Athea's body burst with black-white lightning that enhanced every aspect of her existence and allowed her to fuse a fraction of the essence of the Emptiness into her physical attacks before flashing forward at superluminal speed.
Abadon did not simply wait for Athea, but neither did she run away and avoid a melee battle, surprising everybody. A physical fight with a bearer of the Lord of Emptiness Bloodline would be suicide, but the Depravita showed no fear as she clasped her hands, igniting them with a sky-blue flame harboring the power of the Law of Space and Time.
The moment the sky-blue flame appeared in Abadon's hand, it fused with the black domain surrounding her body, transforming into a halo.
Athea's eyes widened as she felt a crushing gravity manifest around Abadon, but it was not enough to stop her. She enhanced the black-white lightning covering her body and pushed forward, reaching the Depravita before shooting a punch with unbelievable power.
Abadon adopted a solemn expression when she saw that Athea managed to surpass the sky-blue halo. Her eyes turned to the lightning fist, and she clasped her hand, channeling the power of her Concept before sending a palm strike.
"¡BOOM!"
A massive blast of black-white lightning and sky-blue flames spread across the arena, but the most shocking part was that the lightning punch and palm had not actually entered into contact.
Athea's clenched her teeth as she pushed her right fist forward using all her strength, resisting the immense gravitational force in the palm. This exchange was enough to tell her the nature of the Concept that Abadon had mastered.
In theory, Laws and Concepts are the same in the sense they are represented in every form of existence in the universe. However, while a Law is the objective behavior of a phenomenon or force, a Concept is how life forms understand and interact with that power.
Abadon had mastered something more than just the Concept of Gravity. She came into touch with a power that 99.9999% of the universe saw as a destructive force that bent space-time, exerted the maximum control of gravity, and could destroy everything but Thearchs.
'She mastered the Concept of Black Holes!'
The realization reached Athea's mind as she understood that the black domain around Abadon was actually a black hole, and the sky-blue halo was the event horizon!
Despite the shock that her rival managed to use such a powerful Concept, Athea's fighting spirit did not weaken, and she kept pushing her fist forward.
Abadon was not having an easy time fighting against that fist since the black-white lightning had such a destructive nature that even Concepts could not escape it. She felt Athea's attack coming closer, but that only made her send even more gravitational force into her palm.
Noah, Beelzebub, and Sirik empty their minds of everything else and put their focus on the battle between the two women. Despite their talent and power, the trio clenched their fist since no matter who raised to the next round, that person would be a formidable opponent.
"¡AHHHH!"
"¡AHHHH!"
Both women roared as they pushed their power to the limit, filling the arena with arcs of black-white lightning and sky-blue flames.
"BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!"
Finally, none of them could overwhelm the other, and they were shot in opposite directions while puking blood.
Athea felt her inner organs tremble, but as a Lord of Emptiness, she could heal any damage by rearranging her cells. She regained control of her body extremely fast and immediately rose to the sky before making the black-white lightning in her fist explode.
"Cosmic Punch!"
Abadon saw Athea firing a massive fist made of black-white lightning that summoned the power of World Strength, and she buried her hands into the ground, channeling her energy into the earth.
Giant rocks rose from the ground, all bathed by sky-blue flames, but that was far from everything. The Depravita used her Concept of Black Holes to condense immense amounts of space-time energy into them.
"Space-Time Moons!"
Abadon shot the massive rocks bathed in sky-blue flames, and as soon as they made contact with Athea's black-white lightning fist, wild and chaotic energy flooded the sky.
The wild energy blinded the arena. Athea had yet to fully regain her sight when she noticed the power in the broken Space-Time Moons gathered above her and transformed into a massive gravitational wave.
The Neo-Demon only managed to put her arms over her head before the gravitational wave crashed on her, pushing her all the way to the ground.
Abadon saw Athea's body generate a massive crater and did not hesitate before controlling the wild space-time energy in the sky to shoot more gravitational waves into the Neo-Demon.
"¡BOOM!" "¡BOOM!" "¡BOOM!"
Each gravitational wave crashed with immense force over Athea, making the crater around her even larger. Nevertheless, Abadon could not help but frown as she saw the Neo-Demon just lying on the ground doing nothing.
"Crack."
Suddenly, Abadon's eyes widened as she heard the sound of the ground shattering behind her and saw Athea emerging from it. She could only raise her arms and protect her head before a mighty fist landed on her.
Abadon's arms shattered under the power of Athea's fist, and there was not a single organ in her body that was not trembling. Luckily, her Depravita Constitution could heal all damage instantly by consuming her energy.
The damage of that fist was immense, but Abadon forced her mind to remain focused. Even as she flew through the sky, she still turned her gaze to the body in the crater.
Athea's body in the crater broke into hundreds of arcs of black-white lightning that returned toward her true self.
As a Lord of Emptiness, it was easy for Athea to form avatars indistinguishable from her true self. She left one in the crater and moved beneath the ground before appearing behind the Depravita.
The Neo-Demon recovered the avatar's energy before immediately flashing toward the sky. Yet, she had not even risen ten meters from the ground when dozens of gravitational vortices appeared between her and the Depravita.
Athea charged forward with all her power, dodging some of the gravitational vortices and shattering the others in her effort to reach the Depravita.
Abadon saw the Neo-Demon coming her way and used her own blood to form massive Space-Time Moons.
The battle had yet to last a minute, but both women had unleashed devastating power and battle techniques that left all those in awe.
