Frey spoke coldly, his eyes opened so wide they seemed ready to burst.
"Every strike he launches... every particle of aura..."
Slash!!
Thanatos screamed in fury as his body exploded like a nuclear blast directly in Frey’s face.
Thanatos retreated, launching attacks from afar to widen the distance between them.
Then, gripping the Shadowbolt Spear, Frey’s hand ignited with a terrifying light ... a fusion of darkness and violet flame.
It detonated into black lightning merged with violet fire.
All he heard was the sound of bones shattering—
His eyes slowly shifted downward.
Only to realize that the entire left half of his torso had vanished, leaving nothing but empty space.
Frey appeared before him in a single instant.
Thanatos crashed into the ocean of blue fire.
Thanatos’ body burned under the effect of the black lightning, struggling desperately to regenerate.
Because Frey was already standing before him.
Frey spoke calmly from behind his mask, staring coldly at Thanatos as he stepped closer—until they stood face to face.
SLAAAASH!!
His blade shredded Thanatos’ body at terrifying speed, preventing him from regenerating.
"You have already lost, embodiment of death."
"I will not repeat myself."
"Or face the consequences."
Thanatos knelt on the ground, suffering amid his own blood ... his body unable to regenerate.
The Pursuer had pushed Frey from the first stage...
And once he reached Origin Revelation, awakening the trait of Krat—
Combined with all his abilities and weapons—
Thanatos was no longer the superior one.
Frey narrowed his eyes when he saw Thanatos’ body begin to blaze with a violent and destructive aura.
"Just because you managed to land a few insignificant blows."
His body regenerated completely as a terrifying aura pressure erupted from him.
"Creatures like you do not get to decide my fate."
From within Thanatos’ body, a colossal pillar of fiery aura exploded into the sky.
They surrounded Frey from all directions.
"So be it."
But he stopped when a voice echoed from within him.
It was Nameless.
Slowly, Frey’s aura subsided... and his entire presence changed.
But his mouth snapped shut without warning.
Something dangerous. Something terrifying.
"...Agaroth?!"
But the figure before him was not the Demon King.
And yet—
"...Who are you?"
His opponent walked toward him calmly.
Nothing at all.
But Thanatos understood ...
That was not Frey.
Nameless slowly raised his sword toward Thanatos.
"Do not speak."
Nameless’ eyes ignited with a roaring violet glow.
"...is eternal torment within a night without end."
"...What?"
He did not understand what had happened.
He and all of his aura had been erased.
Only a fragment of his head remained.
The earth had been vaporized.
Yet they did not dare approach the place where Nameless stood.
His body began to glow.
"Manipulation of Life and Death: Soul Cage."
Strange runic symbols revolved endlessly across its surface.
And from it emerged dark chains that wrapped themselves around Thanatos.
For almost nothing remained of it.
Trapped by the chains, he was slowly dragged toward Frey ..
Dragged into him.
"...simply because you cannot die?"
Terror flooded Thanatos’ face.
"It is immortal. It will never fade."
Those words struck Thanatos like thunder.
"You are an endless source of strength for me—and for that boy you looked down upon."
Thanatos screamed in misery, desperately grasping at anything to stop the chains from dragging him into Frey.
The outcome had already been decided.
For at that very moment, the delegation of the Shadow Sect arrived ..
Before their eyes—
Amid a shattered continent...
A storm of black lightning and blue fire.
It was a crushing victory.
Who had begun moving forward along a dark path...