Bab 974: 498 What is the Hegemon (4000)

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Thud!

The blue whale leaped up, its pupils filled with intense dissatisfaction and rage. It rammed through the air like a mad creature, its tail fin spinning fiercely like a propeller, blurring the colossal body's form.

Boom!!!

Blue energy clashed with black, shattering into specks of light that burst into the air and rained down, exploding violently upon touching the ground.

The shock waves that distorted the spectators' view whipped up mud and carried it away.

Under the sky, on the battlefield, the two titanic, ethereal beasts had now vanished. Only two figures with ordinary human forms remained.

Whale King Arlington planted one foot forward like a steel pillar and dug the other harshly into the earth behind him. His upper body, which once resembled a tight-fitting armor, had been reduced to ripped cloth hanging from his shoulders. Blocks of muscles as tough as steel bulged and swelled, with vein-covered branches spreading across his body like pulsating black worms.