Ever!

A trail of blood spread across Nephes's neck, and the collar that pierced the skin fell off and fell to the ground.

Smack.

Li Oz stepped on his toes and said:

"You're free."

Nephes raised her head, Li Oz lifted the forbidden healing effect on her body, the scar on her neck quickly healed, the flesh and blood on her body began to regenerate, her retina gradually regained focus, looked at Li Oz, hesitated for a moment, or chose to ask out loud:

「…… Why didn't you kill me?"

"Why should I kill? To me, you don't have any hatred for me."

Li Aozi put away the crimson blade and asked with a strange expression.

"I used to kill countless people and destroy several planets as Gabros......

Nephes thought for a moment and said:

"Actually, I am deeply sinful......

"You've said it all, it's Gabros who kills people as a commodity." Li Oz shrugged, "Besides, did you ever feel guilty?"

Nephes raised his hand, looked at his bloody palm, and muttered:

"Nope."

"I have taken countless lives with this hand, and as the company's war machine, I bear the sin of destruction and slaughter...... But now, I want to live."

"It's good that you're aware of sin, which means you still have a little conscience and know that it's wrong to kill." "If you don't realize your past sins, I will immediately crush you into a pulp, and then seal you into a two-dimensional space, between the superposition of life and death, forever."

「…… You've decided to forgive me?" Nephes frowned, puzzled.

"Of course. I have this capital, and I can kill you at any time anyway."

Li Oz said calmly:

"In pursuit of my purpose, I may not kill fewer innocent civilians than you. But I forgive you not because I have forgiven your sins, but because you are already afraid, you are upset, you feel your conscience condemned — it means that you have personality. This means that you will no longer be controlled by the company in the future."

「…… One more point."

Nephes stared at Leoz's gray eyes, and the other party's eyes were very calm.

Not the kind of calm that is high above, but the same as ordinary mortals who are not threatened.

She opened her mouth and asked one final question:

"Leoz, I don't understand, why are you giving me freedom?"

"I used to be Gabros, and I have excellent combat power, and with your current situation, I also need a strong man of Zeta rank (6) to join."

"In terms of maximizing benefits, you should enslave me and turn me into a subordinate or a fighting machine."

"I'm not a capitalist, and I don't need to be supported by others to survive."

Li Oz put his hands in his pockets, and looked taken for granted:

"I have no intention of imprisoning other people's personal freedom, and you can see that - with my strength, even a narrative civilization can't do anything about me right now."

"But, your planet ......"

"That's not my home base, I don't care that much."

Li Oz glanced in the direction of the White Candle Star and said casually:

"A place like the White Candle Star is nothing to me about, even if it is destroyed, it doesn't matter."

[You have engaged in a lying act, and you are judging the [Charisma] attribute......]

[Specialty: "Arbitrary" is launched! ] 】

[Passed the charm test, the other party believed your lie]

"I see."

Nephes's head was bowed, and Li Oz's lofty and flat attitude was not like pretending, and the divinity naturally revealed in his body showed that he had dug deep into the godhead.

- The group should not touch Leoz's ......

Nephes thought.

- Leoz has no weakness, Leoz is a human and unscrupulous god-ascendant, trying

There is no point in threatening him with hostages.

But...... There is no need to report this information to the group now.

Nephes stood in the starlight, but his mood did not change.

Even after killing Naliya, she didn't feel any lighter, because she didn't have these emotions in the first place, and the hormonal organs of her body had already been processed.

It seems that she is still a humanoid creature, but in fact, inside, she has long been a mass of biochemical monsters.

"Free ......"

Nephes muttered:

"I've never felt anything like this."

She lowered her head, spread her hands, didn't know what to do, just stood in place, and confided in Li Aozi:

「…… When I was very young, maybe four or three years old, I was taken out of the tribe and the elders took the money from the company and gave me a club to fight."

"It's like I've been thrown into a dark cavern, and then, for a piece of bread, I'm going to fight the Tomac Man-Eater, I'm going to fight the Pronghorn Deer, I'm going to fight the Electric Bird, I'm going to fight my brother, I'm going to fight my brother...... In the end, my sister and I survived."

Li Oz was a little surprised, Nephes in his previous life did not have any story background, and it was completely because the strength and template were too excessive, so he was hyped up by players.

As soon as the version was updated, her limelight was immediately overshadowed by new bosses and levels, and no one ever dug into her identity background.

Now, Nephes told her story of her origins.

「…… My sister and I, two of us, have been fighting, and in order to survive, we have to learn all kinds of skills, climbing the road, piloting a spaceship, snatching weapons, assassinating, exploding, interrogation, counter-interrogation, and lurking."

"We live in a big cage, like a beehive, densely packed with children selected from remote planets, and the company is like an assembly line, arranging us to calmly select, train, transform into warriors in batches, and then send us to participate in various battles and kill civilians......

"For a long time, we will not be called by name, but by 'Gabros.'"

"In the language of the dragon, this word means 'executioner.'"

Nephes said without emotion:

"We're modified, glands are removed, we're deprived of vital and emotional, and then nanomachines are implanted to control our minds, and if we don't obey, or if we become conscious, we're electrocuted — the cells all over our body instantly release an electric current that makes every muscle lose control."

"I once saw with my own eyes that Gabros was shocked for dozens of hours because of his apostasy of thought, and his muscles completely relaxed and died, and he finally drowned in his excrement."

"Me and my sister...... Actually, I can't remember her image, her name. I just remember that during a transformation of the loyalty training, I was ordered to fight her to test my loyalty."

"She didn't beg me for mercy, and in her eyes I could see that I had the same cold expression as her—and then I raised my hand and broke her neck, and the leader who was inspecting next to me laughed, applauded, and ordered me to dispose of the body, and let me sink her into the pool of dissociative fluid with my own hands, and then strip the silver armor from my body."

"Wait—"

Li Aozi was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized something:

「…… Have you been wearing her armor ever since?"

"Yes." Nephes said calmly, "The administrator, in order to show my loyalty, made me wear the armor of my sister whom I killed with my own hands, and gave me a nickname."

"—Silver's Stomach."