BXBX NOVEL Chapter 29: Domain Expansion: Silent Field
[As you extended your open hand, you clenched it tightly, causing the police to be engulfed in a mix of purple and red. Their bodies were pulverized and crushed into disfigured shapes by your power.]
[Having absorbed six avatar crystals, your power was far beyond their reach.]
[You realized that even if you hadn't absorbed any avatar crystals, you could still have easily crushed them with your original power.]
[With that in mind, you walked towards the corpses of the police to check if they dropped anything valuable.]
["Well, it seems that policewoman either absorbed an avatar crystal or had one in her possession. Either way, I've gained another avatar crystal from this encounter," you remarked as you discovered a golden shard among their remains.]
[With this latest addition, you now had five avatar crystals in your possession from today's efforts alone.]
[You weren't sure how rare avatar crystals were, but you considered yourself lucky to have collected this many.]
[Satisfied with your haul, you headed back and checked in at another hotel.]
[Once inside your room, you began the process of absorbing the avatar crystals.]
[When you absorbed your seventh avatar crystal, you felt your avatar begin to semi-evolve, gaining new abilities.]
[Without pausing to explore these new abilities, you continued absorbing the remaining avatar crystals.]
[In the end, you absorbed all five, bringing your total to eleven. You instinctively knew that with two more, your avatar would complete its evolution.]
[While in this semi-evolved state, your avatar's appearance didn't change, but it did gain a few new abilities.]
[As a domain-type avatar, Invisible Providence unlocked an ability called "Domain Expansion: Silent Field."]
[Silent Field allowed you to create a domain that covered a medium-sized area, combining your invisibility and presence concealment abilities.]
[It rendered everyone within it invisible and undetectable by normal means. Infrared detectors and other modern technologies would be useless in detecting you or your allies if you chose to use it on a group scale.]
[You could even manipulate your enemies' perceptions, turning them invisible to each other and causing them to attack their own allies.]
[Only those stronger than you or those with rule-type abilities could resist it, which was a rare occurrence considering you had absorbed eleven avatar crystals.]
[Additionally, not only did you gain a new ability, but your existing powers also improved.]
[Your identity distortion now included the power to alter memories directly. Although you had been able to achieve this indirectly before, it was now a distinct part of your skillset.]
[Whether this was an enhancement of your existing ability or a new one entirely was up for debate, but any improvement in power was always welcome.]
[In other words, you had memory alteration as a distinct part of your ability.]
[Additionally, your tentacles had gained the ability to phase through matter, and upon contact, you could seal the powers of your target.]
[Furthermore, your tentacles now possessed the ability to negate the abilities and powers of others, which was the reason you could seal them in the first place.]
[This meant that if you encountered an enemy weaker than you, simply wrapping your tentacles around them could render them completely powerless.]
[For opponents of equal or greater strength, you could overwhelm them with sheer quantity, applying multiple negation effects until their abilities ceased to function.]
[With your newfound power, you felt more confident in facing the avatar masters of the Avatar World and the outer god's lackeys in the Terra World.]
[Even if the god simulation ended now, you were already satisfied with the current state of your abilities. However, you weren't about to stop when you were just two avatar crystals away from completing your avatar's evolution.]
[After resting in the hotel room for a day, you returned to the Sky High Gang.]
[With Viktor dead, you appointed Sedrick, the former leader of the Earth Down Gang, as your new right-hand man.]
[While the Sky High Gang mourned Viktor's death, the other gangs under your control didn't seem to care much about his demise and were even quietly hoping for Sedrick's death.]
[They knew that if Sedrick were to die, one of them might be chosen as your right-hand man. However, they didn't dare to act against him, fearing your wrath, as you had already enforced a strict rule forbidding any attacks on your subordinates.]
[Despite the rivalries and differences among the eight gangs, they were united under your leadership and dared not defy your orders. For now, they could only hope that Sedrick would meet his end on the battlefield, leaving the position open for one of them.]
[You didn't doubt your subordinates' loyalty, having already used identity distortion on them long before attacking the Bandana Gang.]
[You didn't completely overwrite their personalities; instead, you simply added the identity of being your subordinate. Because of this, it was natural for some of them to still harbor dislike toward each other.]
[As long as they got the job done, you didn't concern yourself with such trivial matters.]
[You addressed your subordinates, "With Viktor gone, Sedrick and the rest of you will gather information about avatar crystals. We're going to expand our gang's influence into the surrounding cities of Maplewood City."]
[They all nodded in agreement, and you further informed them that you'd be going on a business trip outside the city.]
[You knew of two ways to obtain avatar crystals.]
[The first, though guaranteed, was the most dangerous—fighting the authorities and killing their avatar masters. Looting their bases could also yield results, and no matter how poor they were, you were confident they could at least produce two avatar crystals.]
[The second method was becoming an assassin and taking on tasks. Some of these tasks even offered avatar crystals as payment, making it a worthwhile pursuit.]