The twisted humanoid turned back for a single glance and saw that Liszt Flame, whose chest it had pierced with a sword, had truly transformed into a mass of flames. A giant flaming hand had already seized it.
Binding it in place, leaving it unable to evade.
The flames seemed as though they were about to become a great bird, yet they retained their human shape. Liszt's blurred face could faintly be seen, along with a pair of clear eyes. Those eyes carried the same icy chill as his indifferent voice, as though they were looking at a corpse.
"You..."
Before the twisted humanoid had time to be shocked, a massive block of ice came crashing down upon its head.
With a resounding boom, the twisted humanoid was slammed straight into the ground by the solid ice. Whether it had been flattened or not was unknown. But Liszt would not so easily believe that an assassin capable of leaping out of shadows could be killed so simply. He swiftly dispelled the Phoenix Transformation he had activated in that critical moment.
Then he contacted Vini, the bone dragon.
In an instant, a set of Bone Dragon Armor forcibly shattered the damaged Thunder's Roar and rearmed Liszt. The bone dragon sword replaced the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword as his weapon.
His eyes swept coldly over the tent still bathed in golden light.
Piero was already dumbfounded, utterly lost in the face of this sudden turn of events. Pilov, meanwhile, stared at Liszt in terror. He seemed shocked by the assassination attempt, but in truth, he was frightened that Liszt had emerged completely unscathed. As for the others, some were terrified, some panicked; none reacted alike.
Liszt paid them no attention. To him, they were merely a swarm of ants. What he needed