Swoosh——
A flash of white light, and Light suddenly has an irregular crystal in his hand radiating an intense aura of energy.
This ti, Brother Tongzi was pretty considerate and gave the option to claim rewards individually.
Light didn’t hesitate and claid it right away.
Even though a 100% purification rate might an fatter rewards, ti was tight, and Light wasn’t even sure he could finish processing all these hundred thousand tons of waste on the final day.
Besides—
Claiming the rewards all at once ant that, however many crystals there were, Light would have to gobble them all up in a short ti.
No surprise, he’d definitely fall into a deep sleep from that.
But Light’s choice was...
Crunch——!
The crisp sound echoed through the level five hundred ters underground.
Eating crystals while purifying!
After all...
Even though he hadn’t used his ability that many tis, Light still understood the ’mana consumption’ chanic of superpowers.
Buzz——!
Light used both hands.
Each hand spawned a miniature black hole.
Crack crack——!
The sound of shattering solid glass kept ringing out.
Crash——
Countless highly radioactive nuclear waste, which made people on the surface turn pale just hearing about, was sucked into the black holes and instantly annihilated.
"Hey——"
"No matter how radioactive it is, it’s still matter, still elents."
"If it’s matter, then let Brother Dongzi suck it up!"
Dim underground level.
Riddled with countless ’pits.’
Inside each pit, a solidified cylindrical block of nuclear waste was buried.
Light tirelessly ’sucked’ them up one after another.
On the semi-transparent panel in front of him—
Lines of text popped up one after another.
[With the body of an ant, you have transcended your tier to purify ’Tier Nine Pollution Source - Nuclear’!]
[Such an accomplishnt is unprecedented, unmatched, echoing across the Wasteland!]
[You acquired resource: Tier Eight Energy Crystal *1]
It’s worth ntioning—
Light wasn’t sure after which round of purification, but the system’s ’repeat reward’ chanic triggered again.
Still got crystals, but couldn’t farm any more points.
Light felt a little bumd by that.
Crunch——!
Another Tier Eight Energy Crystal down the hatch.
Light could feel himself one step closer to Tier Nine.
But...
He could also clearly feel that the amount of energy needed to go from Tier Eight to Tier Nine had reached an ’utterly absurd’ level.
If—
Breaking through from Tier Seven to Eight was like filling up a pond with energy,
then going from Tier Eight to Nine was like filling up the entire Pacific Ocean.
The gap was absolutely terrifying.
"No way..."
"Running all over like this is way too slow, way too inefficient."
"Even if I keep purifying nonstop until midnight, chances of breaking through to Tier Nine are slim."
After another round of black hole blitz, Light stopped.
He started thinking about whether there was a more efficient way to purify.
"Enlarge the black hole?"
"Nope. The bigger the black hole, the stronger the gravity. One slip and the whole underground would collapse."
"Wait..."
Suddenly, Light’s eyes lit up.
"Elents, elents, tal elents!"
"No matter how radioactive nuclear waste is, at its core, it’s still tal elents!"
Swoosh——
Light willed his personal panel to appear.
His gaze fell on the ’Ability’ category.
Specifically, the ’tal’ attribute ability.
[Tier One tal Attribute Ability: tal Manipulation Lv1]
[Passive Effect: Can sense distribution of tal elents nearby, immune to tal attacks below own tier]
[Active Effect: Manipulate tal matter within range, alter its form and density]
...
[Fifth-rank tal Attribute Ability: tal Torrent Lv1]
[Active Effect: Decompose tallic substances in the area, forming a controllable tal storm]
...
"Solid nuclear waste is basically a solid-liquid mix of various heavy tal radioactive elents,"
"Then the outer surface is wrapped in cent and bentonite, forming the cylindrical blocks I see."
"So..."
"All I have to do is use ’tal Manipulation’ to sense where the uranium and other elents are located."
"Then use ’tal Torrent’ to break up those uranium and other heavy tal elents I need to purify, and turn them into miniature tal storms."
"Finally..."
"Control the storm, and send it into the Space Black Holes I conjure."
"As long as the perception and control range of ’tal Manipulation’ and ’tal Torrent’ is wide enough, I could just sit here and let the stuff co to !"
"A fully automated assembly line, done!"
The more Light thought about it, the more feasible it sounded.
The next second—
He ran to the center of the massive underground level and plopped himself down.
Then...
Light closed his eyes and activated ’tal Manipulation Lv1.’
In an instant—
The world in front of his eyes changed.
He could ’see’ all sorts of free-floating tal elents—should be called tal atoms in chemistry, right?
In any case—
Light could ’see’ them.
Even—
Though he wasn’t knowledgeable in chemistry, with this ability’s help, Light could accurately distinguish between various types of tal elents!
Uranium (U), Plutonium (Pu), Neptunium (Np), Actinium (Ac), Aricium (Am), Curium (Cm), Berkelium (Bk), Californium (Cf), Einsteinium (Es)...
All of these together ford the ’Tier Nine Pollution Source - Nuclear.’
"Bring the core!"
Light opened his eyes and gave a cringe-worthy dramatic shout.
Whoosh——
Crash——
Within a kiloter radius, the buried cylinders underground started to gently tremble.
Next...
With Light at the center, countless heavy tal elents in the underground level converged and intersected, actually forming a dazzlingly colorful ’torrent!’
Actually...
It was a hundred thousand tons of waste, but the ’nuclear core’ refined from it wasn’t all that much.
"Bring the hole!"
Light gave another dramatic shout.
He thrust his hands forward.
In front of him, several small Space Black Holes floated into existence.
Light could control quite a few black holes—dozens, at least. The limit was just that he couldn’t send them too far from his body yet.
Fzzzt——
Fzzzt fzzzt——
One after another ’torrent’ flowed silently, pouring straight into the small black holes.
In front of Light’s eyes,
the stream of text flying across his panel was going crazy, almost like gibberish!
"Hell yeah!"
Light was absolutely elated.
Crunch——!
He even had a free hand to keep popping Tier Eight Energy Crystals one after another!
Ti trickled by.
One hour later—
Light ca up with an even better way to ramp up his efficiency.
[Tier Two Reproduction Attribute Ability: Splitting Lv1]
[Active Effect: Creates a physical avatar that lasts 1 minute (inherits 30% of main body’s attributes)]
This was the new ability granted by the ’Growth’ attribute.
And right now, it was exactly what he needed.
Even though it only lasted a minute, could only create one, and only had 30% of his stats—
But...
It’d do!
Light willed it.
His flesh and bones started to squirm in a freaky way.
A mont later—
An identical ’Light’ stood in front of him.
"Hey."
Light grinned.
"Hey."
’Light’ grinned back in sync.
The physical avatar had no mind, only chanically obeying orders and imitating Light’s actions.
A mont later—
Five hundred ters deep in the Gobi Desert’s underground strata—
Two figures sat cross-legged, separated by hundreds of ters.
tal torrents surged, space black holes spun.
The crisp sounds of "crunch", never stopping—
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