The air in the woods froze.
Neferpitou stopped moving.
She panted heavily.
The mockery had vanished from her ruby-red eyes.
Pure shock had taken its place.
In the few seconds just past,
she had unleashed hundreds upon thousands of slashes.
Every one could have sliced through steel.
Yet the human before her
had not retreated even a single step.
Luo Ye's floral shirt had been reduced to strips.
But on his exposed skin,
there was not even a single pale mark.
All that savage physical cutting force
had been devoured completely by the black Nen aura flowing over his body.
"That's it?"
Luo Ye rolled his neck.
His joints let out a series of sharp cracks.
He reached up and brushed the dust off his shoulder.
His expression was full of disdain.
"I thought the three Royal Guards were supposed to be a big deal."
"Turns out you're just a massage therapist who spams basic attacks and barely scratches me."
"With strength like that,"
"you aren't even qualified to loosen up my joints."
Neferpitou stared fixedly at Luo Ye.
Her animal instincts sounded frantic alarms in her brain.
Danger.
Extreme danger.
The black Nen aura on this human
possessed some quality that defied biological logic.
Her physical attacks were not merely ineffective.
Even at the instant of contact,
that black aura forcibly drained some of their kinetic energy.
Neferpitou lowered her body.
A low growl rumbled in her throat.
"Mrow."
Since physical slashes wouldn't work,
she would crush him with pure Nen.
Neferpitou closed her eyes.
Every Aura Node in her body opened completely at that moment, holding nothing back.
Boom!
A pressure of malicious Nen beyond description
erupted from her petite body.
The surrounding air instantly became impossibly thick.
The gravel on the ground was crushed straight into powder