"Opportunities for ants to kill elephants are rarely abundant, but if one is willing to wait, sooner or later, the opportunity will come."
"Waiting is hope!"
Yun You clenched her teeth tight, her arm starting to spasm from excessive exertion, yet she did not loosen her grip.
Everything she has done thus far was to wait for a single opportunity.
And when this opportunity arrives as expected... no matter how slim the chances of success are, she will step forward without hesitation, just as she had rehearsed in her mind, gambling everything she has.
She will never give up.
"Splurt~!"
With the force of Yun You's palm, her dagger crept forward by another fraction, piercing Mad Spirit's muscle and touching his windpipe.
"Huff... huff..."
Feeling the pain from the constriction on the windpipe, Apprentice Death God's breathing grew more difficult.
Only then, with his vision darkening continuously, did he finally understand Yun You's plan.
From the very start... Yun You's target was him.
The Healing Pill from the big company, though not worth much to the upper echelons, was quite precious to the lower class.
If Yun You truly didn't want him to find the pill, she could have hidden it in a corner of the garbage heap before revealing herself.
That way, even though he was an Apprentice Death God, finding it quickly would be tough.
But Yun You "foolishly" kept it in her pocket, and when Mad Spirit inquired about her civilian identity, she deliberately put her hand in her pocket, making a "retrieving something" gesture...
The only purpose of doing this was to make Mad Spirit speak up, forcing Yun You to take out the pill in "panic," showing Apprentice Death God that this young girl had an expensive pill.
If it had just ended there, perhaps Mad Spirit wouldn't have fallen for it.
However, Yun You then played a hand of feigned reluctance, first emphasizing how precious the pill was to her, how important it was, generating a feeling of "I don't want to give it," rather than willingly offering it to Mad Spirit.
This completely dispelled the last lingering doubt within Apprentice Death God's heart.
Subsequently... after getting injured, Mad Spirit instinctively snatched the pill, swallowing it without a second thought.
After all, in his eyes, Yun You was just an unworldly little girl, at best a little clever, not someone threatening.
"A girl from the bottom tier of society, at most sixteen years old, thin as a bamboo stick — what's there to worry about?"
That's how Mad Spirit thought, and this contempt reached its peak when he casually killed one civilian and was revered as a deity by the others.
Apprentice Death Gods never take lower-class civilians seriously.
But at that moment, he did not know that everything he did was within this young girl's plan.
Apart from sheer strength, his actions, his personality... even his thoughts were all within the girl's grasp.
"Gurgle..."
Dark red blood, bubbling, began spreading in his windpipe.
Mad Spirit's consciousness slowly blurred, and the crazed girl before him fused with the darkness of night, transforming into a small black dot wrapped in invisible flames, giving everything she had just to take his life.
Suddenly, Mad Spirit recalled something.
This afternoon, a "Death God senior" highly respected by industry peers had been attacked in a nearby urban area.
That senior not only had the same power system as him, but was also several times stronger than this "Intern," equipped with many advanced mechanical prosthetics, and was a figure Mad Spirit deeply respected.
Mad Spirit had witnessed firsthand that a casual swipe of that senior's hand could send a thousand-ton special vehicle flying in the air, twisting steel bars as thick as an arm into a spiral...
Such power, not even Apprentice Death Gods like Mad Spirit could hope to match.
And who was the attacker? According to the senior's post-event account, it was just an ordinary girl, even physically inferior to a normal adult, only slightly nimble in her steps.
It was a completely uneven match-up, like an elephant facing an ant, with no expected surprises.
However, the attack ended with... Mad Spirit's powerful senior losing a prosthetic arm, while several bones were broken during the battle.
"Damn... that girl truly is a genuine lunatic, not sure where she got hundreds of kilograms of homemade explosives and over ten compressed anesthetic gas canisters, detonating the explosives while I was incapacitated by the anesthetics... blew apart that unfinished building and the room I was in."
"If I hadn't activated the Sequence power at the critical moment to endure the explosion, I would've suffered serious injuries."
Mad Spirit recalled the senior's rant.
It was the only time the senior showed a rattled tone, and the source of the unease was merely an ordinary girl.
"Could she... be the one who attacked the senior..."
Mad Spirit bit the tip of his tongue hard, trying to stimulate his mind with pain.
He was almost certain that this self-proclaimed Youyou young girl was the lunatic who had attacked his senior not long ago.
Apprentice Death God had ruled Nest City for so many years, encountering ordinary people daring enough to raise weapons against them was not unheard of.
But someone like Yun You who could truly harm an Apprentice Death God... over the past decade, there really has been only her!
Only she could achieve this extent, and only she could overcome ordinary people's fear of Apprentice Death God, finding victory in despair.
Mad Spirit distinctly felt a chilling sensation he had never experienced creeping onto his heart.
This was a sign of death.
In Yun You's own words, although Apprentice Death Gods bear the title of Gods, essentially they are just a group of people with special powers, no different from powerful beasts.
They bleed, and they die.
But Mad Spirit doesn't want to die.
He was originally a son of a wealthy family, carefree with no worries, often amusing himself with lower-class people...
But within Nest City, merely having money isn't enough to truly do as one pleases, isn't enough to satisfy Mad Spirit's desires.
Only power is the source of authority and caprice.
And so, he paid a substantial price to transform himself into an Apprentice Death God.
Once he officially passed the Internship Period, Mad Spirit could attain the status he dreamed of.
But he never expected to find himself in a place like this, where his life was threatened.
What made it hard to accept was that the one about to take his life was someone he regarded as "livestock," a worthless commoner, lower than the "Nest City civilians."
No matter what, he couldn't accept this.
In his rage, Apprentice Death God began his final struggle.