Chapter 789: A Sneak Attack
From Max’s left, Scott lunged, his spear wreathed in a swirling, inky aura that seemed to corrode the very air around it, aimed straight for Max’s ribs. Simultaneously, from his right, Josh exploded forward, his sword ablaze with roaring purple lightning, arcs snapping like angry serpents as he slashed toward Max’s shoulder.
Yet even as these two deadly attacks converged, Max’s face remained a cold mask, his pupils glinting with deadly focus as his Three Dimensional Body registered every motion in perfect clarity. His muscles coiled, ready to teleport away while executing the lethal twist to Julio’s neck.
It was a move he’d calculated in a fraction of a second—a single movement to escape, kill, and reappear elsewhere before his enemies’ blades could find his flesh.
But just as he shifted his weight, a ripple of raw danger exploded in the space around him, an oppressive force that prickled the hairs along his skin and made every nerve scream. His Three Dimensional Body flared in alarm as a new presence surged forward, impossibly fast—a blur of jade and pale blue that seemed to exist half in reality, half in mist.
And then—BAM!
A fist forged entirely of shimmering blue mana slammed into Max’s chest with thunderous force. The impact was so tremendous that the air detonated outward like a shockwave, shaking plates off tables and rattling every window in the restaurant.
Julio flew from Max’s loosened grasp, dropping to the floor gasping, while Max himself was hurled backwards like a cannonball, crashing violently into the restaurant’s intricately carved wooden wall. The entire structure shuddered as splinters flew and a crater-like dent formed where his body struck.
A stunned hush fell over the room as all eyes snapped toward the source of the blow. There, standing where she’d appeared in a mere flicker of movement, was June Andrews. Her green robes rippled gently around her slender frame, her expression as tranquil as a placid lake, but her aura was an endless ocean of power, radiating out in silent waves that seemed to weigh on everyone’s shoulders.
Nobody—including Scott, Josh, or even Omar—had anticipated that she would intervene. Her level of power, towering at the 5th level of Legend Rank, was an entire realm above anything else in the room. Her presence alone silenced the chaos like a mighty hand pressing down from the heavens.
Max’s chest heaved where he lay half-embedded in the wall, his eyes narrowed and glimmering with defiance even as blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. And throughout the room, warriors and geniuses alike stared at June with widened eyes, their faces a mixture of awe, fear, and raw disbelief that the celestial genius of Void Soul Tower had finally chosen to act—and against Max, no less.
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