A loud blast .

Two thirds of the Lightning G.o.d’s body exploded outwards and G.o.dslayer pierced through . Cloudhawk fell back two hundred meters, but his escape was not an easy one . This was evident by the charred clothing and curls of smoke that rose off of him .

The tongues of electricity reformed into the Lightning G.o.d once again . The disparate bolts wrapped together into the shape of a monstrous winged beast a hundred meters long . No mark remained of where Cloudhawk struck .

Skycloud’s leader was high in the air with his hand wrapped around the hilt of G.o.dslayer as it soared ever farther . He jerked his body around and lashed out three times, carving the electric beast into quarters . The last strike was a brutal, vertical chop that caught it down the spine .

It was useless . The pieces of the Lightning G.o.d reformed . It didn’t appear that Cloudhawk’s attacks were causing any damage . With pupils contracted he glared at the G.o.d . Its recovery speed was second to none .

This was a problem! Cloudhawk took a deep breath . His foes would not be easily defeated .

As their name implied, the Light G.o.d’s powers were based in light . It was able to move and strike at incomparable speed . Cloudhawk doubted the G.o.d could actually move at the speed of light, but if it could even manage one percent then it was faster than him . Even one percent of the speed of light was several tens of thousands of times faster than anything else on earth[1] .

At speeds like that it was no different from teleportation . But that wasn’t exactly true, since teleportation needed time to prepare . In that way the Light G.o.d was actually faster than Cloudhawk, and by quite a lot .

At three thousand kilometers a second, a single hair could flatten a mountain . Attacking as Sacred Flash the G.o.d could destroy any physical matter . Cloudhawk might avoid an attack or two by relying on his sixth sense, but it wouldn’t save him for long .

Then there was the Lightning G.o.d, who was also not easy to deal with . Its powers lay in the fact that it’s body was in a plasma state . The mighty creature it chose to form into was ropes of electrified plasma form head to tail . There was no weak point to speak of .  

In other words, the only way to defeat the Lightning G.o.d seemed to be to destroy all of it, all at once . It didn’t matter how many times you chopped it to pieces, or how vicious those attacks were, the G.o.d would simply reform .

Against either one of them alone, Cloudhawk wasn’t sure to emerge victorious . Against two, his chances of survival were much reduced .

Meanwhile the Sword of Sumeru was forming right before his eyes . Beyond the curtain in the Temple sat the War G.o.d and the Dragon G.o.d – two more Supremes waiting in the wings . Without a doubt they both knew what was happening outside and could join the fight at any moment . Any way you cut it, Cloudhawk was in mortal danger .

“Sacred Flas.h.!.+”

Energy gathered in the Light G.o.d’s weapon . A second later it formed into an impossibly sharp streak of light that could cut through anything . Cloudhawk reacted instinctively to his gut feeling and tried to teleport .

No good, the Light G.o.d was too fast . Cloudhawk needed to prepare his teleportation and strong though he was, he couldn’t move faster than light . In fights like this, delaying even one thousandth of a second could be fatal for the G.o.d’s attacks were practically instantaneous .

Cloudhawk teleported fifty meters away, blinking back into reality with a nasty gash on his left shoulder . It’d cut almost all the way through and the gaping wound was nauseating to behold . Cloudhawk used his relics to heal the damage, just enough for his body’s own regenerative abilities to take over .

Residual holy fires burned near the injury, disturbing his healing efforts and continuing to burn through his flesh . If his body wasn’t already so well tempered, he would have been consumed by it .

“Sharp reflexes . ” The Light G.o.d reformed and ‘voiced’ its praise . It didn’t matter, Cloudhawk was as good as dead .

But Cloudhawk had been paying attention . After two attacks he’d recognized the flaw in his foe’s attacks . Although he couldn’t dodge these strikes, the Light G.o.d had a glaring deficiency; it couldn’t attack continuously . If it could, then few creatures in the entire universe would be able to stand against it . The G.o.d could even use this power for interstellar travel . [2] .

The power of the Light G.o.d could only be used in brief, singular bursts . Each it was used there was a period of recovery . If it were just the two of them, Cloudhawk could use that opening to counterattack . Unfortunately, the Lightning G.o.d’s involvement got in the way . Before he could strike back, a torrent of electric energy swallowed him up .

The wave of lightning was like an angry sea . Cloudhawk had found himself suddenly engulfed, proving that the Lightning G.o.d – being a Supreme – was as difficult to deal with as any of its contemporaries . What’s more, the Lightning G.o.d was also surprisingly fast .

“Go to h.e.l.l!” Pale white light sprang up around Cloudhawk like an egg sh.e.l.l . The electricity that struck the s.h.i.+eld was deflected and dispersed .

Roooaaarr! The Lightning G.o.d, in its terrifying beast form, rushed at him . It clamped its jaws down on the human to try and swallow him once again . Once caught in the storm that was its stomach, Cloudhawk would be blasted to pieces .

Would this never end? Cloudhawk filled G.o.dslayer with his mental powers, causing black lightning to split the sky . The Lightning G.o.d’s hundred meter long body was cleaved in two . Cloudhawk dashed forward at rapid speeds, pa.s.sing through its body and striking at what was to him the more dangerous foe .

Boom! Boom!

As he raced through it a series of explosions wracked the G.o.d’s body . Cloudhawk was caught within and was buffeted by the discharge of energy . His s.h.i.+eld quickly weakened and his progress was slowed .

Caw caw! Caw, caw caw!

Cloudhawk’s attention was captured by the sound of a bird by his ear . He glanced over and saw a host of flapping wings made from thunder closing in on him . Countless thunder birds were flung from the explosions all around .

Every attack was strong enough to blast rock to pieces! These were difficult to suffer, even for Cloudhawk . He had no choice but to slow down and use his sword to cut the birds apart before they got too close . He also punched out with his left hand, causing a hundred more of the birds to explode at a safe distance .

But more were coming, each of them an extension of the Lightning G.o.d’s body!

Cloudhawk had no way of dealing with this creature . Mental attacks were useless because his target had split into countless parts and he had to annihilate all of them at once . It was the only way to deal a blow to the Lightning G.o.d . Even if he eliminated ninety-nine point nine percent of the birds and left just one, it wasn’t enough .

If this kept up, he would surely lose . He barely withstood the G.o.d’s fury when another keen sense of danger approached from above . The Light G.o.d was attacking again .

s.h.i.+t! No time to dodge!

Cloudhawk knew it was coming but the Lightning G.o.d had him locked down . He could only cross his arms in front of him and pour all of his strength into defense . His gauntlet and sword were held out defensively and then -

BOOM!

Cloudhawk felt his mind go blank . The world turned end over end .

A streak of dazzling light had appeared from s.p.a.ce, slamming into Cloudhawk with terrifying power . IT easily tore through his s.h.i.+eld and ripped through his organs . His bones, a hundred times harder than diamonds, shattered into pieces as he fell to the ground .

Before the eyes of the Elysian soldiers, Cloudhawk came cras.h.i.+ng down like a golden meteor . At ten times the speed of sound he crashed into the Guardian Palace . The great structure shattered into nine pieces . Those pieces then blasted apart . From the impact alone they could only imagine the power that had struck Cloudhawk .

A few moments later the G.o.ds of Light and Lightning returned to their original forms . They hovered in the air, awash in radiance . Beautiful . There was no marks on their perfect forms to indicate they’d been in battle .

The two deities looked upon the destroyed palace, through the rubble at Cloudhawk buried within . His still body was wrapped in burning holy light .

“Is he dead?” The thought came from the Lightning G.o.d .  

The Light G.o.d answered . “Dead or not, he is no threat . ”

It was not wrong . Cloudhawk wasn’t going to run . On the one hand the area’s spatial disturbance robbed him of his greatest advantage . On the other, he was alone with no allies .

What human could win victory over two Supremes? If the Cloud G.o.d were with him, perhaps he might have kept the Light G.o.d at bay . Alone, however, he was doomed . With no way to run, he was as good as dead .

1 . One percent of the speed of light is roughly 3000 kilometers a second . That’s nearly the length of the United States .

2 . Theoretically I guess, but the closest stellar neighbor to our sun is Proxima Centauri which is 4 . 24 lightyears away . Blink of an eye for a G.o.d, but still a long way to go even at lightspeed .

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