Merely a hundred meters tall, the Furious Lord, in the presence of the colossal divine Garon who struck down at this moment, seemed like a mouse spotted by a raptor.
After becoming gigantic, Garon's aura was truly fierce and wild.
Facing such a formidable silver dragon, the Furious Lord's heated brain cooled somewhat, and his eyelids twitched.
Black and red light surged, swirling around the Furious Lord like dense smoke.
Authority of Violence: Divine Body of Violence!
The body of the Frost Giant deity also began to swell under the catalyst of extraordinary divine power, quickly reaching over eight hundred meters in height, with a layer of black and red fierce armor covering his body.
Extraordinary divine power has some general effects.
Changing form, changing size, altering reality, and so on.
All deities possess these general abilities.
During the Glory War, the elven demigods who fought with Garon in the prime material world could only use their extraordinary divine power to increase their size to about three hundred meters, which was significantly less compared to the Furious Lord.
As a giant deity, this fellow, after using extraordinary divine power, indeed displayed a much larger form than typical deities.
Unfortunately, compared to Garon's giant divine form, he was still insignificant.
Like silver lightning streaking across the sky, Garon's gaze sharpened.
Time Stop!
In an instant, everything, including the snow fluttering in the sky due to the fight between these two godly beings, the trembling earth, and the nearly thousand-meter-tall giant deity, all came to a halt.
The dragon extended its claw.
The indestructible claw of space-time aimed at the Furious Lord's head.
A direct hit would end the battle immediately.
At the critical moment, the Furious Lord, with a burst of black and red divine light, barely escaped the time stop area, tumbling awkwardly and narrowly avoiding Garon's space-time claw.
As their enemies ascended to the level of deities, Garon's time stop could no longer decide the victory in one move, primarily because these high-level divine beings possessed strong resistance to negative effects.
Even if they couldn't move, deities within the time stop area could still think normally.
Therefore, they could gather surging divine power, at the expense of extraordinary divine power, to break the time stop, allowing themselves to act within the area.
Zzzt!
The space-time claw brushed past the Furious Lord's scalp, splashing a few hot droplets of blood.
The Furious Lord's response was quick. The Endless Strength, the strongest divine technique derived from his Authority of Strength, broke the bounds of time stop. As the Furious Lord's muscles bulged and seemed to contain unimaginable force, he awkwardly dodged the dragon's lethal claw while immediately turning around and briefly releasing his frosty heavy hammer, grasping Garon's dragon tail with both arms.
"Lift!"
With a roar, the Furious Lord's extraordinary divine power surged wildly, his body's imprinted marks shining with lava-like patterns.
He attempted to swing the two-kilometer-long true dragon around by the tail.
This idea was bold, but the Furious Lord clearly overestimated his strength and underestimated Garon.
Among the body parts of a true dragon, the robust tail is undoubtedly the most powerful.
With a single swing of his tail, Garon could easily create endless abyssal rifts on the ground.
"Ignorant giant."
Garon glanced back at the Furious Lord, feeling the immense strength in his arms that could lift mountains and was unmoved.
The dragon tail forcefully rose, lifting the Furious Lord's body in his stunned and incredulous gaze, and then slammed him heavily onto the ground.
As the Furious Lord realized that even his Endless Strength could not contend with the giant divine Garon, he wanted to release his arms, but the agile dragon tail instead wrapped around them like a giant python, making it difficult for him to break free.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Repeatedly lifted and smashed, the Furious Lord's armored body cracked all over.
At this moment, the giant appeared like a helpless rag doll in the wind.
"Damn dragon!"
The Furious Lord's head was in disarray, and his arms creaked ominously.
Crack!
He tore off his own arms to free himself.
Just as he steadied himself, the Furious Lord saw Garon turn around and swipe his mighty claw horizontally toward him.
The Furious Lord's heart skipped a beat as he once again summoned the power of his Authority.
Authority of Strength: Shield of Strength.
The extraordinary divine power solidified into a massive shield in front of the Furious Lord.
Simultaneously, he used his extraordinary divine power to regenerate his severed arm and picked up his frosty heavy hammer, ready to counterattack once Garon's strike was blocked by the shield.
Looking at the giant shield in front of him,Garon's gaze sharpened.
With a powerful swipe of his claw, the bracelet of black scales on his wrist suddenly began to rotate counterclockwise.
Time Reversal.
Then, the Furious Lord's eyes widened as he watched the Shield of Strength dissipate in the reversing currents of time, and the ferocious dragon claw rapidly approaching.
Boom!
In a burst of explosive shockwaves, Garon's right claw knocked away the incoming hammer, while his left claw, like lightning, reached out and tore through the Furious Lord's armor, gripping half of his body. The sharp hooks of his claw pierced deep, rendering the Furious Lord unable to struggle.
"It's over, this battle is done."
"Pay the price for your folly and fall into eternal death."
Buzz.
Space tore open, and a sword resembling countless golden dragon scales materialized, instantly enlarging to suit the size of a giant dragon and was grasped by Garon's right claw.
With the Furious Lord held in his left claw and the Golden Scaled Holy Sword in his right, Garon swung the sword toward the Furious Lord's head.
"I will die."
Facing imminent death, the Furious Lord's eyes, reflecting the image of the Golden Scaled Holy Sword, became unexpectedly calm.
"The chief god will resurrect me; death is but temporary for me."
As the Furious Lord gazed at the dragon he could not defeat despite his best efforts, he sneered.
"Go to hell!"
He roared.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The Furious Lord's skin cracked open, spewing out scalding hot blood, which instantly bathed him in blood, trading severe self-inflicted wounds for a resurgence of strength.
Authority of Violence: Blood Fury!
Aiming at the silver giant dragon's head, the Furious Lord spat out a stream of black and red molten blood.
Within the blood, a faint image of a Blood-soaked Spear of Lightning appeared.
At that instant, as the Blood-soaked Spear of Lightning materialized, it seemed as if the River of Time itself was resisting and repelling it.
"Could this be the trump card given by the Storm Lord?"
As Garon remained vigilant for possible attacks during their battle, he reacted at the first sign of anomaly.
Garon's eyes narrowed slightly, his wrist twisting, and the Golden Scaled Holy Sword held by his dragon claw immediately changed direction, casting golden holy light and slashing towards the black and red blood.
Killing a peer isn't easy, and though Garon held the advantage, it would still take some effort and time.
The most efficient way would be to endure the opponent's attack with a minor wound and seize the opportunity to decapitate the Furious Lord.
However, he was too cautious, missing a prime opportunity to kill the Furious Lord, choosing instead to defend.
The Golden Scaled Holy Sword cleaved through the black and red blood, the holy light evaporating the blood and revealing the Time-disrupting Spear beneath it, which seemed not to have touched it at all.
"The River of Time has parted, seeming very hostile to this spear."
Garon's heart chilled.
Because of their proximity, it was almost impossible to dodge at close range; he could only choose to withstand.
Moreover, Garon could feel that this artifact had locked onto him the moment it appeared.
Time Barrier!
A small tributary of the River of Time was summoned, enveloping Garon's body in a barrier.
At that moment, time seemed to slow down.
The next second, the Time-disrupting Spear contacted the Time Barrier.
In the crackling of electric arcs, the invincible Time Barrier was breached, and the now-dimmed spear continued toward Garon.
Garon unleashed the power of time, the bracelet of black scales on his wrist again rotating counterclockwise, targeting the spear with Time Reversal.
Under the force of Time Reversal, the spear flickered but did not retreat, instead moving forward in the reversing River of Time, dimming yet persistently advancing.
But the energy it carried was clearly insufficient to reach Garon.
Seeing this, Garon's eyes twinkled, and he voluntarily dropped his defenses.
Hiss!
The Time-disrupting Spear touched Garon's scales and eerily merged into them.
Immediately, a strange surge of electricity burst within Garon, circulating and corroding his power of time, making him feel alienated from his own strength and significantly weakening his connection to the River of Time, crucially impairing his ability to use Time Reversal.
"Well, well, such a vicious thing?"
"Targeted at me to neutralize my most powerful ability."
"If that's the case."
This future vision collapsed in Garon's eyes.
Garon rolled his eyes and raised his dragon claw, seemingly intending to smash the sluggish spear with the brute force of a true dragon's physique.
Simultaneously, Garon unleashed a torrent of time power to obscure the gaze of the gods, and at the moment of contact with the spear,he used Time Reversal to completely eradicate the remaining power of the Time-disrupting Spear.
"What? How is that possible!"
The moment the spear contacted the dragon's claw, it vanished, unclear whether it had penetrated the dragon's body or been obliterated.
At the same time, Garon roared in pain, as if he had suffered an unexpected injury.
"Ha ha, you're finished."
"I will become a hero of the giants!"
Seeing the dragon's reaction, the Furious Lord laughed delightedly.
As if to vent his frustration, Garon brandished the Golden Scaled Holy Sword and once again swung it toward the Furious Lord.
At this point, the Furious Lord, severely drained of divine power and after the outburst of Blood Fury, had little strength left to resist. Facing the incoming Golden Scaled Holy Sword, he showed no fear, saying, "Just wait, I will be resurrected soon, and become a hero of the giants."
Sss!
The Golden Scaled Holy Sword decapitated the Furious Lord, then pierced towards his divinity.
In theory, a deity's divinity is indestructible and cannot be destroyed.
Upon the death of a deity, the divinity would disappear and reappear upon resurrection.
Because a divinity is difficult to destroy, deities do not truly die.
However, at the moment the sword tip touched the divinity, a death curse stemming from countless ancient golden dragons who perished in the Dragonfall War extended to the Furious Lord's divinity, making it fragile.
Realizing something was amiss, the Furious Lord's head showed a look of immense terror.
"No, don't!"
Crack!
Inside his head, the divinity cracked, pierced by the Golden Scaled Holy Sword.
Then, the shattered divinity disappeared, uncertain whether it was truly destroyed or just vanished along with the deity's death.
"Kostchey!"
The Storm Lord watching the battle had not anticipated this outcome.
It seemed now that even if the Furious Lord wasn't completely dead, gathering the scattered remnants of his shattered divinity to resurrect him was nearly impossible, the effort hardly worth the gain.
After a brief moment of surprise, the Storm Lord gazed intently at the dragon.
At this time, the dragon seemed to have suffered a setback, wildly hacking at the remains of the Furious Lord, the residual forces causing the barren world to tremble.
The eyes of the watching gods took on a hue of curiosity, unclear about what specifically had transpired to elicit such a reaction from Garon.
"So, did Kostchey ultimately succeed?"
Looking at the discomposed silver dragon, the Storm Lord pondered internally.
It must have been a success; otherwise, the eternally composed Dragon of Time and Eternity would not exhibit such a reaction. However, it couldn't be completely certain that he had lost the ability of Time Reversal. Further observations and possibly probing in the future would be necessary, the Storm Lord thought to himself.
"Kostchey, you died as you lived."
"In my heart, I will honor you with the title of hero."
As he gazed at the bloodied remains of the giant deity, the Storm Lord spoke softly.
The gods still watching the battle were unclear about the specifics of what had happened to Garon, but seeing his reaction, they speculated that the Furious Lord's last desperate attack must have been no simple feat.
In the barren world, after a display of great frustration and rage, Garon concluded with a thunderous dragon roar, proclaiming, "Giants' pantheon, I have noted this vendetta, wait for it, blood and death shall descend again, and the wrath of the dragon will consume you all!"
In Lunia Heaven, the Metal Dragon God's expression turned serious, revealing a worried look.
"What happened?"
He asked the deity Garon.
Seeing the Metal Dragon God's reaction, deity Garon revealed a satisfied smile, saying, "The main body was just feigning, not truly hurt."
"But seeing your reaction, the performance must have had some effect."
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