"Whoosh!" Clementine's palm swept through the air like a long blade cleaving heaven and earth. A deep rumble followed as space warped, and crooked spatial cracks appeared one after another.
"Zzt!" Hodan struck with his palm, as if blasting through the air. The blow's edge seemed sharp enough to pierce the heavens, and his palm moved far faster than Clementine's. A streak of purple light was barely visible.
The two seemingly ordinary palms didn't evade at all. They collided head-on.
"Pfft!" A low, muffled sound rang out.
"Whoosh!" At the point of impact, space could no longer withstand that terrifying force and tore open into seven or eight spatial cracks.
Hodan and Clementine both took a slight step back.
They were evenly matched!
"Haha, that was exhilarating! Hodan, you really have reached Paragon. There's no need for us to hold back our divine power anymore. Let's have a proper, all-out battle!" Clementine, who had always seemed mild-mannered, was unusually fired up now, his eyes shining.
When he sensed that Hodan was fighting him with nothing but his body, and that he possessed the same Willpower as Clementine, Clementine immediately confirmed that his opponent really had reached Paragon.
Clementine was thrilled to meet a worthy opponent and wanted to seize the chance for a fight. There were simply too few opponents who could make a Paragon go all out. Clementine had no grudges against the other Paragons, so he couldn't just show up and challenge one of them to a fight.
This newly emerged Paragon, Hodan, had given him an opportunity. He could use this chance to test Hodan's strength and fight without holding back, enjoying a proper, all-out battle.
"Then you'd better be careful," Hodan said with an amused smile. "Careful not to lose to a 'youngster' who's only just