A Core Ship From The Start
Chapter 1459 - 987: Unexpected Gains

Chapter 1459: Chapter 987: Unexpected Gains

"Nooooooo!!!!"

The girl’s scream echoed through the cave, the white-haired girl turned around, trying to escape, but the burly man behind her pressed her violently into the ground.

"Heh heh heh, little beauty, this is the end for you. Cry all you want, crying won’t bring anyone to save you! Demon! Take this blow from me!"

"Aaaaaaaahhh!!!"

Accompanied by Duanmu Huai’s roar, the next moment the white-haired girl suddenly raised her head. Her eyes rolled back, her tongue thrust out of her mouth, and her abdomen under her kimono bulged high as if it were going to explode. Her petite body spasmed uncontrollably, trembling. On the walls, Duanmu Huai’s shadow could be seen swaying incessantly, with tentacles protruding from it, shooting forward and tightly wrapping around the white-haired girl’s form.

Indeed, fundamentally speaking, this was a battle between two Ancient Dominators. It’s just that the white-haired girl in front of him was a frail and weakened Ancient Dominator, while Duanmu Huai was a formidable and powerful Ancient Dominator.

"Ugh... Ah..."

The white-haired girl’s body was lifted high, and the pitch-black tentacles condensed from the shadow directly plunged into her mouth. She could feel a scorching yet icy sensation spreading within her body, as if it intended to consume every part of her!

"No... Why..."

The white-haired girl stretched her hand out in despair, but just then, Duanmu Huai’s tentacles surged forward again, gripping her tightly.

"No... I... I just wanted to go back... Why..."

"Why?"

Upon hearing the white-haired girl’s sorrowful pleading and questioning, Duanmu Huai, who was gripping her petite body, raised an eyebrow.

"Because you eat humans."

Yep, it was just that simple.

Duanmu Huai understood very well that for Ancient Dominators, humans were no different from chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep—they were animals meant to be eaten. After all, Ancient Dominators existed on a higher dimensional plane, akin to how humans view two-dimensional beings; no one truly considers a two-dimensional beauty as a real human—likewise, Ancient Dominators would not regard humans as lives equal to theirs.

So, from their perspective, there was nothing wrong with this.

But unfortunately, Duanmu Huai happened to be the Tribunal’s Great Judge.

Any existence that threatens humans must be destroyed, so... no matter how pitiful this creature may seem, its only path forward was death!

"Ghhhhh—!"

The tentacles coiled around the girl’s body gradually melted, blending with her form. At this moment, the girl could only stare wide-eyed in despair, feeling everything of herself being consumed, destroyed, disassembled. Yet, in her current state, she no longer had the strength to struggle. All she could do was feel herself fading away, then... dissolving into nothingness...

"———————"

A moment later, the figure of the white-haired girl dissipated like snowflakes, completely vanishing without a trace.

"Phew... All done!"

Duanmu Huai finally stood up, adjusted his pants, stretched lazily, but just then, a "ding" sound suddenly echoed in his ear, followed by a string of system prompts appearing before his eyes.

[Rare Ancient Dominator absorbed by player detected]

[Player has acquired special rare ability: Past View LV1]

[Player has acquired special rare ability: Shadow Clone LV1]

"Oh hoh? Such a lucky break!"

Seeing the system prompts before him, Duanmu Huai could not help but be startled. He hadn’t expected this seemingly weak and essentially non-threatening Old God was actually rare?

Damn, this was practically like stumbling across a shiny on the side of the road! What luck!

With that thought, Duanmu Huai happily opened the descriptions of the two abilities and began examining them closely.

Past View was a bit confusing at first, but after experimenting, Duanmu Huai finally understood its mechanism. Simply put, the ability he had obtained was akin to the save-and-load ability that Nedai Shinpei had. However, Duanmu Huai’s method of using the ability differed greatly from Nedai Shinpei’s.

Since Nedai Shinpei was human and had only inherited an incomplete version of an Old God’s ability, he could only passively trigger the ability when losing consciousness after death. On the other hand, Duanmu Huai could use it completely at will.

In simple terms, if Duanmu Huai punched someone but missed, he could directly "load" the timeline to the moment before throwing the punch and retry the attack. Of course, the previous failed strike would then be erased and nullified.

At this stage, Duanmu Huai’s Past View was only LV1, allowing him to rewind up to ten seconds of time. Naturally, as his level increased, the time he could rewind would grow longer. However, there was another limitation—rewinding required a stable and determined timeline. For instance, in time-disordered Subspace where past, present, and future lacked clear separation, Duanmu Huai would be unable to use this ability.

As for Shadow Clone...

"Why not try it out?"

While speaking, Duanmu Huai raised his hand and casually gestured.

"Ninjutsu, Shadow Clone Technique! Hey!"

With Duanmu Huai’s shout, the next moment, a black humanoid shadow emerged from his own shadow—and transformed into a white-haired, red-eyed beautiful girl.