Chapter 476

Meliodas placed the broken blade in his hand on his shoulder, his face wearing that innocent, radiant smile.

It even brought a touch of solemnity to Fraudrin's face.

The intelligence on Ishigar — all twelve Holy Shields were very clear about it.

The Seven Deadly Sins Knights had never appeared in any of the reports.

One could say that if Ishigar had ever produced someone this powerful, they would have received word of it long ago.

They wouldn't be acting from such a passive position, so in Fraudrin's subconscious mind he had already classified the group before him as people from another world.

But Escanor's next action made Fraudrin breathe a sigh of relief.

Escanor gathered power beneath his feet, leapt straight up into the air, and shot off toward the distance.

He had absolutely no intention of helping Meliodas, yet such a display also made Fraudrin feel insulted.

Thinking that he himself was the strongest man in the Albares Empire, hailed as the Mage of the Mages, the Sorcerer King.

And yet at this moment he had been ignored by that burly fellow just now, who hadn't even given him a proper glance.

It seemed that no matter what, he could not possibly defeat Meliodas and win this battle.

"What an arrogant and rude bastard!"

A flash of displeasure crossed Fraudrin's eyes as he slowly raised his staff, yet he did not dare launch an attack rashly.

After all, Meliodas could easily reflect his attacks back at him; under such circumstances, he simply could not strike at will.

His own attacks were already quite powerful, and after being fully reflected back, even Fraudrin could not easily receive them.

"You said before that you could nullify physical damage, right? But from what I see, that doesn't seem to be the case at all 〃〃."

Meliodas tossed the broken blade in his hand a few times, and the indifferent expression on his face made Fraudrin freeze for a moment.

Of course he understood what Meliodas had just said — that his Full Counter form was not invincible.

It was sustained solely by the tremendous magical power within his body, nullifying physical damage.

One could say it worked on the same principle as ultra-fast regeneration, only it divided and dispersed magical power to fend off attacks from the physical body.

Every attack cost him a considerable amount of magical power, and not many people knew this.

One could say that, because the magical power within Fraudrin's body was as vast as the sea, losing a little of it was something no one could perceive.

But just now, that tremendous force had already forced Fraudrin to expend a quantity of magical power he had never used in his entire life.

A full fifth of the magical power within his body had been drained directly; if the same attack came four more times, he would likely be forced to release Full Counter.

At that point, let alone defeating Meliodas, he would probably lose his life in this foreign land.

"Bang!"

Just as Fraudrin was pondering his countermeasure, the Meliodas before him flashed and vanished in an instant.

He appeared right in front of Fraudrin, and the broken blade in his hand suddenly blazed with a jet-black flame.

Like a roaring dragon, the terrifying might made it nearly impossible for Fraudrin even to dodge.

In the blink of an eye, the surroundings had transformed into a pitch-black hell of flames.

And behind Meliodas, faintly and indistinctly, it seemed as if a demon towering dozens of zhang high had suddenly burst forth.

It stared at Fraudrin with an excited, eerie gaze, and the black tongues of flame it kept spitting out made even Fraudrin's heart involuntarily shudder.

And at that very moment, the blade in Meliodas's hand came slashing down viciously.

"Puchi!"

No spray of blood appeared, but the sound of flesh being cut had already, together with the black flames, spread across Fraudrin's chest.

". 'Cursed Spell · Prison Flame"

"Clang!"