“Are you not being a bit too hasty?” he suddenly heard behind him.

He turned around abruptly.

To his slight astonishment, he saw Kawao standing in front of him.

Well, if you could still call it “standing.”

He was barely managing to stay on his feet.

He had just barely jumped across the room with all his might at the last moment, just as the flames touched him.

The blast wave from the explosion had also helped.

“You never cease to surprise me, intruder!”

“My name is Kawao! And thank you. Apparently, I clearly underestimated you!”

“That will be your downfall!”

“I’m still standing!”

“Yes. For now!”

Fetu raised his pillar of flame and attacked him again.

But this time he successfully fended off the attack.

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Shortly before the explosion, he had managed to grab a metal rod.

He had infused it with as much energy as he could.

Now he was able to keep up with him.

“You’re starting to get on my nerves!”

“Then I must be doing something right!”

They distanced themselves a bit from each other.

Shortly thereafter, Kawao took the first step again and struck with his rod.

Fetu smiled wearily and lowered his weapon.

“Don’t you still get it? You can no longer hurt me!”

But to his extreme surprise, he did hit him.

His blow was strong enough to press against his barrier so much that he managed to hit his body.

The energy in the rod was strong enough to withstand his heat.

Fetu spat some blood and immediately took a few steps back.

“How did you manage that? Even if your rod can withstand my pillar, you shouldn’t be able to hurt me with it! For that, you’d have to easily destroy my club!”

“You overlooked something important! I didn’t just reinforce my rod with energy. I still have my body full of energy that I’ve gathered in battle! When I infuse an object with energy, it doesn’t strain my body!”

“I see. So that’s your Nyd! You can collect and use energy from the environment! Then you must not be from here!”

“That’s right. I come from an island in the south. We all lived there peacefully and carefree until you showed up and wiped out everything there to the last spark!”

“What are you talking about? I know nothing of that. Regardless, you killed a commander of the Kasakan army. Therefore, I am obliged to take you into custody!”

“You mean to kill me! So far, you’ve behaved exactly as I’ve seen you: as insane murderers! I want only one thing from you! Bring me the one who commanded the attack on my homeland and hand him over to me! Grant me my revenge! Then I will surrender!”

“I’m supposed to hand over an admiral to a lunatic like you! You’ve lost your mind!”

Fetu jumped at him and raised his weapon to attack.

Kawao struck against it with full force.

A battle of weapons had begun.