"Shuu!"
At that moment, countless sounds of ice spikes tearing through the air echoed simultaneously, all rushing toward Shiro at extremely high speed.
At that moment, Shiro looked like someone with inflamed eyes, with lasers constantly darting around him. However, since there were too many and they came from all directions, he could only desperately defend himself.
Even his other hand somehow materialized into a long sword, which he swung like a fan, continuously clearing the ice spikes.
Unfortunately, since there were too many and his strength was weakened, he soon became like a hedgehog.
Shiro used his psychic powers to shatter all the ice spikes, but he was completely covered in blood.
The only good thing was that, although Iron Body was weakened to the extreme, the piercings were not deep; they only broke the skin.
Because of this, everything looked chaotic, but in essence, it wasn't too serious.
After healing the surface wounds, Shiro raised his gaze forward. At that moment, his opponent without hesitation summoned an ice cavalry, which charged straight toward him like a great general.
"Ice General!"
Immediately afterward, the ice cavalry surged forward with incomparable force and launched an attack on Shiro.
Shiro watched as the ice general, right before his eyes, instantly arrived in front of his face, leaving him no choice but to summon a shield and place it before himself.
"Bang!"
After the collision, a loud bang echoed, and Shiro was thrown backward.
During the flight, Shiro cursed for the first time. He could say that he had never experienced such injustice since his awakening. He didn't know why he felt so bad because of it.
At the moment when everyone thought Shiro was losing and being completely overwhelmed, something unexpected happened.
Suddenly, a tearing sound came from Esdeath's side.
Immediately after, countless long purple spikes abruptly appeared around the opponent, shooting straight up from the ground.
Most importantly, a magic circle appeared beneath his feet.
Despite extremely fast reactions, he still suffered numerous cuts and gashes, including several holes that pierced his left arm, all to prevent it from piercing his head.
Everyone else was stunned by this turn of events. In a normal scenario, shouldn't someone have gotten beaten up? After all, that guy was far too arrogant and deserved a beating.
But somehow, it seemed like the side that was hitting people was now losing.
No one understood what had just happened.
After Shiro stabilized his body again, he looked at the opponent's face, which had a twisted smile resembling a dragon king.
"Do you really think I'm just taking hits? All of this was so I could secretly use this magic I'm not very familiar with."
"You really hit me hard just now!"
What does "jump straight into the face" mean? Shiro perfectly demonstrated the meaning of that phrase to everyone.
With a powerful strike, Esdeath instantly froze the ground, and the magic circle also solidified.
Those energy spikes then spread across the ice, and with a bang, all of them shattered.
Shiro silently watched the opponent's actions and had to admit that the reaction was extremely good and quite ruthless. Since the energy spikes had already pierced the body, the opponent decisively used her own blood to turn into ice, freezing and shattering them.
Originally, he had planned to use the wounds to further weaken the opponent, but the reaction was so fast that the plan failed.
Esdeath glanced at her bloody hand, which had several holes, ignoring the wounds on her body, and looked at Shiro with a dangerous and excited gleam in her eyes.
"I must admit, you are really impressive."
"Obviously, you seriously lack experience, but your progress and reaction speed surpass most people."
"I will bury you."
As soon as Esdeath said this, Shiro immediately felt that something was wrong. And indeed, the opponent didn't disappoint and unleashed a powerful attack, one that produced no sound nor gave any warning.
At that moment, Shiro felt a strong urge to curse. Anime and reality are really different. In anime, the opponent activates a skill only when a sound is heard, but now there was neither sound nor any preparatory movement. It was as if they were truly trying to kill him.
This version of Shiro, weak as an ant, was completely frozen by this move. Although their powers were the same, the opponent's version of this technique was developed to a somewhat abnormal level.
Mahapadma!
Without any warning, Esdeath unleashed her ultimate attack.
Then, looking at the frozen space-time around her, she advanced with a smile, while the other observers very well knew that this guy was finished.
The same thing repeated. Without hesitation, the opponent swung several times. After flashes of blue light, Shiro's arms and legs were severed.
After the effect was canceled, he was now limbless and crucified.
Shiro slightly frowned. It hurt quite a bit, but it wasn't serious. After all, it was just minor physical pain, so it was fine.
Even the things he occasionally endured were child's play for him; a mosquito bite would cause the same.
"I didn't expect your move to be a modified version. Shouldn't it have a prefix?"
Esdeath was a little surprised that Shiro didn't scream in pain, but she still responded.
"I watch anime too, okay? Such a flaw can be fixed if you look at it from that angle…"
"But you're the one I'm really interested in."
"According to your words, you're on an invincible path and don't have much combat experience. So why don't you feel pain or scream in such circumstances? In my eyes, you are no different from an ordinary person right now."
Esdeath looked confused.
"Hm. I guess I'm a little more durable than others."
"You think you can make me scream from pain like this? You think I'm like those from the Chat Group? Your so-called experience and pain are nothing more than child's play to me."
As Shiro spoke, a shadow of darkness flashed in his eyes. When she saw that darkness, Esdeath felt as if she had fallen into an abyss.
Only after regaining her composure did she realize that her forehead was covered in cold sweat.
The gaze in Shiro's eyes was wrong, but then Shiro suddenly returned to his nonchalant posture. For some reason, she felt a stronger urge to test Shiro than anyone else.
After all, the other side was a strong person, an absolutely strong person. In fact, despite his youth, he had gone through things she couldn't even imagine. That was precisely why she wanted to test him even more.
Especially that current flash of darkness made her feel as if she were falling into an endless chasm.
What Esdeath didn't know was that it was an unintentional release at the very beginning, which Shiro fortunately managed to suppress in time, and with the protection of the Chat Group, it ended up like this. Although it was only a trace, like a drop of water in the ocean, or even a smaller amount of darkness.
That was enough to cause her a mental breakdown; honestly, she was fully protected by the Chat Group.
At that moment, the system also issued a notification.
"Ding! The Chat Group just contacted me. I hope you won't use things you shouldn't on group members. Esdeath survived only thanks to that."
"Don't cause trouble if you don't want to destroy the lives of group members."
Shiro felt helpless after hearing this.
"You should know my situation very well. I didn't do it on purpose. It was just an incident."
"Ding! This system certainly knows it was an incident. Of course, also because you were injured. Even though I don't care, your limbs were really severed. It's quite normal for something to be accidentally released in such a situation."
"Honestly, you're really unlucky, to be killed by an opponent like that."
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