With the battle now over in a rather unusually gentle manner, Zhen Liu and his allies now needed to handle the after-battle bullshit. Namely doing clean up, reward distribution, and for the first time in a long time: casualties checks.
Well, just one unclear casualty.
At this moment in time Zhen Liu and Serena were looking over the copper-plated body of a large knight-like figure with an emerald in his chest. The aforementioned precious stone looked a touch…burnt.
"Is...is he—"
"Short answer: no. Long answer...this is new to me, so I don't know what's wrong with him but I do know that he's not dead at least. If he was, he would've broken down into a million little particles of light."
"O-oh."
Serena's attack against Infernola had, more or less, completely eradicated the [Flame of Ambition] from the entirety of Copper's body.
However, this purge didn't come without a heavy cost.
