Agonizing pain swept through every limb in an instant, almost draining all his strength. Daredevil staggered, and one knee slammed into the cold floor.
A moment later, he gritted his teeth, forced himself back up, and lunged into the onslaught once more.
Dull, grating impacts overlapped inside the enclosed office, ringing out without pause.
A vicious gleam flared in Fisk's eyes. He snatched up the crystal cane beside him and brought it crashing down at Daredevil's head! Daredevil twisted sharply at the waist and dodged sideways, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.
The next instant, the hard crystal head of the cane smashed into the floor!
With a thunderous crash, the marble floor fractured and split apart, rupturing the water pipes beneath it. The pent-up water pressure burst through the breach, sending clear water gushing out like a fountain.
Beneath Fisk's massive, bulky frame lay terrifying muscle. With muscle accounting for ninety-eight percent of his body, he not only possessed extraordinary resistance to blows, but every attack carried brute force capable of crushing anything in his path. Each hit dealt Daredevil a punishing blow.
By contrast, although Daredevil kept using his Perception to dodge and attack, his strikes could barely inflict any meaningful damage on Fisk.
At last, Fisk found an opening. He seized Daredevil and slammed him viciously into the floor. Before Daredevil could rise, he grabbed him again and hurled him into the floor-to-ceiling window.
Crack, crack-
Cracks spread like a spiderweb across the window's tempered glass. The violent impact and faint splintering sounds disrupted Daredevil's Perception. Amid the confusion, a terrifyingly large hand reached for him.
Fisk was no merciful man who would spare an opponent. He hauled Daredevil up, headbutted him, then lifted him high and smashed him into the ceiling before slamming him back into the