Amid the strange atmosphere, the Time Dragon swept its gaze over everyone present before finally settling on Xu Xiao.
It looked as though it wanted to say something.
But in the end, it remained silent and closed its eyes again.
No longer oppressed by that overwhelming aura, Shi Bashi climbed up from the ground, the vicious look on his face quietly fading away.
When he spoke again, he had returned to the useless, spoiled dandy he had seemed to be at the beginning.
"I told you, I have no idea where that little brat Palu went!"
"You just had to force me. Well, look at you now—all laid out on the ground! Satisfied now?!"
"If you'd just talked to me properly, I definitely would've helped you!"
"Don't try to get tough with me. When it comes to being ruthless, I'm worse than any of you!"
Shi Bashi kept shouting, clearly intending to further advertise his own strength.
But Xu Xiao, who had remained closely focused on him the entire time, keenly noticed that the familiar aura from before had vanished.
The current Shi Bashi was clearly no longer one of the God's Chosen Ones.
He had turned back into a flashy fraud who was all bark and no bite.
He can change his own rank at will, forcibly reverting from one of the God's Chosen Ones back into an ordinary Player?
How could that be...?
For a moment, the woman could not make sense of it at all.
But before she could figure out the key to it, Nikita, who had been knocked to the ground by the invisible shockwave, got back up.
By normal reasoning, after Shi Bashi had displayed a rank and strength completely at odds with everyone's understanding, they should at least have been somewhat wary of