Jade didn’t know why Zayne cursed after killing Victor.
Zayne, on the other hand, realized that Victor was merely bluffing, and it turned out he didn’t possess an SSS-rank innate talent.
’Never mind, quantitative accumulation leads to qualitative change. With the gangsters under Victor, even if not all of them possess high-grade talents, the sheer quantity should be enough to drastically reduce the simulation cooldown.’
Zayne didn’t plan on asking these students which among them was a gangster under Victor.
After all, a few might slip out due to covering for each other. And he might also kill by mistake due to being instigated by those gangsters framing an innocent student.
To deal with that, Zayne decided to take out his trusty tool, the Absolute Compass.
Summoning the Absolute Compass, it floated above his left hand. His right hand was occupied holding Jade’s hand, so he could only summon it on the left.
"Find me the nearest member of Victor’s gang."
Receiving his command, the Absolute Compass’s magnetic needle pointed to a certain student.
Zayne used his metal chain to bring him nearer to him, and after confirming that this student was indeed what the needle was pointing towards, Zayne killed him.
-Ding!
[You have killed Victor’s Gangster 1, who possessed the innate talent: E-rank Paper Cut!]
[The simulation cooldown has been reduced by 30 minutes!]
The system didn’t even bother mentioning the name of such a worthless extra.
Seeing that an E-rank talent is only worth 30 minutes, Zayne sighed and continued killing the rest of the gangsters one by one after confirming their identities using the Absolute Compass.
-Ding!
[You have killed Victor’s Gangster 2, who possessed the innate talent: E-rank Spoon Bender!]
-Ding!
[You have killed Victor’s Gangster 3, who possessed the innate talent: D-rank Cockroach Killer!]
-Ding!
[You have killed...]
This went on until around ten minutes had passed.
Zayne didn’t count how much he killed, but including his cooldown reduction from killing Victor, his doomsday life simulation only has 2 days left.
There was only one gangster left, who was identified by his compass.
Just as he was about to kill him using his metal chain, that gangster student seemed to break out of his seal, dodging his metal chains.
Zayne didn’t know who that gangster student was, but the fact that he could escape from his sealing ability meant that he possessed a high-grade innate talent.
’To think Victor wasn’t a threat, but there’s one hiding under him. It seems I can’t underestimate just everyone, as the existence of innate talents meant a few individuals might possess heaven-defying abilities.’
With that as a lesson, Zayne went all out in his metal creation ability, instantly creating a metal box that trapped the male gangster student inside it.
Afterwards, he controlled the metal box to generate more metal, causing metal spikes to extend inward, impaling the gangster student like a porcupine.
Since Zayne ensured there weren’t any openings, blood didn’t even spill out from the metal box.
-Ding!
[You have killed Ben Dover, who possessed the innate talent: SSS-rank Time Stop!]
[Since there will be an excess cooldown reduction and it’s enough for one simulation chance, the host will instead receive this as One Simulation Chance without affecting the current simulation cooldown.]
[So, the simulation cooldown still has 2 days remaining, but the host can start a new simulation.]
[Simulation chances can stack, so the host won’t have to worry if he forgot to start a doomsday life simulation.]
Receiving that notification from his system, Zayne couldn’t help but exclaim, ’Damn! How come something as broken as Time Stop existed as an innate talent, and it’s even possessed by a student of this college?!’
’And it seems if not for my ruthless action of wiping out Victor’s entire gang, this student might have already opted to cautiously hide and develop until he’s powerful enough.’
’For him to accept being under Victor despite Victor being weaker than him, he might have planned to use Victor to attract attention and hide himself from the spotlight.’
’And if he got Jade’s innate talent to upgrade his SSS-rank Time Stop talent, he truly might have been an opponent that could threaten me.’
Zayne didn’t know if there were innate talents above SSS-rank like himself. However, it was safe to assume that SSS-rank was the natural limit, and it would require resources to upgrade a talent to a rank above SSS-rank.
As for why he came to that conclusion, it’s merely due to him being a transmigrator, so he was an exception to that innate talent being soft-capped at SSS-rank.
And those he encountered, like Jade and Ben, never got a talent above SSS-rank.
’Wait, technically, can’t I just ask my Absolute Compass to confirm that?’
’Moreover, finding people with SSS-rank innate talents will be difficult, as not everyone is foolish enough to reveal their talent.’
’But with my Absolute Compass, I can ask it to find the nearest SSS-rank innate talent, then start farming them for simulation chances?’