The moment Pridian moved, Brando immediately saw that his strength surpassed the Side of Truth. The captain of the Templar Knights absolutely could not possess this level of power, so the other party could only be a Flame Dependent Knight.
A battle above the Elements would be earth-shaking. Brando had no intention of reducing the manor to rubble right now, so he knew this battle had to be ended swiftly. He had to finish it before his opponent could react.
Unfortunately, a maid could never have had the chance to know what Elements her "butler" possessed. Otherwise, this battle would have been much simpler.
Brando's first sword strike was a full-powered blow, but nearly all its force was restrained within the blade, so it barely affected the surrounding environment. Below the Elements, in battles between the Gold and Silver ranks, the air currents stirred by the combatants' every move often spread dozens of meters. Above the Elements, however, battles were much more restrained.
That was because everything depended on one's control over power.
Of course, when two Element Realm experts fought to the death, that was an entirely different matter. The area affected would absolutely be beyond anything the Gold and Silver realms could imagine. Slicing apart dozens of miles with one sword was a little exaggerated, but devastating several miles was no problem at all.
Above the Extremes, battles became something else again. Once the Plain of Extremes unfolded, it might not affect the Material Plane in the slightest, yet it might also cause the heavens and earth to collapse.
Faced with Brando's full-powered sword strike, Pridian instinctively leaned aside. The Sword of Earth cut into the desk, splitting it in two as easily as cutting tofu.
A dense, fish-scale-like silver radiance rippled across the desktop. Then the entire