If the Divine Beast were at full power, Cain would not have hesitated even a second before running away since he was not so arrogant as to think he could overcome a creature that could kill Peak Apotheosis Masters. There was no point in risking his life if there was no chance of winning. Besides, he had already killed a copious amount of Wave Beasts.
However, things were different if the Divine Beast was wounded and poisoned, leaving its vitality and energy in a state of disarray.
Cain's eyes burst with red light as he pointed Slaughter toward the Draco Lightning Frog, and soon, all the blood left from the corpses of the Grand King Beasts began to flow toward him.
The Divine Beast had zero domain over the complicated principles of the Laws, so it only saw how rivers of blood coalesced around the blade before concentrating into a small shining blood rune.
Although the other runes were powerful, none could compare with the cutting power and the dangerous feeling the shining blood rune generated in the Divine Beast. However, despite being a creature in the Divine Rank, it was still a slave to its instincts. So when it saw the fighting will in the human's eyes, killing intent burst from every cell of its gargantuan body.
"ROOOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
The Divine Beast and the Godslayer Human roared as they expressed the fighting will inside their hearts and flashed toward each other, ready to use everything they had to kill the other. One bathed in blue lightning and the other in bright and dark golden flames.
"BOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
An explosion that made the sky tremble and generated a tornado of destructive energy emerged as Cain's blade and the Draco Lightning Frog's claw clashed, one of them covered in lightning and the other in a trinity of blood energy, space force, and Blood Runes.
Cain's arms did not stop trembling, and he felt the muscle fibers in his arms tearing apart, but he clenched his teeth and resisted the immense force that threatened to push him away, using everything he had in this clash.
In the end, Cain was still sent flying away, but so was the gargantuan body of the Draco Lightning Frog. Although the Godslayer Human was hurtled for thousands of meters and the Divine Beast for just a few hundred, that clash was enough to tell Cain one thing.
'I can fight it!'
The eyes of the young man burst with red light as a fierce smile appeared on his face, and he regained control over his body as he flashed back into the fray.
The Divine Beast was also surprised to see that a humanoid not using his soul force could match it, but there was a gift in the simplicity of its mind. It stopped caring, and the only thought left in its mind was to kill the man and eat his flesh.
A small golden flash of light and a gargantuan mass of lightning clashed in the sky over and over again, generating enormous shock waves that pushed everything away, shattering the ground beneath their feet and making the sky tremble with their power.
None of them could overcome the other, and due to this, the fight turned into a battle of attrition, seeing who would collapse first!
Cain's plan was simple. He would worsen the Divine Beast's state until the poison it was suppressing flared up, and he would use that chance to land a finishing blow.
As for the Draco Lightning Frog, its plan was also not very complicated as it intended to drain the enemy's energy and then kill him when this one was weakened.
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"¡BOOM!" "BOOM!" "BOOM!"
The explosions in the sky had already destroyed everything on the ground other than the massive Lightning Tree. All the Wave Beasts had either escaped or were dead, and the only ones fighting were a small human not over two meters tall and a massive beast more than five hundred meters tall.
The battle had been going on for over ten hours already. It had reached such a massive scale that blood energy, spatial distortion, and lightning flooded the surroundings for several hundred kilometers.
Cain's breathing was rough, and there were wounds all over his body, yet he managed to reach homeostasis and prevent the bleeding thanks to his mastery over the Law of Blood. As for Radiance of Life and Radiance of Strength, both had already faded several hours ago.
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The condition of the Draco Lightning Frog was not much better. While the wounds on its body were not as severe as those on Cain, every time it was wounded, it became a little harder to suppress the dangerous poison that had infected its flesh and blood.
Despite their wounds, neither of them showed any sign of giving up, and their killing intent only grew stronger.
Cain had just flashed toward the Divine Beast, moving to the side at the last second to dodge the claw before roaring with all his strength, hacking into the beast's side.
"¡AHHHHHH!"
"ZNNNNN!"
The sound of a human roar and flesh being severed at a molecular level echoed as Cain left a massive cut on the left side of the Draco Lightning Frog. But just as he was about to smile, his eyes narrowed.
The Flow showed him how the Divine Beast's tail was about to clash with him the next second. Despite seeing the attack before it happened, he was too weak and in a bad position to dodge it, so he could only turn his body, using his back as a shield and gathering every ounce of his Astral Wave and Essence Wave in it.
"BOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!"
An explosion as loud as that generated by a nuclear blast echoed as the Divine Beast's lightning tail clashed with Cain's body, sending him crashing into the ground and generating a massive crater.
Cain was just rising from the ground when he heard a blast near him and saw how the Draco Lightning Frog descended from the sky and opened its maws as a gigantic amount of lightning emerged from its body's core.
The Divine Beast had decided to unleash its most potent attack, despite this one not only draining all its energy but also triggering its old wounds, as the fight had reached the point where it began to fear for its life.
"¡BOOM!"