"Very good. Then I guess we'll meet again someday!"
Huaye looked at Ruoning, who had been completely sealed off and now had nothing to do with them anymore, then looked at the angels getting slaughtered all around him. A plan was already taking shape in his mind. He was ready to retreat, leave this mess behind, regroup, and then come back here with a truly powerful army to make trouble for Jovian.
Buzz!
The moment Huaye made up his mind, a huge spacetime gate opened behind him.
"And where exactly do you think you're going, Huaye?"
"Weren't you supposed to defeat me?"
Jovian looked at Huaye, who was obviously trying to run, and smiled as he mocked him like the stray dog he was.
"I'm giving you a little time to prepare!"
"When I come back, that'll be the moment all of you kneel before me!"
Even as he was leaving, Huaye still refused to admit he was running away, stubbornly insisting that was not what this was.
"Not bad. You've got determination. Shame, though..."
"No one in this world is going to keep playing with you over and over again."
Jovian spoke coldly to Huaye, emphasizing every word as he taught him that simple truth.
"What did you just say...?"
Huaye's expression changed instantly. He turned around and saw, to his shock, that Jovian was standing right behind him.
Boom!
The moment he saw Jovian, a sharp burst of pain exploded across his face. A massive force bloomed right against his cheek.
"Y-you actually slapped me across the face?!"
"Do you even know who I am?"
"I'm the great Angel King! You actually slapped the great Angel King across the face?"
Huaye looked both shocked and aggrieved as he gently touched his cheek. Even now, he still could not believe that he, the invincible Angel King, had just been slapped across the face several times in a row. Maybe none of these people understood just how deeply those seemingly ordinary slaps would scar the proud heart of a king like him.
"You really are something..."
"You're hilarious, like a complete clown."
Jovian stepped on the Angel King's head and smiled pleasantly.
"You..."
Feeling the terrifying force pressing down on his face, Huaye's expression twisted. Humiliation, he had never felt humiliation like this before.
"Hahahaha..."
"Huaye? Angel King? Why do you look like a dog right now?"
Jovian ignored whatever Huaye was feeling and went right on mocking that fragile little ego of his.
"Jovian, you forced this! Since you insist on backing me into absolute despair, then don't blame me for not holding back!"
A white light lit up in Huaye's eyes.
"Black hole engine, activate!"
At the critical moment, Huaye finally brought out the trump card Karthus had given him, using his black hole engine to simulate the form of a black hole.
As the black hole engine activated, a massive black vortex instantly appeared in the dark reaches of space, widening and widening as though it meant to devour every particle in the universe.
"Heh, a black hole engine? How impressive."
Jovian looked at the so-called black hole engine and smiled faintly, as if it did not concern him in the slightest.
"Now you see how powerful I am, right?"
"You idiot, regret it. Suffer with your angels as this endless black hole swallows you all whole!"
Huaye grinned smugly. Only now did he finally feel like he had recovered the dignity of the Angel King.
"Black hole, denied."
And just like that, Huaye's smug satisfaction earned him nothing more than the kind of look someone might give a complete moron.
"What?"
Huaye, who was extremely sensitive to other people's expressions, saw the superiority in Jovian's eyes and felt both anger and fear. A terrible premonition rose in his heart.
And just like Murphy's Law, the very thing Huaye least wanted to happen happened anyway.
The instant Jovian said, "Black hole, denied," the terrifying black hole that had been on the verge of taking shape disappeared without a trace.
"What is this?!"
"What the hell just happened?"
Huaye's face was full of confusion and disbelief.
Smack!
Before he could figure anything out, a foot carrying tremendous force smashed into his face again.
"Give me a sword."
Jovian kept one foot on Huaye's head while borrowing a blade from one of the beautiful school-uniform angels at his side.
"Your Majesty Jovian, your sword!"
Without a second thought, the angel handed him a flaming sword.
"Good."
Jovian gripped the flaming sword and leveled it at Huaye's neck beneath his foot.
"Wait, wait!" Huaye's eyes darted wildly. The second he saw that terrifying flaming sword, he knew his life was hanging by a thread, so he immediately started begging. "Jovian, great Angel King, there's actually no real conflict of interest between us at all. I only came after you because that bastard Karthus tricked me into it. Let me go, and I'll deal with that kid Karthus for you. What do you think?"
At this point, all of Huaye's arrogance and dominance were gone. He looked like nothing more than an ugly piece of trash willing to sell anything just to stay alive.
"Karthus? Is he strong?"
"How many divisions does he have?"
Jovian's eyes were full of contempt. His hand fell, and with one stroke he cut through Huaye's neck.
"Concept insertion in progress..."
"Visual confirmation complete, idiot confirmed dead!"
Jovian activated his bio-engine and instantly turned Huaye from a living colossal idiot into a dead colossal idiot.
"All right, Huaye is dead..."
"You can surrender now too."
After killing Huaye, Jovian raised the severed head high on the tip of the flaming sword and shouted at the angel scum who had already been beaten into utter ruin.
"Our king..."
The angel scum looked at the ugly face skewered on Jovian's flaming sword, and despair spread across every one of their expressions.
Clatter...
At last, one of them dropped his weapon in despair. Then, with someone finally taking the lead, one, then two, then three, until every surviving angel scum threw down their weapons and knelt before Jovian.
"At least you know what's good for you."
Jovian looked at the kneeling angel scum and smiled.
"My king, how should these angel scum be dealt with?"
A guardian angel flew over to Jovian and asked what should be done with them.
"Shut down their bio-engines and send them to Thailand to complete their final evolution!"
"If these angel scum love screwing other people so much, then they can spend the rest of their lives getting screwed themselves!"
Jovian was always a man who did exactly what he said he would. Since he had already said he would send these angel scum to Thailand for their twisted little evolution, then he absolutely had to send them there for that crucial operation.
"As you command!"
The guardian angel did not think there was anything strange about Jovian's order at all. In the eyes of the angels, Jovian's authority already exceeded even Sacred Kayle's. Whatever Jovian said was basically truth to the school-uniform angels.
"Hahahaha..."
"Entertain me. Make me laugh, you stupid angel scum!"
Just imagining the future awaiting them made Jovian laugh. Of course, he was not saying there was anything wrong with these angel scum finding every beautiful female angel attractive. Their only real mistake was that in Jovian's universe, no one else was allowed to be as rotten as he was. Jovian was the gold standard for scum, and anyone even worse than him deserved to be castrated. It was that simple.
On the other side, once the spatial barrier disappeared, Ruoning stood in the void with tattered clothes, leaning on her sword. Her chest rose and fell, and fine beads of sweat covered her forehead.
"Damn it, I admit I underestimated you!"
Ruoning stared at the senior guardian angels before her and transmitted the message through dark energy.
"I'm sorry, teacher, but strength like yours really has been left behind."
Leng, the beautiful senior guardian angel with the high ponytail, stood there with one hand on her slim waist and sneered at Ruoning.
She had originally thought that no matter what, her teacher should still be stronger than they were. But to her disappointment, in front of angels equipped with the most advanced bio-engines, her teacher had no advantage at all. She had been beaten back again and again. Even Zhixin could suppress Ruoning for a short time.
Watching all that, Leng realized one thing.
The times really had changed. Her teacher Ruoning had been pushed out by history.
"Don't get cocky!"
Ruoning's chest heaved. Even now, she refused to accept defeat at the hands of these younger angels. She still thought she had one last backer.
"As long as Huaye is still alive, it's not your turn to act so proud!"
Ruoning roared, sending her dark-energy signal echoing through the battlefield.
...
But no reply came.
It was as if the entire battlefield had gone dead.
"What are you all standing around for?"
Ruoning looked around, and then she saw the angel scum kneeling in the void.
"And why are you all kneeling?"
"Huaye! Huaye, get out here! Why are you making them kneel?"
Ruoning shouted furiously, sending out one frantic dark-energy signal after another.
"Oh, quit yelling, lady. Is the Huaye you're talking about this thing right here?"
Just as Ruoning was at her most furious, a contemptuous voice rang out, and a head skewered on a flaming sword flew right up in front of her.
"Hu... Huaye?!"
Ruoning stared wide-eyed at that hideous, dead-faced head, unable to believe it. Huaye, the one she had treated as her foundation, the one she had counted on to turn everything around, had already been killed ahead of her.
Then that meant...
"It's over."
Jovian sat high on his throne and spoke with cold indifference.
"I... I'm willing to swear loyalty to you. I'm willing to offer you everything I have. Great Angel King, please spare my life!"
Ruoning was the kind of person who could bend or stand as needed. The instant she realized the tide had fully turned, she dropped to her knees before Jovian and begged for mercy.
"Oh, come on, lady. I don't kill women."
"As for offering me everything you have?"
"Hehehe... no need."
"You're really not on my menu."
Jovian shook his head as he looked at Ruoning. Her looks were simply not his type. To put it plainly, in his eyes she was ugly as hell.
"Thank you for your generosity!"
Ruoning was furious inside. She genuinely believed she was better-looking than most of these little girls, yet in Jovian's mouth she had become the one being rejected outright. Her pride had a hard time swallowing that.
But if she wanted to live, she had no choice.
What felt truly regretful to her was that after pursuing power, abandoning Kayle, and spending thousands of years beside a piece of trash like Huaye, after paying such a price, she had ended up with nothing. It disappointed her, but also seemed to awaken something in her. Now that her cause was completely lost, and Huaye, her last chance at a comeback, was dead, she had no hope left of ever reclaiming the peak of power.
So she decided she would go find some distant planet and continue being its queen.
Yes, even now, Ruoning still had not freed herself from her obsession with power.
Buzz!
Then silver light flared behind her, and in an instant, one god-killing weapon after another came screaming toward her.
"Hm?!"
Sensing the danger at her back, Ruoning turned instinctively.
The next second, blood dyed the void red.
One blade after another pierced through her divine body.
"Why?!"
"You said you'd spare me..."
Confusion flickered in Ruoning's eyes. In her mind, a supreme god like Jovian had no reason to lie to her. She could not understand why he would go back on his word and kill her. What was the point? Why not just kill her from the beginning?
"I did say I'd spare you, but..."
Sitting on his throne, Jovian looked at the wretched Ruoning and shook his head. He really had promised to spare her, but he had only said that he would spare her. He had never said anyone else would.
"Ruoning, from the moment you betrayed me, you were already dead!"
Sacred Kayle looked at the ruined Ruoning with calm eyes and spoke with absolute authority.
"Kayle..."
"Heh, I knew it. I knew you were never going to let me go..."
The moment Ruoning heard Kayle's voice, she seemed to understand everything. Madness and bitterness flickered across her face as her life finally approached its end.
"Sigh..."
"An unbelievably ugly, withered flower has finally died."
"Now it's time to have a proper talk with that old bastard Karthus."
Jovian looked at Ruoning's corpse and shook his head. She was too ugly, far too ugly. If he kept looking at her, he was going to throw up.
"Angels, form ranks!"
"Let's go see exactly how many divisions that brat Karthus really has!"
Seated high on his throne, Jovian prepared to descend upon the Styx Galaxy and have a proper talk with Karthus.
A nice, friendly exchange of godly experience.
"As you command!"
The hundred thousand school-uniform angels formed up and, under Jovian's orders, began advancing toward the Styx Galaxy.
"So Huaye was really that useless. Pathetic."
"What a blunder. This kid's kind of screwed..."
Karthus remained inside his academy, his expression filled with bleak helplessness as he did everything he could to think of a way to stand against Jovian's angel army.
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