Chapter 36 Agility

Qingxu: "It’s confirmed that there are only two polluted creatures below. One appears entirely rock-like, wandering in the corridor, and the other has a grayish-white skin tone. Due to the rock creature’s exterior shielding, its true state cannot be known. The gray-white creature is highly active; preliminarily judging, it possesses at least three times the physical constitution of an ordinary person." Lu Ren exhaled deeply, his expression neither sad nor happy, serene beyond compare, as he turned his head towards Xiang Yang. "Give me your dagger." Xiang Yang did not hesitate in the slightest. She was aware that the dagger in her hands could hardly exert any power; only in Lu Ren’s hands could it be of maximum use. With her capability, she could only look for opportunities. Strictly speaking, as long as she’s not dragging Lu Ren down, she’s already helping him. Lu Ren replaced the most severely damaged longsword, holding the dagger in his left hand and the sword in his right. "Take care of yourself; I might not be able to watch out for you." "I understand, thank you..." Lu Ren looked at Xiang Yang’s resolute face and could not help but feel that perhaps the environment truly changes a person. In the real world, those women appear delicate and powerless, but if they survive here and live for three years, they may also transform like this. Unfortunately... She seemed unusually active after arriving at this test center, feeling a bit reckless. "In a crisis, I’ll preserve myself!" Lu Ren said seriously. He didn’t conceal, at any time, ensuring one’s own safety is essential. Xiang Yang nodded heavily. She also understood that Lu Ren had done everything he could to bring her here. "I’ll be extra cautious!" Lu Ren nodded slightly, saying no more, as the elevator door opened, he saw the enormous rock monster, over three meters tall, thirty meters away with its back facing them. Without any hesitation, he sprinted at full speed. This was a prime opportunity for attack. Given Lu Ren’s current physical constitution, combined with the Soaring and Shifting Steps from the Basic Sword Technique, his short-distance explosive sprint even surpassed Bolt. The dense footsteps seemed to resonate throughout the metal corridor. As the rock creature heard the commotion and looked back, Lu Ren suddenly leaped high, seemingly aligning with the stone monster’s line of sight, stepped five times on the wall, and finally leaped on the rock monster’s head. Torsion in his waist and abdomen turned his body, and the longsword in his hand swung with rotational force, cutting towards the rock monster’s shoulder and neck gap like chopping Hua Mountain. Clang! A loud metallic sound echoed, yet apart from sparking fire and shaving off some stone debris, it caused no damage. Lu Ren wasn’t surprised in the slightest. As the sword cleaved down, his body rotated again, flipping mid-air, the dagger in his left hand gleamed with a blue glow, slicing fiercely at the rock man’s neck. Once again, the sensation to Lu Ren was like cutting through tofu, without any resistance. Easy and joyful. The horizontal cut sliced through most of the rock man’s neck, leaving only a bit of stone sticking. If not for the dagger’s length being insufficient, just this one move could have decapitated the opponent. "Ding, due to dealing a massive critical strike to the rock beast with a short blade, causing the opponent to be near death, you have a breakthrough and gain insight, achieving the Basic Dagger Technique at Beginner level during the life-or-death battle." With the system’s prompt, Lu Ren felt the dagger in his left hand seemed as if used for at least two years straight. Before landing, Lu Ren’s wrist slightly moved, the dagger spun a circle on his fingers and was then held in reverse, the dagger plunged straight into the rock man’s back, slicing down as Lu Ren landed. "Roar!!!" A deafening and low painful roar erupted from the rock beast, but was abruptly cut off. Its massive body didn’t turn but staggered forward a few steps, collapsing heavily to the ground. Lu Ren dared not pause, stepping and leaping through the space onto the rock beast’s body, advancing to the partly cut neck. The dagger blade in his hand emitted a blue glow that trailed a blue stream of light as his arm descended. The hand rose, the knife fell! The colossal head of the rock beast rolled from the massive body. Thump, thump, thump! Seeing the rock beast’s head rolling directly to the alloy door, Lu Ren’s legs slightly sank, confirming the massive corpse below had no movement before sitting down heavily. Then Lu Ren awkwardly got up, leaving the rock beast’s body and sitting on the floor. The jagged edges of the rock beast’s body were too painful to sit on. "Ding, in the electric moment of beheading the rock beast, your Basic Dagger Technique skill level +100." "Ding, due to high-intensity life-and-death combat, your Agility Proficiency +10." "Ding, due to high-intensity life-and-death combat, your Strength Proficiency +10." "Ding, due to high-intensity life-and-death combat, maintaining composure during peril, your Will Proficiency +10." "Ding, due to high-intensity life-and-death combat..." Upon hearing a series of notifications in his mind, Lu Ren exhaled deeply, this being the first time he heard a system prompt for improving Will Proficiency. Constitution, Strength, and Agility can all be enhanced through training, but improving Will is somewhat enigmatic to Lu Ren. He is still too superficial regarding the mysteries of the body, or merely conducting mechanical training. Once back, he must persistently press Yan Zhenghua. Yan Zhenghua, immersed in the Martial Path for decades, might have a deeper understanding of the human body than experts in the life sciences. Seeing Xiang Yang approaching with a worried face, Lu Ren waved to indicate he was fine. "Qingxu, how much longer?" "According to the five-minute countdown, you have four minutes and fifteen seconds left, Commander Lu Ren, your combat skills and physical constitution are impressive, comparable to a Super Gene Warrior trained for ten years." Super Gene Warrior? It seems this world still has many mysteries to uncover, not just in technology but also significant achievements in human genetic engineering. From the performance of the High-Frequency Vibration Dagger, this world appears to have solved the fundamental energy problem. Lu Ren raised a brow about to inquire, when Qingxu reminded: "Two of you, although the time seems abundant, it isn’t worth wasting. If the space channel expands and creatures from Alternate Space enter, there’s a 90% chance of a massive destruction event." Hearing this, Lu Ren got up and said to Xiang Yang: "Go open the door and see; let’s meet the guy inside." From the monitoring center, he could see a two-meter-tall humanoid monster with bulging muscles and gray-white skin.