It Now Bears the Li Name

Boom!

Amid a thunderous roar, one street in a corner of the Sendai Barrier suddenly seemed to have been smashed apart by brute force, gradually being flattened.

Buildings collapsed one after another, and the ground was plowed through as though by an invisible Shockwave, crumbling inch by inch.

Dust mixed with chunks of rubble rose like thick smoke, spreading outward.

Riezel's body shot backward like a cannonball, smashing through building after building. Only after flying nearly a hundred meters did he finally stop, his feet scraping across the ground and carving two deep trenches before he came to a halt.

"What terrifying impact power..."

With both arms raised before him in a defensive stance, Riezel analyzed the attack with complete calm.

"It felt like I was struck by an invisible piece of space..."

The sensation was strange enough that even Riezel found it novel.

"What kind of cursed technique was that?"

As he pondered this, Uro Sakurako flew over from the other side of the sky.

"You're unharmed?"

Seeing Riezel covered in dust yet completely uninjured, Uro Sakurako was astonished.

"After being struck by an entire piece of 'sky,' no other Curse User could remain completely unscathed like this, even if they reinforced their body with cursed energy."

"And he... doesn't seem to have used cursed energy at all."

"He blocked my attack with physical strength alone?"

The more Uro Sakurako thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

"Is this guy really a Curse User?"

Though such thoughts ran through her mind, Uro Sakurako did not slow down in the slightest. Like an Elf riding a whirlwind, she shot down from midair.

She was incredibly fast, like a meteor. In the blink of an eye, she arrived before Riezel and threw a punch at his cheek.

"Too slow."

Riezel