At the same time, the seawater inside the hall was violently churned by the beast's telekinesis, forming countless high-speed, spiraling torrents—steel-ripping water vortices—that swept in from all directions!
"Watch out!" Natasha and Clint barely dodged the falling stone pillars.
Phil, Fitz, and Simmons were nearly knocked off their feet as a surge of water yanked them sideways.
Saitama's eyes sharpened. In an instant, he appeared in front of his teammates and threw a rapid series of punches!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The huge stone pillars flying in were shattered midair into countless chunks! At the same time, he moved at high speed, using his body and the shockwaves from his fists to forcibly disperse the lethal water vortices rushing toward the team.
"This thing… is way more troublesome than before." Saitama stared at the beast radiating terrifying pressure, sensing the powerful protection formed by that layer of dark energy over its body.
"Phil, get them somewhere safe!" Saitama ordered without looking back, his gaze locked on the beast. "This one's mine."
Phil knew this wasn't the time for pride. He immediately led Fitz and Simmons, with Natasha and Clint covering them, retreating behind a relatively sturdy section of collapsed wall near the edge of the hall.
The beast's ghost-blue flaming "eyes" turned toward the only one standing in its way—Saitama. It seemed to sense the extraordinary power hidden inside that tiny creature and released an angry psychic roar.
Then it raised a massive claw covered in heavy armor and spikes, slamming down toward Saitama with the force to crush everything! At the same time, surrounding rocks—driven by telekinesis—shot in from every angle like bullets.
Saitama didn't take it head-on. His figure flickered, easily avoiding the claw strike and the rock barrage. He tested the waters with a punch to the armor on the beast's leg.
Clang!
A dull boom rang out, like striking a ten-thousand-ton bell! A shallow fist mark appeared on the armor—only to be instantly repaired by surging dark energy. The beast merely swayed slightly, as if it hadn't been hurt at all.
"Oh?" Saitama raised an eyebrow. "Pretty good defense."
Enraged by the hit, the beast's ghost-blue flames flared violently. It opened its massive mouth, and a condensed beam of dark energy—capable of annihilating matter—shot out like a destruction ray straight at Saitama!
Saitama dodged again. The beam skimmed past him and blasted a bottomless hole through the wall behind, pulverizing the ruins.
"…Normal attacks aren't doing much." Saitama glanced at the fist mark that was already repaired, and at the beast's seemingly endless dark energy. "Looks like I'll have to get a little serious."
He rolled his wrist, and his eyes turned focused. The surrounding seawater—already raging from the beast's telekinesis and energy shockwaves—began to boil even more violently as Saitama's invisible pressure rose.
The beast's annihilation beams swept across the hall like a plow. Wherever they passed, solid stone walls were sliced and erased as easily as tofu. Saitama's figure flickered like a ghost through the dense beams and telekinetically hurled boulders—each time narrowly slipping past, never truly getting locked on.
His earlier probing strikes were like pebbles tossed into a deep lake—leaving only the tiniest traces before being swallowed by that thick armor and dark-energy shield.
This beast's defense was on a completely different level from anything they'd faced before.
(End of Chapter)
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