Life in North America, you call this an autopsy officer?!

She glared at Brian fiercely, "Impossible! You clearly have not awakened, so why can you condense your origin power on the invisible spatial barriers!"

"Don't you understand yet?"

Brian looked at Leptitia as if she were a fool, "I was hiding in the crevice of space, and you didn't sense me at all, crashing in like a dumb bird. I thought you understood, but I see now..."

He shook his head, the joy of hunting suddenly halved.

After hearing Brian's words, Leptitia finally realized.

This was Brian's ability.

She was endowed by the Mother Goddess with the ability to parasitize, devour, and enter dreams...

Brian's ability, on the other hand, was related to space!

No wonder he could hide in the crevice between the Spirit Realm and the Material Realm!

Greed flashed in Leptitia's eyes.

She held onto a sliver of hope and warned, "We are both Favored by the Mother Goddess, possessing a part of her power. We are not enemies but natural allies. On the contrary, that Long, and those slaves who fled to the far side of the Moon, they are our real enemies, our food. If we fight each other, we're just making it easier for those left by the Mother Goddess for us to feast upon!"

"Oh?"

Brian retracted his fist upon hearing this, "Are you saying that prisoners like Long on the Blood Moon are actually food left for us by the Blood Moon?"

He hadn't gleaned this information from the part of Leptitia's consciousness that he accessed before.

Seeing that he stopped attacking,

Leptitia felt the scattered origin lines begin to break free of the interference from the rule power on the fist marks, so she stalled for time and nodded,

"Yes, according to the memory I gained upon Awakening, the Blood Moon Mother Goddess fell a long time ago.

Her remnants gave birth to a new consciousness.

To revive, it would randomly search for suitable hosts in the radiation-affected areas and plant Origin Seeds.

Creatures like Long, who took advantage of the opportunity to descend upon radiation zones and plunder the prisoners, would grow stronger continuously until an Awakened prisoner emerged, and then they would become food for our swift growth."

"So, doesn't that make us food as well?"

Brian frowned.

Leptitia shook her head, "I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be that way. Otherwise, the Blood Moon Mother Goddess could have just planted a multitude of Origin Seeds directly. It wouldn't be so troublesome, and I have other evidence that proves we are just lucky ones, not food."

She paused, then looked at Brian, "Let me go, and I'll tell you why! Brian, this is just a part of my origin power, you can't kill me with it, on the contrary, if you plunder this part of my origin, I will then lurk beside anyone close to you and parasitize them!"

Leptitia tempted and threatened in equal measure.

"Fair point."

Brian nodded, "But you forgot something. Since I'm also one of the Origin Favored, after my Awakening, what you know, I can know, and what I don't can be found out from Long. He must be the source of your surplus memory. Besides, there's a rule you've hidden from me that I just verified!"

"What rule?"

"Completion! After Awakening, we Favored desire to hunt our own kind. That's why you tried to parasitize Shi San. We are born enemies!"

As he raised his fist, Leptitia let out a piercing roar, "What about those close to you, don't you care?"

"I just have to kill you!"

As Brian's words ended, the knuckle dusters on his fists manifested with rule power, "You have no value in living before me."

The next moment,

Black and crimson light bloomed on all the lines that had been struck before.

Boom~

Brian punched into the void.

At this moment, it was as if the power of Cause and Effect had descended.

An annihilating force made of countless essences of Death and Destruction impacted the entire space and all the lines within it.

This terrifying power even reached across the globe, afflicting individuals everywhere.

Crack~

Along with the sound of shattering, Leptitia's eyes widened in a blank stare at Brian, "Why could you previously resist the Completion instinct and not devour that strand of my origin?"

Brian shook his head, "I don't know, I really don't."

"I can't accept this!"

As Leptitia felt one consciousness connect after another disappear, she murmured a phrase, before her consciousness plummeted into darkness.

With Leptitia's memory,

Brian fully grasped the use of Death and Destruction's rule power and punched through the void, scattering all of Leptitia's parasitic consciousnesses.

Such was the might of a Fifth Rank.

And it was this moment

When Brian realized that Leptitia wasn't as strong as he had thought.