"Deus, stop it! He is a cosmic god! The second-strongest order deity! You can't win against him!" Erza yelled at Deus and begged him to not fight with Icarus.
Sure, she knew that even if Deus didn't fight back, Icarus would kill them all. There was no other option, and Deus wasn't going to back down either.
Deus cracked his fingers with his thumb and said, "You would be surprised, darling."
Icarus finally launched the plasma ball he had been charging for a while, at Deus.
"Deus!" Erza yelled.
Xie Lua and Lyda also rushed to aid Deus since there was no way Deus could survive such a powerful attack in his state.
However, he left them all surprised.
Deus already knew he wouldn't be able to stop the plasma ball, so Instead of dodging or blocking the attack, he embraced it.
But before it could deal any damage to him, he diverted the plasma ball into the sky where it exploded in the air, causing meteorite rain.
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