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There was no sound. No shockwave, either.
When the cross of light swallowed the golem, even the eyes of a Master couldn’t penetrate the brilliance that burst in every direction. The Guardian’s body turned blinding white, then lost its shape and collapsed in the incandescence.
Even the enchanted alloys that would take a royal blacksmith hours of heating to melt, not to mention the reinforcement of layered magic arrays, could not withstand the heat. The Guardian, reduced to a molten heap, spread across the floor like a pool of slag, bubbling as it ate through the marble beneath. No restoration spell could return something in that state to form.
Lyon, who knew better than anyone what that meant, couldn’t hide his shock.
“He destroyed an Imperial Guardian in a single strike…”
Given enough energy, even an army of a million couldn’t bring down an Imperial Guardian. The ancient war machines forged from tons of enchanted metal, bound with over twenty layers of high-tier magic, were just that terrifying. Their designs, discovered in ancient ruins, represented a level of magical technology that modern civilization could never replicate.
Of course, Leon wasn’t unscathed either.
I-I feel like I’m going to break! This is worse than when I used Four Stars of Vast Heavens. It feels like my bones and muscles are splitting apart.
El-Cid chuckled inside his mind.
—Of course, you dummy. That external armor concept you cooked up was clever, but it’s still...
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