"Get down here!"
Lucian's roar erupted alongside the sound of splashing water.
Ikaris's pupils contracted sharply. He twisted at the waist, trying to flip in midair, and lowered his head to blast two golden beams of Heat Vision straight at Lucian's face.
But under Jade Balance's control, the Nano-Vibranium Armor covering his entire body flowed like a living thing. Most of the metal instantly gathered around his right arm and face, forming a thick, sharp battering-ram gauntlet that drove straight through the two searing beams!
The distance between them closed to almost nothing.
Lucian swung his arm, driving a heavy punch packed with all his monstrous strength and fury squarely into Ikaris's chest!
The suit over Ikaris's chest shattered on the spot. He spat out a mouthful of blood flecked with golden light, and like a meteor shot from the sky, he was smashed back into the depths of the sea!
Boom!
The impact gouged a massive crater several kilometers across into the sea.
Ikaris's vision went black, his mind briefly blank and dizzy.
He forced his eyes open.
In his field of vision, that black figure had already torn through the curtain of water in pursuit. A rapidly enlarging fist hurtled straight at his face with a vicious gleam that promised to destroy everything!
There was no probing, no technique.
Lucian straddled Ikaris, clamping his left hand around his throat as his right blurred, hammering down one vicious punch after another!
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Ikaris desperately raised both arms to block. Golden cosmic energy erupted repeatedly underwater, and his close-range Heat Vision struck Lucian without pause, burning through his already much-thinner armor and scorching the flesh beneath it.
But Lucian did not even adopt a defensive stance.
His wounds regenerated wildly under his freakish healing ability. Charred, ruined flesh