In the blink of an eye, Hadd, who had charged forward, found himself fighting alone. Jonathan and Flora had been taken out so quickly that they were gone before he could even react.
Ximier's elimination caught him even more off guard.
A question mark had barely formed in Hadd's mind before Lou Guanshan's Mo Dao smashed him into the ground. Overwhelming force struck his soul directly, a single blow scattering his Calamity Power and knocking him out of his iron-man state as he crashed into the ground in a daze.
Hadd lay in the crater, staring up at the sky, his eyes clearer than a newborn calf's.
"I... came down?"
Having witnessed the whole thing, Anania gaped and swore without a shred of decorum.
"Fuck..."
At this point, only Donald, whose sanity was steadily slipping away, was still roaring in the arena.
Hadd climbed out of the crater and looked at Anania. "Sorry, Captain. I failed."
Anania was still in a daze. Two scenes kept flashing back and forth in her mind, her left and right brain beginning to fight each other.
One was the sight of Hadd sweeping away everything in his path; the other was Hadd being knocked out of his iron-man state with a single blow.
She found it a little hard to accept.
It was like resting in the shade beside a pillar cast from steel, only for someone to suddenly come along and bend the pillar with a crack, letting blinding sunlight stab into her eyes.
It was so glaring that she wanted to cry.
Jonathan and Flora leaned back-to-back, questioning their lives.
It was an attack from a whole other dimension!
Jonathan tipped his head back, two trails of tears streaming down his face. "Commander Gerard, you never said the Hold Up the Heavens