In an instant, Ace collapsed directly, blood slowly trickling from his seven orifices.
The moment Ace's will clashed with Groudon's will, Ace was already on the verge of death.
However, fortunately, Ace had already prepared a fallback plan when he thought of threatening Groudon.
Just as Ace's consciousness was about to collapse, five pre-set Mission Points were consumed, and the system's Perfect-Grade Body Repair began to operate, directly repairing Ace's consciousness and body.
Groudon felt the ant that he was about to crush into dust with one finger suddenly recover. Feeling confused, he exerted his will again, crushing the restored consciousness once more.
But Ace reacted quickly, having set up an automatic consumption of five Mission Points every three seconds on the system to restore himself.
Thus, just as Groudon was about to crush Ace to death, Ace recovered again.
"Impossible?!"
Feeling Ace recover again, Groudon felt an extremely absurd sensation. His full power strike couldn't even kill an ant anymore?!
"Come on, aren't you incredibly powerful? Kill me!"
Ace recovered and loudly mocked Groudon.
Groudon instantly went into a frenzy, crushing Ace again and again.
Five times, eight times, ten times.
After ten consecutive times, Groudon strangely found that the ant he could easily crush had suddenly become a somewhat prickly ant.
Ace also noticed this. As his consciousness was constantly shattering and restructuring, his consciousness was strengthening at an extremely fast pace.
Ace glanced at his over six hundred remaining Mission Points, a slight smile on his lips, and taunted Groudon: "Keep going! Have you not eaten for so many years that you have no strength left?!"
"I'll kill you!!!"
Groudon went berserk again, exerting his will to crush Ace once more.
Ace silently endured it, then changed the automatic consumption from three seconds to five seconds.
Thirteen times, Ace adjusted again, changing it to ten seconds.
Twenty times, Ace yawned and changed it to thirty seconds.
Fifty times, Ace hesitated and canceled the automatic recovery. Looking at Groudon, who hadn't managed to crush his consciousness in five whole minutes, Ace said helplessly: "Keep going, you can crush me if you just try a little harder. Look how annoying I am; you definitely need to use all the strength you've got!"
Fifty-one times, Ace continued to encourage Groudon: "Come on, Groudon."
Groudon: ...
Listening to Ace cheer him on, and feeling that consciousness as hard as a rock, Groudon almost wanted to cry.
He had never encountered any being whose consciousness could continuously regenerate, and each time it shattered and reassembled, it would become a little stronger.
The change from easily crushing him at the beginning to now failing to crush him after almost ten minutes of effort terrified Groudon.
Sensing the power squeezing his consciousness dissipate, Ace was stunned for a moment, then quickly said to Groudon: "Keep going! Just a little more effort, and maybe you can crush me."
"I don't believe you; you human is very bad!"
Groudon roared at Ace, his tone no longer having the initial rage, but with a slight tremor in his voice. Clearly, Groudon was somewhat scared.
Ace got up from the ground, wiping the dried blood clots from his face.
Smacking his lips, Ace picked up the pickaxe from the ground, swung it around once, and said to Groudon in his consciousness: "Alright, now let's have a proper talk. You have two paths; which one will you choose?"
Groudon: ...
"Honestly, I'm genuinely curious about the taste of your meat now. How about you be a little tougher?"
Ace's mouth curved up. With a sudden force, he slammed the pickaxe onto Groudon's body.
Instantly, a small opening was chiseled into Groudon's solid outer skin, but Groudon's hide was very thick, and the blow hadn't penetrated the skin yet.
Seeing this, Ace applied force again, striking Groudon's body again and again, leaving over a dozen wounds on Groudon.
Groudon felt the situation on his body and only felt his liver tremble. This human was definitely not joking; he genuinely wanted to eat him!
Looking at the connected cracks, Ace inserted the pickaxe and pried hard, tearing off a large piece of Groudon's armor.
Sensing a part of his rigid outer skin being torn away, Groudon instantly panicked.
Noticing Ace taking the skin and raising the pickaxe once more, Groudon immediately backed down, roaring loudly in Ace's mind: "I submit! I submit! Don't eat me!"
The pickaxe Ace was swinging stopped mid-air. Ace rested it back on his shoulder and smiled: "That's more like it. I'm not some kind of devil. If you submitted earlier, we wouldn't have all this trouble."
Groudon: ...
"Since you've submitted to me, there are a few things I need to instruct you on."
"To release me?"
"I am not the one who will release you."
Ace said to Groudon: "At most, you'll wait a year. An organization will come to release you, and what you need to do is..."
Next, Ace meticulously detailed his upcoming arrangements to Groudon, one point at a time.
Groudon silently listened to Ace's plan, with some dissatisfaction reflected in his consciousness, but even so, he was very trustworthy.
Since he chose to submit, Groudon would not go back on his word.
He silently memorized all the plans Ace mentioned, and at Ace's request, repeated them. Ace corrected him repeatedly until Groudon had the entire plan memorized flawlessly. Only then was Ace satisfied.
"By the way, after some time, I might send someone over. Anyway, either you or the other guy will have to make a move then. I need you to temper her will just like I did, so she can have enough consciousness to control that other fellow."
Just as Groudon breathed a sigh of relief, Ace suddenly spoke, and his words instantly made Groudon freeze.
After understanding the situation, Groudon immediately felt depressed, then spoke in a negotiating tone: "Uh, how about you find that stinky fish instead? After all, according to what you said, the imprint was left by that stinky fish. Even if you send her over, I can't guarantee that he won't suddenly attack."
Groudon's words made Ace fall into contemplation.
After thinking for a moment, Ace nodded: "Hmm, fine, if that's the case, then let Kyogre do it. But before that, we should deal with Kyogre first."
Groudon nodded frantically, mentally cheering: Stinky fish, eat this strategy of 'diverting disaster to the east'! The suffering I endured, you won't escape either!
Ace: ...You're an entity of consciousness now. I can feel what you're thinking.
Groudon: ...
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