"You..."
The massive regular dodecahedron crystal spun as a somewhat hoarse, deep voice reverberated through the silent darkness. The Crystal Giant raised its head. That translucent, crystalline head had no "eyes" or facial features, yet He Ao could clearly sense that it was staring at him.
In that instant just now, the Crystal Giant had actually moved faster than He Ao. It had thrust its Crystal Sword through He Ao's body before He Ao could strike.
It had been concealing its strength. It was not as weak as it appeared.
Yet that fatal strike had not killed He Ao, nor had it even affected his movements. In that final instant, He Ao had erupted with strength far surpassing what he had shown before, completely piercing through its weakness and detonating the power of chaos within its body.
"You turned my heroic spirits against me?"
At this moment, the weapons in both giants' hands had pierced through the other's body. They stood so close that their cheeks were practically pressed together.
The Crystal Giant turned its head slightly and looked at the scattered heroic spirits nearby. It suddenly realized something and asked in a low voice.
"I merely extended an invitation to them,"
He Ao calmly continued. His voice was equally hoarse and weak. "To see whether they would truly fight for the 'Order' you spoke of."
He had guessed that the Crystal Giant would conceal its strength, but he had not expected it to hide so much. If he had taken all that power head-on by himself, the Crystal Giant really might have killed him completely.
But now, he was not alone. Amid the chaos just now, not many heroic spirits had regained even a trace of reason—perhaps only a third of the total—but almost all of that third had