Aaron pressed his hand forward, and with a black hole flashing, he devoured Soldier Boy.
"Noisy."
Aaron glanced at the several streams of light spat out by the Primordial Furnace and smiled with satisfaction.
[Inhibition Field: Your inhibitory power has been further strengthened, allowing you to permanently erase others' abilities and even certain rules.]
[Devouring Power: Your Devouring Power has been further strengthened, allowing you to accelerate your evolution by devouring other objects.]
The harvest wasn't huge, but Aaron was quite satisfied.
After all, the Boys universe wasn't a particularly powerful cosmology, and its core was Compound V.
However, the improvement of Devouring Power would further enhance Aaron's evolution speed. Others' energy would become his own energy, strengthening his power, while others' flesh and blood would become nourishment for physical and genetic enhancement, and souls could also become supplements to nourish his spirit.
It could be said to be utilized to the extreme!
Coupled with Infinite Evolution, Indestructible Body, and the Seven Deadly Sins, Aaron's cellular sublimation speed was terrifying.
Feeling the "hunger" from his body, Aaron waved his hand and sucked all the remaining flesh and blood into the black hole, and his cellular evolution speed noticeably increased slightly.
Suddenly, Aaron thought of a bug.
The Primordial Furnace could create anything it had recorded without needing energy.
Could he then use the Primordial Furnace to continuously create beings he had previously devoured?
And then use his Devouring Power to transform them into nourishment for evolution?
Creating himself, devouring himself, and becoming stronger.
Good heavens, he was going to fly by pulling himself up by his bootstraps.
After careful consideration, Aaron increasingly felt that this idea had great potential.
So, he first created his cheap father-in-law, Trigon. Before the latter could even react, he grabbed him and instantly devoured him.
This time, it was his inherent Devouring Power.
Although a complete Trigon was created at full strength, Aaron used the Inhibition Field to suppress him, then immediately activated power boosting abilities to forcibly fix him, and only then summoned the black hole to "eat" him.
A complete Trigon possessed top-tier strength in the Multiverse.
After being devoured, his essence was rapidly digested, continuously nourishing every cell in Aaron's body. Visibly, these cells evolved several times faster. Even the cellular universe was slowly expanding.
"Father-in-law, oh father-in-law, you are truly too great. Thank you." Aaron silently thanked him.
The essence of Trigon at his peak was enough to sustain his cell evolution at this rate for twenty-four hours.
If he continued to evolve at the current speed, Aaron estimated that in less than half a year, all his abilities could be elevated to the peak of the Multiverse level.
In two to three years at most, all his abilities and characteristics could catch up to his strength progression.
A truly flawless, absolutely perfect all-rounded warrior.
If, during this process, Devouring Power or Infinite Evolution could be further enhanced, or if he acquired more suitable "rations"...
He felt that this evolution speed could be further accelerated.
Even if he proceeded steadily, no longer using the Primordial Furnace, he could easily ascend to a Multiversal God within ten years.
This was the true value of Infinite Evolution and Devouring Power.
If an ordinary person gained these two abilities, they could become invincible in the world in minutes.
Separated individually, they could still be considered above-average cheats.
"Not bad. From now on, one unit of Trigon every day. I'll switch when there are more suitable rations."
"But then again, different brands of rations should provide different types of nourishment, after all, you are what you eat. I'll find some other brands of rations when I have the chance to see if they can accelerate the improvement of certain specific abilities."
While Aaron was experimenting, Annie and the others had already cleared out all the Vought International reinforcements.
This temporary Compound V army lay scattered on the ground. Aaron then devoured all of them. Unexpectedly, he gained a new ability.
[Burst: You rapidly burn all your energy, randomly enhancing certain abilities by one tier for twenty-four hours. Cooldown is three days (your body will be extremely weak, and it will consume a large amount of energy and bodily essence).]
Wait, this ability...
It's a bit abnormal.
Aaron's eyes widened.
He hadn't expected such a gain from The Boys!
Another conceptual divine skill!
A protagonist's standard ability!
If you can't win, burst, and your strength increases tenfold or a hundredfold.
For Aaron, this ability was even more exaggerated.
Any ability could be temporarily enhanced by one tier.
Doesn't that mean, as long as he can ascend to an Outerversal being, he will have the chance to experience a twenty-four-hour invincibility period and stand shoulder to shoulder with the OAA?
"It's just a pity that it's a random enhancement. How great would it be if I could specify the enhancement?" Aaron thought greedily.
Currently, only his Chaos Magic had reached the Hyperverse level.
With so many abilities, how could Chaos Magic be randomly enhanced?
"Wait, it's not impossible..."
Aaron's eyes flickered. "I still have the conceptual skills Confidence Empowerment, Probability Manipulation, and Many hands make light work."
"If I activate three idealistic conceptual abilities together, perhaps I can make the Burst ability enhance the ability I want to enhance, according to my thoughts."
"Even if it only increases the probability, it's still quite good."
"Worst case, I'll sunbathe for a few more days, or lie flat for a year or two, and this worry will be gone."
"But..."
"If this ability can be further evolved and enhanced, perhaps I can specify which abilities to strengthen."
Thinking of this, Aaron had another idea.
"Speaking of which, can Burst randomly enhance Burst, temporarily strengthening this ability, removing some side effects, and then strengthening my own abilities?"
"If combined with Time Power, could I exploit a bug again?"
Alright, Aaron admitted he was too greedy. But greed is not a sin, long live greed.
He was a veritable Demon King of the Seven Deadly Sins, controlling them. What was wrong with being a little greedy?
He thought a lot in his mind, but in the end, he gave up on these ideas.
According to his brain's calculations, he felt that this possibility was almost zero.
Conceptual skills and idealistic skills, though powerful and even unrestricted by Multiversal or Hyperversal levels, still followed a certain logic.
If it really were possible to do that, then why not Burst enhance Burst, then enhance Burst again... and then comprehensively enhance everything?
Wouldn't that be even better?
But obviously, it wasn't possible.
Moreover, this ability was not without cost.
Even if he could exploit a bug, Aaron suspected that if he dared to do so, he would instantly be drained dry, and then resurrected.
Wouldn't that make exploiting the bug pointless?
Coming back to his senses, Aaron looked up with a playful gaze.
"Alright, we should go have a chat with Gus Fring—no, Edgar."
"He gave me quite a few 'surprises,' I hope he can give me more 'surprises' now." Aaron's tone was enigmatic.
The others seemed to understand vaguely, but since they sensed Aaron was in a good mood, they didn't think much more of it.
At the same time.
Edgar hadn't given up on saving himself.
"Neuman, come help me!"
Since successfully eliminating Soldier Boy decades ago and completely eradicating all unstable elements, Edgar's career had been smooth sailing. Years of success made him believe he controlled everything. Even when facing powerful supes like Homelander, he always responded with a condescending, disdainful attitude.
Even though he was just an ordinary man, and the other party could kill hundreds like him in the blink of an eye, it was he, this ordinary man, who firmly suppressed those reckless bastards, preventing them from acting out.
He created them, he made them, he toyed with their minds. He was the helmsman of the new world, the king of all supes.
But today, he met Aaron.
This mysterious superhuman, completely absent from records, whose abilities and origins were entirely unknown.
In just a few days, he had turned several supes against him, and then, with absolute power, stormed Vought International, destroying decades of his hard work.
A long-forgotten fear crept into his heart and Edgar despairingly realized that everything was slipping from his control.
He had to admit, supes were far more terrifying than he had imagined.
He watched helplessly as hundreds of heroes were slaughtered by Annie and the other three.
Then he watched them kill the temporary Compound V mercenaries.
Even the strongest hero of the previous generation, Soldier Boy, was instantly killed.
Then, Aaron, by some unknown means, "ate" all the corpses. He seemed to have grown stronger, and more terrifying.
Even though he still had backup plans, Edgar was completely terrified.
Now, he had to face a dilemma: he seemed to be unable to escape.
Standing on the edge of the skyscraper's rooftop, with a helicopter right beside him, he had a premonition of being at the edge of a cliff with nowhere to go.
"Neuman, I need your help!"
"Immediately gather people to eliminate Aaron!"
"Me?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end.
"Sorry, the number you have dialed is out of service. Please try again later."
Beep beep!
Edgar was dumbfounded.
No!
"Oh, isn't this our Gus Fring? You've fallen on hard times."
Just then, Aaron walked up with Annie and the others, saying playfully.
"My friend, can you let me go? I am the CEO of Vought International. I can give you many benefits: status, money, women, glory... everything you could want." Edgar said, forcing himself to be calm.
Aaron raised an eyebrow. "Foolish. If I kill you, all of that will be mine."
Edgar's face changed dramatically, and he spoke rapidly, "Wait, I surrender! I am willing to serve you forever, to work for you!"
"Is that all? I thought you could bring me more surprises. If that's the case, then you're useless."
Aaron couldn't be bothered to waste words with Edgar.
Thinking about it, Edgar was just an ordinary person, how much capability could he have left?
Facing Aaron, who completely defied expectations, Edgar felt despair.
What exactly do you want?!
Not money, not fame, just to kill me? For some inexplicable "surprise"?
Edgar steeled his heart, pulled out a gas mask from behind him, and simultaneously pressed a button.
"You forced my hand. Taste a new surprise!"
An invisible wisp of smoke emerged from every corner.
"This is Novichok, the most lethal poison in the world. Even Soldier Boy immediately knelt down from it."
"Come on, let me see your limits!"
However, Edgar hadn't finished speaking, and Annie and the others had just changed their expressions, when Aaron opened his mouth wide and inhaled all the Novichok.
Edgar was stunned. It was the first time he had seen someone consume Novichok like drinking water.
Aaron shook his head in disappointment. "Not a surprise. Never mind, I overestimated you. Goodbye."
"Ah, wait!"
Edgar wanted to run, but as soon as the thought arose, he felt light all over.
Oh, his head flew off.
Firecracker then anxiously asked, "Are you alright? Novichok sounds pretty potent."
"I'm not Thor. That stuff is useless against me."
Aaron glanced around. "Let's go. Time to deal with the last matter."
Aaron was destined to leave. He didn't plan to leave anyone to manage this world, and before leaving, all unstable factors had to be eliminated.
After all, Annie's family was going to stay in this world, and even if Annie's mother was using her, her crime wasn't punishable by death.
Before leaving, he had to eliminate the remnants of Vought International. Otherwise, after they left, Annie's mother would definitely face retaliation.