Breaking through

Rudra struggled under the weight of the palm as his knees threatened to crack if he did not let go of the weight immediately. 

He was brute forcing his way against the weight and not actually lifting it. He was as good as a dead log on whom the whole weight was balanced on as every single muscle in his body from the tips of his toes to the neck muscles under his jaw were tensed to the extreme to stop the palm from descending onto the city. 

Rudra used to joke around with this exact metaphor as one of his favorite sayings was ' with me standing here the sky would not fall ' , when he tried to reassure the elites that he could handle any threat present. 

However, today ironically he was literally trying to stop the sky from falling onto his city and it was taking every ounce of his willpower to not budge from underneath.