Everyone present—Zagreus, Barbatos, even Berserker—felt Naless Death’s presence.
It had changed so much that it did not even feel familiar to the Naless Death they knew.
They tensed, unsure of what was about to happen.
All of them of them had fought long enough to recognize power when they saw it, but this was sothing more. It was different.
The strength of Naless Death’s presence was sothing none of them had ever seen.
In an instant, the energy covered the entire Voraka Site.
Naless Death tried to compress and shape it, preparing to turn it into a space-ti prison and then a fully ford Independent Space.
But as he attempted to mold the structure, he hit an issue.
Energy.
Creating a space-ti prison that could hold soone like Barbatos or Zagreus wasn’t the sa as sealing off a battlefield.
Even the fingernail sized space-ti prisons were internally larger than entire Stage 3 planets.
And trying to turn sothing as large as a Stage 4 planet into one? It would require more energy than what a Stage 6 God possessed.
Naless Death didn’t have that kind of energy.
At least, not in the ’present.’
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It was a technique he’d obtained from the Fourth Heaven.
In the blink of an eye, the issue vanished.
His energy reserves expanded dramatically, as though the very laws of ti had folded to accommodate him.
He no longer felt the drag of exhaustion or the limitations of output.
It was like drawing power from a well that had no bottom.
He began again.
With ruthless focus, he turned the entire Voraka Site into a space-ti prison.
Every grain of sand, every whisper of wind, even the distorted remnants of the Chaos Elentals, all of it was enclosed.
"How is he doing that?" Zagreus muttered, halting in midair beside Barbatos.
Both of them were watching Naless Death with growing disbelief.
The floating octopus-like demon beside them looked just as surprised.
"That’s my ability. Or sothing extrely similar."
Zagreus narrowed his eyes. "Explain."
"His version’s better in so ways, worse in others," the demon said. "But it’s essentially a temporal loan. He’s borrowing energy from his past and future selves."
Barbatos turned his head to look at the demon, as if he could not believe his ears.
Zagreus just clenched his jaw.
"This is why we shouldn’t have let him complete his Path," Zagreus muttered.
Ignoring them, Naless Death pushed forward.
With the prison stabilized, he didn’t hesitate.
Another technique activated, this one flowing just as smoothly.
The space-ti prison began to shift and fold.
It detached from normal reality, becoming sothing new.
An Independent Space.
The transition was so seamless it was almost terrifying.
One mont the Voraka Site was just a chaotic battlefield.
The next, it was a Space-Ti Prison.
And the next, it was an Independent Space.
All of this had only taken a fraction of instant.
Naless Death finally turned toward Barbatos and Zagreus.
His gaze didn’t hold malice or anger, just cold focus. That was enough to put them on alert.
"We need to—"
Zagreus stopped speaking.
Only then did the realization sink in.
Why had they stopped?
They’d seen him begin his transformation of the site.
They should’ve attacked during the mont he was distracted.
That would’ve been the smart move. Yet
they hadn’t.
Even Berserker had stopped mid-approach.
And now they couldn’t move.
Zagreus tried to shift his body. Nothing happened.
Barbatos attempted to summon his shadows.
Nothing.
’What is this?’
"Have you played turn-based gas before?" Naless Death asked. "That’s the concept I’m using. The first turn belongs to ."
They didn’t understand at first.
He continued. "I fused that concept into this Independent Space. Until I act, no one else can. After I do, then it’s your turn. But not before."
The simplicity of it was what made it so devastating.
He didn’t wait.
There was no reason to.
He didn’t know if the Eternal had detected the Ashes before the Independent Space was complete.
If it had, then ti was already short.
Naless Death had to deal with Ashes before the Eternal arrived.
He raised his hand and slashed once.
Barbatos was sliced cleanly in half.
There was no resistance.
One mont Barbatos was standing.
The next, he was cut into two halves.
Zagreus didn’t even see the attack. There was no energy spike before the activation of technique. No warning from his Death affinity. Nothing.
It was as though the mont Naless Death thought of the attack, it had already landed. As if the process of the act being done was skipped entirely.
"Don’t worry. He’s not dead," said Naless Death,
The mont he finished speaking, Zagreus and Berserker were released from the turn-based lock.
They charged at him without a word.
Naless Death didn’t bother looking at them.
He closed his eyes.
A stream of data and sensation poured into his mind.
It was the knowledge he had waited for.
The way to access his Cosmos.
Everything else faded into the background.
He could hear the sound of Zagreus’ approach. He could feel the pressure Berserker created as he tore through the air.
But none of it mattered.
Because finally, Naless Death was finally ready to open the gates.
World Energy covered his body.
At the sa, the Grim Reaper standing far from all them finally moved.
"I’ll be taking this for a bit."
He grabbed the air.
As if the distance didn’t matter, he was able to grab Barbatos’ sword.
That sword was wrapped in chains.
As soon as Bael held the sword, it began to release a shrill cry.
Bael looked at the sword once, making it go quiet.
"Burn."
The chains began to burn into black flas.
The 15,000 years’ worth of energy they had sealed into the sword erupted.
The swords’ inherent ability turned the energy into the form that was the deadliest for its target.
Bael swung the sword, putting all of its power behind the single attack.
He understood that Naless Death needed to be stopped before he did whatever he was planning.
Berserker swung his fist, releasing a giant beam of chaos-void resonant energy.
Zagreus re-ignited his Ancient Dragon Bloodline, and commanded. "The attacks that will land on you will be strengthened to their utmost."
Attacks from all three directions poured in.
But Naless Death ignored everything.
Because.
He finally connected to his Cosmos.
And mories ca rushing back to him.
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