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In the pitch-black moonlit night, a spatial rift that seemed to cleave open heaven and earth hung above the seaside like a galaxy of profound color.
That unbelievable sight immediately drew the attention of many watchful people.
Alec, who had been monitoring Lancelot's condition, gazed at the mythic scene. Though his expression did not change, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists, his palms already drenched with sweat.
"How did that guy do it?"
Beside Alec, Alice, who was watching him in the form of a spiritual-body avatar, was equally shocked. She stared blankly at the world-opening scene for a long while without recovering her senses.
High above the cloud-filled skies, amid flashing lightning and rolling thunder, Lancelot rode atop a magnificent White Horse. As his entire body endured the battering of violent thunderbolts and accumulated power, he too fixed his nearly unbelievable vision upon that mythic sight by the sea and murmured,
"Is that man's true power?"
As he spoke, Lancelot's whole body trembled slightly.
Not from fear.
But from excitement.
"Even as I am now, I would likely be reduced to nothing but dust beneath such a strike. How terrifying. Yet the more I understand that, the more I wish to fight that Godslaying King."
As the purest, most primordial, most refined steel, Lancelot's thirst for battle was beyond anyone else's comparison.
Even knowing that his enemy's power might defeat him without leaving him any chance to resist, the purer the Steel Hero was, the more