"Whoosh!"
Lucien suddenly appeared in front of Saitama. His massive leg swept forward, the sheer force of the kick causing the surrounding air to ripple violently.
A massive fan shaped storm surged outward, spreading across ten thousand meters.
However, Saitama had already vanished.
Lucien's amethyst eyes narrowed.
A chilling pressure descended from above.
Saitama was falling toward him, stomping down with terrifying momentum.
Lucien reacted instantly. In the short moment he had, he threw out a punch to block.
The stomp landed like a falling meteor.
Boom!
Lucien's feet sank deep into the ground as the impact exploded through his body. His upper torso burst apart instantly.
The earth within a hundred thousand meters began collapsing violently, the land crumbling inward until a gigantic crater formed.
Lucien's defenses might as well have been paper in front of Saitama.
Once Saitama realized Lucien could not be killed easily, he began fighting more seriously.
Even then, he still had not used his full strength.
High temperature steam burst outward.
Colorful strands of energy and flesh twisted together as Lucien's upper body regenerated rapidly. Within seconds he stood whole again, breathing heavily while a manic grin spread across his face.
He stared at Saitama, who had landed calmly in the distance.
Behind Lucien, the massive Divine Dragon appeared once again.
Its body stretched across one hundred thousand meters as it roared violently, shaking the sky.
"Great Might Heavenly Dragon."
Saitama stepped forward.
"Consecutive Normal Punches."
A crimson blur of massive fists surged forward like a violent storm.
The Divine Dragon screamed.
It shattered instantly.
Lucien's arm exploded.
Then his upper body burst apart again, turning into a mist of blood.
Yet even as his body exploded, Lucien's leg lashed forward.
A Storm Leg strike stretched tens of thousands of meters across the sky.
His upper body regenerated within two breaths.
Saitama sidestepped the attack calmly.
Beside him, the Storm Leg carved a deep abyss through the earth that stretched all the way to the horizon before slicing through the raging ocean far away.
In that same instant, Lucien flashed in front of him.
His right leg swept toward Saitama's head, filled with overwhelming power.
The violent air pressure alone forced Saitama's expression to turn serious.
Boom!
A towering mushroom cloud erupted.
Saitama was blasted away.
In the next second, two streaks of light collided again.
Their knees smashed together like exploding comets.
The resulting shockwave erased everything around them.
Lucien's body exploded again.
But each time, it regenerated almost instantly.
Both figures shot into the sky.
Two long streaks of light pierced through the clouds, splitting the atmosphere itself.
Lightning flashed.
Thunder roared.
The entire sky twisted violently, creating a breathtaking and terrifying scene.
Like two meteors striking the planet, the pair returned to the surface in the blink of an eye.
Massive ocean waves rose into the sky before being shredded by the violent storm created by their battle.
At the center of the destruction, their fists collided again.
A transparent shockwave spread outward.
Mountains collapsed.
Forests were obliterated.
Even the earth's crust crumbled and folded inward under the pressure.
Their movements blurred.
It felt as if time itself had slowed.
Two elbows smashed together with overwhelming force.
The impact sent shockwaves across the entire continent, forcing the crust of the planet to shift violently.
They shot back into the sky.
Another enormous crater formed where they had stood.
Their fists and knees became nothing but afterimages as they continued exchanging blows at impossible speed.
Hurricane level shockwaves expanded outward, pushing the atmosphere itself farther away.
Thunderous explosions echoed constantly.
The pressure in the air became so heavy it was difficult to breathe.
Mountains that were thrown into the air were instantly pulverized by invisible shockwaves.
In only a few minutes, the two fighters had already reached the South Pole.
High above the planet, satellites captured the destruction.
Inside the Hero Association headquarters, countless high ranking officials and heroes stared at the screens in horror.
Their faces were pale.
The satellites could not clearly capture Lucien and Saitama themselves.
But they could see the devastation their battle left behind.
The entire southwest region of the planet had been completely reshaped.
Massive bottomless valleys, endless mountain ranges, and towering cliffs stretched across the land like a scar carved into the planet.
The destruction extended all the way to the South Pole.
Even from space, it was clearly visible.
It looked like a massive wound cut across the Earth.
Everyone understood one terrifying truth.
If the battle continued much longer, the Earth itself might not survive.
The entire planet was already becoming unstable.
The shifting crust caused earthquakes and tsunamis to erupt everywhere.
Volcanoes across the world began erupting violently.
Humans and monsters alike began fleeing in panic, desperately escaping the southwest region and the South Pole.
And yet the battlefield continued expanding.
While the outside world was drowning in fear, the two responsible for the chaos were only becoming more excited.
"Whoosh... Whoosh..."
Afterimages filled the sky.
Lucien moved in triangular patterns, launching relentless kicks and strikes from three directions.
Saitama bounced between the attacks like a yellow rubber ball, deflecting the blows effortlessly.
Because of their extreme speed, the sky appeared filled with countless copies of them.
The entire South Pole trembled with violent earthquakes.
A massive crater suddenly appeared.
Lucien's knee slammed upward into Saitama's chin.
The force launched Saitama straight out of the atmosphere.
He flew directly toward the moon.
Before Saitama could even climb out of the crater he created on the lunar surface, Lucien arrived.
He stepped down on Saitama's chest, forcing him deep into the moon's surface.
The impact nearly drove him to the moon's core.
Lucien had done this intentionally.
He wanted to confirm something.
In the original battle against the Season 1 boss, Saitama had traveled to the moon and appeared to hold his breath while in space.
Lucien needed to know whether Saitama could truly survive there.
After fighting this long, Lucien fully understood the gap between them.
In a direct confrontation, he was no match for Saitama.
There was absolutely no chance of victory head on.
So he needed another method.
At that moment, the moon itself began collapsing.
Landslides tore across its surface while massive cracks spread through the ground.
The battle continued.
Bang!
Bang!
The two tore through the lunar surface, smashing craters apart and sending massive explosions across the moon.
Each impact left behind mushroom shaped clouds of dust.
Saitama retreated slightly to avoid Lucien's kick while throwing a punch.
Lucien's body exploded in half.
He regenerated instantly and countered with a punch that blasted Saitama away.
The two separated briefly.
Then collided again.
Lucien landed a brutal uppercut on Saitama's chin.
At the same moment, Saitama punched Lucien's cheek.
The tremendous force drove Lucien's upper body deep into the lunar soil.
His head exploded instantly.
Saitama was sent flying upward.
Lucien straightened from the ground as his head regenerated, colorful energy swirling as smoke rose from the newly formed flesh.
He shot upward again.
In an instant he appeared behind Saitama and unleashed a sweeping kick.
Whether Saitama chose not to dodge or simply could not dodge was unclear.
His body slammed into the moon's surface with a deafening roar.
The impact crushed the ground inward.
Mountains were pulverized.
The shockwave blew away a massive portion of the moon's surface.
Golden lightning crashed downward.
Saitama steadied himself with both hands against the ground.
As Lucien descended again, Saitama suddenly kicked upward.
Lucien spat blood as the strike blasted him away.
He crashed into a massive mountain, his upper body cracked and covered in blood.
Even as it exploded, the injuries regenerated rapidly.
Saitama appeared in front of him instantly and threw another punch.
Lucien crossed both arms to block.
The blow forced his entire body through the mountain behind him.
He burst out the other side and crashed into the ground, carving a massive trench across the lunar surface.
His face was soaked with blood.
Lucien flipped back to his feet immediately.
The ground where he had stood moments earlier collapsed inward.
Saitama looked upward.
At that moment Lucien descended again with another crushing kick.
Saitama blocked with one hand above his head.
Deep abyss like cracks spread from his feet in every direction.
Mushroom clouds rose across the moon as the two shot through the sky again, colliding over and over.
Their bodies were no longer visible.
Only the storm of destruction remained.
Suddenly Lucien's eyes widened.
Saitama's punch struck him directly.
Lucien bent forward as blood poured from his nose and mouth.
The blow pierced straight through his chest.
Yet he endured the pain.
Clenching both fists, Lucien slammed them down onto Saitama's head.
Boom!
Another mushroom cloud erupted.
Saitama was blasted completely through the moon to the far side.
Lines of glowing cracks spread across the surface.
Lucien's eyes flashed red.
In that brief instant, he stepped backward.
The next moment Saitama burst out from the ground.
His crimson fist barely missed Lucien's nose.
Lucien had used Future Prediction.
He had no choice.
"Great Might Heavenly Dragon."
The enormous Divine Dragon stretched far into space.
Lucien's palm slammed into Saitama's chest.
But there was no sound of breaking bones.
Saitama looked slightly surprised.
Clearly he had not expected Lucien to dodge his previous attack.
After crashing through barren valleys and mountains, Saitama landed at the far end of the battlefield.
He slowly stood up.
Looking upward, he saw Lucien already descending toward him from the sky.
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