“How can I get rid of him quietly? Should I poison him with gas, or just let him drown?” The man recalled the instructions he’d received before coming: he must not cause a commotion, or else he’d attract the attention of that mysterious government department, and that would be a disaster.

Right now, the changes in the world weren’t deep enough; it was still necessary to lie low, and the time to emerge had not yet come.

“Forget it, I’ll just drain all his blood and toss him into the river. After soaking for a few days, who would know who he is!”

The man immediately thought of this and spoke.

As he spoke, the man had already slipped into the bedroom, but found no one there.

“Hm? Where is he? Not home today?” the man said with some surprise.

“What, are you looking for me?” A clear voice came from behind.

The man was startled; he hadn’t expected anyone to appear behind him.

He turned around and saw a handsome, extraordinary young man, arms crossed, smiling at him. Wasn’t this the very Ethan Carter he was here to kill?

A sinister grin appeared on the man’s face. Combined with his deathly pale appearance and exposed, chilling fangs, he looked terrifying.

“After searching high and low, I found you without any effort. Hahaha, kid, today is your death day! That’s what you get for offending someone you shouldn’t have!”

Facing this man, Ethan Carter showed no fear and simply said, “You’re an Awakened one!”

When the man saw that Ethan Carter actually knew about Awakened ones, he replied, “That’s right, I am an Awakened. To people like you, I am a god. In the future, we will become gods, while you will be slaves for eternity!”

“God? Please, with a face like yours, are you the god of ugliness? You’re ugly down to your soul!” Ethan Carter mocked the man’s appearance. “Didn’t your mother ever teach you that if you’re this ugly, you shouldn’t go out and scare people?”

If it were an ordinary person seeing such a creature straight out of myth, they’d probably be scared to death on the spot.

But Ethan Carter had experienced countless storms in his previous life, and had seen things far stranger than this. He’d even encountered real mythical creatures and killed more than he could count, let alone a mere mutated Awakened one.

At this stage, many Awakened ones looked like monsters because they didn’t yet know how to control their powers. As their skills deepened and they grew stronger, they could suppress these abnormalities and appear no different from ordinary people.

Ethan Carter’s words hit the man’s sore spot. Though he called himself a god, at the end of the day, he was still human—a newly Awakened human, with human aesthetics.

Turning into this was hideous beyond belief, but usually no one dared mention this taboo in front of him. Now, with Ethan Carter bringing it up so brazenly, he was instantly consumed with rage.

In a flash, the man roared and lunged at Ethan Carter like lightning.

His slightly deformed claws slashed straight at Ethan Carter, but just as he thought he’d caught him, a fair hand shot out and, in an instant, gripped his neck.

With a gentle twist, accompanied by a sickening crack, Ethan Carter snapped the man’s neck.

The man’s eyes widened in disbelief. Until his death, he never imagined he’d be killed so easily by someone who looked like an ordinary, weak person.

Ethan Carter tossed aside the man’s corpse. Looking at this mutated, vampire-like being, his face remained calm and unruffled.

In the early stages, Awakened ones had a huge advantage over ordinary cultivators. This man had only just Awakened, yet had already reached level three, equivalent to the “dark strength” stage among martial artists. In a real fight, he could probably go toe-to-toe with someone like Scorpion.

But unfortunately, he ran into Ethan Carter, who killed him with a single slap!

Now, even though Ethan Carter was only at level five, half a step into level six, he could still hold his own against even the most formidable level six experts and retreat unscathed. In this era, he was already nearly invincible.

But Ethan Carter knew that the truly powerful ones were the level seven, “National Guardian” class. At that level, ordinary firearms couldn’t even break their protective energy. Unless hit directly by heavy weaponry, they were virtually untouchable.

Ethan Carter didn’t even bother interrogating this Awakened one, because he knew this man was definitely sent by Jack Morgan.

In his previous life, he’d been caught off guard, had his legs broken, and even implicated his parents far away in Xiamen, leading to the destruction of his family.

“I must find a way to eliminate Jack Morgan and the The Morgan Family behind him as soon as possible. I may not fear them, but if they target my parents with no scruples, that would be a huge problem!” Ethan Carter thought to himself.

But he also knew that the world’s changes weren’t deep enough yet. Forces like the The Morgan Family were still lying low and wouldn’t show themselves easily. After all, above them was still that mysterious government department.

Most cultivators and Awakened ones were still weak and couldn’t stand up to modern weapons. In this vast world, the nation was supreme. If anyone dared rebel, they’d be immediately hunted down and destroyed.

“I’ll deal with this first!” Ethan Carter picked up the man, climbed out the window, and even though it was over twenty stories high, he easily scaled down without alerting anyone.

He then tossed the body into the river beside the neighborhood.