And those attacks were all orchestrated by Bai Yi. After officially capturing Stica, Bai Yi fully utilized Stica’s abilities.
With her status, they obtained intelligence from the dark lines. Then, Ju and Stica personally went to carry out surprise attacks. After a week, they had succeeded several times, and this time they even directly attacked the city.
This allowed the residents within the city to indirectly confirm Stica’s existence, further pinning the blame firmly on the Demons.
Additionally, mixed with genuine assassinations, those seriously injured powerhouses were not suspected at all. After all, they were genuinely severely injured as a result of the attacks, with no fake elements involved in their resistance.
However, unfortunately, Bai Yi underestimated the resolve of these powerhouses. Originally, two 9th-level powerhouses should have perished; Bai Yi had set her sights on their research capabilities, and they were supposed to be her targets for capture.
But during the execution, those two 9th-level individuals were unexpectedly fierce, preferring death over submission, and in their final moments, they erupted to try and take down Stica, forcing Bai Yi to reluctantly eliminate them after they consumed an Abnormal Object.
In hindsight, these two miscalculations actually increased the authenticity of the scenario.
Initially, Bai Yi planned to leave one of the 9th-level individuals who should have been killed, heal them with genuine means to verify the authenticity of her healing, and then conduct a second surprise attack to increase randomness.
But since the plan was already in motion, staging one more scene wouldn’t make much of a difference.
While pondering, Magga discussed for a bit longer and then took her leave:
"Miss Fan Mao, I’ll leave this to you for now. This city was just attacked, and we need to clean up the aftermath.
Recently, the Demon attacks have already thrown the Empire into chaos, and there’s still a lot of trouble to deal with.
Hmph, those Demons use all kinds of tactics when they’re at a disadvantage. Don’t let me catch them, or else..."
After offering a word of comfort, Magga gave some instructions, and as he departed, he vented angrily. He had been rushing around trying to locate Stica, but to no avail, leaving him with a bellyful of frustration.
You won’t find them...
Bai Yi added in her mind. After all, it was based on Magga’s position that she made arrangements, specifically targeting the farthest high-level individuals for attacks, so how could she let him catch them?
Watching Magga leave, Bai Yi started contemplating again.
After this, she had three more 9th-level humans under her control. Combined with the ten previously assimilated, she now had control over 13 human 9th-level individuals.
Including the four demoted from the 9th-level among humans, nearly two-thirds of the human 9th-level was now under her influence.
But for safety, Bai Yi didn’t act immediately, instead planning to entirely devour them slowly.
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Her goal was to gather more high-tier combat power to play a role in the Starry Sky battle, not to conquer this world quickly.
If rushing to conquer the world meant losing some combat power, it wouldn’t be worth it.
After all, counting the remaining 9th-level on the Demon side, there are nearly 20 9th-level present, making their combat power quite considerable, and a confrontation would undoubtedly lead to the loss of some.
Although the remaining Abnormal Objects could still form the basis for cultivating her own strong individuals, cultivation still requires time.
With her current strength close to the Seventh Rank, it would take at least a week to nurture a new Seventh Rank with her abilities. Not to mention nurturing a pseudo Ninth Rank according to the Starry Sky’s strongest Seventh Rank standard.
The specific time is still unknown due to lack of attempts, but based on the first attempt with Little Hui, after a week of accelerating upgrades with her superpower, Little Hui barely moved from lv.70 to lv.71.
Even now that this Cultivation Method doesn’t require calculating breakthroughs, simply raising the level to advance to the 8th Rank at lv.80 is a problem.
Not to mention this world’s unique 9th Rank, Bai Yi guesses it would take at least a tenfold increase in time.
Going about it hastily might lead to needing more time to ultimately nurture powerhouses.
To minimize time consumption, an all-out war would have to be initiated, but an all-out war would result in losing some combat power, and replenishing lost combat power would require more time for cultivation.
It’s a cycle where less time needed results in more time required, forming a logical loop.
This is why she always hoped to directly assimilate more high-tier combat power, rather than killing and using Abnormal Objects for nurturing.
In reality, if it weren’t for those few human Abnormal Objects being so suitable for her group, she wouldn’t have been willing to eliminate them.
Bai Yi knows very well what she truly needs; it’s not strength she lacks, but accumulation.
And the uniqueness of this world is the best place for her to supplement her high-tier combat power foundation.
Of course, there may also be the aspect of magical knowledge.
"Speaking of which, now that most of the 9th levels have been assimilated, the world’s 8th and 7th ranks should be put on the agenda too.
Although not like the 9th ranks, they are still regular high-tier strong persons in the starry sky."
After confirming that this 9th Rank had smoothly completed Genetic Fusion, with another 9th Rank in her grasp, Bai Yi immediately set her sights on lower-tier targets.