novelnext Chapter 707: Superpower Crystals
Chapter 707: Superpower Crystals
Perhaps she would not have spent so much time hesitating.
As those thoughts crossed her mind, guilt slowly appeared in her eyes. "I’m sorry..."
The moment Silas heard those apologetic words, his entire expression froze.
Immediately afterward, he pulled her deeper into his embrace and gently patted her back repeatedly while kissing the top of her head tenderly.
"What are you even apologizing for?"
His voice became low and emotional. "If anyone should apologize, it should be me."
He slowly closed his eyes for a moment.
"I was not there when you suffered so much. A part of the blame for everything that happened to you belongs to me as well."
Then he gently kissed her forehead.
Ivy’s eyes became slightly moist.
At that moment, she truly felt that she must have accumulated incredible luck in order to have a husband like Silas.
A man willing to wait for her for over six months without complaining even once.
A man who always respected her fears, her trauma, and her emotions despite how much he desired her.
Meanwhile, Silas’s thoughts drifted toward the trap they had prepared earlier.
In fact, they had waited for an entire month already.
Yet not a single superior being had attempted to approach the room containing the hidden gold.
The situation felt both baffling and alarming.
At one point, they even began wondering whether the superior beings had already shifted their attention toward an entirely different plan.
Meanwhile, Benny had spent the past month tirelessly completing various tasks assigned by the superior beings.
Some missions were simple.
Others were absurdly strange.
At times, he hunted mutated beasts alone deep inside dangerous zones.
At other times, he chopped apart bizarre mutated plants while collecting their cores and samples.
He even spent days planting mysterious chips throughout different regions of the country.
The work exhausted him both mentally and physically.
Several times, he genuinely considered giving up completely.
However, every time that thought surfaced, he remembered the rewards promised to him.
And greed pushed him forward once more.
Finally, one month later, the superior beings rewarded him personally.
The reward was a crystal.
At first glance, the crystal looked extremely beautiful. Multiple colors flowed across its surface like moving light trapped inside glass.
Initially, Benny could not understand why they had gifted him such an item.
However, once he opened the letter accompanying it, his eyes widened in shock.
This crystal could awaken an entirely new superpower.
Of course, the process came with a price.
His original ability, super strength, would disappear completely.
In exchange, the crystal would rewrite his power into something vastly superior.
The temptation was simply too overwhelming.
Without hesitation, Benny immediately decided to test it.
The moment he began absorbing the crystal, unbearable pain exploded throughout his entire body.
"Aghhh!"
His body convulsed violently. Cold sweat instantly soaked his clothes.
At one point, the pain became so intense that Benny genuinely thought he was going to die.
For a terrifying moment, he even suspected that the superior beings had merely been toying with him from the beginning.
Perhaps they never intended to reward him at all. Perhaps this was simply their method of killing useless humans.
Even so... Benny gritted his teeth and continued enduring the pain desperately.
Eventually, after what felt like endless suffering, the process finally ended.
The moment Benny slowly opened his eyes again, he immediately sensed that something inside him had fundamentally changed.
Curious, Benny quickly began experimenting with his newfound ability.
At first, nothing happened. Then suddenly... Crack!
Blue lightning erupted violently across his fingertips.
Benny’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Soon afterward, he discovered something even more shocking.
His power was not ordinary lightning. It was mutated lightning.
Not only that, but it also carried partial control over rain itself.
If he wished, he could force rain to pour across an entire area.
The destructive potential of the ability immediately intoxicated him.
A trembling smile slowly appeared across his face. "It was worth it..."
At that moment, greed completely consumed his heart.
If the superior beings possessed treasures capable of granting powers like this, then how terrifyingly advanced were they truly?
However, before Benny could continue thinking further, his exhausted body finally collapsed completely.
He fell onto the bed unconscious. And slept for three entire days straight.
The situation became so strange that even Carter eventually noticed Benny’s absence.
Initially, Carter barely paid attention to him.
However, after hearing repeated reports about Benny remaining unconscious for days, even he became slightly suspicious.
"What happened to him?"
Several subordinates merely shrugged helplessly. "We do not know."
Left with no choice, Carter personally went to inspect the situation.
Yet once he arrived and saw Benny sleeping heavily while the room smelled strongly of alcohol, Carter immediately lost interest.
"He is just drunk."
With that conclusion, Carter simply left.
Meanwhile, when Benny finally regained consciousness several days later, his expression became contemplative.
The reason was simple. He kept thinking about the crystal.
The absorption process had been unimaginably painful.
Yet the superior beings had not warned him even once.
Gradually, a strange thought formed inside his mind.
Perhaps superior beings themselves did not experience pain while absorbing such crystals.
Or perhaps... they simply no longer considered that level of suffering important.
Regardless of the truth, Benny remained grateful toward them.
In fact, he had already started looking forward to meeting them personally someday.
He had also informed them about the gold trap beforehand, which was precisely why the superior beings never approached the location at all.
Just as Benny expected another mission soon, he finally received a new instruction from the superior beings.
This time, the order made his eyes narrow slightly.
He was instructed to secretly bring his trusted subordinates to a specific location.
Now was the time to establish a true connection and solidify it completely.
That was what the superior beings had told Benny after he awakened his new superpower.
The moment he heard those words, excitement surged violently through his chest.
Finally.
Finally, the day he had dreamed about for so long was approaching.