Lin Bei's face flickered with hesitation.
He swept his gaze across the huge altar and thought, "This is the perfect place to farm stats. If I give it up… it'd be a huge loss!"
"But if I keep going, I'll probably fall into that mysterious expert's trap!"
"That aura… is clearly far stronger than mine!"
"Carrying on would be playing with fire!"
Lin Bei's face contorted in struggle.
Right now, he was extremely torn.
"Hold on—he called me a thief. In other words… the power I've plundered can't be taken back by him."
"And I've got the Critical Hit System. With my current hidden Luck stat plus the Super Lucky State, every hit triggers at least several-thousand-fold crits!"
"In other words, each time I steal 100 million Combat Power, I gain hundreds of billions of Combat Power!"
"If I keep this up, my strength will skyrocket faster than I can imagine!"
"And every time I steal stats from him, he'll grow weaker. In the long run… maybe before he even lifts a finger, I'll be strong enough to crush him!"
"Then what the hell am I scared of!"
Lin Bei's eyes lit up; the fear of the mysterious expert in the Abyss Sea vanished in an instant.
"As the saying goes: the bold feast, the timid starve. I don't believe that after being trapped in the Abyss Sea for so many years without incident, he can still hurt me."
"As long as I don't Teleport into the Teleportation Array zone, nothing can touch me!"
"And… I'm growing stronger every second!"
"If something does happen, who beats whom isn't set in stone!"
Lin Bei drew a deep breath; his mind was completely calm again.
Then he went on placing crystals, summoning World BOSSes!
In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.
Lin Bei had already taken down fifteen World BOSSes in a row—averaging one every thirty seconds.
Mainly because each BOSS had to strike a few poses in the Teleportation Array and spout some tough lines before the fight began.
Otherwise, the time could've been halved.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
Right now Lin Bei didn't dare Teleport into the array; for safety, he only attacked after the BOSS was transferred into the special Combat space.
Still, he had to admit—his luck was excellent.
Ever since he took over, every World BOSS that appeared had Combat Power above ten billion!
And as time went on, he noticed each newly summoned World BOSS was stronger than the last!
The previous one he'd killed was a colossal black octopus with Epic Three-Star stats and over forty billion Combat Power.
Sadly, forty billion Combat Power was nothing in Lin Bei's eyes now.
In barely ten-odd seconds, the huge octopus was reduced to ash by his Annihilation Force-infused attack and vanished from the world.
"Refreshing~~~"
Lin Bei stretched, sweeping all the loot into his storage space.
So far, the total number of World BOSSes he'd slain had reached twenty.
Yet he could still summon more.
In other words, the spawn cap hadn't been reached.
But his own stats had already changed beyond recognition!
[Vitality: 1.2 trillion (Epic Five-Star)]
[Spirit: 800 billion (Epic Four-Star)]
[Combat Power: 1 trillion (Epic Four-Star)]
His Vitality had long since broken past the trillion mark, reaching Epic Five-Star rank.
His Spirit was slightly lower, but only two hundred billion away from Epic Five-Star.
To put it bluntly, Lin Bei's Combat Power had shot up like a rocket!
An hour ago his Vitality had just passed 100 billion and his Spirit hadn't even reached 50 billion—now the difference was heaven and earth!
"After Epic Five-Star comes the Legendary Realm."
"But to enter Legendary Realm you need more than Vitality and Spirit—you also need Rank Fragments."
"Forget it. When I'm done here I'll have a good talk with Aleria; I've got plenty of world origin fragments—should be enough to trade for the resources to step into Legendary Realm."
Lin Bei shook his head, pushing the thought aside.
He continued setting up the altar and summoning World BOSSes, planning to use the remaining time to kill as many as possible and plunder more stats… In the depths of the darkness, a pair of huge eyes slowly opened, a flash of anger glinting within them.
"My power… has weakened again."
"Pity—he never comes deeper into the Abyss Sea. Could it be… he's sensed something?"
"Impossible. Even those so-called Celestial Gods can't detect my will; how could that puny thief outside notice anything amiss?"
"Coincidence? Or…"
"Forget it. Whatever the case, this time I'll transmit power to the limit!"
"If he won't come in, then I'll personally 'invite' him in!"
"After so many years of boredom, some entertainment is hard to come by. I hope that little thief… won't disappoint me."
The huge eyes slowly closed, and the surrounding space sank into endless darkness once more.