After a grueling battle .. cut short by an unexpected intervention ..
Snow Lionheart was defeated by a strange, terrifyingly powerful man.
That power far surpassed the Thirteenth High Rank demon, leaving Snow wondering how a monster like that could be under someone like Geppetto. That thought vanished at once as the masked man overwhelmed him completely, finishing him with a blistering chain of strikes.
The onslaught tore Snow out of The Anointed War State, forcing an immediate loss and dropping him unconscious before the enemy. The Thirteenth High Rank demon didn't kill him ..orders from above forbade it ..so he left Snow alive and departed with the masked man.
