After stepping through the doorway, Gwen saw the figure he had expected to find, fury seeming to surge from his body...
Chapter 278: Hide? Let's See How You Hide!
"Oh?
You came looking for me again?"
Rarely, Kalpas's words carried a hint of amusement, but Gwen could clearly sense the intense killing intent hidden beneath that rare smile—
No, rather than killing intent, it was fighting spirit blazing fiercely as his anger intensified.
Compared to their first meeting, though, the rage burning within Kalpas seemed to have faded slightly...
Or perhaps it had lost some of its malice?
"Of course. Before this, you were the only one I'd fought. If I wanted to test my progress, you were the only one I could come to.
And besides..."
Gwen paused as he spoke, a faint smile appearing on his face.
"You're about to lose control too, aren't you?"
"Hahahaha..."
Kalpas did not fly into a rage at those words. Instead, he burst into booming laughter, fury powerful enough to make an ordinary person's heart and guts tremble pouring from it—
"Good. Very good, glowing brat... No, Gwen..."
Though invisible flames were already drifting around him, Kalpas's gaze was not swayed by his emotions. It remained fixed firmly on Gwen.
"At least in this regard, I acknowledge you.
But before that... struggle on the verge of death for me one more time!"
Having learned from their previous encounter, Kalpas completely skipped the probing stage. Some inhuman spikes and horns emerged from his sturdy body, while his otherwise human skin turned fiery red. As his declaration rang out amid his vented rage, blazing flames suddenly erupted from his body.
Within the dancing flames, Kalpas, having completed Artificial Collapse, leaped into the air, soared high overhead, and then crashed down from the sky like