Celebi did not answer Hunter C's question.
It merely gently pushed the Energy Ball in its hand toward Hunter C.
The Energy Ball left Celebi's palm and slowly drifted toward Hunter C.
It moved so slowly that the naked eye could clearly follow every inch of its path.
Like a fallen leaf drifting in the breeze, like a dandelion seed dancing beneath the sun.
Yet something strange happened—
Despite moving so slowly, it appeared before the two dark-purple beams when they had traveled less than halfway.
As though space did not exist before it.
As though it had not crossed that distance at all, but had simply "jumped" from Celebi's palm to the front of the beams.
The instant the Energy Ball met the two dark-purple beams, there was no explosion, no shockwave, no violent collision as expected.
The thick dark-purple beams brimming with destructive force melted away soundlessly the moment they touched the Energy Ball, like ice and snow beneath the blazing sun.
The Energy Ball continued drifting forward. It was still so slow that it gave the illusion that one could easily dodge it.
Yet in the next second, it appeared before the massive demonic shadow dozens of meters tall.
A flash of human-like terror passed through the demonic shadow's scarlet eyes.
It opened its jaws and let out an earth-shaking roar. Shadow energy crazily gathered and compressed in its mouth, forming a massive Shadow Ball over three meters in diameter that collided with the Energy Ball!
The instant the Energy Ball and Shadow Ball met, the entire world seemed to fall silent for a moment.
There was no sound, no light—only the two spheres pressing against and eroding each other at the point of contact.
Then, a heaven-shaking explosion erupted!
"Boom—!!!"
The two forces, compressed to their