The dark clouds in the sky were dyed blood-red. The rumbling thunder cast an invisible pressure over the battlefield. Ahead stood the ancient abyssal being Rhino, its body a hundred meters long and its three tails transformed into blades. Eyes opened across its head, and every vertical pupil stared at the enemy before it.
Crack!
A crisp sound came from in front of Rhino. The figure a hundred meters away was still in its original position, but who did this powerful aura that was now close enough to touch belong to?
Extreme Blade: Heavy Moon.
A pitch-black full moon appeared overhead. A cylindrical gravity slash descended, instantly pressing the beast-shaped Rhino flat against the ground. All its legs twisted and splayed outward, while waves of air spread in every direction.
The tip of a long blade stabbed toward the center of Rhino's head. In the past, Rhino would have ignored this attack, but now, an intense sense of death made it certain that being pierced through the center of its head would kill it. It was not because the center of its head had originally been its weakness. Rather, the moment this blade struck, that place became its weakness.
Extreme Blade: Star Piercer.
Shimmering starlight exploded on the abyssal sky wall behind Rhino. With a boom, several layers of black rock on the outer surface of the wall shattered, and every abyssal creature along the blade's path broke apart into black beads of blood.
Rhino glanced sideways at the scene. If it had been struck by that attack, it would die. Only now did it have a chance to see its enemy clearly. This was a... human?
Rhino's eyes widened noticeably. After all, this human differed far too much from the humans in its memories. It was not a difference