"Boom!"
Almost the instant Leon's voice fell, Dagruel charged fiercely toward Luo Hao in front of him.
Where he had been standing, a massive crater spread out in all directions, its terrifying power seeming capable of overturning the earth.
But!
"Swish!"
Gradually, the speed at which the cracks spread began to slow.
At the same time, the speed of the earth collapsing also slowed.
The astonishment on Leon's face, and Dino's movement as he prepared to pull away, both became increasingly sluggish until they completely froze.
"Bang!!!"
The small, fair palm collided with Draguel's fist, yet it remained firmly locked in place, making Dagruel unable to hide his surprise.
"How is that possible...?"
An unprecedented solemnity appeared on Dagruel's rugged face.
Looking at Luo Hao again, the beautiful Martial Arts King smiled faintly, seemingly quite satisfied with the strength Dagruel had displayed.
"Time Stop?"
Luo Hao glanced around and praised, "You have no Ultimate Skill, yet you've broken through the shackles of space-time with your own power."
"You are indeed very strong."
After speaking, Luo Hao exerted force with her hand.
Draguel refused to yield, but the astonishing power that struck him sent his body flying backward.
The entire process directly overturned Draguel's understanding.
Despite her small body, the power Luo Hao possessed was overwhelmingly great.
What just happened?
The fact that the opponent could move during Time Stop had already surprised Draguel.
This indicated that Luo Hao also possessed a similar ability.
However, the brief clash that followed was truly somewhat inconceivable.
Especially the strange force transmitted from Luo Hao's hand, even Dagruel, who had immersed himself in martial arts for tens of thousands of years, was astonished by it.
"It's the application of force."
Luo Hao's voice sounded from behind Dagruel, and Dagruel's pupils constricted.
He immediately twisted his body in midair and threw a punch.
"Boom!"
However, this time, Luo Hao no longer held back and unleashed all the power she possessed in her normal state.
Thus, accompanied by a crisp sound of bones cracking, Dagruel's body fell like a meteor, landing precisely in the center of the giant crater he had previously stomped out.
"Rumble!"
The Time Stop state was lifted, but because everything had happened in an instant, the force left by Dagruel's charge and the force of his subsequent fall overlapped with one another.
Under the compression of those two forces, everything around them was crushed as if by resonance.
Stones, metal, earth, plant roots, everything turned to dust under the resonance of the two forces.
By the time the dust settled, a meteor crater more than ten kilometers wide had abruptly appeared on the once-boundless plain before Dino and Leon.
"Hey, hey..."
Dino looked at the inexplicably transformed wasteland, shook his head, and began to wonder if he was still dreaming.
Otherwise, why had the surrounding environment suddenly become like this?
It was as if he had blacked out!
"Time-based abilities."
Leon bent down and scooped up a handful of sand, only to find that it was not sand at all, but extremely fine particles like flour. "Everything has been shattered."
The entire giant crater was completely filled with this powder.
Under magicules perception, this powder extended hundreds of meters underground.
To put it in perspective, the brief exchange between Luo Hao and Draguel, if it had happened on the surface, would have been like instantly pulverizing a mountain hundreds of meters high and tens of kilometers wide.
One had to know, this was not an ordinary planet, but the Cardinal World, and a Cardinal World reinforced by Rin and Violet!
Dino obviously realized this as well.
Leaving aside the unfair trick of Time Stop, the destructive power displayed by those two alone made Dino feel a chill of fear.
"They're simply two monsters!"
What Dino hated most were these martial arts fanatics.
Fighting them, even if he could win, would surely leave him seriously injured, making it not worth it.
"So where are they?"
"Thump!"
Just as Dino spoke, one meteor crater after another appeared out of nowhere across the endless barren land.
The continuous thunderous roars and the craters, identical to the one they were standing in, undoubtedly showed how intense the battle between Dagruel and Luo Hao truly was.
Due to the existence of Time Stop, even if they had exchanged hundreds of rounds, to Dino and Leon it was only the blink of an eye.
There was no helping it, Time Stop really was that broken.
If the two fully activated their magicules and entered a state of Ultimate Awakening, they could indeed rely on intuition and instinct to deal with attacks from enemies in a Time Stop state.
But the problem was, the ones fighting were Luo Hao and Dagruel. They did not consider the two of them as attack targets, and even actively avoided them.
This made Dino and Leon truly unable to understand the current situation.
Who had the upper hand, Luo Hao or Dagruel?
And how long would their battle continue?
"Boom!!!"
Many times, the turning point of events comes all of a sudden.
A burly figure flashed out of nowhere and fell right in front of Leon and Dino. It was none other than Draguel!
At this moment, Dagruel no longer had his initial arrogance and dominance.
His body was shattered, blood flowed freely, and especially on his arms, broken bones could even be seen in many places.
"Monster!"
Dagruel stood up from the ground.
Even with such injuries, Draguel remained expressionless as he wiped away the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, then once again assumed a fighting stance.
In the previous battle, Draguel had been almost completely overwhelmed.
Luo Hao's martial arts realm and her unbelievably miraculous techniques had opened Dagruel's eyes, giving him a sense of shock and excitement as if a whole new world had opened before him.
Unfortunately, the gap between them was too vast.
Dagruel had tried very hard to grow stronger during the battle, but he still could not keep up with Luo Hao's pace and was brutally trampled by her.
If it were not for the Giant race's tough and resilient physique, Dagruel estimated that he would have been utterly annihilated by that terrifying woman!
"Oh?"
"After realizing the gap between us, do you still have the courage to challenge me?"
Luo Hao appeared before the three as if by teleportation. She looked at Draguel's rapidly recovering body and coldly snorted, "It seems you are still hiding some tricks."
"How irritating."
"To be so presumptuous in front of me..."
If this were not the Cardinal World, but the Campione Universe, Luo Hao would have crushed such a fellow long ago.
"Shouldn't I be the one who's angry?"
Dagruel stood up. "Weren't you just playing around the whole time?"
Draguel had a temper too.
Luo Hao's battle with him, though seemingly incredibly fierce, was in reality her toying with him the entire time.
And she had been holding back her strength.
It was like playing with a toy, or beating a punching bag.
This brought Draguel immense humiliation.
He, Dagruel, was an existence who dared to challenge the Star King Dragon.
Although he ultimately lost and was even banished to the ends of the world, this did not extinguish Dagruel's pride.
He could die in battle, but he could not endure such humiliation!
"Then as you wish!"
Dagruel's eyes lowered, and his entire aura began to rise steadily.
Luo Hao watched Dagruel with interest. She did not stop him.
Rather, Luo Hao wished Draguel could become even stronger, preferably breaking straight through into the Gods Domain. Only then would he be worth beating to his knees.
"Hey, hey, are you kidding me?"
"This guy is actually still getting stronger!"
Dino was surprised to find that he had underestimated Dagruel. His strength seemed to have truly reached a terrifying level.
"Is this the power of the Three Ancient Races?"
Leon had to admit that he was still too young.
To achieve Ultimate as a hero was indeed worthy of being called a genius of the current era.
But compared to Dagruel, Guy, and Milim, Leon was still just a newcomer.
"You, do you really need to be this surprised?"
Leon looked at Dino with some exasperation. "You and those few are Demon Lords from the same era, right?"
It was rather amusing.
Dino, as the Fallen King, had even greater seniority and age than Milim.
As a Primordial Angel, even counting the time he became a Demon Lord, Dino belonged to the same generation as Guy.
However, his nature was too lazy, and he relied too much on his Ultimate Skill.
This made Dino even weaker in combat power than Dagruel.
Whether in magicules or actual combat, Draguel was more than a level above the perpetually slacking Dino.
Of course, this was also because Dino would simply surrender to anyone.
He did not like fighting and had no interest in winning or losing.
You want to challenge him?
Fine, I'll just surrender, won't that count as your win?
"No, no, it's completely different."
"I can't compare to those monsters."
Well, how much of that was true remained open to debate.
In any case, Leon had no confidence in defeating Dino.
Good thing I'm good at slacking off.
In fact, Dino was incredibly grateful at this moment that he had immediately dropped to his knees and surrendered the moment he saw Luo Hao.
Otherwise, he would have been the one getting thrashed by Luo Hao now.
Perhaps it was precisely because Luo Hao saw Dino's laziness that she lost interest in him.
Even if Dino's stats were only one step behind Draguel's, Luo Hao still disdained such a carefree fellow.
In other words, Dino did not even qualify to be beaten by Luo Hao.
And just as the two were talking, terrifying magicules instantly erupted from Dagruel's body.
At the same time, Draguel's body began to swell.
From a burly man nearly three meters tall, he rapidly transformed into a colossal god towering between heaven and earth.
"Trinity Giant God!"
Trinity, this was Dagruel's ultimate trump card, his last resort.
Legend had it that Dagruel was not the last giant. He also had brothers of similar strength.
However, almost no one had ever seen Dagruel's so-called brothers.
That was because, from beginning to end, Dagruel and his brothers were the same person.
It was power that had been shattered and separated after he challenged the Star King Dragon, a part of the Giant God!
"Gods Domain..."
Watching the magicules erupt from Dagruel, Leon murmured.
Undoubtedly, Dagruel's magicules had now broken through the hundred million mark, entering a whole new domain.
At this moment, the power Dagruel displayed was enough to stand above all others. Even the former Guy standing before him would not dare say he could definitely defeat him.
"I see."
Facing Dagruel, Luo Hao was as tiny as a speck of dust.
Yet she showed no sign of wavering, her eyes filled only with fighting spirit.
"Snap!"
Closing her paper fan, Luo Hao said knowingly, "To split one's own power and soul, thereby preserving the most refined essence, and then reclaiming it when needed."
"Is this why you couldn't obtain an Ultimate Skill?"
Because his soul was incomplete, he could not initiate the Ultimate challenge, and could only rely on his formidable physical strength and Unique Skill to fight.
But even so, Dagruel still displayed martial prowess second to none.
"Excellent!"
A smile appeared on Luo Hao's lips. "I'm looking forward to our battle later even more."
The "later" here definitely did not refer to the current Dagruel.
Even if he had already broken through into the Gods Domain.
But this breakthrough was merely a stacking of magicules.
Without awakening his own Ultimate God Skill, he was at best an empty shell.
Like an inflated balloon, and the Ultimate God Skill was a needle, capable of easily bursting Dagruel's bloated body.
Therefore, the "later battle" Luo Hao referred to was after Dagruel submitted to Rin and acquired enough power from him.
Even before becoming Rin's subordinate, he could display such strength.
Once Dagruel joined, his strength would certainly be no less than that of the current Dragon Gods!
Good, this was more like it!
Luo Hao became even more excited. She seemed to see herself in the near future, completely unleashing all her power and battling the Giant God to the ends of the universe. It was a chilling thought.
"But for now..."
"Let me give you a lesson."
Luo Hao felt that for a proud person like Dagruel, getting him to submit would be far more difficult than with Leon and Dino.
Leon was smart, and Dino was simply cautious.
Subduing those two presented no difficulty.
But Draguel...
"Ultimate God!"
Originally, Luo Hao had not intended to use such a killing move.
But the opportunity was rare, and Luo Hao did not mind letting Dagruel witness what a true Gods Domain was!
(To be continued.)
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