"I've been holding back… saving my strength to deal with that damned witch hiding behind you. But I see now this plan will get me nowhere."
The deadliest enemy on this battlefield was none other than Beatrice. As long as the witch remained, ignoring her was courting disaster—a lesson Maekar had learned the hard way in their last fight, when he fell into her magical trap.
That was why, even while battling both Mergo and Gavid, Maekar's eyes never once left the witch.
"Lightning Formation: Plasma Burst."
From within Maekar's body, electricity poured out in relentless torrents. Compressing it by force until the vast ocean of current was packed into a sphere no larger than his fist, the Emperor moved with terrifying speed.
Holding that sphere, he flicked it with his fingers—
—and it shot straight toward Mergo and Gavid.
