Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

All the auspicious destinies were loaded onto Zhou Baiyu, while dire destinies he digested himself.

Long before Jiang Xianwu convinced Yun Duo, Wu Xin had used his own fortune to converge the destiny called "Suited for All Things."

"Suited for All Things" is a blue destiny, above which there are also purple destinies, red destinies, and dark gold destinies. Of course, there are also inauspicious destinies like "Suited for Nothing."

Wu Xin didn't say much more. He had long been aware, dire destinies he'd use himself, perfectly fitting as they kept him awake, making him aware of just how desperate reality was.

So, in the two months that followed, he became even thinner than Zhou Baiyu, as if he had been surviving here for decades.

Time rewinds to the day before Zhou Baiyu convinced Yun Duo.

Having loaded the destiny "Suited for All Things," Zhou Baiyu did not let Wu Xin's efforts go to waste. Leveraging the destiny's inherent "making any endeavor go more smoothly" trait, he pulled off a "minor miracle."

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The thing Jiang Xianwu needed to do was akin to the Dream Awakening Necklace, something capable of hiding light.

The premise of mutation required an item.

To hide the light from everyone, it meant that all should have this item on them, and it had to be something that wouldn't raise suspicion even when worn at all times.

Moreover, the item itself must have a fundamental function of protecting humans, because according to Zhou Baiyu's past experiences with mutation, the item he mutated seemed to always form some connection with its original purpose.

He had once mutated a comb, and although the comb's ability was to gain memories by combing hair, after all, it was related to the head.

In Absolute Moment, he mutated many strange rule items, but upon closer thought, whether positively mutated or negatively—

Be it the Crystal Ball, cards, clothes, or that Conqueror Doll... Zhou Baiyu felt that the abilities produced by mutation, no matter how far-fetched, could always be linked back to the item itself.

Thus, Zhou Baiyu chose something that everyone had—prisoner uniforms.

Even before he awakened Yun Duo's hope, he had considered that Yun Duo shining early might put her in danger. So, to cover Yun Duo's light, Zhou Baiyu decided to mutate the prisoner uniforms.

He stripped off Xinkui's prisoner uniform, treating it as his own material for mutation.

Xinkui didn't really care; in this place, humans were like walking corpses, living worse than animals, and without that uniform, it meant nothing.

Also, in Xinkui's view, Jiang Xianwu's idea was akin to a madman's dream. Because what Jiang Xianwu was attempting—was targeted mutation.

That is, making an item mutate with a specific function. How could that possibly be done? Did he really think he was a chosen one?

Yet, to his surprise, he discovered that Jiang Xianwu's success rate with mutations was significantly higher than that of an ordinary Mutator.

And eerily, the items Jiang Xianwu mutated often had multiple entries.

This made Xinkui green with envy, thinking that only the Mutator who had fought side by side with the chairman from the start had such ability, not expecting Jiang Xianwu to possess it too.

It was the first time Xinkui felt that maybe being a Mutator wasn't so bad after all.

After all, mutation is granting new possibilities to an item, and new possibilities bring differences, chaos, and variables.

The power of the other eight professions amongst the nine seemed to render the Mutators irrelevant in both prosperity and adversity, with Xinkui unable to find a guild to take him in other than the Baichuan Shelter.

But at that moment, he realized that in a situation even more terrifying than adversity—a dead end—the Mutator was the only hope.

With the help of destiny and Zhou Baiyu's life-risking mutation—

In this endless night, there seemed to finally be a crack through which the light could seep in.

This crack was minuscule, so tiny no one believed that such a crack could affect the endless darkness.

But when Xinkui saw the light on Yun Duo's body being covered by that prison uniform, a sense of brightness still surged in his body.

Despite Xinkui constantly warning himself—"Don't get your hopes up, don't cling to hope, the enemy is still an insoluble presence..."

His entire being still uncontrollably brightened up. The hope in his heart simply couldn't be stopped from emerging!

By the time Xinkui realized he couldn't suppress his anticipation and that there was only one of those uniforms, he could only comfort himself:

"It's alright, even if I emit light, it will only result in being tormented by nightmares, but my heart will always hold hope! I will never become one of the dark kind!"

"If my light dims by tomorrow, I believe that when you need me, I can still be awakened!"

"Jiang Xianwu, I believe in you!"

In reality, success was still far off, what Zhou Baiyu did was merely taking a step in what could potentially be the right direction.

The single prisoner uniform capable of blocking out light was the only one they had so far.

And to escape the dream, countless uniforms were needed. Making even one was already so difficult, requiring Wu Xin and Jiang Xianwu to join forces and exhaust a great deal of energy.

But Xinkui's heart still overflowed with anticipation. No matter whether or not the item could be mass-produced or how long it would take, this was, after all, a breakthrough from nothingness.

However, Zhou Baiyu had more to do than just gamble his luck on single items.

After completing the attempt at creating something out of nothing, in the following month, Zhou Baiyu managed to mutate the prisoner uniforms for only a few key members.