Esper X Family – Chapter 86 – Let Me Add Some Points First

Ye Yao held the black panther firmly in front of her.

But the other two ability constructs didn’t remain idle. Instead, they moved to attack Ye Yao from both sides.

However, Mu Luo’s counterattack, although delayed, finally arrived.

The ground was enveloped by a massive shadow.

Two enormous dark whips emerged from the ground, swiftly wrapping around the crocodile head and the slime.

The next moment, Ye Yao witnessed just how brutal Mu Luo’s attacks could be.

The whips lashed out violently, slamming the captured targets into the ground, sending shattered rock shards flying everywhere.

This wasn’t a one-time occurrence. It was repeated over and over.

Boom! Boom! Boom!…

The deafening roars sounded like the simultaneous firing of hundreds of cannons.

Ye Yao could only see the afterimages of the whips as they swung.

The two ability constructs at the ends of the whips were smashed into pieces.

The nearby flat ground was instantly transformed into a pockmarked landscape.

If the whips were any thicker or more numerous, Ye Yao might have mistaken them for the tentacles of some eldritch horror emerging from the abyss.

“So violent,” Ye Yao muttered.

She turned her attention to the black panther she had immobilized and flicked her finger gently.

The massive black panther was sent flying like a cannonball, plowing a kilometer-long trench and leaving a ferocious scar in its wake.

Then, Ye Yao turned her gaze to Sequence 100, ready to repeat her tactic and subdue it as quickly as possible.

However, just as she was about to use her mental power to CC him—

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The black panther which she had been sent flying somehow returned unscathed, absorbing the seemingly lifeless Sequence 100 into its body.

As Ye Yao prepared to repeat her move, the ability construct suddenly erupted with an intense aura.

A layer of mental energy formed a protective barrier around it, completely neutralizing the mental energy hand Ye Yao had extended.

“Wah! My stats aren’t enough!”

Ye Yao realized just how limited her offensive capabilities were.

With Myriad Things Fission banned, she could only rely on her advanced mental power techniques to fight.

Meanwhile, her opponent had a variety of skills at their disposal, making their attacks unpredictable and versatile.

Even if Ye Yao’s post-Fission value reached ten thousand, she wouldn’t dare to confront someone like the Dayun Truck head-on.

After all, he likely had numerous skills, and combined with his exaggerated stats, he could deal devastating damage.

Unlike Ye Yao, who only had raw stats. If her mental power was neutralized, she would be in trouble.

Now, that black panther had developed a mental energy barrier.

Ye Yao’s control method relied on extending her mental power like hands.

If it collided with an opponent’s mental power of similar strength, its effectiveness would diminish.

Although the opponent’s mental power technique wasn’t versatile, basic defense seemed effortless for it.

“Roar!!!”

After fusing with Sequence 100, the black panther didn’t attack again.

Instead, it let out a terrifying howl that echoed throughout the entire small town.

The next moment, its body expanded once more, as if it had grown stronger.

Not just that.

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The two ability constructs caught by Mu Luo’s whips broke free by self-mutilation and also began to expand.

Mu Luo appeared beside Ye Yao.

His injured arm was now covered by a layer of black membrane, resembling a dark armguard that exuded a profound aura.

“Their defenses are high. Conventional methods can’t harm them.”

“They’re indeed tough. They didn’t disintegrate even after I hit them.”

When a stat monster faces an enemy they can’t damage, their once dull gaze becomes clear.

Ye Yao finally began to observe the battlefield, checking if the opponents had any unknown mechanisms at play.

“Mu Luo, go stop them from evolving further. I’ll join in when the time is right.”

“Mm.”

Mu Luo nodded solemnly and continued to harass and wear down the ability constructs.

Dozens of thick black whips surged from the ground, lashing at the three monsters like a storm.

The power of each whip was almost comparable to heavy artillery.

Every swing of the whips created deafening sonic booms, making it clear that a single whip could level a dozen skyscrapers.

Seeing this.

Ye Yao entered bullet time, using her immense mental power to enhance her perception and observe the ability constructs as well as the town’s surroundings.

Soon, countless threads of mental energy appeared in her vision, connecting to Sequence 100 from all directions before then extending to the three ability constructs.

At last, Ye Yao understood the growth mechanism of these monsters.

According to the Countermeasures Bureau’s records, Sequence 100 could cultivate ability constructs by feeding on the negative emotions of others.

Every time the ability constructs grew, they would absorb the mental energy that surged from ordinary people due to intense emotional fluctuations.

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Initially, Sequence 100 had to manually incite panic.

The growth potential of the ability constructs was also extremely limited, and the efficiency wasn’t high.

But after the ability was enhanced, it became completely different.

Ye Yao’s gaze locked onto an ordinary person who was behaving abnormally.

The person was cowering in a corner, trembling and muttering things like “Don’t kill me, I don’t want to die” over and over again

The fear and despair was palpable.

No matter what happened around them, they remained like this.

It was as if they were immersed in their own world, no longer human but more like a pre-programmed NPC.

Looking at the faint thread of mental energy connecting them, Ye Yao began to piece together the truth.

“Sharing his emotions with everyone, creating an extreme environment to cultivate the ability constructs?”

Before losing control, Sequence 100 must have been overwhelmed by extreme negative emotions.

Fear, despair, madness.

These were the inevitable emotions of someone terrified of death.

Coupled with the inexplicable surge in mental power and the significant enhancement of their ability, this had caused such a massive impact.

The ordinary people in the town had been infected by Sequence 100’s extreme emotions.

No matter who tried to calm them down, it was impossible.

They could only serve as fuel for the ability constructs, continuously creating indestructible machines of destruction.

The collective mental energy of the masses, even if weak individually, could accumulate to create enemies that even an A-rank esper couldn’t handle.

This was why the shadow had given Sequence 100 hope before plunging him into despair.

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Only in the most extreme emotional states could the most intense sparks be ignited.

“Looks like they can’t handle this. Sequence 0 is nothing more than this.

But that black mist Esper is a member of Sequence 0? Then it’s unlikely that we can recruit them…”

The shadowy figure murmured softly, as if considering something.

Ye Yao refocused her attention on the battlefield.

The three massive monsters were being suppressed by Mu Luo’s attacks, unable to move.

But their expansion continued, and it seemed that neither side could gain the upper hand.

Ye Yao could clearly sense the essence of these monsters.

The black panther was an aggregation of madness, symbolizing the desperation of a cornered beast.

The crocodile head was an aggregation of the fear of death, and the slime was an aggregation of despair.

Under normal circumstances, the solution would be to cut off their growth at the source by relocating the ordinary people.

But Ye Yao didn’t want to bother with that.

“Let me add some points first. If my stats aren’t enough, I’ll just use even higher stats!”

Author Note

The temperature has dropped a lot recently. It’s starting to get cold.

Text: Cold ah

Arms also cold

Whole body is so freaking cold

Damn, why is it so cold

Feet ¹ 脚jiao means foot, and jio is either an intentional typo or a dialect, I’m not too sure. cold