The searing pain drew a earth-shaking roar from Hati, filled not just with agony but with towering rage at being wounded by a mere insect!
Its giant forepaw rose sharply.
The lunar essence on its claws no longer flowed but compressed and solidified into massive, silver crescent blades with deadly glinting edges!
"Die, insect!"
Hati's claw tore through the viscous air, carrying a destructive momentum, slamming down at Kaiser!
The silver crescents, like Death's scythes, broke free from its claws, spinning and shrieking.
They sealed every escape route, slicing from multiple angles!
Each crescent could cleave mountains and freeze souls!
The golden Cosmo flames in Kaiser's eyes flickered, unshaken.
His left hand rose lightly.
The Libra round shield, symbolizing protection and absolute defense, stirred among the floating weapons.
"Buzz!"
As the shield positioned itself before Kaiser, its intricate, arcane patterns blazed to life.
A massive, golden energy barrier, as if forged from solid gold, instantly unfolded, shielding Kaiser at its center.
"Boom! Boom!"
The giant silver crescents struck the energy barrier almost simultaneously.
Deafening explosions roared in succession.
The bone-chilling lunar essence clashed violently with the unbreakable golden Cosmo, annihilating each other in bursts of ear-splitting noise and all-consuming shockwaves.
The golden dome wavered and dented, groaning under the strain.
Its radiant surface dimmed, teetering on the brink of collapse.
Yet, as the lunar essence dissipated, the energy barrier formed by the golden round shield held firm against the terrifying onslaught!
"A weakness!"
Kaiser's divine vision spotted Hati's vulnerability.
As the explosion's aftershocks lingered and chaotic energy currents raged, Kaiser moved.
Like a golden lightning bolt tearing through the storm, he burst from behind the shield's barrier.
His target: the joint of Hati's massive forelimb, still extended from its claw strike!
The weapon in his right hand was no longer the sacred sword but the golden nunchaku, spinning rapidly in the void with a low, ominous hum.
A weapon of Libra, symbolizing unpredictable change and explosive force.
Severing just one of Hati's paws wasn't Kaiser's goal. This strike aimed to shatter the wolf's entire skeleton!
"Stardust Twin Moon Wheels!"
Kaiser poured his fully ignited Cosmo into the nunchaku.
The golden weapons transformed into two furiously spinning, intertwined storms of destruction, trailing long golden tails.
At their core were two massive golden moon wheels, compressed and spun from pure Cosmo energy!
They sliced through the air, emitting a terrifying screech like billions of stars shattering.
Their radiance briefly dispelled the blood-red lunar eclipse above, becoming the sole light in this battlefield of ruin.
Kaiser's form blinked into existence beneath Hati's giant forelimb joint.
With earth-shattering momentum, he swung the nunchaku storm, channeling the golden moon wheels upward into the pillar-like joint!
"Roar!"
Hati's pupils reflected the rapidly enlarging golden moon wheels, capable of destroying stars.
An unprecedented warning, born of primal instinct, washed over it like icy water.
It sensed the terrifying cutting force that could truly shatter its limb.
It tried to dodge, to retract its forelimb, but its previous strike had spent its strength, and new power hadn't yet surged.
Its massive body became its greatest burden.
The shadow of death loomed clearer than ever.
Desperately, it gathered its vast lunar essence, focusing it on the joint about to be struck.
In an instant, it formed a crystalline ice armor, dozens of meters thick, gleaming like eternal permafrost.
At the same time, its mountain-sized head snapped toward Kaiser, jaws wide.
The remaining lunar eclipse power, mixed with rage, reluctance, and fear, compressed into a pale silver beam, only meters wide but radiating the power to freeze all and pierce stars.
This was its final, strongest counterattack.
Lunar Eclipse Death Ray!
The golden moon wheel storm, Hati's desperate Lunar Eclipse Death Ray, and the hastily formed ice armor collided in a thousandth of a second.
Time seemed to freeze for a fraction of an instant.
Then...
"Zheng!!"
A sound beyond mortal description, surpassing auditory limits, erupted in a terrifying wail of torn space!
The golden moon wheel storm, like twin runaway suns, slammed into the thick ice armor with absolute destructive will!
The crystalline lunar essence, tough enough to withstand divine weapons, was fragile as butter against a hot knife before this spinning golden storm!
A piercing cacophony of shattering rang out! The ice armor was ground to dust, evaporating layer by layer!
The pale Lunar Eclipse Death Ray struck the side of the spinning golden storm like a venomous dragon, trying to freeze and dismantle it!
The extreme cold and destructive energies clashed, annihilating each other, unleashing superheated waves capable of vaporizing steel and shockwaves that tore atoms apart!
Points of annihilated energy flickered like billions of stars born and dying in a confined space, forming a chaotic zone of destruction!
"Break... !"
Kaiser's roar pierced the energy maelstrom!
The golden moon wheel storm erupted with unprecedented brilliance!
Its rotation speed surged in an instant!
The resilient Lunar Eclipse Death Ray let out a strained wail, snapped and torn apart by the overwhelming cutting force!
Like a severed serpent!
The storm, its momentum slightly diminished but still terrifying, slammed into Hati's now-unprotected forelimb joint!
"Crack!!!"
A bone-chilling, scalp-numbing sound of fracturing bone echoed through the sky!
The wolf's skeleton, tougher than refined gold, emitted a clear, despairing crack under the storm's onslaught!
"Awooo!!!"
An indescribable, star-shaking howl of agony burst from Hati's jaws!
The cry was filled with bone-deep pain and the fury of shattered pride.
And a trace of fear it refused to acknowledge, buried deep in its soul!
Its massive body staggered from the pain, nearly collapsing again! The wound at the joint was ghastly.
Chunks of black fur, muscle, and shattered bone, coated in viscous lunar essence, were obliterated, leaving a jagged, torn gash!
From the wound's depths, no star-dust sprayed but a flood of shimmering, mercury-like substance.
Its highly concentrated lunar essence, its life force!
As it spilled, the "blood" froze the ground into a forest of sharp ice spikes.
Hati stumbled, its three remaining legs clawing into the frozen earth to steady its mountain-like frame.
The nunchaku's impact wasn't just to shatter its forepaw's bones.
Cracks spread through its entire skeleton.
It lowered its head, blood-red pupils burning with pain and madness, glaring at the tiny golden figure that had dealt such a blow.
"Mortal…"
Its voice was hoarse, twisted, like rusted stars grinding, each syllable dripping with the vilest curse and near-desperate rage.
"You don't understand what Ragnarök means."
"It's fated, unchangeable, even if you kill me."
It threw its head back, roaring again toward the blood-eclipsed moon, a cry of pain, reluctance, and boundless ferocity.
The sound pierced the frozen air, shaking the lunar-essence-encrusted battlefield.
With the roar, the liquid lunar essence on its body boiled violently, surging like molten silver toward the shattered limb!
An astonishing sight unfolded.
The gushing "mercury blood" Stopped. Muscle, vessels, and even fractured bone began writhing, growing, and mending at a visible rate under the viscous lunar essence.
Silver light-threads wove at the wound, like a master weaver repairing a divine body!
The healing wasn't instant, but its unnatural resilience was enough to despair any foe.
The wolf was using its eons of lunar essence to forcibly mend this near-fatal wound.
Its fur rippled as the lunar essence not only repaired its forepaw but mended its cracked skeleton.
Kaiser stood in the air, holding the slightly dimmed golden nunchaku, his Cloth speckled with cold silver "blood."
His breathing was heavier; the ultimate technique had taken a toll.
This was a divine beast, not some third-tier god.
But the golden flames in his eyes burned brighter, colder, like molten gold, locked on Hati's rapidly healing wound.
"Don't understand?"
Kaiser's voice, though soft, cut through Hati's pained gasps and the hissing of boiling lunar essence, sharp and soul-piercing.
"All I know is, if I tear you and your brother apart, Ragnarök's conditions can't be met. Then, perhaps, it will never come!"
His gaze swept over Hati's regenerating limb and the nunchaku that had just shattered divine bone.
"Mortal!"
"Ant! You can't shake the wheel of fate!"
Hati's voice grated like rusted stars, each syllable a curse.
"Even if you rend my body, even if you delay, the blood moon will fall!"
"Sköll will devour the sun, Fenrir will break his chains! Ragnarök will come as foretold."
"You and all you protect will turn to ash in the fires of the end."
It raised its mountain-sized head, howling again at the blood-eclipsed moon, a cry fierce and feral.
This howl wasn't just venting... it was a summons, a resonance across space.
As it roared, the lunar essence boiled more violently, speeding the repair of its limb.
It condensed a shimmering, ominous silver ice armor around its body.
A colder, more despairing aura spread... it was burning its essence, preparing for a final, desperate strike.
"What's that?"
As Kaiser readied another thunderous assault, his divine vision caught a subtle, deadly connection.
Not from Hati, but from the eclipsed moon above.
And deeper, farther, as if linked to the sun's direction in the void!
Hati's boiling lunar essence resonated with the blood moon's vibrations.
Within this tremor, a faint but identical energy, blazing with destructive heat, was being pulled through the blood moon at superluminal speed!
Its target: Hati.
It was Sköll! The sun-chasing wolf.
Hati's roar wasn't just rage... it was a call for aid to its brother.
The blood moon eclipse acted as a twisted spatial beacon.
Sköll, chasing the sun, had split off a portion of its essence, crossing vast distances to bolster its dying sibling!
"Trying to unite the sun and moon?"
Kaiser's mind clicked with realization.
The twin wolves, devourers of sun and moon, shared a common origin, their powers resonating.
Hati was burning its essence not just to heal but to forge a channel for Sköll's power to descend.
If successful, Kaiser would face the combined might of both wolves... a true divine war!
United, their power could rival the peak just below a first-tier god.
"You think I'm just decoration?"
Kaiser's will was unyielding as stone.
His divine vision saw the channel linking Hati and Sköll.
He surged forward, blindingly fast.
The twelve golden weapons hovered around him.
His late Eighth Sense Cosmo burned to its limit.
The Libra Gold Cloth resonated with his Cosmo.
"Ultimate Justice!"
The twelve golden weapons roared forth, targeting the channel of Hati and Sköll's essence.
A massive energy wave tore through space.
"Damn you!"
"A mere mortal!"
"How can you see the divine channel?"
Hati roared.
If the channel was severed, Sköll couldn't arrive.
It would face its true end!
"Buzz!"
The faint power of sun and moon unity pulsed, spilling from the channel.
It intercepted the twelve golden weapons.
"Boom!!!"
The weapons clashed with the sun-moon power.
Extreme cold and heat alternated.
The heavens themselves shifted.
"This battle is too intense."
"If it were in Midgard, it'd be near world-ending."
Brünhild felt the World Tree's slight tremor, awestruck.
This fight was nearing first-tier god level.
"That guy…"
Beneath Niflheim, the Black Dragon King Nidhogg sensed Kaiser and Hati's clash.
He knew Hati was cornered.
"Ragnarök is fated."
"It must not be disrupted."
"If necessary…"
A ruthless glint flashed in Nidhogg's eyes.
If Hati and Sköll couldn't defeat Kaiser, he would act.
At the Nine Realms' depths, a massive serpent head rose.
Its size alone rivaled a world…
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