Hao Jingye had not won, and Sheng An had not lost yet!
On the chessboard, the white pieces, whittled down to almost nothing in the slaughter, still concealed their greatest trump card, blocking the crucial step to the black pieces' victory.
Without this fragment, the egg could not be completed.
Hao Jingye could not believe it. His voice rose. "Impossible! How did you do it?!"
For the first time, M, who had calculated everything, looked out of control. Sheng An having a fragment hidden away was a trump card he had never anticipated.
The fragments had summoned the other fragments, so why had Sheng An's fragment not been summoned?
Hao Jingye was stunned.
Sheng An chuckled softly. "I suppose... being 9-Star does count for something."
Hao Jingye straightened and stared fixedly at her. The fragments before him remained in their final configuration, frozen in that shape. With one piece missing, they were not a complete entity.
Even if they could stop the group from drawing on their energy.
After a long while, Hao Jingye said hoarsely, "As expected of Sheng An. As expected of Sister Sheng. Your Superpower was already divided into three streams, yet you had a fourth working on yourself to keep the fragment.
"The blood from your tongue was being devoured constantly, yet you stayed calm, as though nothing was happening. You never gave away a thing..."
He had figured it out.
Sheng An's control over her time superpower exceeded his imagination. She used more than half of it to resist him, and while the remainder restrained the fragments, she could split off another stream to kill him.
He had thought that was her limit. He had never imagined that she had split off some of her power right from the start to hold on to a