"Time Stop!"
The moment Kenichi activated the [Time Stop], the surrounding world instantly turned grayish-white.
The flames that had been sweeping towards Kenichi froze in mid-air just above his head.
God Serena on the ground below remained frozen in his pose, hands thrust forward, as motionless as a stone statue.
Jacob, Jura, Warrod, and the others all stopped.
At this moment, the entire world fell into a deathly silence.
"So this is the power of Time Stop?" Kenichi scanned his surroundings and, seeing everything had stopped, spoke with delight.
Although Kenichi had entered a time-stopped world before when fighting Dimaria, that was a world created by Dimaria.
But this time-stopped world was created by Kenichi's own hand.
The feeling between the two was not the same.
"Now then, let's deal with you next, God Serena!" Kenichi wasn't Dimaria.
He didn't have that particular habit of slicing others' clothes.
Right now, he was using this Time Stop purely to deal with God Serena.
So-
The moment time resumed its flow, blood sprayed from God Serena's body, and he collapsed heavily to the ground.
Because Kenichi killed God Serena while time was stopped, the instant time resumed, Jacob, Jura, Warrod, and the others all continued the actions they were performing before the time stop… looking up at Kenichi, who was supposed to be surrounded by the sea of fire in the sky.
But Kenichi was no longer within that sea of fire.
In the sight and perception of Jacob, Jura, and the others, Kenichi seemed to have vanished into thin air.
"He disappeared?" Seeing Kenichi vanish, Jacob narrowed his eyes slightly.
But soon, Jacob heard the sound of something hitting the ground.
Hearing this, Jacob subconsciously turned to look.
However, when Jacob saw the scene before him, his face froze completely.
God Serena's body lay collapsed in a pool of blood, and the previously vanished Kenichi had somehow appeared behind God Serena.
"God Serena... is dead?"
"When did this guy get there? I didn't even see his movement?!"
It's important to know that Jacob was an assassin.
He specialized in assassination.
Therefore, his senses were much sharper than an ordinary person's.
But even so, he hadn't been able to see how Kenichi killed God Serena.
At this moment, looking at Kenichi, a chill rose in Jacob's heart.
He wondered, if Kenichi used the move that killed God Serena on him, could he dodge it?
But Jacob was no ordinary person either.
His mental fortitude was very strong.
After a brief moment of shock, Jacob immediately began analyzing how Kenichi had just deceived him, an assassin, and instantly killed God Serena.
"Instantly moving behind God Serena... Could it be a higher-level Spatial Magic?" Jacob's Assassination Magic was also a type of Spatial Magic.
So he considered whether the magic Kenichi used was a higher-level Spatial Magic than his own Assassination Magic.
"No. That wasn't Spatial Magic." No sooner had Jacob spoken than the Magic King August, who had remained silent until now, spoke up.
Hearing August's words, Jacob immediately shifted his gaze from Kenichi to August.
Then Jacob saw that August was looking at Kenichi with a grave expression.
August was known as the Magic King.
He was naturally an expert in magic identification.
Jacob had no doubt about August's words.
"Not Spatial Magic?" Seeing August staring at Kenichi as if looking at a monster without speaking further, Jacob asked another question.
"That was... Time Magic."
"For that brief moment, he stopped time." As soon as August said this, Jacob's face drastically changed.
"He stopped time?"
"How is that possible?"
"Even Dimaria can only stop time by borrowing the power of the God of Time, Chronos!"
"Is this guy even human?" Jacob looked at Kenichi, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"Someone capable of killing Acnologia is naturally no ordinary person." After responding to Jacob, August then said solemnly, "Prepare yourself. It's our turn next."
"Although we might lose our lives here, for His Majesty's sake, we must hold him back!"
Jacob had never heard August say such discouraging words before.
But considering the enemy they faced was the terrifying being who had killed Acnologia, Jacob didn't overthink it and immediately took off the gloves on his hands, entering a battle-ready state.
Then, under the watchful eyes of August and Jacob, Kenichi, who had instantly killed God Serena, slowly turned around.