Cain's eyes narrowed the instant he saw the axe descending toward him. In that moment, absolute focus ignited within his gaze, and the scarlet flames blazing in his pupils surged with explosive intensity.
"CLACK!"
The sharp, metallic clash echoed across the battlefield as the monstrous weapon met resistance. Yet it was not Cain's body that halted the strike.
Robuke's frenzied eyes widened in disbelief as he saw it—the Alter Ego of Cain had manifested, not as a distant phantom, but as a fully realized physical entity. Towering even larger than the Monster of the Root, it stood as a colossal embodiment of conquest, its chains coiling around its limbs like living weapons.
The axe, capable of cleaving a Limit Alpha Omega Overgod in half as if they were made of paper, failed to break through those chains.
