Iseine's words shocked Ryu. It wasn't because he truly felt like a mortal before her, but rather due to the audacity of it all. In a mont, she had gone from a woman with a hot temper to a self-proclaid Goddess.
The most shocking part about it all, though, was the fact that she had ant every single word. There was no irony, no humorous tone, there wasn't even the madness one would expect to see in the eyes of soone saying sothing so insane.
Even as Iseine tore her way through the air, blinking across exaggerated distances in a single breath, Ryu's rage inflated to the point he laughed.
Ryu looked up into the skies, his gaze rapidly flickering between a cold silver, a chilly sapphire, and a crimson ruby.
In just that mont, he had seen the real face of the Martial Gods. Their audacity, their hubris, their arrogance… It made his own feel like a small fish swimming amidst oceanic waves.
This was probably how they all felt… that the hopes and dreams of others was nothing more than sothing to be stamped out on their war path. Only their way was correct, only their way was worthy of being nurtured and spread.
Ryu had never felt so enraged in his life.
Sothing snapped.
At that mont, Ryu's Ice Jade Crystal Body seed to lose its form, shattering into countless little pieces as Ryu's body burst.
Violent bursts of resplendent blue lightning and raging black-red flas erupted.
As though a God was connecting the Heavens and the Earth, a blazing pillar of violet shot up, seemingly wanting to incinerate everything.
The black rock beneath Ryu's feet shattered, the dark clouds above dispersed, crackling lightning and fire swirled about, causing space to bend and twist.
"Who am I?!"
Ryu's voice booms, concentric circles and shattering air erupting from all sides.
"I am Ryu Tatsuya!"
BANG!
A blur shot through the air. In an instant, a beam of white gold and another of dark violet t.
The sound was so loud that it felt as though everything had fallen into a void for just a mont before the explosions sounded. It was like two planets had collided, causing the laws of gravity around them to warp to unseen levels.
The sweep of Iseine's golden spear t the downward slash of both Ryu's Great Swordstaffs. In that mont, she could feel a strength she never thought she would experience battle against a re Connecting Heaven Realm expert. But, what she saw was even more shocking than that.
Gazing at her through their locked blades, she saw a pair of dark violet, vertical slit eyes. If it wasn't for the fact she knew that Ryu had to be human, she would have never guessed they belonged to one. To her, it felt more like a beast had set its sights on her, a primordial demon of ancient blood.
From his feet up the to even the sides of his neck, Ryu was covered in dark violet scales. His face was dotted with a few on his cheeks and forehead as well, giving him a demonic sort of charm that radiated a dangerous aura.
From his forehead rose two large horns that curved and branched as though wanting to pierce the skies. His hair had lengthened, flowing out like a bright white river dozens of ters out from his body.
Ryu's entire body danced with crackling flas. As though his lightning and fire had fused perfectly, it sotis exuded characteristics of the forr, and sotis the latter, almost like it couldn't decide exactly what it wanted to be.
But, what was undeniable was its strength.
The purple lightning fla licked across Iseine's white gold qi and almost forced it to collapse in that instant.
At that mont, Ryu's shout reached Iseine's ears. He had been moving so fast that he completely overshadowed his own voice, clashing with Iseine long before she could register what it was he had said.
Now, though, Iseine felt her heart quiver.
"… Tatsuya?"
She suddenly understood Ryu's attitude, his rage… His talent.
"You… The Princess's husband…?"
Ryu, who had just been about to follow up, feeling that their weapons had been locked for too long, faltered. What did he just hear? What had she just said?
The mont Ryu failed to keep his concentration, his strength waned. The power dynamic shifted and Ryu found himself flying back like an arrow from a bowstring. It couldn't have been more obvious that his level of shock was far beyond Iseine's.
Blood shot from Ryu's mouth like a projectile, his body rocketing into the surface of a mountain range.
He felt as though every bone in his body was being crushed. The difference between the strength he had just displayed and what he had shown just this past mont was so strikingly different that even Iseine was partially in shock.
Much like Ryu, she had been taken aback too and her own strength sowhat waned as well. But, why was there such an exaggerated difference?
Ryu didn't need to think to understand the difference at all. Imdiately, even as he was flying through the air, he understood.
His Rage Flas were fueled by emotion. The stronger his fury, the stronger they beca. However, usually, this just made his flas hotter and more dangerous and didn't cause much of a change to his individual power, at least not in terms of his physical output.
But, the mont he gained his Fire Spirit Body, everything changed. After his Flas mutated and fused with his lightning, everything changed again. And then, one final ti, the state of his Ice Jade Crystal Body suddenly evolved, causing yet another change.
The result was Ryu's fury integrating with his Rage Flas and subsequently causing his body to increase in strength.
But, the mont he heard ntion of Elena, all his concentrated emotion seed to dispel. At that mont, the difference between himself and an absolute genius of the Path Extinction Realm couldn't have been more obvious.
The words continued to ring in Ryu's ears…
'The Princess's husband…?'
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