The life of Roldi Friel ended just like that.
In his final memories, the strongest emotion Lin Ruo could feel was regret. But this regret wasn't because of his own death or the hopelessness of revenge; it was because, right in front of him, the girl was still forcibly taken away by human traffickers.
He hadn't changed anything or saved anyone.
"Ugh…" Lin Ruo's eyes were dark and unclear. He placed his hand on his chest, feeling the lingering emotions of this body, and suddenly said, "Since I've used your body, I'll take on your hatred."
Whether it was the enemies who destroyed the original owner's family or the human traffickers who had just killed the original owner.
The former was the price for using this body, and the latter was because Lin Ruo himself deeply despised human traffickers.
As he made up his mind, Lin Ruo, who had accepted the memories, also had a basic understanding of the current situation.
Simply put, last night he didn't directly become Klein's spirit but first possessed Roldi Friel's body, using this unowned body to complete his rebirth.
Just after his rebirth, before he even regained consciousness, his soul was pulled to Klein's side for unknown reasons and bound to him, leading to the previous events.
Lin Ruo mistakenly thought he had become Klein's spirit, but in reality, he still had a body. It just seemed that under certain circumstances, his soul would leave his body and go to Klein's side.
Ugh, in a way, his previous nonsense actually made sense.
Thinking of the lies he had told earlier, Lin Ruo pursed his lips but felt relieved.
After all, now he didn't have to worry about his body anymore.
Lin Ruo looked around and decided to return to the original owner's residence while remaining hidden. After all, he was still covered in blood and needed to clean up.
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The journey back was uneventful since no one could see Lin Ruo. When he returned to the original owner's residence, he washed himself thoroughly and ate enough food to fill his stomach. Only then did he have the energy to think about how having this body would affect him and what to do next.
First, it must be clarified that although the original owner died once, possibly because Lin Ruo took over the body too quickly, the extraordinary characteristics of this body did not dissipate, so Lin Ruo directly became a Sequence 9 Hunter.
This was neither entirely good nor bad for Lin Ruo.
It wasn't entirely good because, after becoming a Sequence 9 Hunter, Lin Ruo lost the freedom to choose his sequence. Unless he later switched to a Witch, learned the Blood Emperor's method of jumping to non-adjacent sequences, or used extraordinary items like the Dark Cross to reset his sequence, Lin Ruo could only continue down the Hunter path.
It wasn't entirely bad because the Hunter sequence itself wasn't a poor choice. It didn't violate Lin Ruo's principles like the Witch or Demon sequences, nor did it have limited potential like the Night or Storm sequences, which already had Sequence 0. Moreover, it wasn't influenced by external gods.
Additionally, it had strong combat capabilities, almost the strongest among the sequences. This can be seen from the Fourth Epoch, where the Blood Emperor suppressed Amon, Door, and Half-Fool mainly through force.
Although Lin Ruo's ideal path was the Spectator sequence, considering Adam's existence, supplementing his combat abilities with the Hunter path wasn't a bad idea.
Since he had to follow the Hunter path, he naturally had to consider the digestion of potions and subsequent promotions.
Lin Ruo knew the acting method, so he understood that to digest potions quickly and effectively, acting was almost necessary. To digest the Hunter potion, as the name suggests, he had to act like a Hunter.
This shouldn't be too difficult, as the Hunter potion itself granted Lin Ruo excellent tracking abilities, outstanding trap-setting skills, almost instinctive hunting abilities, and improved physical fitness, including recovery abilities.
Sequence 9 Hunters were not weak at all. The original owner died early because he hadn't fully adapted to the extraordinary abilities brought by the potion and encountered two human traffickers without any preparation. Moreover, the traffickers had guns, which posed a significant threat to low-sequence Beyonders.
To act like a Hunter, Lin Ruo first needed to choose his prey. This could be traditional hunting targets like animals or humans.
The ideal targets were naturally the two human traffickers who killed the original owner. Hunting them would not only help him act but also begin to avenge the original owner.
Lin Ruo was confident that those two were just ordinary people. Although the original owner failed against them, as a Beyonder, especially one with cheats, Lin Ruo believed that with proper preparation, hunting them wouldn't be too difficult.
The only concern was the existence behind those two traffickers.
"East District… and the target is girls… Capin?" Connecting this to the original work, Lin Ruo naturally thought of Capin, the human trafficker working for the royal family, who was involved in almost 80% of the missing girls' cases in Backlund. He narrowed his eyes.
He wouldn't back down just because the traffickers might be connected to Capin. In fact, he despised the leaders of human trafficking gangs like Capin even more. At this moment, he was thinking about the conspiracy behind Capin, representing the Ruen royal family.
Capin essentially worked for the royal family, contributing significantly to George III's godhood ceremony.
But he was also a breakthrough point, allowing the church's Beyonders to discover the royal family's oddities.
Capin operated in the Storm Church's jurisdiction… Lin Ruo suddenly had an idea to use Capin to involve the Storm Church in dealing with Ince.
This might seem a bit far-fetched, but when Lin Ruo was in Tingen, he had thought about involving the Storm Church to deal with Ince.
It was necessary because Lin Ruo's combat abilities were limited, and the Night Goddess's attitude was too ambiguous. The original work suggested that Ince's escape with 008 was related to the Night Goddess and Adam. In this situation, the Night Goddess gave Lin Ruo the Secret Badge, making it hard for him to judge her attitude.
So Lin Ruo decided not to rely on the Night Goddess but to involve the Storm Church, known for their aggressive approach.
He hadn't figured out the specifics before due to time constraints, but now he had some ideas.
To realize his plan, the first step was to hunt Capin!