Rules Are Meant to Be Broken!

"Aah!!"

With a miserable scream from Thanos, the purple figure was sent flying backward through space.

His flesh-and-blood body was covered in cracks like shattered porcelain. Cosmic Energy had altered his physical composition, but now it had been blasted apart, taking one of his arms with it.

Naturally, Lowett would not let such a perfect chance to beat a drowning dog slip away.

A malicious grin split his lips as black Karmic Flames extended from his back, swelling into two exaggerated black wings thousands of meters long. Like a pair of flying wings(?), they rapidly closed the distance.

"That's why I said, did you misunderstand something by trying to compete with me in energy reserves?"

Squelch!

He drove a blade into Thanos's abdomen, twisted aside to evade the palm coming at him, and smiled.

"Not only am I far beyond you in energy control and attack frequency, but even in terms of raw energy, you are nowhere near my equal!"

With the three great energy sources in hand, Lowett had never fought alone!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

He raised his left hand, firing destructive beams formed from countless strands of divine power. Silver-white rays interwove into a dense, impenetrable net in space.

Rumble!!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Thanos was blasted away again and again, sent tumbling helplessly through space. If the Eternal Titan's physique had not been so absurdly powerful, that barrage—powerful enough to destroy Ego's planetary armor—would have killed him already.

But then Lowett suddenly noticed that Thanos's crystallized, cracked arm was healing at an accelerating rate. Not only was flesh being restored, but even the cracks were gradually vanishing.

Lowett's eyelid twitched. "...Could it be?"

"Death's curse?"

Sure enough.

During that brief moment of distraction, Thanos twisted away from the final waves of bombardment and landed on a chunk of