Chapter 179: Talent: Do It Again, Talent: Space Seal

Chapter 179: Chapter 179: Talent: Do It Again, Talent: Space Seal

Seraphina Sullivan kept walking into the distance.

She ventured farther and farther from the Shelter.

In the even dimmer areas she passed through, Seraphina unhesitatingly collected any monster corpse that was either relatively intact or held special value.

Soon, Seraphina arrived beside the enormous corpses of the three fallen Night Behemoths.

Looking up at these mountain-like corpses from close range, the visual impact was far more intense than it had been when viewing them from the Wall.

"They’re... absurdly huge!"

Seraphina couldn’t help but murmur in awe.

The carcasses of these behemoths clearly far exceeded the storage capacity of her Space. All she could do was sigh in resignation.

"What a pity. A body this big... if I could take it all, I wonder how long it would feed Flora..." Seraphina shook her head in regret and turned to leave, intending to collect other, more portable spoils.

However, just as she turned, her peripheral vision caught something. On the corpse of the Night Behemoth that had been partially petrified by The Silenti before its skull was shattered by Dustin Sullivan and Julian Shaw, a strange, extremely faint light flickered for an instant from within the fractured area—a light unlike that of blood or tissue.

Intrigued, Seraphina stopped in her tracks and cautiously approached.

Peering through the shattered, petrified muscle and bone, she saw a fist-sized, strange stone fragment emanating a faint glow embedded in what would have been the behemoth’s heart, or at least a similar core region.

Seeing something so out of place, Seraphina used Item Identification without hesitation.

[Cosmic Fragment]

Effect: A stone fragment containing a strange, unknown Energy!

’Cosmic Fragment?’ Seraphina’s pupils constricted.

Her mind immediately jumped to the origin of this Dark Apocalypse world.

The meteor shower fifty years ago that had brought the strange substance.

’Could this be a fragment from those meteorites? One of the root materials that caused the Dark Apocalypse and the biological mutations?’

The discovery made her heart race.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she carefully used a tool to pry the "Cosmic Fragment" from the behemoth’s carcass.

It was ice-cold to the touch, yet she could feel a vast and bizarre wave of Energy contained within.

She quickly stored it in her Space. This was an incredible, unexpected find!

Seraphina immediately ran to the other two Night Behemoth corpses. Sure enough, she found a similarly sized [Cosmic Fragment] in the core region of each one!

She repeated the process, adding all three fragments to her haul.

Just as she finished stowing away the third fragment, the system’s seven-day survival deadline was approaching, and the feeling of her impending return grew ever clearer.

Sean Chandler, who had remained on high alert guarding her side, twitched his ears, his gaze instantly turning fierce.

He whispered to Seraphina, "Careful! Someone’s approaching. They’re probably up to no good!"

Seraphina immediately furrowed her brow.

She, too, felt several gazes lock onto her from different directions, gazes filled with undisguised greed and malice.

At this, Seraphina sighed softly, her tone carrying a trace of weary sarcasm.

"It seems some people never learn. They want to make a big gamble in the final moments before our return, hoping to snatch the space item from my hands?"

Clearly, her large-scale collection of monster corpses and the suspected fact that she possessed high-capacity Space Equipment had attracted the attention of the greedy.

There were always people willing to take desperate risks at the last moment, hoping to seize this "fortune" for themselves.

Following Sean Chandler’s warning, four or five figures slowly emerged from the shadows at the edge of the battlefield. They had clearly been lying in wait for a long time.

The leader was a man with an ordinary face, but his eyes glinted with a sinister greed.

He gave Seraphina a smile that didn’t reach his eyes and said in a tone of someone who believed he held all the cards, "Miss Sullivan, your performance in the battle just now was truly astonishing. Your gains must be quite handsome, yes? However, possessing a treasure is a crime in itself."

"I advise you to hand over that Space Equipment. If you do, we might consider leaving you a way out and letting you return in one piece."

Seraphina calmly looked at the man who had appeared.

She hadn’t seen him during the previous battle to defend the Shelter.

He had deliberately stayed hidden until now, only revealing himself at this moment. He was clearly a deep schemer.

She quickly scanned the group with her Eye of Resume.

Most of them had mediocre Talents, but the Abilities of two individuals caught Seraphina’s particular attention.

One was a timid-looking female Player named Shirley Holloway.

Her Talent was called [Do it again].

Its Effect was quite peculiar.

[Talent: Do it again: Designate a target, forcing them to imitate and synchronize with the user’s body movements for a short time.]

The other was the man in the lead before her, Quentin Lewis.

His Talent was Space Seal.

[Talent: Space Seal: Ability One (Internal): Can create a temporary sealed space to hide oneself and block detection. Ability Two (External): Can temporarily interfere with and seal a designated target’s Space-related items or Skills, preventing them from being opened or used.]

Seeing the detailed description for the [Space Seal] Talent, Seraphina instantly understood.

She immediately tried to connect with the Scavenger’s Farm, wanting to summon Flora and Moe.

But as expected, the connection was like a stone dropped into the ocean—nothing. Her Space felt as if it were cut off by an invisible barrier, completely inaccessible.

"Hahaha!"

Quentin Lewis saw Seraphina’s subtle movements and the instantaneous change in her expression and laughed triumphantly. "Felt it, haven’t you? Your Space won’t open now! Those powerful little pets can’t come out, can they? Once we deal with this Werewolf Guard beside you, let’s see what tricks you have left to resist!"

"It seems you’ve made quite a few preparations to deal with me."

Seraphina’s expression remained calm, showing no signs of panic despite her Space being sealed.

Quentin Lewis grinned, his tone smug. "I might not be able to beat those terrifying giant monsters, but when it comes to dealing with you Players, I’ve got a few ’little tricks’ I’ve researched. Sharon, Control that Guard, don’t let him get in the way!"

"Yes, Quentin!"

The female Player named Shirley Holloway immediately complied, focusing and activating her [Do it again] Talent on Sean Chandler!

The next moment, a bizarre scene unfolded.

Sean Chandler’s body went rigid. Then, he began to uncontrollably mimic Shirley Holloway’s actions.

When Shirley Holloway raised her right hand, Sean Chandler raised his right hand.

When Shirley Holloway took a step to the left, Sean Chandler followed with a step to the left. Their movements were perfectly synchronized, as if he were a marionette!

Though Sean Chandler’s face was contorted with resistance and fury, veins popping on his temples, he couldn’t break free from the bizarre, forced synchronization!

Watching this scene, a smile that said victory was already his spread across Quentin Lewis’s face.

Seraphina instantly understood their entire plan.

’Use the [Space Seal] Talent to neutralize my greatest assets—the Scavenger’s Farm and my summons inside it.

Then, use the [Do it again] Talent to control my strongest combatant, Sean Chandler, rendering him unable to protect me.

Meanwhile, during the previous battle, I had primarily presented the image of a "support" type who "relied" on my summons and guards.

Quentin Lewis and his group had clearly judged my own combat strength to be weak and not a threat based on that.’

"What a... well-thought-out plan," Seraphina murmured, the corners of her lips turning up.