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The punch struck with unmatched ferocity.
Yet the intense heat had already pushed Peacock King's defenses to the brink of collapse. A sharp crack rang out, and his seemingly solid skull burst apart beneath the impact of the Diamond Fist, sending fragments flying. A chain reaction followed. From his head to his waist, then through his limbs, every bone in Peacock King's body shattered like porcelain beneath a sledgehammer, crumbling inch by inch into powder scattered across the floor.
"No-!!"
As his final terrified wail cut off, Peacock King's ruined body collapsed with a crash, raising a cloud of murky dust. In the end, all that remained was a neglected pile of ashes.
Ten desiccated corpses hurled themselves madly against the earthen wall, yet failed to leave so much as a scratch.
Little Bird tapped a fingertip through the air, tracing a sigil. "Atomic Reassembly!"
In an instant, the soft earthen wall underwent a violent transformation. Its molecular structure was forcibly torn apart and rebuilt. Iron atoms rapidly replaced the original silicon-oxygen bonds, turning the fragile earthen wall into an impregnable steel bastion in the blink of an eye.
"What's happening?!" the desiccated corpses shrieked in terror. Their withered fingers clawed desperately at the wall, their nails snapping and blood flowing, but their efforts vanished without a trace. They could not penetrate it in the slightest.
The blazing sun hung overhead, its merciless rays pouring through the dome. To the light-fearing corpses, this was more than illumination. It was a deadly punishment.
"Aah-!"
Piercing screams echoed through the hall. Under the relentless scorching of intense ultraviolet light, the moisture remaining inside the corpses evaporated instantly, sending thick smoke billowing upward. Like rotten wood exposed to a furnace, their flesh blackened and peeled away. Their bones cracked and burst in