The air churned like a storm.
Amid the devastated ground, Fang Li rested his hand on Bō Xié's hilt as though sheathing his blade, while the flapping of his knight's coat gradually subsided.
Before him lay a deep gash, as shocking as an abyss.
If Fang Li had not adjusted his force upward just now, causing the slash to strike Regulus and send its force skyward, then the blade-light of Extreme Death - Seven Nights would likely have split the entire Gate City in two.
The water gates surrounding the city would have been severed, and the lake water outside would have flooded in, dragging everyone in the city down to the bottom of the lake.
That was the disaster one careless mistake from Fang Li could have caused.
Fortunately, only two people present understood that.
One was Sylvia.
The other was Beatrice.
"...You're still as reckless as ever."
"...That was far too reckless."
The two girls made the same assessment at once, both wearing helpless expressions.
Only Fang Li frowned deeply and lowered his head to look at his hand.
That hand was trembling from Fang Li's use of Extreme Death - Seven Nights.
Agonizing pain also ran rampant through his flesh.
Those symptoms told Fang Li that he would not be able to move that hand for a while.
That was the price of using Extreme Death - Seven Nights.
And it was a far greater price than before.
After all, as Fang Li's strength had increased, so had the power of Extreme Death - Seven Nights.
If Extreme Death - Seven Nights had once been a killing blow at Hundred Times Sonic Speed, it had now reached the realm of three hundred times the speed of sound.
Such terrifying speed naturally brought even more terrifying power.
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