After the explosion.
At that moment, Cho'Gath fled through the air for his life, half his body gone.
The instant the Antimatter Bomb exploded, the energy shield covering his body, capable of resisting anything, was forcibly depleted and burned through.
His left shoulder, chest, and abdomen had vanished along with his limbs. No intact flesh remained at the wounds, only scorch marks burned into black crystal by the intense heat.
Had he not escaped quickly enough, had he been just 0.1 seconds later, the power at the heart of the explosion would have been enough to turn his entire body into gas.
When that white light swallowed everything, Cho'Gath nonetheless realized clearly for the first time that death was not something that befell only the low-order Demon Clan.
It could come so close to him that only a shield on the verge of shattering stood between them.
"Insects..."
Cho'Gath growled in the storm, his mutilated body skimming across the icefield. Black blood kept spilling from his wounds, hissing corrosively as it struck the snow.
After the fear passed, overwhelming humiliation and fury completely swallowed that trace of cold dread.
He was a peak eighth-order Demon God, a close servant of the Demon Emperor who wielded the authority of a Space-Jumping Beast, a supreme higher being capable of swallowing a seventh-order Demon Venerable in one gulp.
Yet now, a group of creatures from a technological civilization whose physical attributes did not even reach the first order had actually forced him to flee for his life!
This was a disgrace!
Cho'Gath's flesh was extraordinarily powerful, worthy of a Demon God's body. Countless writhing buds of flesh now covered his wounds, forcibly growing new bones, blood vessels, and muscles.
Blood still flowed, but more and more slowly.
The missing half of his body