When the two clashed again, the energy gathered in Lucas's fist erupted instantly.
Under the terrifying collision, visible distortions spread through the air like rippling shockwaves.
Every building caught in the sweeping blast was reduced to dust.
They collapsed like sandcastles struck by a rising tide.
In this exchange, Lucas gained the upper hand.
After smashing through Kly'bn's attack with a single punch, he gathered energy again and struck Kly'bn directly in the body.
For the first time since the battle began—
Kly'bn was sent flying.
His massive body broke the sound barrier in an instant.
Amid a deafening sonic boom, he shot backward hundreds of meters.
The violent airflow and shockwave that followed crushed every remaining structure along the path into even finer debris.
When the impact wave passed, the ground along the road was covered in nothing but fine sand.
There was no trace left that a human city had once stood there.
Lucas didn't allow Kly'bn's body to destroy even more of the city.
Moving at incredible speed, he appeared directly along Kly'bn's flight path.
He threw another punch toward Kly'bn's flying body.
Seeing this, Kly'bn immediately halted his backward momentum.
Though he had been preparing to absorb the force of the blow, he was forced to stop midair.
After all, Kly'bn was still a god of the Skrulls.
Though far weaker than the eternal cosmic deities, he could not possibly be defeated so easily.
His body shifted instantly.
Behind him, the gigantic divine projection surged and merged back into his body.
The glowing patterns across his skin flared brilliantly.
His body expanded from over three meters tall to more than five meters.
At the same time, his speed increased sharply.
With a violent burst of motion, he charged directly toward Lucas.
Lucas surged forward as well, his aura roaring.
Wrapped in his blazing ki, he looked like a razor-sharp spear, and the space behind him turned into a vacuum from the sheer sharpness of his momentum.
When he collided with Kly'bn—
Their fists slammed into each other.
The air behind both of them compressed violently under the force of the impact, then exploded outward like bursting balloons.
In the next moment, an ultra-high-speed battle erupted in midair.
All dust and water vapor were blasted away.
The sound of their combat vanished entirely.
It was as if the world itself had lost its color.
Yet the shockwaves released from their clash continued spreading outward.
Every building around them was crushed once more.
The difference in their body sizes looked like an adult fighting a child.
Yet every punch and kick thrown by Lucas carried tremendous destructive force.
Despite his massive size, Kly'bn quickly fell into a disadvantage after only a few exchanges.
After dozens of moves, Lucas finally found an opening.
He immediately gathered his energy and struck the weakest point in Kly'bn's defense.
The defense lasted less than a second.
Then it shattered completely under Lucas's blow.
Kly'bn crossed his arms in front of him.
He knew he couldn't dodge this attack.
So he chose to rely on his divine body to endure it head-on.
When Lucas's strike slammed into him—
A massive shockwave erupted instantly.
It was like a nuclear explosion.
The ground around them, already devastated, collapsed dozens of meters downward in an instant.
Chunks of earth were ripped up and thrown into the air.
A terrifying ring-shaped shockwave swept outward in every direction.
Buildings that had survived two kilometers away exploded into fragments when the wave reached them.
In less than a single breath—
Every man-made structure within a four-kilometer radius vanished.
They disappeared like wax figures melting under sunlight.
A powerful earthquake followed.
Even the outer edges of the city experienced tremors stronger than magnitude six.
The great American metropolis—
New York City—
Now tasted the same disaster that had once struck Los Angeles during the super earthquake.
Countless buildings collapsed.
Fires began breaking out everywhere, devouring nearby structures.
Fortunately, most of the residents had already evacuated.
Otherwise, it would have become another tragedy like the destruction of Metropolis during the battle between General Zod and Clark.
After the shockwave subsided, Kly'bn's body shot away like a cannonball once more.
He carved another deep scar across New York before crashing into Queens.
BOOM!
When Kly'bn hit the ground, the tremendous energy released from the impact flattened nearly a quarter of the buildings in Queens.
A thunderous boom echoed through the sky.
Lucas had already charged forward again.
Meanwhile, from the crater below, Kly'bn let out a furious roar.
He burst upward as a streak of light.
In the blink of an eye, he appeared directly before Lucas.
With both arms raised, he clasped them together.
At that moment, the surrounding space seemed to freeze.
"Come!"
"Feel the fury of a god!"
Kly'bn's enraged voice rang beside Lucas's ear.
[This is bad, Lucas! He's trying to drag you into his divine domain! Get out of there!]
The blood Butcher's voice suddenly echoed in Lucas's mind.
"Divine domain?"
Lucas instantly understood the danger.
Without hesitation, he activated the Space Stone in his left hand.
After all—
Only space itself could break through space.
But Kly'bn seemed to have expected this.
He burst into loud laughter.
"Useless!"
"I already knew you possessed the Space Stone!"
And indeed—
For the first time, Lucas felt the power of the Space Stone become sluggish.
It was as if something that once moved smoothly along a highway had suddenly been forced into a heavily congested city street.
Under these conditions, the Space Stone could not stop the massive surge of energy erupting from Kly'bn.
As more and more energy poured out—
The space surrounding Lucas and Kly'bn began twisting violently.
The boundaries of space itself became blurred.
A strange new dimension began appearing before Lucas's eyes.
At the moment, Lucas could only rely on the Space Stone's power to delay the process as much as possible.
It wasn't that the Space Stone was weak.
Rather, Lucas had not recently focused on exploring its deeper abilities.
And now, that limitation had caught up with him.
"Hahaha!"
"Stop struggling!"
"Once you enter my dimension, you will have no power to resist!"
"I'll make sure you wish for death but can't die!"
Kly'bn laughed wildly.
The light around his body grew even brighter.
Lucas could feel an immense force gradually weakening the energy of the Space Stone.
At the same time, even his own ki began to suffer severe interference.
[Lucas, if he drags us into his divine kingdom… we'll have no way to survive!]
The blood Butcher's voice sounded again.
Lucas cursed loudly.
"Damn it! Of course I know that!"
"The problem is—how the hell do I break free from his grip right now?!"
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