Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Ronan didn't quite understand.

But in any case, he is still only a sixth-tier player.

The pain gradually subsided, and soon, the pain disappeared completely. The ball of light was like a phantom, and no matter how Ronan shook his arm, it no longer gave any feedback.

"It seems to be over."

Ronan sighed and could only continue upwards, preparing to return to where he started.

Ronan maintained a high speed almost the entire way uphill, and soon he was back on the ground. Wen Jin and Lavigne were still around the cave entrance.

Upon seeing Ronan, Wen Jin asked, "How is it?"

"Your magic power has increased, but your rank hasn't," Ronan said with a hint of regret, then asked, "How long did it take me?"

"Not much, maybe two days," Wen Jin replied.

"Two days?" Ronan exclaimed in astonishment. He had gone down to the bottom of the cave, searched the room, and then come out, only to find that the entire process of the orb of light took no more than a few hours, but two days had already passed. That meant he had been standing in front of the orb of light for nearly two days without eating or drinking...

Wen Jin yawned as usual, "I don't know if this is considered fast or slow, but in any case, this little bit of time consumption is nothing."

"Do you need a rest?" Lavigne asked.

“I have more energy than ever before,” Ronan replied, not to brag, but because he genuinely felt that way.

A barely perceptible smile flashed across Lavini's face. "Very good. We'll begin special training immediately after returning to the rendezvous point."

"Special training?" Ronan asked, puzzled.

“Yes,” Lavigne answered affirmatively, then countered with a question, “Do you think your fighting skills are very good?”

"Your combat skills are too poor. You're just a little clever and dare to fight. Perhaps your battle record is good, but that's based on the fact that most of the so-called superhumans in this world only care about improving themselves and rarely engage in actual combat. Many of the top superhumans in this world know nothing but how to intimidate others with their power. They like to pre-plan things and devise a bunch of routines before a fight. Once the opponent makes an unexpected move, they don't know how to deal with it."

"Moreover, you might have a chance to advance in rank during the battle."

Lavigne stated coldly.

If Ronan hadn't just emerged from an ordeal and hadn't fully recovered, his heart would have jumped into his throat, because Lavigne's intention was to beat him to death until he advanced in rank.

“Dinia also needs special training, but not me. Wen Jin will teach her how to use the true power of the original species. She doesn’t need any skills or experience; she just needs to know how to use the ‘original species.’”

Those without cheats need to hone their skills, while those with cheats just need to figure out how to use them.

"I hope so." Ronan's gaze also hardened.

"I hope you can stay calm then." With that, Lavigne turned around and prepared to return to the meeting point.

Wen Jin and Luo Nan followed one after the other.

Back at the meeting point, Ronan spoke briefly with Dinia, and the two then separated again to begin their individual training.

Ronan and Lavigne traveled to a very far place.

Lavini lightly touched the ground, raising a cloud of dust that formed a straight sword. She beckoned with her finger, "Come."

Ronan, fully armored, wielding his sword and shield, entered his strongest state.

Chapter 843 Traction Technique, Higher Levels, How Was It Done?

A loud bang.

With the deafening explosion, the white sand was as if struck by a small meteorite. The white sand spread outwards and lingered for a long time before the huge smoke screen formed by the white sand slowly dissipated. After it completely disappeared, a huge circular sand pit was left in the center.

Suddenly, the white sand in the center of the circular sandpit began to bulge and shake, the shaking becoming more and more intense. Then, with a whoosh, a hand reached out and began to dig a larger hole by shoveling sand around it. Then, a man's head burst out, greedily inhaling deeply. After his breathing became steady, the man broke free of the sand and leaped out.

This man is Ronan.

Shaking off the dust, Ronan looked up at the sky. "I say, is this really special training? I've been getting beaten up one-sidedly the whole time, and I can't even fight back."

He couldn't even remember how many times he had been thrown into the sandy soil.

Often, in less than a second, he would be slammed into the ground.

One hundred times, or two hundred times? I can't feel any difference at all.

Lavigne landed. "This is just a warm-up."

Ronan forced a helpless smile. "Is this just a warm-up?"

He laughed not because he wasn't taking it seriously, but simply to try and calm himself down.

“Yes,” Lavini replied seriously. “The real special training will only begin after she has completed her training and can pull you back from the brink of death at any time. The intensity is still relatively low right now.”

Ronan's smile had frozen. Was the intensity low? Every time he was thrown into the sandpit, his sword, shield, and armor were shattered together by the extreme violence.

"Let me rest for a bit." Ronan sat down before Lavigne could respond.

“You can only adapt to combat at the hundredth of a second level right now. We need to get you to adapt to combat at least at the thousandth of a second level,” Lavini said.

The so-called "one-hundredth-second level" combat refers to a situation where the "cylindrical range" from the start of an opponent's attack to its impact on the user is within one-hundredth of a second.

It is particularly important to emphasize that every attack is completed within one-hundredth of a second.

“My reactions can’t be any faster,” Ronan said.

Some things can't be learned through practice alone.

He now adapts to combat at a fraction of a second, not through visual reflexes or instinct, nor by consciously controlling his body to defend and dodge, but by the automatic pull of magical fluctuations. It's like in water, where a toothpick needs to hit a grain of sand; the moment the toothpick moves, the water moves, and the water moves the grain of sand. This is called the Pulling Technique, which makes Ronan feel like a program that "reads instructions."

Ronan didn't invent this move, but he was a master of it. Years ago, when he went to church, he was surrounded by a group of people and was basically unharmed, all thanks to this move.

However, this technique has its limits. Once the "toothpick" speed exceeds the limit, or if it becomes too erratic, the traction will become inaccurate.

“Very good, you’ve realized that,” Lavigne said.

Ronan hesitated, as if to say something but then stopped himself. Did he really need to realize this? He had known all along.

"Then what makes you think I can do it?" Lavigne asked.

Ronan could only try to answer, "Because you're a robot?"

“I am essentially a universal control program component that can be directly plugged into various drones, ready to use immediately. My body is not much stronger than Kate's or Wen Jin's,” Lavini explained. “I can do this because I have learned the extraordinary powers of this world.”

"Then what should we do?" Ronan asked, adopting a completely humble and eager-to-learn attitude.

“First, you have to stop seeing yourself as a person,” Lavigne said. “When you are both a whole and a dispersed individual, you are no longer ‘fragments,’ but a polymer of finer particles. Such attraction will become more sensitive and unrestrained by your subjective consciousness.”

"Is this something a human can do?" Ronan asked.

Lavini continued, “Ordinary people certainly can’t do it, but you should be able to. If an ordinary superhuman has a broken finger, no matter how much their consciousness commands it, that finger probably can’t move. But as a being with a soul, and whose soul has undergone a qualitative change, that broken finger can also be a mass of matter with a soul and the ability to act on its own.”

Ronan roughly understood, "This is probably not something that can be done in a short time."

“That is certainly true for rational people,” Lavigne said. “You are still too rational right now, but it won’t be difficult once you start to let go of that.”

“It’s difficult for someone like me to abandon reason,” Ronan said.

“Is it difficult? Just beat you until you lose your mind,” Lavigne said.

One day later, Dinia's special training ended.

Her special training was to teach her what she was supposed to know, and the difficulty was about the same as teaching someone who didn't know a certain function before to use it directly with a shortcut key. Just write it down and practice it a bit, and that's it.

Dinia's special training has ended, which also marks the official start of Ronan's special training.

The plan will last for five days. After five days, Ronan and Dinia will have to teleport back no matter what, or they will miss the best opportunity.

The first two days were similar to the previous warm-up, only the attacks were more intense.

With the slightest mistake, Ronan would either have his limbs explode, instantly turning him into a human stump, or have a hole punched in his chest, his internal organs shattered into dust, or even have half of his head blown off, his skull and brains flying everywhere.

Over two days, Ronan was on the verge of death countless times, and many times his consciousness was completely lost. It was Dinia who used a life ability that was almost a concept, practically an anti-entropy ability, to pull him back.

Ronan couldn't even touch Lavigne.

Lavini is too strong. No wonder he can easily defeat Dinia, who has super-fast regeneration and a huge amount of magic power.

However, Ronan's gains were not the main ones. Through repeated deaths, he realized that rationality truly has its limits and is practically useless in such battles. In the process, he finally grasped the threshold of a more advanced traction technique.

This is also known as "split traction technique".

He finally began to adapt to the combat at the fraction of a second level, and he was confident that from the third day onwards, he would be able to inflict some substantial damage on Lavigne.

His attacks, no matter what, ignore defense and strike straight at the soul.

Then on the third day, Lavini began to use various kinds of magic.

This made Ronan suddenly recall that Lavini was an enhanced version of the Six Laws of Seris. Usually, people who practice the Six Laws of Seris have relatively low physical qualities and magical attack strength. Their bodies are not as good as those who are simply mutated, and their magical strength is not as good as those who are simply elemental. However, Lavini's body is by no means inferior to any mutated person, and his magical power is not inferior to that of a simple elemental mage.

She can materialize, transform, possess strange divine magic, and summon spirits.

Ronan couldn't even get close.

The split-pull technique only allowed him to evade attacks with low energy consumption, but it couldn't allow him to successfully hit Lavigne.

After more than an hour, Ronan stopped and asked Lavigne, full of doubt, "How did you manage to use traction magic while launching precise attacks?"

Chapter 844 Special Training Completed, Victory or Defeat Uncertain, Back

Lavigne also used traction, Ronan can confirm that.

Previously, Lavigne's traction skills were a level above his, but now they are considered to be at the same level, although Lavigne's skill is still a notch above his.

But no matter how advanced the traction technique is, it is still a traction technique. Its essence will not change; it is just a special skill that reads instructions and reacts synchronously.

Traction techniques require no thought, but attacks, especially precise attacks, do require thought.

Ronan was somewhat puzzled as to how Lavigne could maintain such precise attacks while using the traction technique, making it impossible for Ronan to even get close.

"You're overcomplicating it. One doesn't require thinking, and the other does. So why don't you just focus on the attack?"

Lavigne, on the contrary, looked at Ronan with a puzzled expression and said...

Ronan was speechless for a moment. He took a deep breath, calmed himself, and then spoke again, "How does one enter a state where one is both thinking and not thinking?"

"Uh, is this difficult?" Lavini asked in surprise.

Her reaction reminded Ronan of a meme, one that anyone who plays basketball knows: Michael Jordan teaching the secret to shooting – jump first, then wait for the opponent to land before shooting.

“It’s hard for one person, but we’re two.” Dinya’s voice suddenly came from behind.

Ronan suddenly realized that he could do it alone, but he could do it with others.

“Perhaps we can try it out first,” Ronan suggested to Dinia.

"Then you can come." Lavini also became a little curious, as she in this timeline had never witnessed a fusion.

After several days of fighting, or rather, one-sided beatings, Ronan was in a state where he could enter a fight anytime, anywhere. Dinia, on the other hand, was extremely excited. She was a person who loved fighting, but she was already very strong when she was very young. Those who were stronger than her were all academics and had no interest in fighting. Now, there were very few people who could be her opponents.

She still remembers that battle with Lavigne in another timeline, a battle that excited her no less than the climax she had with Ronan in her office when she first became prime minister.

The two instantly merged and then launched a fierce attack.

Dinia attacked with her palm, and Ronan used the Split-Pulse Traction Technique. He had to admit that Dinia's body was really too good. Using the Split-Pulse Traction Technique on her body was incredibly smooth and fluid. When Ronan used it himself, although he didn't get stuck, he always felt that something was missing.

On the other side, Dinia was also completely unleashed. She was originally a combination of a turret mage and a melee berserker, specializing in the moves "I'll blast you to smithereens with this shot" and "This hammer blow might kill you."

Skills? I've given all my skills back to the orphanage teachers.

After combining, Ronan and Dinia surpassed Lavigne in overall physical attributes. Their defense was exceptional, and their attack power was also extremely strong. Their penetrating swords, which ignored defenses and were imbued with destructive power, would kill anyone who touched them. Finally, they were enhanced with super-fast regeneration.

Lavini possesses a wide array of magic, far from being just flashy tricks, but these techniques are neither effective against the combined Ronandinia nor can they defend against penetrating, devastating attacks.

However, she still did not fall into a disadvantageous position, easily dragging the combined Ronan and Dinia into a war of attrition, and Ronan and Dinia's exhaustion was many times that of hers.

If the supernatural power system in this world is not damaged, then she has a certain chance of winning.

But at this moment, Lavini cannot win, because she has already consumed a lot of magic power and it is difficult to replenish it in the midst of battle.

The long battle, which lasted for a minute, came to an end.

Dinia and Ronan separated.

Lavigne sighed and looked at Ronan, "If you can reach the seventh rank, your chances of winning should be quite good, but it's hard to say right now."

"Do you know his strength?" Ronan asked, referring, of course, to the other "Ronan".

“If I had known, I would have told you from the beginning and tried to emulate him in my fights, instead of this kind of special training,” Lavigne said. “In fact, I have never met him, and the only people who truly understand his strength are those close to him.”

“However,” Lavini changed the subject, “the original Demon King was very strong in one-on-one combat, and I wasn’t confident I could beat him. Although that guy was frivolous and lazy, he was an extremely sensitive and delicate person. The other you must have defeated him for him to be willing to follow you.”

Ronan frowned. "Specifically?"

"That former Demon King can force both sides to share the damage they suffer. It's not about dividing the damage equally, but rather the closer he gets to death, the greater the proportion the other side has to bear. At the same time, it constantly forces the magic power of both sides to flow towards an average level. From the moment the magic power of both sides is equal, their magic power will begin to drain away at the same rapid rate."

Lavini gave a detailed description of the Demon King's abilities.

“That’s really impressive,” Ronan said.