Landing in an uninhabited desert, Zod calmly spoke to Diana:
"If what you want is a serious fight, then come at me with the resolve to kill me, otherwise neither of us will enjoy it."
Hearing this, Diana didn't feel underestimated; instead, she felt a powerful sense of oppression wash over her.
She held a shield in her left hand and the Sword of Athena in her right, her legs slightly bent, her face filled with a murderous intent.
"Mr. Zod, my apologies then!"
As her words fell, she leaped forward, her body shooting out like a cannonball, and the ground beneath her feet instantly shattered.
The Sword of Athena in her hand glowed with lightning, striking directly at Zod.
Facing such an attack, Zod didn't even blink; he merely raised a single finger, and golden mana surged.
"Clang!"
The divine sword struck Zod's finger, emitting a sound like metal colliding, and the lightning on the sword was directly shattered.
The powerful force caused a huge shockwave to ripple out from the ground beneath Zod's feet, but his body remained completely still, as if rooted like an iron tower.
Seeing that her first strike failed, Diana instantly withdrew her sword, and the next moment, she displayed the incredible divine speed bestowed upon her by Hermes, unleashing hundreds of thousands of sword strikes at Zod in the blink of an eye.
However, even such a speed, indiscernible to the naked eye, appeared no different from an ordinary attack in Zod's eyes.
Still, a single finger perfectly blocked every sword strike she unleashed from all angles.
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Immediately, a series of clashing sounds became incessant.
Moreover, even with such a frequency of attacks, Zod was still able to find openings in her offense and jab his finger forward.
Diana reacted instantly, immediately bringing her divine shield in front of her.
"Boom!"
His fingertip poked her shield, and the powerful force directly sent her flying.
As she completed her aerial maneuver to dissipate the force and prepare to attack again, she saw Zod's outstretched finger pressing down in her direction.
In an instant, the winds and clouds changed, and a golden finger, like a pillar supporting the heavens, appeared above her head, pressing down on her.
"Ah!"
Diana felt that she hadn't experienced such pressure even when facing Ares, and she couldn't help but let out a roar.
Then, she actually raised her Shield of Protection and met it head-on.
Seeing this scene, Zod couldn't help but frown; this scene reminded him of a certain hothead in the Ultraman tokusatsu shows he watched in his previous life, who dared to meet Leo's flying kick head-on with an upward strike!
He hadn't even locked onto her movements with his divine sense when he used this move, so it wasn't difficult for Diana to avoid it.
But he really didn't expect that this heroic-looking Wonder Woman was also a hothead, really going head-on with it.
With no other choice, Zod instantly dispersed some of the mana from that finger and spread out its power.
"Boom!"
Even so, when Zod's massive golden finger landed on Diana's divine shield, it still struck her down from the sky with a crushing force, then pressed her into the ground.
A visible golden ripple spread out, and the ground around where the finger landed shattered inch by inch, extending outwards for hundreds of miles.
Zod could feel that Diana's aura had weakened slightly, but it was still quite strong; she should be fine.
Indeed, the next moment, her figure shot up from underground.
"Ah!"
Then, Diana crossed her arms in the air, and a dazzling white light illuminated her Bracelets of Submission, as she defiantly unleashed a powerful divine energy shockwave towards Zod.
She had intended to briefly suppress Zod with the divine energy shockwave and then launch another attack.
But at this moment, she found that Zod merely casually flicked his hand in front of him, and a ripple-like distortion appeared in the void before him.
Although the divine energy shockwave she unleashed with the help of her Bracelets of Submission looked incredibly powerful, Zod remained completely still.
Even though Diana already knew that Zod possessed the power to manipulate space, this was her first time encountering it in actual combat.
Giving up her offensive plans, Diana floated gently to the ground and said with admiration:
"Mr. Zod, you are the most powerful person I have seen in five thousand years. Although you are not a god, I believe you are no weaker than one."
Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Zod's face.
He then asked her, "So, facing such an opponent, will you continue to fight?"
"Of course, I am the most outstanding warrior of the Amazon tribe. No matter who the opponent is, I will not back down."
At this moment, the fighting spirit burning in Diana's eyes grew even more intense.
Zod could feel the bloodline of the God King within her boiling, and rolling dark clouds covered the sky above them, with flashes of lightning within the clouds, as if majestic figures were faintly discernible within them.
Seeing this scene, a smile also appeared in Zod's eyes: "Your potential is not limited to this; I hope you can give me a little surprise!"
"Boom!"
A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, but its target was not Zod, but Diana.
Her figure flew into the air, bathed in the lightning, her body glowing with electricity, as if she had been clad in a suit of lightning armor.
"Mr. Zod, try my Wrath of Thunder!"
The voice that came from her mouth seemed to originate from the heavens, carrying a sacred aura.
The next moment, she reached out, and a sky full of lightning poured down towards Zod.
This time, Zod did not use mana to form a shield, nor did he use his spatial abilities to avoid damage; instead, he directly withstood these lightning bolts imbued with divine power with his own body.
He wanted to use this opportunity to actually test the strength of his current body.
Divine lightning bolts struck him, forming a huge lightning ball around his body.
The ground beneath his feet was directly turned into molten red by the terrifying high temperature emitted by the lightning.
However, Zod, who was in the midst of it, only felt a slight tingling sensation, and essentially suffered no substantial damage.
"It seems her divine power is still a bit weak. If this Wrath of Thunder were unleashed by her father, Zeus, I wouldn't dare to withstand it with my body."
Having obtained the result he wanted, Zod wasted no time and raised his hand forward.
A massive mana hand, burning with golden flames, suddenly appeared outside the lightning ball, easily crushing the lightning that enveloped his body.
Then Zod threw a punch at Diana, like a brilliant sun rising.
The scorching and dazzling light instantly evaporated the thunderclouds in the sky, and even the lightning entwined around Diana's body retracted into the depths of her bloodline under this light.
The next moment, Diana's body fell straight from the sky as if she had lost all strength.
Although he knew that with the opponent's physical strength, such an impact would certainly not cause injury, Zod subconsciously manipulated spatial power to catch her in mid-air, and then gently placed her back on the ground.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for defeating a demigod with the bloodline of a God King, gaining +1 lottery draw!"
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