"Brain! Are you all right?!"
Zuo Zuo's urgent voice snapped him out of his daze.
Of course he was all right.
Only his consciousness had traveled into the past, not even his soul, but the battle during those few minutes lingered in his mind like a heavy punch.
"The gap is too big."
He stared fixedly at the Trident before him.
That moment just now.
The terrifying power that had erupted from the Trident in the other man's hands was still fresh in his memory.
The other man hadn't used his full strength at all. No, perhaps he hadn't even used half of it, or even less. He had dispatched Lynn as easily as squashing a mosquito.
"Damn it!"
Lynn gritted his teeth.
"Can't I really withstand even one move? But... but..."
"He awakened from the half of your soul you left in Dark Night City, Brain! Even if he devoured a few ravens too, he shouldn't have much more raw power than you! How can he..."
Zuo Zuo was frantic.
Lynn stared hard at his hands and said:
"It's not a question of raw power..."
The scene during the Dark Night City Calamity resurfaced in his mind, when the immense pressure Clown had put him under had caused that God King to awaken within his body.
Though he had no memory of that battle.
He had later learned that over a dozen Jailers had died when the God King awakened.
Back then, he had still been terribly weak. Yet even under those circumstances, the God King's awakening had allowed him to overcome the difference in rank and easily slay beings like the Jailers.
"I'm the problem. I don't know how to use Firstborn Power. In his hands and mine, this power becomes two completely different things."
Lynn clenched his