The Winged Serpent's humanlike bewilderment brought a somewhat mocking expression to Roland's face.
Though his enemy was a destroyer bearing a mission, and its intelligence in battle could not be underestimated, it was ultimately just a beast.
Shortly after arriving in the Otherworld, a minor setback alone had driven it to follow its impulses out of arrogance, abandoning the straightforward path of winning through strength.
Otherwise, the power that could still firmly overwhelm him and the Dragon God together even after becoming the Heaven-Descending Human, combined with that essence originating from the Serpent, would have spelled true despair.
The truly supreme path was unstoppable precisely because it offered no opening for clever tricks.
Total Annihilation of All Forms was a power opposed to possibility.
This property did not originate from the Winged Serpent. It was merely borrowed, a property belonging to the Self-Destruction Factor.
Thus, rather than saying the Winged Serpent was using this power, it would be more accurate to call it nothing more than a switch that activated Total Annihilation of All Forms.
In this state, every one of its attacks became the power of Total Annihilation of All Forms, and this instead gave Roland an opportunity.
This terrifying power was unstoppable.
But because the Winged Serpent was not its original owner, the mutually incompatible properties of possibility and Total Annihilation of All Forms would clash and cancel each other out before Roland could be destroyed.
Through his earlier experiments on the Dragon God and himself, Roland had come to understand this deeply.
In other words, when he unleashed all his possibilities, the difference in magnitude between the two was erased. What they were comparing now were their actual health bars.
As long as Roland could still gather possibilities of a magnitude equal to or greater than the