In an instant.
Zuo Zuo distinctly felt a brief hitch in the strength of Lynn's body. That momentary anomaly was all it took for the immense force to break through his defenses and send his body of erosion marks flying more than ten meters.
"Blockhead!" Zuo Zuo cried in alarm.
But Silver Fantasy did not stop. The root-level war blade in her hand erupted with intense death rays, and she charged at Lynn like a Valkyrie.
Humm-
The blade, radiating a terrifying glow, stopped a few centimeters from his throat.
At the same time, he saw the deathly eyes beneath her helmet.
Yet her voice remained as calm as ever.
She asked.
"Are you him?"
Lynn stared into her eyes and said:
"No."
A long, deathlike silence spread through the passageway.
Amid the howling wind, all that could be seen was the Mechanical Body pinning him to the wall with her elbow, her blade aimed squarely at his throat.
Neither spoke.
That moment stretched on as though time itself had frozen.
"You know who I'm asking about?"
"Whoever you're asking about, I'm me. There's no one else."
Lynn gazed at her.
The quiet confrontation seemed to last a lifetime.
She seemed to be searching for something in his eyes, but there was nothing.
Finally.
"All right."
Silver Fantasy spoke.
"Then you can strike now-"
Lynn's fist, wreathed in a scarlet torrent, remained a mere few centimeters from her body.
Silence and stillness spread.
It was as though fate had played a colossal joke on him.
Lynn opened his eyes again and gazed at the familiar face before him.
Finally.
"Sorry, but you really are weak."
A faint smile appeared on his face. His body dissolved into a pool of erosion marks and seeped into the tree trunk behind him.
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