Conrad Koz's battle with Barbatos had been going on for quite some time.
However, all of that rested on the premise that Conrad Koz had not dealt with Barbatos's speed through swift execution.
Instead, following Orsaga's wishes, he used the other party as a target to reveal, in a certain sense, a little of the power possessed by a superior being.
Thus, rather than a battle,
the dispute between them resembled one-sided bullying and beating.
Barbatos.
That unfortunate fellow was being thoroughly beaten by Conrad Koz...
He had absolutely no power to fight back!
In but a short time,
his body had been battered until it was covered in wounds!
"...You bastard..."
Listening to the other party's meaningless screams and wails,
Conrad Koz, who had long since put away his weapon out of concern that a single slash might chop the other party apart, merely calmly threw a heavy right punch through the air.
"Bang!"
Amid a sound like countless supernovas colliding with one another,
while maintaining the proportions of an ordinary human,
he used nothing but his fist to punch Barbatos—whose body had been enlarged N times—so hard that his mouth twisted on the spot, cutting off his nonsense.
Those sharp teeth, like mountains flying wildly through the air, were embedded upside down in the incomparably hard ground of the World Forge Workshop.
Wave after wave of impact spread outward.
Then,
before the other party could steady himself, Conrad Koz's left hand moved with lightning speed and deeply drove its five fingers into the center of his chest.
Those fingertips, sharp as blades,
rapidly lengthened, piercing directly through his skin and plunging deep into the flesh beneath.
As those five fingers continuously tightened, amid the sounds of flesh tearing apart and bones breaking, a vast invisible suction force began