The bowstring snapped forward, and the arrow shot through the air toward the heavens.
For a fleeting moment, both time and space seemed to stand still.
In the next instant!
The black arrow struck the sun.
Boom!
An earth-shattering roar reverberated across the world.
Vast waves of force surged like an abyssal sea, effortlessly tearing apart everything around them.
For a time, black and white flickered endlessly across the firmament, as though the entire sky had been divided into two worlds.
An unknown amount of time passed.
After that single collision.
Both vanished without a trace.
"As expected, even white couldn't do anything to you."
Red light flashed over Lin Luo, and his crimson armor disappeared. "But now, it's time to get serious."
"What did you say? You haven't been using your full strength?"
"That's right. If I want you to accept your defeat wholeheartedly, I naturally have to let you exhaust every trick you have."
"You certainly have some nerve."
Athena drew her bow again, gathering an unprecedented amount of darkness and death.
Even her Cursed Power poured into it without end, forming another pitch-black arrow.
"In that case, try taking a blow with everything I have."
"Then bring it on."
Lin Luo raised one hand slightly, and an inexplicable aura began emanating from him.
"Very well!"
A sharp glint flashed in Athena's eyes. With a twang, a black arrow that seemed to span heaven and earth shot straight toward Lin Luo.
That arrow seemed capable of piercing through time and space alike.
"Then..."
Facing that strike, Lin Luo showed neither sorrow nor joy. He simply swept his hand down.
"From this day forward, you belong to me."
His voice echoed.
Heaven and earth seemed to fall into an eerie silence.
But soon.
Before everyone's eyes, golden lightning appeared