The next moment!
Asuna stomped the ground, shattering it beneath her feet as she shot straight toward XANXUS.
XANXUS's pupils contracted. "What speed!"
That was what he thought, but his movements were not slow either. He immediately raised his two handguns to block Asuna's downward slash.
Asuna's rapier was caught right between the two guns.
The Dying Will Flames above Asuna's head suddenly erupted, surging dramatically higher.
The A-rank ring on her hand lit up as well. Dying Will Flames bearing the Sky Flame Attribute coiled down her arm and around her rapier, increasing the force of her downward slash.
The ground beneath XANXUS's feet immediately cracked inch by inch.
To withstand Asuna's increasingly powerful rapier while maintaining his balance, XANXUS spread his legs into a standard wide split stance and stubbornly held against her impact.
Both his legs were trembling, but his mouth remained tough. "Heh, is that all?"
Asuna's gaze sharpened. She added even more strength and pressed her rapier down fiercely with one hand.
Note: She still had not used both hands, which proved she was still holding back some of her strength.
After all, she had activated Dying Will Mode and was even wearing an A-rank ring.
As everyone knew,
fighting with a ring and fighting without one were completely different matters.
Otherwise, Tsunayoshi Sawada from ten years ago would not have nearly failed to defeat two fodder enemies after returning to the future without wearing his ring.
Do not forget that Tsunayoshi Sawada had won the Ring War at that time and was officially the Tenth Vongola Boss.
Yet even so, without his ring, he had truly nearly failed to beat two fodder enemies...
Asuna increased her strength by several more degrees, and XANXUS finally began to lose his footing, dropping to one knee.
Then