Roland shifted his hands forward slightly, forcibly dragging along Verethragna's arms, which were clamped around him, and seized the young god's shoulders. No matter how much Verethragna accelerated, he fearlessly soared upward with him.
Their intertwined, hurtling forms compressed the air into a thin membrane before immediately tearing it apart, whipping up terrifying heat as they smashed through the curtain of night without losing momentum and shot into the distance.
Against lightning unleashed through a gaze, even Verethragna's thunderbolts could barely form armor to protect his body.
The thunder that had once died away rang through the heavens again, each peal louder than the last, each wave stronger, like the clash of a longsword against dragon scales, or the wrathful judgment of a god.
-Those were the fluctuations of dazzling lightning intertwined with the thunder of justice.
Golden ripples roared and raced, spreading through empty space and suffusing the entire sky. They abruptly churned into a vortex, with the surging light of thunder serving as its veins.
Even the strands of electricity thrown off by friction within the vortex were brilliant pillars of lightning that tore through the night sky like divine punishment.
Verethragna's face stiffened at once. In the past, his ever-changing forms had allowed him to hold victory firmly in his grasp, regardless of the enemy or battlefield.
Now, however, Verethragna had met his first setback in this regard.
Whatever form he took, Roland had a corresponding countermeasure.
He countered the divine thunder of conviction with lightning from his eyes, suppressed the Divine Oxen's immense strength with power that surged like a river, and sealed the Camel's kicks with chains formed from viscous telekinetic force.
Even divine speed combined with powerful winds could not earn Verethragna a moment's respite. When it came to combining powers of different concepts,