After Karna left the battlefield, the landscape changed instantly.
The three-on-three match has become a two-on-three match.
But the situation is not as tilted as the numbers suggest.
Because Heracles moved.
Throughout the entire period when Apollo unleashed the Corona Ray and Karna and Mash clashed, Heracles remained at the edge of the debris field and did not participate in the battle.
He has been doing one thing.
Accumulate strength.
He is activating a Noble Phantasm that requires a long preparation time.
This explains why he didn't attack alongside Apollo when he unleashed his attack, and why he didn't intervene in time to save Karna.
It's done now.
Heracles opened his eyes.
His body began to glow.
It's not light of a single color.
There are nine types.
Golden light patterns began to emerge from his ankles, spreading upwards and covering his legs, waist, chest, arms, neck, and finally his forehead.
Each ray of light represents a blessing from a deity.
The golden stripes of Zeus ' thunderbolts coiled around his right shoulder.
The radiance of Athena's wisdom flowed across his left arm.
Apollo. The sun's rays burned on his chest.
Hephaestus. The fire of forging danced in his hands.
Hermes. The patterns of the whirlwind raced across his ankles.
Poseidon. The blue light of the ocean surged across his back.
Demeter. The lush green of the earth grows at his waist.
Artemis. The silvery light of the moon shimmered between his brows.
Hera.
The last one.
The blessing of Hera of Gods.
Golden-white light patterns slowly formed above his head, like the last perfectly sealed crown.
Hera, who once cursed him, persecuted him, and drove him mad, causing him to kill his son.
Hera reconciled with him during the cremation at Mount Oeta.
Her blessing was for the one who returned last.
And Hebe, the goddess of youth, was his blessing, and also his wife after he became a god.
Nine main gods and one goddess.
All ten blessings were bestowed upon his physical body.
All the great achievements and accomplishments of the God Hand were transformed into power and infused into his very bones.
Heracles ' power was elevated once again.
He bent down and picked up the olive wood stick in front of him.
Hold on tight.
"Bring it on."
He said those two words to Metatron and Arcueid in the distance.
Then it disappeared.
Heracles was fighting two opponents.
Metatron and Arcueid team up.
The battle began in the lunar debris belt and then quickly spread throughout the entire solar system.
The initial collision pushed the three-person battlefield away from the lunar debris field.
Heracles swept his club across, Arcueid parried it barehanded, and Metatron's holy light blade slashed from the side.
The shockwave from the collision of the three forces propelled the three of them hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
Landing point.
Mars.
The first crater exploded in the red desert of Mars.
Heracles burst forth from the Mars dust storm, his club, imbued with the thunderous power of Zeus, slamming into Arcueid.
Arcueid crossed his arms to receive the hit.
The Mars crust shattered below the impact point, and the entire planet trembled.
Metatron's light blade slashed from behind, but Heracles deflected it with a backhand strike.
The three fought for less than ten seconds on the Mars surface before being thrown back by the shockwave of their collision.
Mercury.
The planet closest to the sun has a surface temperature exceeding 400 degrees Celsius.
The collision of the three left a huge crack running through both the northern and southern hemispheres on the surface of Mercury.
Heracles ' club and Arcueid's fists clashed, while Metatron's holy light cannon bombarded from the flanks.
Mercury began to disintegrate from the inside after the third collision.
It shattered into countless pieces.
Venus.
The dense atmosphere was torn apart during the three-person battle, and the sulfuric acid clouds were blown into space by the shockwave.
The surface of Venus melted into a sea of lava due to the aftershocks of the three people.
Then the entire planet shattered in the fourth collision.
Pluto.
The small planet disintegrated as the aftershocks of the three-person battle swept through, leaving hardly any fragments behind.
Uranus and Neptune were not directly affected.
However, the three's battle trajectory had passed near these two planets.
Uranus's rings were knocked askew.
The large dark spot on Neptune's surface was torn into three pieces.
The entire solar system trembled during the battle between the three.
Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Pluto —four planets—were destroyed in the aftermath of the battle.
Uranus and Neptune are scarred.
Only the Earth remains intact.
Because all three of them were intentionally avoiding it.
In the battle that destroyed four planets, the three of them never managed to land a single attack on Earth.
This is the only tacit understanding in this war on the scale of the solar system.
In the lunar debris belt.
Atalanta and Mash started fighting again.
Back and forth.
Atalanta's Bow of the Firmament unleashed a continuous rain of arrows from the void, while Mash's shield deflected each arrow one by one.
Atalanta's agility, enhanced by her peak condition in life, was incredibly fast. She constantly changed positions, seeking shooting angles from Mash's blind spots.
Mash, on the other hand, remained as steady as a rock.
She stood still, holding the shields up in every direction that needed to be held.
The two fought for a full ten minutes.
Atalanta fired hundreds of arrows, but not one pierced the shield.
Mash countered with her shield bash more than ten times, but not once did she touch Atalanta's clothes.
The outcome is difficult to determine.
But both of them knew the truth.
The key to this battle does not lie with them.
On Heracles' side.
Deep in the solar system.
The battle between Heracles, Metatron, and Arcueid has entered its final stage.
The three collided again in the debris field of Uranus.
With the blessing of ten gods, Heracles ' club carried the power to tear the world apart with every swing.
Metatron's holy light flowed continuously with her seventy-two wings spread out, but a third of her wings had already been scorched by the solar corona, reducing her output efficiency.
Arcueid's Marble Phantasm reached its zenith on the scale of the solar system, where she mobilized planetary debris, asteroid belt fragments, and cometary icy cores, transforming them into weapons to hurl at Heracles.
But Heracles was too tough.
A body blessed with ten blessings, combined with the golden breastplate forged by Hephaestus and the divine shield of Athena.
Metatron's light blade struck it and bounced off.
Arcueid hurled planetary debris at it, only to have it shattered by a single blow from the club.
One against two.
Not at a disadvantage.
Mars is gone. Mercury is gone. Venus is gone. Pluto is gone.
She has fewer and fewer planetary resources at her disposal.
Heracles ' power was still rising.
With the blessing of the great achievements of the God Hand, each of his attacks was stronger than the last.
Then.
Heracles seized the opportunity.
Arcueid's Marble Phantasm was delayed by a fraction of a second because the available planetary resources had been depleted.
In those fractions of a second...
Heracles lowered Athena's shield.
They lowered all their defenses.
Completely undefended.
He raised Apollo's bow and nocked Apollo's golden arrow.
The power of the War God's Belt, the blessings of the nine main gods, and all the merits of the God Hand were poured into this arrow.
Shooting a Hundred Gods.
A full-force, unreserved, and defensive strike.
The bowstring is released.
Nearly a hundred golden meteors burst forth in the void, sweeping towards Metatron and Arcueid simultaneously.