But at that exact moment, Monument One struck from below.
The construct's four arms moved in perfect synchronisation. Its massive fists, each one the size of a building, slammed into the bark's hull simultaneously. The impact sent shock waves through the divine vessel's frame, jolting it violently upward just as Ra's solar punch reached its target.
The sun-like fist passed inches from Luna's face, close enough that the heat vaporised her long green hair to singed stubble barely reaching her nose. The attack's edge caught Garduck's left side, searing away half his body in an instant. His silver hair ignited, his left arm simply ceased to exist, and the left side of his chest became a crater of charred meat and exposed ribs.
Garduck screamed—a sound of agony that would have killed mortals to hear. But he was alive, barely.
"Fall back!" Ozymandias's command echoed across the battlefield from atop his city walls.
