This time, Sainsai clearly put more force into his spell, and although Oko had already set up her mental defenses in advance, the world before her still began to undergo strange changes.
The atmosphere solidified, the earth liquefied, and the entire space seemed as if it had been polluted, rapidly twisting and collapsing!
These illusory scenes filling her vision were a sign that Oko's thoughts were gradually drifting away from reality!
Thus, the Pink-Haired Hunter's movements began to slow and sway, step by step.
Yet even so, Oko's expression did not change in the slightest.
Her eyes remained fixed on Sainsai!
Her body continued forward in a straight line!
Then, Oko spun around. The Round Sun Longswords, which had been wound around her limbs and long hair by the winds raised through Auling Power, were hurled out one after another. Three streaks of sword light flashed toward Sainsai himself, while another four shot straight at Dunke, who sat suspended in the air behind Sainsai!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!
At the sight, Sainsai's expression remained unchanged. Unmoved, he simply continued his mental erosion of Oko.
The next second, the seven streaks of sword light became seven bolts of lightning following different trajectories, shooting viciously and sharply toward the vital points around Sainsai and Dunke.
However, obstructed by the energy of the branded force field linking the two as one, the seven flying swords had their speed bizarrely stripped away. They froze one after another in midair a meter before the two men, posing no threat whatsoever to Sainsai or Dunke!
Just as Sainsai had resisted Oko's body last time, he now resisted Oko's flying swords in exactly the same manner!
Though he did not know precisely what Oko intended to do, Sainsai firmly believed that, at this very moment, every one of