The ground trembled slightly, but that was all.
When Colin swore to a duel with the Knight's Notarized Shield, no outside force could interfere with that sacred duel!
Taking advantage of this mysterious item's properties, Colin had come up with this part of the plan.
If that still didn't work, they would send in another group to keep playing "suicide bomber."
It was stupid, after all.
Still, it was best to use the Shield of the Just Knight only once a day, with at least an hour between uses. Three times was the absolute limit. Otherwise, they would go insane before even an hour had passed.
At that moment, everything inside the Duel Arena was cut off from the outside. The mysterious power pulled the surroundings far away, rendering them extremely blurry.
However, Colin and Shana could still make out some changes in the outside world through that invisible, distorted barrier.
Deep-red waves of heat mixed with thick black smoke, as if surging beneath the surface of molten lava. Even without touching it, Colin could feel its horrifying heat.
The battered figure was completely swallowed by the terrifying blast.
After swearing three times, Colin and Shana turned their attention outside the arena, toward the faint, towering silhouette within the flames.
It seemed to be standing in the middle of the enormous blaze. It hadn't been blown away, fallen over, or left. They had no idea what condition it was in.
[You sensed its presence rapidly weakening. You knew its recovery had reached its limit.]
[At this moment, even though it was not completely dead, you had realized that you had defeated it.]
"It must be carrying something valuable, too. Otherwise, there'd be no reason for it to just stand there without moving after being blasted like that."
Colin speculated.
But