Superhumans of the Dome City-Chapter 45 - 28 A Fight in a Moment’s Time

45: Chapter 28: A Fight in a Moment’s Time

45 -28: A Fight in a Moment’s Time

When consciousness was restored, Gongsun Ce found himself in a pure white space.

For an instant, he thought an afternoon nightmare had attacked him during battle.

Then, he saw another person in this space.

Ten meters away stood a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses, facing him.

He was dressed in a brown coat, a black vest, and old-fashioned jeans.

With a burly and robust figure, he was indeed the leader of the giant dragon worshippers.

His posture was natural and flawless, reminding Gongsun Ce of an expressionless girl’s family member.

This man must be good at close combat, deduced the superpower user in his mind.

The man in sunglasses said, “I am Xu Junyi, a Desolate Form Mage from the Manifestation Realm.

State your name.”

“Gongsun Ce, superpower user.” Gongsun Ce surveyed the empty world around him.

“Is this the Impermanence Skill of the Manifestation Realm?

It’s really quite different from the Desolate Form · Divine Communication we know.”

“Oh.

You have good mental quality…

not bad, saves me the effort of calming your mind.”

Xu Junyi took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and a lighter appeared out of nowhere in his hand, asking, “Do you mind?”

“If you stay away from me, I don’t care.”

He actually did so.

The middle-aged man took several steps back, lit a cigarette, and started smoking unguardedly with his back to him.

Gongsun Ce was at a loss for words.

He didn’t know whether this was a condition for the other’s powers to activate or some kind of psychological warfare with a specific purpose.

If it was a power where “the enemy dies if certain conditions are met,” doing nothing would undoubtedly be wrong.

For caution’s sake, he decided to protect himself first, setting up invisible threads, using his abilities to fly into the air, forming a barrier of white matter to block any incoming attack—

“?!”

Gongsun Ce was shocked.

There were no threads, no flight, no white matter.

Abilities that used to activate as naturally as raising an arm now responded no matter how he called out…

like a normal person who had lost limbs, the feeling of helplessness echoed in his heart, and the discomfort from displacement was almost nauseating.

“No need to be surprised,” said the giant dragon worshipper calmly, “none of us can use any powers beyond common sense now because we are going to have a fair fight…

as fair a fight as possible.”

Xu Junyi extinguished his cigarette butt and walked towards him, stopping ten meters away.

Reading into the meaning of these words, the superpower user came to a conclusion highly unfavorable to himself.

“Strip us of our superpowers and determine the victor in this space?

That’s different from the Desolate Form I know of.”

The man with sunglasses smiled.

“Heh…

the Desolate Form you recognize.

As someone who has never practiced Impermanence Skill, do you really have the right to set your own standards?”

“…

I’m speechless.

Nevertheless, this sort of battle doesn’t seem very fair to me.”

Without his superpowers, Gongsun Ce was nothing more than a physically fit university student.

He knew no fighting techniques, had no professional training, and to have someone like him fight a middle-aged man who looked like he could wrestle a bear with his bare hands, defeat could be declared even before the start.

“Absolute fairness never exists.

But I’m not so vile as to decide the outcome against you like this.

You will know all the information about my Impermanence Skill, and you will clearly understand how to confront this duel, with no concealment whatsoever…

because it is the rule manifested from my own heart within the Minute Battle, the rules laid out in my mind.”

The man with sunglasses stamped his right foot, and an enormous round table like a casino’s appeared out of nowhere in the empty space.

He held up three fingers: “I decide how victory or defeat is determined, but you decide the battlefield and the assistance you will receive.

The one who loses the ability to fight is deemed the loser.

Even if the loser dies in the battle, they will not lose their life in reality and for the rest of the day, must not harm the victor by any means and must obey all of the victor’s orders.

This is my Desolate Form · Manifestation, a completely transparent and fair duel with all conditions laid out.”

“I must obey the victor’s orders…?”

Gongsun Ce focused on the final outcome.

If he understood correctly, the loser of this battle would be completely dominated by the victor.

He now understood how the man came to be underground.

“You used your Manifestation on officials?

Since you won in the duel, they had to help you cover your tracks…

They had to bring you to the underground of Sky City!”

Xu Junyi nodded slightly. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

“Those portly bureaucrats in the United States might have lost their strength, but they didn’t have much brains left either.

Coming here was simpler than I thought; all I had to do was find the building leading underground and defeat everyone inside, and my task was complete.”

Gongsun Ce imagined a bunch of fat middle-aged men in suits fighting this man and couldn’t help feeling sympathetic.

But when he thought about how it would be himself fighting later on, the sympathy turned into a sour resignation.

The young man with glasses asked quickly, “How much time in the real world will our battle consume?”

“An instant.

So you needn’t think about buying time; even if you stand here for a hundred years, less than a second will have passed in reality.”

“Isn’t that great, I am confident enough to stand here and chat with you for a thousand…”

He suddenly covered his mouth.

The words he was about to say halted abruptly, as some invisible force entered his mouth, silencing him in the most brutal way possible.