-"Waiting is the privilege of the strong."
Zhuri threw the knife she had hurled right back at her. Yu Xunge had been hit by her own boomerang.
"Is your Deity Talent Word that hard to come up with?" Zhuri asked. Without waiting for the Apprentice to answer, she added with a rare note of urgency, "Give me a proper answer. Don't say anything disgusting."
Clearly, the Apprentice's earlier answer to Mistblade-"a mysterious and complicated woman"-had thoroughly disgusted her.
"..." Yu Xunge swung her sword faster and faster, leaving great swathes of golden lightning along its path. She snapped, "But it's true! You can't even imagine how exciting my life has been. Of course it's hard to come up with one!"
Zhuri: "...I told you not to say anything disgusting."
Yu Xunge's [Absurd Story] was disabled, and Zhuri entered fivefold speed. Their HP began falling in tandem, both dropping to just over 300. Now it was a matter of who would unleash their burst first.
Zhuri was waiting for Yu Xunge's Deity Talent Word, but Yu Xunge was also waiting for Zhuri to attack her with hers. As long as the attack succeeded, she could activate her second phase.
But what Yu Xunge saw first was Zhuri's time speed returning to normal. The hour hand flying beside the elf's head stopped moving again.
Yu Xunge had no intention of holding back. She immediately sped up her attacks. She had no intention of testing the limits of Zhuri's strange clock; she only wanted to defeat her while she could not control time.
Light finally shone between Zhuri's brows: a glittering crown.
Although part of the crown was still only an outline, half of it had already been illuminated by soft moonlight.
Under the Apprentice's solemn gaze, Zhuri raised her hand and spread