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This is not a mental limitation, but a physical limit that cannot be crossed.
but……
"Oh, what about now? Can you still stand up?"
Su Qing said calmly.
Bert's eyes went dark and he fell down again.
His mental state was already very bad, and he would have fainted from a simple impact. But at this moment, even though he felt his body getting heavier and every cell in his body felt as if being pricked by needles, he still remained conscious.
In the past, the feeling of being attacked by Livilia's magic was like a spring breeze. Bert gritted his teeth, trying to support his body, but his muscles were trembling with pain.
Twice in a row, he just managed to support himself a little and then stopped.
Su Qing nodded slightly.
...It’s about this level!
No matter how strong one's will is, whether it's two digits or three digits, there is no way to surpass this physical limit. Under the same circumstances, one will definitely faint after enduring the pain to a certain extent.
But the closer you are to the physical limits, the more developed your spirit is, the stronger your willpower is, and the greater your potential is.
If the top strong man in the box garden controls the body of the werewolf boy... even if he does not use any means to block the pain, he can fully exert his strength before reaching the physical limit that the body can withstand.
He was still able to control his body's movement when he was about two levels away from the limit... At this level, it was not bad.
Su Qing nodded slightly, put down the teacup, and was about to raise her hand.
"stop!"
A thin sword was placed in front of Su Qing.
The girl with blonde hair stood in front of Su Qing: "That's it."
Su Qing paused, then smiled and shook his head.
He didn't need to say anything. Bert, who was lying on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry about me, Ai Si. I started this fight."
“That’s why I’ve been watching until now!”
Ai Si said, her calm face showing no emotion at all, "But you have reached your limit!"
"You must be kidding! I didn't--"
As if he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his companions, Bert gritted his teeth and seemed to want to stand up again...
But when he was halfway through supporting his body, he stumbled and fell to the ground with a thud.
Fainted.
Su Qing shrugged. He was surprisingly fond of showing off in front of girls!
At the same time, the anger of Loki's family who were watching the battle on the sidelines seemed to be unable to be contained.
Anyone would be angry if their clan members were tortured to this extent, right?
The Loki clansmen around him were on alert. Su Qing pointed at the werewolf on the ground and said, "Why don't you help your companion first?"
"…but it is more important to be vigilant to you, little brother!"
An Amazon said coldly, "Who are you, little brother?"
"You'll know when Loki comes."
"Then stay here and don't do anything unnecessary."
Su Qing sneered and spread his hands, saying, "I didn't even leave my chair."
So, I want to know who you are!
Amazon sighed in his heart. He didn't even leave his chair and just dealt with a top adventurer as if it was a joke... This person is definitely a dangerous person.
With a creak, the door of the conference room was opened, and the red-haired goddess poked her head in, looking at the situation in front of her and tilted her head.
"Who can tell me what is going on now?"
"Loki!" The Amazon breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I don't know how the werewolf brother provoked this guest, and now he is tortured to death?"
"Torture?" Loki blinked and looked at Su Qing in surprise: "Why is it you?"
"Who else could it be if not me?" Su Qing spread his hands.
Loki glanced at Su Qing, then looked at Dubert who was lying on the ground covered in sweat.
The goddess sighed faintly: "...If he offends you, please show mercy."
Su Qing shook her head and said, "It's not like I want to use this method... Your God's Grace, the method of developing potential is too bad."
“This is a necessary process to make up for the potential.”
Chapter 28 Potential
"Make up for the potential?"
After hearing Su Qing's words, Loki was stunned.
"The God's Grace system is too crude?"
The Loki clan members who were watching could not help but fall into silence.
God's grace has been the standard for the strong in the underworld for a thousand years. During this thousand years, humans have gone from struggling to survive on the ground to suppressing monsters in the dungeons. This change is visible to everyone.
God's grace is indeed a gift from the gods to human beings on earth. Many people think so - humans can clearly see whether they are living a better or worse life than people thousands of years ago.
Many people only saw the surface and thought that this change was due to the transition from the Age of Heroes to the Age of Adventurers.
Even though today's top adventurers cannot compare to the heroes of the past, adventurers have the advantage in numbers, and the role played by the adventurers together is far more powerful than one or two heroes in ancient times - many people think so.
It is true that the lives of people in the underworld have become more comfortable over the past thousand years, but the real reason is that the gods have descended to the underworld, and Uranus has used his divine power to suppress the underground city for hundreds of years.
When the gods came to the world, they claimed that they sealed up all their powers to experience life. This statement has been circulating in Orario for a thousand years. Imperceptibly, humans in the underworld generally believe that the gods did nothing and that suppressing the monsters in the dungeon was all the work of adventurers.
At least the top adventurers don’t think that they are worse than the heroes of the past - even though everyone can see that today’s adventurers are far inferior to the heroes of the past and can never hurt the black dragon, many adventurers think that it is just an isolated case.
The Age of Heroes lasted for thousands of years, and only one hero could hurt a black dragon. It was not surprising that the Age of Adventurers could not defeat a black dragon after thousands of years.
It’s not that adventurers are not as good as heroes, it’s just that adventurers are not as good as the hero who hurt the black dragon. They are not necessarily inferior to other heroes.
There are many people who think so.
——This makes me a little confused.
In fact, for ancient heroes, the difficulty has never been fighting against strong enemies, but facing the sea of monsters.
Nowadays, almost all the clans are stationed in Orario to play dungeons. There are not many monsters in the dungeons. Adventurers only need to defeat three or two big and small cats before they can face the floor master.
But the ancient heroes were different. The situation at that time was that the monsters in the dungeon had overflowed onto the surface, and the armies of humans and other races had a hard time facing the monsters on the surface.
From the moment they enter the dungeon, the heroes have to clear the monsters on each floor by themselves, and there are usually not enough supplies. One of the biggest differences between the dungeons at that time and the dungeons today is that there are no safe floors.
The setting of the dungeon, which provides a resting place for adventurers, is the condition negotiated with the dungeon when the gods descended to the world. It is a convenience only available in the age of adventurers.
Thousands of years ago, ancient heroes would often enter from the first floor with a few teammates they trusted and some supplies, and go straight to a boss that kept spawning monsters, and kill the boss with the attribute of spawning monsters.
As long as there are no monsters overflowing the dungeon, the dungeon will temporarily hold off on releasing the monsters to the surface.
The dungeon also needs to retain enough combat power to protect itself. If too much combat power is sent out and the interior is too empty, the dungeon will worry about being directly killed by the heroes.
——At least in the Heroic Age a thousand years ago, the Black Dragon guarded the dungeon. After the Age of Adventurers came, the Black Dragon moved outside of Orario.
Compared to today's adventurers, there is a safe floor every ten floors. Even in areas like the 50th floor where few followers can reach, the dungeon has reserved safe floors for adventurers. And now that the black dragon is no longer in the dungeon...
All I can say is that if such conditions were given to ancient heroes, it is hard to say whether they could defeat the black dragon. But as long as the heroes are not too weak, it would not be a problem for them to kill their way through the dungeon and reach the BOSS guarding the black dragon.
The gods kept promoting that they had sealed their divine power in the lower world, so many adventurers thought that the peace on earth was due to their efforts, ignoring the fact that the suppression of the dungeon by the might of Uranus was a negative buff for the dungeon.
After all, according to common sense, who would not have some confidence as an adventurer who could stand at the pinnacle of today's era? Who would feel from the bottom of their heart that they were not as good as the heroes of the past?
They are all the pinnacle of their times. Who would be willing to admit that they are worse than the heroes of the past?
——Except for a few people who have been hit by reality.
Livilia couldn't help but frown as she recalled the bad past.
Before the Hera clan went to attack the black dragon, the Loki clan could only take the second place.
As a member of the elf royal family whose age was close to... her age was a secret, she came to Orario, joined Loki's clan, and was then beaten by a girl who was less than twenty years old.
Hera's family, Alfia.
She and Alfia both served as magic guards in different families, but the little girl, who was less than one-fifth of her age, was much stronger than her.
That would have been fine, but after the Hera clan was wiped out by the black dragon, the only survivor Alfia cooperated with the plan of the god Erebus at the time, wanting to use her seriously ill body as the cornerstone of the new era, and serve as the villain to destroy Orario. As a result, she was conquered by the adventurers of the new era for her achievements.
At that time, Livilia still had some confidence in fighting with Alfia.
At that time, she was a level 6 adventurer, and Alfia was level 7, but Alfia was terminally ill and seriously injured, so they were barely on the same level - that was what Livilia thought at the time.
So she was hung and beaten.
Being beaten would be fine, let's just assume that the gap between lv7 and lv6 is too big, and she is no match even when she is seriously ill - the key is that during the turmoil several years ago, Livilia fought with the opponent more than once.
In their first fight, she had almost no ability to fight back. In their last fight, the opponent showed his weakness and said that she had been suppressing her abilities. He could beat her at will in his seriously injured state, which showed that he had already let her win by an unknown amount.
Livillia was devastated.
Unlike today's adventurers, Livilia is well aware that there is an immeasurable gap between herself and the pinnacle of the adventurer era.
As someone who had come through the Zeus-Hera family period, she had seen what it meant to be an adventurer.
Alfia was known as a monster of talent, but she was still not the pinnacle of the adventurer era. Among her peers, she might have been the strongest adventurer at the time, but until her death, Alfia was only level 7.
The leader of the Hera clan, the lv9 empress, stronger than Alfia.
The Zeus clan and the Hera clan worked together, with one level 9, multiple level 8s, and countless level 7s, but they were crushed to the black dragon - so much so that now Livilia didn't want to think about how to surpass the black dragon.
With the current Orario's rotten fish and shrimp? If they form a team to fight the Black Dragon, wouldn't it be like a toy car that will break into pieces at the first touch?
The strongest adventurer in Orario right now, level 7 Ota... was killed in seconds by Alfia.