With the black knife already in hand, Xu Huo spread his mental power across the downtown area, including the landmark tower. He couldn't sense any special power on the transparent bubble, but he didn't dare let his guard down. Just as he was about to probe it, a childlike face appeared on the bubble. It looked furious. As the bubble burst, a shrill voice rang out. "If you tear down my home again, I'll hit you!"
The bubble had vanished, and the voice disappeared with it. A second later, Xu Huo said, "So those attacks just now didn't count as 'hitting me.' You're hilarious."
He gestured at the tower with his black knife. The metal used to forge it was unusual, but surely the ground beneath the city wasn't all metal. If he couldn't bring down the tower, he had plenty of ways to make the thing fall.
No new bubbles emerged from the tower, so Xu Huo struck the ground once every hundred meters. Empowered by an item, the black knife sent out a cutting line hundreds of meters long, slicing deep into the metal beneath his feet. The unusual metal kept the cut from reaching the depth he'd hoped for, but that didn't matter. If one strike didn't work, he'd make a second!
Ignoring the little boss's warning, he fought off the metal fragments that alternately gathered and scattered, while taking every opportunity to tear up the ground around the tower. After several minutes of stalemate, some of the flying fragments gathered in midair and compressed again and again, until they formed a colossal spike. Then, along with the remaining fragments, it swept toward him!
Xu Huo was constrained and couldn't dodge in time. Even with the spatial barrier and Space Artifact between them, he took the impact