SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 326 - 326 324 This Fist of 20 Years Cultivation_1

Chapter 326: Chapter 324: This Fist of 20 Years’ Cultivation!_1 Chapter 326: Chapter 324: This Fist of 20 Years’ Cultivation!_1 “Crack crack…”

The sound of smashing arose, followed by a mechanical whirring that sped up progressively until it nearly sounded overloaded…

Amidst the buzzing noise, Colin’s heart gradually lifted, an unbidden memory surfacing in his mind, fearing that his two talents would snap and shatter into a pile of colorful little crystals.

Fortunately, what he imagined didn’t happen.

Accompanied by a crisp “clang.”

Colin’s purple-colored talent was ready.

A cluster of diamond-shaped transparent crystal, emanating a misty fog, floated in mid-air.

From the center of that transparent crystal, one could feel a diagram containing some unique energy, and information about it was being generated…

“What the hell, who made this thing, and where did they copy these sound effects from!”

Colin couldn’t help but complain.

He was certain that this series of “animation” effects must have been copied!

Then, he looked up at his purple-colored talent—

[“Energy Eruption (Basic)”]

“Effect Description”: Burns one’s potential, bringing the body’s functions into an outburst state, enhancing vitality, mentality, strength, agility, and endurance in all aspects, lasting up to half an hour, with a cooldown of ten minutes.

“Note”: When the effect ends, based on one’s status, it will be determined whether to enter a weakened state, so, avoid using it when severely injured as much as possible.

Moreover, during the use of this effect, please try to eat some high-energy foods.

“Remark”: The energy I’ve been holding back is already bursting at the seams!

[Expend 6000 points + 3 Silver Task Certificates to activate “Talent Exclusive Skill”.]

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“Why does the description look almost the same as my previous ‘Physical Outburst’… just changed two characters in the name.”

At first glance, Colin thought he’d drawn a dud.

But upon closer examination, he discovered that this time there was no need to burn anything like energy, as long as there was energy in the body, it could be used directly. If you had nothing, it would likely consume one’s own fat and then muscles, and so on…

“This thing is a blessing for the overweight, just use it once a day, and you can easily slim down.”

Muttering to himself, Colin looked at the note at the end and almost without thinking, chose to upgrade.

For him now, what’s the difference between 6000 points and three Silver Task Certificates and getting something for free without spending any money?

“Ah, I’m short of Gold Mission Vouchers, and have too many points to spend.”

Colin sighed, and as points were poured into his talent mercilessly, a new exclusive skill emerged—

“Talent Exclusive Skill ‘Heavy Strike•Matchless Strike’: Harnesses full body strength into one strike for an extremely powerful energy-charged attack.”

“Remark”: Can you withstand this punch of twenty years’ worth of strength?

“Note”: Once the attack takes effect, the “Potential Burst” state will immediately enter cooldown time.

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“This time, it seems pretty good.”

When Colin held the diamond-shaped crystal in his hand, he sensed that he could conceal its activation effect. In other words, he could make a punch that looked ordinary, like a plain A-strike, but actually contained all his body’s power.

If the enemy wasn’t paying attention, they could be instantly blown away by one punch.

The key was that as long as his own status was in good shape, there would be no negative consequences for using it.

“Combined with ‘Presence Diminished’ or Time Stop, plus Bone Spur, and adding this one, tsk, this combo, most enemies just can’t withstand it, worthy of a purple-colored talent, not bad…”

With a slight curl of his lips, Colin felt he had gained another killer move.

Then, he clenched the diamond-shaped crystal in his hand and with a “crack,” crushed it.

The special energy within quickly fused into his body, or more precisely, into the “Talent Grid” that the company had opened for him.

And just after tidying up those things, Colin didn’t think any further, nor did he care about the time. He neatly put everything away and immediately flopped onto his bed and fell into a deep slumber.

After so many days of exhaustion, his body wasn’t tired, but he just wanted to have a good sleep first.

This was also the first thing he did after coming back from each “Descent Project.”

Laying down his mental burdens, he slept incredibly sweetly—

At least for the first half of the night.

When an unknown amount of time had passed, Colin suddenly felt that within the deep dream, there seemed to emerge some other vague landscapes.

A cold and vast land, with thin air, covered in red sand and gravel, full of pits and fissures, completely silent.

The consciousness in the dream was unclear, as Colin looked around in confusion, feeling that there was absolutely no sign of life here, even more desolate than the emptiest desert.

“Where… is… this?”

In a daze, he looked up and saw endless darkness that somehow felt inexplicably cold and bloated, and seemed to be slowly writhing with many points of light within…

It was at that moment that Colin suddenly had a realization, and slightly turned his head to see a faint point of light in the boundless darkness, an intuition telling him that this little point seemed to be connected to his existence somehow.

“Is this… the universe?”

Colin vaguely had some guesses.

However, before he could think further, he abruptly noticed that there were countless black threads, far too many to count, emerging from beneath the land covered in red sand and gravel. They were eerily writhing, entwining like strands of hair…

Colin’s breath hitched as he felt an indescribable sense of oppression approaching.

But at the same time, a hazy and illusive sound of dice rolling suddenly reached his ears, as if someone had cast a die.

Soon, the sound ceased, and the outcome remained unknown.

However, a destructive blaze suddenly erupted, and the entire desert of sand and gravel melted in an instant; some parts that came into contact with the flame directly vaporized.

Similarly, those bizarre and abnormal threads were all burnt to nothingness…

And consumed by the fire was also Colin, who was in the midst of it all.

“Whoosh!!”

Colin abruptly sat up in bed, his eyes wide open, gasping for air. It took him a moment to stabilize his emotions before he leaned back against the headrest, his face full of confusion.

If he were still an ordinary person, he would most likely have dismissed it as a wretchedly strange nightmare.

But now, he no longer thought this way…

While pondering, he looked at the time. It was now nine in the morning on the following day, and he had slept for about ten hours.

If not for the nightmare in the latter half, it would have been perfect.

“Do I feel like something is trying to reach out to me?”

Colin wasn’t quite sure, but he could recall what had just happened.

And with the clarity of consciousness he had at this very moment, he quickly thought of numerous things.

“That perspective seemed a lot like what I understand space to be… Did I dream of myself appearing on some planet outside of space? The small light looked like Earth, and those threads…”

He wasn’t too unfamiliar with these things.

Because as long as one was a Level 7 “Fate Propeller” among the Extraordinary Ones, they would more or less have some of these threads emerging from their bodies. The most severe case was Old Master Wu at Level 9—his entire back was covered, densely packed like the canopy of a tree…

Previously, he wasn’t quite sure where these things were connected, but at this moment, he had some guesses.

“The extraordinary path of ‘Propelling Fate’ is based on the ‘Book of Fate,’ so… if nothing unexpected happens, could the thing I ‘dreamed’ of be the ‘Book of Fate’ itself, or the place where it originally resides?”

Frowning and thinking for a while, Colin felt there was a high probability because he had indeed joined the officials to investigate this thing.

But he had not expected that it seemed he had been discovered by the other party first?

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