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"This Vortex Tiger Whale's mouth is too large to keep secrets; it seems it cannot be left alive."
David's gaze flickered, his intent to kill resolute.
"Meow."
Sensing the thoughts of the Trainer, Daphne abandoned her earlier casualness of a cat toying with a mouse.
With a powerful leap, she disengaged from David's shoulder, her body bursting into fierce flames that transformed into a streak of aurora tearing through space.
In an instant, the entire sky was filled with densely packed, brilliant flames.
Even though the Vortex Tiger Whale was a powerful Class VI middle-level beast and one of the elites in the Wastewater Archipelago seas, it was still shocked by the fire released by Daphne.
Water and fire, though mutually fostering and restraining, often allow water beasts to have a certain advantage when the strength difference is not significant.
