Alex's slash cleaved forwards, accelerating instantly in an arc so bright, it was like a second sun was rising in the sky.
If it weren't for the fact that both Alex's and the siren's eyes were so enhanced and attuned to their strengths, they both would have went blind from such intense light breaching their eyes.
But that was the only thing Alex had to worry about.
The siren had much, much bigger things to worry about!
Such as the fact that this arc moved towards her, and with such speed that even she, as a B tier, couldn't even react in time.
Instantly, the arc of flames so hot one might mistake them for a light elemental attack reached the floating river that housed the siren inside.
The effect of Alex's attack was visible immediately.
Any and every drop of water, no matter how much, was vaporised instantly upon coming into contact with the arc of flames.
There wasn't even any steam that rose off, as the extremely hot temperatures made it so that it skipped that stage entirely, and was converted straight to plasma.
Funnily enough, this plasma actually added further to the power of Alex's attack.
This was something he hadn't planned, nor did he even know what was happening inside that huge water bubble created by what used to be a river.
But unfortunately for the siren, Alex's attack also struck her shoulder.
Her right arm was torn from the rest of her body, and also vaporised in an instant.
Just like the very water surrounding her, her right arm was quickly consumed and converted to plasma to only further fuel Alex's attack.
It didn't just stop there though, the attack carried on going even after it had fully cleaved through the siren's river bubble, and it even sliced the heavy rain clouds above in half.
Eventually, the attack stopped after it hit a mountain range, far, far off into the distance that even Alex could barely see them.
But from what he could see, the elevation of this mountain range was halved after his attack had sliced off each and every mountain peak...
'Maybe that was a little bit overkill...'
Instead, the siren lay on the ground, screaming and groaning as she held the stump where her right arm used to be.
'I see...'
'So her arms were actually important pieces she needed to control the water, and since I just completely removed one of them from existence, she couldn't maintain her control over such a large quantity of water anymore.'
He analysed the situation on the ground, and he acted.
He burst forwards, adrenaline still pumping through his body as he clung onto Virtue's Edge.
The moment he came within a few metres, the siren looked up at him from the ground, her eyes not any different in malice than the first time she revealed her true colours.
Even so, while the siren was of a higher rank, Alex was uninjured.
He lifted his leg and stomped down as hard as he could, crushing the siren's femur under his foot, and sending shockwaves hurtling across the clearing that had been created.
A crater nearly 10 metres deep was created with that one stomp, but Alex wasn't finished yet.
He took Virtue's Edge in his hand, and cleaved forwards, this time without the aid of an incredible build up of Phoenix Flames.
But still, even without his Phoenix Flames, his sword dealt the damage he meant to cause.
It cleaved right through her other leg, which was unharmed by his stomp.
From the knee down, a deep cut was made, nearly severing the leg entirely with that one slice.
'Man, higher life form's bodies are really tough! I put my all into that slice and I still didn't cut all the way through...'
Alex was honestly a little jealous.
He might be as strong as the siren and other B tiers like her, but his body wasn't at the same level.
'Perhaps that's something I should work on... After I find Mira of course.'
Just like that, a new goal was made in his mind.