THE VILLAIN'S POV

Chapter 212 - 212: Frey Starlight vs Snow Lionheart (2)

Snow Lionheart's expression hadn't changed since the beginning.

His golden eyes caught everything.

I lost count of how many times our swords had clashed by now.

Even though he did nothing but defend...

I couldn't move Snow a single step.

We were locked in a tug-of-war between Dark Aura and Starlight Aura.

But it seemed like my opponent had finally grown tired of simply defending.

It happened when I barely caught it—

Snow's sword, almost piercing straight through my head.

If not for Hawk Eyes, that attack would've ended me right there.

I managed to evade, but felt the sting of blood trailing down my cheek.

Even while using Hawk Eyes to slow time for a fraction of a second...

I still couldn't avoid getting wounded?

Snow began to counterattack.

With the Starlight trait, he launched devastating lightning strikes.

Strikes that forcibly pushed me back.

In a single second, Snow succeeded where I had failed all this time ...

He drove me several meters backward with just a few casual swings of his sword.

Then that youth unleashed a barrage of lightning bolts.

I barely dodged by pushing Phantom Steps to their limits.

"Void Step!"

Just when I thought I was the faster one, he appeared right in front of me.

The distance between us was erased in an instant ..

His sword, blazing with Starlight Aura, enlarged rapidly before my eyes.

With a desperate counter from my sword, infused with Dark Aura, I blocked his strike ... Yet I was sent flying.

I rolled violently across the ground, struggling to catch my breath.

"Void Step!"

But my opponent had no intention of giving me even a second to recover.

He was already right on top of me.

From his blade, Snow unleashed a tempest of raging fire combined with destructive lightning.

Those devastating attacks overwhelmed me ..

I barely avoided them, thanks to Ascension and Hawk Eyes.

*Slash !*

But I was too slow.

Far too slow.

His sword pierced into my left side.

I stumbled back immediately, feeling the burning crater left by Snow's strike.

I hadn't even seen him coming.

"Void Step!"

Again ...

He was already in front of me, raising his sword and channeling a monstrous surge of aura, cutting vertically with brutal force.

Boom!

I barely managed to block it with my sword, shrouded in Dark Aura ..

But I couldn't withstand the force.

I was blasted away.

I struggled just to breathe.

"Void Step!"

Ascension burned my mind,

I was trapped inside that storm.

Seconds passed.

The overwhelming light finally faded.

Snow Lionheart gazed forward in silence.

"..."

Before him, my broken body lay crumpled against the far wall.

He started walking toward me.

Each of his footsteps echoed in my ears.

"Get up," he said coldly.

"You can still fight, can't you?"

I wasn't eliminated.

That meant... I had managed to withstand the strike, somehow, despite the terrifying amount of damage I took.

Snow Lionheart knew it too.

I spat out blood.

A lot of it.

Seeing all that blood pooling on the ground...

I laughed.

I laughed so much, truly.