The mont she activated the ability, Vogue felt as though an entire mountain had suddenly materialized on his shoulders and was pressing down on him with crushing, impossible weight.
His knees buckled slightly before he caught himself. The ground beneath his feet cracked and spiderwebbed outward from the sheer force of him trying to remain standing upright against the gravitational pressure. Each breath beca difficult, his lungs struggling to expand against the weight pressing down on his chest.
"Quickly!" the gravity girl shouted to her companions, her voice shaking. "Even with the enhancent from Divine Son Xander, I can only hold Vogue at this level of gravity for one minute maximum! After that, my energy will be completely depleted!"
"That’s more than enough ti!" the muscular, burly guy who had protected her earlier roared in response.
He was the one with the scarred face and arms like tree trunks. The golden enhancent from Xander had made him even larger and more powerful-looking. His muscles bulged grotesquely as he channeled all his enhanced strength into his legs.
With a mighty leap, he launched himself over twenty ters into the air in a single bound, soaring up and forward with his sword raised high above his head. He descended toward Vogue like a falling teor, positioning his blade to co down in a devastating overhead slash the mont he landed.
Vogue’s face changed drastically as he assessed his situation in a split second.
He was currently exerting approximately fifty percent of his total energy just to stand upright and resist the ten tis gravity effect crushing down on him. The weight was so intense that even his dragon-enhanced physique was struggling against it. His bones creaked from the pressure. His muscles strained to the point of tearing.
That ant he could only utilize about fifty percent of his actual combat strength at this mont. His movents would be slower, his strikes would be weaker, his techniques would be less effective.
And this massive enemy was descending toward him with a blade aid to split his skull, backed by both his natural strength and Xander’s divine enhancent.
Vogue growled low in his throat like a cornered animal. He didn’t care about the energy cost anymore. He couldn’t get tired anyway thanks to his Infinite Stamina, so he might as well burn through his reserves if it ant survival.
Just as the muscular youth was about to land on him with his blade descending toward Vogue’s head, Vogue made his move.
"Ti Stop!" he commanded.
The world froze instantly. Color drained slightly from everything as ti ca to a complete halt. The muscular youth was left hanging in mid-air, frozen at the apex of his descending strike with his blade re ters from Vogue’s skull. His face was locked in an expression of fierce determination.
The other players charging toward Vogue all stopped mid-step, frozen like statues in various aggressive poses.
Even the gravity effect seed to lessen slightly during Ti Stop, though it didn’t disappear completely since it was an ongoing passive effect rather than a moving attack.
"Ti Step," Vogue activated his second technique imdiately.
With ti stopped around him and his own perception accelerated, Vogue beca the only thing moving in a frozen world. He pushed through the reduced gravity with determined effort.
His blade flashed four tis in rapid succession as he moved among the frozen enemies. He positioned himself behind each of the four players who were closest to him and sliced through their necks with surgical precision.
Four heads began to separate from four bodies, the cuts so clean they would only beco visible once ti resud.
Then Vogue turned his attention to the muscular youth hanging in mid-air above him. He bent his knees and leaped upward with all his strength, intending to reach the frozen enemy and slice off his neck before ti resud.
But just as Vogue’s blade was rising toward the youth’s exposed throat, a single word echoed from the sky.
"Break!"
Divine Son Xander’s voice rang out with absolute authority and power.
Instantly, Vogue’s Ti Stop shattered like glass being struck by a hamr. The temporal freeze collapsed completely, and ti snapped back to normal flow with violent suddenness.
"Slash!"
The muscular youth’s blade, which had been frozen in mid-descent, suddenly continued its downward arc with full force and speed. Vogue had been mid-leap when ti resud, completely out of position to defend properly.
The blade caught him unexpectedly across his left shoulder since he hadn’t anticipated soone being able to break through his Ti Stop so easily and quickly. The attack was so sudden he had no chance to dodge or block.
The sword cut deep into his flesh, slicing through muscle and scraping against bone. The cut left a large, gaping gash that went from his shoulder down toward his chest. Blood sprayed from the wound in a crimson arc.
Vogue growled with pain and imdiately controlled his muscles with precise focus, tensing them around the wound to stop the blood from continuing to spill out. His regeneration was already working on closing the injury, but it would take several seconds.
He landed back on the ground with a heavy "thud" sound, his feet creating small craters in the cracked floor from the force of his landing combined with the gravity still pressing down on him.
Behind him, the four players whose necks he had sliced during Ti Stop all collapsed simultaneously as their heads rolled free from their shoulders. Their bodies crumpled to the ground in spreading pools of blood.
[Humans Killed 4]
But Vogue had no ti to appreciate those kills because the remaining players were already converging on him.
"Attack him together! Don’t give him any space!" soone shouted, coordinating the assault.
More than twenty players rushed at him from all directions simultaneously, creating a closing circle of bodies and weapons that left him no room to escape.
Vogue imdiately smiled. "Perfect! Just what I was eating for.’
"Ice Palace!"
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