As the highest-ranking commander in this area, Heide Prison Warden’s orders are naturally not something any prison guard dares to resist.

The senior prison guard beside him decisively led two prison guards to walk out.

Using a portable folding ladder, the senior prison guard slowly climbed onto the roof, making the tiles creak.

Out of trust in Heide Prison Warden, these prison guards, including the senior prison guard, were quite cautious, fearing that some fierce thug might suddenly rush out from the attic.

Ka~

One prison guard removed the small window of the attic and stuck his head inside.

Sure enough, he immediately saw two figures curled up in the attic.

The senior prison guard tensed up, ready to act at any moment.

The two young people in the attic exchanged a glance and cried out mournfully, "Please, sir, don’t act, we are good citizens."

"Come out!"

The senior prison guard didn’t relax, after all, he could recognize the Oshima High School uniforms worn by these two young people.

Oshima High School is just a criminal organization disguised as a school; no decent person would attend school there.

Heide Prison Warden was getting impatient waiting downstairs, snatched a submachine gun from a prison guard beside him, and fired a burst toward the attic.

After emptying the magazine, he casually tossed the submachine gun back at his subordinate.

He clicked his tongue, biting the cigarette.

"Why is it taking so long?"

...

Meanwhile.

Lv Bai had already followed Dao Long around the plaza heavily guarded by troops.

Gradually approaching Nanxing Association’s territory.

On Nanxing Association’s turf, the people from Oshima were still fiercely battling with the main forces of Chikan Bay.

Even though both sides now knew about the arrival of prison guards, there was still no possibility of a truce.

Not to mention Lv Bai, the speaker for Chikan Bay, wasn’t present, making it impossible to stop the fighting.

This was evident from the continuous noise still coming from ahead.

"Brother Bai, let’s speed up."

Dao Long confirmed that there was no one around the corner ahead, and he quickly said.

Lv Bai immediately accelerated his pace, only to suddenly pause right after.

Because in his mind, a series of mechanical prompts had sounded.

[Ding!]

[Current Death Fighter elimination rate has reached one-half.]

[Attention! Second-round ability pool has opened, selection can be made.]

Lv Bai stopped in his tracks.

He knew that unlike the first three rounds of death duel confrontations, from the fourth round onward, the Death Arena would only accommodate two hundred Death Fighters in total.

Once the surviving Death Fighters are halved, the second-round ability pool selection opens.

As for the third-round ability pool and target mission, it will kick in after the numbers halve again.

Lv Bai was eager to eliminate Death Fighters to quickly open the second-round ability pool.

In the end, the first-round ability pool was too disappointing, causing his [Load] to be almost unusable, and he could only barely get by relying on [All Ink] and [Flash Time].

Encountering tricky adversaries was a real problem.

"Finally here."

Lv Bai took a moment to steady his breathing, with a gambling mentality, he clicked on the second-round ability pool selection.

[Social Phobia Gospel (Colorful): When subconsciously perceiving someone as having ill intentions or a desire to be alone, a one-meter radius indestructible protective shield will be generated. Please note, subjective judgment does not represent subconscious perception.]

[Supreme Forgetting Emotions (Colorful): Remain calm at all times, greatly enhancing neural response and brain information processing capabilities at the cost of permanently reducing corresponding emotions.]

[Spiritual Time House (Colorful): A training space in another dimension, where upon entering the Time House, time in the outside world will cease. In one round of death duel confrontation, Death Fighters may spend up to two years inside the Time House.]

After quickly browsing through the three-second round abilities, Lv Bai wasn’t particularly concerned about the specific content of these abilities.

Based on the overwhelming effect of [Load], the stronger the abilities of other Death Fighters, the greater Lv Bai’s tactical room would be.

Relatively speaking, the fact that other Death Fighters have a golden-level ability pool in this round is what delighted him more.

Of course, these second-round colorful abilities shouldn’t be wasted either.

It’s just that the three colorful abilities he got randomly this round didn’t have any particularly outrageous effects.

[Social Phobia Gospel] seems powerful from the description—indestructible, five simple words representing extremely terrifying hardness.

However, the reliance on subconscious activation makes this ability somewhat unstable.

As for [Supreme Forgetting Emotions], it’s even less useful than [Social Phobia Gospel].

Remaining calm at all times may have a significant effect on others, but it largely overlaps with Lv Bai’s situation.

He even doubts whether selecting this ability will truly allow him to exchange emotions for improvement.

Looking at it this way, the only seemingly useful one left is [Spiritual Time House]...

"Brother Bai?"

Dao Long noticed Lv Bai suddenly standing still and stopped as well, gently asking, "Are you...?"

Lv Bai casually chose [Spiritual Time House], prompted, "It’s nothing, let’s go."

"Oh oh."

Dao Long nodded and then turned to run toward the fierce battleground area.

Lv Bai lagged a step behind, quietly choosing to enter [Spiritual Time House].

...

Step~

Lv Bai’s faint footsteps sounded exceptionally clear and distinct in this seemingly eternally unchanging place.

Aside from the temple-shaped building standing in the center, the view is completely white.

The inside of the building also offers plenty of food to ensure basic needs are met.

If it weren’t for the lack of entertainment facilities, staying in such a place actually qualifies as a true Social Phobia Gospel.

Without wasting much time, Lv Bai decisively sat cross-legged and began mobilizing his inner strength for body tempering.

With his extraordinary talent, he hardly faced any bottlenecks in this area of cultivation, everything was effortless.

First, his entire right arm, then the left, both legs, torso...

...

Lv Bai abruptly opened his eyes.

Leading in front, Dao Long suddenly shuddered inexplicably, and the tingling sensation made him instinctively want to flee.

He stiffly glanced back at Lv Bai.

From his perspective, in that instant, Lv Bai seemed to undergo an earth-shattering transformation.

As if he suddenly evolved from a harmless little lamb into a T-Rex, the land’s top predator.

Dao Long unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Brother... Brother Bai, do you feel anything strange?"

Lv Bai revealed his usual gentle smile.

"I just suddenly feel that there’s no need for us to team up with the Oshima people anymore."