Godslayer: You get two at the start, Supreme Divine Ruins.

"boom--!"

The black mist collided violently with the time barrier, unleashing a deafening roar. Kronos groaned, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, and staggered back several steps.

"Cronus!" Michael rushed forward to support him, his eyes filled with worry.

Kronos waved his hand, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with vigilance: "I'm fine. Its strength is already on par with Nyx's; it's at the half-step dimensional ascension stage!"

……

In a short period of time, the battle on the lunar surface has entered a white-hot stage.

Michael and Cronus stood back to back, both covered in wounds.

Michael's six-winged angel wings were broken in two, and golden divine blood dripped continuously onto the lunar soil, making a "sizzling" corrosive sound.

Kronos's robes of time were tattered, and a gruesome wound on his chest was gushing blood—the mark left by the black goat's tentacles.

"It seems we might be going to meet our end here today." Kronos wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a bitter smile, and cracks appeared on the Time Blade in his hand.

A resolute glint flashed in Michael's golden eyes: "Even if it means death, I will cripple it!"

The massive body of the black goat slowly approached, each step causing the lunar surface to tremble.

Its twisted horns were shrouded in a nauseating black mist, and its eight scarlet eyes gleamed with a cruel light.

Suddenly, its body swelled up, and countless tentacles burst out from its body, each carrying a highly toxic venomous substance capable of corroding even a god's body.

"Watch out!" Michael suddenly spread his tattered wings, and the holy sword burst forth with dazzling golden light, forming a light barrier in front of him. The tentacles struck the light barrier, producing a tooth-grinding corrosive sound.

The light barrier was being eroded at a visible speed, and the veins on Michael's arms bulged, with golden blood constantly spilling from the corners of his mouth.

Seeing this, Kronos immediately formed hand seals, and a blue time barrier was superimposed on the light screen. The two layers of defense barely blocked the attack, but both of them were already at their limit.

“Its power is still increasing!” Kronos gritted his teeth, sensing the Black Goat absorbing the Kronos divine power sealed on the moon. “It must be stopped!”

Michael suddenly sheathed his holy sword, his hands forming a complex mudra at his chest. Golden flames began to ignite his body, and his six wings fully unfurled: "In my name, I summon the light of heaven!"

A pillar of holy light, hundreds of meters in diameter, descended from the sky, completely enveloping the black goat. Countless angelic phantoms emerged within the pillar, chanting sacred hymns. The black goat let out a painful roar, as the black mist surrounding its body was continuously purified by the holy light.

Kronos seized the opportunity, thrusting his hands into the void: "Time Imprisonment!"

Countless blue chains shot out from the void, binding the black goat tightly. Time runes flowed along the chains, attempting to drag the black goat into the temporal turbulence.

Just when the two thought they had succeeded, the black goat's eight eyes suddenly lit up with an eerie red light.

It let out a roar that shattered the void, and the black mist on its body surged instantly, shattering the holy light pillar and the time chain at the same time!

"Pfft—" Michael spat out a mouthful of golden blood, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily onto the lunar surface, forming a giant crater with a diameter of 100 meters.

Kronos fared no better; the backlash of time caused him to bleed from all seven orifices and kneel on the ground, unable to move.

The black goat slowly approached the two, raising one of its front hooves, where terrifying black energy gathered. If this attack were to land, both of them would be annihilated, body and soul!

“It seems that’s the only option…” Kronos stood up with difficulty, a resolute glint in his eyes.

He turned to look at Michael, who had just climbed out of the pit, and gave a bleak smile: "Michael, escape to Great Xia..."

Michael seemed to realize what he was about to do, his golden pupils contracting sharply: "No! Kronos, don't do anything foolish!"

Kronos did not answer; his body suddenly began to emit a dazzling blue light. The phantom of the river of time appeared behind him, and countless fragments of time swirled around him.

He plunged his hands into his chest and pulled out a beating blue heart—his Time Core!

"In the name of time, break!" Kronos raised the divine core high and crushed it violently. A blinding blue light erupted, and spacetime on the entire lunar surface began to distort and shatter.

The black goat roared angrily as it discovered that its spacetime barrier was being forcibly torn apart.

Michael tried to rush forward, but was blocked by a blue light barrier. Kronos's figure had already begun to dissipate; he turned to Michael and gave him a final smile: "Go! Tell Lin Xiao... the seal on the moon is about to break..."

Before he could finish speaking, the black goat's tentacles had already pierced through Cronus's chest. But it was too late; the spacetime rift had already opened, and a beam of blue light enveloped Michael, causing him to vanish instantly from the moon's surface.

"No—!" Michael's final cry echoed through the universe as he watched helplessly as Cronus's body dissipated into specks of light under the Black Goat's attack.

The black goat roared furiously, its eight eyes blazing with red light. It charged towards an ancient seal on the moon's surface, its horns slamming into it. Cracks appeared in the seal, and wisps of eerie black energy seeped from the fissures...

Meanwhile, at the Great Xia Night Watch headquarters on Earth, Zuo Qing abruptly stood up, his expression changing drastically: "An extremely high energy reaction has been detected in the direction of the moon!"

Zhou Ping looked up at the sky, his brow furrowed. "It's Michael and Cronus... they're in trouble."

Suddenly, a beam of blue light descended from the sky, crashing heavily onto the plaza in front of the headquarters. As the dust settled, Michael, covered in blood, struggled to his feet. His wings were broken, and golden divine blood flowed continuously.

"Quickly... notify Lin Xiao..." Michael said weakly, "Kronos... sacrificed himself... the Black Goat... is breaking the moon's seal..."

Before he could finish speaking, he fainted. Zhou Ping immediately rushed forward to check on him, his expression growing increasingly grave: "His divine core has cracked; what exactly happened to him...?"

Zuo Qing immediately dialed Lin Xiao's number, but there was no answer. At that moment, Lin Xiao was in the Purple Cloud Palace, entwined with Qiangwei, completely unaware of the changes happening outside...

On the lunar surface, the Black Goat's destruction continued. With each impact, the ancient seal cracked wider and wider. Finally, with a chilling shattering sound, the seal was completely broken!

Countless dark figures surged from the seal, coalescing into twisted shapes on the lunar surface. The Cretan gods let out maddening roars, their crimson eyes all fixed on Earth...