The instant his words fell, blue-violet lightning surged explosively.
Hajime Kashimo shot forward low to the ground, moving so fast that he left a broken afterimage behind him. His iron staff thrust straight at Qingxiao's heart, humming with high-frequency vibrations.
Qingxiao slid half a step sideways to evade, his right fist blasting past the shaft. Black Flash struck squarely against the side of the iron staff.
Blue-violet light and black lightning violently tangled and exploded at the point of contact.
The clang of metal, the shudder of space, and the hiss of biting electricity overlapped, loud enough to make eardrums ache.
Both men retreated half a step.
Hajime Kashimo tentatively released a wisp of electromagnetic waves. The blue-violet ray had barely extended half an inch from his body before the domain's opposing force ground it into nothing.
But the high-frequency vibrations clinging to the iron staff's surface still retained their power, numbing Qingxiao's forearm slightly and opening a thin tear in his uniform cuff.
Using the staff's recoil, Hajime Kashimo twisted in midair. His right leg, wrapped in dense blue-violet thunderclouds, swept toward the side of Qingxiao's head in a spinning kick.
Qingxiao had not expected his opponent to go all out in the very first exchange. He hastily raised an arm to block, and a dull impact burst through his muscles and bones.
He was driven half a step backward, his boot soles scraping a long, deep mark across the gray ground.
This was the first time he had been forced back since deploying his domain.
Xiaolu in his Mythical Beast Palu form could actually move half as fast as me?
This is just too interesting!
The three-colored lines underfoot suddenly fell into disorder, like a breath missing half a beat, then quickly returned to place.
The stiffness upon