Charlotte took a deep breath. He knew there was still an enormous gap between himself and Hughes, both in terms of panel strength and actual strength.
The main reason he had managed not to fall even slightly behind was the Agility Technique ×10 boosted by the Red and Blue Rattlesnakes.
Well, nobody had ever said that power attached to equipment couldn't kill people.
Charlotte had no intention of giving up his advantage. He released the Blood Spirit Rhino.
Charlotte had originally hoped the Blood Spirit Rhino would become a flying tool. It could indeed carry people through the air, but the energy of a Fifteenth Order Transcendence was insufficient to sustain long-distance flight.
Still, it was quite useful as a "weapon." The thumb-sized pellet shot out like lightning.
Hughes and Charlotte had fought hundreds of times in the Dreamscape. No one in this world understood Charlotte's fighting style better than Hughes. He knew how cunning Charlotte was, how he could employ all manner of unimaginable methods, so he had remained constantly on guard.
Hughes did not know what the Blood Spirit Rhino was. With a flick of his Knight's Lance, he tried to knock aside the tiny pellet. Yet under Charlotte's control, the Blood Spirit Rhino turned sharply in midair. Hughes knew Charlotte had mastered Blood Flame Qi and assumed it was a similar technique. He still pressed down with his Knight's Lance, accurately striking the Blood Spirit Rhino.
Before Hughes's disbelieving eyes, the tiny pellet gave a piercing shriek and slammed into the Knight's Lance in his hand, snapping in two the Supernatural Weapon that had followed Hughes across countless battlefields and slain innumerable enemies!
Charlotte smiled faintly. "Hughes, today is the day you die."
Hughes crossed his arms and activated the House of Abraham's secret technique, the Flesh