When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village

She floated slightly off the ground, her head lightly shaking, as her deep purple hair cascaded down like a waterfall; her eyes were painted with black eyeshadow, and her pupils were a bright purple.

Beneath a black collar was her curvaceous body, tightly wrapped in a black deep-V bodysuit. Notably, the V at the front seemed to be on the verge of bursting open with pride. Below the plunging neckline, the hemispheres of her chest were nearly spilling out but ultimately did not because a pair of glove-like objects that resembled the claws of a demon firmly held them in place. Further down, a black belt obscured her navel.

This woman possessed both the charm of a fox and the icy coldness of a snake!

Herbert felt a chilling dread in his heart; from this woman, he felt an appalling pressure that made his soul tremble, something he had only previously experienced from Catastrophe-level Superpower Users.

Catastrophe-level!

That could mean an existence capable of shaking the land, powerful enough to blow up a small fleet with one's own strength!

Let alone him, even Fei Ye at full power would likely be no match for this woman. No matter how formidable Fei Ye was, she was still just infinitesimally close to a Catastrophe, not a true Catastrophe.

Done for.

Herbert drew his Light Blade with trembling hands.

At this point, even if he urgently contacted headquarters, it would be too late. Even as a Super Supreme Oath Lord, it wasn't possible to instantly traverse hundreds of millions of light-years to this place on the edge of the Edge World to save them.

Seeing the woman raise her hand, Herbert could only pray that he could withstand this strike. This way, he might still have a chance to take refuge in the spaceship and avoid being killed immediately.

A second later, a purple ghostly glow emerged from the center of the stranger's hand, which was covered with a black rubber glove.

"Not good!"

Fei Ye's face turned pale as she suddenly realized that the mysterious woman's target was not Herbert, but Bai Fu.

Bai Fu realized the problem too, because she received a game prompt.

[You have been attacked by "Life Drain." Your Life Value is rapidly depleting.]

-1% every second; in 100 seconds, Bai Fu would be dried into a husk. Though she wouldn't need 100 seconds, as her chest would deflate first!

How vile!

Bai Fu quickly deployed her Spiritual Ability Shield, but it was completely ineffective.

What kind of absurd power was this, even crazier than her own Dark Attribute Spiritual Energy scorching?

She hurriedly threw a Spiritual Vision at the strange woman, but the data that came up was a series of question marks—Name, Age, Template, Race, Level, Skill, etc., all were just big question marks.

She could only see two attributes: Power 191, Intelligence 121, and the Affinity, which curiously remained at a neutral 0 points despite this stranger robbing her of her life.

What a ruthless killer, no animosity needed to commit murder!

As Bai Fu frantically pulled out Visual Fog, Space Disarray, Phantom Whisper, and a bunch of other cards, Fei Ye's figure suddenly vanished. When she reappeared, she was directly above the mysterious woman, her right leg raised high, chopping down like a Giant Axe that could split mountains and cut through rivers.

Just as her heel was about to smash into the top of the head, the figure of the mysterious woman began to fade. Fei Ye promptly stopped her force, which prevented a depression from forming on the top of the spaceship.

She intently watched the mysterious woman recondense out of the mist five meters away.

Bad news: her attack had missed, and she had not seen the woman's action at all.

Good news: her attack had disrupted the woman's move, and Bai Fu was freed!

"She may have already reached Catastrophe level!"

Herbert warned Fei Ye through the communicator.

Catastrophe?

As the word spread through the defenders' communication channels, pretty much everyone displayed the same look of horror as Herbert, stable-minded Manu included.

Although the Players weren't scared, they were somewhat stunned.

No way, were they encountering a world BOSS of Catastrophe-level already when they hadn't even reached Level B?

As everyone was still reeling with shock, Bai Fu suddenly screamed out loud.

"She's not a Catastrophe-level!"

Bai Fu was certain.

If that stranger had been Catastrophe-level, then when she used Spiritual Vision to scan her, she would definitely not have been able to detect any useful data.

The gap between Catastrophe-level and S-level was vast, but it didn't specifically manifest in terms of destructive power. It was more about self-control, mastery over one's power, and perception of the world.

The same amount of power, in the hands of a Superpower User who had just stepped into Catastrophe-level, might explode with a combat force of 10,000, but in the hands of an S-level, it would be just a fraction of that, or even less.

"Ah?"

Fei Ye glanced at the stranger, then back to Bai Fu, and finally decided to trust Bai Fu. Would a genuine Catastrophe-level Superpower User need to waste time blabbering here with them?

She would simply reveal her true abilities and start a killing spree.

Superpower Users, Interstellar Soldiers, Spaceships... nothing here could stop her.

But even if the strange woman wasn't a Catastrophe-level Superpower User, her own might was certainly tremendous; she had the power to destroy the spaceship beneath their feet, and if the spaceship exploded, undoubtedly many would die.

"Her power might be equal to mine."

Fei Ye's expression turned solemn.

At that moment, the stranger finally spoke, "Hand her over to me, and I won't take action against you."

Fei Ye knew that the stranger was referring to Bai Fu.

She had been pretty annoyed with Herbert's attempt to poach Bai Fu and his kill-stealing, but since both Herbert and she came from the Star Contract, she hadn't said much about it.

And now, to top it off, this weirdly dressed, weird-talking woman came along and demanded Bai Fu be handed over.

Fine, fine, fine.

Her temper flared, the solemn expression was gone, and the worry in her heart vanished.

[You guys tried to snatch my subordinate before, that's one thing, but now that I've finally found a perfect subordinate like Bai Fu, you still want to snatch her away from me? Do you think I'm a sick cat when I don't show my claws?]

Fei Ye's hair began to lift as if stirred by an unseen wind.

The stranger noticed the anger emanating from Fei Ye but her expression remained unchanged, "You're no match for me, you're too weak, I'm not interested in the weak, get lost!"

Fei Ye laughed.

She could tell that this strange woman's power was similar to hers, of course, she meant the power she usually disliked using.

"Weakling?"

Under everyone's gaze, a strange red glow began to emanate from underneath the fair skin of Fei Ye.

"Supervisor!"

Seeing this, Fei Ye's number one henchman, Green Mud, couldn't help his complexion change.

Fei Ye acted as if she hadn't heard him. The red glow under her skin grew more and more intense until it completely enveloped her body, and her skin surface started to show a substantial amount of redness that seemed both shell-like, shiny and like a second layer of skin.

These substances enveloped her hands, feet, chest, and abdomen, spreading all the way to her chin before stopping.

Her fingers turned into claws, and her toes appeared to be wrapped in Mechanical Power Shoes, while shallow red lines emerged upon her cheeks. Although her facial features remained unchanged, her entire temperament had transformed.

Flamboyant as fire, with a gaze cold as ice.

But this was not the full extent of her transformation; fierce flames suddenly enveloped her body, causing the space around her to quake slightly under the assault of those eerie infernos.

"I will show you who the real weakling is!"

Fei Ye eyed the strange woman with a cold gaze.

Today, nobody was going to take away my Bai Fu!