Max did not intend to hold back in this battle.
If Selene had been someone from another force, perhaps he might have tested her slowly, measured her strength, and used the fight to sharpen one of his paths. But she was not simply another genius standing in his way.
She was the Divine Daughter of the second faction, a core figure raised by the same people who had destroyed his family, stolen his bloodline, imprisoned his parents, tortured the members of his mother's faction, and hunted Caroline all the way into Witch God Valley.
Against an elf of the second faction, especially one standing so close to the center of its younger generation, Max saw no reason to be patient.
The air around him changed before Selene could make the first move.
