"I will stop holding back from now on," Adam said, and the moment the words left his mouth, the entire arena responded to him. Lightning surged violently around his body, flooding the hall with blinding blue light as his aura expanded without restraint.
He raised his hand and brought it down, and the first attack descended like judgment itself, a towering column of lightning crashing toward Max with crushing force, heavy and absolute.
Before the lightning could touch him, Max stepped forward and swung his sword once. The blade carried the full authority of his fifth level severing sword concept, and the lightning column split cleanly down the middle, dispersing into nothingness as if it had never existed.
Adam did not hesitate. His second attack followed immediately, faster and sharper than the first. Countless bolts of lightning shot forward in a concentrated barrage, tearing through the air with piercing shrieks as they closed in on Max from multiple angles.
