When the blade in Lucian's right hand was less than half a meter from Ikaris, those dimmed eyes snapped open.
Golden light flared again.
That fast?
Lucian's expression changed.
The Mind Stone's power had indeed struck, and Ikaris's mind had been suppressed, but that paralysis had lasted less than a second.
The Mind Stone Scepter's blast was ultimately too weak.
It was merely a vessel for the stone, nowhere near a divine artifact like the Infinity Gauntlet. It could not fully unleash the Mind Stone's power.
Worse still, the Uni-Mind had strengthened Ikaris in every respect.
Strength, speed, body, abilities, mind.
There were no weaknesses.
Under normal circumstances, that blow would have been enough to briefly knock Ikaris unconscious. But now, the scepter could only buy Lucian that single second.
Still, that was enough.
Rather than pull back, Lucian increased his energy output again.
"Jade Balance, work with me!"
He roared, and Infinite Rage LV8 began slowly increasing across the board.
"Taking over auxiliary armor controls."
The Magic Metal blade gave off a piercing hum. The layer of energy compressed to its limit along its edge was already beginning to spiral out of control.
I have to drive it in.
Ikaris did not choose to take this long-planned strike head-on.
He shifted slightly to one side, narrowly avoiding the lethal blade by a hair's breadth.
Then, without pausing at all, he swept a punch straight at Lucian's head!
From their previous fighting, he already clearly knew that Lucian possessed some extremely powerful healing ability.
Damaged organs, broken bones, even a hole punched through his body-none of it was enough to put this man out of the fight.
So this time, he would blow his head apart!
"Sir, reconstructing head defenses."
As Jade Balance's voice rang out, countless nanoparticles instantly gathered