Jin Yu closed his eyes and drew in a slow breath, more to keep from vomiting out of sheer offense than to calm himself.
When he opened them again, his gaze was sharp enough to cut steel, killing intent bleeding into the air.
"Your curses failed to kill me… so now you’re trying to weaponize ugliness? Hoping I’ll drop dead from sheer aesthetic trauma?"
The towering statues loomed all around, their monstrous forms frozen in jagged poses.
Yet as Jin Yu walked, it felt as though their empty eyes followed him, their twisted bodies seemed to lean in, as if eager to watch what he’d do next.
He let the glare linger, savoring the insult.
Then, with a measured breath, his aura smoothed out like a still lake before a storm.
A faint hum began to rise from him: deep, resonant, almost imperceptible, yet heavy enough to make the mist tremble.
Something deep inside him was stirring, restless and eager to break free.
When he spoke again, his voice was quiet, cold, and absolute.
"I will not entertain you any longer."
BOOM!
Jin Yu blurred from sight, Sharp unstoppable energy blasted out from his body, shredding everything in his path.
The blackened beigns didn’t just fall, they detonated. Tendons, muscles, and jagged flesh disintegrated midair. Some shattered before he drew near, others evaporated into greasy grey vapor, as though existence itself rejected them in his presence.
Nothing, absolutely nothing was spared.
When the storm faded, the statues stood in silence, their eyes no longer watching, because there was nothing left to see.
At the other end of The Grey, the sight that lay before Jin Yu left a faint smile on his lips.
"Found you bitch"
He muttered.
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A grey coloured podium lay before him, on it sat an eye, a stone shaped eye.
It was small, inconspicuous and barely noticeable but an aura that Jin Yu has never felt before was radiating from it, the aura wasn't anything big or significant. It was just as simple as the eye.
"Must be you who ate those ugly thing's eyes, doesn't matter, because..."
He began and stepped towards it.
"....Today, I must see what's special about you, that gave me so many trials and tribulations"
He stopped in front of the podium and stretched his hands towards the stone, but didn't pick it up.
Half expecting a fancy display or an ugly one even, but nothing was happening.
So, he picked it up.
Still, nothing happened.
He twirled the stone between his fingers and glared at it, blaming it for all his misfortune.
"I suffered to get you, yet no matter how long I looked, you're just a stone"
He clenched it hard in his palm, all his pent-up resentment boiling to the surface.
“What’s so special about you huh?, you worthless piece of junk! ”
His grip tightened, knuckles whitening. He willed it to shatter, to crumble into dust and somehow ease the bitterness in his chest. But no matter how much force he poured into it, the thing didn’t so much as crack.
Jin Yu’s glare deepened on the stone-like eye resting in his hand. “So that’s it? After everything?” A low, humorless chuckle slipped out. “Heh… heh… pathetic.”
“If I hand this over to those bastards… I’ll carve my own name upside down,” he muttered, voice a quiet vow. He stopped trying to crush it. His mind was already set.
He turned to walk away when the impossible happened. The grey mist choking the ten-meter radius slowly peeled back, parting before him as if granting passage to a sovereign.
The mist had make way for the greyed beings earlier, but this was different, it was more submissive, as if bowing to something unseen.
Jin Yu forehead creased slightly but he didn't stop walking.
Instead, he stared at the stone eye that lay tucked in his palm, already certain it was the cause.
Without hesitation, he swept it with his spiritual senses.
And that's when something changed—the stone.
The quiet aura radiating from it suddenly became intense, like a dam that broke through, it trembled slightly as It floated up from Jin Yu's palm.
The tremor got intense in the air as if something was trying to break free.
Then–
Crack!
A fracture splintered across the stone-eye and it echoed throughout the Grey World.
It stopped trembling for a moment, then–
BURST!.
The stone shattered, splinters shooting through the mist like a shot ball.
What was left was a eye.
It wasn't stone-like, it was a real human eye, except it doesn't look human-like, it was pure grey.
It hovered silently in the air as if assessing something beyond the sight of mortals, One couldn't tell the front from back but Jin Yu could feel a gaze locked on him like a deity judging a mortal.
He stared at it arm crossed, regarded it with the air of someone enduring a tedious performance. His gaze lingered in a condescending way, as if telling it to hurry up with its little display so he could be on his way.
Then—SWISH!
It shot straight toward him, aiming for his eyes.
Jin Yu didn’t slack. His hand darted up instantly, but to his surprise, it passed right through his palm like a phantom and slammed into his left eye.
The impact was strange—neither heavy nor painful. It was the kind of weight that felt staged, like a film effect meant to dramatize the moment.
Still, something was different. There was a subtle shift in his left eye, as if something had quietly fused into it.
Unfazed, Jin Yu resumed walking, his indifference unbroken.
"It’s yours." His voice sank low, his gait that of a champion walking away after claiming his prize.
Ding!
Divine Grey Slave Pet accepted.
Jin Yu’s steps faltered, his brow knitting.
“I mean devour. Not accept that ominous thing. Does that sound fitting for my heavenly image to you?”
Ding!
Divine Grey has submitted to host, slaves cannot be devoured.
"So if I feel like eating them, you won't devour them for me?"
Ding!
No hostile energy detected.
Jin Yu shook his head, unwilling to argue with the system.
"Forget it, I need a cold bath, not an exchange with a Bug."
