Bang!
The instant the Water-Calling Sword approached the God of the Abyss, it began to collapse from within. The entire blade shattered into countless Behelits, which flew back and struck the Skeleton Knight.
In less than a second, his sturdy metal armor was covered in dents of every size.
Then the Skeleton Knight and the warhorse beneath him plummeted from the air, crashing straight into the ground covered in magma and various Monsters with a deafening boom.
At this moment, he, who had always seemed unfathomable, did not possess even the slightest ability to fight back before the evil thoughts of all humanity.
More precisely, he was not even as good as Guts, that fish leaping from the water. From the moment he abandoned his human identity and became a lingering soul attached to metal armor, he had lost the right to defy Fate.
That was why the Skeleton Knight had helped Guts time and again, preventing him from walking down the same mistaken path.
Only by retaining one's human identity and preserving the last glimmer of humanity's brighter side could one possibly break Causality and kill the God Hand.
But he had clearly not expected that, through the interference of a group of outsiders, Guts's Fate had already changed completely.
Just as he crawled out of the scorching magma pit, he saw Guts, strengthened by magic and Quasi-Divine Power, raise the Dragon Slayer and swing it at the enormous heart floating in midair with the force of thunder.
When he was still thirty meters away from the God of the Abyss, an invisible force field suddenly appeared out of nowhere, forcibly blocking the massive sword descending from above.
Not only that!
The instant the blade collided with the barrier, some invisible force began gathering around Guts, pushing the sword