The click of a blade into its sheath came with the vanishing of a subtle crystalline blue. There was something particularly smooth about Theron's actions, even though his body right now was covered in blood.
His own blood.
The shadow hadn't made Theron suffer even a single wound, but right now he looked as though he had practically been tortured to death. In fact, the only reason he wasn't dead right now was because he had such great control of Water Mana, especially his own. If not, he would have riddled himself with holes.
What he had done just now was the equivalent of unpinning a grenade in the palm of his hands and then stuffing it into his enemy's mouth.
Sure, the opponent lost his head, but he was right in the midst of the explosion too.
Using the peaks of the sound waves to store a great deal of energy within his [Shedding Water Skin], and then applying [Pressure Burst] on top of that made the latter technique easily more than ten times as powerful as usual.
