"What?!"
Reflected in Rahn's blood-red eyes were the golden storm, growing ever brighter and more blinding, and the aura that had suddenly begun rising from Pei Min at its eye, utterly unlike anything before.
That aura no longer held only the tenacity and resolve of a gravely wounded warrior. There was something else, something he could not understand, yet instinctively recognized as supremely dangerous and possessed of absolute majesty.
The change ignited the flames of unease, rage, and barely perceptible fear within Rahn.
He could wait no longer! He had to snuff out this unpredictable threat immediately!
"ROAR!!!"
With a furious roar that held every dark emotion he felt, Rahn forcibly suppressed the discomfort and energy disturbances caused by the Golden Light. Bloody radiance surged along his dark-red Greatsword, its Profane Rune flashing wildly.
He ignored the golden pages circling him and scorching his skin. The muscles in his arms bulged to their limits as he poured all his savage strength, along with his boundless hatred of that Golden Light, into this single strike!
He raised the Greatsword overhead. Overcharged, the blade hummed beneath the unbearable strain. Bloody psychic energy was drawn into it in a frenzy, even forming a visible vortex of dark-red energy around it.
The next instant, the Greatsword came crashing down upon Pei Min at the eye of the storm, carrying a shriek that tore through space and the will to destroy everything!
With this blow, he would reduce this human and that loathsome golden light to dust!
BOOM!!!
A violent shock wave exploded outward in a ring, instantly scattering and pulverizing the remaining rubble and corpses nearby. Even the swirling storm of golden pages faltered.
At the moment of impact, the fury and murderous intent in Rahn's blood-red eyes froze, then gave way to boundless