'Another attack.'

Prisoner thought.

He counted, '5… 4… 3… 2… 1…' inside his mind, and after it was time, he quickly jumped a few meters off the ground.

The punch missed him below, but at the same time, another attack came his way while he was stuck mid-air, and it landed with power.

"Urgh…"

Prisoner flung backwards, and once he landed on the ground, his feet slid down the floor until he came to a stop.

'I saw that I would also get hit in the air, but there is no way that I could dodge while being stuck in the air.

'If jumping to avoid attacks and dodging on the ground won't work, then what do I do?'

He thought it would be at least easy to see Kiernan in the thick smoke because of his bulging figure.

Yet, there was so much smoke that it was actually hard to breathe.

'Hard to breathe… What is this?'

In that moment, he noticed that amidst the grayish smoke, there was also a different kind of smoke—black smoke.

The black smoke was much more dangerous, as it was genuinely harmful.

While using High Human and Flow State, Kiernan also used his Martial Ability "Black Darkness" to summon the black smoke.

The attacks kept coming at Prisoner, and he dodged a few but couldn't dodge them all, as he was becoming overwhelmed.

Injuries started piling up.

However.

So far, none of the attacks were lethal, so Prisoner only tanked the attacks as well as he could.

In that moment, he saw something in the future, and his face turned very pale as he didn't think he could survive that.

'I must leave this smoke as soon as possible, but I can't… This fucking barrier is blocking any escape from the stage!'

Prisoner gritted his teeth, ran towards the barrier, and punched straight at it.

It didn't even budge, and on the other side of the barrier, he could see Death's cold, emotionless face staring back at him.

'Ah man… He is pissed…'

Prisoner thought with a serious expression.

He also realized that Kiernan was playing this perfectly because the gods that put up this barrier were actually helping him.

The next attack was very dangerous, and he didn't have enough space to dodge it because of the barrier.

'This is going to hurt…'

He thought.

The five seconds, at that moment, had passed.

"BLACK RIPPER!"

In that moment, every atom and every molecule in the air got cut with "Black Ripper," and Prisoner spread his arms wide, as if he was resigning himself to his fate.

Shred~ Spurt~

Blood gushed out of Prisoner's body like a fountain as his entire body was cut with the Black Ripper.

"Ah…"

Prisoner slowly collapsed on his back and stopped moving.

"…"

Thump~ Thump~

Kiernan stomped towards the fallen Prisoner.

Each step he took shook the ground, and he looked down at Prisoner, who was now motionless and covered in blood.

"…Is it over?"

"…I mean, it must be. Did you see the amount of blood? I don't think anyone could survive that."

…

The whole scene of Kiernan attacking Prisoner… Using Black Ripper to essentially kill him… Shattered apart like glass.

Prisoner opened his eyes wide with cold sweat running down his back.

"Ah…"

He exclaimed.

Prisoner had returned back to the moment when Kiernan started using High Human and started covering the stage with the smoke that was billowing out of his body.

'I just went to see thirty seconds into the future, and it isn't looking good for me.'

Prisoner thought with a dark look.

Kiernan didn't know, because how could he, but Prisoner had a secret ability that let him see further than five seconds into the future with great risk.

It could stop his heart at any moment, and Prisoner realized that thirty seconds was now his limit before he died.

He had already been hurt very badly in the fight, and thus, he couldn't see any further without risking his life.

This was also the last time he could see that far into the future.

'I will lose this fight if I let Kiernan dictate the pace of the fight, so I must attack, and attack very hard.'

Prisoner thought with a smirk.

While chilling inside the smoke, Kiernan thought about ways to attack Prisoner, but out of nowhere, Prisoner lunged forward, catching Kiernan off guard.

'He is attacking so fearlessly?'

Kiernan dodged the attack, but Prisoner whipped his leg at him and kicked him across the face.

While defending was really bad because of the smoke even with the future sight, attacking was much easier.

"I'll just attack!"

Prisoner punched repeatedly, and Kiernan crossed his arms with a grimace on his face.

The fists rained against his arms, but they were full of muscle and even covered with the Black Qi.

Those punches didn't hurt Kiernan at all.

'He must've seen something in the future that forced him to attack. He didn't even react or look surprised at the sight of the smoke.

'It is like he had already seen it… In the future… But did I really do something that bad to him in the next five seconds that forced him to just focus on attacking?

'And… could he really become that composed at the sight of the smoke in just five seconds?

'There might be a possibility that he can see further than five seconds into the future…'

Kiernan thought.

Since Prisoner kept attacking, he couldn't really do anything.

He was pretty much invisible within the smoke, but since Prisoner kept attacking him, he kept track of where he was.

And Prisoner was able to see with the future sight if anything was going to happen in the next five seconds that he needed to be wary of.

If something happened that he didn't like, he was immediately going to stop it and keep it so that Kiernan had to keep defending.

'Everything I think of doing, he has already seen happen.'

Kiernan was thinking.

'There is this barrier surrounding us. He cannot escape. I need to use an attack that is so widespread that he cannot dodge!'

In that moment, he thought about the "Black Ripper" ability that can literally cut anything into a trillion tiny slices.

Even atoms and molecules could be cut.

'I'll need to use it.'

Kiernan thought.

Since he came to that decision, it was also possible that Prisoner had also seen him use it in the future already.

There was a small smile lurking in Prisoner's lips as if he wanted him to do Black Ripper and see what happens.

'Black Ripper will fail…?'

Kiernan's eyes narrowed.

'Hehe, please use it.'

Prisoner thought with a smirk.

…

This was the future that Prisoner saw.

With the thought of using Black Ripper appearing in Kiernan's mind, he became very certain that it was the only move that he could do.

A serious expression appeared on his face.

'I'll do it… I'll cut him!'

Kiernan raised his right arm, and his fingers turned black with a steel shade.

In that moment, every atom and molescule trembled in fear of getting cut, and even the smoke wasn't going to be spared.

"Black Ripp—"

In that moment, Prisoner thrust his hand through Kiernan's muscular chest and even through his heart.

Since he was about to use Black Ripper, he had to completely abandon his defense in favor of offense.

That was enough for Prisoner to stab his hand straight through his heart.

"Cough…"

Kiernan coughed blood, and at that moment, he used "Tight Binding" and trapped the Prisoner's arm inside his body.

"Aaaaaargh!"

Kiernan reeled back his fist and punched at him.

"Hah, I've already seen that coming!"

Prisoner jumped off the ground and kneed the fist, shattering Kiernan's hand.

"…Ugh…"

Kiernan fell down on his knees, and his "Tight Binding" stopped working, so Prisoner got his arm freed.

That all happened in just five seconds.

…

Back to the present time.

'…Five seconds… Five seconds… That needs some serious speed…'

Kiernan thought.

He had another thought appear across his mind, but he wasn't sure whether it would, as it was quite experimental.

When he was stuck in Dead World's prison, he thought about a new technique that he wanted to use to escape that place.

He was lacking the strength and speed to use that technique to its maximum potential, but now, it could work.

'Let's try…'

At that moment, he started shrinking as he stopped using High Human, but he still kept using Flow State.

Flow State was draining his stamina extremely quickly, but since he was a True God, he had a very large reserve of stamina.

"Oh, what's this?"

Prisoner asked in surprise.

He'd already seen the technique in the future, but he didn't really know what it was really about, as he hadn't used that technique to attack in the future just yet.

"High Speedster."

Kiernan whispered, and then, his leg muscles tensed, and his heart started beating against his chest like a racing engine.

Vroom~ Vrrrrrr~ Vroom~

Like with High Human, he turned tall, almost standing at three meters, and his limbs turned really long.

His body was really skinny, and his neck extended almost to the length of a giraffe, and his fingers also elongated to an unnatural length.

"Huff…"

Kiernan puffed out smoke from his mouth and stared at Prisoner with a bit of a smirk and smile.

"Ah…"

Prisoner saw something happen in the future, and he gulped.

'Hah… hah… hah… Shit.'

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