Some people say that a person has to experience death twice in their life.
One is death in the physical sense, when all signs of life completely disappear.
The other is death in the spiritual sense, when the last person who remembers you disappears from this world.
But according to Levi, besides these two kinds of death, there is another kind of death.
Some people never experience this kind of death even once in their entire lives, while others have to experience it countless times.
That is social death.
Levi was experiencing social death right now. No, to be precise, Mobius was the one experiencing social death right now.
"She licked it."
Seeing the saliva smeared on the blade, Levi said blankly.
"Pfft, hahahaha!"
Vill-V, who had originally come looking for trouble, could not help clutching her stomach and laughing after seeing Mobius's action.
Unlike Vill-V, who was laughing happily, Mobius's face was dark.
Her cold vertical pupils stared intently at Levi, who was searching for the antidote in the laboratory.
She reminded him, 'Inside the drawer on the left.'
Unfortunately, the reminder came a step too late. The moment Levi got the antidote, his consciousness sank into darkness.
The same was true for Mobius.
Before she passed out, Vill-V's mocking laughter was still echoing in her ears.
No one knew how much time had passed. When Levi woke up, he found that he had already left the little snake's body and returned to the Xianzhou Luofu.
He opened the system panel and looked at the words "Completed" displayed on the commission Mobius had issued.
Levi was confused. "How did it get completed..."
If there was nothing wrong with his memory, he should have accidentally licked the blade covered in poison and then passed out.
He had not done anything to Elysia at all.
So how had the commission been completed after he woke up from his sleep?
[Ding! After confirming that Mobius was Mobius, Elysia mistakenly believed that her own actions had caused Mobius to develop mental problems. She fell into self-blame and went several days without thinking about food or tea.]
There were many ways to teach someone a lesson. The ultimate goal was to make them realize their mistake.
Regardless of whether that mistake actually qualified as a mistake by the common definition.
Now, because of Levi's "self-harming" actions, Elysia had realized her own "mistake," so the system judged Mobius's commission to be completed.
"So there was another way to complete it."
He had thought he would have to beat Elysia up. For that reason, he had even deliberately put a negative buff on her to prevent Elysia from resisting.
Otherwise, a group of Flame-Chasers would come and beat him up.
After all, compared with Elysia's status among the Flame-Chasers, Mobius basically had no status at all.
If she went up against Elysia, aside from a few Flame-Chasers like Pardo who would not get involved, the others, such as Kalpas and Vill-V, would definitely join forces with Elysia to deal with him.
Levi was not afraid of one-on-one.
He was not afraid of one against two either.
But one against three, one against four...
Levi felt that calling Klein over to plead his case for him would not be a bad idea.
When Vill-V had suddenly appeared, Levi had originally been prepared to activate Human-Honkai Disguise directly, catch her off guard, kill her instantly, and then go properly spoil Elysia.
Who could have expected him to have a brain malfunction and lick the surgical knife?
Fortunately, the commission was completed.
Besides, he had been using Mobius's appearance, so even if this matter spread throughout the Elysian Realm, Levi was not afraid.
'Let it spread! Let it spread!'
Feeling the formula for a drug that had been directly injected into his mind and was said to be capable of healing Honkai erosion, Levi planned to find an opportunity to go to the big snake or perhaps go to St. Freya Academy and find someone to try it on.
No matter which place it was, as long as Levi explained the effects of this formula, there was a hundred percent chance that no one would refuse.
Whether it was the Valkyries fighting Honkai on the front lines or those patients suffering from Honkai disease after being eroded by Honkai.
They all desperately needed something like this.
Even if the final effect of this thing could only alleviate their condition, it would still be the same.
No one would refuse something that could prolong their life.
The little snake really deserved to be called a granny who had lived for fifty thousand years. Anything she casually pulled out could be worth a lot of money.
Noticing that the formula had been put away, Levi looked at the Claim button on the system panel and rubbed his palms together.
He looked forward to getting something good.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained: Human-Honkai Disguise!]
The instant he saw the name of the ability, Levi immediately stood up, staring at the system panel in shock.
It was as if he could not believe that the system, which had recently been rewarding him with the Pure White Thing and Adventurer's Outfit, had actually given him such an absurdly powerful ability today.
After a while, he sat back down.
The shock in his eyes also disappeared. "If I remember correctly, Human-Honkai Disguise is a skill exclusive to MANTISes."
The genes he had obtained from Theresa were still waiting to be fused into him.
He would probably have to undergo the surgery before he could use this skill.
In the future, he would have Herrschers and MANTIS abilities, along with all sorts of other abilities he might obtain later.
It was possible that he would turn into a Chimera similar to Kevin.
While looking forward to the future, Levi did not forget to finish reading the description of this ability.
[Human-Honkai Disguise]
[Introduction: A method of continuously manipulating the mind, intended to suppress humanity and release one's bestial nature, thereby releasing one's own power to a greater extent.]
Unexpectedly, the entire description did not mention MANTISes at all.
In other words, even if someone was not a MANTIS, they could still use [Human-Honkai Disguise]?
"Suppress humanity and release one's bestial nature."
Levi stroked his chin.
Suppressing the part of himself that was human and releasing the part of himself that was a "beast."
Of course, this beast definitely did not refer to the beasts that were humanity's ancestors, such as monkeys.
Instead, it referred to the dark side related to one's own power.
Take Mobius for example. The Honkai beast she had fused with, Sesa, was a serpentine Honkai beast, and its immortal power came from it.
Naturally, her Human-Honkai Disguise form was also similar to Sesa's serpentine form.
But a Herrscher's power did not come from any particular Honkai beast.
If one really had to say where it came from, a Herrscher's power actually came from the most fundamental existence.
"Honkai itself."
If he used [Human-Honkai Disguise] in his pure Herrscher form, would that mean he would transform into... Honkai itself?
Of course, there was another possibility. A Herrscher's power came from the Herrscher Core.
Using [Human-Honkai Disguise] in his Herrscher form would merely mean releasing the restrictions his own humanity placed on the Core.
It would have an effect similar to overclocking a computer CPU.
Thus, it would release power far beyond what he normally displayed.
Compared with the first possibility, Levi leaned more toward the second explanation for the effect of [Human-Honkai Disguise] when used on a Herrscher.
The first possibility was simply too dangerous.
It would create a connection with Honkai itself.
He had finally avoided the birth of a Herrscher consciousness because of the system or the chat group.
If he were to establish a connection with Honkai itself, at best, a Herrscher consciousness would be born and fight him for control of his body.
At worst, his own consciousness would die on the spot, turning him into a puppet of Honkai and rampaging across the universe.
No matter how he looked at it, it was dangerous.
Although the upper limit of the second method was relatively low, its advantage was that it was safe. After all, the Core was inside his own body.
As long as he did not establish a connection with anything else, there would be no accidents.
At the very least, the risk was considerably lower.
Closing the panel, Levi glanced around the empty room. "Strange..."
'Where did Qingque go?'
"..."