[Author's Note: The following chapter contains scenes of extreme graphic violence and gore. Reader discretion is heavily advised.]
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Chapter 117: Give Me that Hand!
The Fire of Rage exploded. It did not just coat my armor. It became a physical and towering inferno that reached into the sky.
The sheer heat of my hatred melted the sand beneath my boots into glass.
Valerius recoiled from the heat. His psychic shields hissed as they tried to deflect my emotional radiation.
We threw ourselves at each other. The fight devolved into a brutal and breathless back and forth.
SWOOSH!
Valerius vanished from my direct line of sight. He reappeared behind me in a flash of purple light.
He swung his condensed psychic blade toward the back of my knees. I fired the thrusters built into my iron calves.
BOOM!
The sudden burst of kinetic propulsion launched me forward. His blade sliced through empty air and struck the stone floor. A deep trench was instantly carved into the arena base.
