A clean, decisive strike. Lin Qi was extremely satisfied with the result of his effortless blow. Aton was a peak High-God, and the members of the Sharp-Horn Barbarian God Clan were renowned for their absurdly powerful bodies and monstrous strength. Among the gods' factions, the branch of gods to which Aton belonged surpassed even the Beast Gods worshipped by the orcs in brute force.
Unlike ordinary living creatures, Aton and his kin had bones, tendons, and muscles that contained vast amounts of metal. They fed on metal ores; higher-ranking members directly devoured all kinds of magical metals, and what flowed through their veins was molten metal. One could imagine just how formidable their bodies were—their bodies themselves were powerful divine artifacts.
Yet before Lin Qi's combined attack of two elements, Aton's body crumbled as easily as shattered glass. The earth element slammed heavily into Aton's body, and then the fire element exploded directly within him. Had it been only an earth-element attack or only a fire-element attack, the power Lin Qi had used in that strike would never have been enough to kill Aton.
Pure earth-element power would only have inflicted damage such as broken bones upon Aton, perhaps punching a transparent hole through his chest at most. Pure fire-element power could only scorch the surface of his body; it might blast him away, but it could never blow him to pieces. Yet the mixed attack of the two elements created the perfect internal explosion, and Aton was killed in a single strike by Lin Qi.
With two dull thuds, Aton's legs, spraying scorching bright-silver blood, crashed heavily onto the ground. His legs were incomparably heavy; the instant they touched the ground, they rapidly tore through it and bored underground. Compared to Aton's legs, if their density was rock, then