Now that the Replica with the Eye of True Sight had also exited the Personal Instance.

Things were much easier for each Replica to manage again.

And the second Replica released by the Main Body from the Personal Instance was the Dark-Type Replica “Qu Xing”, generated alongside Huang Bo.

Qu Xing only had ten days left until his execution in the prison.

By logic, he should’ve been released from the Personal Instance even earlier than the Eye of True Sight Replica.

But Jiang Ye hadn’t known what the “execution” entailed back then.

So he glitched the system and had the Dark Replica avoid execution using Shadow Body.

After finding out that execution only cost ten strands of hair for a thread puppet, it naturally wasn’t a big deal anymore.

So then the Dark Replica showed up in the prison, died by execution, and got released from the Personal Instance.

It was also the return of the Dark Replica that allowed the Replicas to once again sense the Main Body’s thoughts.

With communication reestablished, the Replicas outside the Personal Instance naturally knew what to do.

Thus, the Administrator Replica spent another 20 Survival Points to generate 20 new Replicas.

And this time, whether due to bad luck or not, all 20 Replicas turned out to have zero S-tier Abilities.

But that didn’t really matter.

All 20 Replicas consumed the full set of Attribute Fruits at Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver tiers.

That way, each Replica’s Stamina and Energy attributes both increased by 19.5 points (Silver +15, Bronze +3, Black Iron +1.5).

This time, he didn’t rush to send the 20 Replicas directly into the Personal Instance.

Since this was preparation for Replica Fusion at midnight, it made sense to gather as many attribute boosts as possible before the fusion.

So this batch of 20 Replicas all swapped into Apartment 9999 first.

There, they leveled up under the guidance of powerful Replicas like Fu Xi, Li Zhi, and others fighting monsters at the end of the corridor on the 22nd floor.

Once they all reached Level 10,

they’d get another 10 attribute points.

Then sending them into the Personal Instance would maximize the Main Body’s post-fusion gains.

If the Observer succeeded in reaching the Personal Instance smoothly,

maybe they could even try using the Dice of Fate to roll a few Scepters for these Replicas.

The effect of a Scepter would boost attributes by 10 points in one go!

Jiang Ye didn’t even dare to imagine how terrifying the Main Body’s stats would become after going through the first midnight fusion!

Of course.

There was one concerning point about this first fusion and terrifying attributes—

Jiang Ye currently already had one Administrator Replica.

But that Administrator’s attributes were only 100 points.

So far…

100 seemed to be the cap for the Beginner Apartment.

He wasn’t sure if the Main Body could break through that limit.

If not…

Then it had to be resolved ASAP!

Everything on the Replicas’ side was progressing in an orderly fashion.

Including the Dark Replica Qu Xing, who, after leaving the Personal Instance, used Replica Swap to directly enter the Secret Graveyard.

And the moment the Dark Replica entered the Graveyard, he realized—

This Secret Graveyard was truly a top-tier Dark-Attribute environment!

The Shadow Puppet’s nurturing effect here was leagues beyond what the ruins of the White-Clad Woman’s apartment had provided!

The Dark Replica had only just entered and stayed for a short while, yet the Shadow Puppet’s attributes visibly increased by 0.2 points!

And don’t underestimate that 0.2—

stacked over time, it would be huge!

Among all Jiang Ye’s Replicas, besides the 100-attribute Administrator, the Shadow Puppet of the Dark Replica had the highest attributes.

With the Graveyard’s nurturing and previous Bloodsucking,

the Shadow Puppet’s stats had already approached 50 points!

And that was with the Dark Replica being just Level 0!

However, Jiang Ye wasn’t planning to have the Dark Replica level up just yet.

First, time was limited, and the priority was on leveling up the trash Replicas for fusion.

Second, keeping the Dark Replica in the Secret Graveyard was great.

Not only could he nurture the Shadow Puppet, but also help search for Raven Eggs and explore the Graveyard.

Third…

Jiang Ye had thought this through.

Especially after obtaining the Administrator Replica, he realized—

Glyph Pattern Abilities were indeed much stronger than Abilities or Attributes.

The 1010 Administrator also had only 100 attributes and unimpressive Abilities.

His strength came almost entirely from his Glyph Pattern Ability!

The Glyph Gluttonous Body directly pushed his Combat Power up to 5000!

Even so, with that kind of power, he still hadn’t made it onto the Administrator Combat Ranking!

Which showed just how developed other Administrators’ Glyph Pattern Abilities were!

Jiang Ye now had Glyph Abilities too—

specifically, the Gluttonous Body from his Administrator.

This Administrator even had another Glyph Pattern Ability, Fleshweaving, which could also be trained.

To advance the Gluttonous Body, he’d have to devour something higher than Red Lotus Hellfire.

And right now, Jiang Ye had two potential targets.

One was the Entropy Scythe, which was nearing the end of its usage time;

the other was the Replica Reflection Mirror.

No need to explain the power of the Entropy Scythe—it was a pinpoint death tool.

But the Reflection Mirror was even more important to Jiang Ye.

It could lock onto Death-State, something not even the Dice of Fate could do.

No doubt about it, this item was higher-grade than the Red Lotus Hellfire.

After all, Hellfire likely couldn’t lock onto Death-State either.

Of course, both of these options still had their issues.

First, the Entropy Scythe—it had a time limit.

But after acquiring Wu Ying’s memories, Jiang Ye gained a better understanding of how the Gluttonous Body worked.

In theory, Gluttonous Body could devour time-limited or one-time-use items.

However, if he really used that method to advance it to Tier 4, it would be called a pseudo-Tier-4.

Meaning, it would drop in tier later.

After devouring the Entropy Scythe, its duration might be extended.

But it would still vanish eventually.

When that happened, the Tier-4 Gluttonous Body would fall back to Tier 3.

Many players in the Doomsday Apartment with Gluttonous Body had done this before.

And the benefit was—

You get to reach Tier 4 early, gaining an obvious strength boost.

And even if it dropped later, the second promotion to Tier 4 would be slightly less risky.

But the downside was also clear—

Even if the devoured item was time-limited,

once the devouring failed, there was still life-threatening danger.

What’s more, the next time he dropped in tier and tried to devour something again,

the item would have to be even higher-grade than the time-limited item he’d used before.

All in all, devouring a time-limited item wasn’t really worth it.

Besides, if the Administrator Replica truly wanted to devour the Entropy Scythe, it wasn’t going to be simple.

After all, that was a Concept-Level Weapon!

Just brushing against it could wipe the Administrator Replica out instantly!

However, now that he had the Wu Ying Replica, he could use Wu Ying’s skills and connections to give it a try.

As for devouring the Replica Reflection Mirror…

Jiang Ye mainly worried that—

according to Wu Ying’s memories, there had been cases where players with Gluttonous Body experienced item mutation while devouring.

Most mutations were good—the devoured item became even stronger.

But in very rare cases, the item mutated into total trash.

If the Entropy Scythe got ruined, so be it—it was time-limited anyway.

But if the Replica Reflection Mirror got wrecked by mutation…

that would be a huge loss!

So Jiang Ye’s current plan was to try devouring the Entropy Scythe first.

Besides that, he was also planning to arrange Glyph Pattern Abilities for Qu Xing the Dark Replica, and for other Replicas too!

If we’re talking about the Beginner Apartment only, new players trying to get Glyph Abilities faced huge risks.

The Eerie Transformation rate was over 90%!

But in the Doomsday Apartment, following a proper process,

the chance of Eerie Transformation could be kept within a controllable range.

Usually, new players had to wait until they entered the Doomsday Apartment before even considering Glyph Abilities.

Weaker ones even had to crawl through the mud there for a while before qualifying.

But now that Jiang Ye had Wu Ying—

he had a real chance of getting Glyph Abilities ahead of schedule!

Just as Qu Xing brought the Main Body’s awareness out of the Personal Instance,

the “Wu Ying” Replica returned to the Doomsday Apartment via Replica Swap.

The memories in his mind were one thing.

But when Jiang Ye actually arrived at the Duoe Organization’s staff dormitory, it felt totally different.

The dorm’s environment wasn’t much to speak of.

Compared to the luxurious suite at Room 2025, it was a total downgrade.

That luxury suite was over 200 square meters!

But Wu Ying’s dorm was barely a fraction of that—maybe twenty to thirty square meters.

The entire room had just a bed, a wardrobe, a desk, and a dedicated Duel Machine for Wu Ying.

At first glance, the whole dorm gave off a vibe of austere simplicity.

But the upside was—it was a private room.

And Wu Ying didn’t have to pay any rent.

According to Wu Ying’s memories, this staff dorm was way better than the Hive at the bottom layer of the Doomsday Apartment.

In the Doomsday Apartment, being able to live in a room this decent was already considered pretty successful.

And precisely because the general living conditions were so bad,

a lot of veteran players in the Doomsday Apartment really looked forward to getting a chance to enter the Beginner Apartment.

After all, the Beginner Apartment had way better living conditions!

And when veteran players went to the Beginner Apartment, it was like a max-level player returning to the newbie village—

like blowing up fish in a barrel!

Unfortunately, only a limited number of veteran players could enter the Beginner Apartment in each round.

Not everyone could get this kind of perk.

Moreover, members of the Duoe Organization didn’t participate in this perk competition at all.

However, the current round of the Beginner Apartment was different.

The early opening of Apartment 0000 meant veteran players could get involved in the competition ahead of schedule!

And now that Light-type players had become a threat, this round’s veteran participants were likely to be non-Dark-type players.

Before getting Wu Ying’s memories, Jiang Ye didn’t know much about what “non-Dark-type players” meant.

But now he understood—

So-called non-Dark-type players excluded all Eerie Players and human players with Glyph Pattern Abilities,

and also excluded human players with Dark-type Abilities.

Which left—almost no one!

Basically, such players were the absolute bottom of the Doomsday Apartment!

Which made sense—

Most players, to get stronger, pursued Glyph Pattern Abilities.

And if someone didn’t even have Glyph Abilities, they were likely the kind who couldn’t even afford to raise an Eerie Being—bottom-tier.

Of course, not all of them were like that.

Just like there were Reincarnated Eerie in the Beginner Apartment who stuck to their Eerie identity and refused to invade human players,

there were also human players in the Doomsday Apartment with a kind of mental purity—

they refused to taint themselves and insisted on staying 100% human.

These players were called Defenders.

More accurately, they had formed the Defenders’ Alliance.

Inside this Alliance, since there were no Glyph Abilities,

besides human players with Dark-type Abilities, most were considered non-Dark-type.

The Defenders’ non-Dark-type players were clearly different from the common perception.

The common non-Dark-type player couldn’t pursue Glyphs.

But the Defenders chose not to.

Just like the Reincarnated Eerie wanted to protect their Soul and Dignity,

the Defenders insisted on keeping their complete human identity.

Originally, the Defenders’ Alliance was quite out of place in the Doomsday Apartment.

But this time, because of the rise of Light-type players—

the Defenders might become the most desirable allies for all the major factions.

Of course, none of this had much to do with Wu Ying—at least for now.

Jiang Ye, posing as Wu Ying, switched back into Wu Ying’s original appearance.

Then he threw on a low-key Black Robe, pinned on the Duoe staff Work Badge, and left the Duoe dorm.

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