Receiving the affirmative signal, Yun Yang sat up straight and released her ability just as she had before.
The difference was that this time, her ability covered only Xuan Yu.
Another two minutes passed. Xuan Yu looked no different from before. Even the curve of the stray strands of hair over his forehead had not changed in the slightest.
Yun Yang: “……”
Maybe she should just accept reality.
With S-rank mental strength anyway, whether she had this ability or not would make no difference, and the five beast husbands matched to her by the Federal Marriage Center would not be taken back.
Yun Yang was glad she had not gone to the ability testing center.
If she had displayed an ability that had absolutely no effect in front of outsiders, that would have been a truly socially fatal moment.
As she let her thoughts run wild, Xuan Yu’s soft laughter suddenly sounded beside her.
“Female Master, your ability is very special. You can call it Enhancement, or…”
“Blessing.”
“When your ability acts solely on me, I can clearly feel that my ability has been enhanced by 3% to 5%.”
“3% to 5%?” Even Deputy Commander Qin, who had seen his fair share of major situations, was so shocked that he stood up.
Don’t let the fact that it was only a slight enhancement fool you. Xuan Yu already had an S-rank ability, so even a mere 1% enhancement on top of that would be an extremely significant boost.
His ability rank was the same as Xuan Yu’s, and the two of them had fought to a draw before.
But if the Female Master’s ability really had an effect like this, he probably wouldn’t be able to beat Xuan Yu anymore, much as he was unwilling to admit it.
Worried that Xuan Yu might rely on Yun Yang’s blessing and challenge him to a match, Qin Mo hurriedly said, “Female Master, you can try to see how long this kind of blessing can last and whether you can bless multiple people at the same time.”
Yun Yang nodded.
She tried it several times on Qin Mo and Xuan Yu, and soon came to a conclusion:
If she blessed a single S-rank ability user, her ability could last for about five minutes. If she blessed two people, it would only last for three minutes.
Because both beast husbands had the same ability rank, she could not yet determine whether the duration would increase when the ability user had a lower rank.
Even so, the results were enough to leave both Qin Mo and Xuan Yu quite surprised.
They had to remember that their Female Master’s ability rank was only F-rank. If it were upgraded to a higher rank, both the effect and duration would surely increase dramatically.
Being matched with their Female Master was truly an honor!
“Female Master, I’ll go exchange some Level One and Level Two Zerg cores for you right away.” Qin Mo was already eager to help his Female Master raise her ability rank.
Zerg cores were the energy cores of the Zerg. Like the Zerg themselves, they were divided into Levels One through Nine. The energy contained within them was extremely complex, and the Federation had yet to fully understand it.
The only thing they could confirm was that this complex energy could raise a beastmen’s ability rank without causing any side effects.
Ordinary people could purchase Zerg cores with Federation credits. Federation soldiers could also exchange military merit for Zerg cores, and they could retain a large portion of the Zerg cores they obtained by killing Zerg in the war zones.
As the Deputy Commander of the Federation’s 23rd Legion, Qin Mo’s military merit had long since accumulated to a staggering amount.
After all, he had already accumulated a large number of Zerg cores simply by killing Zerg, so he had no need to exchange his military merit for them.
Unfortunately, those Zerg cores were too high-level and were not suitable for Yun Yang to absorb yet.
“Okay, thank you, Qin Mo.” Yun Yang had no intention of refusing the goodwill. They were already her beast husbands, so why be polite?
She accepted it without the slightest hesitation!
Xuan Yu was not from the Federation military, but he did not need to exchange any military merit either. Instead, he simply stuffed two spatial buttons into Yun Yang’s hand.
“Female Master, these are my betrothal gifts. They contain all the Zerg cores I’ve accumulated over the years, as well as a little something from my mother and father.”
Qin Mo, who had just opened the military merit exchange page: !
Damn it, his rival had beaten him to it!
Yun Yang accepted everything without hesitation. In return, she took the initiative to ask, “Xuan Yu, what’s your contamination level?”
Xuan Yu paused before answering honestly, “94.”
How much?
Yun Yang and Qin Mo wore the exact same look of shock.
“Wasn’t it said that once the contamination level exceeds 90, the body’s beast transformation can no longer be controlled with suppressants?” Yun Yang carefully looked Xuan Yu over. “Why don’t you look like you’re undergoing beast transformation?”
Xuan Yu said nothing. He simply took his time undoing the top two buttons of his shirt.
His collar fell open, revealing not human skin, but wolf fur.
It wasn’t that he had not undergone beast transformation. The transformed area had simply been hidden.
Seeing the ring of frost-colored fur around his neck, Yun Yang immediately grabbed Xuan Yu’s arm. “Xuan Yu, open your mental landscape. I’ll purify you first.”
“Okay.”
Xuan Yu opened his mental landscape as instructed. His mental landscape was a vast frozen plain.
Atop the highest ice mountain on the frozen plain, Yun Yang found the proud, solitary Frost Wolf.
The Frost Wolf’s fur was almost the same color as the glacier beneath its feet. Heaven and earth were nearly one color, making the black mist lingering around the Frost Wolf stand out all the more.
Yun Yang controlled her mental strength to eliminate the black mist, while at the same time feeling puzzled.
A beastmen’s humanoid form retained some characteristics of their beast form. The most obvious were hair and eye color, and Qin Mo was the best example.
But how were Xuan Yu’s hair and eye colors completely different from those of his beast form?
As soon as the smart terminal issued a reminder, Yun Yang withdrew her mental strength. She had used up 70% of her mental strength, eliminating more than half of the black mist surrounding the Frost Wolf.
The Frost Wolf was clearly in much better spirits. Before she left, it even came over and rubbed against her mental thread.
After exiting Xuan Yu’s mental landscape, Yun Yang voiced the question that had been troubling her.
By then, the ring of fur around Xuan Yu’s neck had already faded. When he moved slightly, the well-defined muscles of his chest became faintly visible, silently drawing the attention of anyone nearby.
Yun Yang hurriedly picked up her cup and took a sip of water, but her gaze remained fixed on Xuan Yu.
As though he hadn’t noticed Yun Yang’s gaze, Xuan Yu casually tugged at his collar. “It’s necessary for my profession. This color makes it easier to move around at night.”
Qin Mo’s eyes practically blazed with fury.
This shameless wolf pup was actually seducing their Female Master!
He couldn’t keep taking things step by step. At this rate, their Female Master might form a bond with this wolf pup first.
Move around at night?
Yun Yang pressed further. “Xuan Yu, your occupation is listed as unknown in the records. What exactly do you do?”
Qin Mo answered before Xuan Yu could. “He’s a bounty hunter. People in that line of work take all kinds of jobs. It’s not considered a legitimate occupation, so it can’t be entered into the Federal Marriage Center’s records.”
As he spoke, Qin Mo looked at Yun Yang with an eager expression.
His occupation was certainly more respectable than this wolf pup’s!
“It’s not that I take all kinds of jobs.” Xuan Yu felt the need to defend himself. “Female Master, I’m very clean.”
Yun Yang: “……”
What exactly did he mean by “clean”?
She was too embarrassed to ask, but the Federal Marriage Center certainly wouldn’t have matched her with a male who had prior bonding experience.
Yun Yang nodded. “I believe you.”
She then turned to Qin Mo. “Qin Mo, when I purified Xuan Yu’s contamination just now, I felt like my ability had improved a little.”
It had been the same yesterday. After purifying Qin Mo, she had discovered that there was an extra energy within her body, and that energy was her ability.
Could she increase her ability rank by purifying the contamination in males?