The devastating impact tore across reality, swallowing Ryuk.
His arms cracked, flesh melting from divine heat, but it did not destroy him as his body quickly began to change.
His skin hardened, turning jade with lines of gold and black running across it, forming scales that reflected the falling lights.
His broken bones snapped back, thickening as his frame grew heavier.
In the next moment, Ryuk’s face lengthened along with his hulking frame, and then a line tore open directly across his face, revealing a gaping maw.
[Host Has Activated A Supreme Hybrid Skill: Draconic Devourer!]
Opening that maw, a terrifying absorption force descended upon the energies around him as he forcefully sucked them into himself.
The Void could not hold the energy.
Ryuk had seen through that, and he planned for it.
Devouring the Fall of the Morning Star when it fell upon him was suicide.
The momentum and will of the strike would have killed him.
So he planned for it to be devoured by his own Abyssal singularity.
The Void itself had suffered from holding onto that singularity and had been destroyed.
But that also meant it had taken away some of the singularity’s destructiveness.
The rest, Ryuk had planned to devour.
And in one single gulp, all of the remaining energies were sucked into him whole.
His body expanded further and further, widening like a balloon.
[It’s Still Too Much To Contain!]
The panel flashed in bold,
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!
A powerful explosion erupted as Ryuk burst apart, the energy within him detonating outward.
But it had barely been a second before the droplets of blood, splashing around from the explosion, quickly began gathering together, forming a new maw.
And once again, that maw began to devour.
From a simple mouth, it grew, coagulating and coalescing the divine energies, and soon enough, a full being was standing in the Void.
It was Ryuk, but this time, he was different.
He had no skin, no flesh.
Instead, his body seemed to have been made from the coalescing of energies, mostly dots of black and blue.
It was as if he had been created from the remains of a collapsing galaxy.
He looked at his new form, his hands, the starlike dots upon them, and he exhaled deeply.
[Congratulations, Host Has Unlocked A New Form From The Devouring Of Two Heavenly Energies.]
[Form Name: Abyss Wrath]
"I grew stronger," he mused to himself.
But then,
He felt a stir from behind him in the far Void.
Turning, he found a colossal body of darkness hanging behind him.
"Knull..."
Ryuk called out, looking at the being, especially its arm.
They were enormous claws made of pitch darkness, and in their grasp was Ryuk.
While the humanoid Ryuk had been fighting the Seven Ancient Devil Elders, the Draconic Ryuk had been fighting against Knull.
And right now, Knull’s claws were tearing out from the dragon’s back as it dangled lifelessly in his grasp.
Knull raised his claws, flinging the draconic corpse toward Ryuk. His enormous draconic body slammed forward toward him, but at the last moment, a rift appeared.
A rift not of darkness, but of pure white, and the humongous dragon disappeared into it.
Ryuk had kept that body in his Techno Forge Ruin.
It might be dead, but that was only a part of his soul that had been destroyed.
Unlike the current body he had now, which was a coalescence of energy, the draconic form held all of his other body parts, hence giving it importance.
"Ne ipse quidem Satano te delere potuit?"
Even Satano could not have you destroyed?
Knull said, looking at Ryuk with creased brows.
Elder Satano. That Elder was a being even Knull himself was wary of fighting, as the dwarf was as deep as an abyss.
Yet who would have thought he would meet his death fighting Ryuk?
And as Knull looked at the Ryuk before him, his heart subconsciously raced.
’He has grown even stronger! Just what did Satano do?’ He wondered.
"The Ancient Elders, Pillars of the Knullic Domain, have all been destroyed by me," Ryuk called out to Knull.
"The Seven Calamities have suffered the same fate, save for the First Calamity, who I know is being hidden by you."
"He might as well be marked deceased for as long as I continue to exist," Ryuk said, his voice echoing coldly through the dark.
Knull’s pitch-black eyes flickered with crimson.
"Have you not realized, Knull?" Ryuk asked. "That you have already lost this fight?"
"Coram te sto et dicis me perdidisse!?"
I stand before you, and you say I have lost!?
Knull asked with a scoff, and Ryuk calmly replied,
"What use does my death bring?"
It made Knull pause in his steps.
"Whether you manage to destroy me or I manage to destroy you, does that even matter?"
"The Knulls have lost their Pillars of Power."
"They will be hunted down across the universe no matter what happens now."
He spoke a truth that made a gleam of suppressed horror flash across Knull’s eyes.
The Calamities had been destroyed.
They were the ones responsible for invading worlds and turning them into Dark Gomars, something that served as a cultivation ground for the Knulls.
But now that they had almost all been destroyed, the growth of the Knulls had automatically been halted.
The Elders who held the function of maintaining power had also been destroyed.
Even if Knull managed to destroy him, Ryuk himself was inconsequential, and his death would not make any substantial ripple at all.
But one thing was certain.
The Knull race had now completely fallen from the hierarchy of truly powerful Evil races in this universe.
And worse, they had countless foes.
The current 2 most evil races on the Conqueror hierarchy were already eyeing them, waiting to strike and crush them after they had lost four of their Calamities.
But now that the Calamities and even the fearsome Ancient Devil Elders had all been destroyed, what would stop them from chasing the last Knull to the depths of hell and killing him off?
Not to mention the millions of races that held raging vengeance for the countless worlds the Knulls had destroyed.
All of it led to a single realization:
The Knulls have fallen.