Nigel held a dagger, its pitch-black blade faintly gleaming with a red light, as if it had been gathering power for a long time.
He didn't wait for Perlman to react, the blade already whistling through the air.
To everyone's surprise, the target of his strike was none other than Perlman!
Aitio seized the opportunity, a cascade of ice-blue lightning striking down from the sky, nearly freezing the very earth solid.
"Oh? Nigel?"
Perlman gently caught Nigel's dagger with his cane, speaking in an astonished tone.
The ice lightning, too, was effortlessly blocked with his other hand.
Even facing Nigel and Aitio together, he seemed at ease.
After blocking Nigel's blade, the windows of the banquet hall shattered behind him like falling rain, and clear cuts appeared in the walls of the mansion, which began to collapse.
Amidst the sound of collapsing, a downpour began to fall from the sky, soaking Nigel's brown hair as there was no longer any mansion to provide cover.