"Bang!"
After a deafening blast, nothing remained where the Pyro Apostle had stood but a pile of grit.
Zhong Baiye had noticed the change in the Pyro Apostle's expression and immediately acted to protect his body.
But that power was like a law of nature. Even with all his strength, Zhong Baiye had been unable to prevent the Pyro Apostle's fate.
Yet just as Zhong Baiye gave up and prepared to retrieve the Pyro Apostle's remains, a glasslike shard in the apostle's hand suddenly blazed with light and shielded him.
After the deafening blast, the Pyro Apostle still failed to escape, but the shard had held off that law for several whole seconds. That alone proved how extraordinary it was.
Zhong Baiye walked over to the Pyro Apostle's ashes and said, "Sorry." Then he crouched down and picked up the shard.
Zhong Baiye noticed that the shard was much like glass, with extremely sharp edges.
But with his current physique, even if an ordinary person hacked at him with a four-star weapon until they died of exhaustion, they could not leave a single wound on his body.
Precisely because of that confidence, Zhong Baiye carelessly cut himself on the shard's edge as he picked it up, leaving a wound on his thumb.
Some special power seemed to be preventing the wound from healing. Otherwise, with Zhong Baiye's monstrous regenerative ability, it should have healed the instant it appeared.
Zhong Baiye focused his attention on his left thumb.
Just as he had suspected, with Elemental Sight, Zhong Baiye quickly spotted a colored membrane surrounding the wound on his thumb.
It was this Colored Membrane that was stopping his wound from healing.
While Zhong Baiye was studying the Colored Membrane, the shard on the ground suddenly crumbled into drifting ash.
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