Void Evolution System

Xiu!

Whoosh!

A body swerved through the darkness of an underground cavern, almost big enough to be considered its own world.

Its movements were lithe and graceful, yet held an element of brutality that couldn't be ignored.

Especially when considering the massive scythe in that individual's hands.

Rose was always aware that she didn't have the best luck.

It wasn't just due to the Laws she studied, but also due to the special pupils she possessed.

As someone who could see and toy with the karma of all things, how could she be allowed positive fortune of her own?

Rose had experienced her fair share of extreme situations, and falling into a beast den wasn't anything new.

This specific situation, she'd experienced three times before.

Only, this one was far more dangerous.

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

The projectiles flying through the air were balls of razor-sharp white thread. The threads were strong by themselves, but when grouped, their slicing power could raze any 4th class being easily.

Rose flipped, using her momentum to narrowly dodge the projectiles as she wielded her scythe, slashing through the air with utmost precision.

Spurt!

Her scythe pierced the head of a massive spider, roughly the size of a semi-truck. Its blue blood sprayed through the air, sizzling as it interacted with the air.

"Tsk!"

Rose clicked her tongue and jumped off the spider, wiping the blood off her face and wincing.

'Damn. These guys have poisonous blood too?'

Rose retreated several hundred meters, swiping her hand through the air and creating a massive windstorm that tore through the space.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosions were deafening, and the cracking of the area's structure made the noise far more harrowing.

Yet, Rose was more than aware that her attack didn't cause much actual damage.

There were over ten thousand beasts in this cavern when she first entered it.

As she was forced to fight them, she realized that not a single one of these beasts was weaker than her.

The lowest-level beasts were still level 375, and their true strength surpassed that level completely.

'I've killed around 1,000, but I've used up too many pills here. This is life or death, so it isn't the time to be frugal, but what other choice do I have? If I replenish myself as I need to, I won't survive this encounter.'

Her eyes were hardened, but her spirit was raging as bright as ever.

'Regardless, this is a setting where I can be a little more serious. There are a few things I've been wanting to try.'

Rose's power of illusion was her strongest suit, but it wasn't her only specialization.

She'd always been trying to upgrade her eyes, following that beautiful vision she saw all those years ago in the Eternal Secret Realm.

Unfortunately, the power of her pupils couldn't be tested casually, for wrongly using them could completely destroy people's lives, even people she didn't intend to target.

Her mother's story was a prime example of this.

'There weren't many strong beasts in the Human Domain, only traitors and shitty scum who were bringing us down. Now that I have some prime test subjects in front of me…'

Her eyes widened as she stood in the air, shining in beautiful gold light.

The world she saw changed. Every beast became a muddled lump of grey strands, while several colored strands connected them to each other, creating a web of relationships that defined the ecosystem this cavern had created.

This web was crucial information.

Rose immediately learned how these beasts interacted with each other, as well as their specific roles in the ecosystem.

Despite the cohesion they showed when an outsider disturbed their peace, they were actually quite divided.

With this knowledge, the possibilities became endless.

'Let's…play a little.'

Rose stared into the interwoven strings and slowly reached her hand out, pinching two strings between her fingers and pulling slightly.

Snap!

The sound of those strings breaking was deafening.

Rose's eyes instantly returned to their usual color, and the mana in her body drained to nothing.

However, as she took a load of pills to replenish her systems, a change occurred.

Bzzz! Bzzzz!

A furious buzzing emerged from the depths of the cavern.

There, a group of abnormally large black wasp-like creatures crowded around a corpse.

It was the mangled corpse of a spider, but nearby were several greatly disfigured corpses of their kind.

The situation was clear.

These spiders sacrificed one of theirs to kill tens of wasp larvae.

SKREEEEEEEE!

A wasp twice the size of the rest let out a terrifying screech. The sound wave bounced through the cave and amplified several times over.

Bzzzz!

The buzzing of extremely fast wings filled the cavern.

Countless wasps appeared from the shadows, and together as one…

They launched an all-out attack on the spiders.

Rose staggered to her feet in an isolated corner of the cavern, just barely recovered again, and smiled.

'I guess it works, though the price is a bit high.'

She shook her head and started moving again.

Her scythe materialized in her hands.

And she reentered the battlefield.

The wasps and spiders would kill each other and eliminate the long-range and aerial threats Rose was facing, but she still had to deal with every other beast on the ground.

Insects, mammals, reptiles, and every type of creature one could imagine were present in some quantity, but the insects and bugs took up the majority of the numbers.

'After this, I'm not sparing a single bug I see.'

Rose became a whirlwind of death. Her scythe, backed by pure physical force and just the slightest trace of mana strengthening, slashed through enemies at a staggering rate.

Perhaps this rate was only one or two every minute, but considering the strength of the enemies, this wasn't slow at all!

Rose could feel it within her. With every passing moment, she could feel herself growing.

Sparks flew into the air and created a beautiful display.

Rose's hands took turns wielding the scythe itself, with the non-occupied hand swimming through the air, manipulating reality itself to separate the massive horde of beasts into manageable portions and weaken her enemies before she had an opportunity to personally strike them.

All the while, the grudge war that originally started with just the soldiers and wasps, in this space without much free ground, involved several other beasts until it became an all-out melee between the beast tribes of the underground cavern.

At this rate, Rose wouldn't have any trouble managing the situation as long as she acted with caution.

And…

BOOM!

The ceiling caved in.

BANG!

BANG! BANG!

BANG!

Three objects slammed into the solid ground, kicking up massive clouds of dust and throwing tens of beasts back into the hordes they came from.

"Hm?"

Rose's attention turned in that direction, curiosity written on her face.

That expression turned into a smile within a second.

"Hehe! You came before I could even have any fun. Did you miss me that much?" She said, projecting her voice toward the group.

"Nonsense. You're just not allowed to die until I've thoroughly surpassed you," another voice came from within the smoke.

"Cheeky," Rose muttered with a grin.

"Hmph."

Ruyue snorted with a slight smile, turning her attention away from Rose and towards the situation at hand.

"Beast tides on the surface and beast tides underground. I guess it makes sense."

Not another word needed to be said.

Because she'd already given the order.

Kill until there was nothing left to kill!