The Ice Blue Spear spun at high speed, tearing through the air with a string of piercing sonic booms.
Around its shaft swirled not just ice crystals, but an ever-shifting veil of watery light. That was the power of Phantasmal Tide, capable of bending light and disrupting Divine Sense.
At its tip, a point of deepest blue held the power of Deep Chill, which could freeze even souls.
The Water God had hurled it with all the strength of his Godhead and Divine Authority!
Faced with this world-shattering strike, the decaying Divine Remains made no unnecessary move.
He did not dodge or block. He did not even seem inclined to lift an eyelid.
The will of [Slumber], born from the laws themselves, thickened a hundredfold like an invisible swamp, dragging at the spear's speed.
The space around the spear seemed to turn to solidifying amber. Every inch forward meant grinding through layer upon layer of inert law.
Its spin slowed sharply, and the light along its shaft dimmed.
But it reached its target.
"Break, damn you!"
The Water God roared in midair and drove another surge of Divine Might into the spear from afar!
WHUM!
The Ice Blue Spear surged forward in one last burst of speed and slammed into the Divine Remains' enormous, moss-covered breastplate!
There was no earth-shaking explosion.
Only a teeth-grating screech, like a diamond drill boring furiously into granite!
Crack... crack-crack...
The ancient armor across the Divine Remains' chest, worn by untold ages, finally split beneath the spinning ice drill. Spiderweb cracks spread across it!
Deep-blue frost poured through the cracks. Great swaths of decayed matter froze, then crumbled to ash.
A jagged hole appeared in the Divine Remains' chest.
It was only a small wound on a body the size of a mountain, but it