"Suppressing... he's actually suppressing God's Avatar?!" Metal Bat muttered, his worldview crumbling before his eyes.
"That kind of power... that fighting style..." Bang's eyes sharpened. Within those movements, he recognized traces of incredibly familiar combat techniques and force application. An absurd thought slowly surfaced in his mind.
Tatsumaki's lips parted slightly, her emerald eyes locked onto the monstrous figure battling near the Moon. She observed the rhythm of its attacks, the instinctive tearing of spatial barriers, and the terrifying precision behind every movement.
Her heartbeat quickened.
A name nearly escaped her lips, but the creature's horrifying appearance and suffocating aura stopped her.
"Sensei... is that Sol-senpai?" Genos asked quietly while looking at Saitama.
Saitama crossed his arms, his expression unusually serious.
"Yeah. He's really strong, and he's getting better during the fight."
The battlefield shifted once again.
Perhaps realizing God's Avatar was being pushed back, or simply acting on chaotic instinct, Gums suddenly let out a furious roar. Its enormous maw opened wide as corrosive energy mixed with acidic saliva erupted into the sky.
The attack wasn't aimed at God's Avatar.
It swept directly toward the Hero Association personnel below.
"Watch out!" Tanktop Master roared as he slammed several staff members away from danger.
Even so, a few people were caught by the torrent. Their screams echoed across the battlefield as their bodies were instantly corroded and melted.
"Gums, you idiot!" Gouketsu shouted furiously, but the chaos had already spiraled beyond control.
At nearly the same moment, Ugly President, driven mad by fear, released a shrill scream and charged toward the nearest hero.
Genos.
Already injured, Genos was still kneeling on the ground when the monster lunged at him.
"Genos!" Saitama's eyes narrowed.
But someone moved before even Saitama could react.
Superalloy Darkshine burst through the rubble like a human tank, his bronze body smashing everything in his path before throwing a devastating punch straight into Ugly President.
"Get lost!"
The monster was blasted backward by the overwhelming force.
In the air, Tatsumaki's weakened body trembled, but the sight of Association casualties reignited her fury. Green psychic energy surged violently as a gigantic psychic hand formed and slammed toward Gums.
Hellfire Flame and Gale Wind instinctively intervened, releasing blazing flames and violent storms to intercept her attack.
"How dare you!" Atomic Samurai roared.
His blade flashed from its sheath, slicing through the combined fire and wind attack.
At the same time, Flash flickered across the battlefield and delivered a high speed kick directly into Gale Wind.
The fragile truce between heroes and monsters instantly collapsed.
Chaotic close combat erupted everywhere.
Near the Moon, the monster Sol had transformed into briefly paused after sensing the turmoil below.
God's Avatar immediately seized the opening.
From its severed arm, an intense radiance suddenly exploded outward. The energy fluctuation was vastly greater than before.
It had stopped holding back.
Complex and profound law patterns spread across its withered body while the entire Moon trembled violently beneath its power.
The transformed Sol slowly turned his head.
His crimson slits swept over the battlefield below before locking onto God's Avatar, whose strength was rapidly climbing.
On that smooth, bone white mask, a trace of impatience appeared.
Then he made his decision.
He abandoned his pursuit and tilted his head upward. The mouthless portion of his face split apart once more, opening into a deep abyss-like fissure.
An indescribably terrifying suction force erupted.
But this time, the target was not an attack.
It was the massive energy God's Avatar was gathering.
The blinding light and terrifying divine power were forcibly dragged away and swallowed directly into Sol's mouth like rivers flowing into the sea.
God's Avatar's body shook violently.
It clearly had not expected its primordial power to be devoured so directly.
It attempted to sever the energy connection, but the laws it released were forcibly restrained and plundered by an even more domineering rule.
The dark red energy veins covering Sol's body glowed with unprecedented intensity. His figure expanded slightly as an even more suffocating aura spread outward.
By devouring God's Avatar's energy, Sol instantly replenished all previous consumption while becoming even stronger.
Within seconds, nearly half of the power God's Avatar had gathered had been consumed.
Its withered body visibly dimmed.
The transformed Sol slowly closed the fissure across his face.
Then his crimson gaze fixed coldly onto God's Avatar, which had become temporarily paralyzed after losing so much energy.
It was over.
His arms slowly came together.
Dark red energy and that freezing rule-based force compressed into a single point between his palms, forming a fist-sized pitch-black sphere.
Within that sphere, countless stars seemed to form and collapse endlessly, yet everything was swallowed by absolute emptiness.
Everyone on Earth felt their souls tremble.
Instinct screamed that the release of that sphere would mean complete annihilation.
God's Avatar clearly sensed death approaching.
Its remaining arm moved frantically as countless defensive layers formed around it. Its body even began turning ethereal in an attempt to escape this vessel entirely.
Too late.
Sol thrust his arms forward.
The pitch-black sphere shot out silently.
It crossed space instantly, ignored every defense God's Avatar created, and struck directly at its core.
Time itself seemed to freeze.
Then God's Avatar's withered body silently crumbled from the point of impact like ash scattered into a furnace.
No explosion.
No blinding light.
Only absolute annihilation.
Its defenses, struggles, and attempts to escape meant nothing before the sphere that contained Sol's full power, the devoured energy of God, and his rule of negation.
The being that had brought overwhelming despair to the Moon vanished completely.
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