Luna grit her teeth in anger and dashed to the side to try and nk the shark on the other side while under the cover of the mist. But the anima easily decreased the temperature of the environment, turning the mist into dew and making it all clear up! Luna grabbed hold of some water nearby and used it to create an ice shield as the anima charged at her.


    BAM!


    The anima bodymmed her and Luna felt her body shake as she was thrown to the ground from the charge! Luna held the shield above her as the shark mmed a leg on it and leaned in close!


    "You humans are an abomination of nature! Mother Nature''s biggest mistake was creating you monsters! You do nothing but plunder and ruin the beauty of the world in your quest to fulfill your pointless ambitions! We, the anima, shall rid the world of that abomination! Starting with you, weak girl!"


    The shark opened its jaw wide, and a ball of water started to form in front of its mouth! The ball grewrger andrger until it was almost asrge as the anima itself. The ball started to swirl, and Luna''s eyes widened when she noticed the temperature in the area suddenly rising! The anima was heating the moisture in the air!? No, that isn''t it! It''s heating the ball!


    If I can feel it from behind the ice, then it must be unbelievably hot!


    Superheated ice! It''s making a bomb!


    Luna quickly tried to get away from the anima, but the anima grabbed hold of her shield and tore its control away from her, melting it to vapor in an instant as it leaped back, leaving Luna alone with the superheated ball of vapor!


    When ice is suddenly heated above its boiling point and into the superheated phase, it skips all the phase changes that it is supposed to experience and transitions rapidly and explosively from ice into steam.


    The steam produced from water using such a process is so hot, and the molecules are moving so fast, that carrying out this sort of experiment using only a liter of water creates an explosionparable to unleashing a st from a stick of TNT! The volume of water that the shark just superheated was almost a thousand liters, and the st it unleashed on Luna was phenomenal!n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    KA-BOOOOMMM!!!


    Wind geysers sted across the coast, throwing cargo containers and small ships away from the wind pressure alone! Even the superhumans that had been standing on top of a container more than a kilometer away had to hold on tight as they felt the wind threatening to throw them back!


    The st was so intense that the plume of dust and steam could be seen for more than a kilometer from every direction! Every single person on the ind stopped what they had been doing to stare at the explosion, wondering what could be happening!


    Even the people at home, who were watching the fight through the cameras of the journalists that came around, were dead silent as they thought that this would be the end for Luna! The explosion was massive, and they didn''t believe that anything could survive through something like that!


    The journalists covering the fight had nothing to say as they just watched and waited to see what was going to happen! Luna was one of the most popr superhumans in the world, and a lot of people had been saved by her! No one wanted her to get hurt in this fight, and they were all terrified when they didn''t see any movement from the site for some time! Was Luna dead? No, that isn''t possible!


    There is no way Luna would die like this! The journalist grit his teeth in anger as this thought crossed his mind! Luna couldn''t die in a ce like this! Not like this!


    He knew that it was his job to report everything that happened in a fight, but he didn''t want to even mention the possibility of Luna dying! He was going to hold on to everyst shred of hope until the very end!


    Within therge plume of smoke, Luna was lying on her back and staring up at the misty sky. There was a look of resignation behind her gaze as she seemed to just ept her fate at that moment. And why shouldn''t she? This was her own fault. If she had tried just a little harder, then she would have been able to handle this easily, but she didn''t try.


    Is Mark going to be sad if I die?


    This thought crossed through Luna''s mind, and she couldn''t stop the feeling of disgust that passed through her body at her own weakness. Even now, in the end, she was still desperate to not be alone. Luna knew that she had a dependency problem. Even though she hated talking about it, she knew that the fear of being alone was something that she had never been able to get rid of.


    She depended far too much on others and hated to be left on her own.


    But she never thought that it was so intense that she would be thinking about something like this even at the end. But Luna couldn''t help it. She was tired of being alone. In a way, Luna would rather die and let Mark miss her than lose Mark while she was still alive. Luna didn''t know if she could survive if Mark was taken from her after everything that she had already gone through.


    Luna moved her body around, and she expected that there would be a lot of pain, but surprisingly, all she felt was a numbness that managed to block out all the pain that the explosion should have brought. There was nothing protecting her from that explosion, so Luna was sure that it hit her head-on.


    But something wasn''t right. As time went on, Luna still couldn''t feel any pain, and she slowly started to realize that the pain just wasn''t going toe! There wasn''t any pain at all. When the explosion happened, Luna thought that she would use up a lot of mana to heal herself, but Luna couldn''t feel her mana working at all. There were only two possible exnations for this.


    Either she was fresh out of mana, or she waspletely uninjured.


    "You know, I didn''t think I would have to rush in to help you out like this. What the hell do you think you''re doing, Luna? Were you about to let an explosion take you out like that? Don''t tell me you were actually nning to lose to this sushi."


    Luna''s eyes widened in shock as she sat up slowly to see Mark standing with his back to her. There was a golden glow slowly dying out all around him, and Luna knew that Mark had used some sort of skill to protect her just now.


    [Aegis of Ares] has been deactivated


    [Mana: 950/2615]


    Mark deactivated his [Aegis of Ares] and narrowed his eyes at the notification that the system brought up. Mark activated the Aegis of Ares for about two seconds to protect Luna, so he lost four hundred mana points in that time. Mark felt frustrated at hisck of mana, and he swore that he was going to find a way to get more points in the future.


    Mark couldn''t allow something as simple as this to prevent him from using such a useful skill!