Allen thought bitterly.
As his stamina rapidly depleted, Allen’s movements began to falter.
Marianne immediately seized the opportunity; her dagger became a lightning strike aimed at Allen’s heart!
At this critical moment, time seemed to slow down!
Allen’s Future Sight activated!
Sure enough!
Allen’s guess was completely correct!
Future Sight was a permanent passive ability, only triggering when faced with a true death threat!
That slumbering master might really have gifted him a great boon!
Allen offered a small apology for his previous disrespect.
As the saying goes, a wrong has its head and a debt its owner; realizing he had wrongly blamed the god, Allen only hated the “Observer” more.
Using Future Sight, Allen predicted the attack’s trajectory and grabbed Marianne’s wrist!
“How did you do that?”
Marianne was surprised.
“It’s a blessing from the master; I can foresee fatal attacks on me.”
Allen completely trusted Marianne now and decided to share his secret.
“Like an Emblem?”
“Almost.”
Feeling the time was right, Allen lowered his voice and seriously revealed the truth to Marianne:
“The power of Emblems and False Crests both come from the evil god. This secret—don’t tell anyone.”
Even with mental preparation, this shocking truth made Marianne dizzy!
“No wonder the enemy is the whole world…” she murmured, suddenly realizing something, “What about Livia? Her Emblem is so strong…could it be…”
Allen nodded heavily, “I suspect she might have become a pawn of the evil god.”
Marianne understood!
Her suspicion was true!
“You had me stay with Livia to save her…you really are that kind-hearted…”
“De…”
Allen hadn’t thought that far.
“Come on, Marianne!”
Allen decided to end the topic and perked up to test his limits, “Take into account my precognition and try to kill me!”
“Alright, young master!”
The battle resumed!
With his stamina nearing the limit, Allen’s Future Sight triggered more and more frequently.
Sweat poured like rain, stars flashed in his vision, and his body felt heavy as lead!
After one final block, Allen collapsed exhausted with a “plop,” gasping heavily.
“…”
Exhausted like a dead dog, Allen’s face wore a gentle, satisfied smile; the madness of before seemed gone.
Allen now knew the limit of his ability.
Future Sight could only predict enemy attacks within five seconds and each trigger greatly increased his physical burden.
Even if Allen could always dodge attacks using Future Sight, his energy bar was finite, and over time, he would be worn down to death!
Fortunately, Allen had no Emblem; enemies often underestimated those without one.
Thus, the best use of Future Sight was to purposely show openings early, lure the enemy deep, trigger Future Sight to dodge fatal blows, and then kill decisively while the opponent was stunned recovering!
As a noble, no-cooldown passive skill, Future Sight’s initial strike ability was far scarier than any Emblem!
This tactic was inspired by Allen’s life-for-life battle with the pseudo Emblem Knight, perfectly fitting his “Villain Reincarnation Style.”
Allen decided to name this new technique “Villain Reincarnation Style – Enhanced.”
Allen knew Livia, the battle fiend, wouldn’t fall for his weakness display or lower her guard.
That woman knew well that even when a lion fights a rabbit, it uses full strength.
His “Villain Reincarnation Style – Enhanced” was fine against lesser foes but would be very difficult against Livia, a hexagonal warrior.
Livia’s close combat prowess was strong, and her ranged output surpassed most Emblembearers.
Even if Allen could dodge ranged attacks with Future Sight, Livia could kite him to death, stealing damage at distance.
Theoretically, Livia wouldn’t play such dirty tactics.
She sincerely believed that warriors were noble professionals who won honorably.
Those using ranged attacks were cowards.
As a crafty villain, Allen believed Livia was honorable, but he did not trust the evil god behind her!
Livia’s suspicious behavior when killing Allen last cycle likely meant the evil god intervened.
That was terrifying!
When Livia dated, the evil gods must have been sitting back watching the show!
Thinking carefully…the evil god controlling Livia was somewhat like the player of Starshine Serenade.
The protagonist’s role looked glamorous but was essentially a puppet manipulated by invisible hands.
Sometimes the protagonist was a tool for the author, sometimes for the screenwriter, and worst of all for the producers, having their traits forcibly changed for commercial appeal.
By contrast, villains were freer; all creators could interpret villains as they liked.
Even a character like the Joker had countless origins and creative angles.
Indeed, being a villain was freer!
No matter what, Allen now had a cheat.
Thinking of all past humiliations, Allen finally felt a sense of pride.
What he lacked now was physical strength, which could be trained.
How to deal with Livia’s arrogant Emblem still depended on whether the Church’s Artifact was powerful enough.
Great!
Allen’s chances of defeating Livia had risen from zero to ten percent.
Next, Allen would face the greatest challenge of this cycle—
Controlling the Church as God’s Messenger.
Allen instantly roused himself, shaking off his fatigue!
“Marianne, help me up.”
As Marianne helped him up, Allen complimented: “Not bad, Marianne, your master-level assassin skills are well deserved; crushing weak Emblembearers is no problem.”
Marianne smiled, “Young master, you were only on the receiving end. If you had fought back, I would have lost. You’re the real strong one.”
“I’m no strong one; I’m still far from Livia.”
Allen shook his head.
When Allen said this, he instinctively ignored one fact—
The opponent he saw as a rival, Livia, was the holder of the protagonist’s aura, the legendary child of fortune!
As a minor villain, beating such a protagonist was like a fool’s dream!
But Allen’s vision had already ascended far beyond Livia’s.
The “Observer” could crush entire planets with ease, and the other evil gods were unspeakably terrifying.
After witnessing the scale of the “Observer” and evil gods, Livia, in Allen’s eyes, was just so-so.
If he couldn’t defeat Livia, how could he save humanity?
Allen had successfully upgraded from a minor villain young master to an ancient god-level major villain!
His villainous motives were beyond reproach, arguably better than the protagonists’.
His enemy was the lofty gods; he would save the world Livia could not!
Allen couldn’t help but sympathize with Livia.
You arrogant phoenix, you truly are pathetic.
You have the power to change the world but only know how to show off and slap down others at the academy.
Your vision is too small!
Such protagonists, Allen disdained playing.
He would be the strongest villain!
Allen’s goal was the vast starry sea!
Humanity in the 21st century had long forgotten the golden age of cosmic exploration.
People preferred to bury their heads in cyberpunk landscapes rather than look up at the stars.
But Allen firmly believed only the universe was humanity’s ultimate destiny!
Since humanity could come from distant Earth to this planet, Allen would make humanity set sail again to find his beloved home!
That was the true scale a great villain should have!
Allen’s heart ailment was better, but his chuunibyou had only worsened.
Thus, possessed by the soul of chuunibyou, this villainous young master could no longer suppress his joy and excitement, howling to the sky: “Ha ha ha ha! I have mastered divine power and am invincible! A mere Livia is no match for me!”
That was right!
Allen was truly invincible!
With his current strength, he wasn’t afraid of any non-Emblem bearer.
Emblems were the evil god’s conspiracy; all Emblembearers were enemies from the heavens!
So even if he lost to Livia, Allen was still invincible!
For Allen, there was only small wins, medium wins, and big wins.
What others called losing was just Allen playing an unfathomably complex long game.
That’s a villain, listen to Allen!
“Alone, I will topple the whole f*cking world!”
Allen spread his arms wide, indulging in the chuunibyou fantasy of one man against the entire world.
Marianne watched as Allen completely shook off the collapse and despair, returning to that somewhat seriously ill villainous young master.
She clapped happily, cheering him on.
“Yeah! Young master is invincible! He will make Livia kneel and bring her home as his bride!”
“Marianne, what’s with your imagination? Can you even say that in your position?”
Finally, Allen harshly lectured Marianne on the topic of failing as a yuri heroine.
“Even if it’s NTR yuri! It’s still a tragic yuri tainted by men aaaaaahhh!!!”
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