Purifier (4)

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So, it was all well and good that I’d boldly landed a punch on Marquis Riverback, but...

〚You little bastard—!〛

The situation itself hadn’t really changed. I was still being chased by Marquis Riverback, and there wasn’t much I could do to hurt him.

“Absolute matchup advantage” sounded incredible, but in practice it was limited to nullifying the opponent’s ‘unique’ abilities.

Of course, considering that most things called “unique” were horrifyingly powerful, that alone was potent—but it wasn’t enough to turn this situation around.

Thanks to activating King of Pandemonium, I’d erased his unique skill, ‘Purification,’ but the catastrophic gap between our stats was still there.

“Oh, shit.”

As I flung myself sideways, one of the nearby statues was struck by a black beam and shattered into pieces.

At least the attacks coming my way hadn’t caused any collateral casualties...