"God... God Destroyer!?"
Ryuk said with creased eyebrows.
A title wasn’t just a random name to flex or anything.
Theth’Vorgath was referred to as the Knull of Carnage because he gained more power the more carnage he unleashed upon the worlds.
The Knull Calamities that Ryuk had fought up until now also possessed their title, and in one way or another, that titled name seemed to be the embodiment of their being.
It could be referred to as a True Name, and that wasn’t something anyone could just bestow upon themselves.
And now, there was someone whose True Name was God Destroyer!?
"Tell me what all you know about her," he said, a seat materializing behind them, and Eravel explained.
"Ashra was born a week before you, and just like you, she has the same anomaly: Born to two different races whose bloodlines were never supposed to coexist."
"Her mother was the Knull, but her father... her father is a high-ranking member of one of the Three Supreme Races."
"The Supreme Races," Ryuk mused, his brows creasing.
He felt that name strangely familiar,
It was then that he recalled the exact words from his conversation with Antares back on Endearth:
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"New races climb up the hierarchy every day. In fact, it’s a competition to climb higher and higher. But if there are three who are so strong, it’s hard to think they’ll ever fall off."
"The first would be the Luminarchs.
"The second are the Dayborns."
"And the third strongest are the Halowyrms."
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[A/N:I shortened this because the conversation is quite long. But you can re-read Chapter 573 Strongest Celestial Races of the Upper Realms for the full conversation.
"You mean the Three Supreme Races?" Ryuk asked, and Eravel’s eyes glowed as she nodded.
"Yes. Her father is a Luminarch."
"They’re one of the strongest when it comes to pure combat power among the three races."
"That makes Ashra a half-Luminarch and half-Knull, and this allowed her to control Hurricane just like you, but she’s not like you."
"While you both possess Knull bloodline, your half is that of a dragon, while hers is that of a Supreme Luminarch."
"Her bloodline is stronger than yours."
"When she was born, her mother died, and her father took her away from us Knulls, bringing her to the Luminarch grounds. And she had been there ever since." Eravel explained.
Ryuk hummed deeply.
"As powerful as we Knulls are, we do not dare face a Luminarch or speak back to one."
"Even Knull itself wouldn’t want to offend them."
"While you were being divided into pieces and retrieving everything back, growing stronger along the way..."
"Ashra had been training in the Luminarch grounds, and at sixteen years old, she was given a mission to kill a god..."
"And what happened?" Everlearn asked.
"She succeeded."
"Ever since, she had killed one god after another and eventually earned her name, God Destroyer, and almost half a century has already passed here in the Upper Realms."
"Now, you know why I am confident in her abilities," Eravel explained.
Ryuk understood now.
Ashra was just like him, a hybrid, but she was a greater hybrid, with the resources of an entire Supreme Race used to nurture her right from birth.
Killing a god at sixteen!?
Ryuk was still being chased around by Grade E beasts at that age.
To compare him to her was almost a joke.
But then Eravel watched his face turn from serious to an amused grin.
"She would be an interesting opponent," he mused, before the rift opened up.
"You have your answers now," Eravel said, as Ryuk hummed, turning to her while grinning.
"Are you really in that much of a hurry to die, Eravel?"
The question made her heart unconsciously thump harder, and he could definitely hear it.
Ryuk stepped out of the rift.
"Where are you going?"
"To the Knull Domain," he answered, and shock colored her face.
"But you cannot go there. You will be..." Her words were cut off when Ryuk squeezed his palms, the rift immediately closing up.
[You really choose to go fight them in their domain, even knowing it’s a clear trap.]
The system panel flashed as Ryuk’s eyes steeled.
"I have come to fight, and fight it will be until everything I want is achieved."
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"The soul plate of Eravel has yet to shatter, even though she has yet to arrive."
"And she has also broken communication."
The words rang out above the Void of the Knullic Domain, where a few beings stood.
There were seven clad in long dark robes, none other than the Ancient Elders.
Just behind them, a gigantic face was out, its two pitch-dark eyes gazing down at the entire Knullic Domain.
"Most likely, she has joined forces with him."
"Eravel’s logic, after all, works in ways even we cannot understand," an Ancient Elder mused.
Another said,
"Now that he knows the ploy, do you think he will still show up?"
"Only an idiot will show up after realizing the ploy, hahaha," one elder said with boisterous laughter.
"I bet Theth’Vorgath would have done so, though. His not coming must mean he’s the bastard that he is," another said with a sneer.
Then the elder who had originally asked turned to Knull.
"What do you think, Knull? Do you think he will still show up?"
CRAAACKLLLE
Red lightning crackled through the Void as Knull’s pitch-black gaze stared into the distance.
"Venietne? Non?"
Will he come? No.
A red glint of light crossed his pitch black eyes at this point and he completed:
"Lam hic est!"
He’s already here!
"WHAT!?"
CRAAAACKLLLLEEE
CRAAAAACKLLLLEE
CRAAACKLLLLEEEE
The sound of lightning crackling resonated from afar.
A shadow spreading to cover the entire Knullic Domain, and then—
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRRRR
An ear-deafening roar blasted across the Knull Domain, space fracturing like glass as black holes were forcibly ripped open in the sky.
A silhouette appeared in the distance, one that made every Knull pause mid-breath as they saw him.
A being unrecognizable and abnormal in every sense of the world.
"He has come."