After two to three minutes of continuously bombarding the monster with thousands of burning swords, his sun began to dim and shrink, its energy nearly depleted from the continuous assault.
Orion watched intently, hoping that the sustained onslaught had somewhat weakened the monster.
As the last few burning swords streaked through the air, his sun finally died down and vanished into thin air.
"Again!"
However, without waiting to see the results of his attack on the monster, he once again began to conjure another miniature sun at the top of his palm. The intense flames swirled and condensed rapidly, forming another blazing sphere hovering before him.
Orion knew he couldn't afford to give the monster any respite. So, he prepared to unleash another devastating wave of burning swords, determined to damage the monster as much as he could.
But before that, he needed to check if the barrage of swords earlier did any damage to the monster or not.
Looking at the position where the monster stood, he could only see smoke rising from the area. There were still some sparks of fire flickering here and there.
Orion's heart pounded as he tried to see through the haze, hoping that his attack had finally done some damage to the monstrous foe.
'If it's still fine with all that attack and sneak attack me with his tentacles, then that would be very depressing.'
He thought to himself as he prepared for any form of sneak attack from the monster. Even as he conjured another miniature sun, he knew he had to remain vigilant, ready for any sign of movement from within the smoke.
As time passed, the smoke began to dissipate, revealing the aftermath of Orion's devastating attack. The scorched ground was littered with remnants of burning debris, and the air was thick with the acrid smell of charred earth.
'Some of my swords reached the ground. I hope no one got injured because of that.'
Slowly, the outline of the monster became visible through the thinning smoke, and Orion's eyes strained to see whether his efforts had been enough to bring any damage to the monster or not.
A moment later, the smoke fully dissipated, and Orion could clearly see the monster.
But the part where he had put the most focus was still floating in the air, even though it was fully covered in lava. Orion, who was inside that part, couldn't clearly see what was happening so he patiently waited for the attack to die down.
Some time later, the lava stopped flowing from the monster's mouth, and the remaining lava on Orion's colossal form began to slip away.
Orion saw that aside from the part protected with layers of absolute defense, other parts of his body were gone, melted away by the intense heat of the lava.
He had already expected that so he wasn't surprised to see that. What did surprise him, though, was that his absolute defense held on. He was ready to move onto his dimension at any moment if the lava were to break the layers of absolute defense he had placed earlier.
'It seems if I stack upon the layers of absolute defense, it will have greater repelling power.'
He thought as he turned his attention to the monster when the lava on his colossal stomach fully slipped away.
"Prepare for another one of my named techniques, you stupid monster."
He yelled at the monster as he summoned his miniature sun that he had conjured earlier. When he was dragged by the monster earlier, he sent this miniature sun to his dimension.
And now he summoned it back.
"Nuclear Sun!"
A huge sun, twice the size of their heads, appeared between them, casting a brilliant glow that illuminated the battlefield.
Orion quickly used that opportunity to hide away in his dimension. He didn't want to be a part of whatever was about to happen.
Also, he didn't use the Ten Thousand Burning Swords and instead directly used the miniature sun this time.
It was because he had noticed that even though Ten Thousand Burning Swords was a powerful technique, it didn't do much damage to the monster itself.
Hence, he decided to use the raw power of the miniature sun itself this time, hoping it would deal some significant damage to the monster.