But in the next moment, Griffiths knew he had been wrong—terribly, fatally wrong.
Continuous booming crashes rang out. The assault landing ships extended ten-meter-long rams from their prows. Without slowing in the slightest, they smashed through the cargo ship's armored hull like rotten wood, locking themselves firmly onto the vessel. Five assault landing ships rammed into the cargo ship's bow and sides. Over a thousand space pirates howled as they poured from the landing ships, rushing in through the breaches in the hull.
Griffiths immediately sensed that something was wrong. If this Flame Domain expert had merely been putting on an act, he would never have dared to actually damage the cargo ship. But these pirates showed no sign of acting.
Griffiths's heart sank. He turned, about to question him, when terror seized his soul!
The Flame Domain expert had somehow appeared right in front of him. His right hand thrust forward, aiming straight for Griffiths's heart!
How was this possible? Such bizarre golden flames, such powerful energy fluctuations, such overwhelming killing intent—how could he have allowed the other party to approach without noticing anything at all?! Griffiths's mind flashed with the question, but he had no time to seek an answer. He roared, and gold began spreading from his heart throughout his body!
"King Kong Body!" This was Griffiths's signature move, as well as the strongest defensive skill he could cast quickly. As the name implied, King Kong Body used metal-element energy to twist the laws and transform the flesh. Once the gold spread across his entire body, his body's toughness could reach three times that of battleship armor! Even several shots from an ordinary battleship's secondary cannons would leave him completely unscathed...
Yet though the gold had already spread across half of Griffiths's body, he still felt little