[Does this guy even have a functioning brain?]
Jiawen's mouth twitched as she activated the just-cooled "Reception," flipping sideways to narrowly dodge Cordova's powerful strike, and using the shockwave from the Staff of the Punisher to turn and dash backward, executing the movement flawlessly as if she had practiced it hundreds of times, escaping nearly ten meters without a scratch under the life-threatening circumstances!
"You won't escape!"
Cordova yelled, his feet bursting with power, creating large cracks in the ground beneath him, launching forward like a cannonball and swinging the cold, sharp Staff of the Punisher in a blade-shaped shockwave—the only ranged attack technique he was capable of using, as his Rune Body allowed no learning of Skills. It was a tricky limit to exploit the Rune of Giant Strength and the external Hurricane Rune to produce such a shockwave.
"Shift!"
