The other octopus gave him little time to think.
The laser cannon on the portal fired again. With a sizzling hiss, it fired three short laser bursts in an instant.
The three beams shot toward Odin in a triangular formation, trying to cut off his escape routes.
Odin did not dodge. He grinned and raised both hands, forming two En Slashes in his palms.
Then he hurled them at the portal in the air.
The moment the En Slashes left Odin's hands, they rapidly expanded until each was the size of a person.
The En Slashes flew toward the portal, passing through the three laser beams on the way.
The three beams struck the En Slashes, but the slashes did not even tremble. They easily sliced the beams apart and scattered them.
Without losing momentum, the En Slashes cut straight into the portal as the octopuses watched in disbelief.
Boom!
The portal shattered.
Points of light scattered in every direction, bursting in the air like fireworks.
Slash!
Although it was the portal that had been cut apart, two tentacles on the distant octopus drawing patterns snapped off for no apparent reason. Fluid flowed from the severed ends.
Its body trembled, as though in fear.
Clearly, it had realized something was wrong.
Odin looked at that octopus, then at the other one.
The octopus Odin had punched had now recovered.
The dent in its head had completely healed, leaving no trace.
It raised its tentacles, pointing their tips at Odin.
A thin line shot from a tentacle tip, moving so fast that it reached Odin in the blink of an eye.
Odin dodged sideways, and the line swept past him. He had expected it to continue cutting through whatever lay behind him, but just then, the octopus flicked its tentacle, sweeping