"You devoured one of your own?"
Ryuk asked, looking at Elder Satano, whose staff was now radiating with more power than ever.
"If I had known you had become so much of a monster, this would have been the first thing I would have done," Elder Satano said.
The dark power from the staff continued crawling across his skin as veins popped all over, thick and black in color.
"But now, it’s not too late either."
VROOOOOOM!
Space was ripped apart as Ryuk flashed forward toward Elder Satano, whose robes were turned to ashes from the incredible energy bursting out of his veins.
With his robes gone, his true form was revealed: a devilish dwarf covered in thick dark veins.
Out of his forehead, two long horns extended, and Elder Satano raised his staff and slammed it onto the ground.
CRACKLE!
The sound of lightning rang out, and Ryuk, just a meter away with all eight arms turned into blades, cleaving toward the elder, was suddenly blasted downward through the Void as a pillar of lightning slammed into him.
He forced himself to a stop seven hundred kilometers down the Void.
His teeth ground together from the pain.
It was familiar...horrifyingly familiar.
When he turned his head, horror crossed his eyes.
Elder Satano was nowhere to be seen.
He had been bombarded by a pillar of dark lightning, the same dark lightning that had struck Ryuk after he brought Eravel back from death.
"Punisher lightning!?" He mused out in caution.
Elder Satano was being punished for breaking the rules of reality, but what had he done to deserve being erased?
The answer lay in the staff, which he now held downward, pointed at Ryuk.
"Evilio Satano..."
The moment those words were uttered, the Void trembled.
Endless darkness stretched in every direction from beneath the staff, yet above it all, Elder Satano floated like a scar across creation.
Punisher Lightning, the wrath of the Heavens, reached a monumental descent level, tearing away his skin, cracking his bones, and burning off his flesh.
Yet, the Elder still refused to fall.
Instead, he raised his head, looking into the endless Void as the skin on his face was burned off, leaving only his skull.
’Today, I fall.’
It occurred to Elder Satano, who remained silent for a while before he gripped his staff tighter.
Turning to Ryuk in the dark Void, he called out:
"Fall of the Morning Star!
The staff pulsed once, and a light erupted through the Void.
A massive sigil of six wings spun open behind Elder Satano, stretching for thousands of kilometers, the Void shaking as if the Heavens were pressing down upon it.
Every bolt of lightning that struck the wings was absorbed by the dark sigils etched upon their surface, further deepening and twisting them into a burning halo of divine destruction.
Below, Ryuk looked up from the Void.
Even though he stood seven hundred kilometers away, the air around him had grown heavy, so heavy that even the faintest of movement felt like an impossible task.
He felt his own chest sink within him, pressing against his heart and making breathing incredibly difficult.
A beam of light had formed above Satano, wide enough to swallow a world, its edge burning with dark flames that tore through reality.
But Ryuk saw deeper.
Satano was turning to ashes, along with his staff, and just before he was erased, he cackled out his last words.
"I’ll be waiting for you in hell, Son of Carnage."
The second he was fully turned to ashes, his soul destroyed by Punisher Lightning, the Fall of the Morning Star fell, splitting the Void into two.
There was no sound, only blinding radiance that tore through the dark, holding primordial law that expanded downward in waves, erasing space, energy, and even time itself.
The impact had yet to reach Ryuk, yet he could already feel it, his own death, looming over him.
In the next moment, all six of his extra arms faded away, leaving only the original two, the same for the crystals that burned around his head like a crown, and the wings behind him.
He had reverted to his normal humanoid form, facing the attack in his base state.
But his chance of survival like this was null.
From the moment Elder Satano had vanished, he knew what was coming.
The beam wasn’t meant to kill; it was meant to erase.
The art Elder Satano had used was a forbidden divine art that invoked the wrath of Heaven against both the caster and the target.
Even Elder Satano himself had been judged as prideful enough to challenge the divine, ensuring his erasure.
This was judgment itself, and with every second, the sky of light fell faster, each pulse brighter than the last.
"Huuuuuuu..."
The sound of a slow exhale left Ryuk’s lips, and in the next moment, something altered.
The shadow cast beneath him began to move on its own.
It appeared, standing before Ryuk, and then it raised both palms into the air, pressing them together in the form of a prayer.
From Ryuk’s lips, words like a curse were released.
"Abyssal Law... Nullification of the Divine."
A deep vibration echoed from Ryuk’s chest, and from the raised hands of his shadow, black mist poured out, swirling into a massive storm of darkness that bent everything around him.
Space twisted inward, light, sound, and gravity collapsing into a single point before him.
A singularity opened high above, meeting the beam of judgment head-on.
For a moment, the light resisted, roaring like a god denied its prey.
But the abyss only pulled harder, dragging that endless radiance into its center.
Two heavenly forces, one devoured by the other.
How could a mere force as the Void hold them?
In the next moment, it screamed.
A scream no mortal soul was ever meant to hear, and in that instant, the Void, unable to withstand the divine energy, exploded right before Ryuk.
KAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!