Watching Luan's frantic and clumsy dodging, Syd smiled.
"Keep running, keep dodging-entertain ."
The playful, almost mocking tone in his voice pushed Luan to his breaking point.
"How are you this strong?"
"I don't believe it!"
"Ahhh!"
Luan roared in fury.
As he watched ssiah unleash one devastating ability after another, fragnts of past events flickered through his mind.
ssiah had used similar powers before, but they had never been this terrifying.
"Could this be your true strength?"
"Have you been toying with everyone all along?"
"Were you deceiving the military, the Arican authorities, and everyone else by hiding your true power?"
Luan shouted in disbelief, his voice trembling.
The nearby drones captured his outburst, broadcasting it worldwide.
Stark Tower.
Tony froze, his expression growing grim.
"If that's true, then this kid ssiah is beyond terrifying."
"Pretending to be weaker just for amusent? Just to toy with everyone?"
He couldn't wrap his head around it.
Beside him, Pepper went pale with shock, finding it hard to believe how fearso ssiah
was.
Across Arica and the world, similar thoughts ran through people's minds.
If ssiah had truly been hiding his power all along, that would an...
All this ti, every battle, every encounter, he had been mocking them with hidden strength, looking at them as if they were clowns.
The thought was chilling.
X Mansion.
Professor Charles muttered, "Oga-level mutant..."
He had thought he understood the power of Oga mutants, especially ssiah, but now it seed he had barely scratched the surface.
"Oga mutants are truly humanity's ultimate threat," he sighed.
"If ssiah were to truly lose control, it might well be the end of the world."
Logan and the others, picturing the scenario, couldn't help but take deep breaths.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
Nick Fury, watching the live feed, muttered grimly, "Pretending?"
"This guy's insane."
Still, he couldn't hide the fear in his heart.
"ssiah's current power is even more terrifying than the White-Clad Hero."
"And if this pretense is true... his mind is far more calculating and dangerous than I thought."
"No wonder he dared to provoke us so openly."
With ssiah's current strength, it wasn't entirely impossible for him to withstand Arica's full might.
Had ssiah simply decided to stop pretending?
The thought left Fury more unsettled the more he considered it.
anwhile, Arican officials were in an uproar.
"He's been pretending all this ti? Deceiving us?"
"No! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
They refused to accept it because believing it would make ssiah far too terrifying.
"All of Arica's might-our weapons, our nukes-will surely destroy him!"
That was the only thought that brought them so semblance of confidence.
The Battlefield.
Syd smiled and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."
His denial, accompanied by a faint smirk, sent chills down the spines of Luan and countless
others watching.
It felt like an admission.
Terrifying.
"You're a demon!" Luan scread in terror.
Even as he shouted, he frantically reached out to the Great Being.
"Great Being, this ssiah is too terrifying. I can't defeat him. Didn't you say my power surpassed his?"
The Great Being snorted. "Are you questioning , boy?"
Despite his confident tone, even the Great Being was shaken.
"How could a re human..."
He had initially thought of ssiah as a strong but ultimately insignificant human, soone
to be toyed with before being destroyed.
But the scene before him defied logic.
By all accounts, Luan, empowered by the Great Being, should have surpassed ssiah.
Yet, it was now clear ssiah had been concealing his true strength all along, deceiving everyone, including the Great Being.
Even the Great Being, who had been impressed by ssiah's initial abilities, found the
current display far beyond "impressive."
"This strength... it's shocking, even for ."
The Great Being's tone darkened.
"Boy, just hold on until I arrive. With my true form here, no re human will survive."
Hearing this, Luan's heart sank. He gritted his teeth and fought on, but he was barely holding
on.
The relentless black waves and occasional blue beams from ssiah had him completely
overwheld.
He couldn't win.
Worse, ssiah seed to be toying with him like a cat with a mouse, injuring him repeatedly
but refusing to deliver the killing blow.
Being toyed with on the edge of death was driving Luan insane.
Covered in blood, barely able to stand, Luan scread, "No! My power surpasses yours!"
"It's all fake! This can't be real!"
But Syd's calm reply ca once more.
"I've told you before-what gave you the illusion that your power surpassed mine?"
Finally, Syd decided he'd played enough.
He raised his right hand again.
This ti, he used Soul Extraction.
Gently pressing forward, his hand seed to pass through an invisible barrier. Before the stunned eyes of onlookers, his hand reached across the battlefield and struck Luan.
Boom!
In an instant, Luan's soul was ripped from his body.
The transparent, ghostly form of Luan floated in mid-air, his previous rage replaced by a
dazed expression.
"You..."
Luan stamred, his voice trembling.
"What is this?"
"In just... an instant?"
"Could ssiah have defeated this easily all along?"
Staring at his body as it plumted to the ground, Luan was completely dumbfounded.
(End of Chapter)
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