Chapter 58: First Order
Luna Dawson smiled knowingly. She had leveled up.
’Only by becoming stronger can I get my revenge on Susan Vaughn when I find her at Kensington Base!’
Luna Dawson shot to her feet. Her body was brimming with inexhaustible energy, and even her breath carried the warmth of her circulating superpower.
She raised her hand and focused. A transparent water screen, five or six square meters in size and only two centimeters thick, instantly appeared before her. It was as crystal clear as a large slab of quartz.
Luna Dawson twitched her fingertips, splitting her superpower into fine threads. She carefully wrapped them around the water’s surface, inch by inch, clearly feeling the substantial weight as the film of water gradually solidified.
She was refining the water screen’s defensive power.
With a thought, the mountain knife in the corner appeared in her hand.
Luna Dawson planted her feet, tightened her core, and gripped the handle with both hands, slashing down with all her might.
SHINK! The blade easily pierced the water screen.
She blinked, but she wasn’t discouraged. She quickly drew back her superpower.
The water screen rapidly shrank to about one square meter, its thickness swelling to ten centimeters. The once-transparent film of water became heavy and solid.
Luna Dawson took a deep breath, lowered her center of gravity and twisted her hips, once again swinging the knife down with her full strength!
This time, the blade was barely blocked by the water screen. Only then did she nod in satisfaction.
’My First-Order Water Ability’s defense is finally up to par. Now, what about its attack power and range?’
She immediately and enthusiastically prepared for the next test.
Luna Dawson found ten wooden boards of varying thickness and leaned them one by one against the small courtyard wall, arranged from thinnest to thickest, left to right.
The thinnest was only one or two millimeters, as thin as a sheet of paper.
The thickest was ten centimeters and very sturdy.
She focused her mind and activated her superpower. Countless small water droplets floated up in front of her, spinning rapidly into sharp little Water Blades before shooting toward the wooden boards one after another.
She retreated step by step. One meter, two meters, three meters...
By the time she was five meters away, the Water Blades could only leave faint, wet marks on the boards.
Luna Dawson walked closer again and launched another Water Blade at the thinnest board. This time, it only left a faint, wet streak on the surface.
"Looks like my Water Ability’s attack power is still sorely lacking."
Far from being discouraged, her eyes sparkled with fighting spirit.
’The Water Ability’s attack power is indeed low, but I can train it. Even if it means putting in several times the effort of other Superpower Users, I will not repeat the mediocre path I walked in my past life!’
Luna Dawson settled her mind and repeatedly practiced the sequence: gather power, attack, feel, adjust.
When she got tired, she would rest for a moment, catch her breath, and immediately start practicing again.
Sweat trickled down from her temples, soaking her clothes. Only when her internal superpower was completely depleted did she take out a Crystal Core to continue absorbing energy.
She repeated this cycle until her body was too weak to absorb any more Crystal Cores. Her legs turned to jelly, and she staggered back to her bedroom, trembling.
With her last ounce of strength, she quickly washed up and fell into a deep sleep.
After sleeping like a log for ten hours, she had barely opened her eyes and come to her senses when the sounds of "battle" exploded in her ears.
She didn’t even have to think to know it was those two, Little Tiger and Rollo, fighting again.
Rollo was always the one to start it. He was the type who was just asking for a beating.
He always loved to feign attacks to tease Little Tiger. The key was, the lug had no self-awareness and had no idea how absurdly strong he was.
Sometimes, with a single swipe of his paw, he’d send Little Tiger spinning like a top. The cub would tumble over several times, landing flat on his back with all four paws in the air, his fur puffed up into a little furball.
Who wouldn’t be mad!
Little Tiger would scramble up, arch his back, and charge, pummeling Rollo with a few good punches, sending tufts of the dog’s fur flying.
The two of them were just playing around; neither would ever deliver a fatal blow.
Besides, that lug Rollo’s hide was as thick as old tree bark. He didn’t feel pain at all.
He’d just laugh happily even after being hit, his big mouth wide open, "HA~ HA~ HAHAHA~" in a goofy laugh, deliberately trying to provoke Little Tiger.
As for Little Tiger, he’d get so mad he’d shriek, "MROW! MROW!", like he was cussing someone out on the street. He’d hit and scratch, looking both fierce and adorable.
Once he’d had his fill of fighting and screeching, he’d give a haughty turn, scamper up a high branch, and leisurely lick his paws.
As Luna Dawson walked toward them, she casually plucked several tufts of dog and cat fur from the air.
’With this much fur, I could probably knit a small pom-pom.’
After all, they were in her space, which was boundlessly large. The two of them would often transform into their huge, evolved forms to run wild, chasing and fighting each other.
The small animals raised in the space were often scared out of their wits by their "fierce battles."
The flock of chickens, ducks, and geese were so traumatized they stopped laying eggs for several days, which infuriated Luna Dawson.
Later, the two little ones received a "cordial and friendly lesson" from Luna Dawson.
Since then, whenever they fought, they no longer dared to go near the other small animals.
As she got closer, Luna Dawson realized the two rascals had secretly grown again!
Especially Rollo. His shoulder height was now nearly three meters, making him look like a small hill.
But strangely, when Luna Dawson probed them with her Spirit threads, she still couldn’t determine their level. There wasn’t the slightest fluctuation.
She pondered to herself. ’Maybe plants and animals just level up faster than humans. Could they both have reached Second-Order strength by now?’
’After all, with a size like that, they can’t still be First-Order weaklings, can they?’
She turned to pour them some kibble, grab some freeze-dried treats, and mix a large bowl of goat’s milk. The moment the aroma wafted out, the two who had been fighting to the death just moments before instantly made up, lining up to chow down at the bowl.
Luna Dawson went to check their nests and saw that not a single Crystal Core was left. ’Have they absorbed them all?’
She quickly added ten more Crystal Cores to each of their nests to help them consolidate their power, curious to see if they could absorb these as well.
After checking on the two troublemakers, Luna Dawson turned to the withered tree, her expression instantly becoming difficult to describe.
The tree was the same as ever—all dried up and withered, showing no signs of sprouting. It was like a dead piece of wood.
She squatted down and dug open the small mound of dirt at its base. Fifty Crystal Cores lay there quietly, without even the slightest fluctuation of energy.
’This tree is just stubbornly unresponsive. It’s not absorbing them at all?’
It was driving Luna Dawson crazy with impatience!
With a thought, seven or eight glasses filled with a milky-white solution appeared on the table.
She was stunned. She quickly grabbed an empty glass, pouring the solution back and forth to observe it. It looked and felt just like water.
No matter the attribute of the Crystal Core used, steeping it always produced this same liquid, completely free of any sediment.
Little Tiger and Rollo ran over to join the fun, their faces a picture of greed, but Luna Dawson didn’t dare let them drink it.
She grabbed a rabbit and forced it to drink a little. The rabbit instantly perked up, full of vigor.
Luna Dawson decided to try it herself, but only dared to lick a tiny bit. She felt a little queasy at the thought, since the origin of Crystal Cores wasn’t exactly appetizing.
It had the pure, sweet fragrance of spirit spring water, with no strange taste whatsoever!
Immediately after, a surge of superpower rushed through her entire body, even more intense than absorbing a Crystal Core!
She realized in an instant—this was a Superpower Supplement Liquid, even stronger than the ones from her previous life!
In her last life, she had only managed to drink two vials of the First-Order supplement liquid developed by the official bases before she died, and they were exorbitantly expensive!
To be able to make so much of it so easily now was a massive, wonderful surprise!
Luna Dawson was overjoyed. She poured a little for each of the two little ones. After drinking it, they obediently ran to a corner to practice releasing their superpowers.
She then picked up a few glasses and poured them on the withered tree, deciding to continue irrigating it.
Luna Dawson trained in her space for two days. Whenever her superpower ran out, she would drink the supplement liquid. She also spent the better part of a day training with her two troublemakers before hastily exiting the space.