Xue Ge and Afui stood facing each other. One was gravely wounded, the other exhausted; one was a Genin, the other a Jonin.
On paper, even calling the gap between them enormous would have been an understatement, yet Afui still did not dare attack carelessly as he watched black vapor rise from Xue Ge. There was something downright uncanny about this brat.
But he could not keep dragging this out. He was the one pressed for time, after all. He had to seize the initiative.
Afui looked for an opportunity to kill Xue Ge in a single blow, and he did not have to wait long.
Just as Xue Ge activated overload again, Afui saw his body suddenly stiffen.
An opening!-
From Xue Ge's perspective, he had been cautiously preparing to put distance between himself and Afui at any moment when his vision suddenly went black.
The waves of stabbing pain in his mind vanished in an instant. At that moment, Xue Ge felt as though his consciousness had been stripped from his body, and he lost control of every part of himself.
His hands, feet, mouth, nose, and ears lost all sensation almost simultaneously, and he sank into silent darkness.
This was-
"Lightning Release: Nukite!"
Afui did not care what was happening to Xue Ge. Seeing his chance, he immediately went all out, thrusting fiercely toward Xue Ge's heart in an attempt to kill him with one strike.
Just as he charged within three meters of Xue Ge, the vacant pupils suddenly regained their focus.
Xue Ge's pupils had taken on the shape of a beast's, and those animal eyes locked onto Afui, sending an involuntary chill through his entire body and making his scalp prickle.
This feeling-
Afui saw the black mist around Xue Ge suddenly turn into