Charlotte was slightly surprised!
Julian, however, remained calm. "The defining feature of House of Asilo's Supernatural Weapons is that they can merge into a Bloody Vortex."
Thinking of Blood Rose, Charlotte stroked his left arm and thought, It really is a perfect match for Withered Rose.
Firearms held an enormous advantage in battles among ordinary people, but once one reached the Transcendent level, guns had an unavoidable flaw. Even low-tier bladed weapons could unleash power beyond their limits if their wielder's rank was high enough, but Transcendent firearms were limited by their own rank and could not fire bullets beyond that rank.
Charlotte had an Anti-Space Long-Range Rifle and two Silver Rhinos, but without Demon-Breaking Armor-Piercing Bullets, he could not penetrate a Transcendent's protective energy tide. Even with those bullets, he had encountered an unparalleled Transcendent who could flick them aside with a Knight's Lance.
Even now, he could not understand how Hughes had managed to strike aside Demon-Breaking Armor-Piercing Bullets fired at high speed.
Hughes, wielding the Black Knight's Lance, was like a mountain that could never be defeated. No matter how much Charlotte improved or how unpredictable his swordsmanship became, Hughes was like a vast ocean, unfathomable and always able to find a way to suppress him. The hundreds of duels he had fought Hughes in the Dreamscape remained Charlotte's deepest nightmare.
Well, ever since dueling Hughes, Charlotte had not feared High-Order Transcendents nearly as much.
Even when he killed Zolman, the level-fifteen Transcendent general of the South Seraph Restoration Army, he had not found it particularly difficult.
Though Charlotte had used a little trick in that battle.
But in combat, especially a fight to the death, shouldn't one use every means available and make use of whatever worked?
Seeing Charlotte lost in thought, Julian assumed he found