My Ability Is Role-playing

Chapter 480 - 474: Stop Fooling Yourself! You’re Just Humiliating Yourself!

Many unscrupulous editors and self-media creators often use exaggerated terms to describe certain extraordinary strongmen when drafting their articles.

For example, terms like "Infinite Divine Power," "Boundless Power," "The Maximum Speed Achievable by a Lifeform," "Power Beyond All," "Immeasurable Giant Power," "Unparalleled," "Speed Beyond the Universe’s Limits," "Ultimate Power," and so on...

In reality, those newly praised extraordinary stars, when speaking with data, can at best sprint a hundred meters in about six or seven seconds.

Such data, placed in the past, could indeed be called superhuman, but in today’s era, it doesn’t match up to these flattering words at all.

Ma Ran has now pushed "Burning Martial" to the Twenty-First Rank, utilizing the power of the Star Magnetic Field to propel himself at nearly thirty thousand meters per second!

Moreover...

With his usual modest style, who knows if he’s holding back?

Even so, Ma Ran is already incredibly strong.

Consider this: a full marathon is 42 kilometers, and with Ma Ran’s current speed, it would take just a little over a second to complete the entire course.

And before the Extraordinary Era, the world record for a marathon was Kipchoge’s 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 40 seconds.

The gap is too big, like comparing heaven and earth, simply incomparable.

Su Qiangwei [Yukong] flew over, arriving next to Ma Ran, with a flame of battle intent burning in her eyes, eagerly saying, "Wanna race? Around the Earth’s equator, let’s see who’s faster!"

She couldn’t care less about some trivial data!

Though Ma Ran’s displayed movement speed is indeed impressive, it can’t possibly make Master Qiangwei back down!

Without a real fight, she would never think she’s inferior to Ma Ran!

Ma Ran gave her a faint glance: "The time to face the Second Generation God of Slaughter might come sooner. If you have time, fine-tune your killer moves and strengthen your training."

Hearing this, Su Qiangwei raised her eyebrows, a gleam flickering in her clear eyes, eagerly saying, "Gonna slay a god again?"

Since the advent of the Extraordinary Era, apart from a few major events and battles, she has never stopped training and tempering herself.

To surpass Ma Ran, purely shutting herself away is absolutely not viable.

After each secluded cultivation, Su Qiangwei would take on academy tasks, going around killing alien invaders. The number of aliens she’s killed with her own hands is as numerous as fish in a river, too many to count.

Their bodies stacked together could form a small mountain, and their blood accumulated could form a river.

But...

Killing gods is way more fun than killing people!

No matter in which game, monsters with the word "god" in their name always give more experience points than others!

As Extraordinary Ones grow stronger, their mindsets are gradually changing too.

Su Qiangwei is already the most down-to-earth among top-tier Extraordinary Ones, yet even she sometimes inadvertently shows a mindset completely different from ordinary people.

Like now.

Outside the venue, so many journalists, so many camera lenses are aimed at her and Ma Ran, countless netizens from all over the world are paying attention here...

If it were others her age, they might be nervous, might subconsciously distance themselves from Ma Ran to avoid rumors and gossip.

But Su Qiangwei doesn’t care about any of this, boldly challenging Ma Ran.

Outside the venue, amid the crowd, Li Xing looked up at the sky, then glanced at Dong Huaiming beside him, sighing, "So affectionate... they’re even spreading dog food at a time like this, I feel like I don’t need dinner today."

Xiao Ming, however, let out a cold laugh: "Affectionate display? What a joke! In this world, no one is worthy of Brother Ran! Not even Su Qiangwei!"

What do you call a brainless fan?

This is it.

Li Xing pouted, didn’t bother to argue, just lightly stated the facts, "Neither Brother Ran nor Sister Qiangwei has ever been so close to other members of the opposite sex."

Most members of the Grass Hut Academy know that Su Qiangwei challenges Ma Ran every now and then.

The first few times, after every match, the members and staff of the academy would all go hungry — this girl with the title of "Martial God" seemed to have a bottomless stomach like a dimensional pocket, capable of consuming all the food supplies in the dining hall alone.

Later, before each challenge from Su Qiangwei to Ma Ran, she had to make an advance application to avoid everyone going hungry again.

Though very few could watch the matches up close, the internal members of the academy could more or less infer some things from the post-match states of Su Qiangwei and Ma Ran.

In their internal sparring, Ma Ran probably had never lost.

Moreover, perhaps he consistently maintained a comprehensive combat power far exceeding Su Qiangwei.

Otherwise, Su Qiangwei wouldn’t keep losing yet be completely unharmed each time, just with a slightly increased appetite.

As the saying goes — to hit is to love, to scold is to care.

In Li Xing’s thoughts, their relationship must have reached a certain depth... right?

...

United Kingdom, West Midlands County, Birmingham.

This is the UK’s second largest international city after London, with a population and area second only to London, located in central England, on the main railway line between London and Liverpool, with convenient and accessible transportation.

As the region with the youngest population in Europe, the streets and alleys are full of teenagers, with few middle-aged and elderly people in sight.

In front of the Cadbury Candy Factory, William put down his phone, not looking too pleased.

"What? Have you lost your confidence and fighting spirit?"

From the microphone came the voice of the "Undying Gentleman" Bradley: "Have you chosen to give up without even truly competing?"

"This is not the ’Light Speed Gentleman’ I know."

Hearing this, William sighed.

Although Ma Ran broke through to the twenty-first rank of the "Burning Martial," his absolute speed still doesn’t quite compare to William’s.

After all, superpowers are completely unreasonable, not scientific at all. The "Chasing Light" ability allows William to forcibly increase his movement speed to nearly light speed, without changing his power, attack power, and defense power!

It’s almost like exploiting a glitch, locking other parameters and only modifying the speed attribute.

Even so, after watching the public news conference, William confirmed one thing—if they stood on opposing sides, Ma Ran could completely wear him down using the Star Magnetic Field for displacement.

The guy stands still without making a move, and he can’t even break through his defense!

Even if he abandoned his pride for a sneak attack, a hundred attempts would definitely result in a hundred failures and deaths.

With this thought, William said gloomily, "Don’t use provocations on me; this kind of strategy is meaningless for me."

"That mysterious ’Prophet’ from the Eastern Ancient Country progresses far too quickly."

"Although ’Chasing Light’ allows me to get infinitely close to light speed, the fact remains that superpowers have the phenomenon of superpower erosion."

"The Prophet accelerates himself to that degree without expending much power."

"And I, in that state, can’t hold on for three minutes..."

All masculine features would be completely lost!

The proud, beautiful beard would swiftly fall off!

The Adam’s apple would become less pronounced!

Most critically, the man’s pride would disappear without a trace!

How could anyone stand that?

Theoretically, the superpower erosion phenomenon of the "Chasing Light" ability doesn’t even rank among the multitude of superpower erosions.

At the very least, William, with his strong male pride, absolutely does not want to become the opposite sex.

To return to a male body, he would have to constantly self-suggest and might even need to rely on other superpower users to change his soul’s gender to female.

This is the disgusting aspect of the superpower erosion of "Chasing Light."

To that degree, even if others don’t look at William differently, he couldn’t get over it in his own heart.

This is William’s character flaw.

But this kind of thing isn’t something that can be changed at will, otherwise the number of humans with ’self-perceived perfect personality’ would have broken ten million long ago.

At this point, William gritted his teeth and changed the subject: "Even if I completely abandon my sense of shame... ignoring the effects of superpower erosion, I still have significant shortcomings compared to that Prophet."

"I..."

"Don’t possess the ability to fly!"

Flight, even in today’s Extraordinary Era, is not an ability you can find everywhere.

Hearing this, Bradley seemed affected as well: "By what you say, unless I cultivate the ’Burning Martial’ to a high level, I also have no way to fly directly, just harder to kill."

"So..."

"My suggestion is..."

"Stop deceiving yourself!"

"Neither you nor I have any comparability with the ’Prophet’."

"It serves no purpose other than self-humiliation."

With that, Bradley collected his spirits, changing his tone: "We and that ’Prophet’ are all Earthlings, not enemies or competitors."

"Now, what you and I should do is identify our goals and achieve them step by step."

"My pursuit is my own strength."

"And you, as long as you push your own advantages to the extreme, can bring glory to the country!"

This is typical self-consolation.

In the face of Ma Ran’s extraordinary talent, both of them had completely lost the confidence they once had and could no longer muster the courage to compete with Ma Ran.

...

China, Anhui, Fulan Academy.

In the fighting room.

Song Chu put down his phone and looked at He Nanguang not far away, worriedly saying: "During the earlier live broadcast of the press conference, others might not have noticed, but you..."

"Should have also realized the problem, right?"