"Thud..."
A dull impact kicked up a cloud of dust.
The Knight Order Leader collapsed onto the ground, unable to rise again.
"Cough, cough...!"
Amid his coughing, blood continued to pour from the Knight Order Leader's mouth and nose.
An unprecedented agony churned within the Knight Order Leader's body, nearly blanking out his consciousness.
In that state, the Knight Order Leader clearly understood his condition.
(His internal organs... nearly half of them have been shattered...)
That was right.
Those were the Knight Order Leader's injuries.
In an ordinary person, injuries like these would have caused immediate, clean death no matter what.
If Angel's Power within his body had not been sustaining him, the Knight Order Leader could never have remained alive after suffering such wounds.
—"Flash Sheath: Flower Mirror."
Assassination Arts that ignored external defenses, sent force directly into the opponent's body, and attacked their internal organs.
Using those self-created Assassination Arts, Fang Li had poured all his strength into the Knight Order Leader's body and pulverized his organs.
The Knight Order Leader probably had never expected this, had he?
To overcome the threat of weapons, he had developed Solomon Sorcery capable of reducing a weapon's attack power to zero.
To handle all manner of circumstances, he had developed chivalry that integrated the cultures of various regions, Mode Magic capable of producing countless different effects.
Coupled with the vastly greater Angel's Power Cait Sith I had exceptionally bestowed upon him, the Knight Order Leader had nearly driven even an opponent like Fang Li into a desperate situation.
Yet in the end, he had been defeated in unarmed combat.
"Cough, cough...!"
Uncontrollable emotions surged within the Knight Order Leader, making his blood rush upward as he coughed up blood again.
Only then did a foot land before the Knight Order Leader