Necromancer, but pre-collapse civilization

　The staff member glanced at the girl on the operating table with considerable sympathy.

　"I'm confirming one last time, the success rate of this is extremely low. You... it's not too late to back out now."

　"Is...is it that serious? (What kind of item is so valuable?!)"

　"But... if you have your own convictions, I will naturally do my best to help you."

　"Huh? (Turns out they're in the same industry!)"

　"Have you thought it through? This might be your last chance. You can go back and live another chapter of your life."

　The staff had already put on gloves and were waiting for the "volunteer" at the operating table to answer.

　She knew that those who volunteered to become fusion warriors were either pure warriors or pure gamblers.

　This one appears to be the latter.

　People like her, the words they say before they fall asleep, often become their last words.

　The operating table became an altar, and I felt like a wizard listening to people's prayers.

　"Okay! I'll leave it to you then! Let's pull off something big together!"

　She received an affirmative answer.

　The staff were somewhat surprised; among so many people embarking on unknown journeys, she was one of those with a pretty good mindset.

　"Okay... then relax and close your eyes. It'll be over soon."

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Chapter 468 Padofilis

　Thanks to a stroke of luck far exceeding the norm, Padolilis miraculously overcame the extreme challenges of hyperplasia surgery.

　Furthermore, she did not lose her mind and become one of the failed experiments secretly sent to the island P21.

　Admittedly, compared to pioneers in the field of fusion warriors such as Kevin, Sakura, and Su, Padophilia's combat power has a lot of room for improvement.

　However, when compared to Vera and Jona, who underwent the same super-transformation surgery and successfully became fusion warriors in the same batch, Padophilia's strength is in no way inferior, and in some aspects, she is even unique.

　However, this power exhibits a distinct bias.

　In short, the cat-shaped Honkai Beast genes that Patophis fused with granted her astonishing agility. Her speed and flexibility were comparable to those of the Heroes who had not yet reached their peak, and she even surpassed them at certain moments.

　However, this talent also comes at a price.

　In terms of strength and other attributes, Padophilia is relatively weak compared to other fusion warriors; among all known fusion warriors, she is almost among the worst.

　This extreme distribution of power made Padophilis seem powerless when facing Honkai Beasts that were tens or even hundreds of meters tall, such as Honkai Emperors and Emperor-level Honkai Beasts.

　However, on a different battlefield, when facing ordinary Temple-level or Warlord-level Honkai Beasts, she can easily handle them with ease thanks to her extraordinary agility.

　From a strategic perspective, this capability structure may be more inclined towards delicate and subtle individual combat, rather than directly engaging in head-on confrontations with those massive and incredibly powerful Honkai Beasts on the front lines.

　In theory, her abilities are highly compatible with the [Poison Chrysalis Squad], which focuses on human battlefields.

　However, as the most unique armed force among the Fire Moths, the [Poison Chrysalis Squad] is not one that just anyone can recruit.

　Therefore, the Fire Moth arranged a series of special missions for Padofelis and other fusion warriors who were also considered more suitable to join the [Poison Chrysalis Squad], in order to test whether they were truly suitable to become members of the [Poison Chrysalis Squad].

　"According to Padofelis's reconnaissance, this mission is extremely difficult..."

　It was a quiet night, and the moon did not show its face.

　Under the cover of darkness, Pado was listening to the squad leader explain the mission in detail.

　"...The biological samples we are trying to obtain are stored in a safe in the laboratory."

　Paddy was a little nervous because she could tell that her captain wasn't very confident about the matter either.

　The buildings in front of us were guarded by fully armed soldiers.

　What's more troublesome is that the organization doesn't want any casualties in this operation located in the city center.

　"That's right, even with these restrictions, the enemy still outnumbers us by a significant margin."

　"Everyone is already clear about the plan. Now, it all depends on our cooperation."

　Pado knew why she had been chosen—the warriors participating in this mission were all of a similar type to her.

　Therefore, in her view, this "fortress" could not be breached through planning and cooperation alone.

　"We need to send someone over the electric fence and infiltrate their control system..."

　Electricity...the power grid?!

　Wouldn't my tail be completely burnt then?

　—Pado shuddered.

　"...After we get everyone into the building, we need to locate the safe immediately. Our informant just provided new information; it's on the 8th basement level..."

　...8 underground floors?

　—A question mark floated through Pado's mind.

　"...But the next step is the hardest. The safe is made of special materials and equipped with an advanced anti-theft system, and our time is also limited. In the worst-case scenario..."

　"that……"

　The squad leader stopped and looked at the team member who had made the strange noise.

　"Is there a problem, Padofelise?"

　"...Uh...no, no! Please continue!"

　The squad leader sighed.

　"In the worst-case scenario, we'd have to resort to some more drastic measures. But that could damage the test tubes containing the samples and would inevitably put us in danger..."

　"Excuse me……"

　The squad leader stopped and looked again at the team member who had made the strange noise.

　"This is the second time."

　"Excuse me... is the target this time a metal vacuum box containing a few green reagents?"

　"That's right, but I haven't gotten to that part yet, how did you know?"

　"..."

　"Excuse me... is this the box...?"

　"...?"

　"Yes...that's how it is, Captain—"

　"Yesterday they sent me to scout things out...and one of the soldiers was slacking off, so I sneaked in."

　...and then...and then..."

　"..."

　"...Can we go back now?"

　After successfully completing her first mission, the Firemoth assigned Pathophilis a series of similar tasks.

　From stealing classified documents to disrupting the operation of critical research facilities, and even kidnapping a scientist who refused to work for a moth drawn to a flame…

　With luck beyond anyone's imagination, Padofelis always manages to resolve each task in a way that is both strange and logical.

　However, when the nature of the mission suddenly changed, requiring her to carry out the ruthless order to assassinate enemy agents, Padofilis did not hesitate to refuse.

　She came to the Moth of the Flame to freeload, not to be an assassin!

　During her years on Twilight Street, she had long been accustomed to those harmless "little actions," but taking a life directly was a taboo she was unwilling to tread.

　Within the Firemoth, whether a Fusion Warrior joins the [Poison Chrysalis Squad] is entirely based on personal choice.

　Even though the number of fusion warriors has increased significantly under Dr. May's guidance, these elite warriors who have undergone the baptism of super-transformation surgery are still extremely precious in this increasingly collapsing world.

　Such valuable combat power would not be lost simply because they refused to join a mission that was not exactly clean to begin with.

　Times have changed, and the Firemoth of today is no longer the Firemoth Council that held absolute power before the Ninth Great Collapse.

　After Dr. May gained primary control of the Firemoth, such matters were no longer brought up in public.

　Unfortunately, those who dared to express their dissent openly had already been "persuaded" by the necromancer to "voluntarily" become participants in the Möbius experiment.

　Those opposition forces still alive, led by MP Wang, have chosen a more covert form of resistance.

　So, as retaliation, after assigning Padofilis a logistical position, the Moth Council members who had sent her on the assassination mission fell silent.

　Logistics work means being far from the front lines of battle, and naturally, it also means missing out on opportunities to make contributions, get promoted, and advance in one's career.

　This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to those who craved power and glory.

　But for Padofilis, this was the arrangement that best suited her wishes.

Chapter 469 Demigod-level Necromancy and Mogaro

　Time never stops for any individual's will.

　Just as Padolilis was contentedly achieving his initial goal of joining the Fire Moth—to find a place to freeload—Moros also reached a significant milestone in his research career.

　After nearly half a year of unremitting struggle and dedicated research, Moros finally pushed the core skill of necromancers—[Necromancy]—to the demigod level.

　Gazing at the experience points on the hero panel, which had steadily surpassed two-thirds of the experience bar, Moros couldn't help but let out a genuine smile.

　At the current pace, I should be able to complete the leap to Hero level before the Eleventh Great Collapse arrives...

　As he pondered to himself, the necromancer's eyes gleamed with joy and anticipation.

　With this beautiful vision for the future in his heart, he waved his staff lightly, and several life-related spells were leisurely cast.

　These seemingly simple spells, which even a magic apprentice could easily execute, gently yet powerfully swept over his body, dispelling the lingering corrupting aura that had accumulated from his long-term study of necromancy.

　After completing this self-purification, Moros took out a bottle of deep, dark red potion from the storage ring on his finger and drank it down without hesitation.

　As the potion took effect, a warm current quickly flowed through his body.

　The magic power consumed by casting spells and studying necromancy was fully replenished and restored in just a few breaths.

　Feeling the magic power filling his body once again, Moros nodded in satisfaction.

　Without pausing for a moment, he turned and gave orders to the skeleton servants standing around the necromancy laboratory, commanding them to immediately go to the magic guild's warehouse and fetch all the magical materials he needed to set up the necromancy conversion array.

　In the brief moment between the skeleton servants' hasty departure, Moros lightly touched another [Storage Ring] that shimmered with an eerie light.

　This is his special storage ring for storing valuable corpses.

　As the necromancer moved, the massive and majestic whale-shaped corpse of a Judgment-class Honkai Beast slowly appeared.

　Even though it had been dead for a long time, the corpse still retained the powerful aura that had haunted people in life, as if it could awaken again at any moment and become a terrifying being that would ravage the world.

　What a beautiful creation! I look forward to seeing what awe-inspiring undead behemoth will be born from your remains...

　He then slowly walked to the carcass of the giant beast, reached out, and gently stroked the thick and tough bones of the Honkai beast that was the companion of the Ninth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Rock.

　Since the second undead behemoth—[Stormbone]

　After the birth of Hanuman the Ape, Moros never again ventured into the realm of creating undead behemoths.

　Behind this lies two undeniable reasons.

　On one hand, the remains of a Judgment-class Honkai Beast are like rare treasures, extremely difficult to find.

　Even in this era where the intensity of the Honkai Judgment far exceeds that of the current civilization of the original world, the Judgment-class Honkai Beasts still maintain their unique and rare status.

　Even among Herrschers who wield different powers, not every one of them is fortunate enough to possess a Judgment-class Honkai Beast as their companion Honkai Beast.

　The symbiotic Honkai Beast of the Eighth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Consciousness, is a vivid example.

　Although through the Super Transformation Surgery, the Fire Moth cultivated a large number of psychic-sensory fusion warriors using Moyuli's genes.

　Among them are even future heroes like Su.

　However, it cannot be denied that Moyu is merely an Emperor-level Honkai Beast.

　In terms of power and rarity, it is insurmountable compared to the Judgment-class Honkai Beasts.

　On the other hand, as Moros's own hero level rapidly increased, those undead behemoths that had just entered the legendary tier gradually became unable to satisfy his needs for strength and combat.

　Given the already scarce availability of Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, investing a significant amount of precious time and energy to search every corner of the planet in hopes of obtaining new materials has clearly diminished the appeal of its input-output ratio.