A Hair's Breadth from Death

In fact, Aphrodite didn't take the damage caused by the First Unit Aphrodite at all.

Sakuya Tachibana's firing was merely Flash Bullet used for cover.

Soma's attack was very powerful; it would probably only take one hit to deal with a large Aragami. But for Aphrodite, it was just a slight pain and didn't penetrate Aphrodite skin at all.

Soma's attack was effective, but the wound, though seemingly exaggerated, was actually only about two meters long, which was roughly equivalent to a human finger being cut, given Aphrodite's enormous size.

Therefore, Aphrodite paid no attention to the attacks from Soma, Sakuya Tachibana, and Soma.

However, in that instant, Aphrodite's instincts screamed desperately.

The sword light that descended from the sky wasn't particularly terrifying in itself, but Aphrodite's instincts told her that if she were hit, even if she didn't die on the spot, her fate would definitely not be good.

"————Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa————"

At that moment, Aphrodite let out her most piercing scream to date, almost without thinking, abandoning her attention to Soma, Sakuya Tachibana, and Soma, and focusing all her attention on Fang Li.

"Call----!"

In the next instant, incredibly thick vines burst forth, whipping upwards with a howling sound like a gale, towards the direction of Fang Li.

The force was even more ferocious than the previous attacks, using all of Aphrodite's strength.

Before the vines even reached Fang Li, the strong winds they generated struck Fang Li, causing Fang Li descending figure to falter slightly and slow down abruptly.

Then, the vines, imbued with terrifying power, lashed out in front of Fang Li, meeting the blade light that Fang Li had swung out with lightning speed just a second earlier.

Looking at the vines hurtling towards him, Fang Li knew that his sure-kill strike probably wouldn't land on Aphrodite.

Fang Li then turned his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes to the vines that were shooting towards him at lightning speed, and in an instant, he saw the crack-like Death Lines on them.

Immediately, the momentum of the dagger in his hand did not diminish, and he suddenly slashed out.

"Pfft—!"

The tiny dagger, extremely small compared to the vine, easily pierced its interior, penetrating the skin and cutting through the thick vine in two with astonishing speed along a crack-like line visible only to Fang Li.

"Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa————!"

Aphrodite let out an angry roar, and all the vines on her body lashed out, shooting upwards like a storm, covering Fang Li's entire field of vision.

Each of those vines possessed power no less than that of the previous attack.

Even if Fang Li's VIT (durability) has reached 18 points, if he gets hit once, he will either die or be on the verge of death.

In addition, Aphrodite's vines numbered in the hundreds, and at this moment they all erupted, enveloping Fang Li. If Fang Li could not dodge all the attacks, he would be finished.

However, Fang Li fell from the sky, leaving no place to gain leverage and no way to dodge.

This is practically a dead end.

If this were Fang Li before his battle with the Father, the only thing he could probably do at this point would be wait to die.

However, Fang Li's words now are different from before.

Just as the vines came crashing down like a storm, Fang Li suddenly turned his body, his figure shifting halfway out of position in a strange way.

"Thump—!"

A vine lashed out and landed where Fang Li had been a second ago, as if it had hit thin air, creating a terrifying sonic boom.

Taking advantage of that moment, Fang Li moved.

With a "snap," Fang Li landed on the surface of the vines, like a spider, his limbs tightening as he leaped away.

One after another, the vines lashed out fiercely, but Fang Li, Fang Li into a spider, dodged them all with extraordinary speed and unexpected movements, landing in empty space.

Fang Li, like a spider sprinting at high speed along a wall, leaped across the surface of the attacking vines, descending at an astonishing speed until he finally arrived in front of Aphrodite.

The Ice-Blue Demon Eyes once again fell upon Aphrodite's beautiful, girlish face.

More accurately, it should be said that it landed on Aphrodite's forehead.

Fang Li knew that he had captured Aphrodite's fatal Death Lines with his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

That is the heart of Aphrodite.

"Die!"

Fang Li raised his dagger and, like a flash of light, plunged it fiercely into Aphrodite's forehead.

But at that moment, Soma's voice reached Fang Li's ears.

"Careful!"

Upon hearing Soma's voice, Fang Li's icy blue eyes suddenly narrowed. Without the slightest hesitation, he stopped his attack and dodged to the side.

"Puff----!"

The instant Fang Li dodged, a beam of light suddenly shot out from where Fang Li had been, piercing through the afterimage he left Fang Li.

Upon seeing this, Fang Li's expression changed slightly.

Although it was only for a moment, Fang Li still managed to capture the true form of the light.

That was a stream of water shooting past at an extremely terrifying speed.

Aphrodite's lips curled slightly, and as she parted them, tiny streams of water gushed out.

Although the streams of water were small, each one shot out at a speed exceeding that of a bullet, with enough power to pierce Fang Li's body and even penetrate a meter-thick steel wall.

Faced with such an attack, Fang Li could only try his best to dodge, relying on the vines around him that Aphrodite had not yet retracted, his figure flickering strangely as he barely managed to avoid the streams of water.

"Bang bang bang bang bang--!"

At that moment, a burst of submachine gun fire rang out, and a barrage of bullets suddenly rained down on Aphrodite's face.

"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"

One bullet after another exploded, causing Aphrodite's face to snap to the side as if hit by fireworks.

Fang Li was taken aback for a moment before he noticed.

On the ground some distance away, Alisa held her submachine gun and kept firing at Aphrodite.