Chapter 455

"The honor of the Knights?"

"How interesting. Remember this lord's name well."

"This lord's name is Escanor — Escanor, the Sin of Pride among the Seven Deadly Sins!"

Escanor did not grow angry; instead, he smiled, though that smile carried nothing but contempt for the Yanqianzhe Gang of clowns before him.

He took one great stride forward, and his tall frame stepped straight into the lava.

The molten ground, which constantly bubbled with heat and belched black smoke, seemed to hold no heat at all.

Escanor, having stepped into it, did not so much as furrow a brow; he simply walked straight ahead.

His fearless appearance made every member of the Knights startle in turn.

One after another, they began to suspect that Yujie's magic had failed.

"Grand! Frost Zone!"

The one most enraged by it was undoubtedly Yujie.

His thought was simple enough — since the scorching lava had no effect on Escanor, he would use bitter frost to stop this tall man before him.

Frost, accompanied by a cold wind, swept across Escanor's body without pause.

In mere seconds, a layer of frost had already formed over Escanor's body.

"Hmph. Serves you right."

A proud smile surfaced on Yujie's face, but before that smile could spread across his features—

"Crack!"

A crack rang out, and Yujie's expression stiffened for a moment.

The massive block of ice before him shattered outright, and that expression of standing alone beneath heaven and earth sent a creeping dread spreading across Yujie's face.

"Yujie! Get back!"

The captain of the Hungry Wolf Knights had just shoved Yujie aside and drawn his scythe, but before he could swing it—

The scythe in his hand seemed to suddenly melt, turning into molten iron.

"Impossible... This is a high-grade magical device..."

Disbelief, terror, panic — they kept welling up and flickering in his eyes.

"Boom!"

Escanor took a single step forward, and all four men's hearts lurched at once.

This tall man before them, in that instant, seemed to have become that dazzling sun in the heavens.

Unmatched, fearsome to such a degree — even that gaze of his, as though no one else existed, was enough to terrify countless people.

Let alone the fact that he was now looking down on the four of them.

"You have pleased me greatly."

"Cruel Sun!"

"The Sun Without Mercy!"

Escanor took a stride forward, and the ice on the ground still violently shattered and began to melt.