Lily hacked her way through the crisscrossing wreckage of pipes and jagged metal with her ice-and-fire twin blades, her whole body like an unprecedentedly powerful metal storm. The irritating obstacles were quickly cleared away, though by then Hao Ren could barely see anything around her. Imagine ice chips mixed with boiling-water bubbles, all churned together like a tornado—that was the scene. In any case, not long after Lily started, Hao Ren had no idea where the girl was. Only after the clanging inside the wreckage had quieted for half a minute did he see Lily burst through a hole elsewhere in the hull, emerging amid clouds of steam with her eyes spinning in circles. "I'm finally out... You can't use these two claws in the water..."
Lily's cheeks were flushed, and her hair had curled into ringlets. She looked as though she had spent ten minutes lying in a steamer and then gotten a perm. The water around her was at least two hundred degrees. It was a miracle the girl was so healthy.
"You should learn to control your strength instead of treating them as mere weapons," Izax said with the air of someone speaking from experience, pointing at the ice-and-fire twin blades in Lily's hands. "These two weapons are incredibly powerful, but letting their power disperse like that is a waste. Look at my Netherflame. You can't feel any heat from it once you're more than a centimeter away, yet it can vaporize a chunk of hafnium alloy in a few seconds."
Nangong May clicked her tongue in amazement and asked curiously, "What's the use of controlling it that precisely?"
"It can slightly increase the core's destructive power." Izax pointed at his Netherflame fireball. "But its main use is keeping the surroundings cooler when you're using it for