Qin Siyang froze. "Huh? There are sequences stronger than [God Eater]?! I thought both the way I grew stronger and my Sequence Skills were already absurdly powerful..."
"No. You're the powerful one."
"No, Succession Envoy, I really do think my sequence ability is absurdly powerful. If I hadn't hit the [Succession Star Competition]'s limit on skill power, I could practically step on my right foot with my left and keep strengthening myself, spiraling all the way into the sky!"
"But the fact remains that there is a limit," Crows said calmly.
"Uh..."
"And that's with you having completed [Succession Refresh]. You have no idea how difficult what you accomplished truly was. Now I can tell you: the path you took here is utterly impossible to replicate."
"Uh..."
Crows said slowly, "To be frank, the probability of succeeding with the [God Eater] sequence ability is extremely low. In fact, it's the lowest of all the sequence abilities I can bestow."
Qin Siyang scratched his head. "Surely it isn't that bad..."
Crows said, "Of all the sequence abilities I've bestowed, none besides [God Eater] requires so many battles on the brink of death as its user grows. That's because [God Eater] can only fight using physical strength, making it the greatest test of combat technique and tactical thinking. A single careless mistake means utter ruin."
Qin Siyang frowned slightly at that. "When you put it that way... I guess you have a point."
Crows continued, "Before you, I had never seen a single [God Eater] successfully complete the [Succession Refresh] trial. Even with your tremendous strength, even after you miraculously completed [Succession Refresh], your final ranking was still one place below Sima Ji's."
"And you ranked below Sima Ji not because you were weaker than him. Quite the opposite: your strength was