Bai Xue was also intensely curious; she had heard a bit about the development of these new weapons.
As a special investigator with an awakened ability that wasn't very reliable, her combat prowess was actually in an awkward position, neither here nor there.
If you say she was strong, she couldn't handle the really powerful Mysterious Evils, and her output was merely superficial.
If you say she was weak, she could eliminate Mysterious Evils on her own without relying on external objects and could save a considerable amount of expenses.
But was the role of special investigators like her only to save money? Of course not!
The superficiality was because the life energy was too scattered, unrefined, and they had not found the method to channel it efficiently.
It's like a person trying to kill a tiger with their fists alone might exhaust themselves without accomplishing it—and that's assuming the tiger doesn't fight back.
