Ultragene Warlord

g the strength of their bodies to increase the number of gene fragments they would be able to absorb.
Because Potion #3 dealt with superior limit fragments, the increase in strength would naturally also be scaled up.

At that moment, Sun Mengmeng felt as though her base strength had increased tenfold.
This sort of dramatic increase disoriented her; she felt as though she were in a dream.
After all, each superior limit fragment was more impactful than even a corresponding peak gene fragment, and Sun Mengmeng's body had just been primed to accept fifty such fragments.

No wonder Zhang Lie had taken down his opponents in the Void Cup so easily—he had had such a tremendous boost! Surely he had obtained superior limit fragments by that point.

Sun Mengmeng gave Zhang Lie a deep bow.
“Captain, thank you!”

Zhang Lie only smiled.
“There's no need to be so formal with me.
Send the next member in, will you?”

Team Zenith's loyalty and hard work had won Zhang Lie's absolute trust, and he intended to sponsor and cultivate their development as much as he could.

Sun Mengmeng nodded, but as she walked out of the room, she couldn't help but feel a pang of loss, one that even her joy at growing stronger couldn't overcome.
She had been harboring feelings for Zhang Lie for quite a while, though she only gradually grew to recognize exactly what she was doing. 

After the incident with Potion #2, she found herself less and less able to hide these feelings, but from her recent encounter with him, she could clearly sense that he treated her just as he would any other member of Team Zenith.
This was normal, of course, but she couldn't help feeling a sharp stab of abject refusal.

It was true that Zhang Lie was a young man in his twenties, prone to hormonal urges—but he was also a reincarnator.
Of the regrets in his past life, a particularly significant one was a romantic relationship that had gone awry.
It wasn't that Zhang Lie looked down on Sun Mengmeng, but he felt as though he had to process his feelings over that relationship before starting a new one, so he could only pretend to turn a blind eye to Sun Mengmeng's feelings.

After Sun Mengmeng left the chamber, she called for Zhou Ying to enter.

“Captain, I'm here.
What would you like me to do?” Zhou Ying spoke up.
Her voice was mellifluous and rarely heard; she tended to be quiet, but her scant remarks were always insightful.

Zhou Ying looked as though she was in a particularly good mood, and Zhang Lie was rather surprised by how lively she had become.
He still thought of her as a quiet, bookish young woman, but it was evident that she had grown since then.

Much of her reticent nature stemmed from a lack of self-confidence, but ever since joining Team Zenith, she had slowly grown more comfortable with who she was.
Although she was still rather quiet, she had certainly developed by leaps and bounds.