“Ye Qiyan, I’m your opponent.”

In the Chat Interface, Mo Shi sent him a message.

“So? What are you planning to do? Will you use your original power, or just a Train Conductor’s abilities?”

Ye Qiyan responded to Mo Shi’s chat.

To him, Mo Shi was a being worth paying attention to, because he was curious about what made this so-called True God, according to the System, so special.

But after seeing that [Abyss] before.

Ye Qiyan realized.

Even among True Gods, there were vast differences.

But without a doubt.

“Of course, it’s a Train Conductor’s power. Ye Qiyan still doesn’t trust me, huh? I told you, I won’t use my original power in battle. Unless it’s something small like a blind eye or a broken nose, I’ll use just a tiny bit~”

“6...”

“6? What does that mean? Are you going to bully me with six times your strength, Senior Ye Qiyan~”

“Having something that’s lived for who knows how many years call me senior… no thanks.”

“By human standards, you became a Train Conductor earlier than me, so of course you’re senior. And by human reckoning, this body is just a newborn baby.”

“What are you even trying to say?”

After bickering for a while, Ye Qiyan felt he couldn’t understand this girl’s train of thought.

So he cut straight to the point.

“I want Senior Ye Qiyan to examine the gap between me, as a Novice Train Conductor, and you at this point in time.”

“Alright.”

“Thank you, senior~”

The conversation ended.

In the player waiting area, the Host roared and shouted.

Alongside the audience’s ocean-like cheers.

Ye Qiyan, disguised as a vampire, entered the arena.

Thousands of eyes converged on him.

People cheered, eagerly awaiting the battle’s start.

Perhaps to better set the atmosphere, or to cool the somewhat scorching mood.

From Alphart’s virtual sky, rain mixed with icy sleet began to fall.

The audience stands were protected by a canopy.

But the arena was not.

The biting rain and piercing wind.

Caused the temperature in this area to plummet to minus 50 degrees.

For ordinary people, it would have been unbearable.

“Whew~ whew~”

Mo Shi happily waved her fingers, exhaling white mist.

“The feeling of cold… it’s pretty good too. Mm, skin touching the icy rain, touching the cold wind… it makes one feel alive.”

Mo Shi approached Ye Qiyan, stopping only when she was less than fifty meters away.

“Being alive… it’s wonderful.”

Ye Qiyan slightly clenched his fist.

The [Decisive] demon gauntlet faintly materialized over his palm.

“Are you afraid of death?”

“Not afraid… I just don’t want it.”

“You don’t want it?”

“Yeah. But what can I do? I was born as something that was never alive in the first place. I don’t feel pain, I don’t scream, I can’t sense temperature, and I won’t die.”

Mo Shi made a funny face.

“See? Without eyes and a mouth, I couldn’t even do this. So, thank you~”

“I don’t think I’ve done anything worth thanking for.”

“No.”

Mo Shi shook her head, ignoring the confusion and urging from the audience, the Host, and even the referee.

“You were the one who attracted me, the one who woke me up. It was your radiant light that made me want, for the first time, to go out and see the world. So…”

Mo Shi’s eyes burned with a blue flame.

She held a pistol in her hand.

“A power that has nothing to do with my past self~ Just picking up a gun, pulling the trigger, firing… Pretty weak, right?”

The gauntlet fully solidified. Ye Qiyan waited for Mo Shi’s next words.

“But this power is different from death. Meaning… I’ve grown. So, senior, come and check if my growth is worthy!”

Mo Shi pulled the trigger.

The bullets fired toward Ye Qiyan transformed mid-air into magical moths.

These moths swarmed him from all directions.

Armor covered him.

The moths were blocked outside.

He leaped forward, instantly catching up to Mo Shi.

He raised his fist without mercy and brought it down.

Just as it was about to make contact, he sensed something strange beneath him.

Leg armor materialized.

Speed increased.

Magic power surged.

A shadowy magic circle emerged from the ground.

A shadow whale, dozens of meters in size, leaped up from the earth.

“Rooooar~”

It let out a whale’s bellow.

Everywhere its shadow touched transformed into something like an ocean.

“This is my pet. How about it, senior? Like it?”

[Shadow Beast · Whale Sting (Level 7)]

[Miatira Special Note: Growth Phase]

Not yet at the advanced threshold, but judging by its size and the System’s appraisal of its growth phase…

This thing would eventually reach Level 8.

Ye Qiyan leaped onto the shadow whale’s head.

He smashed his fist down.

The Inverted Cross’s shadow directly overlapped onto the summoned shadow.

The whale let out a mournful cry, half its body shattered. It painfully dove into the shadows and disappeared, its survival unknown.

Mo Shi already knew that whale was no match for Ye Qiyan.

Not even against Ye Qiyan using just the single ability of one Demon Card.

So from the start.

She had never thought about winning.

“Next is this.”

Pale white flames formed a magic circle beneath her feet.

An ominous power gathered, directly summoning a massive number of undead.

[Enhancement Module · Necromancy]

Miatira sent Ye Qiyan another prompt.

But it wasn’t over.

Mo Shi kept pulling various items from her storage space.

Elementals, machinery, hidden weapons, summons…

Ye Qiyan didn’t dodge or evade. He took Mo Shi’s attacks head-on, smashing the summons, machines, and elementals apart with one punch after another.

Until he finally reached the girl smiling at him. He raised his fist and lightly tapped her on the head.

“Aww, I lost. Senior is still amazing. So, how does current me compare to you back then? By the way, this is my Station Twenty-Three~”

Station Twenty-Three.

Ye Qiyan’s Station Twenty-Three was his first Level 8 Station World, [Wind Wind Shopping Mall].

As for Mo Shi’s Station Twenty-Three… perhaps this Pearl Light Arena could count as that.

“I told you. You can’t catch up to me.”

The answer.

Was obvious.

Victory and defeat were decided.

Mo Shi watched Ye Qiyan’s retreating figure, a faint flush on her cheeks. One hand cupped her cheek as she swapped the eyes buried in her chest with her current ones.

The black cross’s starlight sparkled~

Pleasure, excitement, and passion.

Mo Shi grinned, muttering to herself as she laughed.

“If I can’t catch up, then that’s why I have to chase. Being alive… it’s wonderful.”

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