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Chapter 248: Enter Jin Tao

Jin Tao sat within the verti-car, looking out of place It wasn’t that he was unused to the car, of course He was uncomfortable in his own skin

For the lastin and out of consciousness until finally waking up the night before He still hadn’t been able to shake that feeling, the sense of being so that had happened since entering the Avenue has felt like a drea by like a year It had been an eternity of pain, where his body struggled to absorb and persist against the poison of the Fantascia Genetica He’d been ripped apart, and put back together

He’d survived it ed willpower He’d refused to let his body get the better of him That wasn’t to say the painful experience hadn’t permanently burned itself in to his memory When he final cahtht as he was in this fugue state it felt like ti, replaced by strange sensations He’d have flashes of cold, then searing heat So pain would come back They would come in short-lived waves that tu in soe illusion He didn’t feel at all like himself

At last, when he’d been let out of the life support pod and his feet touched the ground again, he could alh his limbs It was a sensation that was difficult to explain

There were several things that were difficult to explain

Not the least of these were the changes in his body For starters, he was a good deal taller than he had been before taking the decoction In the space of a month he seemed to have stretched at least two inches His skinny fraer, necessarily, but there was certainly more definition He felt more… elastic, more malleable

More than his looks, his personality had also undergone soes – a normal reaction to the experiences and environrown up

He unconsciously clenched his hands in to fists His body, suddenly and ferociously, filled ild power It rose up from within him until it threatened to spill free, like a tsunami – a landslide, especially when coy had been before As his Discipline flooded hiolden hair sprouted from his skin, and he stretched to over two meters The dumb mutt from before released an aura of majesty

Are these arms even mine? This power…

He allowed his newfound power to course through hi it to abate

After awakening, he’d been subjected to a nuh he’d been kept up ht from them, he didn’t feel tired But that discoht until this very moment There was still so much he didn’t understand

Mika had told him all of this was normal Any acquisition of power, especially so quickly, took tiet used to He was told next he would be delivered to the Master, ould help hi

So it was that he found hih the skies towards who knohere He had time to reflect upon his situation, and he was overjoyed

He was ecstatic with his decision, one he knew to be right without question Had it not been for the Professor, and his own hard work, he’d be nothing – just as he was before

Now, though… now things were different He had ht need soain, but the strength that filled him was a beautiful sensation in and of itself

By the ti At so the journey – Jin Tao couldn’t reuo had donned a pair of silverfacility

Someone was already there when they entered, and looked to have been waiting for some time He led theuide brought hiroup of familiar faces

And of course he did Wasn’t that the hateful pig-boy, Tang Xiao? And his sister beside hiure out how he could be so fat, while his little sister ht as well have been a model

There was also Zhou Qianlin, the school beauty, patron goddess of the broken hearted Gu Yingying and Yan Ningya, talented fe them Behind them, wasn’t that her brother Yan Zhanchen? He and his sister – along with Tang Xiao and his sister, Tang Mi – were praised as the strongest fighting duo in the NEU Any time they teamed up in DreamNet, they racked up impressive scores

Gathered around were others, and all of them were equally talented ured, fah his head as he looked theht Why did they all look so miserable?

Nearly every one of them was pale, with their faces pained and drawn Some had black eyes, others looked like they’d been nearly drowned A good number of them appeared to twitch uncontrollably, like they had the jitters

What’s wrong with all these blessed ones? He thought They look like ed, eventually, to draw his eyes away fro bunch He spied five olden masks, and two others hid behind silver, like Mika and Lin Guoguo