And in that instant.
The warhorse wheeled around and charged toward him at lightning speed. The enormous black horse leaped high into the air while still over a hundred meters away, and the Knight's Lance flashed coldly as it appeared before him in almost the blink of an eye.
Too fast! Almost too fast to follow with the naked eye!
And Lynn knew all too well how terrifying a knight could be once he began charging!
I can't take this head-on!
Almost at the very moment the charging knight reached him, Lynn decisively abandoned his Powered Armor. Amid billowing clouds of steaming white smoke, his blazing body shot out of the Powered Armor with a sharp hiss.
And under that tremendous momentum, the knight's sharp lance slammed into the Powered Armor.
The massive Powered Armor was pierced instantly, as though it were made of paper.
The terrifying force of the thrust even shattered the ground behind the Powered Armor, sending cracks rumbling through it.
But Lynn, who had already ejected, seized that opening. He had no time to spare for his body, already scorched golden and crisp. Amid the billowing white vapor, he gritted his teeth and drove the Boning Knife into the knight's eye socket with the force of his fall. The extended blade of light formed from firstborn power plunged straight into the knight's skull, shredding everything inside.
"ROAR-"
The knight threw back his head and let out a hoarse, undead howl.
Bursts of pitch-black energy crackled out of his pierced eye socket. The warhorse beneath him reared high, trying to throw Lynn off.
But Lynn gave neither of them a chance.
He forced the Boning Knife deeper into the knight's eye socket, gritting his teeth as his other hand seized the helmet. He forcibly poured surging firstborn