If Clark could still trade a few blows with the Kryptonian Monster at the start, then as the battle dragged on, he found fighting it more and more strenuous—especially after he had been distracted by contacting Kara and gotten injured...
From that moment on, the pressure on Clark grew heavier and heavier. It even made him wonder whether the monster he was fighting also possessed Saiyan genes and abilities. Otherwise, why would it keep getting stronger as the battle went on?
But Clark did not realize that as time passed, his speed had slowed a little, and his strength had diminished along with it. When his fists struck the Kryptonian Monster now, they were no longer enough to knock its body back in the slightest.
With a hiss, just as the Kryptonian Monster was about to close in and keep attacking Clark before he could get up, Kara appeared halfway between them. A blast of Heat Vision slammed into the Kryptonian Monster's body and forced it back.
"Wait! Don't hit it directly with Heat Vision!" Clark, who had just climbed up from the ground, felt as if his head had cleared a little. He hurriedly called out a warning to Kara. "I blasted it many times before and found that its body seemed to become even stronger. It seems able to absorb part of the power from our Heat Vision!"
"What?" Kara looked toward the Kryptonian Monster in startled uncertainty, unable to understand for a moment why something like this would happen.
And just as Clark had said, although the Kryptonian Monster had been forced back by Kara's Heat Vision and its chest had been burned bright red by it, the Kryptonian Monster was not truly injured. Even the red mark on its chest gradually faded with time, and at