Superhumans of the Dome City

Capro's facial muscles eerily writhed as the moving bones emitted a grating sound. He suddenly opened his eyes, his mouth full of sharp teeth expanding snake-like to a terrifying size, and from the depths of that horrifying cavity, a lethal red light shot forth!

"Desolate Form—Divine Communication, Sky-piercing Snake!"

Gongsun Ce sharply captured the true nature of that red light. What shot out rapidly from Capro's mouth was an entirely red, living snake! The snake, appearing as if it had lost its skin, glimmered bloodily as its speed created afterimages in the air, shooting forward like an arrow, aimed directly for Gongsun Ce's head!

However, the Sky-piercing Snake missed its mark, finding nothing where its target had once been. Capro's gaze shifted and he instantly noticed something amiss—Gongsun Ce, supported on just one foot, had tilted his entire body 60 degrees to the right. He hovered in mid-air in a pose common folks couldn't possibly achieve, as if frozen mid-fall!

"Telekinesis...?"

"Of course, telekinesis," replied Gongsun Ce, maintaining his pose. "It can attack others as well as aid oneself, isn't that easy to imagine?"

Capro retracted the Sky-piercing Snake, speaking strangely, "You don't seem too surprised?"

"I've seen experts skilled in this 'technology' before..." Gongsun Ce stressed the word , "technology," "But your appearance is indeed quite rare! How exactly did you train yourself to this state?"

Capro, now on all fours, pounced like an animal. This severely wounded foreigner seemed to disregard his injuries entirely, focused solely on killing his opponent with all his might. The Sky-piercing Snake shot out from his mouth once more, this time Capro aimed for Gongsun Ce's chest.

Gongsun Ce immediately straightened his body and created three telekinetic walls in the air to block the attack. Squinting, he sensed something was off: the red snake passed directly through the barriers, with the feedback from his telekinesis feeling like air!

Gongsun Ce quickly changed tactics, retreating while using telekinesis to hurl the broken stones from the ground. But again, the strange phenomenon occurred, with the red snake's forward momentum unbroken, and the stones passing through its body without causing any harm.

"My Sky-piercing Snake won't be stopped by these little tricks!"

Capro roared as he lunged forward, and Gongsun Ce tried several more times, throwing mud and leaves from a nearby flowerbed to block the snake. He realized this snake truly possessed bizarre properties, unaffected by either physical or telekinetic attacks, as though he were fighting a hallucination only he could see.

Gongsun Ce made a decision, he lifted his fist and struck directly at the enemy's real body with his telekinesis.

Capro deftly changed positions, moving in a zigzag pattern between the brick road and the flowerbed, yet was still hit by the unseen heavy fist. Flung into the air, Capro smirked triumphantly—the Sky-piercing Snake burst forth again from Capro's gaping maw, now at double the speed, flying towards Gongsun Ce!

He was hiding his skills. After the first exchange, Capro had realized how formidable this Superpower User was. He deliberately slowed his attack speed, willing to take another hit, just to make Gongsun Ce lower his guard so he could strike with full force, aiming for a lethal blow.

At this moment, Gongsun Ce hadn't changed his position; confident now, Capro had fully grasped the Superpower User's movement speed, convinced that this move would bring his enemy down!

But Gongsun Ce also had not moved. He focused intently on the snake charging straight at him, predicting its trajectory.

1 meter... 0.7 meters... 0.4 meters... In less than two seconds, the Sky-piercing Snake was about to touch his nose, and that's when Gongsun Ce swung his fist, striking the untouchable snake with his flesh!

Just by the way Gongsun Ce clenched his fist, one could tell he wasn't an expert in combat arts. But Gongsun Ce never needed martial techniques—his superpower allowed his punch speed to surpass that of an ordinary bullet... fast enough to outpace the full-force Sky-piercing Snake!

Thud! Gongsun Ce's right fist struck heavily into the Sky-piercing Snake's critical spot. The Superpower User didn't hesitate to follow through, twisting his fist to smash the crimson snake to the ground, creating a deep crater in the paving stones.

The crimson snake twitched on the ground for a moment, then vanished. From afar came a pained howl, and almost simultaneously Capro collapsed, convulsing as if struck in a vital spot himself.

"How..." Capro looked at him in shock, "Why...?!"

Gongsun Ce shook his arm, speaking calmly, "A snake that can't be touched by matter or energy is indeed a tough foe to defend against... But this also means you can't use it to attack stones or leaves because the Sky-piercing Snake will simply 'pass through' the targets. This presents an interesting problem, how exactly are you supposed to attack me with a snake that neither interferes nor can be interfered with?"

"This thing doesn't seem like an ability from the Illusion System; clearly, it must at least touch me to launch an attack. So, the solution is obvious: I just have to attack using a body it can touch."

The necessary explanation ended. There was no third listener on the scene, and Gongsun Ce said this out of respect for an opponent.

"A fair ability where we can only touch each other, huh. Any more questions, Capro Boli?"

Capro's expression was complex, mixed with frustration, loss, and satisfaction.

"No more, a fair duel... you are really strong..."

Capro closed his eyes and completely collapsed on the ground.

Gongsun Ce took out a silver pocket watch from his pocket, opened it, and saw it was four forty. Only three minutes had passed since he encountered Capro.

"Skipping class for a three-minute superpower duel... sounds like the title of a recent light novel. Mr. Capro is a madman, but surprisingly polite."

Gongsun Ce put away the pocket watch and began to think. In the cosmopolitan Capital of the Skies, ruled jointly by various countries with undercurrents flowing, encountering one or two "experts" was not unusual. However, Capro's appearance and mental state were too suspicious; this was not a normal situation.

Capro was a citizen of the Country... he was being hunted by many, he wanted to "summon the almighty God"... Bits and pieces in Gongsun Ce's mind came together, creating a ridiculous yet unsettling imagination.

Could it be a giant dragon? Gongsun Ce asked himself, could it be a Dragon Disaster?

This association was extremely absurd, and without evidence, ordinary people wouldn't consider this direction. But Gongsun Ce couldn't control his thoughts; he had just woken up from a nightmare, his memories lingering... if it was really a dragon... if the speculation became reality...

Scenes flashed through Gongsun Ce's mind—fog, ruins, a blood moon, a cuckoo. The images finally froze on the last scene of the nightmare, the Netherworld Dragon spreading its wings on top of the bell tower.

Fear exploded in his chest; panic and disgust made the superpower user extremely anxious, almost wanting to scream. Gongsun Ce clutched his chest, only feeling a foggy whiteness around him, unable to see clearly. The fog from the dream appeared again...

The fog had never really left.

"...!"

Gongsun Ce gasped sharply, trying to dispel the imagined fog. Behind the gradually fading gray-white haze, a small bud emerged.

Not a phantom born from the past, but a real entity. The sun cast a shadow behind Capro, and that bud grew within the shadow. Gongsun Ce remembered clearly that there had been nothing related to flowers there before.

Then, another bizarre event occurred before his eyes.

The bud bloomed in the shadow, blossoming into a small blue orchid, and a tall woman with blue hair emerged from the flower and smiled at Gongsun Ce.

"Well done, lad, extend your hand."

Gongsun Ce instinctively did as told.

The next second, a pair of bright handcuffs were clasped around the young man's wrists.

"Given that you engaged in close combat and contact with a giant dragon worshipper..." the blue-haired woman said regretfully, "I am sorry, but you need to be temporarily detained."