However.
There was not a trace of panic on Luo's face.
He simply, slowly, raised one finger.
"ROOM."
An enormous, translucent blue spherical domain instantly spread out from him, enveloping the entire arena!
"Shambles."
At the very moment before Gildarts's Crash Magic struck him.
Luo instantly swapped places with a piece of arena rubble in the distance!
Boom!
Gildarts's magic hit empty space, breaking that piece of rubble down completely.
"Oh? A spatial ability? That's a real pain!"
Gildarts scratched his head, looking somewhat troubled.
The battle that followed turned into a game of cat and mouse!
Gildarts possessed overwhelming destructive power, but his "Crush" required "contact" with its target to activate!
Within Luo's "ROOM," where he could freely cut, swap, and control everything, Gildarts could not even touch the hem of Luo's clothes!
"Seriously! This is so annoying!"
After Luo toyed with him for several minutes, controlling hundreds of huge rocks with "Takt," Gildarts finally lost his patience!
He decided to stop this pointless chase!
He would use the most absolute, most powerful force to crush this entire space, along with that annoying brat!
Gildarts pushed his magic power to its limit, preparing to unleash his strongest area attack!
However.
This was precisely the moment Luo had been waiting for!
He had been waiting for the moment his opponent exposed an opening out of anger!
The instant Gildarts gathered his power, preparing to unleash his ultimate move.
Luo teleported behind him like a ghost!
His right hand became an invisible scalpel, gently passing through Gildarts's back!
There was no blood.
There was no wound.
"Scalpel."
When Luo withdrew his hand, he held a small cube wrapped in blue energy, still beating faintly.
It was Gildarts's heart!
Gildarts, who was just about to unleash his Crash Magic, suddenly stiffened!
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