Chapter 1152: Ability evolution and escape

Thud!

A large blade stuck inside a rock fell to the ground.

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

“Your majesty, what level of weapon did you find this time?” Ye Fei Li asked.

Laura sighed: “My Duke, this time I only managed to find a blade at the peak power level of the 900 million World Layers, it’s still a bit lacking, damn it”

She received another can of energy drink from Ye Fei Li and gulped it all.

Everyone was a bit disappointed, but they were mostly calm.

Don’t be ridiculous, if it truly was so easy to randomly obtain a weapon that could change the tide of war, the 900 million World Layers would have achieved total peace a long time ago, there would be no need for both [Order] and [Chaos].

“Again!” Laura softly muttered.

She reached her hand into the void and searched.

A few moments later.

Laura’s expression turned strange.

“Your majesty, what’s the matter?” Ilya worriedly asked.

Everyone also looked at Laura with concern.

“It’s not that…” Laura seemed hesitant.

Barry said very seriously: “Did you find something especially dangerous? If that’s the case, give it up, let’s not grab it”

Laura shook her head: “Just now, I was thinking that I must find something to change the tide of war… then I felt my ability being stimulated somehow and couldn’t be used again”

Saying so, she pulled her hand back and gave up on searching.

Her ability can’t be used again?

Everyone’s hearts started racing.

For an ability user, it was rare for their ability to suddenly disappear, but each time it happened, it would always be a matter of great influence that would change that person’s life from then on.

Ilya knelt with one knee to the ground and asked with a quivering voice: “Your majesty, how did it feel exactly?”

Laura was drawing a blank: “It was quite strange; I can’t quite put my finger on it”

She turned to Boss for help and asked: “Boss, you came from the Eternal Abyss, so you should have seen the most out of us all, what do you think is happening to me?”

Boss rubbed his chin in contemplation: “You can’t grab anything at all right now?”

“Yes, nothing at all” Laura replied.

“Strange…” Boss muttered, then asked again: “Just now, you had a great desire to grab something that would deal with the outside riff-raffs… then, did you sense something out of the ordinary just before your ability disappeared?”

Laura pondered for a bit and replied: “I felt something standing up in the void of space as if I was just a bit away from being able to grab it… but the item kept moving about and avoided my hand, so I couldn’t take it in the end”

Boss sighed in relief and explained: “According to my deductions, this is most likely a sign that your ability is evolving, so it has temporarily fallen into slumber”

“Evolving?” everyone exclaimed.

[Vagrant Treasure Collector] was a unique inherited ability from the Bramble Bird royal family, one that hardly any royal family members were able to awaken.

It was already such a rare ability, and yet Laura was about to evolve it further?

This ability was already in a league of its own within the entire 900 million World Layers, and it could still become better?

Everyone sighed in relief, then couldn’t help themselves from feeling moved.

Boss questioned further: “That item stood up in the void of space, then started to move about—— what exactly did you think it might have been?”

Laura replied: “I feel like… it was a bit like the tail of something”

Boss appeared to understand and continued: “Unless I’m wrong, your ability should have only been able to grab items before, so after this evolution, you might be able to grab living creatures as well”

“Living creatures?” Laura opened her eyes wide.

“That’s right, living flowers and herbs, rare species, perhaps even humans and beasts might be within the range of what you can grab” Boss replied.

Zhang Ying Hao suddenly said: “Wait a minute, in other words, just now Laura was a bit short of grabbing a creature, and that creature could have dealt with this war?”

“That was exactly the case” Boss replied.

Everyone fell into thought.

What kind of creature would have been able to resolve this war?

Unfortunately, Laura couldn’t catch that creature’s tail…

But who could have predicted such a thing?

How could anyone blame Laura?

All of a sudden, Ilya was surprised and took out a communication device from her waist.

The device projected a screen of light.

A line of text appeared on the screen:

[It’s me, Gu Qing Shan, is Kitty there? Tell Kitty to talk to me]

Kitty was surprised.

Strange, wouldn’t it have been fine to directly connect to a video call, why did he call me specifically?

Did something happen?

Kitty glanced at Anna first, found that she was unconcerned, then received the device from Ilya.

“Gu Qing Shan, it’s Kitty. I heard that you went to find a certain artifact—— and that it was a necessary item in order to defeat the Soul Shrieker. Did you find it?” Kitty asked.

Silence.

Everyone was waiting for him to speak.

Zi—– zi——

After some static, a sound emerged from the communication device:

[Meow!]

Everyone exchanged glances.

Kitty’s cat ears immediately stood up.

She understood Cat, so she immediately asked in return: “Meow meow? Meow meow meow?”

The cat replied from the communication device: [Meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow]

Kitty was stunned again, then asked in surprise: “Meow, meow meow meow meow”

Anna couldn’t help but ask: “What happened? Why is there a cat on the other side?”

Kitty lowered her head, unable to help herself from trembling as she lowered the communication device.

Seeing that, Anna’s heart sank and hurriedly asked: “Where’s Qing Shan? Is he well?”

Kitty suddenly looked up at the sky and loudly laughed: “Meow meow meow meow meow! Meow meow meow meow meow!”

A helpless voice replied from the other side of the communication device: “Meow—–”

Then it hung up.

Zhang Ying Hao had been raising a cat, so he naturally understood the conversation somewhat and hesitantly asked: “Did Gu Qing Shan take a cat in?”

Kitty continued to laugh for a while, then finally regained her composure and replied: “Meow meow—— no, it’s not that he took a cat in, but he obtained a new Thaumaturgy that turns him into a cat, unable to transform back for now”

“He found an artifact that will prevent the Soul Shrieker from absorbing souls——– so our greatest threat has been resolved”

Anna sighed in relief.

Everyone silently nodded.

That’s a good thing!

If we can deal with the Soul Shrieker’s ability, the war will turn from hopeless to having a bit of hope.

Turned into a cat…

No wonder that guy refused to video call and specifically wanted to speak to Kitty.

He didn’t want everyone to see his cat form, so he was embarrassed?

“Turned into a cat…”

Laura’s eyes flashed with some strange emotions, unable to help herself clasping her hands together in front of her chest.

Anna’s eyes were already glittering, muttering to herself: “That guy is getting more and more attractive every time we meet”

Barry lightly cleared his throat and asked: “Then, where is he now?”

“He said that he’ll make it back in one hour and that we shouldn’t worry” Kitty answered.

“Report——–”

Two Bramble Bird soldiers quickly ran into the palace and reported: “The enemies have stopped attacking and have begun to form a defensive formation”

Boss and Barry’s expressions both changed.

“Oh no, their gigantic warp gate is about to be activated” Boss said.

Barry also said: “It seems the three Deities are about to make their way here, we need to——-”

All of a sudden, a resounding voice boomed from outside.

『 Living beings who dared to shelter [Order] and stand by the [Order]’s side, come out and receive your deaths! 』

This was the God of Life’s voice!

She was the second Deity of [Chaos], and would soon descend on the void outside the Bramble Bird Kingdom.

Kitty waved her hand in the air, manifesting the scene of the faraway void in front of everyone.

The gigantic warp gate had been fully activated.

The God of Life’s figure was slowly being manifested.

Laura’s voice trembled: “It’s no good, there are too few of us, even if the three Deities won’t attack, the carriers of [Chaos] by themselves can surround the entire Bramble Bird Kingdom!”

Kitty replied: “No need to fear, we’re leaving right now!”

She took out the dice from before.

Everyone slowly understood what she wanted to do.

She was the most excellent spatial manipulator in the 900 million World Layers.

When she’s determined to flee, very few could actually pursue her.

“Big sis Kitty, where are we heading?”

Ye Fei Li asked.

Kitty replied very seriously: “Everyone please try not to resist against the power of this dice, Gu Qing Shan found the artifact to fight against the Soul Shrieker’s ability, so I’m going to bring us all to meet up with him!”

Saying so, she tossed the dice on the ground.

The entire Bramble Bird Kingdom quickly shrunk and disappeared almost immediately from the void of space.

A small sphere that gave off bright emerald light appeared in Kitty’s hand.

She glanced at the gigantic warp gate for a brief moment as her figure slowly faded into the void of space and vanished.

…

At the same time.

On a traveling airship.

An orange cat sat there, silently pondering his tactics.

Lines of glowing text were floating in the void of space in front of his eyes:

[You are currently absorbing the scattered Soul Points in the void of space at a speed of approximately 1 Soul Point per second]

[You are currently in the process of fully absorbing the duo dragon power, estimated remaining time: 15 minutes]

[Attention: Please maintain your current ‘Orange of Mountain’ form, if you return to your human form, you will interrupt this process and will need to restart from the very beginning]

The orange cat quickly skimmed through the notifications.

15 minutes huh?

Very well, there should be enough time.

—–I’ll return to human form before meeting up with everyone.

The orange cat felt assured and subconsciously swung his tail.

Thinking of something, he quickly pulled it back down.

Something strange happened earlier.

As if… some entity tried to catch my tail from the void of space.

Hmm.

I feel like more and more strange things have been happening with me ever since I became a cat.

I should be more careful…