We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

The Lord of the Abyss did not turn around, but simply stared silently at a huge holographic screen to the side.

On the screen, a video is playing repeatedly in slow motion.

The video shows the entire process of the "Yaksha" squad being massacred.

From the moment Lin Ye's figure broke the sound barrier, to the moment he blasted the first "Yaksha" into the wall with a knee strike, to the moment he dismantled the remaining eleven expensive killing machines into a pile of scrap metal with his bare hands.

The entire process took twenty-seven seconds.

The Lord of the Abyss's hand, which was holding the syringe, was trembling violently and uncontrollably.

fear.

A fear he had forgotten for nearly twenty years, a fear stemming from the most primal instincts of life, like a cold, venomous snake, climbed up his spine and gripped his heart tightly.

ten years.

He painstakingly built this bio-engineered team over ten years, expending enough resources to buy a small African country.

It couldn't even last a minute against those flip-flop feet.

"tread."

A crisp footstep came from behind.

Lin Ye strolled in leisurely, carrying his empty red, white, and blue snakeskin bag.

He didn't even glance at the Lord of the Abyss on the throne; his gaze was immediately drawn to the enormous glass petri dishes standing in the laboratory.

Countless bizarre biological embryos at different stages of development were immersed in a murky green nutrient solution, their bodies covered with various tubes, creating an extremely eerie scene.

Lin Ye's brows furrowed instantly.

He stopped and began to complain loudly at the empty laboratory.

"Damn, what kind of work environment is this? It smells like formaldehyde mixed with stinky socks."

"They don't even install a ventilation system, and they don't conduct occupational safety training. It's no wonder people get occupational diseases working in places like this every day."

He pointed to a half-finished monster with eight legs floating in a petri dish, and looked heartbroken.

"Look at what they've driven their employees to!"

"No wonder they can't recruit normal people. With these conditions, even a dog would shake its head and leave."

The Lord of the Abyss slowly turned around, his handsome face, twisted with anger and fear, now appearing particularly ferocious.

He stared intently at Lin Ye, gritting his teeth as he squeezed out a few words.

"What...do you know!"

"This is evolution! It's the great ladder to the realm of the gods!"

He held the syringe, which emitted a ghostly blue light, high in his hand, his face showing the madness and determination of a gambler betting everything.

"Shura! You forced me to this!"

His voice, sharp and shrill from his fanaticism, echoed throughout the enormous laboratory.

"This [Divine Serum] is my culmination of a lifetime's work! It can free humanity from the shackles of the flesh and allow them to evolve into perfect, supreme gods!"

"Originally, I intended to use it on your perfect body..."

He looked at Lin Ye with a gaze that contained greed, jealousy, and, more than anything, a morbid pleasure at the impending destruction of a perfect work of art.

"But now, I've changed my mind!"

"I will let you see with your own eyes how a true God is born before you!"

Without hesitation, he plunged the sharp needle deep into the artery in his neck!

"Pfft!"

He pushed the dark blue liquid into his body.

next second.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

A roar, inhuman and filled with extreme pain, erupted from the Lord of the Abyss's throat!

His body began to undergo a terrifying transformation at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His expensive Gothic robe was torn to shreds by his suddenly bulging muscles.

Beneath the skin, it seemed as if countless living pythons were writhing wildly, their bluish-black blood vessels bulging out in a ferocious and terrifying manner.

"Snap! Snap!"

The sounds of bones breaking and reforming rang out densely, like popping beans.

Sharp bone spurs pierced his skin, growing wildly from his back, elbows, and knees.

In just a few seconds, his height increased from 1.8 meters to nearly 3 meters, transforming him into a terrifying monster covered in dark red keratin and with a pair of enormous bone wings.

"boom!"

The Abyss Lord, in his monstrous form, stomped heavily on the ground, leaving two deep footprints in the hard alloy floor.

He slowly raised his enormous head, which had become inhuman and had three blood-red eyes, and felt the unprecedented surge of power within his body.

"Haha...hahahahahaha!"

He let out an extremely arrogant laugh, the shockwave of which made the surrounding glass petri dishes buzz.

"Can you feel it? This power! This is the power of God!"

He stretched out his enormous hand, which had transformed into sharp claws, and made a grasping motion in the air towards Lin Ye's direction.

"I am now a god!"

"And you, a mere mortal, what do you have to fight me with?!"

Faced with this horrifying scene, reminiscent of the final boss appearance in a horror movie, Lin Ye simply sighed silently.

Then, he took out the dagger he had previously taken from the corpse of Captain "Yaksha" from the red, white and blue snakeskin bag.

He weighed the dagger in his hand, a look of impatience on his face.

"Alright, let's finish this quickly."

"roar--!!!"

The Lord of the Abyss was thoroughly enraged by Lin Ye's attitude of completely disregarding him.

He roared, and his claw, bigger than a millstone, carrying a bloody gust of wind that tore through the air, slammed down towards Lin Ye's head!

This single blow was enough to flatten a main battle tank into a pancake!

However, Lin Ye's gaze became incredibly focused at that moment.

The power of the Grandmaster-level fighting technique instantly flowed into his entire body.

The ordinary military dagger in his hand emitted a barely perceptible humming sound under the influence of internal force.

Just as the giant claw was about to strike, Lin Ye moved.

Instead of retreating, he lightly touched the ground with his toes, transforming into a blurry afterimage, effortlessly dodging the thunderous claw strike at an incredible angle.

He glided along the ground like a leaf, instantly closing in on the abdomen of the Abyss Lord's massive body.

"God, right?"

A cold, mocking laugh rang in the Lord of the Abyss's ears.

Before he could react...

"Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!"

A series of rapid, dull sounds, like sharp blades piercing flesh, rang out in quick succession!