Clang!!
At the critical moment, Anthony raised his thick, powerful arm and blocked with the sculpting hammer in his hand.
The crimson, translucent longsword slashed down before him almost as if it had teleported, striking the plain iron hammer with an ear-splitting ring.
Amid the shower of sparks, Anthony's expression changed drastically.
A terrifying force crashed into him. As sharp pain and numbness spread through his palm, arm, and upper body, his entire body involuntarily arched backward.
Boom!!
Anthony's chest tightened as he was sent flying.
With a whoosh, his body streaked through the air in a blurred afterimage. Before he could land, Anthony sensed the young man in black closing in once more.
Expressionless, the other party appeared in midair. Beneath his disheveled hair were a pair of icy silver-violet eyes—
Those deep, Splendor-filled eyes seemed to swirl with mysterious vortices as they gazed coldly at him.
As though looking at a dead man!
At that moment, Anthony finally understood how Blood Colonel had felt... Facing the Red Sage head-on meant enduring unimaginable pressure!
That pressure stemmed from being utterly outclassed in every aspect, as well as the stifling helplessness of having no effective means of retaliation.
Not only was his opponent incredibly fast, but his strength was also astonishing. Even the simplest sword strike was deadly!
To deal with him, Anthony had no choice but to devote one hundred percent of his focus and vigilance. One moment of carelessness would mean irreversible ruin...
Anthony knew perfectly well that although his frontal combat ability was decent, it was still slightly inferior to Blood Colonel Hellman's.
Yet even Hellman had been unable to hold out for long against the Red Sage, let alone him.
The young man in black remained silent as he teleported before Anthony. In the blink of