067. With Mei Bi Not Around, My Luck Keeps Gettier
As soon as Li Aozi nded, he immediately deactivated his Domination transformation. He had maintaihis mode for a full two hours and would o wait awo hours before he could use it again.
Unfortunately, before his job ge, the 【Domination Form】 ability didn’t reduce cooldowns in any mutatioed dire, so he had to serve it whenever possible to avoid relying solely on his physical body when entering enemies.
He started chatting with the vilgers amicably, some fiscated bullets and medals in exge for food to replenish his Omega Energy. After two hours of aerial bat, Li Aozi was starving, and sihere was nothing to eat in the sky, he had resorted to gnawing oal and alloys of the pnes.
"You called me—Bahamut?"
Li Aozi took a bite of bread and gulped down a rge swig of homemade liquor from the vilgers, then curiously asked.
"Bahamut, in the old Granat nguage, means 'legendary figure,'" a vilger said admiringly. "So many Frost-Pted nes have been shot down by you. You are our Bahamut, a great hero."
【Granat Republic Favorability +300】
【Current Favorability: 567 (Respect)】
【Now, every three days, you make a designated supply request to the Granat Republic quartermaster.】
Li Aozi didn’t say much, his huook over as he devoured more food—salted vegetables, pork with buttered bread, and beer with a rich dairy fvor. Like a happy little pig, he enjoyed every bite.
His eating manner was far from refined, but people saw him as down-to-earth and uious, showing his real self, whily made him more likable.
"Try my bread."
"Bahamut, I brought some roast meat."
"e to my house and have some yogurt skewers, bell peppers, green peppers, chi, and onions grilled to a sizzle!"
Most of the people of Granat were ordinary farmers, some of whom had only retly regaiheir freedom from serfdom. They hated the Frost-Pted invaders who sought to restore the duchy and recim their homend with a burning fury.
They were just farmers, and the Frost-Pted people kept talking about fighting for the equal rights of Granat women.
—Yet as soon as the war started, they cut off their artificial light sources.
How could this possibly be a move to restore the civilized duchy gover? To the simple and kied people of Granat, the Frost-Pted people just wahem dead.
Now, Li Aozi had used the simplest method t the Frost-Pted pnes out of the sky and crash them to the ground, stag them into a t "Jingguan."
Let the Frost-Pted worshippers of snow be buried by the white snow of the outer nds.
Is there anything more satisfying than that?
The more Li Aozi ate, the happier the vilgers became. They couldn’t fight the Frost-Pted forces themselves, but they could support the warriors who fought on their behalf in this way.
At this point, the vilgers' reas and Li Aozi’s genuine behavior left an impression ohree soldier pyers, and whatever grievahey had against Li Aozi for running around vanished instantly.
"I really didn’t expect him to be this strong."
Valianke sighed:
"It seems Liu’s judgment was wrong. Li Aozi is a kind warrior and someone we trust."
"Also, our uanding of Li Aozi’s power—or rather, of the superhumans on Azure Star—was far too shallow."
Yakos and Mohad bhe strength and tactics of Li Aozi.
There was no denying it—just looking at the aerodynamid design of those fighter jets, their bat capability couldn’t have been low, at least reag speeds of five times the speed of sound.
What does five times the speed of sound mean? The first ic velocity is about 8 kilometers per sed, and at that speed, you break free of the mother p’s gravitational field and bee an artificial satellite orbiting it.
And five times the speed of sound is roughly one-fifth of that speed.
Li Aozi, relying on his own strength, had mao tear apart such nes one by one, bring them down, and crash them to the ground, all while remaining unharmed—his power was self-evident.
As the vilgers dispersed, busy gathering titanium scrap metal, Li Aozi tinued happily eating while sitting on a tree stump.
At that moment, Li Aozi noticed three people wearing unfamiliar military uniforms from Granat approag him.
As soon as they got closer, Li Aozi saw a string of randomly geed ID numbers appear above their heads, and he immediately knew who they were dealing with.
【Random ID—not a mert, then they must be military pyers.】
Si was still the beta phase, no one would be extravagant enough to run a sed at just to do business, so they were definitely soldiers.
Li Aozi immediately stood at attention.
Although he khat the Terra Federation had long switched to a merary system, with soldiers recruited from the Andre Group, that didn’t stop him from f a positive impression of them.
In his past life, if it hadn’t been for the hard work of meraries from various nations maintaining pead stability, the chaos caused by those rowdy pyers would have left the eleic immigrants devastated.
Besides, these meraries had proven to be formidable in bat, faithfully adhering to their duties.
However, Li Aozi remembered that military pyers had specialized supply els, and even their supernatural powers were uniformly drawn from the 【Destru】 system's 【Ranger】 css.
So why had these soldiers e to him?
"Greetings, respected Mr. Li Aozi."
The leader of the three, Valiaepped forward.
"Who are you?" Li Aozi asked, pying dumb. "Aren't you going to gather mae parts?"
"We have e from afar to follow you as Granat warriors."
Valiaivated 【Disguise Mode】 and spoke fluently and naturally to Li Aozi:
"We are grateful for the immense tributions you've made to the peace of our try! We also want to have the power to protect our homend like you do."
Li Aozi’s expression shifted slightly.
Just as Valianke expressed his desire for power, a different system interface tharaditional NPae appeared before Li Aozi:
【Pyer 'Valianke' seeks to follow the supreme path of Domination—do you accept him?】
This was… the newly introduced path system in version 14.0?
Before his transmigration, he had been busy clearing dungeons and hadn't noticed this update patch.
Li Aozi was slightly surprised, then it dawned on him.
【Of course, I am the only Domination path leader on this p. If not me, then who else?】
At that moment, he fully settled into his role as the 【Domination】 path mentor on Azure Star.
No, eveer.
Li Aozi explored the path system interfad quickly realized it was far more signifit than he had imagined.
The opening of the path system made Li Aozi the representative of the 【Domination】 path on Azure Star.
From now on, all 【Mutant】 pyers or Azure Star inhabitants pursuing the 【Mutant】 path would have to reference his experiences, follow his path, learn from him, ae him.
It wasn’t quite a monopoly, but it brought bes far greater than a monopoly.
Because monopolies only influehe material level, while establishing a path foundation directly influenced people's minds.
Simply put, people would more easily awaken to the Omega Energy that Li Aozi possessed and more readily uand the skills and knowledge he imparted.
It was akin to a path structure with no productive capacity, yet its influence reached deeper than any path-building structure.
Path-building structures only affected people within a certain range, while this path system could influenyone on Azure Star with the potential for the 【Domination】 path.
The most immediate be was the signifit gains it brought to Li Aozi himself.
Normally, after Li Aozi's main css 【Mutant】 reached level 80, if he tinued along the 【Starfall Master】 path, the progression would look like this:
Adva Css: 【Echoer】
Promotion Css: 【Bishop】
Transdent Css: 【Pope】
Ultimate Assion: 【Starfall Master】
The career structure of Star Abyss was straightforward: if a css was rare and powerful, it meant that the path was too might have god-assion potential, but the internal petition would be fiercer, and the climb would be too difficult, making it an impractical choice.
Popur csses were popur because they provided a clear "assion el" to the upper levels, allowing even on people a ce at godhood.
In aimes, the assion el was based on family backgrouering officialdom, aining military merits.
In modern times, the assion el was entrepreneurship, iion, education, and exams.
Why were there so many pyers in the 【Destru】 system? Because it didn’t care about talent, wealth, or intellige had no barriers, a clear future to everyone.
As long as you put in the effort, you'd be rewarded—that was the ultimate golde. No one needed motivation, and people's enthusiasm soared.
All narrative-level civilizations were vying for trol of the 【Destru】 path. This was the true means of winnis and minds.
Gender? Race? Faith? Wealth?
In the face of the path to assion or, more precisely, the ce to ge one's destiny, these things meant nothing!
With the path system unlocked, Li Aozi finally had the opportunity to shape the "assion el" for 【Domination】 path pyers.
"It’s not that people don’t want to put in the effort; they’re just afraid their effort won’t be rewarded."
"The 【Starfall Master】 path is too narrow, too obscure. In the end, it’s because there’s no clear entry point, and people ’t see the future of this css."
"But I will give them the opportunity to asd with me—I will give them a future."
Li Aozi had suffered through the hardships of being a 【Mutant】 in the early stages, as well as those experiences of being imprisoned, and knew how tough this path was.
He didn’t want other pyers to suffer alongside him, but he did want to increase the number of people on this path—as that was the only way he could have a shot at asding to godhood oarfall Master】 path.
Li Aozi had always felt a bit guilty about this. Ever since his transmigration, he had beore afraid of dying, so he had made the fearless pyers suffer with him, which left him with some disfort.
Now, it was different. With the path system officially unlocked, Li Aozi could truly bee stronger, bringing all the followers of this path along with him to bee stronger as well.
"Ohing is clear: I will have greater potential than I did in my previous life."
As the founder of the 【Domination】 path on Azure Star, Li Aozi would advao a career not as an 【Echoer】, but as a foundational css for the 【Starfall Master】 path.
——【Starry Echoer】
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