Pretending To Be A Boss

[It is the balance.]

"Yes."

The two personalities within the sea of consciousness began their conversation once more.

[This is the fairest thing in the world, a symbol of justice.]

Song Que's brain was once again filled with that eerie smile.

[How far into the future you wish to see depends on how much resolve you're willing to muster and what you're prepared to sacrifice. I have made my resolve.]

"So have I."

Song Que revealed a smile as well.

The voices in the sea of consciousness fell silent abruptly.

His smile was somewhat bizarre, resembling both the silly self he was on regular days and that evil version of himself.

Four hundred forty seconds.

Five hundred seconds.

Five hundred fifty seconds.

More and more fragments of the future filled the sea of consciousness, playing in Song Que's mind like a carousel lantern or a film reel.

"Still not enough."

Song Que's body seemed to suddenly regain strength.
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His hands gripped the stone spike piercing through him and began to slowly pull it out.

The cave Jiao was shocked, and instantly a powerful impulse shot out from the fingertips.

Like an invisible blade.

Song Que didn't watch this scene.

He had seen the entire future seven hundred seconds later.

The present him could handle the forthcoming battle even with his eyes closed.

He muttered softly,

"Life recovery speed."

After his words fell, the field of Song Que's vision was forever missing a piece of talent data.

He could now only see nine types of talent data.

The life recovery speed had completely disappeared.

But correspondingly, what shocked the Jiao dragon greatly was that Song Que actually took its finger blade head-on.

That terrifying blade, capable of cleaving through cliffs, slashed onto Song Que.

But in the next second, before the blood could even scatter, it was rapidly covered by the healing skin layer.

At this moment, Song Que demonstrated a life recovery speed that astonished even the creatures of the Dragon Clan.

"Impossible!" The cave Jiao instinctively felt that something was wrong.

The next instant, Song Que slightly raised his arm, enveloping the cave Jiao once more with a massive field of chaotic power.

"Attack power. Critical hit probability. Critical damage." Song Que spoke again softly.

Immediately, three more sets of data vanished from his eyes.

In that moment, Song Que went from being a supreme talent with ten talents to having only six remaining.

But what followed was a terrifying attack that even the Jiao dragon felt wary of.

The cave Jiao couldn't imagine that a human's punch could stir up such a powerful current!

Song Que's figure, once again centered around the cave Jiao, shot around the force field like a marble bouncing continuously.

Another wave of horrific strikes came, but this time, each of Song Que's attacks caused the Jiao dragon intense pain that reached deep into its lungs and gut.

Those fists, wrought with a tearing terror, seemed as though he was facing a calamitous-level monster.

Finally taking Song Que seriously, the cave Jiao began to defend with all its might.

But even while blocking Song Que's attacks, it could still feel the terrifying penetrating power of his punches.

Instead of weakening due to its own defenses, it felt a pain several times greater than before.

"Attack speed, attack range!"

Song Que's voice also contained a hint of overexertion.

His skin seemed almost ablaze.

In that moment, Song Que's onslaught reached its most fearsome peak.

The frequency, already like a heavy drum and hammer, suddenly increased by more than tenfold!

The cave Jiao finally couldn't maintain its human form any longer.

It let out a painful screech as its enormous dragon form burst forth!

But Song Que acted as if he dismissed this event entirely.

The dragon's roar like a concentrated pressure cannon, the strong gale struck Song Que's body.

"No problem, I saw this scene a hundred nineteen seconds ago! I can still fight!"

Multiple types of data vanished from his sight, not only talent data, but this time, Song Que's vision also became blurred.

In its dragon form, the cave Jiao displayed the true strength of a calamity-level boss creature.

Even the now mighty Song Que, chased and struck by numerous sonic boom-like wind blasts, was in mortal danger.

Song Que's rapidly moving body finally halted, but for less than a second.

"Movement speed, defensive power, stamina."

Three more types of talent disappeared from his field of vision.

Song Que radiated a fiery red glow, as if he were bathed in searing flames.

His speed became completely indiscernible.

Even if Akasi were here, he would have to acknowledge that such speed surpassed his own!

Lingyi stepped out of the stone cave, watching the scene in shock.

What presented before her eyes was only a red afterimage shifting continuously in the dark abyss below.

It looked like a light piercing through the darkness!

The rapid increase of stamina cleared the blurriness from Song Que's vision, and the feelings of fatigue and pain disappeared instantly.

The boost in defensive power allowed him to withstand the dragon's roar and forcefully launch attacks.

And speed turned Song Que into a red thunderbolt!

At that moment, the cave Jiao finally understood what was happening.

"Impossible! This is an offering of the Order, how could a human possibly master it?"

There was no answer.

There was just one ferocious assault stronger than the last.

The Jiao dragon let out cries of agony.

Blood began to seep from the scales of the cave Jiao, and many scales started to fall off.

The ability Song Que was displaying had been mentioned in the records of Twilight of the Gods at court.

Both the cave Jiao and the Endless Turtle had read about it.

This was also what the cave Jiao understood the least…

Why could Song Que utilize the power that the Order once used to annihilate the Eden Tribe?

But what the cave Jiao didn't know was that a person born with a full complement of talents, throughout hundreds of years of human history, numbered in the single digits.