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Under the stars, silence crashed like a dying star. Starlight fractured through the infinite void as millions of gods from the Pantheons of Faith and the Empires of Truth froze, their gazes locked on Celestia, who was both breathtakingly beautiful and chillingly terrifying.
Her eighteen wings unfurled like shattered suns, each radiating a Divine Aura that warped gravity itself across the starry expanse, causing distant nebulae to tremble violently.
Even peak High Gods clutched their hearts, spines buckling involuntarily, heads dipping under the weight of this crushing force that pressed down like an unseen mountain.
"It's her, the one who killed Kaelix and Zarek right in front of Malakar's eyes!"
"She herself is an intermediate stage Supreme Goddess and has a top-level Supreme God Tier Natal Artifact!"
"She far outclasses Micteya's early stage Supreme God Tier strength and same level artifact…"
"Days ago she was merely a peak High Goddess. How did she achieve this monstrous leap?"
At this moment, whispers spread like wildfire among the spectators that she was the assassin who felled Ancient Evil High Gods of Faith these past few days.
Hearing this, the High Gods present shivered in dread, the hidden Evil Gods even more so. Some of them, having arrived too late for the earlier battle, now silently cursed their timing. A Supreme Goddess personally hunting 'mere' High Gods like them? This wasn't some glorious honor for them. It was a pure, unadulterated nightmare.
"The Great Aetherium has shattered the ancient pacts of the Endless Continent!" An Evil God snarled from the void's edge.
The Nature Pantheon's Goddess of Flames sneered, her eyes glowing like forge embers, "You know exactly why she hunts your kind, you filthy rats, and in case you don't, go ask your 'Lord Malakar'.!"
Her words silenced the Evil God as he dissolved into the void, trying to flee as far away from the battlefield as possible.
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Elsewhere, other Gods discussed, clearly excited by the sudden plot twist.
"Hahaha! Micteya came expecting to crush this kingdom, instead she met a predator lying in wait."
Micteya's face had turned ashen gray, her jeweled crown glinting like fool's gold against the star-cluster. She'd descended in full Supreme God splendor, her aura parting nebulae like velvet curtains before a conqueror. Appearing confident, supreme, and untouchable.
Alas, now she felt the trap's crushing jaws, with space-time sealed around her and Celestia's sword racing towards her heart. She barely managed to break the seal with a surge of her Divine Power and managed to save her life by the fractions of a millisecond!
Maddox's shrill screams of plea clawed desperately from the sealed soul-orb. This useless brother of hers, he had provoked this viper's nest, and now dragged her into its lethal embrace. Familial ties chained her here, otherwise a ruthless Evil Goddess like her would've never stayed here.
Micteya exhaled a breath of void-chill that frosted nearby stars. Her voice cut through starlight like a blade, "Return my brother's soul and this matter ends now. I'm willing to even forget about the assassinations of those Evil High Gods over the past few days."
Pride choked on bitter bile in her throat, but Celestia's superior strength demanded compromise. Of course, true to her nature as an Evil Goddess, she would later rally Malakar and Skarion to reduce the Great Aetherium to atoms. Still, her first priority right now was to salvage Maddox's soul and reforge his broken shell.
Celestia's golden sword hummed with a predatory hunger, its flames licking greedily at the void. "Kneel before the Almighty Lord, beg for mercy, and then he may let you reunite with your brother."
"Impossible!" Micteya erupted. A Supreme God didn't kneel, not to a mere intermediate stage High God Tier king. Even Malakar and Skarion couldn't make her do that.
"The Great Aetherium, are you willing to forge hatred with the whole Evil Pantheon?" She hissed, her voice venom-laced, "This war will utterly break you."
"War is already here," Celestia replied, her voice steady like steel, "Your heretical pantheon dared to attack my Lord. The Lord doesn't even need to bother himself for weaklings like you. When I regain my peak strength, your comrades would be hunted like rats and even your Divine Kingdoms would burn."
"Arrogant woman." Micteya spat venomously, "A castle force, merely a few weeks-old, dares to talk about 'regaining your peak'?"
Maddox wailed ever higher, the soul-orb pulsing with frantic crimson light. Shame knotted deep in her core. Her brother, a survivor of the Ancient War, reduced to groveling like cornered prey before millions of Gods.
"Silence!" Micteya roared, voice cracking stars. Her divine aura exploded outward. Hundreds of millions of kilometers of starry sky buckled and shattered—distant stars detonated in chain reactions, birthing yawning black-hole scars that devoured light itself. Only the Endless Continent defied her, shielded by unyielding World Laws.
Maddox whimpered brokenly: "Sister… I was wrong. Please don't abandon me."
Micteya turned away, steeled her resolve and said, "Be serious and name your terms."
"You still grasp nothing," Celestia said calmly.
"What?"
"Kneel. To. The. Lord."
"We're done here." Micteya turned to leave, but found that the nearby space was again frozen and a crushing Divine Power clamped down across millions of kilometers, sealing every path of her escape.
"Do you think you can come and go as you please? Submit to the Lord, heretic Goddess." With her wings flared and sword wreathed in inferno, Celestia strode into the sealed space, "It is your honor to serve the Lord. Hear His gospel and taste true eternal life."
Micteya's regal mask shattered completely—raw horror twisting her expressions. No words escaped her throat at the moment as Celestia's Divine Power cascaded down like divine judgment.
"You dare to kill me?!" Micteya screamed into the endless dark.
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