"Of course."

"As you wish, Mr. Cafer."

Loren, suspended high above the night sky, offered a sincere smile upon hearing the other's pre-battle declaration.

Then, Loren raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The next moment!

A black-and-gold revolver appeared in Loren's hand.

The pitch-black muzzle lifted, aiming down at Davi Cafer on the ground.

"Boom!" A gunshot rang out.

A bullet, engraved with exquisite patterns, shot out from the revolver's muzzle, hurtling straight toward Davi Cafer!

Standing on the ground, Davi Cafer stared up at Loren in the air and the bullet flying toward him. He clapped his hands together sharply!

Instantly, the blood-red mist that had shrouded half of the City of Canbera began to churn violently!

The range of the blood mist also started to shrink slowly!

By now, the bullet had finally reached Davi Cafer's face!

He lightly tapped his foot!

In the blink of an eye, his figure flickered into the air, deftly dodging the bullet rather than choosing to intercept it head-on!

Before departing from the Central Star Domain, Davi Cafer had reviewed all the intelligence the Security Bureau held on Loren!

One piece of intel recorded that, when Loren first arrived in the Radiant Flow Star Domain and confronted the Gray Moon's Legendary powerhouse—Longlair—he had demonstrated an extremely uncanny ability!

Longlair, who had originally held the upper hand, sustained severe injuries after receiving a single energy bullet fired by Loren and promptly fled.

To this day, Longlair had yet to reappear...

The Security Bureau's intelligence analysts speculated that Longlair had most likely fallen.

And at the end of this intelligence analysis, there was a bolded recommendation from the analysts:

"If any agent unfortunately engages Las Loren in combat, be careful to avoid those seemingly ordinary energy bullets."

Davi Cafer, keeping this intel firmly in mind, chose to evade the energy bullet Loren fired at him.

He understood deeply that the danger of rule-system ability users lay not in their Tier, but in the uncanny nature of their abilities...

His figure flickering into the air, Davi Cafer tilted his neck slightly. Gazing at the bullet below, which moved somewhat sluggishly, he revealed a savage grin:

"My turn!"

As his words fell, Davi Cafer's figure flickered again!

Immediately, within the blood-red mist surrounding Loren, ten blood-red figures rapidly coalesced!

These blood-red figures, having gained solid forms, all had blurry faces—nothing more than torsos and limbs!

Once fully formed, the blood-red figures charged through the air toward the hovering Loren!

With ferocious momentum!

In response, Loren simply flapped the wings behind him lightly, calmly sizing up Davi Cafer in the distance.

"Raven, Misfortune," Loren murmured in his mind.

"Got it!"

A vast amount of Misfortune was attached by Raven to those ten blood-red figures!

The next moment!

Under Misfortune's influence, the blood-red figures charging at Loren collapsed mid-air in an instant, reverting to clouds of blood mist!

After neutralizing the other's attack, Loren finally turned to survey the blood-red mist that covered half of the City of Canbera, frowning slightly.

"Bang!"

Loren raised his hand and fired another bullet!

But this bullet didn't head toward Davi Cafer's position—it flew straight for the sky-obscuring blood mist!

Soon, the bullet made contact with the blood mist!

A sizzling sound rang out!

Upon contact, the energy bullet dissipated into nothingness, as if corroded by the blood mist!

"Master, this blood energy, transformed from the blood of those Demigod-level powerhouses, seems to be highly corrosive!"

Loren nodded lightly, then continued to study Davi Cafer in the distance.

A strange way of fighting...

As a Demigod-level Martial Artist, he doesn't even try to close in on me, opting instead for ranged attacks...

Is he still probing my abilities?

Interesting. Let's see whether you figure out my ability first, or my Seventh Ability drains your stored energy first...

At this moment, Davi Cafer was also frowning.

He hadn't expected the blood-red figures formed from his blood energy to be so easily dispatched by Loren.

The other party had resolved his attack without even making any move!

His figure flickered again!

After dodging that energy bullet—which seemed rather sluggish to him—and sensing that the energy within his body was still mysteriously vanishing, Davi Cafer clapped his hands together once more!

"I can't drag this out—I have to make this guy show a weakness!"

The blood mist, which was still shrinking, began to churn and coalesce violently once again!

Instantly!

A blood-red figure, hundreds of meters tall, stood before Loren!

It came with an oppressive pressure!

The blood-red giant extended a massive hand, reaching toward Loren's position!

Loren shrugged, still eyeing Davi Cafer in the distance, not even glancing at the giant hand!

Raven, within his mind, deftly manipulated a great deal of Misfortune, attaching it to the blood-red giant...

"Boom!"

The massive hand reaching for Loren, along with the blood-red giant itself, exploded in a bizarre fashion!

Both dissolved back into the boundless blood-red mist.

Loren and Davi Cafer gazed at each other from afar, separated by the spreading blood mist.

"If probing were useful, the intel on my abilities would have already landed on the Security Bureau's table."

"What do you think, Mr. Cafer?"

"By the way, my advancement is almost complete."

Loren's voice echoed eerily over the ruined battlefield.

Under the erosion of the blood mist, the surrounding buildings had become dilapidated and wrecked.

Half of the City of Canbera had already been destroyed.

"You're quite good at putting pressure on your enemies in battle, Las Loren," Davi Cafer said calmly.

"But unfortunately, I don't fall for such petty tricks!"

As his words fell!

Davi Cafer's figure flickered once more. While dodging that sluggish energy bullet, his figure vanished in a strange manner.

It was as if he had merged into the all-encompassing blood mist!

Seeing this, Loren shook his head in slight disappointment.

Under the Guidance of Fate, any means of concealment was futile.

Loren stared intently at an unremarkable patch of blood mist in the air.

There, a golden dashed line floated, clearly pointing to Davi Cafer's location.

"Mr. Cafer, playing hide-and-seek is a game for human cubs," Loren said, a hint of mockery in his tone.

Hearing Loren's undisguised taunt, Davi Cafer, knowing he had been exposed, began to move rapidly!

He constantly shifted his position within the blood mist, trying to confuse Loren!