Chapter 143: Bestowing You a New Life

Lyle sensed the spatial fluctuations and rushed over in a hurry, arriving just in time to witness Leslie's heart being pierced, and an exclamation froze in her throat.

Instead, she saw a familiar figure stepping forward. Snow-white long hair fluttered in the wind, radiating an unrivaled, arrogant demeanor as an overwhelming wave of mental pressure blanketed the entire area.

"This is... the mental field that only belongs to a Tier 3 Life Spirit Master?"

As the sister of a powerhouse at the Three Rivers level, she was naturally intimately familiar with the changes that came after advancing to Tier 3. Because of this, she fell into a state of utter shock—one that stunned her even more than Leslie being assassinated!

Advancement to Tier 3 represented a qualitative leap, meaning one would never be threatened by ordinary people ever again, for they possessed a sovereign-form totem.

The sovereign-form, also known as the legion-grade, was a ferocious behemoth capable of single-handedly obliterating an empire's most elite legion!

As their primary totem completed its ultimate evolution, their mental power would undergo a corresponding transformation. Some could even materialize their mental power to move objects!

Even the weakest Tier 3 Life Spirit Master would possess a mental field, which resembled the tyrannical aura of a sovereign-form, causing the weak to tremble in its presence.

How many days had it been? She had traveled with him to Molent not long ago, and she knew clearly that he was only at Tier 1 back then!

A month and a half, undergoing continuous evolution and ultimate evolution—just how defying of the heavens was this?

After all, even the most monstrously talented prodigies in history, enjoying the most extravagant allocation of resources, required over a year's time!

"Hark, who is he, and why did he suddenly appear here?"

A group of researchers and gathered students, who had initially thought this was merely a routine suppression of a rebellion, now realized a colossal crisis was unfolding.

Molent Academy accepted all without discrimination; as long as one was a Life Spirit Master, they could enter, completely regardless of nationality or faction. Thus, people from various empires and kingdoms came here to study.

This also brought in countless spies, but the academy cared not in the slightest. Anyone wishing to work in core positions had to undergo psychological testing, thereby filtering out a large number of ill-intentioned individuals.

Yet some people's disguises were too formidable—so formidable that they could fool even themselves, refusing to reveal their identities until the very last moment!

This time, a massive conspiracy had clearly been brewed over a long period.

The wind howled. Beneath the leaden, cloud-covered sky, a slender figure walked slowly forward.

He was strikingly handsome, with a head of flying snow-white hair, resembling a noble attending a banquet.

The most conspicuous feature was his eyes, swirling with purple radiance and transforming into deep vortices. Anyone who dared to meet his gaze would harbor the illusion that their mental power was being devoured.

On his shoulder, a white fox with gorgeous, snowy fur dozed lazily, feigning sleep.

"Leslie, you are the strongest evolutionary warrior in history. The strongest should not have weaknesses!" Charles said softly, ignoring everyone present.

"Audacious! What on earth are you trying to do?" Joseph, one of the three major pillars of the academy, narrowed his eyes, filled with rage.

Yet Charles did not spare him another glance. Moon Child materialized beside him, violently erupting into its ultimate form. It transformed into a behemoth over twenty meters tall, wantonly radiating its imposing might.

Boom!

The earth rapidly shattered as a massive creature burrowed up from underground. Its entire body was covered in a layer of yellowish-brown scales; it resembled a pangolin in shape, but reached a length of thirty meters, like a moving hill!

"Three sovereign-form totems!" Students swallowed hard, their throats bobbing. Those who came to their senses immediately turned and fled into the surroundings without hesitation, shouting at the top of their lungs for others to evacuate.

Things had truly blown wide open this time. They realized that staying here was no longer watching a show—it was courting death!

The attacks of sovereign-form totems were far too violent; every collision and lash could shatter city walls. The battle to follow could easily be imagined—the entire central experimental base building might collapse and be reduced to a pile of ruins!

The sky had been pierced!

Thousands of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Life Spirit Masters fled outward in all directions, not daring to linger here for even a second, leaving Charles an unobstructed path straight to Leslie.

"Leslie, your Bella died three years ago. To cover up this matter and allow you to focus on becoming the ultimate experimental observation subject, the academy specially created a clone. They used a certain memory-extraction ability to inject Bella's original memories into the clone."

Charles sighed with a hint of regret, "I am sorry I discovered this too late; otherwise, I would not have let you suffer such a devastating blow."

"Kill him!" Joseph roared. He would never allow a mere experimental evolutionary warrior to rebel, and without hesitation, he unlatched the mental restraints in Bella's mind, turning her into a cold, merciless humanoid weapon.

However, after delivering her astonishing strike, the young girl stood motionlessly, showing no intention of attacking further.

"What is going on?" Joseph was filled with confusion.

Bella might have looked like an ordinary girl, but her body had actually been quietly modified long ago.

Especially her right hand: reinforced by the academy's supreme prime artifact, the Piercing Spear, it possessed the terrifying ability to pierce through everything, otherwise it could never have penetrated Leslie's formidable defenses.

The Piercing Spear—one of the academy's two supreme artifacts, possessing the heaven-defying ability to pierce everything straight to the origin!

However, what he did not know was that hair-thin insects were rapidly spreading inside the young girl's body.

Eventually, they traveled along her blood vessels to every corner of her organism, seizing control of all her movements and turning her into a living marionette!

"Leslie, you now have only one choice: to be modified by my special parasitic ability, granting you even greater power." Charles looked levelly at the burly man half-kneeling on the ground, stating his ultimate goal.

"Ah!"

Leslie roared up at the sky, carefully laying the stiff-bodied girl in his arms down upon the ground.

As the girl's right hand was pulled out, blood surged from his chest wound like a fountain, causing his life force to vanish rapidly.

Seeing the endless despair in the other man's eyes, Charles's purple pupils flared violently, and a formidable wave of mental power swept over him, awakening the final remnants of his sobriety.

"I can grant you rebirth, give you the power for revenge. You have only this one choice now!"

He believed in the principle of fair trade; all of the other man's misfortunes had been inflicted by the academy and had nothing to do with him.

Therefore, his conscience was completely clear regarding this matter!

"And the price?" Leslie turned his gaze toward him. His face held neither sorrow nor joy, reduced to a bottomless void.

"It will strip you of your freedom, making you my subordinate. If you agree, then devour this!" Charles extended his hand toward him, and a gray, bizarre seed emerged from his palm.

The seed was standard spindle-shaped, covered in a layer of tiny gray scales, with sharp protrusions at both ends.

Leslie grabbed the seed with his massive palm, expressionlessly jammed it straight into his wound, driving it deep into his heart!

Crack!

The sound of the seed shattering echoed out, and a gray radiance burst forth from within his wound...