"Om~"
John Booth, sitting in the living room, summoned his executive officer's back end and added Gwen's name to the team member registration. As an executive officer, he did have the right to add one or two people.
In the days that followed, he took Gwen to train, go on missions and be tempered. Sometimes when Gwen performed excellently, John Booth would ask her what reward she wanted.
She would say, "Just keep it in mind. I'll mention it when I think of something later."
Before long, many years had passed. The skinny and frail little girl back then had now grown into a graceful young woman. With her soft red hair and pretty oval face, she was already taking on the look of a little beauty. People within the executive officer team called her Little Sun, and she would just smile slightly at that.
Her strength had already risen from being an ability awakener to an ability instructor.
The classification of levels, from low to high, was as follows: ability awakener, ability master, ability instructor, ability expert, ability master, ability grandmaster, (title) supreme. If one's strength was powerful enough to venture beyond the Earth and fight in the interstellar space, then the levels would be, in succession, interstellar warlord, interstellar war emperor, interstellar war saint, interstellar war emperor, and finally reach the star god, the pinnacle of the world.
Skills were ranked from high to low in the order of S+, S-, A+, A-, B+, B-, C+, C-, D+, D-, E+, E-.
And John Booth, relying on his S- level ability and his grandmaster-level strength, had obtained the title of the Magnetic Supreme. Last year, he had officially broken through and become a true supreme powerhouse, standing at the top of the Earth.
Just yesterday, he received an order from above, requiring him to go to Jupiter to support the garrison troops there. Recently, the Zerg of the Tyranids had been growing stronger and stronger. Surprisingly, they were not afraid of the erosion of the redstone and were constantly evolving by relying on the power of the redstone. Now they had already occupied three-fifths of Jupiter.
Coincidentally, the magnetic field strength of Jupiter was approximately 20,000 times that of the Earth's magnetic field, where his abilities could be infinitely magnified. Now that he had reached the strength to venture into the interstellar space, a secret order from above required him to set off for Jupiter tonight. The shuttle ship was already ready.
It all happened so suddenly, and he was required to keep it confidential and not disclose it to the outside world.
When he returned home, he planned to pack his things. Well, when it came to packing, there wasn't really much to pack. The main purpose was to come back and say goodbye.
When he said that he was going on a long trip, Gwen immediately rushed over and hugged him, her face full of excitement as she said, "Master, Master, are we going on a mission? I want to go with you this time!"
John Booth smiled and rubbed her head vigorously. He looked at her deeply for a while and then shook his head, saying, "I won't take you with me this time. Your strength isn't enough yet. Wait until you surpass me. I'm not going away forever, after all."
Who would have thought that Gwen directly hugged him tightly and said while rubbing against him, "No, no, I want to go with you."
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The 18-year-old girl had already grown into a charming young woman, but John Booth remained unmoved. He gently activated the magnetic force in Gwen's brain, and her body, which was hugging him, went limp.
John Booth bent down, picked her up in his arms like a princess, placed her on the bed, helped cover her with the quilt, and then looked at her for a while.
He walked towards the windowsill, picked the lemon from the small lemon tree, and a short laser blade shot out from the tip of his finger. He cut the lemon in half, put one half on the bedside table, and put the other half into his mouth and started chewing. The juice burst out in his mouth.
"Um... sweet."
After saying this, John Booth pushed open the door and left.
When the shuttle ship cut through the night sky and set off towards the horizon, on the roof of a building in the upper city, a red-haired girl was sitting on a stone pier. Watching the stream of light in the sky, after eating a small piece of lemon, she murmured, "Liar. It's clearly sour."
Gwen had never mentioned that she was extremely sensitive to emotions. She felt the reluctance and knew that John Booth was lying to her.
Thinking about John Booth's current strength, it was impossible for him to stay on Earth any longer. They would make use of every resource available.
Sure enough, in the days that followed, John Booth never returned to Earth again. He carried out various missions in the interstellar space until he died, and he never went back to Earth or that house again.
The perspective returns to the present.
"So this is how you treated your teacher?"
"It seems that the teacher has remembered me." Gwen sat on the chair, twirling the long red hair beside her ear with her hand. However, she didn't look that happy on her face.
"What happened after I died?" Instead, John Booth thought of more things.
"Teacher doesn't want to catch up on old times with me but cares about other things instead. I'm really sad." Gwen put on a pitiful look.
John Booth looked at Gwen in front of him with a bit of complexity in his eyes. After all, he had promised to come back back then.
He raised his hand and gently rubbed his brow, then asked in a deep voice, "Your current abilities should have long surpassed the system on Earth, right? Tell me, what have you experienced? Stop beating around the bush."
Gwen gently turned the chair. Her long red hair slid down her shoulders like flowing water. She slightly raised her chin, and there was a hint of teasing in her eyes. "Teacher's tone is still as cold as it was back then."
"Answer me." There was a bit more pressure in John Booth's tone.
Gwen smiled and murmured softly, "Teacher is still so impatient. Well, it doesn't matter if I tell you. In the third year after your death, I was assigned to go to Pluto. But in the end..." Her voice suddenly stopped, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, and a deep pain emerged in the bottom of her eyes.
"I failed." Gwen lowered her eyelids and tightly grasped the armrests of the chair with both hands. "I watched the entire fleet being wiped out with my own eyes. Everyone died one by one, and yet, I survived."
"Did the Abyssal Vines protect you?" John Booth asked.
Gwen nodded, a bitter smile appearing at the corners of her mouth. "Yes, it saved me, but it also changed me. Since that day, my ability is no longer just about vines. It has become something on a deeper level... I can hear the voices of the dead, feel their pain, and even use their power."
John Booth frowned slightly. "The power of the dead?"
"Yes, the Abyssal Vines are connected to the 'Abyss Realm', which is the destination of all souls." Gwen's voice was low, carrying an indescribable chill. "Through it, I can summon the souls of the dead to fight for me, or even—resurrect them."
John Booth didn't say anything. He just quietly stared at Gwen, trying to find more information from her expression.
"Teacher, do you know?" Gwen suddenly raised her head, a fierce light flashing in her eyes. "My biggest wish at that time was to find you. Whether in the past or now, I've never stopped looking for you."
John Booth was silent for a moment and finally said, "So, you've been staying in the Abyss Realm just waiting for me to come back?"
"Waiting?" Gwen sneered. "No, teacher. What I was waiting for in the Abyss Realm wasn't you, but power."
"Power?" John Booth was slightly taken aback.
Gwen stood up and slowly walked towards John Booth. The red vines behind her began to grow slowly, and an indescribable sense of oppression filled the air.
"Yes, power." Her voice was low and firm. "I was too weak back then. I was so weak that I couldn't even make you stay. But now, I won't let you leave again."
Vines grew out from behind Gwen and slowly extended towards John Booth.