After turning into a rare female, she refused the bosses' exclusive favor

If Hikari was still an Omega-level transcendent at this moment, perhaps she would not care at all about the danger she was about to face.

Unfortunately, she was now just a little bug that could be manipulated by anyone, so she had to find a shelter to hide.

Holding her breath, she tried to reduce her presence as much as possible. This was the first time that Hikari felt so aggrieved, but she could do nothing about it.

The vibrating sound stopped abruptly, and was replaced by the panting of some creature. Hikari could feel that the monster was probably sniffing the remaining scent on the ground, which was what most wild beasts would do, tracking their targets by scent.

Hikari tried her best to use her mental strength to block the transmission of pheromones to prevent her breath from being exposed in the air.

But curiosity still drove Hikari to see what kind of terrible monster it was.

So she carefully poked her head out a little.

Although it was in a relatively dark underground area, the plants around it that emitted a strange blue light still illuminated the appearance of the monster.

It was a giant reptile, a monitor? No, to be more precise, it was a bit like the evil dragon in Western mythology, with a body similar to that of a puma, and strong and sturdy limbs with claws at the end; a head and neck like a horse, but with several rows of sharp fangs in its mouth, and a pair of horns on its head; it had snake-like pupils, and its whole body was covered with hard scales like a snake, with dorsal spines, and a thick and winding tail with barbs at the end.

This monster is almost identical to a Western dragon, except that it lacks a pair of wings. After all, in this underground maze, there is no need for such a huge creature to fly.

The walking dragon suddenly turned its head towards Hikari, as if it had noticed that someone was watching it.

Hikari quickly hid behind the cover. She could feel the dragon walking towards her step by step.

"Forget it, let's fight to the death!" Hikari muttered to herself and took out a weapon from the space.

"three……"

"two……"

Hikari used her mental power to sense the approach of the dragon, counting silently in her heart.

"one!"

"Now!" Hikari threw the weapon in her hand away.

I saw a flash of strong white light, illuminating the entire dark space almost in an instant.

"Roar!!!" Perhaps the strong light caused pain in the dragon's eyes, causing it to let out a wailing roar.

Hikari was thankful that there was a flash bomb in the storage space, and she won the bet. These creatures that have lived in the dark underground environment for many years are indeed sensitive to strong light.

But if Hikari's other ability had not been reset, it might have been easy to deal with this monster.

But at the moment, he really couldn't defeat this monster that was three or four times taller than him. He could only take advantage of its temporary blindness and quickly escape.

However, Hikari forgot that she had not yet fully adapted to this new body, and she stumbled after taking just a few steps, falling heavily to the ground.

But when he was about to get up, the dragon went berserk due to its blindness, and spewed blue flames from its mouth.

"Damn it!"

Hikari was not paying attention and her arm was burned by the blue flame. But she could not care less. While the dragon had not recovered its sight, Hikari endured the severe pain and forced herself to run. Gradually, driven by the instinct of a living being, she actually adapted to this body.

But Hikari, who was in a panic, didn't notice that the dragon went berserk and swung its thick tail like a python, knocking her out. Hikari curled up in the air, rolling like a ball, and unexpectedly rolled into a hole.

The corridor at the entrance of the cave extended downward, and Hikari rolled down as if she had fallen into a slide.

Until I saw a ray of light below, I finally reached the end.

Hikari jumped out of the cave and landed directly in a pool of clear spring water. The burning sensation from her arm actually produced black smoke in the water, and then the original severe pain slowly disappeared.

After surfacing, Hikari looked at her arm. Although the pain had disappeared, her arm was basically necrotic and she had no feeling at all.

Hikari simply tore off her burned arm. Although she didn't know why she, as a human being, had such an impulse, it was like the instinct of some creature to cut off the broken part as if it could regenerate.

But this was indeed the case. The torn-off arm quickly turned into a ball of black ash, while his own wound was healing quickly, and the arm even showed obvious signs of remodeling.

"Sure enough..." Hikari lamented what kind of monster she was reborn into. Although it was a little ugly, at least it wasn't too useless.

Speaking of appearance, Hikari had never seen what she looked like at this moment, so she quickly lay down by the water and looked at her reflection in the water.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

“What the hell is this?!”

Hikari originally thought that she was just a little bloated, but she didn't expect the appearance of this body... She could only say that she barely looked like a human. The key point was that she hadn't started to grow hair yet, and her head was completely bald, with only fine sweat hair on her body.

"I've become ugly and bald."

Hikari recalled that she used to be a great beauty, even in terms of age... ahem, she would always be eighteen years old, and her hair would never be as thin as it is now.

Looking at herself on the water, Hikari was in no mood to continue looking. She was afraid that if she looked any longer, she would be scared to death by her current appearance.

At this moment, Hikari just wanted to commit suicide and start over, but she didn't know why she traveled through time and was reborn into such a strange creature. What if she died this time? Wouldn't she have wasted an opportunity to be reborn?

Thinking of this, Hikari finally gave up the idea of ​​suicide. After all, she valued her life very much, and she couldn't accept dying in such a way that she wanted to commit suicide because of her ugliness.

Now, I can only think of a way to survive first, and then find a way to get out of this underground maze.

"Gurgle~" An inopportune sound came from my stomach.

Adhering to the principle of "man is iron and food is steel", Hikari rummaged around in the storage space for a long time, and finally found a few tubes marked "nutrient solution (oral)".

"Something is better than nothing!"

Although Hikari's minimum requirement for food is "it has to be something a human can eat", there is no better choice at the moment.

This kind of medicine that quickly replenishes the body's needs was not something Hikari had never come into contact with during the apocalypse, but she would rather eat compressed biscuits than drink something so strange. So, theoretically speaking, this was her first time trying "nutrient solution".

"Deep feelings, one gulp!"

Hikari silently encouraged herself and then drank a tube of nutrient solution in one gulp.

The effect of the nutrient solution was very significant, and my hunger was completely gone. But the taste was... hard to describe.

It was difficult for Hikari to describe the impact on her taste buds using the words she knew. This was not something for human consumption; it was simply a biological weapon.

Although the nutrient solution tasted unpalatable, the effect was immediate. Hikari felt that she could go without food for a week.

Or maybe it was because the taste of the nutrient solution was too strong that the hunger was not so strong. Of course, this was just a guess.

Although the nutrient solution in the space is enough to sustain for a year or so, Hikari really doesn't want to rely on this thing to survive. Perhaps she should find another way and look for something that can replenish energy, such as...

Hikari looked around. The edge of the pool and the surrounding rock walls were covered with crystal-like minerals. In the darkness, these crystals emitted bright and pure light.

Hikari could feel that the energy contained in the crystal was very pure. No wonder her body had such a strong self-healing ability after falling into the pool. Perhaps these crystal minerals could help improve her first supernatural power.

Hikari’s first superpower is directly related to energy. She can fully control light. Not only can she control light energy, but she can also create light sources, which is energy itself.

This is why she is the only transcendent who can enter the "Gate" and close it, because she herself is equivalent to a mobile energy reactor.

However, although the first superpower is powerful, its initial cultivation also requires a lot of resources. In addition to self-cultivation on Earth, Hikari also absorbs external energy many times to supplement and improve this superpower.

Because of the reset of her superpowers caused by the time travel, although Hikari still maintained the level of a first-class transcendent in terms of control, the lack of critical energy replenishment made her temporarily unable to use her first superpower.

But God helps those who work hard, and she accidentally stumbled into such a Feng Shui treasure land. As long as she absorbs enough energy, I believe she will be able to recover her original strength soon.

Hikari started the next training work excitedly as soon as she said it.

……

On the other side, in the deepest part of the underground maze, the dragon beast that had just attacked Hikari was crawling in front of a woman, burying its head under its body as if in awe or admitting its mistake.

"It looks like she's awake." There was no trace of anger in the woman's gentle voice.

"Find the child as soon as possible. We can't let 'them' discover the existence of this variable." the woman instructed.

The dragon beast just raised its head and nodded, indicating that it understood.

The woman waved her hand, signaling it to leave, and then she sank into the vast ocean beneath the ground. "I don't have much time left. I hope the child will be safe before she is found by 'Them'."

No one knew that at the deepest point of the underground maze was an ocean emitting light, like the vast starry sky.