The air temperature shot straight up.
The marble tiles on the ground began to soften.
They slowly melted into dark red lava.
Heat waves whipped Luo Ye's tattered Hawaiian Shirt, making it flap wildly.
Knuckle hid behind the ruins in the distance.
He clamped both hands over his head.
Knuckle didn't dare look up at what lay ahead.
The pressure from that sheer compression of energy.
It made even a battle-hardened Hunter like him go weak all over.
"Fall back! Fall back! Fall back!"
Knuckle shouted at the top of his lungs.
He tried to get that lunatic in the Hawaiian Shirt to leave the blast's epicenter.
But the terrifying shriek of shearing wind tore his words apart the moment they left his mouth.
Luo Ye stood where he was.
He hadn't moved a single step.
Both hands rested casually in his pockets.
There wasn't a trace of panic in his black eyes.
Only a craving for a first-class buffet.
Luo Ye even leisurely rolled his neck.
His bones gave a series of crisp cracks.
The massive figure opposite him was already completely shrouded in blinding red light.
Terrifying Nen aura kept collapsing inward.
It reached a critical point where it could erase the entire Royal Palace at any moment.
Luo Ye spread his lips.
He grinned, showing a mouthful of white teeth.
Without any warning.
The explosion erupted.
There was no deafening boom.
Only an extremely high-frequency vibration that instantly deafened anyone who heard it.
A dark red fireball swelled violently above the steps.
The fireball devoured the surrounding stone pillars.
It devoured the broken statues.
And it instantly devoured Luo Ye's slender body.
The shock wave became a tangible ring-shaped storm.
It flattened every scrap of ruined architecture within dozens of meters.
Half of Knuckle's cover was sheared