The Celestial's four arms spread open at the same time, each one aimed in a different direction.
Dark red energy gathered in its palms, spinning, compressing, and condensing into four glowing dark red energy swords.
The swords were over ten kilometers long, black lightning dancing along their blades.
The four energy swords swung down at once.
Android 18 met an energy sword head-on with her fist. Her fist collided with the blade, unleashing a shockwave of intertwined silver-white and dark red.
Her body was hurled thousands of meters away by the shockwave, and her arm went numb. But her Infinite Power Reactor had consumed only five percent of its energy in that exchange.
Her blue eyes looked at her numb arm before she raised her head to look at the Celestial.
"Its power is increasing." Android 18's voice sounded through the communicator.
Eve blocked an energy sword with the Necrosword and devoured part of its power.
The sword shone even brighter, but Eve's body was forced hundreds of meters downward.
Her hands trembled, not from fear, but from the sheer force.
The Celestial's power was so immense that her muscles creaked dangerously.
2B used her Miao Saber to deflect the energy sword from below. She did not block it; she borrowed its force.
Her blade scraped against the energy sword's edge, shifting the direction of its power by several degrees.
The energy sword slashed past her side, leaving a deep, smoking trench along the boundary of Chaos Space.
2B's Eternal Flame burned along her blade, burning a gap into the dark red energy of the sword.
Mai Shiranui did not take the blow head-on. One second before the energy sword descended, her body turned into ghostly blue fire and vanished.
The next second, she re-formed above the Celestial's head, crossing