The instant his weapon shattered, Garvin was struck squarely in the chest by Li Wei's tail and sent flying like a cannonball. He blasted through seven or eight buildings in succession, landed on one knee, then slid another dozen feet.
His body, already shattered to pieces from their earlier clash, immediately erupted with dozens of fountain-like jets of blood. In the blink of an eye, a pool of blood had formed beside him.
"Urgh! Cough, cough, cough!"
Even with a vampire's [Rapid Healing], Garvin seemed to have reached his limit, continuously coughing up blood clots mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
Just as everyone thought this mad battle was about to end like this, Garvin threw back his head and laughed wildly.
"Ah! This pain is so real. This feeling of fighting to the brink of madness, this feeling of challenging the limits of life—they all seem to prove that I'm still alive!
"Perhaps this is the meaning of survival, and the meaning of my pursuit of absolute justice!
"Diablo! You truly are the strongest enemy destined for me!"
Li Wei's grin stretched to his ears. "Poor child, have you only realized your regret now?! Then embrace eternal death! I won't even give you the time to regret dying!"
As he spoke, a spark of destruction gathered in his mouth once more as he rapidly closed in on Garvin.
"Ha... hahahahahahahahaha!"
Garvin laughed maniacally, his chest pumping and spurting blood like a broken bellows.
"Ah! So this is what it feels like to stand on the verge of death?! This feeling is simply intoxicating! I'm so excited I can barely contain myself!"
As he spoke, before everyone's horrified eyes, he actually drove his index finger into his own head.
Yet even so, he did not die. Instead, staring at