. He was worried there might be an issue with her evolution.

When the holy light blended into her body, Little Angel's body began to glow. Even her bones were giving off light Little Angel's body was mutating. This situation was mirroring what Han Sen had seen with Golden Growler.

Quickly, Little Angel's body generated a set of angel armor. Before Han Sen could react, the holy light generated a transparent greatsword.

Han Sen was frozen. Little Angel had indeed become a xenogeneic, but she still had a set of angel armor and an angelic sword.

Little Angel's body now looked like that of a valkyrie. And as this occurred, Han Sen suddenly felt something inside his pocket move.

The deified feather flew out towards Little Angel.

The feather hovered before Little Angel, and then burst into white light The light drifted down and melted into the sword.

The transparent greatsword displayed changes after the deified feather combined with it.

The transparent greatsword started to change. It still looked like a greatsword, but its shape also became feather-like. It was like a white-winged feather sword. Its size was no different than it had been, however.

Han Sen was frozen, but he was very happy. The power she had put her at the zenith of what was achievable by a Baron. She was the cream of the Baron crop, and her sword had absorbed the deified feather. This meant Little Angel could become a deified being, for sure.

Han Sen had saved himself the trouble of trying to refine the feather himself. This was a rare thing.

Little Angel exited from the xenogeneic mode and returned to the form of a human lady. Seeing this, Han Sen sighed. And he felt incredibly relieved, knowing what had happened to Golden Growler was not going to happen to her. Little Angel did not get consumed by the killing urge, and she remained the same.

"Little Angel, wait here." Han Sen wanted to take Little Angel back. Letting her out alone was most certainly unsafe.

Back in the sanctuary, he brought the silver fox through next On such a harsh planet, they'd most certainly need Little Silver's healing powers.

Little Silver was the last to come through, but he was the one that had actually eaten the most geno fruits. So, he could generate his geno armor right away.

Little Silver stood motionless with a very elegant posture. The silver fur rippled and waved with a silver liquid. It blanketed his whole body and made him appear stiff like a statue.

The silver fox's evolution stopped here, though. He did not evolve a second time.

Little Silver looked disappointed in himself, and he walked over to Han Sen for comfort. He rubbed Han Sen's leg vigorously with his head.

Han Sen crouched, stroked his head, and said, "It's okay. Being talented is nothing. With me here, no matter what becomes of you, you will be the best in my eyes."

Han Sen then gave Little Silver the juice of a Magnet Fruit. Little Silver's geno armor showed some form of movement His silver fur began to melt and move around his body.

"Is he turning into a xenogeneic, as well?" Han Sen felt rather nervous. The silver fox was not Little Angel, so he didn't know if Little Silver would remain his former self.

The silver light blended into Little Silver's eyes, turning them into a pool of silver. Lightning flashed and flickered through them.

Han Sen was shocked. He thought Little Silver's evolution would occur around the tail, and he didn't expect it to be his eyes.

The eyes grew brighter with a silver light The light dissipated after a while, but his pupils remained silver. When you looked closely, you could see the presence of a silver light within them.

Han Sen had only planned on bringing the four of them to Planet Eclipse, but Zero also said she wanted to go. So, he brought her along with him, too.

Zero had done a lot for Han Sen's family, and she never complained or asked for anything, so Han Sen could not reject her request

Zero didn't say much, and when she arrived in the geno universe, she went to generate a geno armor. But before she could start, something happened.

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Chapter 1837 Zero's Second Evolution

Zero first generated her white geno armor, then underwent the process a second time. There was no pause between the sequences. Her geno armor simply melted and reshaped itself into a white knife. It looked like a dagger made of bone.

As Han Sen found himself joyous in the realization that Zero could evolve a second time, her bone knife suddenly cracked. It gave him quite a shock.

"What is this? Why did the geno armament crack, all by itself?" Han Sen did not understand. When he wanted to check on her and see if she was injured in any way, the energy surrounding Zero changed all of a sudden. Her black eyes turned purple, and then that color of purple started to spread.

Quickly, Zero's hair was overtaken by the purple dye. From her head, two horns protruded.

"Zero! Are you okay?" Han Sen was worried, but fortunately, Zero wasn't wounded. She had simply turned into her shura-self.

When Zero became shura, a substance oozed out of her body. Then, she began generating another geno armor.

"She can generate another geno armor? Aren't her human and shura bodies one?" Han Sen wondered to himself.

This was different. Zero's geno armor had become purple, just like her purple horns. The texture was similar between them both, too.

The process was a success, just like it was last time. They became geno fluid again, as well, but this time, it did not reshape itself as a knife. It went right into Zero's body.

"Xenogeneic?" Han Sen was worried. Zero's situation was a complicated one.

Through the first process, she became a Noble. This second time, however, she was becoming a xenogeneic. Han Sen did not know how that would ultimately affect her body.

The purple substance went into Zero's body, and her whole body showed changes. A purple smoke was emitted, and its cloud quickly obscured Zero. Inside it, he did not know how she might be evolving now.

As Zero was evolving to become a xenogeneic, far away in space, inside a black hole, there was a man with purple horns practicing. He opened his eyes and looked in the direction of Planet Kate. He looked shocked, and then he frowned.

"Weird. Why did that feeling only last one second? Would any of my heirs like that exist?" The man looked confused, as he couldn't feel anything anymore.

But the man cared little for it. With that thought lingering in his mind, he continued his practice.

A man was standing on the roof of Han Sen's abandoned building, looking up into the sky. He seemed interested in something, and he said, "Interesting. The creatures around that guy are interesting. And he managed to get someone who was able to refine the deified feather. And it wasn't a Feather. And now, a person has emerged whose power is able to wake up an elder. Luckily, I got here quick and averted the trouble."

Kong Fei had felt it when Little Angel refined the deified feather. So, he teleported there to save Han Sen from a particular crisis.

Han Sen was in the room, waiting for Zero to evolve. Kong Fei was on the roof of the building, drinking alcohol. The space around the building seemed different, but you couldn't quite put your finger on what that difference was.

Half an hour later, Zero's purple mist cleared. Her face did not seem to display much difference, and everything about her was still purple. There was no visible difference now from before she had transformed.

When Zero's purple smoke had faded entirely, she looked like a human again.

"Zero, are you okay?" Han Sen asked, looking at her body.

Zero shook her head. She summoned the white knife in her hand. It was the bone knife she had generated.

"The knife is still here." Han Sen was shocked. He thought the geno armament had shattered after the cracking, but that did not seem to be the case.

Zero nodded and shook her head again. She wasn't really sure what to say.

Han Sen knew she was not hiding anything from him, and that she really did not know how to phrase what she wished to say. So, he said, "We can talk about it later. Let's go back to the ship for now."

Han Sen did not bring any more people with him this time. He could bring many more, but he figured that this would be enough for now.

Han Sen did not want to let Zero, Little Angel, and Little Silver leave the building yet, in fear of something happening to them. So Han Sen walked out with them. He walked around town and recruited a few Kate, just in case his companions looked a little too obvious and strange.

"Interesting guy." The man on the rooftop watched Han Sen leave, then he smiled and jumped back into space.

The city was in ruins. There were no more people to collect, and after walking around. Han Sen realized there was nothing worth hanging around for.

Cities like that, aside from ones where the Kate army had gathered, were notoriously difficult places to find Barons. Even if they had been there when the Feathers fell, they'd have been recruited by others by now. They wouldn't still be hanging around.

When Han Sen's group arrived at the ship, Han Sen noticed that there was more life gathered around the ship than there was in the rest of the city. Many of the Kate were in front of it, hoping they could get on.

But Han Sen wanted to recruit Barons only, so they were all stopped.

The people were begging profusely, right outside the ship, hoping that those onboard would change their minds and consider letting them on.

"Please take me away! I can do anything you want."

"Please, at least take my child! Only she needs to be on!"

"Didn't I tell you guys clearly? We are hiring people to develop a harsh planet! Not even Barons might survive there, and you think you guys will?" One of the workers tried to explain the matter to the crowd, but the people outside did not quit their constant begging.

Han Sen frowned as he walked forward. Icebird Duke saw Han Sen had brought two little girls with him, and she frowned. She thought the lady Han Sen had brought was stronger than an ordinary creature. But it was just a Baron, so it was still practically useless.

She wondered what Han Sen's true purpose was. His stated reasons had seemed rather flimsy. If Han Sen really wanted to recruit people, he wouldn't have come here. Now, seeing two pretty ladies, Icebird Duke looked a little upset. She thought he had to be up to something.

"Icebird Duke, did you recruit anyone?" Han Sen asked her.

"We have sixteen so far," Icebird Duke said.

Han Sen was surprised. He thought it was too many. He hadn't thought there would be so many Barons there, either.

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Chapter 1838 Recruitment Failure

Han Sen told them to take him to see the enlisted Barons. They were mostly comprised of Kate, but there were other races in their midst.

Han Sen smiled grimly. "Do you think I am stupid? Would there really be that many Barons wanting to join me?"

Han Sen thought if there were that many, a lot of them had to be faking their abilities. If not around half of them, then perhaps each and every one.

"It looks like a lot of people are interested in me," Han Sen said simply, and they just kept recruiting who they could. They were to also wait there for the arrival of Xie Qing King and Gu Qingcheng.

Over the next few days, Han Sen was able to recruit a few more Barons and also four Viscounts.

"Come in, if you so desire. I need a lot of pawns." Han Sen laughed coldly in his mind. Han Sen was accepting all who would lend their services, and it didn't matter if they were being honest.

On the fourth day, he saw Gu Qingcheng draw near. A day after that, Xie Qing King finally arrived. With those two accounted for, Han Sen felt a great relief.

They didn't show that they knew each other, and they pretended to be just like the other random Barons. They bunked in the general quarters among the other recruits.

"You guys are so annoying. Didn't I tell you we recruit only Nobles, and not ordinary people?" A worker felt annoyed, and he pushed a woman away who was trying to climb onboard.

The woman lost her grip and fell to the ground. She was also clutching her four-year-old girl. She begged and begged, pleading at the man's feet with tears rolling down her face. "Please, at least let my child come onboard! I will do anything."

"Get lost!" The worker wished to push the woman further away, but the woman grabbed hold of his leg and held it tight, and there was little he could do to shake her loose.

The worker was enraged by this behavior, and so he used his other leg to kick her away and send her tumbling back onto the asphalt.

"Mom!" The little girl held onto the woman and cried.

The woman still wished to beg the worker for a place on the ship. She had no choice, as there was no better fate that awaited them on Planet Kate. The planet was falling apart, and there was nowhere else for them to run. There weren't many other ships arriving, so she had no choice.

The worker had been annoyed by these desperate refugees over the past few days, and he'd grown numb to it. He wanted to kick the woman away, as he wasn't the one who decided who was allowed on board and who wasn't.

"Children, and mothers with children, are allowed on. But there is something you need to know. We are bound for a dangerous place; a place far more dangerous than here. If you come, you will have to follow my commands. This is a decision you will all have to make." Han Sen's voice boomed from the top deck.

Icebird Duke frowned. "What do you want to do with these people? The genes of those kids won't allow them to become Nobles. There might be one out of every thousand. And with them being so young, they will be nothing more than a burden."

"I'm here to recruit, yes?" Han Sen laughed.

Icebird Duke did not say anything in response. Her thoughts and feelings towards Han Sen merely soured all-the- more.

Kids and their mothers were allowed onboard. And while Han Sen had told them to consider the dangers, they didn't think there was any better option available to them. If they stayed, they might end up as thralls to some slaver. Even if there was danger ahead, there was every chance they could start a brand-new life on a brand-new planet.

Not many people could fit on the ship. And even with just the kids and their mothers, the seating capacity was overloaded. Han Sen had to go back to Narrow Moon.

"This is bad. If it wasn't for the Taurus attacking the Kate, things wouldn't be this bad. And while they are small in numbers, they are a race that enjoys killing. The Kate were just unlucky." A Baron sighed.

Han Sen did not say anything, and he just told the mothers to look after their kids. They had to follow Han Sen's commands, no matter what. If they didn't, they'd face punishment.

The ship flew back to Narrow Moon. They brought the refugees to the Mirror Lake on Planet Eclipse.

That was the only place a ship could land. The magnetic storms were too powerful to approach from any other spot. Attempting to land anywhere else would end in tragedy.

The base was made out of stone. It was quite big, the size of a large castle.

But a lot of dust had collected in the time since its abandonment. Luckily, it hadn't fallen apart, though. The doors were still sealed tightly, as well. There was no chance of a xenogeneic sneaking inside.

Once they entered the base, Han Sen asked the mothers and kids to clean the base.

They were poor, but they still had to survive. They couldn't expect pay, and they knew they had to pull their weight.

Yisha only promised to give Han Sen half a year of free resources. If he needed food half-a-year from now, he'd have to buy it out of his own pocket. He needed to focus on gathering enough resources to be self-sustainable in six month's time.

After Icebird Duke delivered the resources, she took her men and left Planet Eclipse.

"Did the recruitment process go well?" Yisha asked when Icebird Duke returned.

Icebird Duke frowned and said, "He recruited thirty-nine Barons and four Viscounts. He also recruited 267 commoners, comprised of just mothers and their children. Adding to that, most of the Barons and Viscounts are simply spies. It was a big failure, if you ask me."

"Really?" Yisha smiled and did not say anything.

"My Queen, can you teach him? If he goes on like this, he won't make it six months. He'd be lucky to get past three, at this rate," Icebird Duke said.

Yisha said coldly, "He is my student, but he should still make these decisions by himself. If he cannot handle this the way he chooses to, why would I waste the resources I already have on him?"

Han Sen's group used the first few days after their arrival to get set up. They hadn't spent any time trying to hunt yet. That night, however, a shrill scream was heard. When Han Sen arrived to investigate, a Baron was on top of a young Kate mother.

The Kate woman's clothes had been torn off. She was resisting, and she had been injured. Her voice was breaking.

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Chapter 1839 Two Chances

"What are you doing?" Han Sen looked at the Baron expressionlessly.

Seeing how many people had gathered, the Baron let go of the woman's arms. He stood up, smiled, and said, "Master, I just want to have some fun with this slave. I have been here for a few days, and I think I'm going to get sick if I don't."

"Get on your knees and apologize. Beg for her forgiveness." Han Sen looked at him without emotion.

The Baron didn't do anything. He just laughed it off. "Master, she is just a cheap civilian. Things don't have to be like that."

There were many people gathering. There were mothers, kids, other Barons, and Viscounts. They all turned to look at Han Sen.

"How is he going to deal with that Baron? If he punishes him, it'll scare off many of the other Barons. If the Barons are expected to lay down their lives for Han Sen on this planet, and they aren't even allowed to touch a woman, I doubt many will want to hang around. But at the same time, if he doesn't punish him, his reputation and standing will most certainly be lowered. This is a bad situation, no matter which way you look at it." Inside the room, a Viscount looked at Han Sen and the Baron, measuring it all. He looked interested in what would happen.

Other people were waiting to hear Han Sen's solution to this problem. With a situation like this on his hands, his way of solving it would tell them a lot about the sort of person he was.

The men and women were conflicted. They were very scared about what was going on, and they were afraid they'd all end up like the mother. They didn't think they could protect themselves, and neither could they protect their kids.

Now, all they could do was rely on Han Sen. If Han Sen let this Baron go, then that would put them in a very bad situation.

Han Sen looked at the Baron and did not say anything. He pulled out Ghost Teeth Knife. Killing a Baron would not require this knife, but this situation was more complicated than it seemed. And so, Han Sen held it.

Han Sen had gotten it back from Yisha a few days ago. So, this was his first time drawing it out.

"I can give you one chance. Use your power to block my strike. If you do, I will pretend nothing happened." Han Sen looked coldly at the Baron.

The Baron looked shocked, and he said, "Master! It is just a commoner woman. If you want, I can give you a hundred extra."

Han Sen smiled, holding his knife. He approached him. Without emotion, he responded by saying, "It does not matter how many there are. They are my property and no one touches my stuff without my explicit permission. I will kill whoever does. I gave you the opportunity to live, but you brushed it off. Now, I am giving you a second chance. Again, block my strike, and you can go free. You will become the first one who has ever touched something of mine and lived to tell the tale."

Seeing Han Sen approach, they all noted how angry and murderous he looked. So, the man summoned his geno armament. It was a shield.

The Baron was thinking, "You are just a Baron, too. You can't use the power that weapon possesses. You might be stronger than me, but do you really think I cannot block a single one of your attacks?"

Many of the other Barons and Viscounts thought Han Sen was being rather cruel. But at the same time, he was giving the man a chance to live.

They were both Baron class, and that man had a shield geno armament. If Han Sen sought to kill him, it'd be very difficult to do so in a single hit.

"If Master insists, I will just block a strike then," the Baron shouted, propping up the shield in front of him.

Han Sen was in front of that Baron now, and he looked at him coldly. Han Sen swung his blade. Because Han Sen was not a Viscount, the Ghost Teeth Knife did not possess an aura. This was to be a raw, plain hit.

The Baron roared and used his shield.

Katcha!

Ghost Teeth Knife broke through the shield as if it was cutting up a plank of tofu. The Baron fell back. His geno armament had broken, and he coughed up a vat of blood.

He didn't look too injured. It was just the tip of his forehead that had been cut. There was a red dot there.

"Thank you for sparing my life." The Baron bowed before Han Sen and looked cocky.

Many of the Barons and Viscounts looked on in disdain, telling themselves, "He really needs us to develop this planet. I knew he couldn't kill a Baron like that. It was all just for show."

Han Sen did not say anything. He just put the knife back and stared at the Baron.

The Baron tried wiping the blood from his brow, but he couldn't clear it. His wound kept bleeding, and the look on his face slowly changed.

Quickly, the wound spread from his forehead. His skin began to crack and split on his forehead like a spiderweb. It spread down to his neck, and from there, it ravaged the rest of his body. The wounds were cracks that slowly separated, exposing his fat and muscle.

"Aargh!" The Baron fell to the ground, screaming in agony. The feeling of his skin being slowly tom apart was worse than anything a single cut could deliver.

"Please forgive me!" The Baron was screaming and squealing, trying to beg for his life. The pain overtook his vocal cords, distorting his words.

"I gave you a chance," Han Sen said quietly. He did not even blink, and then he returned to his chamber.

This was not a night one could easily sleep through. The skin of the Baron was ripping itself to shreds. Chunks of flesh fell off, bit-by-bit, with the man calling out for aid all night. He only stopped breathing when the next morning rolled

When others went to see him, the flesh was spread everywhere. All that was left were his bones. The skeleton was still breaking apart, though. The bones were cracking, and a few days later, they were nothing but firm bits on the ground.

Everyone was scared. Dying like that was a far worse fate than a simple, quick death.

"Nice kill," Gu Qingcheng said. If she had been the one to kill him, his fate would have been even worse.

After that, the Barons and Viscounts were all scared. The mothers and the kids really appreciated what Han Sen had done. But they now understood that their lives were entirely dependent on Han Sen. If Han Sen objected to them being played with, no one could do anything to hurt them.

But if Han Sen wanted them dead, they wouldn't be living. They'd be killed pretty badly.

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Chapter 1840 Han Family Discipline

The sixth day after their arrival to the base, Han Sen summoned everyone to a plaza.

He had been busy over the past few days, writing out the document of ground rules he dubbed the Han Family Discipline. If there was no rule of law, the place would not be considered complete. It'd be impossible to gather people of different cultures and races, and expect them to live together in harmony, if there weren't any rules established.

Han Sen had brutally killed a Baron, and the other Barons and Viscounts had behaved awkwardly, following the deed. They wouldn't disobey one of Han Sen's orders, but they also wouldn't fight and prove their worth to him as hard as they would have otherwise.

So, now, Han Sen summoned everyone together. On the stage, he said, "I don't care where you came from. I don't care who you are. From now on, you are a servant of the Han family. Everyone here is equal, and there are no exceptions to that."

The Barons and Viscounts were not happy to hear that. One Viscount frowned and hollered back, "Master! We are here to depend on you. We are here to be managers, not servants."

Han Sen looked at him coldly, and he replied, "There will be managers, but you are not yet qualified. So, for now, you are all servants."

"What must we do to become a member of your higher class?" The Viscount looked dim, and he coldly laughed. He seemed to mock the concept.

Han Sen told Zero and Little Angel to roll out a copy of the discipline sheet and post it in the plaza.

"These are my rules of discipline. If you want to be a part of the management team, the qualifications are posted there for your viewing. I hope you will remember the words written here, because they will affect your current way of life. I gave that Baron a second chance yesterday, but now that you know the rules, if that happens again… Don't blame me for what I do," Han Sen said darkly.

Everyone moved forward to look at the scroll. Viscounts, Barons, women, and their kids all went to read it.

The Viscounts and Barons looked enraged. It didn't take long for them to realize that being a servant meant they would not receive any preferential treatment. Aside from a place to live, everything cost money.

The xenogeneics they hunted would have to have half shared with Han Sen. If they sold their kills to Han Sen, they wouldn't receive money. Instead, they'd receive points.

Those points could be spent in the base. They could get what they wanted with them, and by collecting enough, they could earn member status.

Amidst family members, however, there were also ranks. The lowest one was only a little bit better than a servant. The higher your tier, the greater the benefits you would receive.

But the points required increased more and more, after each upgrade in status. By the end, there was a whole lot of digits required to level up. Even though they were servants, though, Han Sen would still pledge to protect them. The women and kids would have to work for points, too.

But Han Sen would give the women and kids separate work. They could do the brushing up, for example. Han Sen would give the children free food, too, if they needed it.

"Mister Han, what kind of rules are these? We were brought here to be managers. We didn't sign up for hard labor!"

"I am a Viscount! What you are doing is far too much."

"What kind of family requires their very own employees to pay so much?"

"I am a Viscount. Wherever I go, I am offered weaponry. In here, you want me to pay for my own food? What is this?" After the Viscounts saw it, they all began to rabble amongst themselves. They all become angry.

"These are the Han family rules, take them or leave them. If anyone breaks the law established there, you full-well know what will happen to you," Han Sen said unsympathetically.

Han Sen thought they were all spies, anyway. He planned to use all their power in whatever way he could.

"If that is the case, then I am going to leave," a Viscount said coldly. He wasn't even referring to Han Sen as his Master now.

"Yes! We are going to leave the Han family, too." The rest of the Viscounts and Barons all said the same thing.

Han Sen had killed a Baron, but he was a Baron himself. But right then, he only had two young ladies and a silver fox. With four other Viscounts backing them up, the Barons weren't afraid.

"Shut up!" Han Sen shouted. They were quickly silenced, and he went on to coldly say, "What do you think this place is? This is Planet Eclipse of Narrow Moon. It is my planet, and it is Knife Queen's place. You cannot just come and go. I am telling you, you are all my servants right now. And without my permission relinquishing you from my service, you will be my servant, even in death."

Hearing that, the Barons and Viscounts looked poorly. They were all spies, and they knew about Han Sen. Knife Queen had given Han Sen twelve geno fluids for him to become a Baron. She even let him enter the space tunnel.

Han Sen was a famous person, and he also had Ghost Teeth Knife. They did not believe Knife Queen would leave him in that place without any protection.

Knife Queen was ignoring Han Sen right now because she wished to train him. When he was in danger, however, she wouldn't sit and watch. They were certain that Knife Queen would do anything to ensure Han Sen wasn't killed by his own servants.

At this point, they were silenced. Even the Viscounts were.

If they were going to fight there, they would be at a disadvantage. Han Sen was a dictator, and nothing good was going to happen to them.

"If you have no problems, then read up on the Han family rules. They come into effect today. You can explore, hunt, and clean; and for as long as you have points, you may benefit from the VIP service." After that, Han Sen left with Zero and Little Angel.

The three of them went into a warehouse, and there, they guarded the resources. Without permission, no one could go in or out.

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Chapter 1841 Jadeskin Breakthrough

The women knew that if they wanted to live, they would have to work. So, they decided to listen to Han Sen and bring the kids who were old enough to work with them. They did things like housework and cooking.

The Barons weren't like that, of course. Many of them simply decided to observe, whereas others decided to leave the base. For what purposes, they weren't sure.

Gu Qingcheng took the opportunity to visit the warehouse. When there, she laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid of those guys not sharing their resources with you? With the flesh they hunt, they can survive out there for as long as they want."

Han Sen smiled and said, "Those guys are just people, at the end of the day. They need entertainment, don't they? If they merely eat flesh and hunt for food all day, they'll go mad in less than three months. By the way, do you know if any of the women can dance or sing? You should find some pretty ones and open up a club. There, we can sell cigarettes and food. Or perhaps, if there are enough people, we can even open up a casino, so they can all have fun when they come back. I don't believe they are all honorable."

"This is too cruel. You'll be pushing the women into this wicked fire." Gu Qingcheng looked upset.

"In this era, they are lucky to be alive. And it's not like I am forcing them to do anything, aside from sing and dance. If anyone touches them, mark my words: I will kill them. In this base, I make the calls. Unless the women are willing to do something more, of course. Then, things are different." Han Sen laughed.

"They might be willing to?" Little Angel asked.

"Little Angel, this world is a complicated place. You still have a lot to learn. We are all beings with emotions." Han Sen laughed.

Little Angel seemed as if she did understand, but she didn't say anything.

After the women and kids were done with their work, they could eat. None of the Barons and Viscounts came to join them, though. Even if they did come, it'd only be to ask if the women had earned their points. They had stormed off in anger, after all.

Over the next few days, not a single Viscount or Baron showed up. It seemed as if they were indeed going against Han Sen.

There were xenogeneics all about in the wild, so it wasn't as if they would go hungry.

Han Sen chose to ignore their behavior, and he allowed them to do whatever they wished to. They couldn't do anything in the base, anyway.

Han Sen was not worried about the prospect they could make use of the xenogeneic genes. They couldn't eat the mutated materials, and Han Sen didn't need the ordinary flesh anyway. The xenogeneic genes were what he needed.

But there were not enough people, so Han Sen let Little Angel and Zero stay with the women. And in the meantime, he got to practicing with Jadeskin.

Han Sen practiced quite a few geno arts. The Story of Genes was the most complete, and he could turn it into a deified mode.

The Dongxuan Sutra had come quite a long way, too. He wasn't sure if he could take it to a deified mode yet, though.

There was only one part to the Blood-Pulse Sutra. After generating the geno armor, there wasn't anything more to it. So, Han Sen did not have to concern himself with it right now. Once he reached Viscount, that would change.

Jadeskin didn't even have its geno armor yet. There hadn't been a breakthrough on the three previous geno arts. So, he wanted to practice with Jadeskin. It shouldn't have been too difficult to study the second part of Jadeskin, to generate the armor he wished to.

Aside from learning Jadeskin, he went to learn knife skills from Yisha. He wanted to learn more about Teeth Knife, so he could use it in combat.

The Barons broke down faster than Han Sen thought, as well. In half a month, someone snuck into the base and cashed in their points. And with the points, they decided to buy cigarettes, food, and water. Mirror Lake's water was drinkable, but it didn't taste good. So, more people were willing to purchase water than they were food.

When they first came to Planet Eclipse, they didn't dare walk too far. They hunted the creatures that were nearby and collected much xenogeneic food.

Even so, some people were injured. And they had to cash-in materials for medicine. Some of them had not even bothered killing anything, and they still ended up injured. For those instances, the wounded would have to pay with their own money.

The Barons usually stayed together in a large group, and yet, hunting Baron foes would see them injured. Hunting there was a difficult task.

Han Sen didn't care about that, however. All he wanted to do was practice with Jadeskin, right now.

Gu Qingcheng and Xie Qing King were out and about hunting.

Gu Qingcheng always went solo, and she never co-operated with anyone else. Xie Qing King, on the other hand, had gotten close with the Barons. Han Sen noticed this because Xie Qing King's armor was special. That made him popular with the others by default.

After a month, the Barons and Viscounts gave up fighting out in the wild. They collected the xenogeneic materials and cashed them all in for points. Although everything they had collected so far came from Baron xenogeneics, it was a good start.

Han Sen finally achieved the breakthrough he was looking for, too. Jadeskin made a movement, as his body generated a mystic substance. Han Sen generated a geno armor that looked like ice.

The ice melted and became a geno fluid that went into his body. Han Sen felt a chill when it melted and entered his body. But he felt a power welling in his bones, and changes began to occur.

His body became semi-transparent. You could see the flesh and muscles inside, even the organs. He was like an iceman.

After half an hour, his body returned to normal. With his body looking like a normal human being again, he felt much relief. If his body was crystallized, and he was stuck in that state, it'd be pretty scary.

Han Sen tried out the xenogeneic Jadeskin. It was different from the Blood-Pulse Sutra. Activating Blood-Pulse left him looking human, but using Jadeskin transformed his body into jade. His body would toughen up, and his speed and strength would be greater.

"It's time to take a look outside the base." Han Sen planned to test out his new abilities.

Han Sen had a bunch of maps to go out with. That was something else the Barons had cashed-in for. He had never been out before this, but he now had a firm understanding of the geography.

He picked a place to visit, and then set-out alongside Little Silver. Then, they disappeared along the west side of Mirror Lake.

Han Sen was going to a mountain in the west. Supposedly, a group of xenogeneics resided there. There were six of the creatures, but they were said to all have different powers. A dozen Barons had tried hunting the group of xenogeneics, but their attack had not killed a single creature. One Baron had even lost his life, and the others limped off with injuries.

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Chapter 1842 A Rare Opportunity

Eighty percent of Planet Eclipse was covered by clouds. The magnetic storms were constantly unstable, and they were always shining with volatile power. Tools were almost useless in those conditions, and satellites in orbit never wor because they could not see what lay beneath those clouds.

That was one of the reasons Han Sen made the decision to come here. While it was hard for him to watch other Nobles and track their movements, it was also hard for others to watch him.

But Han Sen did not mind his inability to keep close watch over the Nobles, as he had never planned on keeping tabs on them anyway.

Not long before Han Sen left the base, one of the Viscounts decided to follow him. The Viscount's name was Lake, and he was of the fairly small Inkcloud race. That race did not even have its own planet, and they were just a faction of creatures scattered across a number of different planets. It was extremely rare for them to have a Viscount.

But there was more to Lake than it seemed. When he became a Viscount, he was treated very well, and he received a lot of special training.

Lake came to Planet Eclipse with the sole purpose of assassinating Han Sen. Assassination in Narrow Moon was difficult, but Planet Eclipse would be his best chance.

Han Sen was only just a Baron, but still, Lake patiently followed after him. When he attacked, he needed to kill Han Sen in a single strike. He didn't want to slip-up and give Han Sen the chance to resist or draw his King class weapon.

Han Sen could not use all the power of the weapon, but its presence in combat would still be annoying.

Han Sen brought Little Silver with him on his excursion into the mountains. The creatures around there were far too messed up, and he couldn't be sure that the maps the Barons had drawn for him were entirely accurate.

Far away, Han Sen caught a glimpse of a few creatures near the mountain. They were the xenogeneics the Barons had described.

Upon closer inspection, Han Sen noticed that there were six of them. There were big ones and small ones. Some were as big as an elephant, whereas others were as small as a dog.

The bodies of the xenogeneics were all different as well. Some had four legs, whereas others stood up on two legs. Some were like creepy bugs with wings, while others had six arms.

Despite their variety, they all shared one physical attribute: there was a shell upon all their backs. The shells didn't look too sturdy.

Han Sen heard the Barons tell him that when their weapons hit the shells, they did not deal much damage. And that was why the Barons' attack on the creatures had completely failed.

Han Sen watched them for a while. He pulled his Ghost Teeth Knife from his backpack. The scabbard he had was broken, so he carried the knife drawn.

Ghost Teeth Knife possessed Ghost Teeth powers. Normal scabbards could not house it, and they'd usually break after a few days. Han Sen was fairly annoyed by that aspect of the blade.

He did have that spare scabbard he could use, but he didn't dare to. If Yisha saw it, the jig would be up. Han Sen had hidden that scabbard in the sanctuary instead.

When Lake saw the mountain Han Sen was heading for, he frowned. There was nowhere to hide there, and if he followed Han Sen up there in plain sight, his presence would surely be discovered.

Han Sen had brought a silver beast. Lake thought Han Sen was being very arrogant, thinking he could take on six xenogeneics under those bare conditions.

But Lake could also use this opportunity to gauge the true extent of Han Sen's power.

The strike Han Sen used to kill the Baron had drawn its strength from the weapon he used. It wasn't an effective measure of his true strength.

"It's fine with me if you want to get yourself killed by xenogeneics, so I don't have to do it. If you don't die, though, I'll help you along." Lake looked calm. He was taking his time, as there wasn't any particular rush.

Han Sen's presence was soon discovered by the xenogeneics up ahead. The six xenogeneics perked to a state of alertness and roared. They looked murderous, and they all ran straight for Han Sen like a pack of wolves.

Han Sen moved straight towards them with an unfaltering speed, knife raised and ready to strike. Little Silver was coming right behind him.

Quickly, Han Sen closed the distance to his first xenogeneic target. He swiped right past the beast, with his knife swinging as he went.

He did not stop moving. He swung Ghost Teeth Knife from all manners of different angles.

Within a second, Han Sen had made his way past all six of the xenogeneics. They had all attacked in a different manner, but none had managed to land a single hit on Han Sen.

Katcha!

Cracks formed in the six xenogeneic bodies, then widened as they began to seep blood. All of the beasts fell down, squealing and bleeding. Their lives would soon be over.

Lake, seeing what had just occurred, was shocked into horror. He thought to himself, "Powerful Teeth Knife! Powerful Ghost Teeth Knife! That power must stem entirely from his knife. Aside from the Rebate, I didn't think any other race could learn Teeth powers."

Lake was happy that he hadn't blindly tried to attack Han Sen without seeing this first. Han Sen was a far stronger foe than Lake had initially believed him to be. He had Ghost Teeth Knife, which meant a face-to-face battle would be very difficult.

Not long after, the six xenogeneics were all dead. Han Sen dug out the xenogeneic materials. Even if he didn't need them, the people back in the sanctuary could still use them.

"These xenogeneics are weaker than I thought. I should think about hunting down Viscount xenogeneics sometime. Otherwise, I won't be able to improve at all." Han Sen put away the xenogeneic genes and looked over his maps.

He looked for the locations where Viscount xenogeneics had been discovered. There were quite a few of them.

Han Sen selected a spot in which he could leave the mountain. He followed a path on the left because someone had spotted a Viscount xenogeneic that way. So, he was planning on going that way.

Lake, seeing Han Sen go that way, felt happy. Lake had made the report of a Viscount there.

There were actually Viscounts there, but there were two. He had only reported the presence of one. He was going to report it again to encourage Han Sen to go hunting, but Han Sen was arrogant enough to head there immediately with the hopes of fighting one.

"An opportunity. This is a rare opportunity." Lake was so happy, and he quickly followed after Han Sen.

Lake had made his mind up now. He was going to kill Han Sen, even if the two Viscount xenogeneics couldn't kill him on Lake's behalf.

"I just need to hide in one of Han Sen's escape routes. When he tries to run from the xenogeneics, he won't escape my assassination. He is a dead man." When they got close to the place the Viscount was said to reside, Lake hid himself on one of the paths.

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Chapter 1843: Killing a Viscount Xenogeneic

Han Sen saw the gully up ahead, which had been correctly marked on the map. With Little Silver by his side, the two snuck into it.

Han Sen saw a sleeping xenogeneic there. It looked like a tyrannosaurus rex with a ridge of exposed bones on its back. It looked like a mix between a tyrannosaurus rex and a hedgehog.

The sight of it was rather frightening; upon seeing it, Han Sen could immediately tell that it was not a Baron.

When Han Sen saw the xenogeneic, he didn't take action straight away. He looked around the gully and frowned.

Lake saw Han Sen not moving an inch, and with shock, he thought to himself, "Has he detected the presence of a second xenogeneic? He shouldn't have been able to. The second one is hidden. If I hadn't attacked the first creature, I would never have discovered the second one."

As Lake remained in a state of shock, Han Sen walked further and further into the gully. It made Lake sigh. "It looks like I may have gotten ahead of myself. He hasn't been able to find the second one."

Han Sen let Little Silver wait outside as he went in alone. He clenched his Ghost Teeth Knife tightly as he ghosted towards the xenogeneic. Little Silver had evolved a second time, but he was still just a Baron. A fight like this wouldn't really suit him.

The xenogeneic was sleeping like a log, and Han Sen was able to inch his way right next to it. Still, it showed no sign of waking up.

Han Sen held his knife tight and raised it up to the creature's neck. The xenogeneic was far too big to be killed with one hit.

Teeth power wouldn't be as effective against a creature that was a tier higher than Han Sen, but going for a weak spot was still better than striking anywhere else.

Han Sen slowly approached the beast's neck, moving lightly and slowly.

Behind Han Sen, a snake-looking creature appeared. It delicately rose out of the soil. It opened its mouth like a flower and approached Han Sen.

When the monster was a mere two feet away, the mouth widened and lashed forward. It was ready to lunge and swallow Han Sen up.

But Han Sen looked as if he had eyes in the back of his head. He moved both feet, and then the xenogeneic ended up biting the tyrannosaurus rex that was directly in front of Han Sen. The tyrannosaurus rex was roused out of its slumber by the teeth suddenly sinking into it.

And as this occurred, Han Sen leaped forward and unleashed a strike against the xenogeneic snake. Its metal-looking body was delivered a hefty cut that drew blood.

Han Sen was shocked. He had used a lot of strength with his Ghost Teeth Knife, but he had been unable to slice through its body. All he could deliver was a wound that was about half a foot deep. The bodies of these xenogeneics were tougher than he had expected.

Roar! The startled tyrannosaurus rex roared and shot a geyser of flame out of its mouth. The snake's face was incinerated, and its jaws relaxed and let go of the beast it had accidentally bitten.

While it squealed, Han Sen continued to slash and slash against the wound he had already dealt the creature. And after a few more sturdy hits, he was able to cut clean through and slice the beast in half.

The snake was not dead yet, but its face had been burned pretty badly. Its eyes had been seared out of their sockets, rendering the snake blind. It rolled around on the ground, bleeding profusely. It was only a matter of time before it died.

The spiky tyrannosaurus rex was extremely angry, in the meantime. It spat out fire towards Han Sen. So, Han Sen summoned his Taurus Shield and hit behind it, using it to block the stream of fire. The flames were unable to penetrate the shield. It was a Viscount beast soul, after all. It was on equal footing with the tyrannosaurus rex's attack.

The spiky tyrannosaurus rex seemed angry, and it unleashed barrage after barrage of fire. The Taurus continued to block the flame, but after a while, the shield became too hot to hold onto. Han Sen had to let go of it.

Blisters rose all over Han Sen's hand from the heat.

Lake heard movement down in the gully, and it made him extremely happy. He stayed alert, so if Han Sen came running out trying to escape, he could lunge forward and kill him right there.

But Han Sen did not escape. He had dug his shield into the earth, so he was still managing to hide behind it.

The spiky tyrannosaurus rex continued to spit fire without rest, but no matter what it did, it could not destroy the Taurus shield. It roared to the sky and rolled its body into a ball. It looked like a giant sea urchin as it then came rolling forward towards the shield.

Han Sen quickly evaded its roll, but the shield was knocked into the air. It took a while for it to fall back down, and when it did, it came slamming down into a rock and became half-embedded in it.

The spiky tyrannosaurus rex came rolling towards Han Sen again. It was so big and fast, and it had spikes. Han Sen was slower than the creature was, and he couldn't take advantage of his strength. If he was hit, the creature's spikes would punch holes right through him.

Fortunately, Han Sen was prepared for a situation like this. If he hadn't come prepared, he wouldn't have risked the fight in the first place.

fight in the first place.

"Come out, my shoes!" Han Sen shouted, as fluffy rabbit-fur shoes appeared on his feet. Han Sen's feet acted as if they had been imbued with the power of the wind, and they gained a great boost of speed. With them on, he managed to evade the tyrannosaurus rex.

The shoes were the Teeth Rabbit beast soul Han Sen had earned from killing Rocks Fall Duke. They were a Duke class beast soul, and they gave Han Sen the speed of a Duke.

Speed was their only benefit, though.

But that was enough for Han Sen. Han Sen ran around the tyrannosaurus like the wind, and the tyrannosaurus rex was unable to catch up.

Katcha! Katcha! Katcha!

While Han Sen ran, he kept slashing the tyrannosaurus' back. And as the beast screamed in agony, it spat out more flames. But Han Sen was too fast, and whenever a flame was headed his way, he was on the beast's other side. The flames couldn't catch him.

Katcha!

Han Sen struck the creature on the other side, drawing out more blood from the creature's wounds.

The spiky tyrannosaurus rex was so angry, it kept rolling around, spewing fire. But there was nothing it could do to Han Sen, who was now like the wind. It couldn't even rustle Han Sen's clothes. All it could do was catch his dust.

"Xenogeneic Viscount hunted; xenogeneic gene found: King Earthworm"

An announcement played in Han Sen's head. It was the snake-like xenogeneic that had just died.

Han Sen ignored it. He kept spinning around the spiky tyrannosaurus rex, slashing it. He wanted to make the felon bleed more and more.

Although the Teeth power was not very effective on the Viscount, unhealable wounds could be deadly even if they were small.

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Chapter 1844: Dead Viscoun

Lake had been waiting for Han Sen for a while, but he hadn't seen him emerge. He could only hear the roaring of a xenogeneic. It made him wonder what was transpiring inside the gully.

"Can Han Sen fight two xenogeneics at once? That should be impossible, because he is only a Baron. He has a King class weapon, but he can't use all of its strength. With his own strength and speed, how can he possibly last so long against two Viscounts?" Lake was confused over the scenario, but he couldn't poke his head out and take a look just yet.

Lake had seen the silver beast that Han Sen had brought with him. It was lying down near the gully. Lake was not sure what sort of power it possessed, but he didn't want to be discovered, and so he didn't get any closer to it to find out.

After a while, the gully grew quiet. It was as if everything across the land had gone still.

Lake felt relieved, thinking, "It looks like Han Sen was killed by the two xenogeneics. I guess that saved me some trouble."

As Lake was thinking of this, someone suddenly came out of the gully. When Lake saw it, his eyes opened wide with immense surprise.

"He didn't die!" Lake was floored.

Han Sen hadn't been killed in his fight with the two Viscounts, and on top of that, he looked clean. There was not a single speck of blood on him, and neither were there any visible wounds.

"What happened?" Lake thought of many different possibilities that could explain Han Sen's miraculous survival, but he couldn't settle on anything that really made sense given the circumstances.

"Little Silver, I'm hurt." Han Sen moved out of the gully and spoke to the silver beast.

Lake, hearing that, felt relieved. That was a little more normal, at least.

But Lake saw Han Sen put his hand out to the beast and then say, "I have a few blisters, see? They hurt."

Lake's eyes were twitching. He wanted to murder someone.

The silver beast heard Han Sen and then walked over to him. He licked Han Sen's blisters with his pink tongue. Swiftly after, the burned area was cleared up and the swollen skin smoothed out.

"Is that a xenogeneic with healing powers?" Lake was shocked, as that sort of power was extremely rare in that universe.

It was common to have talents that could heal oneself, but a talent that could enable the healing of others was very rare. If one was found, every faction would be fighting for ownership of it. Such power was highly valued and highly sought after.

Han Sen brought Little Silver into the gully. He cut off the Viscounts' xenogeneic genes and wrapped them up. He used ropes to tie up the bodies and then started dragging them away.

Lake had been entertaining a few guesses about what had happened, but when he laid eyes on those two corpses, he was rocked.

Han Sen had obviously murdered the two Viscount xenogeneics. That mere fact was unacceptable.

And he only had a minor wound after it all.

"Scary. Too scary." Lake now ranked Han Sen amongst persons who were on a very dangerous level to take on. He wasn't quite willing to strike just yet.

When Han Sen walked past Lake, Lake didn't move a muscle. He didn't even risk breathing. He couldn't allow himself to be found, as now was not the time to try to kill Han Sen.

After Han Sen walked past, Lake felt a great amount of relief. Hastily, he wiped the sweat away. He had never felt his much pressure before, in the task of taking on a Baron.

Han Sen was smiling all the way, as he dragged the bodies of the Viscounts back home.

Those bodies were rather hefty. The meat could feed many people, which would help out with the many resources that his people required.

Although they would not be consuming xenogeneic genes, it was still Viscount flesh. It could be very nutritious, which would be very beneficial for the women and children.

Selling it to the Barons and Viscounts would earn them a lot of points, as well.

The Nobles could hunt and eat, but they did not have spices. There was not even salt readily available. The meat would be tasteless, and the nobles were already sick of eating it plain. Many Nobles were spending points to buy cooking ingredients from the base. Han Sen's goal was to take all of their points. None of them had good hearts, so he didn't think he had to be nice to them.

Han Sen brought two Viscount xenogeneics back home, shocking the base when he came in.

The fact that Han Sen had killed two Viscounts gave the Nobles a grand shock. Some of them felt they were lucky that they hadn't tried to kill him, but it also raised the fear they held for him.

Han Sen was led away by the woman in charge of cuisine. There were kids there that could handle the meat. There were a number of kids that were only a few years old, and they were tasked with washing the meat. They put in a lot of effort and worked hard.

"It is a shame this base wasn't built to house a real society. We have no one to teach the kids what they'd learn in school. It'll be pretty bad if they grow up without learning to read," Han Sen spoke to himself.

"In a world like this, learning how to survive beats learning how to read a few words. You have given them enough." A Viscount walked up to Han Sen, speaking to him.

"Deep Blue Viscount." Han Sen looked at the Viscount, recognizing who he was.

Out of the four Viscounts, he was the only Kate. And he was the only one who brought meat to swap for points. In that regard, he was one of the only ones not going against Han Sen.

"Master, if you have time, I would like to talk to you alone," Deep Blue Viscount said calmly.

Han Sen started to respond, but a sudden scream came from outside the gate. Han Sen's face changed, and they looked towards the gate together. A large group of people were milling around the gate, craning to see something outside.

"What's going on?" Han Sen asked.

The people, seeing Han Sen approach, formed a path. Han Sen, in the middle, saw a body. It was one of the Viscounts. His name was Wind Viscount.

Wind Viscount was lying on the ground facing the base. It looked as if he was had been approaching the gate when his head was blown open.

"What is this?" Han Sen had a bad feeling, and he frowned.

"We don't know. We saw Wind Viscount return from an expedition outside. But before he made it all the way back, he fell on the ground. He crawled a little bit before his head exploded," a woman and a Baron explained.

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Chapter 1845 Strange Mark

"Don't look. Return to your homes. No one can leave their rooms; if you do, you will be killed," Han Sen said. The Barons quickly returned to their shelters as instructed.

"Deep Blue Viscount, can you tell me what hurt him?" Han Sen looked at the gaping hole in Wind Viscount's head, but he was unable to discern what might have caused it.

Deep Blue Viscount looked weirded out, and he said, "It doesn't seem as if he was attacked. It looks to me as if he imploded, or rather, exploded from the inside-out."

"Really? What power could cause something like that?" Han Sen asked.

Deep Blue Viscount fell silent, and he said, "Many people have the power to do this. Some have the ability to invade the bodies of others and destroy their opponents from the inside. It'll be hard for us to guess who the culprit might be."

Han Sen nodded and asked, "Do you know of any creatures like that around the base?"

Deep Blue Viscount shook his head. "We haven't been here for long, so no one has been able to venture out too far. All of our hunting expeditions have taken place around the proximity of the base. I haven't seen any like that."

Han Sen did not ask any more questions. He grabbed a flamethrower and incinerated Wind Viscount's body.

A body that died for no reason could not be brought into the base. Only the gods could tell what might happen.

The body soon became cinders, but there was something that couldn't be melted down. Han Sen plucked it out and noticed it was a black steel feather. It was a foot long and very heavy.

Han Sen tried getting others to burn it, but no matter what they tried, it couldn't be melted down. It wouldn't even turn red with the heat. It was obviously not an ordinary metal.

Han Sen used a sealed container to store the black feather. Those who had come into contact with the body were forced to undergo a scan and a proper disinfectant cycle, to ensure there would be no further problems.

But on the second day, something happened inside the base.

The Barons that had touched the dead body had a weird, egg-shaped symbol on their foreheads. The symbols were black. Han Sen used a tool to scan them, but there was nothing overtly strange about them. They seemed to be ordinary markings.

The four Barons were terrified. Wind Viscount's manner of death had been far too strange, and now, this unexplainable happening gave them quite the scare.

Han Sen checked over their bodies thoroughly, but he couldn't discern anything out of the ordinary. So, Han Sen had them put into isolation. Han Sen also made sure to tell the people that delivered their resources about what was going on. He told them to bring doctors and tools so that they could try to discover what was happening to his people.

It would take two days for the ship to arrive, and Han Sen hoped nothing would happen in the meantime.

"Do any of you know where Wind Viscount had gone off to?" Han Sen was investigating his death. If he learned how he died, perhaps he could find out what was wrong with the Barons.

One Baron told Han Sen that he saw Wind Viscount venture into the northern mountains. Wind Viscount had intended to cross them, but the Barons with him did not dare follow. Whatever happened to him was still mostly a mystery.

Han Sen frowned when he heard this. The mountain they referred to was the one the Earl had gone into and never returned.

Han Sen said he would have to put a stop to people venturing off to the north. The Nobles themselves knew how dangerous the north seemed to be, so no one opposed his decision.

Wind Viscount had entered the mountains, but died in front of the gate. With the four egg symbols on the foreheads of the Barons, Han Sen didn't have a good feeling about what was going to happen.

The Earl had brought many other Earls to help him. And despite that, they had all disappeared. The people in the base would stand a much worse chance of surviving anything that might occur.

Han Sen couldn't wait much longer, so he contacted Yisha for advice. He wanted to tell her about what was happening, in case the worst happened.

But Yisha was currently practicing, and he did not know when she would finish. She couldn't be interrupted, and so Han Sen was unable to get a hold of her.

Han Sen contacted Icebird Duke. Yisha had told him that if she was not around, then he could look for Icebird instead.

Icebird Duke, seeing Han Sen's number, picked it up. She might not have liked the way Han Sen conducted his affairs, but Yisha had told her to take care of him in the event that he required assistance.

"Icebird Duke, I have a problem. I need to get in touch with the queen, but she is busy. Do you think you can help, instead?" Han Sen asked her.

"The rules of the Rebate dictate that only the master of the planet can contribute to the development of the assigned planet. If outsiders interfere, there is every chance that we will take it back from you." Icebird Duke did not like Han Sen's attitude, particularly in the way he kept asking for Queen.

"If this was a normal situation, I wouldn't come looking for you. Something bad has happened here, and I can't get to the bottom of it. I really do need your help." Han Sen said.

"If you don't think you can resolve the issue, then don't. If you prefer to, you could always come on back. I can't help you with anything." She stopped Han Sen and went on to say, "Think about it. If you do decide to come back, I will send out some ships to come and pick you up."

After hanging up, Icebird Duke spoke to herself. "Of course there will be trouble developing a planet. If you cannot do it, then don't."

Han Sen frowned. There was nothing he could do about her, and he did not know when Yisha would be able to return the call. Whenever it was, it would be too late.

Han Sen called up another number. He was contacting Black Steel.

Black Steel was a strange fellow, but Han Sen figured that he was a reliable sort.

On Planet Knifegrave, Han Sen had asked him why he blocked the kniferiver. He said he wanted Han Sen to escape. He wanted to provide Han Sen a chance. He figured that was something he owed Han Sen.

Han Sen did not know what Black Steel had been thinking, but it made him feel safe. Han Sen asked him to keep the knifemind thing a secret. No one knew he had a knifemind as wondrous as the one he did, and Black Steel really hadn't said a word.

Han Sen, unable to find anyone else to help, got in touch with Black Steel. If Black Steel could not help, then he'd have no choice but to evacuate.

Han Sen was not creating drama. It was best to prepare for an event or problem one could not overcome. He didn't want the women or children that were on the planet to die there.

"What is it?" said Black Steel's voice, and it sounded exactly the same as the first time they met.

"I have a problem, and I need your help." Han Sen went on to tell him the entire story.

Black Steel let Han Sen tell him everything. After a momentary pause, he said, "Don't leave the base, and keep your eyes on those Barons. And do not touch them, no matter what. I will be there in four and a half hours."

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Upon hearing what Black Steel said, Han Sen knew that the man must know something about this. But now was not the time to ask, so he was going to wait until Black Steel arrived.

But soon, Han Sen's worries became reality. More people in the base began to develop strange egg markings on their foreheads. It seemed to be spreading.

People could be isolated easily enough, but that wasn't a proper solution to the issue.

As time went on, more and more people developed that same strange mark. In the beginning, it only spread amongst the people who were at the gate when the Viscount died. Then, it started to happen amongst the mothers and children who hadn't even been there.

Over the course of a few hours, half of the people in the base developed the same mark across their foreheads.

Luckily, Han Sen, Little Angel, Zero, Xie Qing King, Gu Qingcheng, and Little Silver had not yet been infected by the strange affliction. It was very fortunate.

Xie Qing King and Gu Qingcheng had examined the infected people and noted that there didn't actually seem to be anything wrong them. But the whole base was so scared that those who were not yet infected wanted to abandon the place. If Han Sen hadn't just killed two Viscount creatures and enlisted the aid of Deep Blue Viscount, the base would have descended into chaos.

Out of the four Viscount Nobles, Wind Viscount was dead. Deep Blue Viscount was helpful, whereas Lake didn't do anything. The other Viscount had been missing for the past two days. Where he had disappeared to, no one knew.

Han Sen contacted Black Steel to update him on the situation that was currently unfolding. Han Sen didn't want him to end up getting infected as well.

"Wait for me," Black Steel said, before hanging up again. It sounded as if he was doing something in a rush.

Before Black Steel arrived, Deep Blue Viscount came over to see Han Sen.

When Deep Blue Viscount arrived at Han Sen's house, he immediately stripped off his armor. His forehead now had the egg-shaped marking, too.

"Do you feel anything?" Han Sen frowned.

Deep Blue Viscount was calm, and he merely shook his head. "I don't feel anything. If I hadn't looked in the mirror, I wouldn't even have known the mark had appeared."

"Then, what do you plan on doing?" Han Sen asked.

Deep Blue Viscount went quiet, and he said, "I told you I wanted to speak with you alone. Do you have the time to do so, right now?"

Yeah." Han Sen nodded.

Deep Blue Viscount sat down and dropped into thought for a minute before speaking. He said, "I know that most Nobles here have ulterior motives. I do, as well. But I am different in one way; I don't work for anyone."

"Then, why are you here?" Han Sen asked him.

Viscounts were of a high rank, and he'd be a wanted asset anywhere he went. There wasn't a reason for him to follow Han Sen.

Deep Blue Viscount gave a wry smile. He pointed to the mark on his forehead and said something that shocked Han Sen. "I am here for this."

Han Sen really was shocked, and he replied by saying, "You are here for that? Do you know what it is?"

He nodded, then shook his head and sighed. "This is not my first time on Planet Eclipse."

You have been here before? Were you with the Earl?" Han Sen immediately asked.

Deep Blue Viscount smiled and said, "Yes. I got this mark when I was here the last time."

Han Sen was shocked, but at the same time, he was delighted. It had been many years since the Earl's mission. And despite that, Deep Blue Viscount was still living. The infected would be safe, for now, at least.

Deep Blue Viscount suspected these were the thoughts running through Han Sen's mind, and he smiled wrily. "It is not like that. Ordinarily, when you get this, you die in a short time. It could be two days, or it could be two weeks. People will ultimately end up like Wind Viscount did. There is a reason why I survived, and that is the reason for my return."

Han Sen did not say anything, wanting him to continue explaining. Since Deep Blue was volunteering information, he might as well learn everything he could.

"When I was taken here by Chiron Earl, I was just a commoner. I was just like those kids, really; but a little bit bigger. I already had my geno armor and everything." When Deep Blue Viscount said that, he looked weird. Han Sen did not understand.

Deep Blue Viscount went on to say, "I followed Chiron Earl everywhere, including his final trip into the northern mountains. I was there."

"I thought that none of those who went returned," Han Sen said in shock.

"I was the only one who made it out. Back then, only normal people resided at the base. No one was aware of the fact that I had followed him. The Rebate investigator never considered that Chiron Earl would have bothered to bring an ordinary Kate." Deep Blue Viscount wore a complicated expression.

"What happened there? And what is up with the egg mark?" Han Sen asked.

Deep Blue Viscount shook his head. "I do not understand what happened. Back then I was a kid that possessed geno armor. My powers and my knowledge were very limited."

After that, Deep Blue Viscount went on to say, "And in regards to the egg mark, you will only contract it after you touch something. Aside from me, everyone who got this mark died. And that included Chiron Earl. When I made it out, I did not infect anyone. I am not sure what Wind Viscount did, but it is clear that his affliction is contagious."

"Where did the Earl's group encounter it, exactly?" Han Sen asked.

Deep Blue Viscount said, "There is a palace up in those mountains, and it is very big. It was so strange inside there. I did not know much back then, so I only followed Chiron Earl. Many people died, and when we were in front of a certain hall, Chiron Earl seemed to become incredibly happy. We waited outside while he went in alone. We waited half a day, and eventually, he returned with something."

Han Sen knew the most important part of his tale would be this, so he didn't interrupt. He kept on listening.

"It was an egg. A black egg that was as tall as a person. It looked just like the markings do. He brought it out and allowed us to carry it. And when we were just about to leave the palace, something scary happened. Our foreheads began to develop that black mark." Deep Blue Viscount looked scared, as if he was remembering something bad.

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Chapter 1847 Raven

Inside the base, people continued to become infected. Han Sen wanted to leave, taking Little Angel, Zero, and the others with him. But he was not sure if the strange contagion had already spread to his companions. If he left now, with an infection amongst them, things could turn pretty bleak.

If they stayed there and did get infected, at least Deep Blue Viscount might be able to deduce a way in which it could be stopped.

Deep Blue Viscount said that when he had originally been afflicted with the mark, he had eaten the root of a lotus that he found in the palace. He reckoned that was why the mark hadn't affected him. All the other Nobles with him died, leaving him as the sole survivor. But now, the mark had returned, and it was getting darker and darker. That was why he wanted to return to the planet and revisit the hall in order to eat more of the lotus roots.

But there was a group of xenogeneics outside the entrance to the palace, and some of them were Earl rank. So, Deep Blue Viscount had been unable to find a way in which he could access the place.

Deep Blue Viscount was curious about how Wind Viscount had managed to penetrate the palace. He figured he would have to return there to find out how.

Han Sen then thought of an important question to ask. When Deep Blue Viscount entered the palace the first time, he was just a Kate with geno armor. Now he was a Viscount. Becoming a Noble of that rank was not an easy task.

Even a wealthy elite like Yisha only had a dozen of the geno fluids that could encourage a second evolution, so how could Deep Blue Viscount achieve such a rank? Han Sen asked this question, and Deep Blue said that he did not know how he had managed to evolve a second time, either. To his knowledge, he had not used any treasures. But it wasn't long before he left this planet that he evolved for a second time. Perhaps it had something to do with the lotus root.

Matters were proceeding to get worse, though. It wasn't long before Gu Qingcheng developed a mark on her forehead. Han Sen told her about the palace and the lotus root, and he told her not to worry. When the time came, they would head out and get one of the lotus roots.

Black Steel was accurate, and four and a half hours later, he did indeed land outside the front gate. But aside from Black Steel, a few other of the Rebate had come as well. Judging from the strength of their auras, Han Sen could immediately tell they were not ordinary folk.

"Han Sen! What's going on now?" Black Steel looked at Han Sen's forehead.

"It's bad! Half of my people have been infected with the mark of an egg." It was starting to depress Han Sen.

"You go and confirm it," one of the superior-looking Rebate said.

The other Rebate went to check the foreheads of the women and children, while Black Steel went into Han Sen's office. With a serious look, he said, "You are in trouble. If I am not mistaken, Wind Viscount touched something which belonged to the Raven."

"Raven?" Han Sen looked confused.

Black Steel explained to him, "Before the Rebate took over Narrow Moon, it was the Raven who owned this place. They were a strong xenogeneic group that had a grip on the entirety of Narrow Moon. History says that they had the ability to mark other xenogeneics and control them."

Black Steel went on to say, "When we took down Narrow Moon, it came at a great cost. If it wasn't for our deified elder, it was highly unlikely that we'd have won the fight. We thought the Raven were entirely destroyed, following the battle.

I did not expect a relic of theirs to remain, especially one that is still so deadly."

"Is there a way to erase the mark of the Raven?" Han Sen thought that if the Rebate took down Narrow Moon, there had to be a way. If there wasn't, they'd all have ended up infected, and they'd all be dead.

"Not yet." Black Steel shook his head.

"What do you mean by not yet?" Han Sen was confused.

"Many of my race suffered this mark. We discovered that killing the Raven and drinking their blood was the only way to make the mark disappear. If you want to get rid of it, the only way to achieve that is to find the item Wind Viscount found. And then, maybe you can." Black Steel looked straight at Han Sen and went on to say, "I am not sure if you are infected. We need to make sure that the infection does not leave this place. And we must locate the source of the infection, wherever it may be."

Han Sen relayed to him what Deep Blue Viscount had told him. Black Steel nodded and said, "If someone has info like this, that is great. I brought one of my father's guards with us. Captain Wood is a Duke. The rest are Marquise. We are all prepared to go to the Raven palace."

Black Steel went to find Captain Wood and Deep Blue Viscount, letting Deep Blue Viscount explain the situation again to him.

Captain Wood looked at Deep Blue Viscount and asked, "Why didn't you say this sooner?"

Deep Blue Viscount gave a wry smile. They were all dead, and only I survived. I was worried I might get in trouble for telling people what happened. Especially with the mark gone."

Han Sen understood the man's reasoning. If he admitted what had happened, it was likely that the Rebate would have grown suspicious. The only reason he was telling the story now was because he had to go back to the palace. If the mark hadn't returned, he would not have wanted to come back to such a wretched place.

After Captain Wood had finished asking Deep Blue Viscount about various details, he decided to go to the Raven palace, as well.

Last time, Chiron Earl had taken some Viscounts and Earls, and even some creatures with him. This time, they had Captain Wood and four Marquise. It shouldn't have been too hard to reach the same point as Chiron.

Wood allowed Han Sen to select a few people to come along. Deep Blue Viscount said there was a pool with the lotus fruit, and there were many of them. It would be best if he brought some people to collect as many roots as they could, in order to suppress the mark.

Gu Qingcheng had the mark, so she elected to go there herself. Xie Qing King wanted to go, too. Han Sen stopped Little Angel and Zero, though. If no one was watching the base, it was impossible to tell what the Barons might do after they became infected. There was a high chance the women and children would be in danger.

"This doesn't seem too bad. We can eat the roots as soon as we get them," Han Sen thought to himself.

Aside from them, Han Sen picked ten Barons to go with him. They could help gather the roots, at the very least. There were so many of them, and their time was almost up. If they couldn't get to the bottom of the issue, they'd have to bring a lot of the roots back.

Han Sen brought Lake Viscount with him, as well. With Wood there, he wouldn't dare to say no.

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Chapter 1848 Lotus Pool

On their way to the palace, egg marks appeared on the foreheads of both Little Silver and Xie Qing King. It was very worrying.

Lake Viscount gained it, as well.

Xie Qing King held up a mirror to examine himself. He kept looking at it, and with a dire expression, he said, "So d*mn ugly! The mark could at least be a flower or something. Having an egg on my head makes me look stupid."

Han Sen couldn't believe that was precisely what Xie Qing King was worrying about.

Little Silver was lying on Han Sen's shoulder, not having any particular sort of reaction.

With Captain Wood leading them, they had no trouble on their journey. The power of four Marquise had already scared off most of the xenogeneics nearby.

They didn't bother killing any lower class xenogeneics they saw along the way, as they were focused on reaching the Raven palace as soon as they could.

They came to a valley, and Captain Wood cleared out the xenogeneics that were hanging around. Deep Blue Viscount followed closely, and spoke while pointing at a mountain.

"The entrance is here."

"This is the peak! This is not an illusion. But there is no door. Are you sure this is the place?" Captain Wood asked with a frown.

Yes, I am sure of it," Deep Blue Viscount said, as he trotted up to one of the mountain's cliffsides. He searched the wall for a while, and eventually, pushed his hands firmly against a rock.

After Deep Blue Viscount pressed it, he returned to Han Sen. And then, a boom noise sounded swiftly after. A few hundred meters of mountain began to sink, as a higher peak began to rise behind it. There was a door on its stone surface, one that was massive.

Han Sen and everyone else were in shock. The place had a grand, powerful atmosphere, which spoke volumes about how scary the Ravens might have been, once upon a time.

"How do we open the door?" Captain Wood asked Deep Blue Viscount.

Deep Blue Viscount said, "You just have to push it open. That's how I slipped in and slipped out."

Captain Wood signaled for a Marquise to push open the stone door. It was dozens of meters high, but the Marquise was able to open it with a light push. There was no need for much strength.

What resided beyond the stone door was equally impressive in size. Many palaces were visible inside, and the buildings extended until they vanished into the distance.

"Master! You must follow behind me, with a gap of about three meters." Captain Wood stared at Black Steel with a serious look. And after Black Steel agreed, the team was allowed to enter.

The palaces were all connected. They were all built from stone, but they were so old, they looked very rustic and primitive. Even with the protection of the mountain, they looked poorly kept.

Han Sen saw a multitude of carvings on the walls, depicting bird-like creatures. Large bird statues stood on both sides of the plaza.

"Deep Blue Viscount, will there be danger up ahead? Captain Wood asked.

Deep Blue Viscount gave a wry smile. "Many warriors died before I entered, but by the time I made it in, all was fine."

"Maybe when Chiron Earl went in, they destroyed any traps left behind by the Raven," a Marquise suggested.

"That could be true, but even so, it is best to remain vigilant. We cannot drop our guard for a single second." Captain Wood was speaking with a deep, authoritative voice.

The group of them followed behind Deep Blue Viscount as they moved forward. It wasn't long before they stumbled across a pile of boney remains. They definitely belonged to Rebate.

"They must have been part of the previous group." Captain Wood checked out the bones, and noticed the skulls each had a large hole in them. They were so big, you could squeeze a clenched fist clean through.

The team kept traveling. Their path had proven to be surprisingly uneventful. Aside from seeing the odd pile of bones here and there, there was nothing that posed an actual threat.

Han Sen thought things over as he walked. "Weird. It looks like this place has not been visited by anyone in quite a while. And there are some creatures outside that could most certainly not have been dealt with by a Viscount. How did Wind Viscount get into this palace and get himself infected with the Raven's mark?"

Although there was no danger, Captain Wood was being careful, nonetheless. He didn't speed up on his way; he remained at a slow and steady pace.

After they walked a dozen miles, they went past a temple that had also been constructed from stone. Their eyes turned bright when they soon saw a pool of lotuses right next to it.

The lotus pool had no water, though. Most of the lotus's stalks, leaves, and flowers had all withered into death. There were only a few living ones left in the middle. The flowers that were alive were as white as snow. The leaves were like jade' and with their soft glow, they looked terrific.

"Is this the lotus pool you've been talking about?" Captain Wood looked at Deep Blue Viscount. "This is it. I accidentally fell in there and swallowed a lotus root. I was so hungry that I dug some up and ate more of them. That was how my mark disappeared." Deep Blue Viscount looked surprised, and he desperately wanted to run to it.

Hearing that, Lake Viscount and the other Barons all rushed towards the pool.

"Stop!" Han Sen shouted, with a frown.

No one listened to Han Sen, though. They all wished to cleanse themselves of the egg mark plaguing their foreheads by ripping out the lotus roots and consuming them.

Even though it would be a temporary pause Han Sen was calling for, it was better than getting ahead of themselves and snatching the plants right now.

"Anyone who steps closer to the pool dies." Captain Wood made a hum. And then, the two Viscounts and the Barons stopped moving.

Captain Wood looked at Han Sen and said, "It looks like your family members require some discipline."

Yes, and I will give it." Han Sen rubbed his nose. The Nobles in his employ were mostly spies of one sort or another. They didn't want to listen to his orders, particularly so if claiming the flowers meant the difference between life and death.

They hadn't followed Han Sen for very long, either. So, it was not as if Han Sen could control them.

"Mister Wood, I beg of you to provide me some of this lotus root. I only need a little!" Deep Blue Viscount quickly turned to begging.

After Deep Blue Viscount said this, the other Barons started to beg, too. They all had a ticking timebomb planted on their heads, after all.

But Captain Wood ignored them. He walked over to the lotus pool and looked at the flowers. A while later he asked, "Do you know what species of flower these are?"

Everyone shook their heads, not knowing what species of plant they were.

"Alright… Go ahead and dig up a lotus root." Captain Wood frowned while he spoke to the Barons.

"Thank you," the Barons responded happily.

You can dig it up, but if you dare steal a bite, I will cut your heads off," Captain Wood continued coldly. "Dig them up and I won't mistreat you. I won't give you any less, leastways."

The Barons looked bitter as they went forward to dig up the lotus roots. Captain Wood and the four Marquise kept their eyes peeled on them. No one dared to eat one of the roots against the Captain's orders.

"Why aren't you guys moving?" Captain Wood asked coldly, seeing Xie Qing King and Gu Qingcheng.

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