[Reshape Destiny: By informing the members of the Doomsday Squad about the otherworldly creature in advance, you gained their trust as a teammate. With the support of reliable allies, you managed to capture and eliminate the demonic blood octopus that was destined to kill you, significantly altering your fate. This fulfilled the requirements for reshaping your destiny. Your life experiences and insights into martial arts and supernatural abilities will now merge with your current self.
The difficulty level for this reshaping was easy, granting you a chance to receive a random reward.
You have obtained a Talent Upgrade Crystal!
The next simulation will be available in one day!]
This time, there was no mistake. It was indeed the demonic blood octopus from the Infinite Life Simulation.
After going through so much trouble, even dismantling the Doomsday Squad's base, they finally managed to capture and eliminate the creature.
The reward was the same: merging the cultivation insights and experiences from the simulated life, along with a
random reward, which turned out to be a Talent Upgrade Crystal.
This round of the Infinite Life Simulation was different. Bertram had already cultivated his supernatural abilities to F-level, a significant power boost.
And now he had a Talent Upgrade Crystal.
Without hesitation, Bertram used the Talent Upgrade Crystal on his martial arts talent.
[Congratulations! Your martial arts talent has been upgraded to D-level!]
With his martial arts talent enhanced, future training would be much faster.
If all went well, as long as he survived a few more days in the next simulation, his martial arts cultivation should reach F++ level.
Next would be E-level, D-level... A-level, S-level... Ahem, maybe he was getting a bit ahead of himself.
So far, in the entire Doomsday City, there were only three S-class humans.
Bertram snapped back to reality.
"Report the appearance of interdimensional beings in Doomsday City immediately!" Tristian said with a heavy expression.
"Got it!" Whitney nodded, already picking up her phone and dialing a special, confidential number.
It was her direct line to the top human authorities.
Tristian and the other members looked at Bertram with complicated expressions. Who would have thought that Bertram's prediction would be accurate this time?
After many years without any interdimensional invasions, Doomsday City had finally encountered one.
This was absolutely bad news for humanity.
The once peaceful environment inside
Doomsday City had been shattered.
The only silver lining was that they discovered it early.
Bertram understood the gravity of the situation, but there was nothing he could do to change it.
He was still just a lowly F-class.
While the rest of the Doomsday Squad was urgently assembled, Bertram took the opportunity to go into seclusion.
He took out the last of his white source energy and absorbed it all in one go.
At the same time, Bertram's ability level finally advanced to F-class.
The biggest change was that he could now control three silver threads instead of one, and each thread could extend up to 33 feet.
Bertram extended his hand, and three silver threads emerged from his fingers.
The F-rank ability, Silver Threads, wasn't just about shooting out threads; it allowed for free control, almost like an extension of his arm.
Bertram manipulated the three threads, making them first fight each other in the air, then lift a nearby table together, and finally play cat's cradle.
In the end, he wove intricate patterns in the air.
Such nimble control over the threads meant he could use way more tactical moves in future battles.
Fights between life and death were never just about comparing power levels.
That's why the mysterious girl kept searching for opponents to fight, and why Bertram cared so much about his battles with her.
The mysterious girl was using Bertram to sharpen her fighting skills, and Bertram was using her to improve his own abilities and learn new tactics.
The three threads could stretch up to 100 feet.
Bertram got an idea and shot the threads out, weaving them back and forth across the room. Soon enough, the whole room was filled with a web of silver threads.
The threads crisscrossed, making a really complicated web!
Then, Bertram pulled the threads back, cutting off a 3-foot piece and placing it by the door.
The length of the thread he controlled could change depending on what he needed.
"Silver threads can be cut and used separately!"
Bertram then grabbed the 3-foot section from the door and merged it back into the original thread, restoring it to full length.
"With otherworldly beings showing up in Doomsday City, it's hard to tell how bad things really are. If the higher-ups can handle it, the city will stay safe. If not, who knows what could happen!"
"But if the higher-ups can't fix this, it'll become normal for otherworldly beings to appear in Doomsday City. Places that used to be safe won't be anymore. Even though I'm just a sidekick, I need to get stronger!"
"Only then can I deal better with those otherworldly beings that will keep showing up in the city!"
"So far, I've used up my blood source and white source. But the Doomsday Squad members get merit rewards. Since my prediction came true this time, I should be able to earn some merit points and trade them for different training resources!"
"Of course, I'll have to wait until the captain and the others finish handling the current emergency before I can claim my reward."
Right now, the priority was dealing with the otherworldly beings in the city, so Bertram's merit reward would have to wait.
"I hope I can get the reward before the next simulation to reshape my destiny!"
As for the Dawn Coins he got from the mysterious girl, they weren't nearly enough to boost his cultivation.
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Doomsday City, main sewer line.
Every day, there were people assigned to clean trash in the main sewer line. Don't underestimate these trash cleaners; their job was super competitive, kind of like being a civil servant before the apocalypse.
A few public trash cleaners were hauling nets, fishing garbage from the sewer, while a small garbage boat floated nearby.
"Has your family set you up on a blind date?"
"Yeah!" The cleaner answered, blushing a bit while thinking of the girl, she might not be super pretty but was really gentle and skilled.
"Man, I've been on blind dates too, but the girls I met... hard to even describe!"
"These blind dates are such a waste of time!"
"Not always..." replied another sanitation worker.
"Oh, looks like you met a nice girl! When's the wedding?" Another worker patted the first guy on the shoulder.
"In two months!"
"That's awesome!" The group laughed and joked.
Meanwhile, not far away in the sewer, bubbles started rising. From a nearby side tunnel, a scarlet tentacle slowly came out.