The ink-black slash became a streak of light, annihilating the leaping thunder.
Thud!
The corpse, cleaved in two, fell from midair, then dissolved into a mass of blazing white light.
Endless arcs of electricity filled that blazing white light.
They danced and flickered, each movement making the white light ever more dazzling. But a fire without fuel was doomed not to last.
In the space of a single breath, the blazing white light erupted with the brilliance of a miniature sun, then rapidly began to dim.
They refused to accept it.
But they could not reverse this rule.
Under Qin Ran's gaze, they gradually changed shape, seemingly about to condense into something.
But the next instant!
Sparks suddenly burst from the four copper studs protecting the knuckles of the [Brutal Thunderfist] on Qin Ran's left hand.
The blazing white light froze.
Then...
It rushed recklessly toward the [Brutal Thunderfist] on Qin Ran's left hand.
They did not hesitate.
Nor did they have any choice.
Rather than vanish completely, they would survive in another form.
Qin Ran watched it all unfold.
He neither dodged nor intervened.
Having experienced countless things, he knew exactly what was happening.
And everything went just as Qin Ran had expected-
Bzzzt!
The instant the blazing white light touched the [Brutal Thunderfist], vast currents of electricity erupted. Thunder rumbled incessantly, and the electricity unconsciously released began spreading rapidly, forcing Nelson, who had hurried over, to retreat at once.
Fortunately, the entire process lasted less than a minute.
When the thunder fell silent and the electricity subsided, the [Brutal Thunderfist] appeared before Qin Ran in an entirely new form.
The fingerless glove's overall shape had not changed much, but the four studs protecting his finger bones had become sharp, and three more copper studs had appeared near the