Although Viscount Shamein was young, he was the leader of the Knights' Four Heavenly Kings of the younger generation. How could he have never experienced a bloody battle? Whether suppressing riots in the Blackgate and Simoa star sectors or hunting pirates in the Abyss Nebula, he had fought all kinds of psychics and powerful phantom beasts.
Even the mysterious Void Realm, which most psychics had never heard of, was somewhere he had visited several times.
And yet, he had to admit that the Palaian before him was without a doubt the strongest enemy he had ever faced.
Yu Lian—the man whose name could not be spoken—was certainly formidable. He had killed so many that even now, recalling the events of the War God Ceremony left Shamein shaken and sent chills crawling over his scalp. But on reflection, that man's strength came from his incredibly efficient fighting techniques, which left almost no room for error or hesitation, and a courage that could only be called ruthless.
Then there was his boundless imagination, his ability to break free of conventional thinking. Perhaps that was exactly why Shamein valued Jaeger Sobek so highly.
Aside from that, in terms of sheer strength, Yu Lian was actually about on par with him.
Viscount Shamein had even used the mental realm and computer simulations to fight more than a hundred life-or-death duels against Yu Lian. He believed he wasn't without a chance of winning.
But this Palai insect called Blackros was different. Compared with every knight present, including himself, he had an overwhelming advantage in strength.
That much had become apparent in the very first exchange.
A sudden spray of tiny metal fragments engulfed him like a storm of blades, sweeping seven or eight knights around him into its range.
Even at that point, the knights