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 daring to transgress

his eyes, he extended his shadowy

fiery essence

realm, it didn't matter what spirit it

tendrils reached out to ensnare Hephaestus's spirit, they encountered an unexpected resistance—a brilliant and resplendent barrier formed

I haven't come prepared against this?" Godfather Hephaestus smirked, "The only reason I dared to come down here

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

was a pure, white light. It radiated a transcendent brilliance that repelled

an intense, golden light, a

that scorched away his ethereal tendrils, leaving no

impenetrable fortress around Hephaestus's

"..."

and revoked off his

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

he knew that

sealed a significant chunk

meant he wasn't just fighting godfather Hephaestus, but the universe,

"My turn."

to unleash his full powers, realizing that

celestial energy gets exhausted, he would be played like a

to swell with might, expanding exponentially until he surpassed the

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

as if conjured from the fiery heart of a supernova, ten celestial stars took form. Each one radiated a unique and vivid color as if they were the very embodiment of

him, their realizing

ones, which could

was the terrifying difference between laws

"BEGONE!"

magnificent flourish, godfather Hephaestus hurled them into the cosmic abyss, their radiant trails of light leaving streaks

Lord Hades, blazing with