Chapter 223: The Sea Evaporated, the Land Vaporized!
When air is compressed, it heats up.
When vast amounts of air are compressed to an extreme limit by extraordinary force, it forms a superheated sphere with temperatures exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius, forcibly breaking down the atoms in the air into positive ions and electrons, creating what is known as plasma.
The silver sphere thrown before him rapidly expanded from dozens of meters to hundreds, no, thousands of meters—a colossal silver sun—engulfing Zeus entirely!
An even more dazzling flash followed, turning everyone's vision into a blinding white.
This wasn't the holographic display turning white; it was the intense white light erupting from below the arena, as the arena itself floated high above the battlefield.
"I-It's so hot! I'm going to be roasted alive!"
Göll couldn't help but cry out.
The entire arena felt like a furnace, truly as if they were about to be cooked.
Even from a height of 100,000 meters, they could feel such intense heat. And despite the arena's facilities blocking most of the thermal energy, the sensation was still like being scalded by boiling water—a testament to the sheer terror of King Arthur's strike.
The white light faded quickly, and the images reappeared, though they appeared distorted, as if space itself had been warped by the heat.
Of course, this was mainly due to the uneven heating caused by the influx of air and the extreme temperatures, leading to deviations in light refraction.
"T-The sea... it's gone!"
"No, it's not gone—it's been evaporated."
As the words suggested, the power of the silver sun had evaporated the sea.
Of course, it wasn't the entire planet's oceans that vanished, but the sea in the area where the two were fighting had been vaporized. From high above, it looked as though a small continent had emerged.
The distant seawater would soon reclaim this land, though the overall sea level would drop significantly.
What about Zeus, who had taken this blow?
The camera searched for him and found him!
As the lens zoomed in, Zeus's form appeared more ferocious. Half of his body looked like overcooked meat, with charred marks.
In some places, the burns were so severe that flesh seemed to slough off, leaving a gruesome, bloody mess.
Such an injury would be fatal for an ordinary human if not treated promptly.
But for a god, it's not a severe wound, though it can't be considered light either.
By comparison, Zeus's current injury surpasses the large gash on King Arthur's side.
"Yohohoho~ So, so happy, I'm so happy, truly overjoyed~"
Zeus was ecstatic, so much so that one might suspect he was a masochist.
"So happy it's unbearable!!!"
After growling these words, his body writhed, becoming even more terrifyingly muscular, doubling in size and giving the impression of a grotesque muscle monster.
Then, he plunged one hand forcefully into the ground.
Crack, crack, crack, crack—!
It was the sound of the earth screaming.
"Hoh ho!"
With Zeus's strange cry, a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.
He lifted a massive piece of the earth and hurled it toward King Arthur.
Such actions are common in comics, where characters often do this, but the problem was that the chunk of earth he lifted was comparable in size to the entire land area of the Far Eastern island nation!
So—
"M-Monster!"
Even Irina couldn't help but tremble and use such a word to describe this god.
What terrifying brute strength—enough to lift and toss an entire country!
If such an act occurred in the human world, its destructive power would be unprecedented, potentially bringing human civilization to an end.
After all, most humans are ordinary and fragile; even a fall from a few meters high could be fatal.
So, if such a massive slab of earth were to crash violently into the ground, it's unimaginable what kind of terrifying shockwaves it would cause.
The Earth's crust would be intensely compressed, triggering massive volcanic eruptions and lava flows.
Additionally, unprecedented earthquakes would sweep across the globe, and the oceans would be affected, forming colossal tsunamis.
Thus, the end of human civilization is no joke—it's a real possibility.
Boom rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble..!
The earth screamed, shattered, and felt as if the crust would truly collapse, the stars would be destroyed, and everything would break apart.
Under this impact, the magma layer was indeed compressed, causing spectacular eruptions of lava shooting into the sky in other regions. Some mountains crumbled, while others formed anew due to tectonic plate compression.
In short, the world's terrain was utterly transformed, painting a scene of utter apocalypse.
But it wasn't over yet. At this moment, Zeus raised his lightning sword high, its tip continuously releasing bolts of lightning into the sky, rather than gathering lightning from the heavens into the blade.
In an instant, the entire sky was covered with lightning, so densely packed that there seemed to be no gap even a finger's width wide.
This shocking sight made all humans and gods realize that Zeus was the God of Thunder himself, not just a brute-force deity.
The next moment, as Zeus swung his upward-pointing sword downward, billions of bolts of lightning descended.
The scene looked more like a super auroral pillar covering the entire land, crashing down upon the earth.
"This... this strike is no less powerful than King Arthur's blow just now, so what will happen? Can the King of Knights survive? Will humanity's winning streak end here?"
The host Heimdall also began shouting.
The descent of countless thunderbolts covered the area with unprecedented high temperatures—heat so intense that even humanity's most heat-resistant materials would instantly vaporize upon contact.
Thus, the very earth was being vaporized.
So, what would happen?
This unprecedented showdown was truly exhilarating!