Chapter 80 Annie’s Good Friday
[Total Evolution Points Accumulated: 599,615 / 500,000]
[Breakthrough Enhancement Conditions Met]
[Initiate Enhancement?]
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Lucas stood on the apartment balcony, overlooking the night view of New York.
The day’s tasks were finished.
He could upgrade tonight.
The harvest this time was quite good; a single event had filled the experience bar.
"System, add points!!!"
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[Confirm Enhancement — Start Breakthrough Lv.5 (Emperor)]
[Evolution Points Consumed: 500,000]
[Remaining Evolution Points: 99,615 / 2,000,000]
[Strength Increase: Planetary Level]
[Speed Increase: Faster-Than-Light]
[Upgrade Successful: New Ability Added — Super Speed Healing (Can heal others, including fatal injuries), Breathe in Space (One Month)]
[Enhancement Complete]
[Note: Public sentiment has a fatigue cycle; ability point gains from events of the same level will diminish. Larger-scale emotional shocks are required to maintain growth.]
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Lucas felt power surging within his body.
His cells were still plentiful, and his muscle fibers were still restructuring at an atomic level.
...
Strong upgrade sound effects.
This lasted about five minutes.
Lucas’s personal stats had undergone earth-shaking changes, and he even gained a healing ability.
Could heal any fatal injury?
"Brother, are you kidding me!"
A super-warrior with super healing? Talk about being broken!
Lucas clenched his fists.
"Let’s test it."
He rose from the balcony and leaped gently.
A force field shielded him as he seamlessly entered faster-than-light transition.
In an instant, his body pierced through the atmosphere and arrived at Jupiter.
Jupiter.
The most destructive planet in the solar system.
With 318 times the mass of Earth and 2.5 times the gravity, it was a massive gas giant, a presence comparable to a behemoth.
Lucas hovered at the edge of Jupiter’s atmosphere.
He was closer to Jupiter than any human; his super vision could see inside the Great Red Spot, which was closer to hell in human eyes.
Lucas flew directly into the heart of the storm.
The surrounding temperature plummeted to minus 145 degrees.
Ammonia ice crystals struck his body at Supersonic speeds; each one could easily pierce through steel plating.
Any other Supe who came here would be beaten into a blood mist.
The ionic lightning in Jupiter’s atmosphere wasn’t like the tickling from that electric whip woman.
Planetary-level voltage could reach billions of volts.
Blue-white electric arcs exploded around Lucas, enveloping him in an ocean of plasma.
Lucas spread his arms.
Like a great master undergoing a tribulation, he let the storm engulf him.
The heavenly thunder striking his body felt like a warm shower, and the liquid metallic hydrogen in the air wrapping around his entire body felt even more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring.
"This is boring! Jupiter is like a sissy; my steel gate hasn’t even reacted at all!"
Lucas assumed a Viltrumite dash posture and flew deeper.
Passing through the liquid hydrogen layer, he reached Jupiter’s core region.
The temperature here reached 30,000 degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the sun, and the pressure was millions of times that of Earth’s sea level.
In this environment, even diamonds would be compressed into liquid carbon.
Lucas stood in the core of Jupiter.
He could feel some decent power because his battle suit had burned away.
"Pay me back for my clothes!"
Lucas roared at the air.
Jupiter was like a silent widow, saying nothing; even a lover like Lucas couldn’t stand the cold violence.
He decided to leave Jupiter.
He arrived at the surface of the sun.
The battle suit on his body was redrawn.
Lucas crossed his arms and stared at the sun, wondering whether to fly in and taste it.
Although he had the Viltrumite Bloodline, the components of his body didn’t seem to be smart atoms, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so weak when he first awakened.
Perhaps falling into the sun wouldn’t cause him to die from high-energy particle damage?
But he also had a ’Smart Atom Explosion’ skill...
Forget it, forget it. He didn’t dare test it.
It wouldn’t be worth it if he died.
He returned to Earth; calculating the time, he had been gone for less than five minutes.
It was fast!
Lucas looked at Annie January, who was lying on the sofa watching a show; he still had to test another ability.
That was...
Viltrumite Strength — SSSSS
Viltrumite Endurance — SSSSS
Viltrumite Speed — SSSSS
Viltrumite Impact — SSSSS
Viltrumite Youth Surplus — SSSSSSSS
Half an hour later.
Annie January’s eyes didn’t light up; this building escaped a calamity.
Because she had already rolled her eyes back.
Super Speed Healing!
Annie January woke up in a second.
"I think I just saw my life flash before my eyes!"
"Hallucinations! I held back this time!"
An hour later.
Annie January awakened the ability of super-speed flight.
Annie January, the tank of The Boys universe, had been tempered to completion ahead of schedule.
Now, one light cannon blast from her could send The Deep flying from Vought Tower all the way to the beach.
"No more, no more!"
Annie January crawled toward the corner of the bed using her hands and feet.
"Hey, don’t you still have energy? Come, come! Let’s go another round! Official announcements need an official attitude!!"
Lucas expressed that he was far from reaching his limit.
Super Speed Healing!
"Fuck you, Guardian!" Annie January raised her middle finger.
"Good, very spirited!!"
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The next day.
Annie January fell into a deep sleep and didn’t wake up slowly until ten o’clock.
She felt she hadn’t just fallen asleep.
She had been f*cked unconscious.
She now reasonably suspected that Guardian had a sex addiction!
Annie January lifted the blanket; her smooth body was covered in red marks. She moved slowly toward the bathroom; Lucas’s youth was overflowing.
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In an apartment building in New York.
Robin was frying eggs in the kitchen. Hearing the doorbell, she wiped her hands and ran to open the door.
A tall man stood outside the door.
Compared to the TV, Guardian seemed even taller.
His muscles were also becoming more robust.
He wasn’t wearing his battle suit, just a plain hoodie and jeans.
But for a clothes hanger like him, everything looked good.
"Oh my god!"
Robin’s spatula fell to the floor.
"You, you are... Guardian!"
Lucas grinned, "Good morning, Robin. Is Hughie home?"
"Yes! Yes, yes, yes! Hughie!!! Hughie, get your ass out here!!!"
Robin was almost going crazy with excitement.
The famous Guardian, actually visiting in person?
She wanted to tear down the door frame to let Lucas in.
"Please, come in! Please, come in! Fuck, my place is a bit messy... Fuck... I should have cleaned up... F*ck!"
Lucas had black lines on his forehead.
Girl, don’t use ’Fuck’ like a comma!
He smiled naturally, "It’s okay, I don’t mind!"
Having spent too much time with Homelander, his smile was almost as hypocritical as his.
Lucas walked into the small apartment.
Small as a sparrow but complete with all organs, photos of Hughie and Robin hung on the wall, a few comics were on the coffee table, along with several limited-edition superhero figures.
There was even a life-sized body pillow of Guardian.
Life-sized... body pillow?
Lucas used super vision to take a look; thankfully, the pillow didn’t have a...
Hughie walked out of the bedroom, his hair messy, looking like a decadent youth.
Seeing Lucas standing in the living room, he froze.
His life began to flash before his eyes.
"How... how did you know I lived here?"
Hughie’s voice was trembling uncontrollably.
Robin thought her boyfriend was as excited as she was; listen, his voice was even trembling.