The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 368 - 257 Soul Chasing Life Stealing

Chapter 368: Chapter 257 Soul Chasing Life Stealing

"..."

The Caucasian director furrowed his brows and began to subconsciously contemplate Zhou Yuan’s words. Moments later, he violently shook his head, his expression souring as he snorted coldly, "Smooth talker, playing dumb—that won’t save you."

As an American, he indeed harbored fear towards the IRS, having witnessed many people devastated by the National Revenue Bureau’s heavy crackdown on tax evasion. Furthermore, the man’s words seemed to carry some sort of magic power, causing him to almost believe such nonsense!

[He passed a willpower check and was not fooled by you, unfortunately. If there had been a group of women here, they would surely have been charmed by your unparalleled charm into defecting on the spot.]

Zhou Yuan, now with a charm value of 63, could be deemed terrifying. Even among Enchanting Demons, he was considered a "king." Creatures with insufficient willpower were easily dominated by him, subjugating their will to do favorable acts for him while believing it to be their true nature.

Such enchantment required no elaborate medium; a single look, a syllable, a gesture, or even a whiff was enough to bewitch someone utterly.

If combined with the Mind Enchantment Ability, it could easily twist a person’s emotions and values, completely dominating them from the level of personality.

While speaking earlier, Zhou Yuan had been covertly using the Spiritual Energy Charm Technique and implanting psychological suggestions. Even with these combined tactics, a Middle Rank extraordinary person would be bewitched more than 90% of the time, but these directors merely hesitated for a moment.

As for psychological suggestions, they were entirely ineffective.

In fact, a will that could not be overridden or influenced had long been planted in their minds.

—[Loyalty to the factory, prioritize the factory’s interests, survival, and development above all else.]

Through the Eyes of Identification, Zhou Yuan easily accessed the personal information of these directors.

The middle-aged Caucasian director was named Neil Patterson, living in the 21st century America Continent, an outstanding corporate salesman. One day, he received an invitation to visit Reagan Food Processing Factory and disappeared from the world thereafter.

The burly African-American director next to him was named Jefferson King, a slave during the American Civil War, who got lost in the wilderness during a chaotic battle and nearly starved to death when a vast factory appeared before him.

The man from Yingzhou with prosthetic limbs and a bright black metal arm was named Adao Guanzi, a lover of Cthulhu culture during the cyberpunk era.

One day, after years of anticipation, the Cthulhu animation he’d been waiting for was suddenly canceled, and the production team disappeared. He and a group of fans went to investigate, only to be shocked to find a factory behind the office’s doors.

These directors from different worlds and eras entered the factory due to various accidents, and without exception, the first person they all met was Factory Manager Reagan.

Factory Manager Reagan showed them the existence of a Transcendent world, promising them power if they stayed—a temptation that mortals could hardly refuse. Eventually, everyone chose to stay, signed an eternal contract with the factory, and became some of the earliest employees.

The moment they signed the contract, the factory granted them unimaginable power, and they became completely subjugated as slaves to the factory, serving it for eternity.

Among the information, Zhou Yuan was particularly interested in Reagan Food Processing Factory’s interdimensional travel capability—if he could use this to descend into those worlds and develop followers, the day of his Ascension would be near!

Zhou Yuan’s thoughts raced, perhaps there was no need to completely destroy the factory...

"Take him down!"

Inside the cave, Neil, the Caucasian director, wasted no more time. As he shouted, he pulled out a glittering golden golf club from behind him.

"Holy shit, what a psycho!" Zhou Yuan instinctively cursed and immediately felt a solid blow to the back of his head.

A clash of steel erupted, sparks flying everywhere!

Holding the still-trembling golden golf club, Neil was dumbfounded. How could this man’s head be harder than steel, causing a recoil that split his palms!

"Let me handle this!"

Adao Guanzi roared as his shiny black metal prosthetics unfolded layer by layer, transforming into a rocket-powered fist. Amidst the flames from the elbow boosters and the howling storm, he thunderously struck out.

Then, Zhou Yuan caught it with a single finger, and the storm abruptly ceased.

"Weak and powerless, like a breeze on the face."

Zhou Yuan sharply criticized, exerting a slight force, and the pitch-black metal prosthetic exploded, sending shrapnel flying through a nearby cluster of Snack People.

Adao Guanzi was sent flying, half his body charred and shattered, only to die within seconds.

Soon after, his chest badge flew up on its own, landing on one of the Snack People who instantly transformed into Adao Guanzi, even the damaged prosthetics restored to their original state.

"Reincarnation from the filthy earth? Borrowing a corpse to revive the soul? It seems the badges are your true essence," Zhou Yuan surmised at a glance.

At that moment, three directors sensed some disturbance in the factory. Their expressions drastically changed, and they got momentarily distracted.

"Finally, back to business," Zhou Yuan muttered to himself, holding nothing back.

The next second, a fierce light expanded, engulfing the three directors completely, incinerating them beyond recognition. Moments later, only three badges flew out, remaining unscathed in the Taiyang True Fire.

"Even Taiyang True Fire can’t burn these?"

Zhou Yuan was somewhat astonished. With a miniature sun in his hand, it spun, releasing a dreadful suction force that pulled the three badges through the air. No matter how they struggled, they couldn’t escape.

He tried various methods to destroy the badges, but nothing worked. These objects were anomalies from a rule-based system, immune to ordinary tactics.

Thus, Zhou Yuan stored the three badges in the system backpack.

One-click sell.

[Sold "Neil Patterson’s Badge*1", "Jefferson King’s Badge*1", "Adao Guanzi’s Badge*1"]

[Star Coins +120000]

"Wow, one hundred twenty thousand, forty thousand Star Coins each?"

Zhou Yuan’s eyes brightened, surprised by their value!

As the three directors truly perished, the atmosphere in the entire factory suddenly shifted, permeating with a thick aura of fear.

...

Zhou Yuan’s Dharma Body transformed into a beam of light, returning to his original body, while Factory Manager Reagan, who just returned to the park, had a deathly pallor on his face.

Just now.

Reagan, who had been enjoying his time in Happy Paradise, dashed back to the factory non-stop as soon as he heard that it had been invaded, only to witness a scene that left him devastated upon entering.

The Dark Army’s artillery fire had engulfed the entire factory, and the fortress intended to defend against enemy invasions collapsed thunderously amidst the explosions!

The Resistance Army, known as the Three Realms United Group, seized the opportunity after a brief observation and decisively sent troops to attack!

However, their attack was in vain, as the entire factory had already been turned into ruins by the Dark Army, with blazing fires burning over the wreckage, engulfed in the fiery red of the flames.

Reagan had not yet recovered from the immense shock of the factory’s fall when another piece of bad news arrived—

Three directors were dead!

They were not merely playing dead but were utterly annihilated, their souls dissipated, with no possibility of revival.

This was the first time in many years that high-level factory executives had truly died, which also meant that he, the factory manager, would also truly die!

The will of the factory was urgently urging him to escape as quickly as possible; anyone could die, but he, the factory manager, could not!

But...

Under the current circumstances, Reagan had no possibility of escaping.

The moment he returned to the factory, Zhou Yuan, who had been waiting a long time, used Divine Power to seal the entire space.

If the factory had been in its heyday, breaking the seal on the space would have been an easy task for Reagan; even dealing with these foes would have been effortless, but now it was too late.

"Divine Creatures..." Reagan stared intently at Zhou Yuan, the overwhelming fluctuations of Divine Power indicating that his opponent was an extraordinary person who had embarked on the path of Divine Enthronement!

Zhou Yuan calmly looked back, and under the lock of Divine Power, Reagan was like a fish on the chopping block.

Boom!

A loud noise came from afar, as Fang Qing and others killed all the factory directors, and work badges, drawn by Divine Power, flew towards them autonomously.

Zhou Yuan collected them into his player inventory, selling them.

[Star Coins +360000]

Board of Directors... eradicated!

Zhou Yuan then drew out a flying sword, forged like a star, exceptionally sharp and flickering with divine glimmers, and rapidly flew out, piercing through Reagan’s skull.

However, no work badges burst out after Reagan’s death.

Zhou Yuan’s expression remained calm and natural, everything under his control.

As Reagan was slain, the factory completely fell, and the Dark Army, unstoppable, swiftly occupied the entire compound, erecting flags over the ruins and blowing the horns of victory.

In some world, late at night, on the streets of a city in the American Continent.

A venomous insect was staggering along the street when suddenly, something by the roadside caught its attention.

It was a brand-new work badge, seemingly possessing infinite Magic Power, compelling him to pick it up and wear it on his chest, which he did.

The next second, Reagan had successfully possessed this body and resurrected.

"Lucky I had fallbacks in various worlds..." Reagan’s expression was as grim as water.

He was not like the other directors, recruited from outside by the factory, but was an Agent born from the factory itself. He was not a living person and had never even had a soul, just a tool. Hence, the number of work badges was not limited; he could have as many as he wanted.

Long ago, he had scattered work badges across all accessible worlds, so even if he died by accident, he could safely resurrect—anyone wearing the work badge would immediately become him.

"I won’t die, and the factory won’t be destroyed, but rebuilding the factory might take a very long time..."

Reagan’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a sharp sword light descending from the sky!

With a splatter,

he was directly hacked into pieces.

Some time later, Reagan resurrected, his expression as grim as water, looking extremely displeased.

He was given no time when a bright sword light came flying again, reducing him to ashes!

...

[Name: Soul Chasing Life Stealing Sword]

[Quality: Epic]

[Special Effects: Soul Chasing Life Stealing, Nowhere to hide. Once the target is locked through a medium, it will ceaselessly pursue the target until the target is completely exterminated.]

[Consumption: 4000 Spiritual points]

[Note: He flees, it pursues, he cannot escape even if he grows wings!]

This item was obtained by Zhou Yuan from opening a box after a Cave Heaven Blessed Land mission. With the Eyes of Identification seeing through Reagan’s essence, he resolutely sacrificed this sword.

Even though Reagan had fallbacks in various worlds, it was futile; he would eventually be completely annihilated by the sword light.

Regathering his thoughts.

Zhou Yuan looked towards the Three Realms United Group, the army from a parallel world.