"How strange… these Deities seem to be a bit dull, and slow to react as well, but why?"

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Scarlet asked confusedly.

While stroking Black Hound's head, Little Dusk replied: "Perhaps there's some sort of issue with the Lord of Infinite Origins"

"That's true, he's currently holding up the Pantheon ruins, but he still has excess strength to fight against us, that's already quite unimaginable" Scarlet commented.

The two of them exchanged worried glances.

It was naturally a good thing for Rhode and Reneedol to defeat the other party, but if they happen to injure the Lord of Infinite Origins, there was a very real issue of whether or not he would still be able to hold the Pantheon ruins up.

If he couldn't, everyone would die.

------they were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

While Scarlet and Little Dusk were full of worry, they didn't notice that Boss' legs had slowly sunken into the snow and ice, almost as if he was rooting himself.

He closed his eyes tightly with a blank expression, and only very occasionally would he appear extremely cautious.

No one knew what he was doing.

In the sky-------

The black Demon Dragon was rampaging as he pleased.

Scarlet stood watching him from afar with clear glittering eyes as if she wanted to commit this scene to her memory.

She took out a bottle of liquor, opened the cap, then chugged it down all at once.

Hoh--------

Boiling flames of Death exuded from her body.

"I really like this sensation…"

She muttered while quickly brandishing the black flames scythe in her hand.

The light of Star Force converged around her, manifested into the shape of a shield, then disappeared into the void of space.

In the sky, flames began to manifest as four large shields around the black Demon Dragon's body that continuously circled around him.

Protection------ Star Shields of Death!

Gaining these shields, the black Demon Dragon felt even better, charging straight into a group of Deities and fought against them all at the same time.

Two deities silently disappeared, having bypassed the four shields, and reappeared above the dragon's head.

One Deity swiftly chanted to summon a giant guillotine.

The other Deity wielded the guillotine and swung it towards the black Demon Dragon's neck.

At the same time, one of the other Deities silently circled around the black dragon's back and unleashed a ray of grey light from his eyes towards the dragon's butt.

The entire black dragon was instantly petrified.

Their strict coordination had caused the black dragon to lose his chance to retaliate.

------instantly, the giant guillotine descended.

Seeing that, Scarlet's heart tightened and swiftly swung her scythe, shouting: "Death Distortion!"

The guillotine fell down!

The dozen-meter guillotine blade abruptly vanished and swung down a few hundred meters away.

Scarlet sighed in relief, then was startled to notice that she was soaked in cold sweat.

At the same time, the petrified black Demon Dragon trembled and unleashed immense flames to melt the layer of stone around himself into magma.

The two Deities standing on his back tried to remain but were also blown away by the black flames.

The black Demon Dragon was very angry.

-------if Scarlet hadn't acted just now, I would have had to expose my swords.

「 You garbage Deities! 」

The black Demon Dragon began to roar, while taking distance from the Deities, he angrily shouted: 「 You dare to set a dragon up? I swear that you'll pay for that dearly! 」

----for some reason, he would subconsciously act like a dragon after transforming into one.

Various attacks were unleashed by the Deities towards the shields around the black Demon Dragon.

The shields around him slowly disappeared.

But now, the black Demon Dragon had already prepared himself for this.

[Azure Dragon Origin Hex - Binding]!

He recited the names on the combat synopsis one by one: 「 Roll call, Petrifying Deity, Lord of War, Space Deity, Goddess of Gloom, Assassination Lord God, answer me if you can hear! 」

No one answered him.

「 Very well, you all dared to ignore my existence------- 」

The black dragon grinned, then abruptly disappeared from the sky.

He appeared immediately behind the Petrifying Deity and opened his jaw filled with black flames.

"Oooooo------raaaa------"

An intense burst of flames shot towards the Petrifying Deity.

The Petrifying Deity couldn't move, so he quickly used a spell to turn himself into a cold glowing boulder.

Boom!!!

The dragon's breath combined with the flames of Death enveloped the boulder, which gave off an intense crackling noise.

But the boulder didn't budge at all.

The black Demon Dragon silently used his Demon Dragon Bloodkin power again.

Suddenly, the boulder began to tremble.

The black Demon Dragon charged forward, grabbed the boulder with his dragon claws and crushed it!

Crack!

The boulder broke into fine dust and scattered into the wind.

A full mass of power silently entered the black Demon Dragon's body and greatly improved his aura.

Good…

The black Demon Dragon silently estimated his current strength, then snuck a glance at Reneedol.

Only to see that Reneedol was surrounded by starlight, continuously weaving between the Deities without any of them being able to do anything to her.

------there's still quite a difference.

After all, she's carrying two Divine Artifacts that were forged by the full power of millions of Deities.

The black Demon Dragon turned his vertical irises towards the other Deities who were also unable to move in the sky.

「 Come, let's hope you are a bit stronger… 」

He rushed towards one of the Deities.

…

The battle entered a desperate state.

Quite a few Deities around Reneedol had been killed, but so were the Deities around her.

The black Demon Dragon circled around the edge of the battle zone, occasionally rushing forward to restrain one or two Deities and fighting them off.

-------regardless of how tough or close the battles seemed, he would consistently emerge on top.

He was gradually growing more powerful as well.

"Gu Qing Shan!"

A voice suddenly called out in the black Demon Dragon's mind.

"Huh? Boss, what's the matter?" the black Demon Dragon asked in his mind.

He released his inner sight to scan the ground and saw that Boss still had his eyes closed while standing absolutely still.

-------you've slacked off for long enough, finally deciding to act?

Boss called out:

"Capture a Deity for me, I need one. Remember, make sure that they can't retaliate at all"

"What do you want to do, Boss? Not only do I have to capture them alive, I have to ensure they can't retaliate either, that's very hard" the black Demon Dragon complained.

"Do it quickly, this is related to whether or not we can defeat the Lord of Infinite Origins!" Boss told him with a hurried voice.

The black Demon Dragon stopped complaining.

He focused the full power of his dragon's breath, which he then unleashed towards the ground several times in a row:

「 Ooooo------ raaaa----- raaa----- raaa! 」

The dragon's breaths were condensed into a gigantic sphere of black flames that exuded terrifying power as it flew towards the ground.

At the same time, the black Demon Dragon vanished from the sky.

------Divine Skill, [Ground Shrink]!

He reappeared where the sphere of black flames was about to strike, then looked up at the sky.

He chose a Deity that appeared to be quite powerful, then-------

Divine Skill, [Shadow Shift]!

Instantly, the black Demon Dragon switched places with that Deity.

Before the pitiful Deity even realized what had happened, he abruptly found himself on the ground.

He was surprised, then looked up with a blank expression at the sky.

A sphere of black flames was rapidly magnifying in front of his eyes.

Boom------

The world trembled!

A giant crater appeared on the ground.

The black Demon Dragon flew down into the crater as it proceeded to carry the dying Deity out.

The black Demon Dragon flew in front of Boss and tossed the Deity down.

"Don't leave yet, I need you to protect me for now!" Boss sent his voice.

The Demon Dragon could only return to human form before it landed.

"What is it that caused you to be so cautious?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

Boss grabbed the Deity and pushed him to the ground.

At this point, everyone suddenly noticed that the ground around Boss had sunken down to reveal the ice crystal below.

Boss stepped on the Deity's head, then yanked the black tentacle behind his neck out with considerable force.

In front of everyone, he thrust the black tentacle into his hand.

"What are you doing!?" Gu Qing Shan exclaimed with a warped expression.

Boss breathed heavily and knelt down on one knee; placing his hand on top of the ice crystal.

"It's fine, I've finally remembered the path I walked to obtain ultimate power in the past"

He lightly explained.

From the depths of the ice crystal, a mass of crimson blood silently seeped out and entered his hand.

"I'm simply starting the process ahead of time"

Boss was sweating bullets while forcing out a terrible smile and continued:

"It's time for me to become the Lord of Infinite Origins"