Leon stood ready for the final layer, his holy armor gleaming with concentrated divine energy and his Epic rank sword humming with barely contained power.
However, it would not be a lie to say he was feeling genuinely anxious—this was his first time fighting something definitively above Archon rank.
I've never faced an Ethereal-ranked opponent before. This is completely unknown territory.
Throughout his entire journey since awakening his SSS-rank class, he'd faced countless opponents at his own level or slightly above. He'd even managed to defeat enemies technically stronger than himself through superior technique, tactics, and his overwhelming arsenal of abilities.
But this was different. This was a full major rank higher—an entirely separate tier of existence.
