Zatiel closed his eyes and let Enlightenment Mist fill his lungs and soul dimension.
The Neo-Demon planned to finish the Animax Soul Rune that would grant him the Shooting Star Bloodline's ability!
The runic diagram for the Animax Soul Rune was already eighty percent completed, but the last twenty percent was the most challenging part.
Part of his mind had been pondering over this runic diagram every day for the last few years, and he was ready to transform that theoretical knowledge into actual work.
Zatiel's unique Mind Force enhanced his speed of thought and cognitive abilities. He cleared his mind of any unnecessary worries and focused his soul and consciousness solely on the task at hand.
He concentrated on the tiny fragment of the Shooting Star Bloodline that resided inside him and began to work.
A cycle of creation, failure, examination, and improvement started. The runic diagram was constantly breaking apart due to instabilities or mistakes, but the Neo-Demon never got discouraged and just started all over again.
For any other Runemaster, even if they were a supreme genius, without the computational abilities of a Being of Laws, it would take them a lifetime to create an Animax Soul Rune so complex as the one that Zatiel wanted.
However, Zatiel was someone who had created an Animax Soul Rune that had the form of a galaxy!. He had reached the absolute peak as a Runemaster and even started a unique Rune Crafting Path known through the entire universe as the greatest in existence.
The Ancestor of the Neo-Demon race managed to finish the runic diagram in six months!
He just managed to engrave the runic diagram in his memory before falling unconscious due to exhaustion. The mental effort was immense even for him, and he was only able to keep up thanks to his Mind Force, which was now empty.
The Neo-Demon was fast asleep, and there was a great smile on his face. Zatiel would never be so careless in any other place, but in the Neo-Demon Realm, not even a Rank 8 life form could endanger his life.
He had been sleeping for less than a day when a man with a terrifying aura approached him.
Ezequiel saw Zatiel's exhausted body, and a peculiar light appeared in his eyes.
The Supreme Neo-Demon put his palm over Zatiel's head and released a white electric shock. The next instant, an incredibly pure and potent vital force overflowed the unconscious Neo-Demon.
Ezequiel left a space ring by Zatiel's side before flying away. As he left the Neo-Demon's Realm, his aura became cold and full of bloodlust, fitting for a Demon Lord.
Zatiel awoke thirty minutes after the Supreme Neo-Demon had left, and he was confused.
'What happened? I have been sleeping for less than a day, and yet I am already fully rested.' Zatiel knew that his hard work and overtaxing his mind should have forced him to sleep for at least a week.
"NRAI?" The Neo-Demon made the question to the entity that monitored every section of the Neo-Demon Realm, and he received an answer the next second.
"Bip...
Supreme Neo-Demon filled Ruler's body with an unknown force.
Due to Ezequiel Invictus' status as the second in command of the Neo-Demon Race, NRAI did not stop him.
NRAI monitored Ruler's body to make sure he was safe.
The unknown force made Ruler's body enter a state of an immense drive. It made your potential explode, making your existence experience a temporary qualitative improvement.
Ruler's regeneration abilities reached a new level, which healed your exhaustion and recovered your energies in a matter of minutes.
The unknown force acted as a catalyzer, stopping any side effect of overcharging Ruler's potential.
Note: There is no record of Supreme Neo-Demon's unknown force in the NRAI's database, but according to analysis, it is at a level above Rebirth Force."
Zatiel was surprised when he heard the last part. Rebirth Force was the unique type of force birthed from the Rebirth Eclipse Bloodline, and it was the highest type of energy inside him.
The next moment, a smile appeared on his face, and an urge he thought would never again feel appeared in his heart.
'The pressure of rivalry is an excellent driving force.' He wasn't bothered for a second that Ezequiel could get over him.
Their bond was unbreakable, and he knew from the bottom of his soul that the Supreme Neo-Demon would sacrifice his life without hesitation to save him or the race.
Of course, that did not mean he was willing to lose his position as the greatest genius of the universe.
Ezequiel's unrivaled potential only pushed his ambition forward.
The Neo-Demon inspected the space ring Ezequiel had left. In it, there were five sealed Demon Lords.
'Excellent. These Rank 5 life forms are precisely the type of material I need right now.'
The Animax Soul Rune that the runic diagram depicted was a Rank 5 one, so Zatiel needed Law Engraving existences to make it.
The Neo-demon pushed his Rebirth Eye and Eye of Life and Creation to the limit and boosted his cognitive abilities with Mind Force before creating the rune.
This part was more taxing than making the runic diagram, but he could rest after every failure.
Luckily it was only when the rune reached eighty percent that he needed to fuse a Rank 5 True Soul in it, so not every failure meant losing a Demon Lord.
After eleven months, more than one hundred failures, and four Demon Lord's True Souls lost, Zatiel finally completed the Animax Soul Rune.
In front of Zatiel appeared a blue rune that gave the illusion of being a force of nature that could move faster than time.
The Neo-Demon smiled with pride as he saw the rune. Even for an entity like him, creating something that could grant the power of an Archangel's Law Bloodline was astonishing.
'I will call you Shooting Star End.'
He took the Animax Soul Rune and brought it to his soul dimension.
A person could only have a Soul Rune engraved in their True Soul, and not even Zatiel was an exception for that. However, as a Neo-Demon, he had another option.
He engraved the Shooting Star End in his True Doomsday Body. Although he would not get the benefits of tempering his soul, another rune was already fulfilling that task.
The process was usually excruciating, but to the Neo-Demon, it was nothing.
'Now it is time for trial by fire.' The runic diagram appeared flawless, and the force and laws in the Animax Soul Rune gave him the feeling of the Shooting Star Bloodline, but the only way to be sure of its power was to test it.
"NRAI, make a full scan of my soul, body, and energy as I activate Shooting Star End, and be ready to make a comprehensive evaluation of it."
"Bip...
Scanning force acting at total capacity in Ruler."
Once he heard the answer of the NRAI, Zatiel sent his Elemental Chaos to the Animax Soul Rune.
The Neo-Demon was surprised how Shooting Star End devoured a quarter of his Elemental Chaos to activate, but that thought disappeared from his mind the next second as he felt the changes in the world around him.
Everything began to slow down until a grey color filled the universe. It was like the flow of time had halted, but Zatiel knew that was not it.
Shooting Star End did not affect the world. It granted Zatiel's soul, body, and energy unparalleled speed!
The Neo-Demon focused on a mountain range that extended more than three hundred thousand meters.
He vanished from his location only to appear instantly at the end of the mountain range.
A trail of blood leaked from the corner of his mouth, and he felt his organs shaking, but there was a smile on Zatiel's face.
The next second, every mountain began to collapse while the voice of the NRAI was heard in the Neo-Demon's mind.
"Bip... Scanned of Animax Soul Rune completed.
Shooting Star End (Rank 5 Animax Soul Rune): Grant the user an immense boost in physical's speed, speed of thought, and energy revolution.
The rune needs an immense amount of energy to keep it activated, equal to a battle-orientated Pseudo-Rank 6 Animax Soul Rune.
Warning: Anyone with a physique beneath 7 points would have their bodies wreck to shred by the pressure."
Zatiel sat down on the ground to rest as he analyzed the information given by the NRAI.
'The amount of energy it needs makes sense for such a powerful ability. As for the backlash, I expected such a thing to happen. After all, the rune only grants me the Shooting Star Bloodline's power, not their unique constitution.'
The Neo-Demon was finishing healing his wounds when he heard a message from Dante.
'Father, something dangerous is happening in the Magi World!'
