Many weaker Heroes and Monsters immediately clutched their heads and screamed in agony as blood flowed from their ears and noses.
Even S-Class Heroes like Bang and Atomic Samurai felt a violent wave of dizziness and nausea crash into them.
"Are they fighting for control over space itself?" Drive Knight analyzed, his mechanical voice trembling slightly.
The dark red veins spreading across the Monster's arm glowed brighter and brighter as it slowly advanced forward. Wherever it passed, the shattered space was forcibly repaired, overwritten by an entirely new and freezing "rule."
God's Avatar's withered arm twitched faintly, as if even it had not expected its attack to be neutralized in such a bizarre way.
It immediately changed tactics.
Its shriveled fingers lightly tapped through the air like someone playing an invisible instrument.
In an instant, countless pale chains made of pure energy materialized around the Monster. The chains appeared twisted from the souls of the damned, releasing mournful screams as they shot toward the Monster from every direction, attempting to restrain its body while directly attacking its spiritual essence.
The crimson slits on the Monster's bone-white mask flickered faintly.
It did not even bother making a defensive movement.
The pale chains rapidly melted the moment they touched the obsidian-like armor coating its body, vanishing like snow thrown into molten steel. Even the ghostly screams abruptly disappeared.
The Monster possessed complete immunity to attacks aimed directly at the spiritual plane.
At the same time, it casually swung one arm.
Five long, dark red claw marks instantly tore through space itself and slashed toward God's Avatar on the moon without losing any momentum.
God's Avatar raised its other arm. A distorted prism-like barrier immediately formed before its palm.
The dark red claw marks crashed into the barrier, erupting into a blinding explosion of energy. Another devastating shockwave swept across the battlefield, nearly throwing everyone off their feet.
This collision was clearly far more intense than the previous exchange.
"It can actually fight God's Avatar evenly?" Metal Bat muttered in disbelief while supporting himself with his broken bat.
Tanktop Master spoke with a heavy expression. "And it looks like it's handling this better than Sol did earlier."
His emotions were extremely complicated.
Genos continuously recorded the battle data with his mechanical eyes.
"Energy collision levels have exceeded every previous record. The principle behind its energy conversion cannot be analyzed."
Saitama watched the battle in the sky while rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"How did Sol end up like that? Still, he definitely got stronger."
On the moon, God's Avatar finally seemed enraged.
Its motionless figure moved noticeably.
It stepped forward slightly.
Even though it remained standing on the moon's surface, the entire Earth trembled from that single movement.
It slowly brought both hands together in an embracing gesture.
The gravity across the battlefield instantly became distorted.
Everyone felt their bodies suddenly sink as if an invisible mountain had dropped onto their shoulders. Several heavily injured Heroes were slammed directly into the ground, unable to move.
Even Tatsumaki grunted as her Psychokinesis was forcibly suppressed back into her body.
Around the Monster, gravity twisted to an extreme degree.
Space itself collapsed inward under terrifying pressure, forming a miniature black hole-like singularity meant to crush and devour everything within it.
The Monster finally made a more noticeable movement.
Its armored legs spread apart slightly and rooted themselves firmly into the ground. Massive cracks instantly spread beneath its feet like a giant spiderweb, yet its body did not budge even slightly.
It slowly raised its head.
Its bone-white mask faced the collapsing gravitational singularity directly as the crimson slits suddenly glowed intensely.
Then something horrifying happened.
Instead of resisting the gravity, the smooth mask split open.
Inside was not flesh or blood, but endless darkness resembling the deepest parts of the universe itself.
An indescribable suction force erupted from its mouth.
The gravitational singularity, along with the distorted space and surrounding light, was forcibly swallowed whole.
Like a whale devouring the ocean itself, the process remained silent and deeply unsettling.
Within seconds, the terrifying gravitational field completely vanished as if it had never existed.
The slit on the Monster's face closed once more, restoring the smooth bone-white mask. Only the crimson slits continued flickering faintly, almost as if it were digesting the absorbed energy.
The battlefield fell into complete silence.
Swallowing gravity?
Devouring space itself?
This had already surpassed everyone's understanding.
God's Avatar froze with its hands still raised. Even it seemed unable to comprehend what it had just witnessed.
After consuming the singularity, the dark red veins across the Monster's body glowed even brighter.
Slowly, it turned its head.
Its cold crimson gaze locked onto God's Avatar once again.
Then, for the very first time, it launched an attack of its own.
The Monster did not move from its position.
It merely raised one finger toward the moon, a finger covered in obsidian armor and ending in a sharp, scythe-like tip.
At the fingertip, a tiny point of absolute darkness began to condense.
That darkness was not emptiness.
It was destruction compressed to its absolute limit, a manifestation of pure death and annihilation governed by an unknown rule.
As the black point formed, the surrounding light twisted violently before being sucked into it. Even sound itself seemed swallowed away, plunging the battlefield into eerie silence.
God's Avatar sensed the danger immediately.
For the first time, it assumed a fully defensive posture.
Its withered arms crossed before its body as countless distorted barriers instantly formed in front of it, layers upon layers of overlapping spatial distortions.
The black point at the Monster's fingertip finally stabilized.
Then it lightly pointed forward.
There was no explosion.
No sound.
No flash of light.
Only a thin black line shot forward from its fingertip.
The attack instantly crossed the distance between Earth and the moon before silently striking the layers of spatial barriers protecting God's Avatar.
Hiss!
The faint sound alone made everyone's soul tremble.
The black line pierced through every barrier effortlessly, like a heated blade cutting through paper.
God's Avatar's defenses appeared completely meaningless before that attack.
The black line finally struck the withered arm guarding its body.
Time itself seemed to freeze for a brief second.
Then the arm began disappearing.
It was being completely erased from existence.
Exactly like what had happened to Sol earlier.
God's Avatar violently retreated as a silent roar of fury and shock echoed across space.
Without hesitation, it raised its remaining arm and severed the infected limb from its body.
The detached arm instantly vanished into nothingness.
At the severed shoulder, the surface remained unnaturally smooth, as though the arm had never existed in the first place.
God's Avatar had lost an arm.
Across the battlefield, every Hero and Monster stared blankly at the scene.
Their minds had gone completely empty.
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