"Boom—!"
As the muffled thunder-like roar rang out in midair, a shockwave exploded like a gale, sweeping in every direction.
The punch the demi-human boy had thrown toward the Dragon Carriage, powerful enough to blow the entire carriage apart, was met head-on by a kick descending from the sky and crushed beneath it.
A tremendous force, too fast for the naked eye to follow, slammed viciously into the demi-human boy.
"What...!?"
The demi-human boy cried out in shock before being blasted away.
"Whoosh—!"
Amid a sharper, more piercing shriek of tearing air than when he had shot skyward, the demi-human boy plummeted backward and crashed heavily into the shattered ground.
With a rumbling tremor that shook the earth, the demi-human boy smashed into the ground, kicking up a great cloud of dust before being buried beneath countless chunks of broken stone and rubble.
"Lord Fang Li..."
In the driver's seat of the Dragon Carriage overhead, Rem loosened her grip on the Meteor Hammer as she watched the scene unfold, her eyes filled with delight.
Lord Fang Li seemed to have grown even stronger than before.
Against an attacker who made even Rem's hair stand on end and filled her with an overwhelming sense of danger, Fang Li had not even drawn the weapon he usually used, simply kicking him away.
It reminded Rem of the battle against the White Whale over a month ago, when Fang Li had kicked that enormous Demon Beast threatening the world down from the sky, leaving her both delighted and proud.
Meanwhile, Sylvia continued to hold the unconscious Emilia, softly singing as though she was not worried in the slightest that anything might happen to Fang Li.
The wind swirling around the Dragon Carriage immediately descended, bringing the carriage to a stop at the edge