Chapter 148: Legendary Exchange of Blows

Lucy smiled deeply and wildly from within.

Under these circumstances, even if this strange entity made her sense that mythical amount of terror and primal dread, she remained the absolute sovereign ruler over this entire space surrounding them. He was playing in her arena, on her home turf, and beneath the crushing weight of her invincible laws!

No matter how hard this shadow entity attempted to maneuver or withstand her cosmic capabilities, she was the inevitable victor in the end; it was impossible for any entity—no matter how immense their authority and dominance—to usurp the throne of her hegemony inside her fully realized spiritual dimension, especially when she sat at the pinnacle of the Truth Level!

Yet... suspiciously and abruptly, while Lucy was savoring the intense thrill of overwhelming victory, contemplating his inevitable despair before the multiplying beasts of the abyss and the crushing gravity...

A icy shiver seeped into the extremities of her body... a cold shudder of unknown origin, one she should never have felt while holding the reins of victory!

Deep within her consciousness, she sensed that a grave error was manifesting in the shadows of the void! Although every metric and calculation proceeded according to her flawless plan, her battle instincts screamed that a monstrous anomaly was expanding in secret!

This suspicious feeling did not last long...

Before her eyes, which were wide with utter astonishment... the giant golden knight’s body suddenly collapsed, its massive armor and sovereign sword shattering to dissolve like luminous dust! Following this swift collapse, an extraordinarily strange wave of energy erupted, behaving entirely outside the boundaries of known magical standards and physical balances!

The problem did not lie merely in the wave’s power... but in its very nature; that wave roamed, devoured, and destroyed her personal spiritual dimension in an impossible manner that defied logic!

Every focal point this energy matter passed over transformed the expanding space around it into absolute blackness and dead void, as though it were a dark dye pen blotting out the purity of the white, stripping away the essence of existence!

This destructive wave did not stop at erasing her spiritual dimension and annihilating its laws; the terrifying beasts of the abyss that had just emerged from the dimensional rifts met with catastrophe. The moment the expanding energy grazed their bodies, they began to collapse and disintegrate, turning into pale ash and quickly vanishing like sand in the wind!

Lucy gasped sharply, the air catching in her throat...

"The Element of Ruin?!"

If this fierce wave continued to spread and expand at such a mythical speed, her personal spiritual dimension would be utterly crushed and destroyed without any chance of restoration!

With blinding speed, Lucy gathered her remaining focus and forged a sovereign spell of the Life Element, broadcasting her aura to wrap around the remaining terrified monsters, encircling the vital focal point with intense healing energy to stem the advancing erosion of that wave!

However... due to her scattered thoughts and stark astonishment during those few critical seconds...

Her body registered a swift movement, followed by a soft touch—as if someone were lightly tapping her shoulder from behind!

For a moment, Lucy could not believe her senses... How had he breached her field and gotten behind her back?!

When she whipped her face around with wild fierceness...

BOOOOOOM!

Her soft face received a swift, brutally powerful punch that landed squarely on her face, which was still aching from the previous kick!

The immense force of the strike sent her flying backward into space like a cannonball. But the shadow entity did not settle for that direct hit; he surged toward her again at a mythical speed transcending vision and perception, overtaking her recoil to deliver another crushing blow with the same ruthless strength!

BOOOOOOM!

DACKKKKKK!

In a combat sequence nearly impossible to describe due to its sheer velocity... Cain launched a dense energy sphere toward the receding Lucy. With miraculous speed surpassing the projectile itself, he flashed forward and stood behind Lucy, who was still hurtling backward from the force of the recoil. He halted her momentum with his mountain-like body and grabbed her firmly from behind, forcing her body to absorb the incoming energy sphere in all its unchecked ferocity!

BOOOOOOSH!

The magical sphere exploded in the tight space, triggering a searing shockwave!

Cain felt internal agony, torn apart by his own harsh actions... He never wanted to resort to brute force against his wife, but he was completely unable to project his voice or communicate with her properly!

He knew full well that Lucy would not stop attacking him with the intent to kill and erase him, which forced him to resort to this strict, harsh approach to pacify the conflict!

Cain exerted the utmost control over his energy, dampening the intensity of the blows so they would be sufficient to paralyze her movements without inflicting serious internal wounds or lacerations that could threaten her life...

Cain spoke in a pleading tone: "Enough... I don’t want to fight you!"

Yet once again, nothing emanated from his shadowy form except garbled, torn, and incomprehensible sounds, making matters even worse!

As for Lucy...

She lay collapsed within Cain’s shadowy arms, panting heavily in sharp pain from the harsh direct blows that had penetrated her defenses!

She was thoroughly exhausted ever since the forbidden summoning process, which had consumed a colossal reserve of her energy and mana... That continuous combat had drained more than half of her magical reserves, and now she was utterly incapable of keeping pace with this supreme being who manipulated the battlefield at will!

When the possibility of being defeated and crushed before this adversary crossed her mind... she rejected the thought with wild desperation! She would rather face absolute annihilation and death than taste the bitterness of defeat and humiliation!

While Cain raised his palm and prepared supreme healing magic to mend Lucy’s injuries and stitch away her pain...

DACKKKKKK!

Cain took a swift, direct strike from Lucy’s elbow, which descended with searing force right onto the edge of his shadowy chin, causing his black skull to vibrate and snap violently upward!

Lucy did not settle for that surprise elbow... She capitalized on those fleeting fractions of a second to charge her other hand with her blazing purple aura, driving a colossal direct fist straight into the shadow face shrouded in mystery!

BOOOOOOSH!

Cain’s balance collapsed, taken completely off guard by the sudden assault! Lucy’s fierce, surprise strike shattered his defensive barriers entirely, and he failed to deploy any protective spell because it was already too late!

STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!

Dozens of searing punches rained down upon Cain’s shadowy body in a single moment from Lucy’s blindingly fast, rage-filled hand!

Her fists lost any defined shape due to the sheer velocity, appearing instead as exploding trajectories and streaks of blazing purple striking Cain’s shocked face directly, while her arms vanished completely, morphing into a ghost of continuous punches!

Lucy retreated backward at lightning speed—not to give Cain room to catch his breath or regain his lost balance... but to prepare the ultimate, decisive beam of destruction that would erase this person and blot out his existence forever!

A complex magical circle filled with intricate patterns and runes materialized before Lucy. Her pristine face was smeared with droplets of crimson blood... Yet despite the pain and exhaustion, a crazy smile filled with dark excitement and predatory pride carved itself onto her lips...

As she watched the supreme beam of total destruction form and complete before her eyes, poised to launch and eradicate her opponent entirely!