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Jing Yuan took a step forward, intending to dissuade Mark from his actions.

However, Mark was now the City Lord; if he interfered too much in Mark's methods, it would affect Mark's image as the City Lord.

Moreover, Sharif clearly possessed strength above Tier 2, and Jing Yuan wanted to see if Mark could defeat him.

Opposite him, Sharif held a double-edged giant axe, while Mark was bare-handed.

Jing Yuan drew Bai Yuekui's Tang dao and threw it to Mark.

Mark caught the long blade and gave it a swing, appearing somewhat unaccustomed to it.

Sharif charged at Mark while wielding the giant axe, but Mark continued to simply dodge.

Mark raised the long blade, preparing to knock the weapon out of Sharif's hands, but the man dodged it.

It was hard to believe that someone with Sharif's massive build could achieve such a level of flexibility in close combat.

After Sharif dodged Mark's strike, he raised his giant axe and delivered a horizontal sweep to Mark's abdomen.

Caught off guard, Mark was sent flying backward.

Since this was the edge of the Lighthouse's Outer Ring, Mark flew directly into the air, with several thousand meters of empty space below him.

Jing Yuan rushed over immediately, using Telekinesis to control the Tang dao; Mark grabbed onto the Tang dao and stopped his descent.

Haji piloted a gravity body toward Mark and, using the gravity body's thrusters, brought Mark back.

That strike just now allowed Jing Yuan to realize that Mark's reaction speed was completely inferior to Sharif's.

In other words, Mark's strength was likely not yet at Tier 2.

According to the intelligence Jing Yuan possessed.

Tier 1 roughly represented the peak of human physical fitness, which was difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

Aside from Mark and Jing Yuan, there shouldn't be anyone else on the Lighthouse who could reach Tier 1 physical fitness.

Even Sharif and Loriv were below the Tier 1 level before this, at most around Tier 0.8 to 0.9.

Tier 2 was roughly the level of Mark and Jing Yuan when piloting gravity bodies.

Only the two of them could push the performance of a gravity body to its absolute limit.

Others, like Jeff, couldn't even withstand a single blow from Sharif even while piloting a gravity body.

Jing Yuan looked at Sharif and realized that Charles had indeed hidden some good things.

The effects of this gene potion were so good that if it could be popularized to train a group of Tier 2 warriors, they could at least ensure they wouldn't lose the power struggles on the Lighthouse, even if they couldn't fight Phage Beasts.

Right now, however, was not the time to study Sharif.

Sharif continued his assault on Mark.

Before Mark could react, Haji, piloting his gravity body, blocked the way in front of Mark.

With a swing of his axe, Sharif sent Haji's gravity body flying.

Fortunately, Haji was protected by the gravity body; otherwise, he would have been in grave danger.

Mark had just raised the Tang dao to counterattack when Sharif knocked it flying with a single strike.

Sharif pressed his advantage, wanting to finish Mark off with one blow.

He raised his axe to strike down, but the axe stopped in mid-air and would not fall any further.

Sharif exerted all his strength, but the axe only descended a tiny bit.

Mark looked first at Sharif, then at Jing Yuan.

He knew that only Jing Yuan had the ability of Telekinesis.

This must be Jing Yuan's doing.

Indeed, Jing Yuan was holding Sharif's axe in place, but this action was far more taxing than he had imagined.

Mark took the opportunity to put some distance between himself and Sharif.

Jing Yuan released his mental hold, and the axe slammed heavily into the ground.

Jing Yuan used Telekinesis to pull the Tang dao back into his hand and charged directly at Sharif.

Sharif hadn't expected Jing Yuan to come over.

He had never known Jing Yuan's true strength, thinking he was just a minor character, and intended to swat him away with a single axe swing.

However, Jing Yuan produced the Tang dao and delivered a full-power slash, cutting Sharif's axe directly in half.

Sharif was clearly stunned on the spot.

His axe was forged from high-strength alloy; what kind of weapon could cut through it so easily?

Jing Yuan had studied Bai Yuekui's Tang dao for several days and found that, besides being exceptionally tough and sharp, there was nothing else special about it.

In the moment Sharif was dazed, Jing Yuan retracted the Tang dao and then stabbed it heavily into Sharif's chest.

Given the sharpness of the Tang dao, Sharif's light armor was merely for show.

Jing Yuan easily pierced Sharif's heart with the Tang dao.

At the same time the Tang dao stabbed Sharif, a flying dagger also struck him.

The flying dagger struck Sharif's forehead, but it only managed to pierce the armor.

The damage caused by the flying dagger was negligible, but the damage from the Tang dao was fatal.

Jing Yuan kicked Sharif, sending him flying five meters away.

A long time passed, and Sharif did not get back up.

Jing Yuan prepared to go forward and check, with four flying daggers hovering around his body.

As he gradually approached Sharif, Jing Yuan could sense that the man was likely dead.

Looking at Sharif, this man, like Vandy, wore a mask all day; those who knew their true faces were likely only Charles.

Curious, Jing Yuan used a flying dagger to pry open Sharif's mask, revealing a very disgusting face inside.

It looked like a Bio-human from a failed experiment.

"How could this be?"

Mark walked over as well, and when he saw Sharif's face, he also voiced his confusion.

"This might require Dr. Carrie to answer."

Jing Yuan had previously sent Loriv's corpse to Carrie for her to study.

Although Loriv had undergone some changes, his overall appearance was still that of a normal person.

Sharif, however, had already exceeded the bounds of a normal human.

After confirming Sharif's death, Jing Yuan arranged for his men to send Sharif's body to the Research Institute.

Jing Yuan intentionally did not have them cover Sharif's corpse.

Along the way, many people saw Sharif's bizarre face.

He could no longer be called human.

Sharif had once been Charles's right-hand man, and even with Charles imprisoned, he had still stood up to openly oppose Mark.

Yet among this group of people who claimed to be closest to the lord of light and shadow, there was a monster!

Jing Yuan and Mark stood in the center of the battlefield, watching as Sharif was taken away.

After the battle, many people forgot what they had come here for.

Ran Bing walked to Mark's side and asked softly, "Is the event still continuing?"

Mark was still hesitating, but Jing Yuan, overhearing nearby, said directly, "Continue. Of course it must continue."

The subsequent segments were mainly about distributing Upper Citizen food to the Dust Citizens.

To break the boundaries between Upper Citizens and Dust Citizens starting with food.

The Dust Citizens were quite happy, but the Upper Citizens were not.

This was equivalent to snatching food from the mouths of Upper Citizens to give to Dust Citizens.

Many Upper Citizens knew that Mark had secretly shared food with Dust Citizens in the past.

This time, he was simply bringing what he had done before into the open, and on a much larger scale.

Nowadays, the equipment, energy, and some of the raw materials used to produce food were all gathered from The Surface by the Wasteland Hunters.

So if Mark wanted to do this, others truly had no right to complain, especially those Upper Citizens who had never set foot on The Surface.

To promote greater equality between Upper Citizens and Dust Citizens in the future, Mark took the lead and ate bug cake in front of everyone.

bug cake, a food exclusive to Dust Citizens, a symbol of inferiority.

Many Upper Citizens considered eating bug cake a source of shame.

But no matter how noble you are, could you be more noble than the Lord City Lord?

By the time the event ended, all the Dust Citizens looked at Mark with unprecedented respect.

It wasn't because Mark had given them Upper Citizen food, but because Mark had given them a path for upward mobility.