"Black King, you..." Painter made a show of clutching his stomach and backing away, his shifty eyes darting around for an escape route.
"Why are you hitting me? We were just fighting side by side. We're teammates..."
Boom!
A sonic crack rang out.
Bai Ye reached Painter in an instant, drawing his arm back like a bow. A terrifying four hundred thousand blood qi erupted, cutting off Painter's vicious teammate curse.
"Don't you want to break free of [Fate]? I'm helping you. Heh heh heh..."
Painter went white with terror and scrambled away on all fours.
"You call this helping me? You're trying to kill me!"
"Killing you is helping you. The only way to draw [Fate] down is through the Fate Eye: Heavenly Sequence. So once I kill you and take the Fate Eye, [Fate] won't be able to sit still.
Time Stop!"
Brilliant golden light enveloped Painter, instantly freezing him into a statue, motionless where he stood.
He watched the Black King close in with terrified eyes, his nerves stretched to the breaking point.
The Black King wants to kill me! He really wants to kill me!?
Bai Ye slowly came to a stop before Painter, grinning viciously.
The people around them watched in bewilderment. Though they could not understand why the Black King suddenly wanted to kill Painter, none dared say a word to stop him.
For one thing, they feared the Black King's might. For another, Painter had done every evil imaginable and had no friends, so naturally no one spoke up for him.
Bai Ye slowly raised his fist. "You really were immature ten years ago. You can't even break free of a Pseudo-Time Stop."
His so-called Pseudo-Time Stop used his domain and his own mental power to create a localized time stop, similar to