Eyes of Life and Eyes of Death

"Bang—!"

A sudden roar erupted.

A violent bolt of lightning suddenly appeared, sweeping in all directions and turning the construction site into a pool of lightning, causing the electric light to flash incessantly, blindingly bright.

At the center of the raging lightning, two figures emerged from it.

A figure shimmering with dazzling starlight.

A figure shimmering with intense electric light.

The former is Fang Li, who transformed the Star Pulse Energy into defensive power and withstood the incoming lightning without suffering any Fang Li.

The latter, Roa, was surrounded by arcs of electricity, constantly releasing lightning, which forced Fang Li back.

The two of them were forced back from the center of the raging lightning, as if riding the wind and waves, and the shockwaves created by the lightning pushed them apart.

Finally, they landed on the left and right sides of the construction site respectively.

As for their expressions, they were completely different.

Fang Li looked at Roa with a slightly amused expression.

Roa was also looking at Fang Li, but his expression and eyes were extremely ugly.

After all, just now, Roa was almost killed by Fang Li.

By giving the opponent a choice from a superior position, one thinks they have the opponent firmly in control, but in the blink of an eye, they are almost instantly killed.

This fact alone was enough to enrage Roa.

"I told you long ago, you're second-rate."

Fang Li hand, his body shimmering with dazzling starlight. He looked at Roa, whose face was grim, and said with a sneer, "That power was ultimately taken from someone else. With that kind of power, it's not even worth my attention."

After saying that, Fang Li pointed the dagger in his hand at the arcs of electricity flashing on Roa's body.

"Is this your original power? In the end, won't you still have to rely on it?"

Roa said that before becoming Dead Apostle, he was a Magus.

This is not an exaggeration.

Regardless of whether he has the ability to develop the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Roa is indeed a very high-ranking Magus. In terms of the amount of magical knowledge he possesses, calling him the highest-ranking is not an exaggeration at all.

Now, Roa is forced to use magic.

"But you've spent eight hundred years on reincarnation, unlike the other Dead Apostle who accumulate power over a long period of time. Your level of magic was already set eight hundred years ago, and I'm afraid it hasn't improved since then, right?"

Fang Li stared at Roa, his irises shimmering with a dazzling halo within his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.

"Besides, no matter what kind of magic you use, once you kill them all, you'll be helpless."

Fang Li's words only elicited a stunned silence from Roa.

"Kill the magician?"

Roa chuckled as if he had been amused.

"Are you talking in your sleep? Magic isn't life; it doesn't die. You can't even see the Death Lines, so how could it possibly kill you?"

Roa, who made such a declaration, did not discover it at all.

Fang Li's eyes had long since become filled with sarcasm.

Because Roa has already revealed a fact.

That is, apart from life, this Dead Apostle cannot see the Death Lines for anything else.

Perhaps, Roa didn't know at all?

Even though Tohno Shiki's Tohno Shiki Mystic Eyes of Death Perception had been modified to be specifically designed for humans, he could still see the Death Lines of non-living beings.

Even if the Death Lines is thinner and much finer than a living organism, it can still be seen.

Everything has an end; everything dies.

This is something that anyone with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can understand.

In those Magic Eye, the world is a shattered mirror, a cracked box.

It will die with the slightest touch.

This is the mystery behind the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

However, in Roa's eyes, only people probably have lines that look like graffiti.

In other words, Roa did not understand the concept of death at all, nor did he realize that everything has an end.

"And you dare to call yourself the highest-ranking Magus? You've accumulated knowledge for a full eight hundred years?"

Fang Li spoke sarcastically.

"Even Arcueid, who has never received formal education, at least understands the theory, but you haven't even grasped the theory, yet you dare to shamelessly say that you can give me a perfect opportunity to develop these eyes? Do you have the guts to say that no one in this world is better than you at developing the Magic Eye?"

"It's absolutely hilarious."

Those were words that expressed contempt and disdain directly, without any further embellishment.

Roa was enraged.

"Court death!"

With a low growl like that of a wild beast, Roa suddenly stretched out a hand towards Fang Li's direction.

"Biri Biri ————!"

Intense arcs of electricity erupted from Roa's outstretched hand, transforming into streaks of lightning that shot out, tearing through space and hurtling straight toward Fang Li.

Wherever the lightning passed, the atmosphere was evaporated by the high temperature, causing the surrounding temperature to rise suddenly.

However, faced with such powerful lightning, Fang Li merely raised his eyelids slightly, his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes fixed on it.

Immediately, he swung his dagger at the oncoming lightning.

"Pfft—!"

A sound like a sharp blade piercing through the body rang out.

The lightning bolt that shot towards them was instantly severed by the dagger, as if it had been annihilated on the spot, turning into streaks of electricity that disappeared into the air.

"Wh... what?!"

Upon witnessing this scene, Roa's eyes widened.

"You...!" Roa stared intently at Fang Li, clenching his fists, and whispered, "So that's how it is. I thought you only had those eyes and extraordinary killing skills, but I didn't expect you to also have magic abilities?"

"What are you using? A conceptual weapon from the Church? Magic Crest from the Association? Or is it simply a secret treasure from the Age of Gods? Could it be that you've added some kind of magical formula to that knife?"

Seeing Roa assume a defensive stance as if facing a formidable enemy, this time, it was Fang Li's turn to sneer.

"You're right, all I have are these eyes and exceptional killing skills," Fang Li said calmly. "So, didn't I already say that all I need to do is kill the magician?"

"Still... still saying such stupid things!" Roa shouted, somewhat shaken. "These eyes simply don't have that ability!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Li's gaze toward Roa began to turn toward pity.

"Of course your eyes don't have that ability."

"You think you can easily obtain the miracles of the Age of Gods by dying a few times?"

"Let me tell you."

"Your eyes can only see the flow of life, and by cutting lines, you can erase the life force, thereby reducing the human body's life force to zero and indirectly causing death."

"That's not the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception at all."