At that moment, Herito Riverwen clearly felt that his mind, his soul, and his life were like a city stripped of its walls, laid completely bare before the enemy.
A scream escaped him before he could control it, and his body shifted from its blurred, transparent state back into solid form. Then a deep, yet remarkably loud, rumble suddenly sounded within him, as though someone were beating a drum inside his body. A shock wave, almost visible to the naked eye, burst out from within him and rippled through the air.
Yu Lian seemed to sense how dangerous the shock wave was and sidestepped to put a little distance between them.
The trembling Franmorean was also flung away, though only half his body. His right shoulder and arm had been torn away from his torso, leaving a particularly gruesome sight.
The cross-section of the wound was remarkably smooth, with no irregular tearing and not the slightest trace of a burn. It was only after the severed limb hit the ground that the smell of blood began to spread.
"Elemental cells aren't invulnerable. I'm probably the best person to speak on that," Yu Lian said.
Having once been one himself, he knew that switching between elemental cells and a physical body placed a tremendous strain on the body. The pain alone was more than most people could bear. Now, this man had been forced to turn from elemental cells back into solid form, and had also lost an arm in the process. One could only imagine the agony he was in.
At that moment, even Yu Lian couldn't help feeling a faint, complicated sympathy for him.
Of course, Yu Lian had caused this himself, but that wasn't important.
He looked at the man's wound with some surprise, clicking his tongue in