Chapter 1

【001】 The terror of the School Realm is returning from prison…

The Psychic Prison.

The thick, rusted gate slowly opened.

Inside stood a young man in white clothing, his expression icy.

His face was refined and sharply defined, his hair slightly long, his figure tall and lean; most striking was his cold, detached, serene face, and his eyes seemed to faintly radiate malevolence.

"Go out and be a good person."

"Don't come back in."

A middle-aged man in prison guard uniform slapped the young man on the shoulder.

"…"

The young man paid him no heed and stepped slowly out through the prison gates.

"How come such a young guy got locked up?"

One guard asked—he knew full well this prison held nothing but hardened criminals.

"Don't be fooled by his age—he's a ruthless bastard…"

"Back then, he was surrounded by a bunch of school thugs—over a hundred of them. Wanna guess what happened?"

"Huh?"

"That incident caused a massive uproar. Over a hundred thugs surrounded him on Jiu Sect Street, paralyzing all pedestrians, blocking every vehicle, triggering countless emergency calls—until the armed police were deployed, and our Psychic Prison's special unit rushed over. By the time we arrived…"

The guard's voice paused slightly.

"This guy had already knocked down all hundred-plus thugs. The worst part? Forty or fifty were rushed to the ER that day. Several died on the spot. Over a dozen couldn't be saved afterward. The rest were left permanently disabled—some with broken limbs, others bedridden for life, others with irreversible injuries."

"The survivors all ended up hospitalized."

"You weren't there. The whole street was filled with screams and chaos—hundreds of vehicles: police cars, military trucks, our Psychic Prison unit, ambulances. And he stood right in the center, drenched in blood, covered in wounds, yet never fell."

"Around him—arms severed, legs severed. Even now, Jiu Sect Street still carries a faint stench of blood. Only our prison's psychics managed to subdue him."

"Now…"

"His legend still circulates among the school thugs of this city. They say he has another title."

"Title?"

"Yeah…"

"They call him… KO. 10—The Wrath Demon."

Short words.

Yet they made the new guard's expression shift slightly.

"So brutal…"

"But with so many dead, how was he released after only two years?"

He found it strange.

So many lives lost.

Such a massive incident—and he was freed in just two years?

"Don't know."

The guard gave the new guard a long, deep look.

"And you shouldn't ask."

He stepped out of the prison.

The newborn sunlight fell upon Lin Yu.

The warm light softened his icy expression slightly.

The prison.

Darkness without end, chains binding his body, thick as water barrels—four or five of them, all chained to the bloodstained wall behind him, surrounded by some kind of restraint that suppressed his combat index to just twenty to thirty percent.

His eyes lifted slightly.

Ahead.

A system interface appeared.

【Host: Lin Yu】

【Combat Index: 15000】

【Proficiency:】

【Exercise: 3000/20000】 (Through repeated training, your physical strength has greatly improved, granting you three体质 evolutions—you can faintly sense your body growing stronger.)

【Fighting: 2000/20000】 (Through constant practice, you've mastered fighting and punching techniques, and have become proficient in combat skills—your Fighting skills seem ready to evolve at any moment.)

【Reading: 100/1000】 (Your comprehension of books is poor—perhaps only after multiple readings will you understand.)

【Eating: 200/1000】 (What? Eating has proficiency too?)

【Proficiency Rewards:】

【Exercise: Superb Psychic Physique (Continuously Evolvable) (Note: Evolution direction—seek items or materials related to evolution.)】

【Superb Psychic Physique: Gains 100 Combat Index points daily; physical attributes, speed, reaction, and strength are twice those of an ordinary psychic; can fight opponents up to 1000 Combat Index points higher.】

【Fighting: Fighting Techniques (Mastery)】

【Fighting Techniques (Mastery): You are proficient in all lethal fighting moves—Thai knee strikes, Thai chops, violent flying knees. Your upper and lower limb strength has been terrifyingly enhanced through training; your lethal techniques are second nature—your enemies had better watch out…】

"Over ten thousand…"

Lin Yu's eyes were icy.

The feeling of breaking free filled him with immense relief.

"Interesting."

He flexed his wrist slightly.

According to the previous verdict, he would likely have been sentenced to life in prison, never to see the outside world again.

But.

Now…

He had actually been released upon completing his sentence?

This Ability Prison was closely tied to the entire nation; the fact that someone could release a heavy criminal serving a life sentence from this place showed just how enormous that person's power was.

Although…

In another year, he could rely on his own combat power index to simply destroy the entire Ability Prison.

He lowered his head slightly, a satchel stained with blood slung over his back, pulled a cigarette from the pack in his pocket, lit it, exhaled softly; the smoke curled in the sunlight and drifted farther away, and his figure, too, gradually walked farther off.

Behind him.

The newly arrived prison guard stared at the young man's back; even though the sunlight fell upon the youth, it seemed unable to illuminate him at all, a lingering aura of murderous intent spreading outward, as if he were a dark, savage beast, every step brimming with pressure.

That back gradually receded into the distance.

As if announcing something.