My SSS-Rank Clone Talent: I Level Up Endlessly! novel Chapter 64

Chapter 64: A Man of Sheer Will!

"Sigh, I can’t reach it."

Chun Ma extended his hand, only for the string to go further away.

The shadows kicked his hand away and attacked him right in the head.

Chun Ma immediately assumed a fetal position to defend against his vital organ:

’When did I become so weak?’

A thought emerged in his mind: ’They are me, with every single thing copied from my strength to my behaviour to even the experience I have learned.’

He slowly let go of his hand, and the leg swung, slamming into his head in one fluid motion.

Bang!

Blood dripped from his forehead, gradually covering his face and entering his parched lips.

"This blood..." Chun Ma murmured, his tongue tasting the metallic warmth. "It feels so warm."

For a moment, the world fell silent, an eerie stillness ringing in his ears, as if time itself had paused.

The shadows moved so slowly they seemed like snails, no, even slower than that.

Chun Ma’s gaze fixed on the string dangling before him, so close, yet just out of reach.

"I... I understand now."

His blue pupils brightened, gleaming like stars. "This string is nothing but a trick of the mind, a false hope, an illusion that is binding me."

He looked at his own fist in his blurry vision:

"There is no shortcut to power. You must work hard for it. This string was the illusion of my mind that bound me instead of a chance to break through."

Chun Ma revised all his fights till now with closed eyes, not only of him fighting these shadows, but every fight till now.

It not only went to the fight with that necromancer but also to the memories of Drayken, where he fought with numerous opponents with his fist.

Every angle and every direction was being quickly analysed in his head. He created a problem where he could have fought more efficiently and found a solution to that problem.

It was a slow and tedious process, but he was completely immersed in this, his mind taking on a trance-like state as he blankly stared ahead with his vision blurry and crimson.

"I see. I understand it all."

Chun Ma uttered a single sentence and looked towards the fists and kicks that were all aimed towards him and could reach him anytime, as the most optimal way for him to fight came to his mind.

An image gradually formed in his mind; this image was blurry and very hard to see, but he could feel it, as if it was a part of him itself.

He opened his bloodied mouth:

"Is this my Will?"

Chun Ma blinked, and he went back to Martial Space, where there were shadows that surrounded him from all sides, attacking him.

The entire place resumed its course, and time started to flow freely without any resistance.

Chun Ma was still in his fetal position, and the fists and kicks quickened almost immediately.

But Chun Ma didn’t panic, despite the buzzing head and blurry crimson vision.

Just when the kick was about to land, an invisible hand caught it. The shadow tilted its head in confusion.