Li burst into the bedroom almost instantly, but the sight before him made him freeze. A breathtakingly beautiful body lay facedown on his bed. The bed itself had been crushed to pieces beneath her, no longer resembling a bed at all.
The person was naturally Layla in black. She lay there without moving, while Li could only stare blankly at the enticing scene before him.
But very soon, a mass of white flames surged out from beneath black-clad Layla. The flames were so fierce that, in the blink of an eye, they swallowed her in a sea of fire.
Li froze involuntarily, then rushed forward and scooped her up. Yet he nearly threw her back down at once. Even Li found those terrifying flames difficult to endure—this was the most primal power of laws. Enduring the searing pain, Li wrapped black-clad Layla in a powerful force of spiritual energy, isolating her completely.
This... Li drew in a sharp breath. At a glance, he could see a small cluster of blinding flames burning inside black-clad Layla's abdomen. The Sacred Flame's intense heat had already passed through her body and begun radiating wildly outward, actually forming a thin, faint layer of flame over her skin!
Was Zeref an idiot?! Li nearly cursed aloud. He had merely told Zeref to injure her, not to beat her into such a grave state! At this rate, the plan that followed might not even be possible. Li rolled his eyes. Did he really have to handle it himself after all?
For now, he should wake her up first, right?
Watching the Sacred Flame inside black-clad Layla burn ever more fiercely, Li took a deep breath. Then an incomparably vast force of spiritual energy pierced through black-clad Layla's body and directly enveloped the flames formed by the