As a weirdo, I like being a Kamen Rider.

Lin Chen was about to close his eyes to rest when he suddenly remembered that he had just saved the Echoing Demon with the Echo Guardian and had also absorbed his power. He wondered what changes would occur.

Open the system panel.

Ultimate Evolution System

[Host: Lin Chen]

[Race: Tiger-type Orphnoch (Complete Form+)]

[Body Constitution 63/158]

Agility 54/145

[Mental state: 55/109]

Lifespan: 54 years

Evolution Points: 170

[A portion of the essence of the demon (formed from the power of Hibiki)]

Ability 1: Echo Guardian - Life Anchor

Ability Effect: By using one's own life energy, an invisible "life anchor" can be placed on a designated "protected object." The anchor will record the object's health and life status. When the anchored object suffers fatal damage and its vital signs are about to dissipate, one can instantly sacrifice one's own life energy to forcibly reverse the object's life status back to the moment of anchoring, thus negating all fatal damage.

Cost of Ability: Each time you reverse a fatal blow from another, it consumes your own life essence, reducing your lifespan.

Ability 2: Tiger Hunting Domain - Critical Prediction

Ability Effect: Unfolds a "Tiger Hunting Domain" with a radius of 500 meters centered on the user. Within the domain, the user can sense all deadly threats to themselves or the protected object in advance and can predict the "future" 3 seconds in advance. At the same time, speed, explosive power, and dynamic vision will be doubled within the domain.

Cost of ability: It will accelerate the consumption of life essence.

Seeing that the lifespan on the panel had decreased from 61 years when the Kabuto world ended to 54 years, a reduction of 7 years, it should be due to the consumption of transforming into an Orphnoch and using Echo Guardian to save Hibiki.

Saving a life by seven years is not a loss.

Seeing the evolution points surprised him. In the Hibiki world, he only defeated one demonic monster, which gave him 20 evolution points. How could he have 170? He thought back carefully and realized the system beeped after he killed the King Serpent and his three contracted beasts. At the time, he was focused on finding the dimensional barrier and hadn't investigated further. Defeating knights didn't give evolution points, so these 150 evolution points must have come from those three contracted beasts. What a pleasant surprise!

His gaze finally settled on the source of the demonic essence. A system message popped up: The host can evolve into an Orphnoch form by absorbing the source of the demonic essence (click for details); or directly convert and absorb it into three-dimensional attributes.

He clicked on the details of the form evolution. It stated that Lin Chen could use the Orphnoch form to devour the essence of the demon and complete the special form transformation into the Demonized Demon Tiger form. Using this form would cause him to go berserk, increasing all attributes by 50%, but he would completely lose his sanity.

Seeing that it would cause him to lose his mind, Lin Chen immediately rejected the first evolutionary form method.

The option to convert to three-dimensional attributes was directly selected.

[A portion of the essence of the demon (formed from the power of Hibiki)] Absorbing: 0.01%

To Lin Chen's surprise, the source of the demon was not directly absorbed, but rather absorbed slowly.

If you randomly add 170 evolution points to your three-dimensional attributes, that's about all you'll gain in the Hibiki world.

[Body Constitution 69/167]

Agility 60/154

[Mental state: 60/118]

Lifespan: 66 years

Evolution Points: 0

[A portion of the essence of the demon (formed from the power of Hibiki)] Absorbing: 0.02%

The absorption percentage of the Demon's Origin did increase by 0.01%, but the absorption was a bit slow.

He closed his eyes, preparing to rest.

He suddenly heard an explosion and sat up abruptly: "What's going on?" He realized that this world was also the world of Kamen Rider, and there was likely a battle taking place.

So Lin Chen immediately got up and rushed towards the location of the explosion.

...

As soon as Lin Chen arrived at the battlefield, he found the leopard-shaped monster who had escaped from him earlier fighting a person wearing blue armor. Not far away, two vehicles were engulfed in flames, and a middle-aged man was cowering on the ground.

Lin Chen recognized the blue armor as G3-X? No, it wasn't; this armor was much simpler than G3-X's.

Have I returned to the Agito world again?

"Run!" the G3 uniformed officer shouted at the middle-aged man, his voice echoing metallically through the armor's loudspeaker. The middle-aged man, realizing the situation was dire, ran without a word.

Seeing the middle-aged man leave, the G3 uniformed officer was relieved. He raised the cannon on his right arm and aimed it at the leopard-shaped Venerable who was pouncing.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three shells were fired, trailing white smoke, and struck the Venerable One precisely in the chest. The explosions burst open in the night, smoke billowed, and shards of glass were swept up and fell by the shockwave, clanging and clattering.

The smoke dissipated.

The leopard-shaped lord shook its head, leaving only a few shallow white marks on its chest scales. A mocking glint flashed in its crimson eyes—if monsters could even have expressions—before it let out an even more furious roar.

It lunged at G3, its sharp claws sweeping across.

"clang--!!"

The sharp clang of metal clashing pierced the night. Three deep gashes were torn open on G3's chest armor by a single claw, sparks flying as it exploded like fireworks. The pilot let out a muffled groan, thrown back by the immense force, crashing heavily onto the asphalt and sliding several meters. The armor scraped against the ground, leaving a piercing metallic screech and a trail of sparks.

The armor's alarm blared, and the indicator light on its chest turned from green to red, flashing rapidly.

The Leopard-like Venerable did not stop. It pounced on the fallen G3 again, its claws raised high, the cold glint of their tips particularly dazzling under the streetlights. It wanted to tear this human who dared to stand in its way to shreds, along with his ridiculous metal suit.

Lin Chen moved.

His body reacted before his mind could. The Emperor's phone was already in his hand; the flip opened, and he pressed the three buttons crisply and decisively, without the slightest hesitation.

"0"

"0"

"0"

"Standing By."

The cold, electronic sound exploded in the night, like a knife cutting through the air.

The leopard-shaped Venerable paused for a moment. Its crimson eyes turned toward the source of the sound, its claws hovering in mid-air, the tips less than half a meter from the G3 uniformed man's helmet.

Lin Chen fastened his phone into his belt.

"Complete."

The dark golden photon blood surged forth.

The jet-black armor spread out like a tide from the belt, covering the waist, abdomen, chest, shoulders, arms, and legs. Golden patterns flowed across the armor's surface, like magma surging through cracks. The shoulder armor was as thick as a beast's shoulders, and the breastplate was layered like an emperor's crown. The moment the Ω-shaped helmet closed, a single scarlet eye gleamed with a chilling light.

The Leopard-like Venerable sensed a threat. It abandoned G3 and turned to face this new enemy. Its claws dug at the ground, producing a piercing scraping sound. It arched its body, muscles taut, its crimson eyes filled with vigilance and killing intent.

Then it pounced.

Its sharp claws, accompanied by a whistling sound, aimed straight for Lin Chen's head, twice as fast as before. It instinctively knew that this black creature was far more dangerous than the blue metal one.

Lin Chen stood still.

When the claws were only half a meter from his face, he dodged to the side. The movement was small, just a half-body shift, but it was just enough to allow the Venerable's attack to graz his shoulder armor. The claws scraped against the armor, sending sparks flying, but the armor surface wasn't even scratched.

The Venerable One missed, leaned forward, and lost his balance.

Lin Chen raised his right fist and delivered a simple straight punch.

There were no fancy moves, no charging motions. Just a single punch, landing squarely on the Leopard-shaped Venerable's chest.

"Bang—!!"

A dull, loud bang.

The Leopard-shaped Venerable's body was sent flying backward as if struck head-on by a high-speed train. It arced through the air, crashing through the shutter door of a closed pharmacy across the street, disappearing into the dust and metal debris. The shutter door was dented, its edges curling like paper.

Lin Chen withdrew his fist and slowly walked towards the large hole that the Venerable One had created. His leather shoes crunched on the broken glass.

The smoke and dust cleared.

The leopard-shaped Venerable lay amidst rubble and twisted metal. The scales on its chest were completely caved in, forming a deep crater the size of a fist. It struggled to stand, but its limbs were unresponsive, only its tail twitching weakly.

Lin Chen stood at the cave entrance, looking down at it.

Without mercy or hesitation, he picked up the Earth Emperor Sword, photon energy condensing on the blade, and slashed directly at it.

The energy exploded.

The Leopard-shaped Venerable's skin began to develop dense golden cracks, like shattered glass, and his entire body began to become transparent.

With a soft "crack," it exploded into countless tiny light particles, which drifted slowly in the air like fireflies, leaving only a faint halo in place.

[Ding! Defeat a common-level monster and gain 10 evolution points]

After successfully killing the monster, Lin Chen deactivated the Earth Emperor Armor.

The G3 uniformed officer is still lying on the ground.

The armor's alarm had stopped, and the indicator light on his chest had changed from red to a flashing yellow, like a star about to go out. He struggled to prop himself up, looking at the unfamiliar young man through the shattered helmet visor. There was a long tear in the visor, running from his forehead to his chin, through which he could see his pale face and sweat-drenched forehead.

He raised the cannon on his right arm.

The cannon was aimed at Lin Chen, his finger on the trigger. But he didn't fire. The appearance of the Earth Emperor armor earlier made him think it was the latest armor developed by some department.

"Who...who are you?" The driver's voice came through the damaged communicator, tinged with static and trembling.

Lin Chen turned around and remained silent for a moment.

"Orga." — As softly as talking to oneself.

"Kamen Rider Orga." — His tone turned somber.

"I am Kamen Rider Orga!" — This time, it was shouted out.