The Founder's POV

Chapter 38: Final Cleansing [1]

{Legacy Skill: Personal Assassin}
{Target: Cassian StarHold}
{The power gap between the targets is significant, success chance: 100%}

{Activating...}
{0%}
{25%}
{59%}
{100%}
{Activation complete...}
{Modifying user's body...}

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In the once luxurious and now utterly destroyed hall, only three humans remained alive, all on the brink of death. Killian leaned against the massive door, watching the transformation of Jin with his own eyes.

After initially merging with the puppet, his hair turned white, and his eyes became red. He grew much taller, and his attractiveness stats likely increased exponentially, but that was unimportant now.

The atmosphere around him changed drastically, as if he had become an entirely different person. As if he had ceased to be human long ago.

Much like Vantos and Sebastian after sacrificing their limbs, he seemed to have transformed into something else entirely. And after Sebastian's final strike pierced his heart before dying, Jin activated a strange technique, and his body shrank, only to reappear minutes later.

"What?!"

Killian felt an unparalleled terror, his limbs trembling involuntarily. The once calm aura around Jin now felt like an uncontrollable, raging beast. The mana around him, just like his hair, was as white as snow, but the feeling it emitted was malevolent.

There was no hint of purity in it! His appearance hadn't changed much, but he had now reached rank S! He skipped past rank S- as if it didn't exist and settled dominantly at rank S!

What a development; things would have been much easier if he had done this before... if only. Jin walked slowly towards Cassian, extending his hand strangely.

"I hope you are worth it."

He held Sebastian's storage ring, taking out high-ranked healing materials and feeding them to Cassian immediately. He then moved towards the remnants of Gilbert's body, the Morning Star that had shone its light on this Hell for the first time.

Since the mechanical arm wasn't considered part of his body, it didn't transform with him into that strange star and remained here with his ashes. As Jin was about to grab it, it exploded unexpectedly.

Without Gilbert's power, the arm couldn't store the item inside anymore. All the things he had carried scattered everywhere, the most prominent being a large sword.

It looked more like a cleaver than a sword, heavy and massive, which Jin recognized well. It was the legendary sword that had chosen Cassian...

The sword flew towards Cassian as if eager to reunite with him, and Jin didn't try to stop it. Instead, he began collecting Gilbert's items and arranging them in Sebastian's space ring.

He then approached Killian, who was almost trembling. He couldn't predict what would happen next due to his extreme exhaustion.

Feeling this unfamiliar helplessness, he began to show a side he had never revealed before. But fortunately for him, Jin did not fulfill his worst expectations - that his mind would change in a strange way.

On the contrary, it seemed this body completely yielded to him and didn't try to influence his thoughts. The reason for Jinn's current change in mood was the death of two comrades he loved and using the skill that represented his life's trauma.

Using it was like liberating his soul, but remembering Lyra's body that had turned into a bloody pulp...

Of course, he didn't forget to take her body from Gilbert's stash; he would bury all who died here in the human nation. he took Vantos' space ring and handed it to Killian.