The Rule-Breaker of the Doomsday Game

Qi Suian spent nearly a day collecting most of the Spiritual Roots into the Melting Furnace.

There were too many of them, so collecting them all was unrealistic. Qi Suian could only do his best.

Could the escaped Spiritual Roots cause problems later? As if Qi Suian gave a damn. He was leaving the Spirit Root World in two days anyway.

He wasn’t some savior, so how could he be expected to worry about all that? The few that were left probably couldn’t cause much trouble anyway.

As for the limited-time event, the Doomsday Game was indeed quite rigid. Even though the boss was dead, the event didn’t end immediately; the countdown just kept going.

To this, Qi Suian could only curse it for being a piece of junk.

He estimated that the evolution energy he had obtained would be enough for the Tai Sui God to evolve three times. Unfortunately, the amount was so massive that it would take time to burn.

It definitely wouldn’t be finished in the remaining two days in the Spirit Root World. He would have to wait for the next Doomsday World.

But this was also good news. Otherwise, with three module slots available, Qi Suian would have a hard time resisting the urge to fill them before the next Doomsday World.

Logically, leaving module slots open to deal with the next Doomsday World was the right move.

In reality, Qi Suian wanted to install modules like Fiber Worm, elemental materials, and elemental resistance defenses.

The energy technology from the Profound Elemental Attachment Technique was indeed very comprehensive and useful in all sorts of environments.

He then spent the remaining time researching how to upgrade his A-rank talent, Body of the Hungry.

Normally, it would be impossible to upgrade it. But a theory is, after all, just a theory.

With the complete evolution data of the Spirit Root Race, plus the +10 enhanced Celestial Fate: Profound, and the fact that the talent was artificial, he succeeded, unsurprisingly.

[S-Rank Talent: Devourer’s Core]

From "Hungry" to "Devourer," the name definitely sounded a lot better.

Then Qi Suian immediately ignored the talent. Evolving it to SS-rank wouldn’t be so easy.

He figured he’d have to wait until his virus talent reached SSS-rank before there would be a way to further upgrade the Profound Virus.

What Qi Suian was really focused on was the enhancement of his own attributes.

As the talent was upgraded from A-rank to S-rank, his bonus attributes were converted into base attributes.

This caused his attributes to break through their original limit, resulting in a qualitative change.

If he were to encounter an Immortal Mage now, he probably couldn’t kill them, but they wouldn’t be able to kill him either.

They were on an even footing.

The Profound Virus was also further enhanced, and then... he felt a bottleneck.

Not him, but the Profound Virus inside him. It seemed to have reached its limit.

But Qi Suian didn’t care at all. He got this "potential exhausted" feeling with every upgrade, yet his power still skyrocketed.

He and the Profound Virus never had this potential in the first place. The fact that a bottleneck appeared was actually a good thing; it meant it could be broken.

Additionally, his derivatives like the Fiber Worms and Fei all began to be upgraded and replaced.

His power rose to another level.

’Breaking through double-digit attributes will probably be even harder.’

’I really envy those humans from powerful worlds. They don’t have to worry about potential and limits for a long time.’

’Not like me. Ever since leaving the Profound World, every step forward has been me expanding my own limits. It’s really been hard on me,’ Qi Suian sighed.

It truly was hard. Both breakthroughs and upgrades were inevitably accompanied by torment and pain, even when it was just like installing an update patch for himself.

Then, his gaze fell on his panel, and his expression suddenly changed.

"No way, this is..."

Qi Suian suddenly discovered that on the attribute panel provided by the Doomsday Game, his stats had turned into a jumble of garbled text.

[Name: *** (Profound Virus · 100% Complete Infection)]

[Spirit: ×&%]

[Physique: ¥#@]

"I already had high expectations for you, but how could you be so disappointing?" Qi Suian was exasperated. "The name being asterisks is one thing, but the stats turning to gibberish just going from single to double digits?"

"If I keep improving, is this panel of yours going to crack?"

Honestly, Qi Suian had never imagined that after his attributes went from 9 to 10, the Doomsday Game would actually be unable to display them.

He suspected he had reached the upper limit for survivors in the Doomsday Game.

This meant his rate of improvement far exceeded the Doomsday Game’s.

’No wonder the Sacred Artifact World could only bring over Longjing City. I thought you just wanted to pick a survivor protagonist, but it turns out you were really at your limit...’

For a moment, Qi Suian didn’t know what to say.

Then he discovered a blind spot. ’In that case, if I continue to increase my power, can I break free from the Doomsday Game’s control?’

’Or even be ruthless, turn the tables and devour the Doomsday Game itself.’

Of course, he knew the Doomsday Game was a trap, but he still coveted its ability to travel between worlds.

Even though the worlds he traveled to were all facing doomsday, as long as he could survive, it meant he could obtain the resources of an entire world.

’Wait, now that I’m like this, will the Doomsday Game refuse to take me with it???’

Qi Suian suddenly thought of this problem. Moving to another Doomsday World was fine; even in the Sacred Artifact World, Qi Suian was confident he could continue to do as he pleased.

But the Spirit Root World was different. This world already had a master.

Qi Suian couldn’t even begin to imagine how terrifying the Spider God, Atrek Nakaya, was.

’Probably not. If it really wasn’t going to take me, I probably wouldn’t even be able to open my attribute panel.’

’But I’ll have to be careful in the future and prepare in advance.’

’If the day comes when I try to turn the tables and fail to seize the Doomsday Game, I’ll at least need a decent world to fall back on.’

Qi Suian pondered the matter of backstabbing the system, but after some thought, he decided to put it aside for now.

For now, the Doomsday Game’s attributes were still very valuable. A score of 10 was enough to make him incomprehensible to the game.

Those gods, demons, and immortal emperors probably only had attributes in the thirties or fifties.

After all, it was an exponential increase, similar to D&D’s attribute system.

Of course, there was still a huge gap between the current Qi Suian and those powerhouses.

After all, improving beyond 10 attribute points was probably not going to be easy.

Especially since the Doomsday Game couldn’t pull in sufficiently powerful survivors for him, he could only rely on the Doomsday Worlds the game took him to.

The strongest survivors the Doomsday Game could pull in probably had dual attributes at 9. Any higher, and the current stage of the game probably couldn’t control them.

Like Qi Suian, they would become outlaws beyond its control.

’That’s not right. Logically, you should be able to handle 10 attribute points. After all, the Source of Profound Darkness: Virus Frenzy I have adds +10 to growth.’

’So your limit shouldn’t be in the single digits.’

Qi Suian thought of the SSS-rank item he had always treated as a mere accessory.

’Wait, the bottleneck I’m feeling... could it be that I’ve exhausted the potential provided by the Source of Profound Darkness: Virus Frenzy?’

’The reason for the +10 growth to Spirit, Physique, and Profound Virus... is it because it was downgraded?’

If its previous consciousness still existed, this item would definitely be X-rank. But since Qi Suian had disposed of its consciousness, it was essentially incomplete.

That’s why breaking the limit was possible. Under normal circumstances, one couldn’t reach this level by relying on the Source of Profound Darkness: Virus Frenzy.

Qi Suian hadn’t relied on it either, but on other Extraordinary systems.

Normally, this item shouldn’t have the "Virus Frenzy" suffix.

This suffix wasn’t an enhancement, but a restriction.

It was like the Divine Purification Force Field on the Tai Sui God. Without a limiter like "Profound," an ability would be a conceptual-level existence.

But once a suffix was added, it became restricted to the contents of that suffix.

’Oh well. What’s done is done, there’s no use talking about it anymore.’

’Now I have one less reference panel to look at.’

’I hope nothing else ridiculous happens next.’

Qi Suian had a strange sense of deja vu. His strength had already surpassed the upper limit the Doomsday Game had for its survivors.

He was also a violator, and both sides were in a cold war. Since he couldn’t leave the game, it was highly likely to pull a move on him, something akin to a job transfer.

The simplest example would be transferring him from a technical position to a janitorial one, just to spite him.

The main issue was that the Doomsday Game couldn’t fire him. Otherwise, how could it possibly keep such a major traitor around?

Before his attribute panel became garbled, he was a malignant tumor. Now he had become a straight-up traitor. If he continued to grow, he might really be able to usurp it.

’I wonder where the Doomsday Game even came from. It’s so rigid, firing an employee is this much trouble.’

’If only the company from my past life was this law-abiding.’ Qi Suian felt that aside from being a bit stingy, a bit of a letdown, and liking to drag people into survival games, the Doomsday Game didn’t really have that many flaws.

It actually followed its own rules and regulations.

It would even thoughtfully provide a solution if its rules and regulations conflicted.

Even a violator like Qi Suian had benefited from this.

For example, the solidification effect for the Tai Sui God’s fourth trait. The rewards it gave out were unambiguous.

’I just hope the next Doomsday World is a bit more normal.’

’Don’t just ramp up the difficulty to get rid of me. With my protagonist plot armor, I might not die, but you, Doomsday Game, you could really get screwed.’

This wasn’t an empty threat. If the Spider God, Atrek Nakaya, had been interested, the Doomsday Game really would have been utterly destroyed.

His gaze shifted to the countdown for the limited-time event: The Last of the Spirit Root Race.

Only three minutes remained. He checked his Floating Cannons and missile reserves; it would still be a while before they were fully restored.

He had used them all up just to stay alive. Three days definitely wasn’t enough time.

The Floating Cannons were in better shape. Since they were modules, the solidification effect could restore them directly.

But the missile reserves were a different story. As a derivative of the Strategic Missile Weapon System, they needed to be converted and synthesized, which wasn’t as fast.

As the countdown hit zero, Qi Suian felt that familiar phantom pain wash over him again, only this time the sensation was even clearer than before.

’Damn it! So it’s because I’ve gotten stronger that I can now feel the Doomsday Game’s teleportation mechanism!’

This was Qi Suian’s last thought before he lost consciousness.

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