Chapter 163: Human Transformation.

Lycaon, walking back from another corner, spoke nonchalantly while quickly turning around. His feet suddenly exerted force, and he rushed out in another direction into the black mist.

“Your brother, is he really only Level 3?”

Looking at the piles of black animal corpses on Lycaon’s body, and those particles constantly dissipating in the air, Xiao Fen asked in disbelief.

“In the eyes of a Level 3, he might be higher, but in the eyes of a Level 4, he is still Level 3.”

Callisto looked at Lycaon’s back with a complicated expression and answered thus.

Xiao Fen nodded. Level 3 Lycaon and Level 3 Callisto were killing everyone in this house simply because this was a Level 3 Trial World, and the opponents they faced were also only Level 3.

This kind of battle must have happened many times. Whether in skill combination or combat experience, Lycaon and Callisto had advantages that Xiao Fen could not compare with. Therefore, this kind of battle could bring such a shock to Xiao Fen.

Xiao Fen thought about it. If he faced Level 2 monsters, the battle would probably be just as easy as these two Trialists before him. Level difference, plus attribute gap, as well as ability gap, often determined the direction of a battle.

However, no matter how close to Level 4, they were still only Level 3. This was unquestionable.

Xiao Fen thought of this, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. He looked at Callisto again, wanting to say something, but in the end, he shook his head and closed his eyes again, beginning to fill his staff with new skills.

The dizziness brought about by energy consumption was constantly increasing. Xiao Fen could clearly feel that his body’s energy was somewhat unable to keep up. Tinnitus was interfering with his perception, and he was starting to lose grasp of the changes in this house.

“You continue with what you are doing. I am still here.”

Seeming to sense Xiao Fen’s thinking as he tried to rouse his spirits, Callisto suddenly said, “You are not the only one who has enough spirit to perceive the entire room.”

Xiao Fen smiled. For the first time, he felt that having a teammate he could temporarily rely on seemed to be a good choice. However, this was just a choice.

Sighing lightly, Xiao Fen withdrew all his senses and focused entirely on recovering his energy.

Tonight’s battle might still be very long.

However, speaking of the specific combat time, it was not as long as Xiao Fen had considered. It should be said that for those two siblings going all out, many battles did not take too much time, including clearing the hall they were in.

Even though this hall was once filled with black mist, the number of fully formed monsters inside had not reached the point where one could not even insert a foot. On Xiao Fen’s side, with Lycaon, a human-shaped meteor hammer, or rather, a human-shaped vacuum cleaner, sweeping through, as well as Callisto’s strikes, the entire main hall was swept clean in 15 minutes.

In the following time, Lycaon and Callisto took turns striking, firmly sealing the gate passage where monsters rushed in. Moreover, no more black mist appeared in the main hall. This situation lasted for quite some time.

Perhaps because this was not the time when Hell Creatures were most active, or perhaps because of other reasons, such as it not being a mission period where a large number of Hell Creatures would randomly appear, etc.

But in any case, it could not change one fact, which was that the three of them could hold this main hall very well. The situation was not critical enough to require the use of Lux’s Gratitude.

It was probably close to 8 o’clock in the evening now. After Xiao Fen recovered a certain amount of energy, he looked up at Lycaon who was sitting opposite him resting, suddenly smiled, and said, “It seems you noticed it long ago.”

Lycaon nodded, looked at his sister standing not far away, and said, “That’s right, just as you considered. Before this, 3, no, initially there were 5 Trialists with good foundations. They actually lost the ability to respond to the sudden changes and could not resist those Natives’ attacks, and were even killed by the other side. This kind of thing itself sounds very abnormal.”

Pausing for a moment, Lycaon continued, “If 5 Trialists were so fragile, they would have been eliminated many times in other Trial Worlds before. There wouldn’t be problems only appearing in this world.”

Xiao Fen asked in a low voice, “You suspect there is a mole?”

“I have many suspicions, but these suspicions must be proven or disproven by sufficient evidence.”

Looking at Xiao Fen, Lycaon smiled honestly and said, “So, I had to reach this main hall to see the internal situation of the entire hall and determine where problems might occur. Studying these allows me to better reconstruct what exactly happened here in the last Ming Dynasty Trial World. Because of Callisto, I didn’t tell you these things in advance. I’m sorry for dragging you in.”

Xiao Fen stared at the other person’s incredibly honest face and said, “You never intended to discuss it with me. If I could see your intention, you would lay your cards on the table with me. If I couldn’t see your thoughts, I would become your free pawn.”

Pausing for a moment, Xiao Fen continued, “We are all Trialists; no one is much smarter or much dumber than anyone else. I only want this kind of thing to happen once. If this situation occurs again next time, that is a sign of danger.”

Xiao Fen did not say who this danger was aimed at, but Lycaon’s expression changed slightly. He subconsciously glanced at Xiao Fen’s staff; the power erupted by the staff just now was also a deterrent to Lycaon.

The two looked at each other again. Regarding this matter just now, it temporarily came to an end, but the suspicion towards Callisto’s team rose in both of their minds simultaneously.

While making several kinds of potions, Xiao Fen quickly deduced in his mind. Finally, he asked Callisto, who was still looking at the pitch-black sky outside the door, “That Sophie you mentioned, who judged her death?”

Callisto’s body paused. After a while, she said, “That’s a question you shouldn’t be asking me.”

Xiao Fen was stunned for a moment, then realized that the reason Callisto returned to this world and this main hall was actually mostly the same as her brother. She had suspicions about the last battle. Although Lycaon did not expose it just now, with Callisto’s ability, she could also arrive at the answer that there was a mole in the team.

Xiao Fen was not clear what else Callisto knew, but in the end, everyone was still wary of each other, so they did not reveal everything they knew.

Not only between the siblings and Xiao Fen, but even between the siblings themselves, they were not as intimate as they had previously appeared. Wariness seemed to have become the theme among these Trialists.

Mutual wariness, yet mutual dependence.

Just as Lycaon said, in a Level 3 Trial World, what tests Trialists the most is not their strength, but learning how to handle relationships with other Trialists, learning to solve tasks by themselves, and learning methods to face difficulties on their own.

Therefore, do not ask Trialists whether every sentence is true or false; such questioning often has no answer. If one wants to know the truest history, one can still only rely on Trialists to explore by themselves.

Not relying on books, not relying on others’ rumors, only relying on one’s own exploration.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen asked again, “Did you love your captain very much?”

A ball of flame suddenly shone with a “bang” in Callisto’s hand. There was a distance of dozens of centimeters between this ball of flame and Callisto’s right hand, like a fireball suspended in the air.

In that instant, Xiao Fen could clearly feel how terrifying the temperature on this fireball was. Accompanied by the appearance of this fireball, the entire hall seemed to become dry.

“If we can get through tonight normally, both you and I will know many things.”

As Callisto spoke, she suddenly threw the fireball in her hand towards the direction of the main door.

That fireball with a diameter of about 10 centimeters, as soon as it left Callisto’s control, suddenly became huge.

In less than a second, this fireball, which looked weightless and could not be thrown far, turned into a huge ball of fire.

Although the main hall where Xiao Fen was located was not small, the fireball created by Callisto appeared even more imposing.

At a place less than 2 meters away from Callisto, this fireball burned furiously in the air, releasing a large amount of heat energy, and making the entire main hall become extraordinarily bright.

“Someone is coming.”

Callisto said so. Behind her, Lycaon had unknowingly put on his heavy armor again and was also staring dead at the direction of the main door.

From Xiao Fen’s angle, if one wanted to enter from the main door, one had to pass through the fireball created by Callisto. Conversely, Xiao Fen, who was half-blocked behind Callisto, could not see who “they” were behind the fireball that Callisto mentioned.

However, Lycaon’s expression was somewhat strange. He even turned his head to glance at Xiao Fen before reassuming a vigilant posture towards the back of the fireball.

“They have to come. I triggered the Main Quest here in the early morning. There must be heavy encirclements outside. If they want to gain anything, they must enter this courtyard before the blood pool dries up and those soldiers come in. And they must search starting from this hall. Although I don’t know what they are looking for, at least I can make it so that they cannot find these things.”

Listening to Callisto’s muttering, Xiao Fen only felt a chill all over his body. It sounded like this female Trialist, who had not seriously cleaned the blood stains on her face and looked rough, was actually just displaying some kind of suspicious behavior. It could be said that the things Callisto considered were no fewer than what Xiao Fen imagined.

“An emotional Awakened must either be powerful enough to protect their feelings, or they do not exist in this world.”

This was a sentiment written in the footer of Farrah’s notes. Now, suddenly recalled by Xiao Fen, it seemed remarkably apt.