Thud.
A Marine was so terrified that he collapsed to the ground, trembling and murmuring:
"Monster..."
"Monster..."
Several Marines were scared witless and fled.
They had no will to fight.
They no longer cared that they were Marines.
They only wanted to get as far away from this monster as possible!
But at that moment.
A Giant Vice Admiral over ten meters tall revealed an excited look in his eyes. "What an opportunity!"
Holding a several-meter-long machete that gleamed coldly, he charged in front of Ares, leaped into the air, raised his great blade, and shouted:
"Die, monster!"
Clang—
The blade struck Ares's shoulder blade, where his muscles bulged like a small mountain, producing the sound of metal striking metal.
The Marine Giant Vice Admiral's expression changed drastically. Looking utterly shocked, he cried out in disbelief:
"Impossible!"
"My blade—my blade actually failed to cut him!?!"
At that moment, he began to question his entire life.
He was a member of the Giant Tribe, possessing incomparably powerful strength. Even a warship could be cleaved in half by that strike.
Yet when it struck... Blood Hand - Ares.
It had actually failed to break through his defenses!!
Ares's defenses had not been breached, but the Giant Vice Admiral's heart had been shattered.
The next second.
The Giant Vice Admiral's eyes nearly popped from their sockets, their whites covered in red veins.
He was utterly horrified!
The section of the long blade touching Ares's body began to crack, fissures spreading across its snow-bright edge.
"You've got to be kidding me. How is this possible..." the Giant Vice Admiral murmured in a daze, unable to believe it.
Crack, crack—
Boom—
The blade in his hands suddenly shattered, turning into fragments that fell to the ground and stabbed into the earth.
Ares, who had taken