The battlefield was no longer earth, it was chaos incarnate. The sky split with veins of lightning, the ground boiled from energy discharges, and the air itself screamed under the clash of two gods in human form.
Julian stood amid the storm, his armor cracked, one arm trembling, his breath ragged but his eyes blazed with unrelenting fury. Sparks crawled over his skin like living veins of thunder. His shadow twisted and stretched around him, alive, breathing with his will.
Across from him, Leo's body had transformed into something monstrous, his exoskeleton pulsing with gold and black, his form half-human, half-insect, divine and grotesque. His wings cut the sky with every movement, each beat sending shockwaves through the air.
Leo's voice echoed like thunder, laced with arrogance and rage.
"You can't defeat me, Julian! I am evolution! I am perfection itself!"
Julian wiped the blood from his lips, a faint grin breaking through the pain.
