Sol''s hair had and mana had returned to normal after he used [Forced Sun] and [Pulsar] on Dr''ul; not as a measure of his strength waning but rather his intent was to taunt her, he wanted to see more of this power, she was already fighting on the level of Orion which in itself was beyond amazing, considering Orion was the most powerful demonic being from the dark universe, topped only by Darkness and Void.


    If this was him from two days ago fighting her he would have easily lost to her, but Godyer had broken all of his limiters ramping his power several times that of what it used to be; and that is what fascinated him.


    The fact that she was able to channel all the negative emotions and trauma of Arkadia into herself, all the hatred and anguish she had converted into fuel and supercharged herself thereby evolving into a being he couldn''t properly understand despite having the most broken power at his disposal.


    "You think you can be my viin?" Sol asked, slowly bobbed his head from side to side while Dr''ul continued to descend, you think you qualify to fight the Godyer?" He asked again slightly bouncing from one leg to the other and rotating his shoulders while the ground around him began heating up from her approach, and then his eyes shed white, and his hair began floating, changing from the roots and turning to gold and then white again as he suppressed himself.


    "I don''t feel like I worked hard enough for Godyer, honestly," Sol pped his cheeks and stared up at her. "Ever since awakening I''ve felt a sense of false entitlement; as if I don''t actually deserve it." He balled his fist in preparation of hering assault.


    "I feel like fighting you is going to settle this doubt in my heart, maybe I will learn from this experience, so I''ll fight you with just as much conviction as you fight me," Sol''s eyes coated over in white and his ears grew taller as his divine mana ran wild within his body.


    "That''s to say; I won''t hold my punches anymore, soe at me intent on killing me!" Sol roared up toward her matching and surpassing her power in an instant as he leapt.


    "That''s it!" Dr''ul leaned her bodyically, and he did the same, and just a second before their fists collided Ikaris spread her hands and pped loudly, causing the entirety of the universe they were in to tremble before the gxy everyone had been observing disappeared.


    For a few seconds the entire colosseum was quiet after the gxy vanished, but then the feed returned and their visions were graced with several gxies disappearing in an instant, totally erased from existence as Sol and Dr''ul shed fists, neither of them gaining an upper hand as they continued to block and pummel each other across the stars.


    "What did you do?"  Dina used her connection through their shared bond to speak in Ikaris''s head.


    "Their fight is going to get out of hand eventually, I am moderating for his exact reason, I simply threw them both to the farthest corner of this universe, but look at them; at this rate Adonai will be busy rebuilding for the next ten thousand years!" Ikaris answered Dina''s query.


    "Is it not better to stop the fight, then?" A who had heard Dina''s thoughts and Ikaris''s response chimed into the conversation.


    "Nay, I would never." The goddess shook her head smiling. "You heard our Love, this fight is a defining one for his own personal reassurance, while I am still confident in his victory, it is evident he does not care about winning himself, this is simply his way of proving to himself that he is worthy of the powers of The Beginning that he holds." She exined, and A in response nodded.


    "I respect his humility, many would be arrogant beyond conception, and I feel he may have sensed such arrogance within himself, and so has decided to test his heart," She held her hands forward and continued forcing the universe to expand, aodating them farther and farther away from everyone else whilst simultaneously mending the tear she had created when she attacked Dr''ul the first time.


    "This is the character of a great man; one who does not allow power to change them." Ikaris added. "Surely he has changed somewhat, there was once a time he was afraid, he was weak, and he relied on others, but as he learnt to walk on his own he has be a protector, a provider, and a man of moral ambiguity, which to me is the best kind."


    "Moral what?" Dina raised her brows.


    "I think she means to say he does things as he sees fit, he judges wrongdoers but he is not overly or suffocatingly righteous himself, he has his perks but he does not let them define what he wants to be; depending on who his opponent is or what is happening around him, he has the ability to make decisions that can save anyone, or doom everyone." A answered.


    "Ah, walking the grey line."


    "Precisely."  Ikaris answered, focused on the fight as she saw Dr''ul strike Sol so hard that time dted and slowed down around them before he vanished as he was left on the recieving end of a strike which was equivalent to his [stacked clockwork]; a timeless punch if you would.


    Sol flew in what felt like a downward spiral to him, skipping from one gxy to another in mere seconds, extending giant mana hands and grabbing on to massive stars to stop his crash, but the moment he finally slowed down enough to gather himself the goddess emerged before him, her armour at this point was mostly gone as she hadpletely abandoned cosmetics, only shielded by a fraction of her breasttes and some basic looking armoured dress fragments which continued to survive his attacks, while he had been reduced to his trusty unbreakable pants.


    "Each of these strikes are easily capable of destroying Arkadia more than a billion times over, they are incredibly dense, but what can we do, this is a fight that has been promised for over five years, a pact between mortal and immortal, it was inevitable!" Ikaris eximed when she saw Dr''ul descend on Sol and strike him again several times pummeling him through the heart of another gxy, creating such power in her blow that the ck hole on the midst of that gxy evaporated from the overdose of evergy she caused.


    The crowds were a lot quieter now as the fight reached lengths they were incapable of understanding, even the gods had been shocked out of words, those of Arkadia had no idea Dr''ul was this powerful, they had grown fear in their hearts at what they were witnessing, while the new gods seemed to be at a loss of words because she was this strong at all, considering they had witnessed Sol''s power before, they could not believe another being other than Ikaris had managed to grow this powerful.


    "This goddess of war, could she be another primordial like Ikaris?" Gabriell looked at her sister, both wearing simr dresses with their wings folded on their backs and small crowns atop their heads, truly looking like Ikaris did when she first met Sol, only slightly different in appearances and height.


    "ording to our ancestor, her siblings died when they shattered, and there were only two, so if Dr''ul is a primordial she would likely be a part of Ikaris''s own self, right?" Gadriel answered her younger sibling with a shrug. "Either way, this fight reminds me of the one with Orion, but far more...


    Carnal, they are not fighting for the safety or control over a universe, they are not fighting to save anything or anyone, they are proving to themselves why they are strong, and yet look at how hard they fight, it feels desperate."


    "An interesting input from the newest goddess  hope in the Arkadian pantheon!" Ikaris snapped her fingers, rying their conversation to everyone as well.


    "Indeed you are right, Dr''ul is another part of myself, a muchrger portion than I had realised, feel free to refer to her as elder sister!" She eximed proudly, watching with glee as Dr''ul struck Sol for the millionth time, but unlike the previous times he tanked the blow in its entirety and held on to her hand, stopping his momentum and looking up at her with an expression that screamed ''my turn''.


    "There was a time the goddess of war nearly died at my hands," Ikaris exined, and everyone started listening keenly to her words, A who only had a vague idea of this in particr was paying attention as well, along with Dina.


    "At that time I unwittingly exposed what true desperation from a god looks like; I hinted at what a corned god is capable of, I do not regret it, in fact it seems she has grown and adapted a simr power, truly, she is strong." She spoke calmly, looking at Sol tanking several shattering punches from Dr''ul without so much as flinching. "However...


    as damaging as her attacks on him are, if this is where she draws the line she will lose this fight within the next move."


    Holding on to Dr''ul''s arm, Sol reached back and dug deep within himself, grinding his teeth so hard that his gums began bleeding as the gxy the two of them found themselves in began imploding on itself from his buildup of power alone.


    "Is this the Godyer, atst?" Dr''ul wondered, but a secondter her senses started going haywire when she felt the existential threat he was bing and realising he was still withholding his true power from her.


    "Godyer? No." Sol stared at her, squeezing her wrist so hard it snapped in his grasp causing the goddess to wince and hiss as she tried breaking free of his hold. "I did tell you that I''m not gonna hold back, but I said you had to earn Godyer, didn''t I?" He asked as a white crack appeared on his forehead.


    "You want a fight, a real fight, if you''re iming to be my viin there are disadvantages thate along with it-" Sol spun and released her.


    "The first one is being on the recieving end of my unbridled wrath!"


    He closed one fist and held his other hand over it, charging his mana to its peak and then breaking that peak and raising it even higher, distorting the very dimension around them and disorienting Dr''ul into a state of confusion in the process, exuding a gxy''s worth of energy in just his approach as the gravity around his fist caused matter itself to stop moving.


    [Divine overload has ured, calcting current statistics, master vestic you dir it again...] System sighed in his head


    "Singr, Point!"


    "Oh!" Ikaris eximed when Sol''s punch connected with the Goddess''s chest, and all went ck, creating a visible tear across space much as her attack on the heavens had done in the first ce. "What the hell!"


    "Oh!"