"Eros Eye: Sacred King Battleform."
Zatiel's third eye glowed with a majestic sky-blue golden light. An endless vitality filled his bloodstream as bone spikes emerged from his elbows and knees along with red yang runes that enhanced the hardness and durability of every single organ.
The Neo-Demon's body became as resilient as a High Rank 7 Artifact, and as long the enemy did not destroy his brain and hearts, every wound and missing limb would instantly regenerate.
Next, the Yin-Yang Laws and the Origin Essence Wheel's force gathered in his arms, generating a red and blue lightsaber. They were better than any external weapon for the Neo-Demon, as they were perfect conduits for his powers.
Finally, the Law of Void and Space-Time Laws gathered around his arms and legs, forming plasma gauntlets and boots that pushed Zatiel's speed and dexterity to a whole new level, one so high that it would leave even the Shooting Star Bloodline eating dust.
Zatiel's aura skyrocketed to the point that even without using his Bloodline Apocalyptic Metamorphosis, he already approached a point beyond Limit Rank 7. Luckily, it was just at the power limit enforced by Gods' Tomb Plane Consciousness.
Sacred King Battleform required more energy than what a Rank 6 life form could provide, but Zatiel found a way around it. He used his life force as fuel and channeled his Elemental Chaos into the Eros Eye to replenish every iota of vitality he lost at the same time, reaching symmetry between the loss and gains.
"Stick together! Be ready to self-destruct if you think you can harm him!" The lightning Divine Avatar roared with all his strength as he saw that not only the Magic Castle's force field was ineffective against the Neo-Demon, but they could not even understand the spells and skills this one unleashed.
None of the Divine Avatars bother to send long-range spells against the Neo-Demon. Their precision was pathetic, and they were sure the enemy would dodge them, making them waste their energy in vain.
Although the golden giants were nervous, not everything was lost since their battle power was still high thanks to the Magic Castle.
Usually, when Magi attempted to invade a continent under their control, even when they marched led by Limit Rank 7 life forms, they still carried out twice the Divine Avatars' numbers and powerful artifacts that could counter the powers of the Magic Castle.
The child was alone, and even if he managed to unleash abilities that allowed him to ignore the Magic Castle, they should still be able to face him head-on.
Unfortunately, whatever kind of chance the Divine Avatars thought they had against the child was lost when he activated his left eye.
"Thanatos Eye: Sacred King Aphotic Dominion."
Thanatos, the Death Drive. It was the desire to destroy, a spiritual instinct that compelled us to embark on risky and dangerous paths.
That was the new name of Zatiel Daybreak's evolved Eye of Death and Destruction.
Once again, Zatiel unleashed the laws and forces inside his body, soul, and bloodline through one of his eyes.
First, the Law of Gravity, Law of Void, and Law of Nullification manifested into a black domain around the Neo-Demon. There was a sky blue edge in it, as the Everlasting Law granted it indestructibility.
Nothing could destroy this domain, yet every law, energy, or force that got in contact with it would face a crushing weight even mightier than a weak black hole and a power that could nullify anything.
As long as this three-meter domain covered Zatiel, even if enemies fired hundreds of spells with power beneath the Rudimentary Form Stage at him from every direction, there would not be a scratch on his face.
Just the domain was enough to cripple the Divine Avatars' offensive, but there was still something else.
Sacred King Aphotic Dominion split into a domain and a force field. The first protected the Neo-Demon, while the second weakened the enemy.
Unlike the three-meter domain, the force field expanded until it covered the entire Valefor Continent and its surroundings.
The Divine Avatars were not even able to perceive the force field. They only realized they were under its effects as their energy stagnated, making it extremely difficult to mobilize it, and their bodies lost their strength while their five senses were crippled.
That was only the physical part of the force field. A golden giant grabbed his neck and began twitching in the sky as if he was drowning.
It made no sense. The golden giants were puppets, and the core of their existence that allowed the Gods to manipulate them at an impossibly long distance were God Cores inside their brains.
This God Core contained a God's seed of consciousness and a small ember of their soul, so they could work as a form of True Soul that granted absolute control.
However, those God Core's spiritual defenses were usually the most unassailable part of the Divine Avatar. Even if a soul attack manages to reach it, the blow to God should be minimal due to their nature.
Not to mention that they were Rank 7 life forms and did not need to breathe, so the sole idea of them drowning was ludicrous.
Sadly, no matter what they said to themselves, every one of the Gods controlling these Divine Avatars felt they were in the deepest zone of an ocean surrounded by darkness and a crushing pressure as water entered their lungs.
Before any of the Gods controlling the Divine Avatars could use their soul force to restrain the emotions, Zatiel had already appeared in front of them.
The Neo-Demon's speed was just on a completely different level as he used Samsara King Battleform, even surpassing Void Teleportation. Of course, that was just in short distances, as in ultra-long travel, Void Universe was more practical.
A rocky golden giant countless times larger saw how the Neo-Demon struck him with the red lightsaber, and in that exact moment, utter shock emerged in his face.
When the point of that tiny red lightsaber touched his chest, the Divine Avatar felt as if a world was crashing against him.
"BOOM!" Now it was time for everybody else to feel shocked, as they saw the rocky Divine Avatar explode like a balloon full of golden blood.
That blow proved that the body of the Neo-Demon was just as mighty as his spells.
"AHHH!" A Divine Avatar roared as the God owning it managed to regain control. He launched himself toward the Neo-Demon as his body self-destructed.
Zatiel's eyes showed nothing as he saw that raging ocean of energy coming in his direction. He raised his blue lightsaber before waving it down and splitting the ocean in half.
That attack was the most amazing of all the techniques Zatiel had deployed in the eyes of the Magi and Gods watching the battle from outside Gods' Tomb since the blue lightsaber didn't cut the energies, but the spell's matrix!
Before the commotion ended, Zatiel flashed and appeared right above the head of another golden giant.
"Karma Severing."
A dark purple sphere emerged from his wrist and fused into the blue lightsaber before he pierced the Divine Avatar's head.
The lightsaber was less than one meter long, so it did not even pierce the Divine Avatar's skin. Yet, the golden giant trembled, and the light in his eye vanished as he fell to the ground like a puppet whose strings were cut.
Zatiel did precisely that. His attack reached the God Core inside the brain and severed the karmic link between the Divine Avatar and God before shattering the matrix that allowed it to act.
Karma Severing lacked raw destructive power, but Zatiel proved how efficient it was when handling things like avatars.
The Neo-Demon had not even removed the blue lightsaber from the rocky Divine Avatar's head as he pointed the red one to another.
There was nothing the golden giant could do. Nine suns emerged from Zatiel's right wrist and merged into the red lightsaber before this one glowed with the intensity that could blind an entire world and fire a beam of energy.
The beam evaporated the Divine Avatar, leaving only the lightning golden giant left.
Utter and absolute shock appeared in the lightning Divine Avatar, as he saw how Zatiel had already killed everybody else. There was not a doubt in his mind he would instantly die if he engaged in a battle, so the only path ahead was self-destruction and hope that this time, the outcome would be different.
Unfortunately, before he could do that, Zatiel's right eye glowed.
"Rex Somniorum Eye: Heart Demon."
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