Supremacy Games

1498 Lord Hades vs Godfather Hephaestus. I

Ten minutes ago, right at the start of the invasion...

Whoosh Whoosh!

Lord Hades and Godfather Hephaestus manifested away from each other in the desolate heart of the spirit realm, where ethereal mists swirled and the boundaries of reality blurred.

Hades, cloaked in shadows that danced like sentient tendrils, exuded an aura of austere authority.

His piercing gaze, like the abyss itself, bore the weight of tens of billions of years spent as the guardian of the underworld...His presence was an embodiment of the enigmatic laws that governed the souls and spirits of the departed.

On the other hand, Godfather Hephaestus radiated an incandescent heat that defied the ethereal chill of the spirit realm.

Their eyes, two opposing cosmic forces, met in the middle of nowhere. A void that seemed to stretch beyond the realms of existence.

The air crackled with an unspoken tension, and the ethereal mists churned as if bearing witness to an epochal confrontation.

The only spectators to this holy cosmic standoff were the mindless wandering spirits, moving around the spirit realm with no thought in mind, no emotion in heart.

"Hades, you have grown soft." Godfather Hephaestus criticized, "Moving us away from your precious little toy to not damage it? Here I thought you created that plane and gave spirits a new life out of boredom...You actually care about them."

Lord Hades remained silent, neither agreeing nor opposing his claim. This irritated Godfather Hephaestus even more.

"You called us sell-outs for uniting under the three rulers and abiding by their systemic hierarchy, but aren't you doing the same?" Godfather Hephaestus sneered, "The only difference is that you put yourself in a leadership position and lorded upon those poor spirits, who can't object to you at all."

"Just be honest and accept the fact that you wouldn't have made it far in our hierarchy, which made it impossible for your ego to accept." Godfather Hephaestus scoffed, "As for being loyal to the nonexistent master? It's a mere excuse to hide your true cowardly nature."

"Are you done?" Lord Hades remarked calmly.

"No answer again? I guess I hit the nail right on the head."

thing you will be hitting today is yourself for

speaking, with a malevolent glint in his eyes, he extended his shadowy hand toward Godfather Hephaestus, seeking to invoke the power

infiltrate and control the fiery essence of Hephaestus's soul, dragging it

what spirit it was, Lord Hades had absolute control

they encountered an

you think so lowly of me to believe I haven't come prepared against this?" Godfather Hephaestus smirked, "The only reason I dared to come down here is through the blessings of the three

first was a radiant, golden light. It shimmered with the immutable power of divine order, pushing

transcendent brilliance that repelled the encroaching shadows, cleansing the space around

an intense, golden light, a manifestation

a searing barrier that scorched away his ethereal tendrils, leaving

three divine lights merged and intertwined, they formed an impenetrable fortress around Hephaestus's spirit,

"..."

Hades furrowed his eyebrows in disgruntlement and revoked off his

your strongest, even the three rulers themselves wouldn't want to antagonize you in your territory." Godfather Hephaestus laughed mockingly, "But now? Just their divinities are enough to cancel off your spiritual control

again, but he knew

had sealed a significant

Hephaestus, but the universe,

"My turn."

powers, realizing that his three divinities

exhausted, he would be played like a fiddle through his

colossal form began to swell with might, expanding exponentially until he surpassed

that outshone the cosmos, casting a radiant glow that painted the expanse of the spirit realm in

a supernova, ten celestial stars took form. Each one

Felix and even primogenitors were to see him, their realizing of strength would

real new ones, which could

terrifying difference between

"BEGONE!"

their

Hades, blazing