Cataclysm: The Enhancement Warlock's Rebirth

"Jiang Xiao, you..."

Lu Wanwan came out of the room, her lips still stained with filth, as if she had just vomited.

She was halfway through her sentence when she caught sight of the headless corpse outside the door, covered her mouth, and felt a faint urge to vomit.

On the night Song Yu fell from the building, she only heard a muffled thud, but did not see it with her own eyes.

But she saw that stab just now with her own eyes.

The man's head rolled into the house, his eyes still open and his mouth still opening and closing, as if he were saying something.

She was so frightened that she vomited on the spot.

"What do you mean, 'you'?"

Jiang Xiao wiped the bloodstains off the knife without looking up. "They want to capture you and take you back to be Star Fury, and you're not resisting?"

Although he didn't know how the other person knew there was a woman in his house.

But the leader kept peeking inside.

While recruiting him, they also emphasized "bring your family members along," clearly indicating that they were targeting Lu Wanwan.

Lu Wanwan was so frightened by Jiang Xiao's crude and blunt words that she shook her head.

She only heard that the other party wanted to recruit Jiang Xiao, and didn't understand why she was being dragged into it.

Was it because of the phrase "bring your family" that provoked him?

She discovered that Jiang Xiao would become extremely stressed whenever it involved her.

Could it be that he was so deeply in love with himself that he turned out this way?

Lu Wanwan's mind raced with wild speculation.

"That's right." Jiang Xiao walked over and lifted her chin. "You can only be mine."

Lu Wanwan's talent combined with his enhancement abilities is incredibly useful.

He would never let her leave.

What they said before about letting her go home to reunite with her family was just a delaying tactic and a lie.

Lu Wanwan was confused, but seeing Jiang Xiao staring intently at her, she became even more certain of her thoughts.

Jiang Xiao is sick!

His obsessive-compulsive disorder and romantic love have made him the way he is today.

She suddenly felt sorry for the other person.

"The other side definitely won't let this go easily. There might be a fierce battle ahead. Hide well and be careful," Jiang Xiao said, handing her a dagger.

He had met Luo Feng in his previous life and knew his personality.

He will always try to eliminate anyone who he perceives as a threat.

Although he offended that Brother Liu today, Luo Feng and Brother Liu are in cahoots. As long as he is sure that he cannot be recruited, Luo Feng will definitely strike first.

Three extraordinary individuals.

Jiang Xiao, however, was not afraid.

Hero players typically start at mid-tier 1 strength.

Before finding the altar to exchange for the life potion, it will be difficult to make significant progress in strength.

He is currently at the lower level of the second tier, and with an enhanced Tang sword in hand, plus his combat experience from his previous life, dealing with a few people shouldn't be a problem.

Originally, he planned to wait until Luo Feng and his team had almost finished integrating the community's talent resources before stepping in to reap the rewards.

Unfortunately, plans can't keep up with changes, and the war will most likely start ahead of schedule.

"They're here."

Jiang Xiao heard the noise in the hallway.

Unlike the previous two large-scale attacks, this time the other party moved very lightly, but he still managed to catch it.

He told Lu Wanwan, "No matter what noise you hear, don't go out."

Lu Wanwan opened her mouth, but the word "be careful" that was in her heart ultimately remained unspoken.

Jiang Xiao had already left with his knife.

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In the stairwell.

Three people were standing at the corner of the stairs, walking up.

The leader was a young man in his mid-twenties, with a buzz cut, a square face, wearing a black shirt, and a calm expression.

Next to her was a young woman with shoulder-length hair.

At the very back was a slightly older man, whom Jiang Xiao guessed was Brother Liu, the henchman.

Jiang Xiao stared at the leader.

Luo Feng.

I killed this person in a past life.

The opponent's innate ability is liquid metallization, which allows them to completely transform their body into metallic matter, combining offense and defense. It is a mid-to-upper-level extraordinary ability.

It was precisely through this ability that he unified the surrounding communities and became a local tyrant.

As for the other two, Jiang Xiao had never met them in his previous life.

He figured he was more likely to die in the insect swarm or be killed by Luo Feng.

Luo Feng was examining the headless corpse on the ground.

The smooth, even wound startled him.

What incredible strength!

What a sharp knife!

This made him even more determined to get rid of the person in front of him.

He would not allow anyone in this region to be more powerful than him or affect his position.

"Brother," Luo Feng spoke first, his tone heavy, "you killed my men for no reason, shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

He originally intended to say a few polite words first, and then take action once the other party lowered their guard.

But Jiang Xiao doesn't play by the rules at all.

He charged forward with his knife in hand.

"Depend on!"

Liu Yijun was stunned and bewildered as he watched Jiang Xiao rushing towards him.

How dare they take the initiative to attack when facing three opponents?

"Use your energy blast to hit him!" the woman next to her urged.

Before becoming hero players, they were all just ordinary office workers, living a monotonous life.

These days, he's only good at scaring ordinary people and killing mindless insects with his supernatural abilities.

If you really encounter someone like Jiang Xiao who has been through countless battles, you've already lost half the battle in terms of sheer presence.

"it is good."

Liu Yijun swallowed hard and raised his finger.

A vortex of air continuously gathers at the fingertips.

"Come!"

Luo Feng's entire right arm instantly liquefied, solidifying into a silver-white blade, and he let out a loud shout.

Jiang Xiao drew his knife and approached.

In the instant the two crossed paths, his speed suddenly increased by a level, bypassing Luo Feng and slashing with his sword.

Liu Yijun's head rolled around once.

The vortex at her fingertips dissipated, turning into a gust of wind that whipped up dust in the stairwell.

Qiao Xin's mind went blank.

The companion who was so confident and clamoring to catch the other person, tie him up, and make him watch a live sex show, is dead.

A superhuman was crushed to death like an insect?

"Qiao Xin! Snap out of it!"

Luo Feng roared angrily.

Seeing Liu Yijun beheaded, he was both shocked and furious, and swung his solidified silver-white blade at Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao's skin hardened instantly, and a layer of hardened keratin appeared on her skin.

He chose to take the blow head-on and deal with the woman in front of him first.

Qiao Xin, after being reminded, finally realized what was happening.

Her hair instantly lengthened, curling over like a steel cable to block the blade.

"Hair manipulation? That's interesting."

Jiang Xiao raised an eyebrow.

In the past, people divided those with extraordinary abilities into three categories: mages, warriors, and sorcerers.

Those who need to consume internal energy and can manipulate elements such as earth, fire, wind, and water are called mages.

Those who possess physical enhancements such as rapid healing, immense strength, and high-speed movement are called warriors.

People like Jiang Xiao and Lu Wanwan, who possess hypnotic, psychic, or other strange abilities, are called sorcerers.

Body-enhancing hair manipulators are quite rare.

"His knife is sharp, be careful!"

Qiao Xin felt a chill run down her spine when she discovered that a tuft of her hair, which could pierce through steel, had been cut off.

"Your opponent is me!" Luo Feng shouted.

He was able to become the leader of the Extraordinary Squad because the other two were his defeated opponents.

Although Qiao Xin's hardened hair was difficult to deal with, it couldn't break through his metallic defenses.

Jiang Xiao ignored him, relying on the hardening of his skin and the speed of his pulling, trying to deal with Qiao Xin first.

Just one cut.

With the sharpness of the Tang sword and his own strength, a single strike could kill or seriously injure someone.

Qiao Xin hesitated in the face of the attack, but relying on the flexibility of her hair, she wrapped herself around the stair railing and window frame, swaying her body back and forth like a monkey jumping up and down.

Jiang Xiao was speechless.

Doesn't your scalp hurt?

Unfortunately, the stairs limited the speed of "Shadow Spirit," otherwise he would have grabbed his opponent and cut him in two long ago.

After chasing him up two flights of stairs, Jiang Xiao had no choice but to give up.

He turned to look at Luo Feng, who was hot on his heels, and said, "It's fun cutting me down, isn't it?"

Jiang Xiao raised his knife to retaliate.

The two were locked in combat.

As the fight progressed, Luo Feng realized something was wrong.

The opponent's blade struck him, occasionally condensing large patches of frost that slowed his reaction time.

Moreover, some of the cuts cannot be repaired by converting them into liquid metal.

This means that once he regains his physical body, he will have multiple injuries.

"What exactly is your ability?"

Luo Feng couldn't help but ask.

He noticed the hardened keratin on Jiang Xiao's body and assumed it was a defensive ability.

But the situation I was experiencing was clearly not right.

Jiang Xiao remained silent, only launching a relentless attack.

"Brother, we have no deep-seated hatred between us, how about we call it quits?" Luo Feng began to plead for peace.

The battle unfolded in a way that was completely different from what he had anticipated.

He originally thought that with his powerful talent, he could quickly kill this person and, incidentally, send a message to intimidate Liu Yijun and Qiao Xin.

But right at the start of the game, one of his teammates died and the other escaped, and he was starting to struggle.

He even went so far as to provoke us and challenge us to a fight.

Unexpectedly, after escaping, Qiao Xin showed no mercy and ran away.

He was so angry he wanted to curse!

"Brother, even extraordinary abilities have varying degrees of superiority. Since we're evenly matched, why fight each other?"

While parrying the attacks, Luo Feng tried to entice them.

"Why don't we join forces? With our combined abilities, we can definitely crush most superhumans."

"Once we've recruited enough people, we can simply establish our own rule and become carefree local tyrants. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Seeing that Jiang Xiao remained unmoved, he changed his tune and continued to persuade her: "Think about it, that woman Qiao Xin is still hiding in the shadows. Once we're both exhausted, she can reap the benefits!"

"You talk too much nonsense."

Jiang Xiao was getting annoyed by the noise and sped up his attack.

He watched as Luo Feng's entire body gradually turned metallic, knowing that the other party was at his last gasp.

Maintaining a large area of ​​metallization requires a lot of physical strength. Before long, Luo Feng will automatically deactivate his ability and be at Luo Feng's mercy.

Therefore, he knew that Luo Feng was not seeking peace, but rather seeking survival.

Jiang Xiao would never let him go.

Luo Feng saw that his metallized body was showing signs of turning back into flesh and blood.

He lowered his stance and begged for mercy again: "Brother, I admit defeat. I'm willing to serve you as my master. Just let me go, and I'll hand over all the resources I've gathered these past few days!"

"Don't worry, after you die, I will take over everything from you." Jiang Xiao not only killed him but also destroyed his spirit.

Luo Feng's face twisted upon hearing this.

He simply couldn't understand why the other party was so determined to kill them all. Wouldn't it be better to have another superhuman by your side whom you could command?

He fought and retreated, trying to find a way to escape.

Just then, a furtive figure flashed by at the corner of the stairs.

It's that woman.

The woman in Liu Yijun's phone photo.

His eyes lit up.

His will to survive gave him a final burst of strength, allowing him to deflect Jiang Xiao's Tang sword and charge towards his opponent.

No wonder Liu Yijun, a guy who only likes married women, was attracted to her; this woman is indeed beautiful.

He planned to capture the other party to blackmail Jiang Xiao.

When Lu Wanwan saw a man dressed entirely in silver rushing towards her, she was so frightened that she took a step back.

Clutching the iron bar she'd picked up from the doorway, she retreated while shouting, "Don't come any closer! I'm a hero player too! Watch out or I'll blow your head off!"

Luo Feng was stunned for a moment.

But he didn't believe it.

What a coincidence that you two, as a couple, both became hero players?

He sped up and rushed over.

Seeing that he wouldn't stop, Lu Wanwan subconsciously swung the iron rod.

It missed.

The iron rod knocked over the express delivery boxes on the shoe rack, and a ceramic flowerpot flew out and crashed to the ground, scattering soil and broken porcelain pieces everywhere.

Luo Feng's face lit up with joy; he was indeed just an ordinary person.

He reached out to grab the person, but in his haste, he stepped on the muddy ground.

My foot slipped.

He tried to steady himself, but he was already exhausted.

Metallization becomes extremely unstable, and the body shifts back and forth between flesh and liquid metal, making it impossible to exert any strength.

Luo Feng swayed and fell to the ground.

Metallization has been completely removed.

He fell face down to the ground, and a sharp piece of porcelain pierced through his face and stuck inside.

Luo Feng's limbs twitched twice, then he stopped moving.

The hallway fell silent.

Jiang Xiao stood a few meters away, quietly watching this scene, her lips twitching slightly.

He deliberately didn't make a move just now, wanting to scare Lu Wanwan and teach her a lesson.

Unexpectedly, they killed Luo Feng directly.

What is this?

Did something unintentionally turn out well?

Perhaps this is the power of luck.

On the other side, Lu Wanwan was so frightened that she was completely at a loss, her face was as white as paper, and her hands were still trembling.

"Amazing, you really got his head blown off." Jiang Xiao gave a thumbs up and teased.

Lu Wanwan dropped the iron rod and shook her head frantically, "No! I didn't mean to!"

"It's alright," Jiang Xiao said, feigning reassurance. "We have to take this step eventually. So what if you killed him? Nobody's going to bother you."

"No!" Lu Wanwan denied it outright. "He fell down on his own. I didn't kill anyone. It wasn't me!"

She turned her head away, unable to look at the corpse, her stomach churning again.

Seeing that she was about to cry, Jiang Xiao shook his head. He stepped forward and turned the body over.

Luo Feng had a shard of porcelain stuck in his forehead, his face covered in blood, and his eyes wide open, as if he had died with his eyes open in disbelief.

Following the old rules from his previous life, he stabbed the enemy twice in the heart, then chopped off his head before putting away his sword with peace of mind.

The talents awakened by hero players are incredibly diverse and must be guarded against.

Although he was quite certain that Luo Feng only had the ability to liquefy metal, his habit made him remain vigilant.

"You're going to...abuse a corpse again?!"

Lu Wanwan caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of her eye and couldn't help but shiver.

Jiang Xiao, too lazy to explain, straightened her face and scolded, "You can't even look directly at a corpse, who gave you the courage to come here?"

Lu Wanwan pursed her lips, looking extremely aggrieved.

She followed Jiang Xiao's instructions and hid inside the house, listening intently to any sounds outside. Later, when she suddenly couldn't hear anything, she worried that something had happened to him and went out to check.

At that time, she struggled internally for a long time, wondering whether she should take the opportunity to run away.

Finally, thinking of his friendship with his classmate, he mustered up the courage to pick up the iron rod from the stench of blood, hoping it might be of some help.

To his surprise, the other party not only failed to appreciate it, but also scolded him.

Lu Wanwan's tears fell uncontrollably.

I'm just a cheapskate, I don't care if he lives or dies.

She turned to leave.

"Stop right there!" Jiang Xiao shouted. "Where are you going?"

"Go back and hide!" Lu Wanwan said with a hint of temper.

"We've finished eating at home, what's the point of going back?" Jiang Xiao teased. "Are you planning to eat that corpse outside the door?"

Lu Wanwan was so disgusted by his words that she couldn't help but gag.

Jiang Xiao teased her a bit, which improved his mood considerably.

"Walk!"

He snapped his fingers and said, "Go check on the dead rats. How much supplies have they stockpiled these days?"

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