That move left even Tree Loli, watching from the sidelines, utterly dumbfounded. She had never imagined Jiu Ming would foolishly take the Stone Giant's full-force punch head-on. Had something gone wrong in his head?
She had thought he might use some useful attack... like that transparent flame from before. With that, he might still have had a chance at victory. But what kind of response was taking the opponent's attack head-on like this?
"Ugh..." The instant the Stone Giant's punch landed squarely on him, Jiu Ming's Enlarging Art state was smashed away. Still, his objective had been achieved. He had enlarged himself not to erase the size gap between himself and the Stone Giant, but simply to bear the full brunt of the attack...
Yet even with Jiu Ming defending with all his strength, that blow still shattered his body apart. He had nearly dispersed completely!
"You... what was the point of that?"
Tree Loli's voice carried a hint of pain as well. That punch from the Stone Giant had snapped quite a few roots near her main body. It would not have mattered if some roots farther away had broken, since there were not many branches there. But roots near her main body breaking was equivalent to losing a huge portion of her root branches.
She had been badly injured directly.
"Of course there was a point."
Jiu Ming's body, lying on the ground, was blurred in an unnatural way, like a candle flame about to be snuffed out by the wind. Tree Loli did not dare grant him even a trace of power now. Jiu Ming's body was hollow and empty at the moment; doing so would only harm him. "Don't worry. My injuries aren't serious."
Jiu Ming spoke. His body had no such thing as being injured,