"Stop! Stop, you bastard!"
Looking at the vast sea of fire in midair and feeling the surrounding air rapidly heat up, Ashiya Doman roared furiously. At the same time, several enormous branches shot out from the black Imaginary Tree at his side, stabbing toward Shen Fei in the air.
Ashiya Doman knew something of Shen Fei's strength. He had naturally seen the footage of Shen Fei destroying the Machine God Artemis in Atlantis. Unfortunately, he did not know that was not Shen Fei's full strength, nor did he know that against an Imaginary Tree, Excalibur was less effective than Judgment of Shamash.
Fire generally possessed the greatest destructive power. That was why Shen Fei's primary combat weapon had become the flames of Judgment of Shamash, especially when facing massive enemies. Moreover, although the Imaginary Tree was extraordinary, it had not entirely escaped the nature of wood. Fire could burn it.
Ashiya Doman cried out involuntarily precisely because he sensed the destructive power of the flames overhead. This Imaginary Tree was everything to him. Furthermore, it had only been forcibly grown and was far from complete. If it truly took that blow, his dream would likely be over. Even though he had lost the possibility of becoming a Human Evil, the Imaginary Tree could still elevate him to the level of a god.
Unfortunately for him, Shen Fei naturally had no intention of stopping just because Doman told him to. If Abe no Seimei had not previously said that the imperial palace could not suffer too much damage, forcing him to hold back, Shen Fei could have destroyed the Imaginary Tree before him in a single strike. The price, however, would have been for all of Heian-kyō to be buried alongside it.
Even so, when the enormous flaming sword struck the