With Tenth Metal as its blade, the pitch-black Nightfall Greatsword had been unstoppable most of the time. Su Ming had never counted how much flesh it had cut down, or how many enemy attacks it had blocked.
The Annihilation Swarm King's armor was incredibly sturdy, but only compared to conventional weapons. Against a Multiversal Level divine weapon, it offered its wearer no reliable defense.
The blade silently sank into his armor. Though his sixth sense in the face of danger made him twist aside, preventing him from being split in half from the head down, the strike still severed one of his arms. The sparking armor and the limb within, spraying yellow fluid, spun through the air.
Even then, he still could not see what was attacking him. All he could make out was a black sword floating in midair.
And that deadly weapon came at him again, without the slightest hesitation.
This time, however, he was prepared.
Clang.
A short rod glowing yellow blocked the silver-white blade. It was an utterly ordinary collision, producing only a faint chime.
Deathstroke could feel the force behind his blow vanish like a stone sinking into the sea. The instant his weapon touched that rod, the force disappeared without a trace, as though he had merely rested the sword against it.
Brood Queens all had enormous bodies and numerous jointed limbs, but the Annihilation Swarm King was a somewhat atypical humanoid creature. He had only two arms and two legs, one of those arms having just been severed. Yet as if he felt no pain, he raised the Cosmic Control Rod with his remaining hand.
So this was the Cosmic Cube of the Negative Zone.
The Cloak of Levitation dropped its invisibility. A figure in black-and-yellow armor appeared in the air, his red