Low-Level Fox, SSS Power, World in Flames - Episode 10

After an ambush, the protagonist, the person Reed, an SSS-Rank Feralmancer, chose, captures the hired killers. The men beg for mercy and confess they were paid by a young man carrying a Black Widow Feralkin: Cullen and Jane ordered the hit. The protagonist threatens execution and tells Yara to act, ending the captives' bargaining. Alone with the prize, they examine the suppressed Tier 3 Prime Skyray core and realize a Tier 1 subdued it only because the protagonist's SSS-Rank Gift boosted their power. An ally hands them the core: 'Take it, and evolve to Tier 2.'