BANG!
It embedded deep into the wooden wall, quivering like a scolded subordinate.
"..." Victoria's mouth opened wide, stunned.
It was exactly as she had witnessed in the mist, no attack could truly touch the girl.
They simply... bent away.
"Don't look so surprised," Eleanor said with a dry, weary smile. "Very few beings in this world possess the will to inflict a lethal wound upon them. He called it 'the universe refusing to pick a beef for no reason.'" She shook her head, still baffled by Wang Xiao's crude humor.
What in the nine hells did that even mean?
Was the universe itself scared to provoke him?
In truth, Wang Xiao had meant precisely that, he simply lacked the elegant words to explain it without shattering their fragile minds.
The fundamental forces of existence bowed before a superior power and would not harm what belonged to it.
