—A-109, Gaze of the Ancient One.
Xu Mo watched as the bone spikes shot through the biting wind. Against a Level 63 aberration, if this hit home, Bai Feifei’s current body would likely be skewered clean through.
But he didn’t dodge. Instead, after summoning the skull bracer, he reached over and gave it a slight twist.
After emerging from the coal mine, Xu Mo had noted its effect description—group deterrence, lowering Sanity, and inducing fear.
Furthermore, it had an even stronger suppression effect against aberrations.
To be honest, he had thought the item was somewhat niche at the time, but seeing the Eternal Nightmare earlier made him realize something.
This was a damn superior version of the Eternal Nightmare, wasn't it?
Perfect. He would test the effects of this thing right now.
After using the Containment Object, “Bai Feifei’s” Sanity began to drop steadily once more.
However, the aberration that had already lunged in front of her suddenly froze.
It wasn’t blocked by anything; it simply stopped on its own.
Inside her mind, Bai Feifei watched the monster right in front of her—its expression both hideous and terrified—and felt a strange sense of dissonance.
“This is...?”
Xu Mo replied, “This thing has a superior suppression effect on aberrations. You should just wear it whenever you have nothing else to do.”
The skull bracer on her wrist began to glow with a faint, eerie dark purple light.
That light didn’t dissipate outward like the Eternal Nightmare’s; instead, it contracted inward, condensing into a flickering halo around Bai Feifei’s body.
Then, an invisible wave of pressure erupted, sweeping across the entire field!
Buzz—
There was no sound, yet the aura felt as if it were physical!
The air in the entire testing grounds seemed to solidify. The aberration was suspended in mid-air, its bone spikes less than half a meter from Bai Feifei’s chest, yet it simply could not stab forward.
It was trembling.
A monster that had already undergone aberration and lost all reason was actually trembling!
And it wasn't the only one affected.
The recorders and observers at the edge of the field turned pale instantly.
They suddenly felt a pure, soul-deep fear, as if they were being stared down by an existence that far transcended their level of life.
Their hearts raced, their breathing grew shallow, and their Sanity began to drop.
A few of the weaker ones were already shaking so hard their knees were knocking together, nearly ready to collapse into a kneel!
“What... what is going on?” A Rank 4 Scavenger clutched his chest, his teeth beginning to chatter.
“Wasn't the Eternal Nightmare just resealed?”
“Is this a Prophet’s power? I... I can’t breathe!”
On the high platform, Li Menglong’s face looked worse than anyone’s.
Because he was further away and possessed the strength of an Edgerunner, he could sense the source of this power.
This feeling that made even him feel terror and the urge to bow his head was actually radiating from “Bai Feifei”!
How could a young girl who had only just become a Scavenger exert this kind of mental pressure on everyone in the testing field?!
Where on earth did this power come from?
Even Liu Yun, a Level 79 Prophet, stopped in her tracks and stared at “Bai Feifei” in shock.
She had been prepared to intervene.
The moment the Li family test subject mutated, she had immediately adjusted the power of her Word Soul while resealing the Eternal Nightmare, planning to blink into the field.
But she had stopped after taking just one step.
Because she saw that the mutated man had actually stopped in front of Bai Feifei!
Then, he began to shake like a leaf.
His limbs propped up his body on the ground, his bone spikes clattering against each other with a fine grinding sound, as if his entire frame were about to fall apart.
He seemed... afraid?
At the same time, a terrifying pressure made everyone in the stadium feel as if their hearts were being gripped by a hand.
It was the same sensation as encountering a high-level aberration.
Even Liu Yun felt a strange, inexplicable palpitation.
For a moment, she was even dazed, wondering if some incredibly horrifying aberration was hidden beneath Bai Feifei’s exquisite appearance.
Meanwhile, the biggest change occurred in the other four test subjects who had received the injections.
When the aberration had gone berserk earlier, they had been struck by the flying bone spikes!
The wounds carried the aura of aberration, and their bodies had already begun to mutate unnaturally.
The four were rolling on the ground, their eyes turning blood-red, looking as if they were about to follow in the first man’s footsteps and enter a full state of aberration.
But now, washed over by the pressure of the Gaze of the Ancient One, their eyes cleared significantly.
With a thud, one man actually knelt directly!
Then the second, the third, the fourth—all four knelt on the ground in unison, bowing their heads toward Bai Feifei.
It was a reaction born of instinct, like a low-level organism facing a top-tier predator!
The blood in their bodies, which had been surging and threatening to mutate them at any moment, suddenly became exceptionally docile in the presence of this woman.
The field fell into a deathly silence. In the entire testing grounds, “Bai Feifei” was the only one left standing normally!
Everyone stared at her, frozen like statues.
But Xu Mo didn't look at them. From beginning to end, his eyes were fixed with interest on his own bracer.
“The effect is even better than expected.”
In the quiet field, “Bai Feifei” broke the silence, looking up at the aberration in front of her.
Level 63... it has already reached the level of a Scion.
Quite a decent supplement!
The aberration was shaking all over, its protruding bone spikes trembling uncontrollably, and for the first time, fear appeared in its blood-red eyes.
Xu Mo took a step forward.
The aberration’s body swayed as it instinctively tried to retreat.
“What’s the matter?” Xu Mo looked at it and smiled. “Weren't you just hissing a moment ago? Why are you suddenly so well-behaved?”
The aberration retreated sharply, its four limbs propping up its body as it scrambled backward frantically, its bone spikes plowing deep furrows into the ground.
“Stay!” Xu Mo shouted instinctively.
As the words left his mouth, it was as if an unshakeable command had been issued. The aberration instantly froze in place, unable to move.
His words became law—a miraculous display of power!
Although this aberration was nominally Level 63, it had only just mutated; its mind and body were in a state of critical chaos.
Under the Gaze of the Ancient One, it couldn't exercise its strength at all, and for a moment, it truly seemed to be under his control.
Even Xu Mo himself was a bit surprised. Even if this was a side-effect mutation from the potion, the effect of his bracer was a bit too good.
Seeing that Bai Feifei’s Sanity could still hold for a while longer, he decided to test the boundaries of this ability and spoke tentatively.
“Heh... Good dog. You’re very obedient.”
“How about you try dying for me?”
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