Ikaris burst out of the explosion's flames like a golden god stepping out of a furnace. The dazzling light radiating from him outshone even the sun overhead.
Lucian remained intangible, intending to pass straight through.
However powerful Ikaris was, as long as Lucian severed his energy connection to the other Eternals and knocked him out of his "Uni-Mind" state, the threat he posed would plummet.
He had no intention of fighting Ikaris to the bitter end here.
The real problem with the Uni-Mind was not just that it strengthened Ikaris. Unless it was interrupted, the remaining Eternals would keep supplying him with energy.
But as long as Lucian got past him and broke their synchronization, the battle would be half over.
Lucian calmly watched that torrent of energy, powerful enough to melt anything, pass through his chest and shoot toward the distant horizon.
It worked.
As long as I can ignore his attacks, the initiative in this fight will...
Before he could finish that thought, Lucian's brow suddenly furrowed.
Something's wrong.
A few seconds after the Heat Vision passed through his body, he felt a burning sensation unlike anything he had experienced before. While intangible, his flesh had no solid form. Normal attacks should pass straight through, unable to affect him at all.
But this time was different.
The golden cosmic energy was like a red-hot branding iron, forcibly "sticking" in the gaps between his dispersed molecules. Under the interference of this foreign energy, his molecular structure, which had been stable in its dispersed state, began to grow extremely unstable, as though it might be forcibly torn apart and scattered at any moment.
His intangibility was being forcibly broken.
Two seconds at most. No, I might not even last three.
Once he exceeded that time, his body would suffer actual,