"Sorry, but the power your master displayed was simply too astonishing."
Vali stretched his limbs, shards of ice continually falling from his body.
From the start of their clash until now, both he and Esdeath had been fighting at full strength.
Both were battle maniacs.
Even though they knew each other's identities.
Neither had held anything back with a single attack.
In all fairness.
If it came down to power alone.
With Juggernaut Drive active, he was a cut above her.
But Esdeath's freezing aura was far too troublesome. The slightest carelessness would spell trouble for him.
Without the White Dragon Emperor's power, he would have become an ice sculpture long ago.
"That attitude tells me you're quite confident. But you don't really think this is all I've got, do you?"
The corners of Esdeath's lips lifted. The golden radiance enveloping her instantly compressed, as though retreating completely into her body.
At that moment.
She seemed to have returned to her earlier state.
But Vali's pupils contracted sharply at the sight.
Because Esdeath had become even more dangerous.
"Don't assume this is the limit of the power my master bestowed upon me."
Esdeath lightly swung her sabre. "Though the power of a blessing is fixed, it can change according to our will."
A blessing was, in essence, another form of energy.
Although the blessings Lin Luo had granted all his familiars were identical.
They were also like a balance breaker.
Depending on their personalities and fighting styles, they could develop ways of using it that were uniquely their own.
Of course.
As she was now.
She had merely brought her strength up to the same starting line as Vali's.
But.
That was enough.
Bam!
The air exploded.
A pathway of ice appeared beneath Esdeath's feet. As though teleporting, she appeared