Chapter 682
The bone saw bit into the man's neck, skin splitting open. Xia'er could already see the trachea and severed arteries within, yet only a trickle of blood splattered into the air, suspended momentarily, while the rest remained trapped in time.
The earlier "crack" sound had been the saw hitting the man's cervical vertebrae.
This was undoubtedly a fatal wound... even for an average extraordinary being.
However, Xia'er had no intention of executing him just yet.
At this moment, she knew nothing about the strength of his minions. After finally capturing one in the simulation, she wanted to see if there was any value left to extract from him...
For instance, "uniqueness."
Xia'er withdrew the bone saw, repositioned herself, and began to saw at his arm.
Crack, crack, crack, crack.
The sharp saw easily shredded the muscles attached to the bone, and the bones themselves snapped like chalk.
In just a few seconds, the man's limbs were completely severed.
Once she finished, Xia'er retracted the saw, suppressing the overwhelming fatigue weighing on her mind. She raised her hand and snapped her fingers.
Snap.
Time resumed its flow.
Rip.
"Ahhh!!"
A scream erupted from in front of Xia'er as the tall figure in the black clerical robe collapsed to the ground. His body writhed as if trying to stand with hands that no longer existed, but he seemed utterly powerless.
"Cough."
A sound like a drowning person choking echoed, and he coughed up blood onto the ground. He looked up at the girl standing before him, squinting slightly, a flicker of terror flashing in his eyes.
"Are you... afraid?" Xia'er seemed to have precisely caught the fear that had flickered in his gaze, a faint smile curling at the corners of her mouth.
So... you can feel fear too... and communicate?
That makes things much simpler...
In Xia'er's eyes, the figure that seemed shrouded in mist in the future finally lit up with a "health bar."
"God King... above..." The man's voice was hoarse and somewhat breathy, the damage to his throat making it hard for him to utter a complete sentence.
"Will your God King come to save you?" Xia'er asked, smiling at him.
Though she appeared relaxed, Xia'er was fully focused on sensing every change around her.
At this moment, her understanding of the "God of Existence" was practically zero. She needed to learn even a little about the power of that "God of Existence" through these minions.
"He... He will cleanse the world of evil... that is, you... the world-destroying witch..." The man’s voice came out in broken fragments.
World-destroying witch? Me?
"You really aren't good at nicknaming people..." Xia'er chuckled, shaking her head. "I think you should call me the savior..."
Her words were abruptly cut off as she noticed her own arms had completely begun to fade...
The existence of her arms was being erased?
No.
This was "Precognitive Vision"!
This was the state of her arms 1.5 seconds into the future!
Xia'er instinctively wanted to stop time and kill him, but her willpower suppressed that instinct for "survival."
Just her arms...
Suddenly, Xia'er swung her right hand back, a silver glimmer flashing in her right eye, cutting nearly two seconds from time.
In the man's eyes, Xia'er’s entire posture shifted in an instant... but her left hand was still completely erased.
However, her right hand, which she had swung back, remained intact.
Was this erasure of existence spatially limited? It didn’t directly erase the concept of her "hands"?
The man on the ground widened his bloodshot eyes, seemingly realizing what Xia'er was doing.
She was using him as a test subject!
Upon this realization, the man’s eyes bulged, and he gritted his teeth, nearly biting his gums until they bled.
In the next moment, Xia'er saw the man begin to fade entirely.
He was going to commit suicide.
He wanted to erase his own existence, which would cause Xiaer's memories of him to vanish completely!
But Xia'er simply watched him quietly, making no move... yet the pocket watch in her right eye had its second hand rapidly rewinding.
Everything seemed to play in reverse; Xiaer's vanished right hand reattached itself to her arm, while the man's dismembered body fell from mid-air.
"God King... above..." The man's voice trembled, fear evident in his gaze as he repeated the phrase.
Come on... let me see what other abilities you have...
Can reversing time restore erased existence...? Doesn’t the power of existence negate time?
Or is it just that his power is too weak? So he can't cross time to affect me?
After all, Xia'er could be considered an ascendant now, while the man before her still emitted no trace of "uniqueness," feeling like an ordinary fourth-tier extraordinary being.
As Xia'er pondered, she noticed her arms fading again...
Again? Why her hands? Not her brain?
This time, Xia'er didn’t rewind time. She raised her hand, and with her Lv.5 "Agility," she unleashed a powerful punch directly to his chest.
"Cough."
A mouthful of black blood was expelled, and the man, struck hard in the heart, blacked out.
Can I really interrupt him with physical means...?
Xia'er retracted her right hand, shaking off the black blood before snapping her fingers lightly.
Time returned to a second earlier.
"God King..."
The familiar prayer echoed once more, but this time, Xia'er didn’t wait for him to finish. She picked up the severed arm from the ground and stuffed the bone-end into his mouth to silence him.
His prayer went unfinished, but Xiaer's arms began to fade again.
It wasn’t the prayer that triggered the ability...
A hint of contemplation crossed Xia'er’s face, and then she rewound time again with the second hand of her right eye.
Once, twice... again...
Xia'er kept rewinding time, and several times, she had to kill him to interrupt his ability's activation.
Finally, just as she felt her mental endurance waning, the man before her had lost all experimental value.
"God King..."
Thud.
A punch struck his heart, and before he could finish his words, Xia'er ended his life.
Standing up, Xia'er wiped the blood from her hands with a handkerchief, casually discarding it as she looked down at the corpse.
Through her earlier experiments, Xia'er had gleaned a wealth of information from him.
First, his ability to "erase existence" was not something that could be activated instantly; it required a period of "chanting."
He almost always chose to erase Xiaer's hands rather than more lethal targets like her heart or brain.
On one hand, he might have known he couldn’t kill Xia'er, and on the other, it could be that the more complex the target, the more mental energy and time it consumed to erase.
Once, because Xia'er deliberately increased the distance, he shifted his focus to erasing her frontal lobe.
It was only through the 3D perspective of "Precognitive Vision" that Xia'er saw her forehead vanish, realizing he aimed to erase part of her brain.
Erasing Xiaer's frontal lobe could render her like the current Wen Sha, turning her into a half-wit without killing her.
The "chanting" time she observed was nearly seven seconds long.
This meant that to erase part of Xiaer's brain, he needed at least five seconds of preparation.
Moreover, he had to ensure that Xiaer's position didn’t change during that time...
The conditions for activation were indeed harsh...
Yet, even with such stringent requirements, the ability remained terrifying.
It was only because Xia'er possessed "Precognitive Vision" and the extraordinary "Keen" that she could withstand it.
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