Half an hour later.
On the outskirts, next to a construction site.
Night fell, and a burly man, nearly two meters tall, was repeatedly smashing a huge truck tire with his fists.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Each punch carried a dull whooshing sound.
He was Combat Obsessed, originally named Ren Shitou, and nicknamed'Stone Man'!
Soon, he stopped, exhausted, and sat on the ground, looking at his blood-streaked fists, his eyes filled with unwillingness and anger.
"Why! Why do I work so hard, and still can only move bricks!"
"Those guys, just because they got some damn System by luck, they can boss me around!"
"Strength! I need stronger strength!"
He clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, and let out a suppressed roar towards the sky.
Just as his desire for strength reached its peak.
Not far away, the back seat window of a slowly passing Rolls-Royce quietly lowered.
Lu Cheng looked at the burly man, who was at a low point in his life and whose faith was about to collapse, and smiled faintly.
He raised his hand and lightly snapped his fingers in Ren Shitou's direction.
Snap.
A stream of light, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, flew from his fingertip and silently merged into Ren Shitou's glabella.
He, who was pounding the ground, suddenly stiffened!
Immediately after, a cold, mechanical electronic synthesized voice exploded in his mind!
[Ding! Detected that the Host possesses a one-in-a-million Indomitable Battle Soul!]
[Detected that the Host's desire for strength has reached its critical value!]
[The Strongest Combat System—the King of Berserkers System, is binding...]
[1%... 50%... 100%!]
[Binding successful! Congratulations, Host, from today onwards, you will embark on an invincible path of berserk combat!]
Ren Shitou was stunned for a full dozen seconds, and then, extreme ecstasy and disbelief surged onto his face!
"Sy... System?!"
"I... I also got a System?!"
He was trembling with excitement, suddenly jumped up from the ground, and roared again... "Hahahaha! I, Ren Shitou! Finally waited for this day!!"
The Rolls-Royce slowly accelerated and drove away from the commotion.
Lu Cheng looked through the rearview mirror at the burly man who was wildly celebrating his "windfall from heaven," and a satisfied smile appeared on his face, like a capitalist watching a worker sign a deed of sale.
Ji Ling, beside him, looked at this scene with confusion in her eyes and couldn't help but ask:
"Master, what... what exactly did you do?"
"I didn't do anything, Ling'er."
"I merely... heard the prayer of a devout believer, and then responded to him."
"Of course, in return, collecting a small... incense fee is only natural, isn't it?"
...The next day, at the Tianming Pavilion's internal training ground.
This was one of Tianming Pavilion's strongholds in the Demon City, a place for ordinary members to spar and exchange ideas.
At this moment, the atmosphere was somewhat eerie.
Everyone's gaze was focused on the center of the training ground.
A burly man was walking step by step towards the resting area.
Ren Shitou, codenamed "Combat Obsessed".
Before today, he was the most marginalized and inconspicuous existence in Tianming Pavilion.
A "normal person" who only had brute force but hadn't awakened any System was the object of everyone's ridicule and exclusion.
But today, he seemed different.
His eyes were now filled with surging battle intent and absolute confidence.
His target was also very clear.
The man who was sitting cross-legged, drinking a beverage with an arrogant look on his face, Thor.
"Thor."
Ren Shitou stopped and shouted at him.
"I challenge you."
Pfft--!
Thor nearly spat out the drink he had just taken, looking at Ren Shitou as if he were an idiot, and then burst into a harsh laugh.
"Hahahaha! Combat Obsessed? Did you fucking train your brain into muscle?"
"A piece of trash, dares to challenge me?"
The surrounding members also joined in the mocking laughter.
Although Combat Obsessed was somewhat different today, challenging Thor was still too naive...
"Stone Man must be crazy, right? Haven't he been beaten enough?"
"Poor guy, his brain really isn't working well."
Ren Shitou was expressionless towards these harsh taunts.
Without a word, he walked to a several-hundred-kilogram alloy training dummy nearby, extended his right hand, and gripped it with his five fingers like iron tongs.
Then, under everyone's astonished gaze, his arm muscles suddenly bulged, and his veins popped out!
"Rise!"
He roared, single-handedly lifting the heavy dummy over his head!
It felt less like lifting a heavy object and more like... casually picking up a plastic trash bag.
Thor's laughter, however, grew louder.
"No, do you think lifting a dummy makes you invincible?"
"Just muscles and no brain..."
Ren Shitou didn't give him a chance to say anything more.
With a flick of his arm!
Swoosh--!
The several-hundred-kilogram alloy dummy transformed into a black afterimage, carrying a sharp whooshing sound, and was thrown out by him like trash!
Boom!!!
The dummy slammed hard against a wall twenty meters away, emitting a deafening roar!
The wall trembled violently, spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread, and the dummy was even deeply dented, turning into a pile of scrap metal!
The entire place was silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
Everyone was completely stunned by this earth-shattering move.
This... this wasn't just pure strength, was it?
Or rather, when strength reached this level, skill was indeed no longer needed!
Ren Shitou's gaze was like a knife, locking onto Thor again.
"Now, am I qualified?"
Thor's face alternated between green and pale, being publicly provoked by a piece of trash, which made him feel an unprecedented humiliation.
He gritted his teeth, and electric arcs began to crackle around him.
"Good... very good!"
"It seems you, this piece of trash, got some lucky break and encountered some fortuitous event!"
"But remember this, trash is always trash!"
"In front of true lightning, your brute force is just a joke!"
Before he finished speaking, his figure flashed, turning into a streak of lightning, and he initiated the attack!
...At the same time.
Lu Cheng lay in bed, holding Anya, who had been busy all night, watching the live broadcast of this battle through the System.
However, in his System, lines of data were also rapidly refreshing.
[Sub-system: King of Berserkers System]
[Host: Ren Shitou]
[Current Combat Power: 900]
[Revenue Conversion Rate: 99.9%]
[Current Revenue: +100 Villain Points, +150, +200...]
At the battle scene.
Initially, Ren Shitou was completely at a disadvantage.
Thor was extremely fast, and furious lightning bolts lashed at him like whips, forcing him to retreat repeatedly.
"Trash! Is this all you've got?!"
Thor attacked while shouting wildly.
In Lu Cheng's study, the data panel also flickered.
[Ding! Host suffered a medium-intensity electric shock, physical cell activity passively stimulated, electric shock resistance strengthened... Revenue converting... Main System obtained a trace sample of "Lightning Energy"... Analyzing...]
Ren Shitou was beaten back again and again, suffering multiple charred electrical burns on his body, looking extremely disheveled.
But the battle intent in his eyes did not decrease, but intensified, becoming even hotter!
This was the core ability of the King of Berserkers System—getting stronger with every fight!
Every injury, every attack endured, was stimulating deeper potential within his body!
"How is that possible?!"
The more Thor fought, the more alarmed he became.
He found that the paralyzing effect of his lightning on this monster was weakening at a visible rate!
And the opponent's evasion angles were also optimizing in an incredible way, becoming faster and faster!
Lu Cheng's backend data refreshed again.
[Ding! Host successfully evaded Thor's attack in battle, combat experience +500, System automatically optimized evasion path... Revenue converting... Main System gained Villain Points +499.5!]
"This leek is growing remarkably well."
Lu Cheng's smile grew more playful as he watched the rapidly increasing numbers.
Just then, the situation on the field reached a turning point!
"Roar--!!!"
Ren Shitou seized a gap in Thor's attack and let out a long-suppressed roar of anger!
He activated the skill included in the Newbie Gift Pack (Newbie Gift Pack)—Blood Frenzy!
In an instant, his entire skin turned crimson.
Veins wriggled like earthworms beneath his skin, and his entire body was like a cooked shrimp, emitting scorching steam!
Strength, speed, and resistance instantly surged at this moment!
"Fall... for me!!!"
He ignored a lightning bolt striking his face, letting the violent current leave a scorched mark on his face.
Enduring the damage, he used all his strength to deliver a simple, unadorned straight punch, fiercely slamming into Thor's chest!
This punch condensed all his anger, unwillingness, and humiliation!
Thor's pupils contracted, wanting to dodge, but found that the opponent's speed was so fast that he couldn't react at all!
He could only hastily set up a shield in front of his chest!
Crack!
The shield shattered in response, like thin paper!
Bang!!!
A dull thud, like a battering ram hitting a city gate!
Thor felt as if he had been hit head-on by a high-speed dump truck, the sound of his sternum breaking clearly audible... He spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and his entire body, like a kite with a broken string, flew backward more than ten meters, slamming hard onto the ground, twitching twice... Thor's body, already weakened by the Heart Demon Trigger, could no longer support him, and he directly fainted!
The entire place once again fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone stared at the man standing in the center of the field, steaming all over, like a demon god, with eyes like they were looking at a monster.
A pure physical combatant... defeated Thor, known for his explosive attack power, with a single frontal punch?
A pleasant notification sound came from Lu Cheng's mind.
[Ding! Host completed the "Battle of Reversal," overcoming a superior opponent, faith sublimated, gaining massive combat experience and luck feedback!]
[Revenue converting...]
[Gained Villain Points +5000!]
[Obtained "Thor" core ability data sample...]
His smile was incredibly satisfied.
This feeling was like putting a hat on someone else, and they still had to thank you and help you raise their child...
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