Chapter 408: A Touch Away From Ignition

【Bullet-screen system activated】

【Observer connected: Past World Paradise all heroes, Golden Descendant, System (anonymous)】

On one side of the screen, multicolored text bubbles in various fonts began to drift.

Pink Fairy Miss?: Ah~ is this the last Golden Descendant? Looks… so sad, yet so strong.

Kevin, give it your all! Use love and… uh, the power of Heavenly Fire to "Persuasion" him! (≧? ≦)?

The heavy doctrine: pure Destruction aura… different from Honkai. Kevin, proceed with caution.

Spiral trick: Wow! These wings! This tattoo! This great sword! This aesthetics! Full marks! Kevin, don't break it! I need data! Full-body scan data!

Xi Lian: …Bai E… they still… like this…

Don't Want to Grow Up: Xiao Bai looks so scary… Mr. Kevin… can you do it?

System (anonymous·███): Combat data recording module fully on. Energy fluctuation monitoring. Expected combat intensity: extremely high. Suggested observation distance: pull back.

Heimu watches the bullet-screen, a slight curl at the corner of the mouth.

Sure enough, the experience with an audience and without is completely different.

She also throws her full attention onto the battlefield.

The first to move is Kevin.

Without warning, without charging, the Twin Guns of Heavenly Fire Shengcai are already in hand.

They didn't even look, just clasped both hands—

"Clang!"

The clear ringing of metal clashing echoed across the battlefield, the Twin Guns' form disintegrated and reformed in an instant of scorching white light, becoming that great sword burning with the flame of termination—Jie Mie!

The sword formed in an instant; Kevin's surrounding temperature dropped sharply, the rock layer beneath his feet covered in thick white frost, forming a stark ice-and-fire contrast with the distant violet-black sea of flame.

However, the flames gulped by the Jie Mie blade contain an explosiveness greater than that violet-black sea of flame.

They single-handedly grasp the hilt of Jie Mie, the tip angled toward the ground, ice-blue pupils locking onto Bai E in the air.

Combat, a touch away from erupting.

Yet Bai E's movement, even faster!

Almost in the gap when Kevin's momentum peaked, the hovering figure in the air vanished.

In an instant, in front of Kevin—within less than three meters—reappeared!

Dull gray-white hair strands were blown backward by the rushing airflow, revealing those hollow, shattered violet eyes.

Bai E raised both hands, brandishing that dark-colored ferocious great sword, no flourish, just the simplest strike!

The blade sliced through the air, silent and swift, slashing toward Kevin!

Kevin's ice-blue pupils suddenly contracted.

Fast!

Faster than expected!

And this sword… locked all his evasion chances, only a hard block!

"Ha!"

A low exhalation burst from Kevin's throat.

Their sword‑gripping hands' muscles bulged, Jie Mie shifted from a diagonal point to an upward slash, the burning blade precisely meeting the dark great sword's swing!

"Clang——！！！！！！！！！"

An indescribable roar exploded!

A ferocious circular shockwave, centered on the point where the two swords clashed, burst outward with a boom!

The black rock layer beneath Kevin fractured layer by layer like fragile biscuits!

His whole body was slammed by this unimaginable force, thrust backward rapidly, his feet carving two deep gouges into the ground!

And the iceberg behind him, originally just background, was pulverized inch by inch from the base before a roar could even sound, turning into dust!

Ice dust mixed with rock fragments swept across half the battlefield like a sandstorm!

But Kevin is just Kevin.

In the instant his body was knocked back, his arms bearing terrifying pressure, a cold glint flashed in his ice-blue eyes, and his sword‑gripping wrist jolted sharply!

Using Bai E's forward thrust and downward slash momentum, he rebounded it with greater force!

"Bang!"

Bai E's figure was hurled backward faster than when they arrived, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, soaring hundreds of meters in an instant, crashing hard into a distant field of sharp black stone forest!

A series of massive rock‑bursting roars rang out, smoke and dust billowed.

Kevin halted his retreat, the flames on the Jie Mie blade still blazing, but his sword‑holding arm trembled slightly.

Only he could feel the slight numbness in his palm and the gentle surge of qi and blood within his body.

"Just one sword..."

His heart was resolute.

The opponent's strength and speed far exceeded expectations.

The airborne smoke had not yet cleared when a sudden anomaly erupted!

The dim yellow sky suddenly darkened.

It wasn't clouds obscuring, but the shadow of some massive object covering the area where Kevin stood.

He looked up.

A meteor over a hundred meters in diameter, somehow already hanging directly above his head!

Rushing down toward him with a roar!

The meteor's surface streamed with magma‑like violet‑black veins; wherever it passed, space emitted strained groans, showing fine black fissures.

Before the meteor arrives, that suffocating pressure of Destruction has already pressed the ground within hundreds of meters around Kevin down again!

Kevin's expression is as cold as ice, but his eyes burn with an even hotter battle intent.

Facing this inescapable cataclysm, he did not choose teleportation to dodge, but gave the most Kevin‑like response.

He grasps the Jiemie Sword Tip with both hands, the sword tip points to the ground, then slowly lifts, finally pointing straight to the heavens, aiming at the falling violet‑black meteor!

On the blade, the previously steady burning Flame suddenly boils!

The Flame's color shifts from scorching white to an even more terrifying dark red!

"Heavenly Fire—"

Kevin's low and icy voice, as if from a millennia‑old abyss, yet carries a resolve to burn everything.

"—Draw!"

Towards the sky, he releases it with a roar!

"Boom—！！！！！！！"

A thunderous blast, more shocking than the meteor's fall, erupted!

A fire pillar, no smaller in diameter than the violet‑black meteor, roared out from the Jiemie Sword Tip, thrusting upward into the heavens!

The dark‑red fire pillar and the violet‑black meteor collided violently in midair!

There was no stalemate.

At the moment of contact, the dark‑red fire pillar, with a force that shatters everything, "devoured" the violet‑black meteor!

The Destruction power flowing over the meteor's surface collapsed instantly as if meeting its nemesis!

"Crack! Boom—!"

The meteor shattered into a sky‑filled spray of violet‑black Light Rain, and before it could fall, the remaining Flame burned it to ash.

And the lingering dark‑red fire pillar, still powerful, pierced the dim yellow sky, burning a massive, lingering molten‑gold colored hole in the solidified dusk, as if the sky had been scarred.

In the instant the explosive roar and light filled every sense—

A shadow tore through the raging turbulence and dazzling light, like a ghost born from the crack between flame and shadow, silently appearing at the edge of the fire pillar, in Kevin's blind side rear corner!

It was Bai E!

He never cared about the meteor's success or failure; perhaps it was merely a "bait" to draw attention!

The Dark-colored Great Sword in his hand, at some point, had adjusted its stance; its tip gathered an extreme darkness, silently stabbing toward the slight opening on Kevin's back exposed by the released fire pillar!

This strike—cunning, swift, lethal!

【Bullet screen passes】:

Pink Fairy Miss?: Behind!

Kevin seemed to have eyes on his back.

At the instant the dark sword tip was about to touch his combat suit, his right arm, which held the sword, bent back at an incredible angle, the Jiemie Sword Tip—broad as a door panel—served as the most loyal shield, Blocking the vest!

"Ring—!!!"

A sound so sharp it seemed to pierce the eardrum!

The dark sword tip pierced the thick central spine of the Jiemie Sword, emitting a sharp clang of metal on metal!

A violet‑black ripple spread from the impact point, the surrounding space rippled like a stone breaking a calm water surface, showing visible distorted waves!

The massive impact shoved Kevin forward a half‑step, but his feet rooted instantly, steady as a rock.

Almost simultaneously, his empty left hand had already formed a fist, its surface covered with a layer of crystal‑clear extreme‑cold frost; seizing the moment when Bai E's thrust exhausted its force and his body leaned slightly forward, he hammered a punch toward the opponent's sword‑wielding wrist joint!

Offense‑defense switch, only in an instant!