In the disheveled Main Control Room, a severely damaged corpse lay limply on the floor.
After realizing that he could not possibly contend with them, Glasses Man ultimately chose to endure the pain and give up, Self-Destructing this slice of himself.
If he stayed any longer, it would not be just this slice that got destroyed—even his main body would be affected.
—He could still distinguish the priorities involved.
"Are you sure he's dead?"
After staring at the corpse in the room for a while, Dead Zero turned to look at Wan Ci beside her.
Unlike Dead Zero's light attire, Wan Ci wore a black hoodie with her hands shoved into its pockets and a hood over her head, looking every bit like a gloomy, antisocial otaku girl.
"He killed himself."
Wan Ci glanced up at Dead Zero, her tone rather indifferent.
"There are no longer any mental fluctuations of consciousness in this room."
Her Talent Core was [Deception]. Although it had undergone several advancements afterward, she had never considered changing its name. While she lacked the ability to pull people into an illusion, she could achieve the same effect by deceiving them.
Deceiving their eyes, deceiving their senses, deceiving their brains, deceiving space, deceiving time, deceiving the world...
Compared to Ke Nai's [Myriad Things Exchange], her [Deception] was even stronger. During their previous battle in the arena, Ke Nai had fallen into traps she laid on numerous occasions.
However, while she had a natural advantage over Ke Nai, when facing Dead Zero, who had been born with a crystal-clear Sword Heart, [Deception] was far less effective than [Myriad Things Exchange].
Thus, the relationship between the three of them was actually an Ouroboros-like cycle: she could defeat Ke Nai, Ke Nai could defeat Dead Zero, and Dead Zero could defeat