The Girl Who Looted Tomorrow

It felt like holding her breath underwater for a long time, then suddenly breaking through the surface.

Freya’s eyes snapped open, and she began gasping for air. Then she looked at the system prompt in front of her.

[Simulation complete. Duration, 15 days. Save this file?]

Naturally, Freya chose yes and saved it in slot 02.

After thinking for a moment, she renamed the save file [Life Freya].

With her next thought, [01 War Freya] and [02 Life Freya] appeared out of thin air at the same time, standing side by side beside the bed.

To be honest, compared with the Rank Five Life Freya, the Rank One War Freya had already become almost optional.

The difference in combat power between the two was far too large.

Freya’s original plan had been to use her main body to enter the next simulation again, then continue going to the church to get free potions.

This time, she would choose the Earth Branch.

Although that route could not directly reach Rank Five, one simulation would at least give her another Rank Four clone. No matter how she looked at it, that was not a bad deal.

But the four War Path potions Nolan had provided at the end made her hesitate.

Those four potions corresponded to Rank One through Rank Four.

Although she did not know which class change the Rank Four potion belonged to, [Warrior], [Hunter], and [General] were all strong in their own ways.

Just as Freya was struggling over whether to cultivate another Earth Path clone or continue down the War Path, Life Freya suddenly discovered something surprising.

There were no remaining [potion impurities] in War Freya’s body.

That meant when War Freya had drunk the Rank One War Path potion, that potion had also melted as soon as it entered her mouth?

Huh?

Was that right?

Life Freya immediately used her ability and focused on sensing War Freya.

The first thing she sensed was naturally that harsh smell of rust and blood.

Life Freya could not help frowning. That scent really was not pleasant.

By contrast, War Freya and Freya herself both found Life Freya’s scent extremely pleasant.

Freya even pulled Life Freya over to her side and hugged her like an oversized body pillow, rubbing against her other self.

“No wonder Effie liked pinching my face so much before,” Freya murmured. “Life Freya really does smell amazing.”

Back to the main point.

Just as Life Freya could sense [countless wishes] on herself, she could now sense something similar on War Freya.

For now, she would call it [countless resentments].

If the former was gratitude from people who had been helped, then the latter could only be hatred from those who had been killed.

But wasn’t that a little too strange?

When Freya had discovered the [countless wishes] on herself before, she had suspected that she might have inherited them from her previous life. Perhaps she had been a philanthropist or a doctor in that life.

But now, that guess was clearly unreasonable.

After all, her previous life could not have been both a doctor and an assassin, right?

Saving people while killing people?

Wasn’t that a little too abstract?

“So where did these wishes and resentments come from?”

Freya even wondered if this might be another one of her cheats.

For example, maybe none of the paths required potion digestion for her. Maybe every potion would melt on entry, guaranteeing her a direct rise to Rank Five or something.

But that made no sense either.

Although she could not figure it out, this was definitely a good thing for the current Freya.

Life Freya took out the four War Path potions one by one and handed them to War Freya.

War Freya had already drunk the Rank One War Path potion, so that bottle was casually set aside.

She picked up the Rank Two potion and drank it in one breath.

Then came Rank Three and Rank Four.

Unlike the gentle Life Path potions, every War Path potion made War Freya feel as if her entire body had been set on fire.

Especially when she drank the Rank Four potion, the pain was so intense that even Life Freya and Freya herself grimaced beside her.

Life Freya immediately used her ability.

Soft life energy spread out and wrapped around all three of them, easing the pain to some extent.

At that moment, Freya suddenly thought of a completely outrageous fighting style.

Didn’t the War Path have [Battle Continuation], the ability to lock one’s life and keep fighting without dying?

Even if the heart was destroyed, the practitioner could continue fighting for quite some time.

Under normal circumstances, War Path practitioners who triggered this ability were still doomed. They could simply go wild one last time before dying.

But for the current Life Freya, that kind of injury was not a major problem at all.

If the heart exploded, she could just make a new one.

Then could War Freya start a battle by “killing herself” first, fully activating the [Blood Fury] buff, then have Life Freya heal her back just before death?

After that, she could do it again and repeat the process.

In any case, [Battle Continuation] did not seem to have any cooldown, nor did it consume spirituality.

After all, a normal practitioner would only use this ability once in their lifetime.

Who would have thought it could be played like this?

The idea was feasible.

The problem was… it would probably hurt a lot, right?

The corner of Freya’s mouth twitched slightly.

She believed her willpower and pain tolerance were both fairly high, but that did not mean she should torture herself like that.

Just thinking about it made the hair on her body rise, and she started feeling phantom pain.

Fine.

It was not phantom pain.

War Freya was still advancing right now, so this was real pain.

But after thinking a little more, Freya wondered if she could use Life Freya’s ability to cut off the pain nerves in War Freya’s body.

If War Freya could not feel pain, wouldn’t that solve the problem?

While she was thinking, the advancement finally ended.

War Freya slowly climbed up from the floor. She had been rolling back and forth on it from the pain just now.

At this moment, her hair had completely turned flame-red and carried a slight natural curl. It fell loosely behind her, reaching a little below her shoulders.

Her pupils had also turned red, looking like glowing rubies.

The War Path’s abilities from Rank One to Rank Three had already been explained before, so there was no need to repeat them here.

After successfully advancing to Rank Four, War Freya also learned which class change this Rank Four potion belonged to.

[Warrior].

However, the two new abilities gained at Rank Four made her a little unable to keep a straight face.

They were [Mighty Strength] and [Tenacity].

As their names suggested, the former made her stronger, while the latter made her body tougher and gave her higher defense.

By comparison, the Earth Path’s Life Branch gained [Companion Plant] and [Life Energy Manipulation] at Rank Four.

The War Path’s General class gained [Grant Adjutant] and [One-Man Army] at Rank Four.

No matter how one looked at it, those sounded much cooler than “hits harder,” right?

But if this “hits harder” ability could stand on the same Rank Four level as [Life Energy Manipulation] and [One-Man Army], then that proved it truly made her hit very, very hard.

As for exactly how hard…

War Freya looked around. There was no way to test it right now, so that would have to wait.

As for the other ability, [Tenacity], War Freya lowered her head and looked at her still-slender arms and legs.

Her skin was fair, smooth, and carried a faint, healthy flush.

No matter how she looked at herself, she did not seem like someone whose defense had increased.

At that moment, Life Freya slipped out of the main body’s arms and came to War Freya’s side.

She activated [Lifeform Modification] and began examining War Freya’s body.

The result was shocking.

Life Freya discovered that War Freya’s lifeform had already undergone a complete transformation.

How should she put it?

The “skin” that made War Freya look no different from an ordinary person was no longer human skin at all.

It had become something else that only looked like skin.

It still possessed the basic functions of human skin, and it still felt soft to the touch.

But in reality, its strength was terrifyingly high.

Without exaggeration, even if someone shot her with a small-caliber firearm now, it would at most leave a red mark. It could not pierce her at all.

And that was only her skin.

Her muscles and bones were even tougher.

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P.S. The current real-world time is late night on July 21.

In other words, this is only the second day after the protagonist crossed over.