Charge toward the Temple of Hera!

On the battlefield, victory and defeat were decided in an instant.

For mortals, a second might be no more than the blink of an eye, but for fighters on Link and Diana's level, a single instant was enough to decide life or death.

When the freeze grenade Harley had thrown exploded, its strange, spacetime-warping power enveloped the battlefield. Diana's powerful demigod physique immediately resisted it. She was not frozen completely in time as an ordinary person would have been, but her Speed Force reactions still suffered an almost imperceptible hitch.

That tiny hitch was the final straw.

This was the opening Link had been waiting for.

Without a moment's hesitation, he concentrated the full strength of his body of steel into his right fist. Like a shell fired from a cannon, he tore through the air and appeared before Diana in an instant.

There were no flashy moves, no burst of energy—only the purest, most primal, most terrifying physical force.

Boom!

An impossibly deep crash rang out, as though that punch had blasted a hole through the sky.

The confident smile of a victor froze on Diana's face, replaced by utter horror.

The Bracelets of Submission erupted with dazzling golden light upon contact, trying to block the lethal blow. But against absolute strength, that defense seemed laughable.

The terrifying kinetic force punched through the Divine Power Shield and slammed into Diana's chest.

Like a leaf tossed in a gale, she flew backward even faster than she had approached. She shattered several ancient stone pillars that had stood for a thousand years before finally becoming embedded deep in a mountainside. Dust billowed around her, leaving her fate unknown.

Deathly silence fell over the battlefield.

Every Amazon warrior locked in fierce combat stopped what she was doing, whether she had been fighting