The suppressed Asura Minotaur suddenly froze, feeling all the bones and flesh in his body grinding against one another with a teeth-grating friction.
If he kept his rampage mode active, he would very likely be crushed into pulp by this pressure powerful enough to annihilate matter!
"Mmph, mmph mmph..." (D-damn it...)
At this life-or-death juncture, his last shred of reason seized the intellectual high ground. His rampaging blood rapidly cooled, and "Asura Mode," supposedly capable of lasting an entire week, was forcibly deactivated under the impending threat of death.
In the blink of an eye, he shrank from a blood-red minotaur over ten meters tall into a gray-skinned minotaur in his factory-default state.
"Just as I thought. All that talk about being unable to deactivate it-there just wasn't enough pressure."
Josen looked over the "small minotaur," now back to around five meters tall, with satisfaction. The psychic force field dissipated, and the force-field shackles took over the chain of control, further suppressing his strength below Dragon-level.
Asura Minotaur, disaster level-
Dragon → Demon!
"...Mmph mmph mmph!!" (...This is fucking cheating!!)
"All right, next round!"
The absolutely fair and impartial Captain Josen smashed the aggrieved Asura Minotaur toward the earth, and an exuberant shout immediately rang out from the ground in response.
Thump-thump-thump-thump... thump-thump-thump-thump!
Amid the deafening drumbeats, a streak of azure lightning shot into the sky.
In the distance, Genos instinctively covered his violently vibrating power core. He was already numb.
Again?
Dusk.
The setting sun sank below the horizon, leaving the world a warm orange-red afterglow as lights gradually came on in countless homes throughout the human cities.
It was a warm, peaceful scene.
Boom-
On the outskirts of M City, the land was riddled with devastation.
As the sun fell, endless darkness swept over this area of