A muffled thud, like the beat of a drum, rang out.
As sword and fist clashed, space shattered in an instant, and hundreds of spatial rifts spread outward.
A figure hurtled into the distance.
The remaining lightning dragons and the wind from the punch reduced all the surrounding plants to dust.
In an instant, the area within a hundred-meter radius became utterly barren.
"Roar!"
The figure that had been flung away flew back again, his mangled arm regenerating as he gathered divine power in his left hand and hammered another heavy punch at Rhodes.
During the attack, his right hand finished regenerating, but the White Bone Armor covering his left hand did not appear on his restored right hand.
Earlier, to take Rhodes's sword strike head-on, Hades had covered his entire body in White Bone Armor. Relying on his transformed state, he had barely withstood the blow, but only Hades himself knew how much damage he had suffered.
Meanwhile, those who had been surrounding someone and the person surrounded had stopped fighting altogether. They were all stunned by the battle between Hades and Rhodes. The commotion the two caused was tremendous, as they shot into the sky one moment and plunged down the next. Both moved at incredible speed. Rhodes had always been particularly fast, while the injured Hades was now covered in a layer of bloody light that increased his speed by at least forty percent.
Relying on his tremendous speed, Hades now used his fists to keep Rhodes on the defensive. Yet despite attacking Rhodes at such speed, he had not inflicted any injuries.
The other three kings of the Undead Realm did not dare spare anyone else to help Hades. If another one left, the remaining two would have no hope of holding Hathaway, who had seized