Thor's attacks were fierce, but in Dago's eyes, they were riddled with openings.
He sidestepped, twisted his waist, and slid away.
With his hands clasped behind his back, Dago moved with ease through the web of lightning-wreathed axe strikes.
Stormbreaker's sharp edge swept past his body again and again, yet failed to so much as touch the corner of his clothes.
"Stop dodging around like a coward! Take one of my blows head-on!" Thor roared, his attacks growing ever more frenzied.
A chill flashed through Dago's eyes.
Now.
Thor raised his battle-axe high, leaving his center wide open.
Dago's right hand, which had remained behind his back all this time, suddenly shot out.
There was no fancy movement, only a plain, unadorned palm strike.
"Bang!"
The palm struck Thor squarely in the chest.
Omega Energy erupted from Dago's palm.
Thor felt sweetness rise in his throat as his heavy Asgardian armor caved inward and his ribs let out a strained groan.
The blow knocked him clean off the ground, leaving him briefly suspended in midair.
But it was not over yet.
Dago flashed forward, closing in.
Uxas Combo.
A left fist to the abdomen, a right elbow to the neck, then a knee to the jaw.
Thor let out a pained grunt as the barrage locked his entire body stiff in the air.
Yet Dago's assault had not ended. He stomped the ground hard.
Apocalypse Fire!
At Dago's murmur, the magma lake below seemed to answer his call.
He had actually seized control of the underground magma.
Boom!
A lava pillar more than ten meters wide burst through the rock from below. Like a roaring fire dragon, it opened its jaws to devour Thor.
At the critical moment.
Stormbreaker suddenly erupted with a dazzling blue radiance, as though it possessed