"Bang—!"
It was the sound of a human foot landing heavily on the ground.
The footfall was as loud as an exploding Nuclear Bomb, making the heavily stomped earth seem to cave in as it shattered into rubble that filled the sky.
Amid the flying debris, two figures turned into flashing bolts of lightning, whipping up gales and shockwaves as they charged forward at terrifying speeds beyond the speed of sound.
Sound could no longer keep up with them.
Even sonic booms were left far behind them like mere background noise.
Like two meteors about to collide.
Fang Li and Rearguard Water—one with his sheathed Commanding Sword resting at his waist, the other raising his savage greatsword high—met head-on almost the instant they moved.
Where their gazes met, sparks burst like electrical currents rubbing together.
Then, the clash began.
"Clang—!"
A chilling flash of blade light streaked across the sky like a silver trail.
"Whoosh—!"
The heavy greatsword churned through the air like a wildly spinning windmill.
The drawn Commanding Sword and the descending greatsword collided heavily.
"Clang—!"
They struck head-on with an earthshaking metallic crash.
"Boom—!"
A second later, an Explosive Wind erupted.
With a thunderous roar, a powerful shockwave surged outward from the two of them.
An explosive storm over a hundred meters in radius swept through the surroundings, dealing devastating damage.
The ground shattered, rubble flew everywhere, and the violent winds of impact mixed with thick dust, abruptly forming a sandstorm across the area.
Buildings cracked under the impact.
Shards of glass scattered in every direction.
Even the asphalt road was like a smashed wooden barrel, with chunks of tar breaking apart and being swept away by the violent gusts.
The power of a single strike was this terrifying.
And this was only the beginning.
The instant