I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

[Contains descriptions of gruesome acts; proceed with caution if you are eating.]

"What the hell... did I just see?!"

Gazing upon this incomprehensible and terrifying scene, as spiritual awareness grows, so too does spirituality...

The female witcher had a complete mental breakdown and burst into tears.

Although generally, a slight increase in spiritual vision will not have a devastating impact on the mind of a superhuman.

But at this moment, this slight increase in spiritual insight became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

After all, before this increase in spiritual awareness, the female witcher had experienced too many unbelievable things and witnessed too much unspeakable horror.

Especially after finally deciding to consume the Ghost Potion, his hopes of turning the tide were completely crushed by this terrifying scene...

This directly caused the female witcher's mental state to completely collapse.

The female witch, whose body was still fading into nothingness, had even lost the desire to escape.

Her body floated in mid-air, her hands covering her face, and she cried uncontrollably.

Ivan had no pity for this kind of person. With a wave of his hand, he activated the Mist Brain Plague, and the female witcher instantly went silent.

Looking at the female witch who was still in spirit form in front of him, Ivan tried to grab her twice but couldn't catch her at all.

Then, with a flick of his eye, he turned his cane into a toilet plunger.

With a pop, it stuck to the witch hunter's head and quickly returned, dragging her ethereal body along with it.

When Evan returned to the hall, the owl that had transformed into human form was still lying there stiffly, its life or death unknown.

At this moment, a dozen rats had already piled up in front of Huang Jin.

The death of that rat seemed to have disturbed something here.

The rats now in front of the gold are all getting bigger and bigger.

Its size has changed from being only the size of an adult's fist at the beginning to the size of an adult's head now.

However, these rats have now been cut into several pieces by the gold, and a lot of blood has flowed all over the ground.

"My 80th birthday! What a waste of your age!"

Upon seeing this, Ivan roared and casually tossed the witch hunter's ethereal body aside.

Then, under the witch's stunned gaze, Ivan knelt down and stuck out his long tongue to lick away all the blood that had flowed from the ground.

You can see that the tongue is so powerful and rough that it licks all the blood off wherever it goes, and even makes the floor reflect light!

Upon seeing this, the female witcher, whose eyes were glazed over, instinctively opened her mouth wide and then began to cry again.

At this point, she was no longer able to comprehend what she was seeing.

She couldn't even tell if what she was seeing was real.

Ivan quickly licked all the rat blood off the ground, and Copper Plague also ate his fill.

However, none of the extracted viruses were new.

After licking the floor clean, Evan tapped the golden head with his finger.

"You really don't know how to manage money! This is all nutrition! This is all energy!"

"If I didn't have some special skills, all of this would have been wasted!"

The golden cat, which was squatting on the ground, shrank its neck when Ivan pointed at it. It didn't understand what its master meant, but it meowed twice and stuck out its tongue to act cute.

After cleaning up the blood on the ground, Evan then interrogated the two men.

The interrogation went smoothly. The two men showed no resistance and told everything they knew after a few simple questions.

These two belong to an extraordinary assassin organization, and their mission is to lure and kill me here.

They didn't know the employer's identity, but the employer gave them very detailed information about Ivan.

After listening to the information, Ivan thought to himself, "This information is mostly correct, but the main source is the official record of me from about four months ago."

"In other words, the information this employer obtained was retrieved from internal files within the special operations team."

"It seems the source of the leak is still the action team."

"Their core objective wasn't to kill me, but to take me away, which means they were also curious about the secrets within my body."

At this point, Ivan looked at the dimly lit villa hall in front of him.

"According to their statements, this place used to belong to their employer, and the core of this case was to lure me here?"

"How did they determine that this case would so precisely attract me!?"

"The fact that they can conduct clandestine experiments in this place suggests that their employers must belong to a faction..."

"At this stage, the only two opposing factions I'm in contact with are the Institute of Excellence and the Holy Spirit Black Goat."

While thinking, Ivan didn't hold back and swiftly and cleanly killed both of them.

At the same time, a large amount of foggy brain plague was injected into them, and the large amount of virus completely corroded and cleansed the souls of the two people.

To prevent anyone from holding a soul-summoning ceremony here and revealing their secrets.

After dealing with the two assassins, Ivan placed the gold on his shoulder and looked up at the dark hall in front of him.

According to the two men's statements, there is now a hole in the middle of the hall that leads directly underground, and all the rats crawl out of this hole.

The previous owner of this villa, Ivory, did not die, but mutated and is now hiding under this cave entrance.

Ivan was eager to go down and take a look, but it wouldn't be wise to rush in now.

After all, the enemy is in the dark while he is in the light. What if there is another layer of traps below, or what if the one who set the traps is a master?

"Master!? A master is nothing!"

Thinking of this, Ivan grinned and strode over.

He now has many ways to save his life, after all, Dr. Armitage's Necronomicon is still in his intestines.

After using it up last time, Armitage recharged his remaining pages.

But Ivan still remembers the furrowed brow of Armitage when he examined the tattered pages.

"Arkham, how long has this stuff been sitting in your stomach? Isn't the taste a bit... overwhelming?"

Ivan coughed. "Doctor, it's the digestive tract! All kinds of food are mixed with various bodily fluids, so it's inevitable that it will have an odor."

Armitage didn't say much, and after processing the torn pages of the Necronomicon, handed them to Ivan.

Besides the fragments of the Necronomicon, Ivan's other ultimate weapon is naturally the forbidden Nine Dragon Tyrant.

Once he unlocks this power, Ivan is confident that, in conjunction with the Necronomicon, he will be able to escape the lord's pursuit.

Soon, Ivan passed through the front hall and entered the inner hall.

The interior was darker and the decor was more understated yet luxurious.

The lower part of the walls was covered with smooth, dark walnut paneling, while the upper part was covered with emerald-colored wallpaper, which was once quite popular.

The windows on both sides were completely covered by velvet curtains, filling this rustic space with a mysterious atmosphere.

However, all the furniture in this huge reception room has now been moved out.

Only on the unfaded square marks of the wallpaper can one still vaguely discern the picture frames that once hung there and the tall cabinets that once stood there.

In the very center of the reception room, there is a hole in the ground with a diameter of about three meters.

The hole dug directly through the floor and the foundation below, exposing various kinds of soil and bricks.

The depths of the cave were so dark they seemed to swallow up all light, and a faint stench of damp earth and decay wafted out.

Just as Ivan approached the cave, a strange roar suddenly came from inside.

Chirp chirp chirp!

A low, eerie cry came from within, and in the next instant, a thin, long object lashed out at Evan's head.

Ivan reacted very quickly, raising his hand and grabbing the thing.

Only then did we realize that it was a tail extending from the cave.

The tail is about the thickness of an adult's wrist, with sparse gray hairs on it.

Thick at the base and thin at the tail, it is an incredibly huge rat tail!

The tail suddenly contracted the moment Evan caught it in his hand.

Then a large amount of thick smoke was ejected.

[You have inhaled evil dust. Effects last: 10 minutes.]

[Effect: Increases dark adaptation, increasing speed by 10% in the dark]

[Does it reverse side effects?]

[Twist!]

You reversed the side effects of the evil dust.

Your self-awareness has improved by 0.001%.

Your constitution has increased by 0.001.

[You have gained a tiny amount of the extraordinary trait, Starstrider's Bite +0.001%]

Everything before that didn't catch Ivan's attention until he saw the final extraordinary ability.

"Um!!!?"

This immediately made Ivan's eyes light up.

"Driller's Bite!? Such extraordinary properties exist even within the Evil Dust?"

"Isn't the Devourer of Stars something from the Institute of Excellence?"

Thinking of this, Ivan instantly realized that the one who had set this trap for him was most likely this Excellent Research Institute.

"No wonder they were so sure I could come."

"Maybe it was an informant from the Institute of Excellence who saw me sucking up those things with my butt at the scene of the Holy Son's descent."

"And this place is most likely the testing ground where they experimented with this extraordinary property!"

"However, it seems that this place has been abandoned for some reason."

"After all, if this place is that important, these incidents would never be leaked."

Just as Evan was pondering, a terrifying power suddenly surged from the enormous tail in his hand.

The force was immense, pulling Ivan directly deeper into the cave entrance.

Just as he was about to be dragged into the cave by the tail, Evan snapped back to his senses and swung his bronze hand sharply.

However, the next second, Evan realized that his chop hadn't severed the tail.

"So hard!"

With a sigh, Ivan didn't hesitate at all. His cane instantly transformed into a chain sword, which he then swung forward with a mighty swing.

Accompanied by a pale flash of lightning, a roar suddenly erupted from the cave, causing the ground to tremble.

The tail that had been carrying him down was completely left in Evan's hands.

This tail segment was about three meters long, and even after it was cut off, it still wouldn't behave.

Just like this tail segment has its own life.

The severed tail struggled rapidly in Evan's hand, and then began to wriggle and proliferate rapidly on its cross-section.

"You want it to grow back!?"

Evan grinned menacingly, and before the wriggling growth could even materialize, he opened his mouth wide and bit into the cross-section of the growth.

A foul-smelling liquid, containing dozens or even hundreds of strange flavors, flooded into Evan's mouth.

This flavor once again refreshed Evan's understanding of food.

Before that, the worst-tasting potion was probably the variant with the properties of a black sun.

And this stuff tastes even better than that mutated potion.

After all, the previous mutated potion, besides its taste, had a texture full of growths and lymph nodes.

And this smell is pure, awful!

An indescribable stench, an indescribable fishy smell!

It was a mixture of sewer sludge, rotting animal carcasses, and rancid vomit...

And the indescribable, foul odor of chemical agents, so thick it almost solidified on the tip of the tongue.

At this moment, the protective mechanisms that humans have evolved over many years sensed this thick slurry, which was filled with various putrid, sour, and rotten smells...

They began to frantically control Ivan's brain, demanding that he vomit these things out.

After all, in the process of evolution, many smells that humans find disgusting must have originated from various dangers.

Faced with this physical instinct, Ivan swallowed the food with tears streaming down his face and gritted his teeth.

"Mere evolutionary instincts can't defeat me, Old Eight!!"

After swallowing this, a prompt quickly appeared on the panel.

You have devoured the flesh and blood of the Calamity Rat King! You may choose one of the following two options.

First: Taken as medicine.

[Second: The Devourer of Stars signifies: These rats that steal my authority deserve to become my food.]

Faced with this situation, Ivan didn't hesitate and immediately chose the second option.

You devoured the flesh and blood of the Calamity Rat King!

[Diamond Eater's Bite Progress +0.5%]

"Is it only 0.5 per bite?"

Ivan wiped away his tears, feeling that there wasn't enough.

At that moment, the cross-section that had been bitten off began to grow and wiggle again.

As it wriggled, Ivan saw a mouth that looked like a lamprey gradually appear.

Behind this mouth, a pair of eyes resembling those of a mouse gradually grew out.

"Still long!?"

Ivan wiped away his tears, then opened his mouth and swallowed the nearly completed cross-section...

A few minutes later, Evan ate the entire nearly three-meter-long rat tail.

After eating continuously, Evan's stomach finally showed noticeable changes.

Her slender, well-proportioned, and fit figure now revealed a noticeably protruding stomach.

In an instant, he transformed that handsome man into a somewhat greasy, chubby guy.

"Uh... I'm stuffed... I can't eat anymore."

Evan wiped his mouth, which was covered in drool, and felt a little dizzy.

Although I felt disgusted with myself, I also gained a lot.

This piece of the tail increased the progress of Starburst's Bite by 11%. Only 18% more is needed to activate the second stage!

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