Like a collapsing mountain, amid heavy roars, the oppressive giant of sand and stone shattered like fragile porcelain in the raging hurricane, becoming a swirl of tiny dust particles.
Sean turned to look at the black figure crouched low amid steel and concrete, his gaze cold. Intense flames of light lifted him slowly into the air. While he had been fighting Sandman, Spider-Man had broken free of Venom's control, saved Mary Jane as she fell from a great height at the critical moment, and escaped the battlefield.
Amid the dust filling the sky, the onlooking crowd could not see how the battle was going. Venom, shaped like a humanoid spider, felt an involuntary shiver rise from within, as though he had encountered a superior predator at the top of the food chain. His body began trembling uncontrollably, and he could not even bring himself to flee at once.
A creature's stress instincts kept sending warning signals to his brain, yet Venom remained motionless, like an icebound statue. His formerly nimble agility seemed to have vanished entirely. His whole body was rigid, and his thoughts sluggish.
In his perception, the golden figure flying in the air was like a molten volcano, releasing blazing energy waves. An incomparably terrifying, powerful aura surged outward!
Eddie, his entire body covered in black liquid matter, widened his eyes in terror and panic. Since becoming Venom and gaining strength greater than Spider-Man's, he had never encountered anything like this.
It was as though the Venom suit had been stripped from him, and he had once again become that weak, cowardly Eddie Brock—a mediocre ordinary man enduring the exploitation and scolding of his newspaper boss, watching helplessly as his colleagues took his work away, powerless to do anything about it!
"No!"
The emotions in his heart suddenly