Zatiel appeared in the Beta Heavenly World's sky. Beneath him, a pink aura covered a continent where thousands of Neo-Demons improved their magic professions' skills.
None of the Neo-Demons could perceive Zatiel unless this one allowed it. There was only one individual in the entire world that noticed his arrival.
Hades woke up from his meditation and looked toward Zatiel. With a single glance, he knew the Neo-Demon's purpose for coming here.
Zatiel saw how Hades stared at the thousands of Neo-Demons in the ground before looking back at him. The concern in the Ancient Being of Law's eyes made him smile and reassured the decision he took.
A wave carrying the power of the Virtual Force emerged from Zatiel and covered the entire continent. The Neo-Demons entered a trance state before being teleported into his space ring.
When the last Neo-Demon vanished from the continent, Hades appeared in the sky and fired a punch charged with flaming shadows toward Zatiel, to which this one responded with his own fist bathed in prime force.
"BOOM!" An explosion filled the sky of the Beta Heavenly World and made every continent tremble.
Unlike the last time they fought, Zatiel was not using external power. This strength belonged to him and no one else.
Hades was surprised by the might of the Neo-Demon, but that did not slow down his attack, and immediately his body crumbled into shadows.
He instantly reformed behind Zatiel's and fired a fist through the center of the halo. Unfortunately, while it appeared that the halo's center was empty, Hades felt his hand was trying to pierce a dense and thick invisible plasma.
Anything with strength beneath the Rudimentary Form Stage would find it impossible to harm Zatiel's back.
Before the fist could land, Zatiel fused with the void only to remerge behind Hades and sent a new punch charged with Karmic Samsara Force.
The Ancient Being of Laws did honor to his fame, dodging the attack in the last second, only to appear above Zatiel's head and strike down with a spear made of flaming shadows.
Zatiel's eyes narrowed as the spear's speed was too fast for him to use Void Universe. A small smile grew on his face as gray flames appeared in his right palm, which he put right in the weapon's path.
Hades could not believe what he was seeing. His shadow spear was like snow touching magma as it made contact with the gray flames.
The Neo-Demon's palm did not stop with the spear, as it grabbed Hades' arm, weakening him and making it impossible to dodge the fist that landed right on his stomach.
That punch was so powerful that it sent the Ancient Being of Laws flying away from the Beta Heavenly World and into the Neo-Demon Realm's void.
Hades had not even regained control of his void when the same flaming palm grabbed the back of his neck, only so the next second a punch would land on him.
Zatiel materialized ahead of Hades, grabbed this one shoulder with his right flaming palm, and prepared to send another fist charged with prime force.
However, this time the Ancient Being of Laws' eyes glowed, making a blue shadow fire fill the interior of his body and fight back the gray flames.
Hades took advantage of Zaitel's opening and connected a fist on the ribs, sending the Neo-Demon flying away.
Before Zatiel could regain control of his body, Hades appeared by his side and sent a kick bathed in blue shadow fire that shot this one up.
The Ancient Being of Laws sought to continue with his onslaught, but just as he appeared by Zatiel's side, a black domain with a purple edge emerged from this one.
Zatiel's domain delayed the punch approaching his head long enough for him to use Void Universe and teleport right behind the Ancient Being of Laws.
A small and compacted domain appeared in Zatiel's right hand as nine purple suns went supernova inside it. He was just about to release the energy when Hades turned around, grabbed his wrist, and made the energy blast miss the target.
Zatiel's eyes narrowed as he saw the energy blast extend into the void, but he was not surprised that it failed. The attack was extremely powerful but needed too long to charge.
At their level, anything that took longer than a microsecond, meaning one-millionth of a second, was too slow and could be easily intercepted or dodged.
Hades made a blade with his free hand and charged an immense amount of blue shadow fires into it before shooting it forward, which the Neo-Demon counter with a dark purple sphere the size of a fist.
"BOOM!" A powerful explosion echoed through the void as bout attacks collided. The blast pushed the duo away, but the moment they regained control over their bodies, they immediately flashed toward the other.
Zatiel and Hades moved faster than the light through the Neo-Demon Realm's void, unleashing thousands of shock waves each second. Their speed was so high that it gave the illusion multiple Neo-Demons and Ancient Being of Laws fought simultaneously.
Zatiel's skills improved each second, and he figured out every single flaw in his new battle style. Fighting a world and a person was totally different since one was static and could not move, while the other could dodge.
Not to mention that striking a two-meter man was much more challenging than a massive world with a radius of several billion kilometers.
After around ten minutes of battle, Zatiel was reaching his end. His energy pool was still at Limit Rank 6, and his Karmic Samsara Force was not suitable for regular spells.
Zatiel's Infinity Heart began to beat with immense power, making his skin gain a black metallic luster as nine purple suns emerged from him, and they immediately fused with the halo on his back.
Unlike his previous Bloodline Apocalyptic Metamorphosis, these new suns enhanced Zatiel's soul, body, and energy by a factor of three!
Hades' eyes showed surprise as he felt how Zatiel's power skyrocketed, and before he could even process it, the Neo-Demon was in front of him with a gray flaming hand grabbing his shoulder.
The gray flames were stronger, so the Ancient Being of Laws could not instantly expel its power. By the time his blue shadow fire counter it, Zatiel's hand containing a domain charged with nine supernovas was in the center of his chest, ready to blast.
"I win." The Neo-Demon said nothing else before taking his hand out of Hades' shoulder and defusing the blast.
"Let's go to the world.. We need to speak."
