To ordinary people, five minutes might have been no more than a brief instant, but amid the tense standoff at Karma Fortress, every second seemed stretched out, filled with crushing pressure.
The air was thick with the tension before a storm, and even the wind seemed to have frozen in that moment.
Arora's eyes held both resolve and anxiety.
Her Lightning Flash Fist, the signature skill of a Saint Seiya, should have been like lightning tearing through the night sky—sharp and concentrated. Yet now, it seemed scattered by an invisible force, turning into a rain of stars that, while dazzling, could not inflict any substantial damage upon that colossal entity—Karma Fortress.
She had to change her strategy. Only by concentrating her power into a single point could she possibly pierce that seemingly impregnable defense.
However, just as Arora was anxiously trying to adjust her energy, Olga of the Divine Kingdom fell into unprecedented shock.
She stared intently at the True Word Reaction Detector, her normally calm eyes now filled with disbelief.
The detector's data kept refreshing, and the displayed intensity of True Word Power far exceeded her expectations—ten times, or even more, than the actual power it had detected.
"How is this possible?"
Olga muttered to herself, as though her worldview had been utterly overturned at that moment.
It could not be helped. What was happening before her was simply beyond anything she knew or imagined.
No one in the Divine Kingdom—or rather, in the world of "Asura's Wrath"—had any combat skills, much less abilities capable of amplifying their own True Word Power.
Asura's daughter, Misra, possessed the ability to amplify True Word Power and had even been revered as the Divine Maiden of the Divine Kingdom. Now, because of that special power, she had become the Divine Kingdom's "core