By this time, Fang Senyan had strictly speaking, killed a full nine Awakened individuals! Had it not been for being killed by Cai Cha during the Guli Te period, achieving double digits in this hunt would have been a certainty. Such a record, and achieved outside of any major battlefield, might not be unprecedented or unrivaled, but it was still an astonishing number. Enraged, Fang Senyan fiercely pursued them to this location, now utterly exhausted. He slowly walked toward where his team was waiting, only then feeling waves of soreness and numbness wash over his body, accompanied by a throbbing anxiety and lingering fear. Reflecting back, those were ten Awakened individuals, not ten pigs waiting for slaughter! Even repeatedly stabbing them would leave one’s legs weak; if the death of Mogansa hadn't driven Fang Senyan into the frenzy of desperate fighting, under rational circumstances, he might not have gone quite so mad.

Fang Senyan had walked less than two hundred meters when Zi and the girl Wuge rushed to meet him with shared anxiety. Seeing his disheveled state instantly relieved and surprised them; they hurried to catch him, treating him as if he might collapse any second.

The moment Fang Senyan saw the two of them, he immediately knew the remaining enemies must have escaped.

Strictly speaking, this raid on them should have been a swift engagement. Once dragged into a war of attrition or a prolonged battle, the enemy had effectively already lost. After all, Fang Senyan had entered this world three days ahead of schedule and had already established a circle within this world that held significant common interests. The legendary figures of this world were certainly not to be trifled with; as soon as they sensed something amiss, they would surely rush to the rescue. Therefore, if they failed to achieve their objective in a short period, they had to retreat.

Zi looked at Fang Senyan with a hint of reproof, “What you did today was reckless. Any one of us could have died, but if you had died, the team would have fractured and completely disbanded. If you survive, those who died might still have a glimmer of hope, especially since the Metal Mentor has even come back from the dead.”

Fang Senyan sighed, “For a man, sometimes you just can’t back down. If you shrink away then, you’ll likely regret it for a lifetime!”

Wuge didn't seem to fully grasp Fang Senyan’s words, but her expression suggested deep admiration for him…….

After a tally, Fang Senyan surprisingly acquired sixty-one Merit Points, likely because a team leader was among those he had eliminated. However, he could only claim a maximum of thirty points. Following some inquiry, Zi received twenty points, Reef six, and San Zai five.

Nine pieces of equipment were also drawn from the nine slain Awakened individuals. Among these, only five items were truly valuable (Black-grade or higher): the Dark Gold war club used by Loganvald; KD dropped a Light Green item that had evolved to LV5: the Sorting Hat of Hogwarts; a Silver-grade plot item wrist guard possessing the ability called Absolute Sprint. When activated, it not only provided a 25% acceleration boost, but for 120 seconds, gravity would maintain a perfect ninety-degree angle relative to the user’s feet. Put simply, activating this ability while fleeing or pursuing an enemy allowed one to sprint across the surface of a building as if it were flat ground, or even casually stroll upside down on a ceiling. The Cursed Brothers dropped a Silver-grade plot cloak that increased the duration of abnormal status effects by 20% and granted Intelligence +8. The most valuable piece of equipment was a pair of Dark Gold long boots—an unexpected windfall. These boots not only provided a considerable bonus of All Attributes +4 but also came with the astonishing passive effect of reducing skill cooldown time by 25% and skill consumption by 25%. Furthermore, upon checking, this effect also applied to Vitality consumption. They also came with an active ability: Frog Leap, which granted the owner incredible jumping power, allowing a leap of 530 meters. Upon landing, it created a shockwave centered on the user, stunning nearby enemies.

After some deliberation, Reef’s Awakened Skill, Divine Grasp, was deemed the most crucial ability for the team—offering both offense and defense. Coupled with the fact that Reef, other than Guogan, lacked a means to charge into the enemy ranks, he was given the Dark Gold long boots.

Reef then returned the pair of Hoof Stomp boots he was previously using to Fang Senyan.

The Silver-grade plot cloak naturally went to Zi.

With Hei Ge gone, Fang Senyan needed to bring more destructive power to the team’s output, so he also took the Silver-grade plot wrist guard; the Absolute Sprint ability would be useful for both chasing and escaping.

The Light Green item that had evolved to LV5, the Sorting Hat of Hogwarts, seemed like a dead weight, as Fang Senyan could sense a mysterious power within it, yet none of them could figure out how to utilize the thing. In the end, they decided to keep it.

As for that Dark Gold war club… honestly, the Liquid Metal Lifeform was coveting it fiercely. This occurred after Fang Senyan fed it the other four useless items. Fang Senyan, in truth, was deeply fearful that this entity might swallow his current 'host'—the Dark Green gloves—which would leave him truly devastated. Considering the team’s currently dire financial situation—Wuge’s lodging fees alone were a massive expense—the Dark Gold war club was ultimately kept, estimated to fetch around 300,000 Universal Points. It would at least help patch some holes in the Ace Team's crumbling finances.

After Fang Senyan reunited with San Zai and Reef, he discovered that the luckiest person in this entire battle was Old Charlie. When the fighting erupted, he was thrown clear, landing in the toilet paper discount aisle of a nearby supermarket. He was immediately buried under a mountain of stacked toilet paper, which perfectly shielded him from the impact of two Frost Shocks. Upon landing, his constitution, not far removed from that of an ordinary person, caused him to pass out immediately, resulting only in a large bump on his head. Aside from that, he sustained no other injuries or lingering effects.

Upon hearing the terrible news about Mogansa, Old Charlie was silent for a moment. However, having experienced so much parting and loss, his sadness quickly faded, replaced by rationality. “Something must have happened that we don’t know about,” Old Charlie stated seriously to Fang Senyan after getting the full account.

Fang Senyan was currently bare-chested, displaying his firm, blocky musculature. He wasn't showing off; it was because Cai Cha’s Gu Tou technique was truly insidious, leaving him with aftereffects such as constantly oozing wounds and a grinning face growth, requiring Wuge to slowly heal him.

Hearing Old Charlie’s words, Fang Senyan narrowed his eyes, completely ignoring the natural energy from Wuge that was sizzling as it burned a patch of his dark flesh. He slowly said, “You are right! That mastermind must know the weakness of these hastily assembled people: once they are at a disadvantage, they scatter like sand. Given that, the fact that I could still fiercely kill nine Awakened individuals can only mean something happened to that person, preventing him from even commanding the fight.”

Old Charlie slowly took a sip of plain boiled water—he only drank water heated to forty degrees Celsius and touched no other beverages. “The mastermind vanished after his attack failed against Mr. San Zai… and Mr. San Zai possesses the special status of a Chosen One. Therefore, it is highly likely that his actions might have violated the permissions of our space, thus incurring some form of punishment.”

Fang Senyan then recalled what KD had told him and recounted it precisely to Old Charlie. Old Charlie fell into deep thought, then suddenly looked up, “If the circumstances are specific enough, the information KD provided might allow us to catch that guy.”

Fang Senyan nodded silently, though a flash of sharpness and ruthlessness suddenly crossed his gaze! “Don't let me catch you!”

Near New York Airport at this time, massive chaos had erupted. Countless tourists were stampeding around like headless ants, screaming in terror and desperately fleeing outwards, while the police and fire trucks were blocked outside, unable to get in.

The cause of this terrorist panic was a beam of light! To be precise, it was a beam of light shaped like a long spear!

The light was lofty and fierce, as if a supreme monarch were inspecting his subjects. That beam of light seemed to fly down from beyond the heavens, piercing deeply into the entrance of Terminal Two with indescribable speed and destructive force. Within a hundred-meter radius centered on that light, everything visible lay felled to the ground as withered skeletons. The crowds at the airport were immense, and at least several thousand people were gathered near the entrance of Terminal Two at that moment; this allowed one to extrapolate the dense carpet of skeletal remains surrounding the light—a terrifying and gruesome sight.

What was even more bizarre was that despite these circumstances, someone had survived, and this person was impaled onto the ceiling of the airport by that spear-shaped beam of light! The light pierced his right chest, and the wound starkly illuminated his pale, slack skin.

The impaled person was none other than the seemingly ordinary individual who had fought fiercely against Carlos, Razor, and Taki earlier. Of course, he was still tightly clutching the incredibly fierce demon sword Abophis he carried, which stood out conspicuously, as if challenging the spear of light to a duel!

As for Carlos, Razor, and Taki—they had vanished as if evaporated from the earth!