In just a few bites, Ian Song swallowed the fruit.
"No reaction?"
He waited for a minute.
Fortunately, the System was still reliable—after a minute and a half, Ian finally felt a response inside his body.
Then, with a thought, a person identical to himself appeared at his side.
"Let's go!"
Ian grabbed his clone and entered the Divine Temple.
After a round of testing, the clone had fifty percent of his immortal cultivation and fifty percent of his martial strength.
As for the System's divine arts and skills, the clone couldn't use them.
Even though the clone couldn't use divine arts or skills, its overall power was still comparable to a late-stage War Saint.
Finally, the question returned to whether to exchange for the Blood-God Wings.
Speed is a crucial factor in combat, so after some thought, Ian gritted his teeth and exchanged for the Blood-God Wings.
After equipping them, he tested them inside the Divine Temple. Sure enough, his speed doubled. With Wind God Art, he was now even a bit faster than a vampire prince.
"Ding! Reminder: A Host has already upgraded their System to five-star. Kill him (or her) to complete the trial and leave this world!"
The sudden System notification made Ian pause.
Excitement surged in his heart—he finally found the condition to leave this world.
But almost immediately, his mood sank again.
The System only mentioned someone had reached five-star, but didn't say where they were.
The Federation Empire has the Homeworld and eleven Natural Planets—how do you find a single person in such a vast territory?
And besides, there are other interstellar empires beyond the Federation. If that Host is in another empire’s territory, even searching for ten or a hundred years might not be enough to find them.
Suddenly, he thought of another problem.
If killing a Host with a five-star System lets you return to your main world, then maybe the other Host can do the same if they kill you too?
If that's really the case, then maybe he could use that to lure the other Host out.
With that thought, Ian activated Star-Fate Divination to try and locate any Hosts on the Tenth Natural Planet.
Unfortunately, he couldn't find a single one.
Most likely, after all this time, they've already leveled up, and that's why he can't track them anymore.
For a moment, Ian felt a bit of regret. If he'd known, he wouldn't have spent time living like a normal person—he should've gone searching for Hosts on every Natural Planet instead.
Thinking this through, he no longer felt like staying on as Special Police Minister.
He planned to resign today, then take Cici and Joy to travel across the Federation Empire's other ten planets and hunt down every remaining System Host.
With Cici and Joy at his side, he believed that even if they ran into Ethan Jiang, they'd still have a fighting chance.
But before searching for the other Hosts, Ian decided to make a trip back to the Homeworld.
He acted as soon as he decided, quickly writing up his resignation letter and submitting it to the city government.
Less than twenty minutes after submitting his resignation, Victor Liang called to ask why he was quitting.
Ian just made up a random excuse to brush him off.
There's no such thing as a wall that doesn't leak, especially since Ian didn't bother to hide his resignation at all.
So, Gordon Gao barged into his office, all worked up. "Minister, are you really quitting?"
"Yeah," Ian nodded.
"Why?" Gordon pressed.
"I've got more important things to do. Don't worry—once I'm gone, you'll take over as Minister!" Ian smiled.
Gordon Gao was stunned. "Me?"