Perhaps she would not have spent so much ti hesitating.
As those thoughts crossed her mind, guilt slowly appeared in her eyes. "I’m sorry..."
The mont Silas heard those apologetic words, his entire expression froze.
Imdiately afterward, he pulled her deeper into his embrace and gently patted her back repeatedly while kissing the top of her head tenderly.
"What are you even apologizing for?"
His voice beca low and emotional. "If anyone should apologize, it should be ."
He slowly closed his eyes for a mont.
"I was not there when you suffered so much. A part of the bla for everything that happened to you belongs to as well."
Then he gently kissed her forehead.
Ivy’s eyes beca slightly moist.
At that mont, she truly felt that she must have accumulated incredible luck in order to have a husband like Silas.
A man willing to wait for her for over six months without complaining even once.
A man who always respected her fears, her trauma, and her emotions despite how much he desired her.
anwhile, Silas’s thoughts drifted toward the trap they had prepared earlier.
In fact, they had waited for an entire month already.
Yet not a single superior being had attempted to approach the room containing the hidden gold.
The situation felt both baffling and alarming.
At one point, they even began wondering whether the superior beings had already shifted their attention toward an entirely different plan.
anwhile, Benny had spent the past month tirelessly completing various tasks assigned by the superior beings.
So missions were simple.
Others were absurdly strange.
At tis, he hunted mutated beasts alone deep inside dangerous zones.
At other tis, he chopped apart bizarre mutated plants while collecting their cores and samples.
He even spent days planting mysterious chips throughout different regions of the country.
The work exhausted him both ntally and physically.
Several tis, he genuinely considered giving up completely.
However, every ti that thought surfaced, he rembered the rewards promised to him.
And greed pushed him forward once more.
Finally, one month later, the superior beings rewarded him personally.
The reward was a crystal.
At first glance, the crystal looked extrely beautiful. Multiple colors flowed across its surface like moving light trapped inside glass.
Initially, Benny could not understand why they had gifted him such an item.
However, once he opened the letter accompanying it, his eyes widened in shock.
This crystal could awaken an entirely new superpower.
Of course, the process ca with a price.
His original ability, super strength, would disappear completely.
In exchange, the crystal would rewrite his power into sothing vastly superior.
The temptation was simply too overwhelming.
Without hesitation, Benny imdiately decided to test it.
The mont he began absorbing the crystal, unbearable pain exploded throughout his entire body.
"Aghhh!"
His body convulsed violently. Cold sweat instantly soaked his clothes.
At one point, the pain beca so intense that Benny genuinely thought he was going to die.
For a terrifying mont, he even suspected that the superior beings had rely been toying with him from the beginning.
Perhaps they never intended to reward him at all. Perhaps this was simply their thod of killing useless humans.
Even so... Benny gritted his teeth and continued enduring the pain desperately.
Eventually, after what felt like endless suffering, the process finally ended.
The mont Benny slowly opened his eyes again, he imdiately sensed that sothing inside him had fundantally changed.
Curious, Benny quickly began experinting with his newfound ability.
At first, nothing happened. Then suddenly... Crack!
Blue lightning erupted violently across his fingertips.
Benny’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Soon afterward, he discovered sothing even more shocking.
His power was not ordinary lightning. It was mutated lightning.
Not only that, but it also carried partial control over rain itself.
If he wished, he could force rain to pour across an entire area.
The destructive potential of the ability imdiately intoxicated him.
A trembling smile slowly appeared across his face. "It was worth it..."
At that mont, greed completely consud his heart.
If the superior beings possessed treasures capable of granting powers like this, then how terrifyingly advanced were they truly?
However, before Benny could continue thinking further, his exhausted body finally collapsed completely.
He fell onto the bed unconscious. And slept for three entire days straight.
The situation beca so strange that even Carter eventually noticed Benny’s absence.
Initially, Carter barely paid attention to him.
However, after hearing repeated reports about Benny remaining unconscious for days, even he beca slightly suspicious.
"What happened to him?"
Several subordinates rely shrugged helplessly. "We do not know."
Left with no choice, Carter personally went to inspect the situation.
Yet once he arrived and saw Benny sleeping heavily while the room slled strongly of alcohol, Carter imdiately lost interest.
"He is just drunk."
With that conclusion, Carter simply left.
anwhile, when Benny finally regained consciousness several days later, his expression beca contemplative.
The reason was simple. He kept thinking about the crystal.
The absorption process had been unimaginably painful.
Yet the superior beings had not warned him even once.
Gradually, a strange thought ford inside his mind.
Perhaps superior beings themselves did not experience pain while absorbing such crystals.
Or perhaps... they simply no longer considered that level of suffering important.
Regardless of the truth, Benny remained grateful toward them.
In fact, he had already started looking forward to eting them personally soday.
He had also inford them about the gold trap beforehand, which was precisely why the superior beings never approached the location at all.
Just as Benny expected another mission soon, he finally received a new instruction from the superior beings.
This ti, the order made his eyes narrow slightly.
He was instructed to secretly bring his trusted subordinates to a specific location.
Now was the ti to establish a true connection and solidify it completely.
That was what the superior beings had told Benny after he awakened his new superpower.
The mont he heard those words, excitent surged violently through his chest.
Finally.
Finally, the day he had dread about for so long was approaching.
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