404: Chapter 404 Mythical Superpower: Time Scissors

"You... what did you say?!" The Fourth Princess was stunned.

Before she could even process the meaning of Jiang You's words.

"BOOM!!"

An indescribable, violently terrifying force of blood energy, like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years, erupted crazily from within Jiang You's body at this instant without any warning!

"Hummmm!"

The entire sturdy dungeon, built from black iron, shook violently under the impact of this aura, causing gravel and dust from the ceiling to rain down.

Jiang You's black clothes rustled loudly in the gale of blood energy, and his originally thin frame seemed to grow taller in that moment.

"Crack! Snap—!!"

Under the gaze of the terrified The Fourth Princess.

Those black iron chains, as thick as an arm and covered in runes, capable of withstanding the pulling force of a Fifth-Order demonic beast.

Were actually snapped inch by inch under the pull of this terrifying immense force, as if they were made of paper. They turned into countless broken iron shards that whistled sharply as they flew and splattered, striking the surrounding iron walls and sparking a series of dazzling flares!

Jiang You landed steadily on the ground.

He reached out to rub his wrists, which were reddened from the chains, and looked down from a height with eyes gleaming with a faint blue light at the girl who had fallen to the floor.

The suppression of the dungeon's laws and the one-month time limit.

They had completely expired today!

That peak power belonging to him had fully awakened in this very second!

He lacked nothing now!

"You... you..."

The Fourth Princess was forced to retreat repeatedly by the aftermath of the tyrannical blood energy. Her beautiful, large eyes were filled with shock that words could not express:

"You are actually a Divine Ability user too! And a Divine Ability user above the Fifth Order?"

Recalling how this man had been timid and submissive in front of her for the past month, even enduring having his head knocked by her for adding too much salt to the cooking.

Then looking at the terrifying figure before her, who was like a demon god descended into the world, with every movement creating sonic booms in the air.

The Fourth Princess felt completely overwhelmed, and the humiliation and anger of being deceived surged into her heart instantly.

Her large eyes instantly turned red, and crystalline tears welled up in them. Gritting her silver teeth, she screamed at Jiang You in a mix of anger and grievance:

"You big liar!"

"As expected, from the very moment you fell into my mansion, every word you said to me and every expression you made was all a lie!"

"BOOM!"

Following this tsundere princess's angry shout, a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering terrifying might erupted from her petite body at this moment!

It was a colorless and formless, yet bizarre power that made the surrounding air and even the flow of time feel sticky and delayed.

It was the power of the [Laws of Time], the most mysterious and tyrannical force in this world!

The splashing black iron fragments and the dust dancing in mid-air seemed to have had a slow-motion button pressed on them at this instant, floating in mid-air in a near-static state at an extremely bizarre speed.

The Fourth Princess raised her right hand slightly, her large eyes brimming with tears of shame and indignation:

"Today, this Princess will definitely cut you into pieces, you liar!"

"Hummmm—"

Accompanied by a tremor in the void, a phantom giant pair of scissors, fully two meters long, translucent jade in color, and wreathed in layers of golden time ripples, manifested out of thin air on her right side!

Innate Divine Ability, Time Scissors!

The Fourth Princess swung her right hand forward violently. The jade giant scissors, which seemed capable of cutting through time, carried a sharp spatial shriek and, wrapped in the power of the laws of solidified time, slashed fiercely towards Jiang You's head!

Although the "Time Scissors" were imposing, their aim was clearly and deliberately diverted away from Jiang You's vital points.

At her core, she was simple and kind, and she never intended to deal a lethal blow. She was purely throwing a tantrum out of frustration, just wanting to teach this liar a lesson, ideally by cutting his black clothes into rags.

Facing this punitive strike that carried a time lockdown.

Jiang You, standing in place, narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Swish!"

Deep within his originally pitch-black eyes, a streak of deep blue light instantly bloomed!

[Eye of Tianshu] activated!

Under the gaze of these mythical-grade eyes, the attack trajectory of the Time Scissors, the weak gaps in the flow of the Laws of Time, and even the power structure of The Fourth Princess—which had diverted from his vitals and held absolutely no killing intent—were all analyzed and laid bare in Jiang You's vision.

Having seen through the flaws in the structural laws, the remaining response became effortless.

The stone slab beneath Jiang You's feet instantly melted, and rolling black clouds surged up like boiling ink.

Just as the time-stagnation force carried by the Time Scissors was about to catch the corner of his clothes.

[Boundless Ink Realm] activated!

Jiang You's entire body transformed directly into a drop of void ink, and following the gap in the laws that the Eye of Tianshu had seen through, he instantly submerged into the ink clouds.

"Crack!"

The phantom jade scissors snapped shut fiercely. The sharp blades swept across, but only shredded a cluster of residual ink clouds that were slowly dissipating.

Meanwhile, in the corner of the dungeon more than ten meters away, the space distorted. Jiang You walked out of a cluster of ink clouds, hands in his pockets, not a single hair out of place, completely unscathed.

"Eh?"

Looking at the scissors that had missed, The Fourth Princess's originally puffed-up cheeks froze.

Her rosy little mouth opened slightly, and a flash of undisguisable surprise crossed her eyes.

She knew she had held back earlier, using only thirty percent of her strength.

But these "Time Scissors" still carried the tyrannical power of the [Laws of Time]!

An ordinary Fifth-Order Divine Ability user, if even grazed by this aura, would have to exert every ounce of effort just to move a finger and could only stand there obediently to be hit.

Yet this liar, full of deceit, was able to flash ten meters away in an instant under the suppression of the time lock, so smoothly and without the slightest sense of stagnation?

The Fourth Princess looked at the unscathed Jiang You, her beautiful big eyes widening round again, her face full of unbelievable horror.

"You..."

The Fourth Princess bit her slightly pale lower lip, and the imposing jade giant scissors by her side suddenly dissipated into a sky full of golden light spots, like a deflated balloon.

She did not continue to attack but instead lowered her head in grievance. The tears in her eyes finally could not be held back, and they fell with a "plop" onto the cold blue stone floor.

"To think you were hiding so much... I even secretly saved my favorite osmanthus cakes for you to eat every single day this past month."

The Fourth Princess sniffled, her voice soft and sweet, carrying a sense of disappointment that made one's heart ache:

"Every day, when you watched me tell you all those heartfelt words, were you laughing at me in your heart the whole time?"

"Thinking that I, this princess, am stupid and easy to fool like an idiot?"

Watching the girl before him, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, with absolutely no royal airs, Jiang You could not help but feel a pang of sympathy.

For this past month, this little princess had indeed treated him well.

There was no high-and-mighty bossing around, no rules requiring constant verbal or physical abuse.

Even when he first arrived and pretended to have a cold and fever, this girl had secretly run to the Imperial Hospital in the middle of the night, rummaging through cabinets to steal medicine for him, this "little servant."

Jiang You sighed.

He did not take the opportunity to activate his Supernatural Ability and escape; instead, hands in his pockets, he walked out of the shadows and back in front of The Fourth Princess step by step.

Seeing Jiang You return, The Fourth Princess looked up in surprise.

Jiang You extended his right hand.

The Fourth Princess instinctively shrank her neck back and closed her eyes tightly.

But the expected defense or attack did not land.

Jiang You's slender, warm hand landed gently on her head, and then, like soothing a bristling little kitten, he clumsily ruffled her soft, long hair.

"The osmanthus cakes were quite delicious; I didn't lie about that."

Jiang You looked at her large eyes, which had opened in surprise, and in his cold, stern gaze, a rare hint of genuine gentleness emerged:

"I didn't lie about my name either. My name really is Jiang You."

"Thank you for taking care of me this past month, Boss."