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"Attack!"
Beldia's command echoed throughout the grand hall.
"Kill him!"
The merciless order prompted all the Undying Knights lined up simultaneously on both sides of the hall to raise their heads one after another. The aura surrounding their bodies began to turn violent.
The very next second, each of the Undying Knights drew their sharp swords, raised their gleaming spears and halberds, and launched into a charge, fiercely storming toward Fang Li.
BOOM—
A thunderous tremor rocked the ground under their powerful, pounding footsteps.
"Aaaaahhhhhh————!"
Roars erupted from the throats of the Undying Knights, turning into howls that shook the four corners of the hall.
Fang Li looked like a tiny, helpless ant, completely powerless to resist, nothing more than a pitiful creature awaiting slaughter.
In the blink of an eye, a hail of weapons, swords, spears, halberds, axes, came slashing toward him.
"Swoosh————!"
The sound of weapons cutting through the air rang out crisply in that space.
Faced with attacks from all directions, stabs and slashes aiming straight for his body, trying to hack him into pieces, Fang Li merely lowered his head slightly. Only the sword he held tightly in his hand slowly began to rise.
"Zheng..."
A faint arc of light shimmered across the surface of that seemingly ordinary blade.
"Shiiing————!"
In the next instant, a flash of cold sword light suddenly burst forth, like a full moon, it swept out in all directions.
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Claaang————!"
Amid the crisp clashing sounds, the countless weapons coming at him were sliced in half by that moonlight-like slash.
Just like when he first arrived in this world and faced off against the knights trying to capture him at the Royal Castle, Fang Li's swordplay effortlessly cut down all incoming weapons.
Back then, Fang Li had held back, he merely kicked away each knight who had attacked him.
But this time was different.
"This time, there's no need to hold back at all..."
And so, the chilling sword light flashed again.
Like a two-stage slash, just as the first moonlight-like arc faded, a second crescent slash swept back in from the opposite direction, slicing through the weaponless Undying Knights.
"Puchi————!"
The sound of bodies being cut cleanly apart echoed unmistakably.
That slash swept across the waists of the Undying Knights encircling Fang Li.
In an instant, each of them was cleaved in two.
"Wh-What...?!"
Beldia gasped in shock.
Until Fang Li's voice drifted into his ears.
"You're right, I did plan on taking all the credit for defeating you."
As those words rang out, a ghost-like figure silently slipped through the darkness and appeared right in front of Beldia.
"After all, defeating someone like you doesn't require anyone else's help."
As soon as those words fell—
"Chi————!"
A sword light sliced through the darkness with a thunderous sound, like a bolt of lightning, and shot toward Beldia.
The speed, it was beyond words.
"————!"
In the nick of time, Beldia suddenly raised the massive steel sword in his hands.
"Ding————!"
With a crisp clang, the stabbing sword collided hard against the huge steel blade, throwing off a shower of dazzling sparks.
"You blocked it?"
Fang Li stood before Beldia, his sword held tightly in both hands, piercing forward. His gaze, however, was fixed on Beldia's head seated atop the throne.
"Placing that head there… it doesn't seem to be just for show."
Clearly, although his head wasn't on his neck, the vision that head could see was precisely the vision Beldia himself had access to.
Because of that, by placing his head on the throne, Beldia was able to clearly observe everything happening in the audience hall.
Including himself.
It was exactly because of this advantage that Beldia managed to react in time.
"But… just because you can see something doesn't mean you can keep up with it."
Saying this, Fang Li pulled back the sword in his hands. Before Beldia could react, he gripped the sword with both hands and delivered a powerful slash.
CLANG————!
With a deafening crash, the force of the impact rippled out from the point of collision, stirring the air and sweeping outward.
"Urgh…!"
Beldia only felt a terrifying force transmitted through his sword, savagely blasting him backward.
In that instant, the tall, burly, headless knight was sent flying by that overwhelming blow. He shot into the air, barely managed to stabilize himself, and landed on the floor of the hall, dropping to one knee, unable to stand.
Upon closer inspection, the armor guarding Beldia's sword-wielding hand had already begun to crack.
That alone made it clear just how powerful Fang Li's strike had been.
"As expected of support magic blessed by a Goddess. Its scale truly isn't something a regular Arch Priest could match."
Fang Li now stood before the throne, as if he had swapped positions with Beldia. He ignored the head resting on the throne, ignored Beldia's current condition, extended his hand, flexed his fingers a few times, and smiled.
"If not for the strength-enhancing support magic, I probably wouldn't be capable of this kind of power, right?"
After all, Fang Li was ultimately a speed-type, not a power-type.
Without Aqua's support magic, Fang Li naturally wouldn't be able to exhibit such near-brutal strength.
Based on Fang Li's estimation, under Aqua's buffs, aside from his INT (Mystery) stat, all of his attributes had increased by nearly 30 points.
Such an enhancement was something no ordinary Arch Priest could possibly achieve.
"To think she possesses such incredible power, yet still manages to throw everything into chaos no matter where she goes… utterly helpless. In that sense, I suppose that girl really does live up to the title of Goddess."
Murmuring to himself like this, Fang Li finally turned his gaze toward Beldia.
"Well then, what will you do next?"
As soon as he spoke, Fang Li's figure suddenly blurred.
Just like before, he slipped forward silently, cutting through the darkness.
And this time, his speed was even more astounding.
With Aqua's support magic boosting him, Fang Li, already terrifyingly fast, was now operating on an entirely different level. His earlier speed hadn't even been his true limit.
Add in the effect of the Nanaya Assassination Technique, which allowed him to accelerate instantaneously from a still position, and this time, Beldia simply couldn't keep up with Fang Li at all.
BOOM————!
With a heavy, dull thud, the Leader of the Demon King's Army was violently kicked into the air, flying like a cannonball and smashing hard into one of the palace pillars, cracking it wide open.
CRACK—!
That strike was so forceful it shattered the ultra-sturdy armor on Beldia's chest, sending shards flying in all directions.
"Gah…!"
Beldia coughed violently as if spitting up blood.
His body slowly slumped toward the ground.
The Leader of the Demon King's Army, second only to the Demon King himself, was now utterly powerless before Fang Li.
So fragile.
(End Of This Chapter)
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