With a thunderous blast, the azure flames gathered in Iori Yagami's hand collided with the beam of light. Yet the result was not the beam shattering Iori Yagami's defense, but the beam being dissolved instead. The azure flames seemed to solidify upon the beam, racing along it and reaching Yashiro Nanakase in an instant. Startled, Yashiro jerked backward. The beam vanished, but the flames continued to whirl toward him!
With a pfft, the ball of flame struck Yashiro Nanakase in the chest. Blue flames immediately enveloped his chest before spreading to cover his entire body. Yet the fire gave Yashiro no chance to disperse it. The condensed flames were like a timed bomb—and then they exploded!
With a thunderous boom, endless smoke and dust billowed forth, and a violent gale swept over Iori Yagami some distance away. Iori stood against the wind, his hands having slipped into his pockets at some point. His blood-red hair fluttered lightly in the gale, but his body did not so much as tremble.
Then, a spot in the gale suddenly caved inward, and Yashiro Nanakase burst out from that depression with his shoulder thrust forward!
It seemed that the previous attack had not inflicted any serious injuries upon Yashiro Nanakase. That move had been Iori Yagami's Flame Urn!
However, Flame Urn had now been completely altered by Iori Yagami. If Flame Urn struck Yashiro Nanakase in full, then even if he could still stand afterward, he would have little strength left. But what Yashiro had taken just now was only around twenty percent of the power of a complete Flame Urn.
The modified Flame Urn itself lost thirty percent of its power, leaving it at roughly seventy percent. After all, Iori's family ancestors had already determined and verified the optimal method of unleashing Flame