Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

A crisp snap of fingers echoed through this space.

Hamdouk, who had accepted [Salvation], was now in the elder's courtyard.

He was listening to the elders' plans, his heart surging with excitement.

Under normal circumstances, someone of his status would never be privy to such discussions.

But, who could blame him for bringing back an outsider, one who bore a humble name.

If that outsider could manage to take down the Lord of Chalk along with himself, and let the settlement obtain the "Warhorse," then...

His standing would rise even higher! Perhaps, in the future, he might even become one of the elders!

Hamdouk's heart was filled with anticipation and longing.

But...

Because a ghastly white light surged through his mind.

That light engulfed his will, engulfed his life.

The last thing he saw.

Was a face wearing a faint smile.

The next instant.

"ROAR!!!"

Hamdouk dropped dead on the spot.

A demon crawled out from his corpse.

[Demon Card · Salvation]

[Salvation: The demons have come to save you~]

[Demon: As long as you pay the price~]

The price was~

After death, turning into a frenzied! Battle-until-death demon!

This was a derived effect of the second ability of Salvation.

In the past.

He wouldn't use it.

Because the vast majority of those who had been saved had yet to harbor any malice toward him.

And those who were taken out by Salvation, even if they were enemies.

Take, for example, Tengo, the City Lord of Miranda City.

For that kind of powerhouse and those who died with their own dignity.

Ye Qiyan would grant them the greatest respect he could offer.

He didn't turn their corpses into corpse-demons that could only last for a short time, existing solely to mindlessly slaughter.

But today.

Ye Qiyan felt it was time to try out this ability's effects~

"H-Hamdouk?!"

Inside the Elder Council hall.

The Night People's elders stared in horror at the scene before them.

"You?! What are you doing! Damn it! What kind of monster is this! Guards! Assassins! Kill him!"

Several assassins hidden among the rafters leaped down, trying to stop the corpse-demon that Hamdouk had transformed into.

But they were weak.

Remarkably weak.

So weak that this corpse-demon, which couldn't even defeat a single Endless Mech, could instantly take them down.

This caught Ye Qiyan off guard instead.

He leisurely walked toward the Elder Council with Eve, glancing at the live feed from the Nano-Bee Swarm along the way, lost in thought.

So weak.

Wasn't this a Level 9 Ascension Station? If the Eternal City was the main body, with a rank somewhere above Level 9 but below Level 10, then these Night People who were supposed to assassinate the Lord of Chalk...

Were even inferior to the Gnome Mechs that Gluttony could transform.

The path was completely unobstructed.

The doors of the Elder Council were firmly locked by the Nano-Bee Swarm, completely impossible to open.

And any elder who tried to climb over the wall was easily knocked back into the courtyard by a casual poke from the swarm.

The entire courtyard felt wrapped in a barrier that completely cut it off from the outside.

No messages could be sent.

Because this was the highest point of the entire settlement, separated from the commoners' living area by a forest.

The people below could neither see nor hear what was happening or being said above.

"Charlie, what's wrong?"

Charlie of the assassin squad stopped in his tracks.

He glanced up toward the mountain.

"Nothing... I just felt like I heard something."

"It's just your imagination, just your imagination. Hurry up and move out. When we get back, we still need to keep training!"

"Yeah!"

—

Outside the Elder Council.

Ye Qiyan arrived.

That corpse-demon was decent compared to the elders.

But it was still only at the level of a Level 8 mech-soldier, hardly worth mentioning. After all, Hamdouk himself was a weakling.

Using his corpse to create a demon—how strong could it possibly be?

So Ye Qiyan's initial plan was to use [Decisive] to equip that guy with reinforced armor.

He just never expected the elders and their guards to be this weak.

The door locked by the Nano-Bee Swarm automatically opened as Ye Qiyan approached.

An old man, curled up by the door, rolled out.

He landed right at Ye Qiyan's feet.

"Y-you are? Hurry! Go kill that monster! Adventurer from another realm! I'm begging you! Only you can save us!"

"Is that so? You really, truly think that?"

[Bewitchment~]

"You damn outsider with your lowly name! Go deal with that thing! What are you just standing there for... What?"

As the whispers of Bewitchment faded.

The old man suddenly realized what he had just said.

"No, I just now, I just now—"

"Just now, you spoke from the heart~"

Ye Qiyan smiled warmly at him.

*Ptoo—*

A sound of flesh being pierced rang out.

*Splash—*

A strange old man, cut in half at the middle, collapsed into his own pool of blood, his face frozen in terror.

Eve's arm had transformed into the [Star Chaser] blade, slicing him in two.

She disdainfully flicked the blood off her hand and happily sidled up to Ye Qiyan.

Her rabbit ears twitched.

On top, they turned into a [1].

"Go ahead, don't let anyone inside out, except the Great Elder. We might be able to squeeze some useful information out of that guy."

Eve nodded, then slid into the Elder Council with a hop and a skip.

Her body turned into a streak of starlight.

Right when the corpse-demon was about to be finished off by the assassins, she entered.

"What is this?"

"He's that outsider's retainer."

"What a bizarre thing. You... Ah!"

Eve wasn't there to listen to useless chatter.

With a single Slash.

The number above her head began to rapidly update.

2...3...11...24.

Eleven elders, plus thirteen assassins.

In less than half a minute, without even needing to fire a single shot, she had slain them all.

The blade beneath her feet glided freely like roller skates.

She spun twice on the ground before finally raising a gun, aiming it at the settlement's Great Elder, who had remained motionless in his seat the entire time.

She didn't act, because her master said not to.

"You truly are a formidable outsider."

The Great Elder spoke in a deep voice.

"With just one mechanical lifeform, you can easily defeat the elders. Your strength is impressive. So, when did you find out?"

Talking to a smart person was simple.

The Great Elder guessed that Ye Qiyan had figured out his plan.

And even, the sudden death of Hamdouk, followed by a monster bursting from his corpse—it was highly likely this man's doing.

Ye Qiyan stood before the Great Elder, a smile on his face.

"Why, from the very beginning, of course."

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