Chapter 45

"Su Jing!"

Lin Tan took a deep breath, staring at the figure riding the Phoenix, his expression grim.

"Jiang Lingying, is this appropriate?!"

"With your pride, you'd actually agree to be a mount?!"

"Like I wanted to!" Jiang Lingying immediately bristled.

"Crack!"

At that moment, a camera shutter sound suddenly came from above.

Above them, Su Jing had somehow pulled out a pink camera and taken a photo.

"Why are you taking pictures too?!"

"Is it really that photogenic?!"

Jiang Lingying, furious and embarrassed, forcibly broke free from her Golden Phoenix state.

Su Jing was forced to land.

Too bad—standing on Odin's head felt pretty good.

The view from atop the Golden Phoenix was uniquely different.

But seeing Jiang Lingying on the verge of breaking, Su Jing said no more.

He simply turned his gaze toward Lin Tan ahead.

"Is the game of hide-and-seek fun?"

"What do you think the outcome of this game will be?"

Lin Tan's face darkened: "Decade Driver, Kamen Rider Decade, the Destroyer of the World."

"This Driver actually has such power!"

"But it's meaningless."

"Su Jing, you've been gone for two years—you don't understand."

"Only the power of Time can determine the world's fate!"

"Your Decade may be interesting, but it still changes nothing!"

"The power of Time will ultimately birth a King, and the world's fate will be decided by it?" Jiang Lingying frowned slightly in confusion.

"You've heard this phrase before?"

Su Jing turned to her, puzzled.

Jiang Lingying cleared her throat, speaking awkwardly: "I don't know the details—I just heard an old man from the Knight Association mention it once."

"The power of Time will ultimately birth a King, and the world's fate will be decided by it."

"That's why the Knight Association values me so highly—they grant every request I make."

"Though they haven't given up trying to find my weakness and control me."

"The power of Time will ultimately birth a King, and the world's fate will be decided by it." Su Jing heard this and immediately thought of the Time King.

Time King. Isn't that the Time King? So this world has a Time King too.

That's going to be very interesting!

Meanwhile,

Jiang Lingying was still focused on the matter.

"How could a tiny organization like Destiny Technology know about this?"

"Even I didn't know anything about it."

"Destiny Technology is a small organization, true—but what does that have to do with Destiny?!"

Lin Tan's words left Jiang Lingying momentarily stunned.

"Destiny… isn't Destiny Technology?"

"Destiny Technology is just the company we use to study Game Disease," Lin Tan sneered.

"Just a shell—a cover for this plan?"

Xilina and Jiang Li walked out from outside.

"We at Truth Technology have also heard rumors that the Time System has finally birthed a King—so does that mean your choice to establish Destiny Technology in Jianghuai was to study Clock Up?"

Clock Up is different from ordinary acceleration.

Clock Up massively accelerates the particles around oneself, allowing free movement within the flow of time—in short, speeding oneself up while slowing time!

Beyond Clock Up even touches the realm of time-space travel.

Clock Up fundamentally interferes with time itself.

That's why Destiny chose this location.

All those Worms, the Thunder Wasps, and the other Riders—they were all used by you to study Clock Up! Lin Tan snorted: "Do you know the origin of the Worms?"

"Once, a meteor fell onto an island, bringing forth creatures called Worms."

"But in fact, over a year ago, another meteor fell—bringing forth creatures called Proto-Worms!"

"But those Proto-Worms had bad luck—they landed near Destiny, and their power was weak; we destroyed them effortlessly."

"Yet from the data those Proto-Worms carried, we discovered the technology of Clock Up."

"So Destiny decided to conduct experiments in Jianghuai—we partnered with the Jianghuai Association to help them create the Steel Fight and other Riders."

"And used them for data testing."

"And you also experimented on Game God?" Su Jing frowned, speaking calmly.

Lin Tan gave no answer: "After all, it was meant to be a one-time task."

"Then what about your Clock Up research results?" Jiang Lingying asked.

"The results were of course sent to headquarters long ago!"

"There are no backups here; you might as well give up."

Hearing this, Su Jing raised his fist slightly, ready to finish the other off: "So, does that mean you have no value?"

"Value? My very existence is value!"

"Su Jing, the scale of our Destiny far exceeds your imagination! This is a colossal entity with a long legacy; even the Knight Association appears pitifully weak in our eyes!"

"And the only way to join such an organization is to receive a recommendation from a member. I can recommend you to join Destiny!"

"In that case, the Knight Association will be unable to pose any threat to you whatsoever!"

Lin Tan was brimming with the will to survive.

He spoke with utmost seriousness and gravity.

"Oh? Sounds interesting, but what if I refuse?" Su Jing's eyes shifted subtly.

"Then you will become an enemy of our Destiny! My status within Destiny is important; if my talents are lost at your hands, Destiny will not let you go!" Lin Tan threatened, his voice fierce but his heart weak.

"A threat? How unfortunate! There are already too many people who don't want to let me go; one more makes no difference. After all, that's just how popular people are!"

Su Jing suddenly used Instant Transmission, appearing before Lin Tan.

"Damn it! You madman! This world isn't about killing and fighting; why do you always insist on taking everything to the extreme?"

Lin Tan was certainly not unprepared; his will to survive was strong.

He had already placed a Driver at his waist in advance, and a Gashat was inserted.

It was the Level 50 Fantasy Gamer Gashat.

It excels at manipulating telekinesis, force fields, and Instant Transmission, and can summon and control numerous Bugster Virus bodies to assist in battle! It is a very powerful form.

But the bad news was that his opponent was the Invincible Gamer.

Before the Invincible Gamer, except for those bugs, all beings are equal! "Ridiculous. Is refusing to associate with you considered taking things to the extreme?"

"Isn't it you who took things further?"

"Turning the people of an entire city into Bugster Virus bodies is truly a mad idea!"

"But do you know the fairest thing in this world?"

"When a person is killed, they die!"

The body of the Invincible Gamer Instant Transmissioned to appear before the Fantasy Gamer.

Then "Bang"! A heavy kick smashed directly into the Fantasy Gamer's chest.

Lin Tan had just completed his transformation when his body suffered a devastating blow.

"Su Jing!"

"I'll wait for you in hell! Destiny will not let you go!"

Boom! The Fantasy Gamer exploded on impact, kicked to pieces directly by the Invincible Gamer! (End of Chapter)