Chapter 326 System Skill Limitation (2/2)
”Oi, you. At least Tong was honest enough to confront me head-on without using this stupid trick to make me join him. But you, you claimed that you were me, but you used the trick that I hate the most. I'm disappointed, wannabe.”
Glancing behind his back, Lu Bu could see that more than half of his soldiers got inside the portal. He needed a few more minutes to all of them away from this hell-hole.
Lu Bu raised his fist and pointed his middle finger upward, wiggling it and taunting Khan, ”Come on, wannabe. Don't tell me that the future me forgets about his origins and is relying on tricks instead of our proud martial arts? Come, fight me with your real body!”
Khan took a deep breath and exhaled all air in his lung. It would be a lie to say that he was not mad.
He was pissed!
”I want the best for you, but you refuse my goodwill. Fine! I don't need you in this world! You and I are just strangers with similar experiences and past!”
The negotiating spirit charged at Lu Bu.
”[Negate Defense]!”
The soul struck Lu Bu with its halberd.
Lu Bu summoned his soul and passed over his halberd.
*CLANK*
Khan's halberd cut through Lu Bu's halberd like butter. However, despite using his skill, Lu Bu managed to parry it by using the weapon in his soul's hands to receive the strike.
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”FOOK!”
Khan lost his temper. He could use it against the real body of Tong, but he failed when he attacked the virtue soul of Lu Bu.
”Dumbass.”
Lu Bu unsummoned his soul back to his body. The two wings behind his back expanded once more as he gathered his aura into his halberd.
He swung it against the soul.
*SWUA*
The strike cut a wound on Khan's soul and caused the same injury on his body.
”Ghh! Damn it! How!?”
”A wannabe is always a wannabe. Die!”
As Lu Bu was about to strike the soul again, Khan summoned his soul back to his body, retreated from the battle.
Lu Bu snorted, ”Weakling!”
He turned around to his men who were entering the portal. He joined the queue at the backline and waited for his turn in patience.
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Khan stared at his injuries in frustration. He had thought that he was invincible with so many powers, yet he was defeated back to back by this world's Lu Bu and another otherworlder with fewer skills.
”Something is amiss! Why can't I kill them all!?”
Khan glared at his status and his skills. As he kept reading, his anger swelled within his heart.
Without a solution, he typed into the clan chat to get an answer from Liu Yang.
Khan: ”My skills aren't effective against Lu Bu and his spirits. Why is this happening!?”
Khan: ”I lost against my former self! My soul can't even land a hit on him!”
Liu Yang: ”…”
Liu Yang: ”I see that you met your alternate self, but that Lu Bu is not you. Remember that this is an alternate world, and you aren't traveling into the past.”
Liu Yang: ”Khan. You might have relied too much on the system skills. The immortals created this to give a bit of power to the mortals, so they can struggle to entertain them. Do you think they will hand over a mighty and invincible power to a mortal without a precaution?”
Liu Yang told Khan about the limitation of the system skills and reminded him that this world was a farce.
All skills that could harm mortals would render ineffective against awakened souls, angels, or demons. As sinners in hell were untrustworthy and carried graves sins, it would be illogical if the gods gave a power that could threaten the existence of heaven and hell to these wicked souls.
Any administrator that held the key of this universe's law could terminate all system skills of the mortals instantly, including the power of fellow immortals. Even if Lilim embedded the skills into the souls of the remaining otherworlders, they still held the ability to do so.
Moreover, the limitation of the skills would not change after the skills became one with the soul of any otherworlder.
This was a trick to make all sinners think that they were the gods of this new world. All participants of this show would eventually reveal their real desire to the public, and the immortals in heaven would enjoy the hypocrisy of the sinners.
This was a wicked reality show!
Khan: ”So I have no chance from the beginning!?”
Liu Yang: ”Actually, you have. Just come back in one piece, and I'll teach you.”
Khan: ”…”
Liu Yang: ”Accept my guidance, brat.”
Khan was about to type that he accepted. Suddenly, painful feeling from his jaw and the previous cuts on his chest reappeared. Upon touching them, Khan found that his injuries remained even after he used the instant regenerative skill from [Immortal Yang Vein].
He summoned his souls to examine the previous wounds. As he had suspected, the souls who received the cut and the strikes retained the previous injuries.
”I see. I can't even heal my souls with my regen ability. Is this the soul injuries I need to be careful about?”
Khan asked Liu Yang again, and he got his answer.
Soul injuries could not be healed by ordinary means or system skills. He had to stop using skills and his souls for a few years to recuperate, or he might die from chronic injuries.