Binding Ray was a highly practical whip-like beam technique. In the original series, Nexus had used it to remotely rescue hostages taken by Space Beasts, as well as to bind and hurl Space Beasts. Its applications were extremely versatile.
And now Richard had proven that it worked just as well for catching vampires.
Dracula had already turned to mist and drifted far away, desperately fleeing higher into the sky. Who would have thought that even after getting so far, he would be casually hauled back with a single move? The Binding Ray forcibly returned him from his mist form to a physical body. Dracula was caught around the ankle and slammed down with a piercing whoosh.
Boom!
The Vampire Count was embedded in the floor in an extremely undignified spread-eagle position. It took him quite a while to crawl back up, but his dirt-covered, disheveled appearance clearly had nothing to do with the noble image of an aristocrat.
Nexus began walking toward him, his unhurried footsteps carrying the composure of someone who knew there was no need to rush—after all, the man could not get away.
Dracula knelt on one knee and gritted his teeth. His feet shifted, and his body flickered. In the span of a finger snap, he flashed to Nexus's side like a phantom, his sharp five fingers descending as though they would tear apart the night sky...
Bang!!!
A milky-white shock ring exploded in the night sky, accompanied by a heavy boom like muffled thunder. Nexus remained where he was in a punching stance, while the Vampire Count's afterimage smashed through the courtyard wall, pierced more than a dozen walls of an abandoned apartment building, and finally flew out together with a white marble sink. The sink shattered across his forehead.
That beating left Dracula bruised