Unhappy

In that moment, the wild surge of qi and wind suddenly vanished, sucked into Ryu's strike as though the blade qi itself had formed an airtight vacuum.

Brune's eyes widened. It was only now that he realized that this was the true strength of [Rising Crimson]. The initial strike wasn't even Ryu's all out attempt.

Brune roared, a radiant white light shooting out from him in all directions as a towering tree of light manifested around him. On the branches of this tree, delicately dancing wisps of white light formed, but of seemingly nine possible locations to fill, Brune had only filled up seven of them.

Even so, the defenses of the tree were extraordinarily powerful.

Light qi was considered to be a powerful and rare affinity, even Ryu didn't have any affinity for it whatsoever, nor did he have an affinity for its counterpart, darkness. Higher level qis like this, especially ones not strapped down by the usual elements, had a great amount of versatility.