Hidden Side Quest: Ability User Purge (Hidden Faction Quest, Repeatable)
Quest Description: ??? denies the existence of Ability Users. Please kill the Ability Users in this world.
Quest Reward: For each Ability User killed, gain Reputation based on their strength. A Reputation of Honored unlocks the Reputation Shop.
Quest Penalty: Pursued by Spirit World creatures for three quest worlds.
Li Qingzi gasped. The aura of the powerful Reincarnator behind her had vanished. Under Suzuki Unichirou's mission arrangement, she had originally intended to go directly to J City to find Tao Bai Bai.
But halfway there, she encountered an unexpected team battle quest. A five-person Reincarnator team was in W City farming milestones by hunting professional heroes, and she was drawn into it.
Due to her current severe lack of resources, Li Qingzi brazenly drew her sword and killed three people.
However, during the pursuit, she unexpectedly encountered Tang Sanzang, a powerful follower of the Terminus Great Sun.
This person was rumored to have participated in the competition for a Supreme Expert Title and was a top-tier expert among Title-level Reincarnators. After only two exchanges, Li Qingzi felt she was no match.
She immediately activated Godspeed to escape, eventually plunging into the Spirit World Infestation Zone.
She looked up and saw that the sky here was very strange, completely black, like thick ink constantly surging. However, the city's buildings and the surrounding air flickered with colorful fluorescent lights, preventing the world from being completely dark.
This was probably an abandoned city. The buildings and streets were well-preserved, but there were no traces of humans in the city.
Li Qingzi hid at the bottom of a tall building, watching the giant humanoid creature retreat from outside the Spirit World Infestation Zone. She guessed that this was the target Suzuki Unichirou wanted to find various Ability Users to jointly defeat: ???
Li Qingzi's Kenbunshoku Haki was fully active. She suddenly turned her head and saw several green phosphorescent lights ignite in the dark stairwell, drifting towards her.
Her Gantz Sword instantly extended to nearly two meters, completely covered by Armament Haki.
"Heh, this aura... You're not a good person, are you? Do you want to kill this great one?"
The voice was deep, but the tone was strangely amusing.
Li Qingzi watched the phosphorescent lights float in front of her, revealing a green spirit body with only a head, its face adorned with two red "blushes."
This was...
She had also read the story of Mob Psycho 100 and recognized this spirit body as a crucial character within it—Xiao Jiuwo.
Unexpectedly, Li Qingzi's hesitation made Xiao Jiuwo's expression turn a bit grim.
"You know me..."
"I don't know you, but you know me, and you have special combat abilities... That's right, you're one of those guys too..."
Xiao Jiuwo's voice became strangely eerie and sinister. The phosphorescent light began to burn. In just a moment, Xiao Jiuwo's spirit body began to grow larger, but at the same time, it also became more ethereal.
"You guys... You turned that guy into this state, and you're still not going to let go, are you...?"
Xiao Jiuwo's gaze left Li Qingzi's face and looked at the ground. Intense psychic energy began to emerge.
He truly hated these inexplicable guys, far more evil than any vengeful spirit he had ever seen.
"You guys..."
Xiao Jiuwo's voice began to change. Li Qingzi retreated a few steps. She felt as if the building was starting to twist, and an extremely dangerous sensation began to spread.
Bound Spirit?
Among 陰靈 , Bound Spirits were not considered high-level. In fact, for spirit bodies, becoming a Bound Spirit was a form of torment and restraint.
It meant being forever unable to leave that place, becoming a prisoner.
But correspondingly, Bound Spirits also possessed greater abilities within their own environment.
Bang!
The ground instantly shattered. Li Qingzi leaped backward in an instant, smashing through glass and returning to the dim street. Xiao Jiuwo came to the side of the building, and the bottom of the building began to twist, as if a giant arm was about to extend from it.
Li Qingzi's thoughts raced, and she quickly realized that this world had probably been affected by Reincarnators' actions before. Kageyama Shigeo had turned into this ??? state, and Xiao Jiuwo had become a Bound Spirit and hated Reincarnators.
Everything had a reason.
"Do you want Kageyama Shigeo to turn back, Xiao Jiuwo?"
As she spoke, Li Qingzi accepted the hidden quest.
You have joined the Hidden Faction: Spirit World Revelation. Current Reputation: Stranger (1/100).
Sure enough, as she accepted the quest and joined this hidden faction, the omnipresent danger within her Kenbunshoku Haki became significantly weaker.
She took a deep breath, feeling that she might have inadvertently found the best route to mediate between the powerful Title-level Reincarnator teams in this world.
She unhesitatingly betrayed Suzuki Unichirou's Claw organization.
The opponent's thirty years of accumulated energy couldn't even match Kageyama Shigeo in his ??? state. With only three years of accumulation now, trying to defeat ??? was simply unrealistic.
And her "master," Bai Cangshu, was making a big show of becoming an Interest-Driven Hero, clearly aiming to achieve a breakthrough through Saitama.
That was probably the most complete method in theory, but it was too dangerous.
Li Qingzi was no longer planning to prioritize meeting up with him at this time. The rewards for this hidden quest were actually quite generous.
It only required killing Ability Users, but from Xiao Jiuwo's words, it was clear that ??? was actually hostile to all individuals with extraordinary power.
Ability Users, Reincarnators, and even those heroes and monsters with various abilities, probably all met the criteria...
What she had to do was... kill!
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"Fubuki-sama, there have been multiple Ability User attack incidents in W City. There are many calls for help, what do you think...?"
Lilith, who was driving, turned her head to look at Fubuki in the passenger seat, a bit troubled.
Fubuki also frowned, hesitating.
Tatsumaki rarely sat in a car. She usually flew directly in the sky or took a Hero Association plane for deployment.
"Fubuki-sama, the Spirit World Infestation Zone seems to have expanded again. Just now, someone in W City witnessed a giant black figure emerging from the Spirit World."
Tatsumaki frowned. If it was just ordinary Ability Users and Spirit World creatures, she could accept Fubuki playing hero role-playing games with those guys.
But if that guy appeared, it was not something Fubuki could handle.
She pushed open the car door. Lilith gasped, unable to stop her. Tatsumaki flew directly out of the car, transforming into a green light, and instantly vanished.
In the car behind, Bai Cangshu also saw Tatsumaki leaving.
As Saitama and Tatsumaki successively left the team, he clearly noticed a change in the atmosphere within the team.
Hong Chen, who was hanging outside the car, was no longer chattering, and Selah, who was sitting in the frontmost car, revealed an uncontrollable, sinister smile.
Loka and Short Hair, who were in the same car as him, felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.
These two hadn't even noticed Tatsumaki leaving.
Bai Cangshu's mouth also curled into a grin. Among Reincarnators, it was always like this: deception, and betrayal was the eternal theme.
He sat directly in the car and pointed his index finger forward.
Buzz~
Amidst the violent roar of golden energy, Lilith, who was driving, hadn't even realized what was happening when she saw a laser shoot out from the windshield, directly piercing through the car Fubuki was riding in and entering the frontmost car.
Then, that car immediately swerved. Two figures opened the car doors and jumped out to either side, and the car exploded with a bang.
Bai Cangshu stomped hard.
Bang!
The car's floor was instantly stomped through. His fully Armament Haki-hardened feet slammed into the asphalt road. Amidst a terrifying roar, the car quickly lost power as all four wheels lifted off the ground.
"Mr. Tao Bai Bai, what are you...?"
Lilith gripped the steering wheel, still shaken. Bai Cangshu tore open the car roof and flipped onto it.
His gaze swept around, but he saw no figures, only a semi-transparent figure emerging from the flames in the smoke of the explosion, then completely disappearing into the air.
"You're crazy!"
Fubuki got out of the car, both shocked and angry. But the next moment, a white lightning bolt flashed.
Hadō #4: Byakurai
The lightning bolt instantly pierced Fubuki's chest. As she stumbled backward and fell, Fubuki saw a pitch-black door seemingly ripped open in the space in front of her, and a man in a white suit stepped out from it.