His incomparably thick tail, covered in heavy bone plates and resembling a prehistoric giant crocodile's, snapped violently like a Super Spring compressed to its limit!
The tail fin instantly straightened like a massive oar, slamming into the seawater with thunderous force, stirring up a violent vortex and generating enormous, directed propulsion!
That force drove Rumlow's massive body forward, making him no longer like a cannonball, but like a precisely guided biological torpedo launched by a Deep-sea behemoth, crashing viciously at terrifying speed through the water curtain toward Steve's vulnerable side ribs, slightly bent from excruciating pain and loss of balance, exposed directly in his attack path!
At the same time, Rumlow's free giant claws had long been poised to strike!
His five fingers came together, the edges of his palm covered in overlapping sharp keratin layers that flashed with metallic cold light. Under the frenzied infusion of deep-blue Bio-Energy, the structure of his entire palm underwent a drastic transformation!
The bony structures beneath his skin proliferated, sharpened, and extended. Energy surged and gathered along specific biological pathways, instantly shaping it into a terrifying bone blade over two meters long, radiating an ominous deep-blue glow, as though it had been polished from the bones of an abyssal behemoth!
The bone blade Tore apart the viscous seawater soundlessly, yet carried a terrifying high-frequency vibration that made one's heart tremble. Though sound could not travel far, Steve, so close by, could clearly "feel" the piercing shriek produced as it sliced through the currents, enough to tear apart one's nerves.
The bone blade had a clear target—Steve's spine, fully exposed by pain and movement, connecting the immense power of his upper body to the support of his lower body!
Fast! Precise! Ruthless! There were no unnecessary tricks, no flashy techniques—only the most primitive, efficient,