"Lady Maffey!" Ma Chao's voice rang out amid the blue-black lightning, carrying an inhuman echo. "You think you're the embodiment of holiness? Wrong. Your light is darker than darkness to me. True holiness doesn't lie with the lofty Holy Knights. It lies with the countless souls who died fighting for their ideals! And after centuries, this is all you've achieved? You're truly useless."
Ma Chao raised the Tiger-Head Spear high.
Blue-black lightning shot skyward from the spear, forming a three-hundred-meter-long phantom of Zekrom in the sky. Between the phantom's three horns, a blue-black plasma core was taking shape.
"Plasma Inazuma · Ideal Judgment!"
The Tiger-Head Spear slashed down hard. The Zekrom phantom lowered its head at the same time, and the plasma core between its horns became a bolt of blue-black lightning spanning heaven and earth, meeting the light dragon's destructive laser head-on.
Two forces capable of destroying nations collided in midair. At the point of impact, the golden laser and blue-black lightning tore through space, blasting open a pitch-black spatial rift. The rift devoured light and thunder madly, but the power on both sides was too immense. Once it reached its limit, the rift exploded, sending a ring of energy more dazzling than the sun spreading in every direction. The ring swept over Mary Geoise, shearing the top floors off every building.
As the energy ring exploded, Ma Chao vanished from the ground. Using the energy from the collision between the plasma lightning and the light dragon's laser as cover, he wrapped himself in blue-black lightning and charged upward along the plasma trail that had cleaved the sky.
The light pressure from the light dragon's full beast form weakened drastically upon striking his blue-black lightning armor. What remained of its suppressive force sparked a few arcs across the armor's