''Well, now that everything is in ce, it''s time to show a little of the power I have acquired over the years spent wandering in this damn universe.'' While whispering these words to himself with subdued eyes, his shadow flickers in the void after he joins his two palms.


    -Whshhhh!!


    Despite being in space and without a protective barrier around him, a ferocious current of air suddenly imposed itself because of the agitation of the ck sail, which had several tiny purple pearls as ster stars.


    After seeing that, he regains his usual mood as he closes his eyes to observe the others'' progress.


    Then, while noticing that everyone was waiting for his signal...


    "Now!!" He murmured in a barely audible voice but which was heard by his four subordinates despite the distance of a kilometer that existed between them.


    Simultaneously he bitterly sighed when he saw Greed take action before everyone else.


    ''Sigh, I don''t know how I should express myself so that this bastard understands the meaning of not standing out. While I tell him not to do too much, he tries to be faster than the others.'' He told himself, focusing on Greed, who waved his magic stick in the void, followed by the appearance of a fierce aura around thetter''s body that disturbed the spatiotemporal flows around him.


    ?!- it''s decided; I''m really going to hang him for a week and purify hisparative mind with my mes!'' He annoyedly takes this decision into his thoughts, noticing that Greed cast not only a spatialw but also a temporalw to disrupt the space around him further.


    "Synchronize yourselves with him." He then instantly changed his orders for the proper functioning of the destructive magic he was about to cast, followed by Greed''s careless acts!


    Hearing his orders and guessing that their lord intended to change his ns at thest minute, Darka and the other two stared at Greed with dissatisfied eyes for his idiocy and audacity.


    But on the other hand, the three had no trouble performing the same skill as their colleague.


    ''Sigh, this bastard forces me to use a skill whose damage I can''t predict myself. Finally, it''s not a bad thing in itself.'' He then retorted while focusing on the others to prevent them from making the same mistake.


    While Luna gave several daggers in the void at lightning speed, Darka just made a vertical slice with his imposing sword. And concerning Zakiel, thetter did nothing shy and stood calmly in his spot.


    -Whoops!!


    But regardless of their strange and iprehensible movements for Alvine, he soon noticed two independent pentagrams appearing in front of them of an ethereal blue and a barely visible pure white that merged to be a single spell of spatiotemporalw. The same divinew that Greed had cast and who was waiting for the others; to activate them together.


    Seeing this, Alvine understood a crucial thing about their ways of activating the same skill in such different ways, including Zakiel, of whom he understood his actions.


    ''In conclusion, apart from Greed, a mage who activates his spells with words, the others cast their magical spells with their weapons. It''s interesting; they have more fascinating weapons than I had imagined. Maybe I should inspect them soon, he said to himself while keeping his eyes closed and monitoring them only thanks to his magical perception.


    -Craack!!


    Instantly, Alvine opened his eyes, which were turned to the abyssal cks after hearing noise resembling thousands of sses that break simultaneously.


    But not surprisingly, Alvine witnessed a scene he expected, seeing the emptiness around his four subordinates break into the form of gigantic mirrors that are both sharp and transparent.


    Just like Linn''s space de that she had manifested, the space debris looked like it, except for the difference in size between them.


    Unlike Linn, who created and wielded a rtivelyrge sword-shaped space de, the space debris around Alvine''s subordinates were deformed and different sizes without anything more or less.


    Since their objectives were not to make weapons or other purposes other than to destroy everything around them, they were more than satisfied with this result.


    "Greed, it''s your turn to y now. Use all your powers to disrupt space flows further and prevent space from regenerating by all mea--?


    -Grrrshhhhh!!!


    As soon as he finished his sentence, Alvine noticed a purely destructive golden energying out of Greed''s body, followed by the sudden appearance of the four small ck holes that sucked all the space debris around them.


    The four ck holes he had cast just by waving his stick without having to incant had the consequences of creating spatial distortions showing areas, parts of thes, or random creatures who were also victims of destinies even more tragic than space itself.


    ''As Linn said while I was staying with her, earth and sky are linked by spatiotemporal queues. Divinews connects and space. And space and the universe are interconnected by all these things but also by universalws that keep everything in ce.


    -Just like a mortal who cannot change divinews, these so-called deities can do nothing against space itself. That''s also one of the fundamental reasons why divine mages cannot survive in space without erecting a protective shield around them to protect their divine bodies.


    -And finally, just like the divine mages who alter the divinews, the primordials can also impact space. Still, they are powerless in front of the universe. But what about my universalw?


    Universalw, huh? Why this name? Why is thispetence called universalw instead of divinew or even a concept? I got the answer to these questions after spending several years wandering in the universe using only my unique skills, more precisely, my shadow affinity and gehenna mes!


    While remembering the knowledge he had acquired and his discoveries, he looked at the pure chaotic scene in front of him with inexpressive eyes.


    ''Well, it''s time to do things my way!'' While murmuring these words, he slowly moves away his two palms that were closed and ced against each other by finally revealing what he had been preparing all this time!


    ...


    A small jet-ck cube slowly emerged between his two palms as he moved them away.


    The ck cube had nothing shy or strange aura around it, but it just looked like a small cubic box of just a few centimeters and turned by itself while floating slowly but surely above Alvine, who had clothespletely soaked in sweat because of his exhaust.


    -Vreeeuiiiii-Creeeeck!!


    Instantly, the cube gradually increases and reaches the size of a container in the blink of an eye, with a strangely metallic noise apanying it.


    Seeing this, Alvine spreads his two arms as if trying to control his spell.


    |Shadow Concept: Pure dest--!!


    -Whoooshhhhh!!!


    Before he finished his incantation, thousands of thick chains in scarlet colors came out behind him and his shadows at an imperceptible speed, chaining them instantly!


    -?!


    Alvine frowned, noticing that apart from being immobilized, nothing strange had happened to him and his shadows.


    But this was precisely what made him suspicious to the point of being confused about the intentions of the new intruder whose identity was easy for him to guess, even if he did not see her yet.


    *No, y the game. Wait a little longer!* He ordered Greed, who always seemed to act ording to his goodwill without waiting for his orders.


    -Nod.


    Seeing Greed nod his head despite the obstructing chains around his body, Alvine guessed, by this nonchnt action from Greed, that his subordinates were not really caught in the traps, just like him.


    ''If the objective of this so-called transcendent was to kill us, she would not bother to stop us only with these thick chains. I think she intended to deconcentrate us to help me toplete my actions. And if I''m right, she will soon have to move on to the second phase of her ns.'' He said while waiting quietly like a predator watching for his prey while pretending to be sleepy.


    -Wrrrrr!! Wrrrrr!! Wrrrrr!! Wrrrrr!!...


    After an additional ten secs, just as he had predicted, scarlet portals appeared in the form of a circle around Alvine and his shadows despite all the disturbance of the spatiotemporal flows that Alvine and his shadows had caused around them.


    ''Sigh, as I expected. Apart from being a superior being, I doubt that even Linn can create so many portals in such aggressive conditions. No, she can''t aplish such a feat. But all the same, I''m surprised that she invoked all the celestial demons for a meeting.'' He said, scrutinizing his environment with eyes that were both impassive and cold.


    After his countdown, Alvine realized that there were, in fact, a hundred portals around them.


    But what he didn''t understand was the number of portals that were one hundred instead of 99!


    ''Either she had revives Gargas, or she is herself who will go out in the hundredth portal.'' While continuing with his hypotheses, his gigantic cube that had reached the size of a football field slowly narrows before returning to its original size while swirling around it sometime before being eaten by his scarlet ring!


    Seeing his ring''s avidity, Alvine had an ironic smile but did notment.


    Then...


    -Wshhh!!!


    As he looked at the portals with particr attention, they lit up with a blinding glow, followed by the appearance of Gargas-like creatures with scaly green skins and pointed horns above their heads.


    But looking at them more closely, Alvine realized that the so-called celestial demons were not as identical as he expected. They had only a few traits inmon, namely, the color of their skins, the two draconian horns pointed on their temples, and, finally, their scarlet eyes.


    Apart from these three typical features, they had different shapes. Even if they all had humanoid silhouettes, some had long arms up to their ankles, while others had thin bodies resembling skeletons.


    And just as Gargas had warned, Alvine did not need an etiquette to understand which celestial demon was the highest ranked among them.


    But his eyes became mad when he noticed that among the top five of the most powerful celestial demons, there was a demon who had amon trait with his prisoner!


    "Finally! I finally met one of the kinds of these sons of whores who had invaded me and attacked my people on my ownnds!" For the first time, his eyes shone with a glimmer of vivacity for several decades when he looked at one of the ny-nine celestial demons who had a hole in ce of his eyes.


    Craack-Craack!


    Almost instantly, the chains around Alvine broke, followed by his vanishing and sudden emergence behind one of the ten most powerful celestial demons.


    -?!


    But before his hand seized his target''s neck, he was stopped by the famous mysterious chains once again, making him more bored than enraged.


    -Grab!!


    But the next moment, just when Alvine was about to free himself, a translucid wless hand grabbed him by the cor of his coat and pulled him back, more precisely, into one of the portals that had still not disappeared!


    ''...''


    As if he didn''t give a damn about the mysterious intentions of his enemies, he let himself be mysteriously pulled through the portals, leaving his shadow soldiers behind him.


    But itsted only a moment before the silhouette of Luna and that of the others disappeared in their turns through other portals that engulfed them, leaving only the celestial demons!