"Seal."
The mont George felt the Fool-aligned power inside his body begin to writhe and turn hostile, he acted without hesitation.
Runes ignited across his skin.
Every fragnt of Fool-path authority within him was locked down in an instant.
Corruption halted.
Invasion aborted.
He smiled faintly.
If he had already completed the Fool’s path, such a betrayal might have forced him to abandon his body entirely.
But now?
The portion inside him was still incomplete.
Even if the Celestial Sovereign seized all of it, it would never overpower his physical body or his independent magical systems.
And he possessed sealing thods refined across countless worlds.
Losing those abilities temporarily would not weaken him in any aningful way.
"Now it’s my turn."
George gathered the imnse spiritual reserves within his body.
The Celestial Sovereign could manipulate Fool-path authority.
But he could not touch the energy George had obtained through other ans.
Most of George’s power no longer belonged to any single path.
"Fairy Radiance Plus."
Nine colossal magic circles unfolded above Antigonus’s body.
Pure annihilation poured downward.
Blinding.
rciless.
In terms of raw destructive force, this spell surpassed even Fairy Law.
For the first ti, the Celestial Sovereign’s expression shifted.
"Star."
Reality warped.
A burning miniature sun manifested above George, its surface boiling with incandescent plasma.
Even with Antigonus’s broken body and missing fragnts, the Celestial Sovereign could still exert power on the level of a true god.
George exhaled.
"If you were at full strength, I’d be in trouble."
Then he smiled.
"But you’re not."
A radiant blade condensed in his right hand.
"Excalibur."
George drove it forward.
The massive arc of light split the star in two.
The burning halves disintegrated into nothingness.
Before the Celestial Sovereign could follow up, George slamd both hands onto the ground.
Five elental manifestations rose around him.
A vast geotric formation snapped into place.
"Fivefold Kabbalistic Sealing Array."
Invisible chains wrapped around Antigonus’s body.
The Celestial Sovereign’s eyes lost focus.
George appeared beside him in a blur and placed a hand on his head.
He searched.
Then—
The presence vanished.
"So fast?"
The Celestial Sovereign abandoned Antigonus’s body entirely.
But not before George ripped away fragnts of crucial knowledge.
Not history.
Not mories of the past.
Instructions.
thods.
Paths toward rging multiple authorities.
Toward becoming sothing beyond a god.
George withdrew his hand slowly.
"...Convenient."
Too convenient.
The Celestial Sovereign could have erased everything.
Instead, he deliberately left behind the most dangerous information possible.
A baited hook.
If George followed those thods, the Celestial Sovereign would have an easier ti awakening inside him later.
A transparent sche.
And yet—
George had no intention of stopping.
Power was never safe.
Stagnation was death.
The difference was that George had ways to suppress, dissect, and erase foreign wills.
Plenty of them.
"Let’s clean up."
He reached into Antigonus’s ruined body and forcibly extracted two things.
The core authority of the Fool.
And a fragnt of upper-tier essence.
The rest of the body sagged, barely alive.
George was about to continue harvesting when space rippled.
A figure appeared between him and Antigonus.
A young woman.
Beautiful.
Expressionless.
Eyes as dark as starless space.
"Would you leave him the lesser fragnts?" she asked calmly. "From the second step downward."
George t her gaze.
"If it’s the Goddess of Darkness asking... I’ll agree."
After all.
He already had what he needed.
What mattered now...
Was understanding whether the being standing before him was friend.
Or future enemy.
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