My Ability Is Role-playing

Chapter 808 - 802: Either Become a Chess Piece or Be Killed!

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A wisp of consciousness was absorbed into the Red-Blue Treasure Mirror among the audience of all heavens, who were very curious about the glimpse of the book page they just saw, but Ma Ran did not provide any explanation.

The [delivery task] he initially assigned to Su Qiangwei was to integrate that book page into the boundary area between this main world and the endless planes, creating a strategic buffer zone.

This is something that clever viewers in the live broadcast have already guessed.

The seemingly mysterious page is actually the third page of the "Book of Cangming".

The "Book of Cangming", originally existing only in a hidden dimension and invisible to outsiders, was materialized into a physical form under the influence of Ma Ran’s will.

For Ma Ran, it was also a crucial page. As long as it could completely merge into the crystal wall between the main universe and the endless planes, evolving into a "Chaos Star Domain", it would be equivalent to opening a new battlefield.

This is a brand-new stage Ma Ran prepared for his [play], an opportunity for the [Demon Seed] medal to ascend to a supreme level, and an attempt to break through the realm bottleneck!

A critically important attempt!

Boom!

Boom! Boom!

The frequency of the Chaos Heart’s heartbeat was increasing, and its volume was shrinking.

The expression on [Supreme of Soul] Prajna’s face was becoming increasingly grim.

He knew that the moment Su Qiangwei completed Ma Ran’s commission and awakened the will of the Sin Universe, he actually had no way out.

Running was absolutely impossible.

Only by finding life in death, fighting a bloody path, and demonstrating his own value could he possibly attract the attention of the integration will of the endless planes, making it intervene personally, giving a slim chance to overturn the situation.

"Among the supreme rulers I’ve encountered, you guys are not bad."

Ma Ran’s gaze moved between Prajna and Lin Ke, with a touch of undisguised dominance in his calm tone: "The Chaos Star Domain is about to be forged. Now, I give you the right to choose."

"Either be killed by me here, with Earth becoming your graveyard."

"Or enter the Chaos Star Domain as chess pieces and grasp that slim chance of survival."

[Supreme of Light] Lin Ke pondered for a moment, then lowered his head immediately, making his choice: "Your honor, Ma Ran, possesses noble character; I do not wish to be your enemy."

"Therefore, I want to enter the Chaos Star Domain, relying on my efforts to forge a new path - a path of peaceful coexistence."

When Lin Ke spoke, his pronunciation was clear, his words precise, matching the official Mandarin template. Even a host on CCTV might not pronounce as standard as he did at the moment, as if afraid of being misunderstood and killed on the spot.

The rhetoric about noble character and unwillingness to be an enemy, the talk of a new road of peaceful coexistence, any observant person could hear, was in fact, just nonsense. Essentially, Lin Ke was admitting defeat to Ma Ran and choosing the path Ma Ran wanted him to choose.

However, an interesting situation arose: among the audience from all heavens and myriads of worlds, less than one-tenth could think of this layer.

Over ninety percent of intelligent beings were far less thoughtful than an ordinary middle school graduate in China, with their thinking remaining at the level of primal instinct and emotion.

Therefore...

For a moment, most of the scrolling comments in the live broadcast room unexpectedly agreed with Lin Ke’s statement, even longing for the peaceful coexistence he mentioned, believing that Lin Ke, unwilling to be Ma Ran’s enemy, should also be a "pure and kind person" of noble character.

The saying about "people lifting people in splendid sedan chairs" explains this reasoning.

Lin Ke’s praise for Ma Ran also unintentionally elevated his own image.

The remarks on the commentary that saw through the essence were instead regarded by many viewers as examples of "a petty person measuring a noble heart with his own small-mindedness."

Beside the prototype of the Chaos Star Domain, Su Qiangwei frowned: "Tsk... even with the mask of hypocrisy poorly worn, he can still bluff his way through..."

Her soft complaint was not heard by the audience.

Meanwhile, Prajna, who was on Earth, made a choice completely opposite to Lin Ke.

He suddenly lifted his head, staring directly at Ma Ran, the golden Buddha’s light in his eyes immediately dimmed, turning completely black in an instant, with no whites visible, creating an eerie appearance.

"I don’t want to choose either of the two paths you offer."

Prajna said word by word: "I have not relied on compromise and retreat to reach where I am today."

"Not entering the Chaos Star Domain as a pawn means being killed by you?"

"I don’t believe it; I want to try!"

As he finished speaking, a flat, oval, black seed gathered in the middle of Prajna’s brow.

Ma Ran squinted slightly, instinctively gripping the handle of the Straight-Blade Tang Blade; the intense sense of crisis surging in his heart almost made it unbearable for him not to draw his blade and cut down the opponent immediately.

In a moment of Electric Fire Stone, Ma Ran instinctively applied a "Billion-Times Control Time Domain" on himself, discovering some subtle incongruities.

The black seed Prajna, as his trump card, revealed contained power beyond even the supreme ruler!

Ma Ran was a hundred percent sure it was neither controlled nor possessed by Prajna!

That was not a power any individual could have, not even a supreme ruler!

In an instant, Ma Ran figured out all the riddles.

"Got it."

The place that gave him a subtle sense of incongruity indeed had issues.

Ma Ran squinted his eyes slightly.

Big issues!

If he was too complacent and arrogant, thinking he was invincible among the supreme rulers, making a rash move to suppress Prajna could have resulted in getting overturned, exposed, and captured on the spot by the opponent’s trump card.

From that kind of storyline development, Ma Ran slightly closed his eyes, immediately organizing the threads and details.

Because of his fundamental understanding of the timeline, as these thoughts emerged, even the remnant images and sounds of those [BE endings] lingered on Ma Ran’s retina and in his ear canal.

It generally depicted Ma Ran capturing himself through mishap, becoming a prisoner of the integration will of the endless planes, while Su Qiangwei, 98725, Dong Huaiming, Wan Haihao, Wu Di, Song Chu, Zhu Hanyi, Li Xing, and others decisively joined the Chaos Star Domain battlefield, each acting on their own paths, overcoming numerous hardships and sacrifices, and eventually successfully rescuing him.

This was one possible "future," where "numerous sacrifices" actually referred to other members being entirely wiped out, and Su Qiangwei bearing all surviving hopes, trading life for life to save him.

After that, Su Qiangwei’s status as [Supreme of Devouring] was stripped by the integration will of the endless planes, scattering her soul and shattering her true spirit, leading to her complete demise.

While the storyline overview sounds quite touching, but...

Ma Ran did not like such a development.

Letting comrades pay the price for his folly was simply more painful than dying on the spot.

One had to admit, the mysterious power lurking on Prajna indeed focused Ma Ran’s attention extremely, heightening his alertness.

"Hu..."

In a flash, Ma Ran cut off the tumultuous thoughts, sighed, and slowly drew the Tang Blade from its sheath, pointing its edge remotely toward Prajna, saying in a complex tone: "What a cunning fellow."

"Presenting a posture of desperate resolution, giving the impression of a decisive strike to determine victory, but in reality, you never intended to clash with me, merely wishing to activate the ’intrinsic counterattack mechanism’ within this seed to severely wound me directly, right?"

"The power from the integration will of the endless planes, even if it is lodged within you, you cannot actively call upon it, only use it to protect yourself."

"Your deliberate display of arrogance and pride is all a disguise, trying to provoke me to launch a supreme-level all-out attack against you."

"If so..."

"I’ll oblige you."

As he finished speaking, Ma Ran let his wrist drop slightly, and a crescent-shaped pure-black chill gleam manifested in midair.

Swoosh!

In an instant, Prajna was abruptly slashed into two halves.

The black seed in the center of his brow also expanded abruptly, like a water-absorbed sponge.

The swollen seed exhibited a semi-transparent quality, emitting an overwhelmingly powerful and irresistible attractive force.

Although cleaved in two, Prajna did not die, maintaining clarity and calm contemplation.

"Receiving a supreme-level full-force strike without dissolution..."

"The power ’it’ left with me has been triggered!"

Prajna realized this, yet his heart harbored no joy, cold sweat seeped from his palm, feeling waves of coldness, as goosebumps rose on his bald head.

Ma Ran’s actions, he utterly could not comprehend!

Heading perilously into the forest knowing there’s a tiger, either the brave do so or the overly confident foolhardy act like it.

Was Ma Ran the latter?

The answer was clearly no!