Defiance of the Fall

inator pushed his hands in a spiral while slowly bending further and further down toward the ground.

”Stellar Convergence, ” Adcarkas growled as his purple eyes stared into Zac ’s, and a miniature spiral galaxy had sprung up around them the next moment.

It spread over a hundred meters around the two, and Zac could sense a shocking amount of destructive power in every single one of the stars.
The others hurriedly scrambled out of the way, but Zac was caught in the heart of the galaxy, with Void ’s Disciple being the black hole.
Zac frowned at the situation and thought to take a step back to regroup, but his mind immediately screamed of danger.

Zac quickly understood that he would have to withstand the power inside the stars if he wanted to back away, and even he would be bloodied and battered if the hundreds of lights went off simultaneously.
He could only push forward, but that was his desire anyway.
It seemed as though Void was trying to steal or somehow convert the force in Zac ’s swing, but he would still be grievously wounded if Zac managed to cut through the defenses before he was done.

It was essentially a race, so he grit his teeth as he tried to break the odd defense that Adcarkas ’ spinning hands continuously conjured.
He could already see that the initial collision had caused fault-lines to appear all over the Dominator ’s hand on top of the broken bones, and Zac felt that just a little more would be needed to break through.
Besides, the stalemate also gave him a chance to maneuver [Love ’s Bond], and the Dominator now had a fetter binding each of his limbs.

A pitch-black beam suddenly shot past straight next to Zac’s leg, expertly avoiding the rotating stars all around him.
It unerringly flew toward the Dominator’s throat as he dealt with Zac’s strike.
It was Ogras who had already turned into his ultimate form, but he actually had a second set of wings this time.
As he pointed his newly acquired spear at the Zhix.
He looked like a god of darkness, and multiple beams shot at weak spots of the zhix in short order.

A bloody gash appeared on the Zhix’s throat, but it was unfortunately not enough.
Ogras’ shadowlance simply wasn’t strong enough to fatally wound someone like Void’s Disciple in one go.
However, Ogras was like a mobile turret, continuously shooting out more and more lances as Zac and Void’s Disciple were locked in a stalemate where Zac couldn ’t retreat nor managed to push forward.

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His arms were already shaking with strain, but the odd technique that the Zhix was doing kept dissipating the impact, forcing Zac to instill more and more energy into the strike to keep going.
Of course, it was just a swing that utilized his physical power and Dao rather than any skills, so Zac could keep going for a good while longer.

Ten shallow gashes appeared in an instant all across the dominator’s body thanks to the demon ’s efforts, most of them centered at weak spots.
The other Anointed seemed to be preparing something similar, but it finally looked like Adcarkas had enough as a necklace cracked.
A dome that locked everyone except Zac outside appeared in an instant, locking him, Adcarkas, and his swirling galaxy inside.

“Break it!” Zac heard Ogras roar from outside, but the voice was muted like he was extremely far away.

The Anointed had backed off when Rhubat was wounded, but their hulking bodies moved toward the glimmering barrier without hesitation.
The runes on their body lit up as they punched on the barrier, seemingly delighted that there was finally something they could do to assist Zac.

Unfortunately, Zac ’s brief break in his attention to see what was going on proved to be a fatal mistake as a tremendous force surge within the Dominator’s body.
The palm blocking Zac’s swing suddenly disappeared, and Zac couldn ’t help but lose his balance as he had been pushing with everything he had.

The Dominator had managed slightly twist himself while diffusing Zac’s swing, and with Zac ’s lapse of concentration he had swiveled to the point that his body wasn’t even in the trajectory of the swing any longer.
The Blade of [Verun’s Bite] harmlessly ripped apart the air right next to him, only cutting off a small piece of Void Disciple’s robes.

Zac knew he was in trouble, and the shield of [Hatchetman’s Spirit] immediatelycovered him as the emerald leaves completely ensconced him.
He was even considering activating the first skill of [Love ’s Bond] to survive, but doing so would force him to transform the Spirit Tool to its shield form, which would free Void ’s Disciple of his four fetters.

He eventually decided to bet the house on him being able to withstand Void Disciple ’s attack, at which point he would counter.

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Void’s Disciple was shockingly fast, and he had somehow transferred the force of Zac’s downward swing into a rotating momentum that turned into a mighty roundhouse kick aimed at Zac’s side.
The kick immediately broke the shield and Zac was thrown away, the pain even cutting through the haze of [Hatchetman’s Rage].

However, while the kick was mighty, it wasn ’t the real problem.

A series of explosions rocked Zac the next moment as one star after another in the galaxy exploded, each one of them containing the force of an early E-Grade Warriors ’ full-powered attack.
Zac desperately conjured more and more emerald leaves as they were disintegrated, and the spectral forest of [Hatchetman ’s Spirit] disintegrated before he even landed as all the defensive charges were used up.

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But he survived.
A few of his ribs were definitely broken and Zac looked like a bloodied corpse, but he was still alive and in fighting condition.
The kick had thrown him straight through the galaxy until he hit the barrier from inside, and a coruscating series of explosions had detonated all the stars on this side of the galaxy.

The skill dissipated the next moment, leaving just Zac, Void ’s Disciple, and the four chains that connected them inside the dome.

Zac spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground, and he shot the Zhix a murderous look as the Cosmic Energy in his body surged.
Space split apart the next moment as the massive wooden hand appeared above the dome, but that wasn ’t it.
Zac himself was already rushing back toward Void ’s Disciple as a fractal blade grew out from his axe, its gleaming edge quickly turning golden.

Void ’s Disciple laughed as his body transformed.
He only grew a head taller, but his body turned pitch black while his eyes became burning suns.
His muscles grew in size as well, and he radiated a shocking pressure that made Zac think of the Cyborg.
Void ’s Disciple seemed to have a class that mixed the concepts of space and pugilism, and this ought to be his true fighting form.

It looked like the Dominator was finally ready to show his real cards, but it remained to see whether they were greater than the combined force of both [Nature ’s Punishment] and [Rapturous Divide].