Rrrumble.
It sounded like thunder was crashing.
The air twisted as an unknown energy bored in.
Thump—!
My heart thrashed wildly and qi welled up on its own.
It was a defense mechanism. My body reacted of its own accord, and the energy rode my meridian pathways, spreading through my whole body.
A sheath of Body-Protection Gang Qi even wrapped around me by itself.
Bzzzzzz—!!!
The rings of the Gu Flame Wheel Art swelled and began to spin.
Heat flared; the crown of my head grew hot.
‘…What is this…’
What is this sensation?
Too alien to define as simple hostility or killing intent.
Yet too familiar to call purely an external sensation.
‘Sorcery?’
I decided to take this sensation as a kind of sorcery.
Then, should I say it is exposing fighting spirit as sorcery?
The manifestation of fighting spirit is inner qi and emotion; its intensity differs with the caster’s realm.
But the energy that manifests sorcery is something else again.
‘So this is the result.’
Fighting spirit as sorcery.
And an anomaly interlocked with the Turtle’s realm.
If that is the situation at hand—
‘Interesting.’
Setting aside why the Turtle is showing a reaction like…