As Orochi's flesh crawled up her slender neck to Psykos's delicate face, the clash of flesh and wills reached its fiercest moment!
Yet just then, time seemed to freeze completely!!
At that moment, both Psykos, her face filled with pain and defiance, and the grotesque face beneath her, composed of countless masses of flesh, froze at the same instant and looked ahead in astonishment.
Underground had been nothing but impenetrable darkness, yet Psykos seemed to see through countless rocks to a sight she would never forget-
The darkness opened up in an instant, becoming a clear, boundless blue sky.
Countless densely packed, chaotic lines gradually formed in the sky. They seemed like projections left in reality by some indescribable existence, ultimately becoming a gigantic sphere composed of countless distorted vortices that descended before Psykos.
The eerie sphere's surface was covered in densely packed, strange vortices, resembling brain cells magnified countless times, a bizarre map of the universe's structure, or the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere, constantly in violent motion.
Psykos's eyes gradually grew vacant and fearful, slowly becoming filled with the strange sphere's patterns.
Something indescribable, like a gaze cast by God, threw her thoughts into chaos with just one meeting of their eyes, nearly making her forget her own existence.
When she regained her senses, Psykos's whitened eyes slowly focused.
In that instant, she seemed to have understood...
Her own destiny!!
Thanos: I am destiny!
Then, to her astonishment, she discovered that she had somehow successfully fused with Orochi's remaining flesh!
A mysterious power appeared within her, driving her mind to an unprecedented level of strength. It effortlessly suppressed Orochi's nature, bringing this powerful body that surpassed a Dragon-level disaster under her control.
"Excellent!!"
Having gained a brand-spanking-new power and a formidable body, Psykos curled her lips into a more