Three minutes thirty four seconds.
That was all it took Leo to kill the 122,000 soldiers stationed on this military base, for although the act unfolded with brutal speed, it never required him to draw even a fraction of his true strength.
Once his aura settled over the enemies, their will to fight back crumbled, and by the time he moved through their ranks, the resistance they should have offered collapsed into something soft and barely perceptible.
Their deaths arrived almost on their own, as if the universe itself had decided the outcome long before he performed the final, simple motions that removed them.
Yet even with a kill time this quick, even with an entire armed compound erased in a span barely longer than a passing conversation, Leo felt no sense of progress towards the far greater figure he carried as his ultimate goal, for two billion still remained distant enough to feel untouched by moments like this.
"I see… I can't achieve it at this rate."
