"Did you feel it too?" The bleak despair on Emiria's face blossomed into a gleam of delighted surprise.
Jesse lowered his head and extended his right hand. The Force transformed into a gigantic hand that viciously clawed at Emiria.
Emiria threw out both hands, and the Force likewise surged forth.
"Boom!" The powerful forces collided between them, unleashing a shockwave that ground every robot within twenty meters of the pair into dust. Over a thousand robots within fifty meters were violently blasted away, while even the incomparably hard mountain rock beneath their feet cracked with jagged fissures.
The two different Forces shimmered in different hues. Jesse's dark Force became a slightly blackened giant palm, pressing tightly against Emiria's starlit shield!
"Creak, creak..." Though both were Level 26, one was beginner-tier while the other was advanced-tier; the difference in combat strength was substantial! The starlit shield groaned beneath the strain as the black giant hand steadily closed in!
"Are you still struggling like a trapped beast?" Though at a disadvantage, Emiria looked like a monarch on the verge of victory.
"The trapped beast is you. Break!" Jesse did not dare delay. With an angry roar, he threw out his other hand as well. "Creak, creak—boom!" The starlit shield shattered at once, and the black giant hand instantly seized Emiria within its grasp!
Yet there was not the slightest joy on Jesse's face.
Because Emiria, caught in the enormous black palm, was protected by a layer of blue-violet Force. This Force differed from any power Jesse had ever seen. Even its nature and quality differed from the Force they knew. From that blue-violet Force, Jesse sensed an even higher-level power!
"Who is it? Show yourself!" Having failed to finish her in one move, Jesse immediately withdrew his Force and shifted into full