At the same time, the woman in black hurriedly made a hand seal with one hand in response to the blue figure that was hurtling toward her.

The black mace in her hand began to glow with black radiance, and a series of winding crimson patterns appeared on its surface, following which a burst of crimson flames swept forth from the mace.

As the mace was swung through the air toward the oncoming blue figure, a string of explosions rang out incessantly in the air, immediately following which the mountain of giant mace projections appeared once again, except this time, every single mace projection was enshrouded within a cloak of crimson flames.

The space in the wake of the mountain of mace projections was visibly warping and rippling, as if it were boiling from the intense heat of the flames.

The two blue figures crashed into the crimson flames and the mace projections at virtually the exact same moment, but they were able to pass through those obstacles amid a flash of blue light, and they were completely unaffected.

However, upon closer inspection, one would discover that both of the watery blue figures had become slightly diminished in stature, but at the same time, their speed abruptly increased drastically as they reached the burly man and the woman in black in the blink of an eye.

The burly man and the woman in black were extremely...