As William shouted, "Get back to hell!" the magic circle instantly completed, and a surge of energy propelled the cryogenic pod toward Spica, the massive star.
"Stop—!"
A deep, authoritative male voice emerged from Amunet's throat, her body suddenly suspended in mid-air instead of continuing its course toward the star.
The pod spun around and faced William and Carol.
With just a glance, William could tell that this was no longer Amunet.
Unlike Amunet's usual sinister and cunning aura, this presence was commanding, greedy, and filled with burning desire.
His—no, Set's—face carried both majesty and rage as he declared, "Mortals, do not make meaningless efforts. You should submit to me, and I shall grant you eternal life."
"Heh, I'll find that power on my own."
William raised both hands, palms facing Set-possessed Amunet, as the magic circle glowed even brighter.
However, even at 2% of the Space Stone's power, it wasn't enough to banish Set, who had fully possessed Amunet's body, consuming her soul in the process.
3%... 4%... 5%...
No matter what Set said, William pretended to be struggling, as if giving it his all, increasing his energy output.
By the time he reached 8%, William clearly felt that just 10% would be enough to banish Set completely.
But that wouldn't do.
Set, sensing William's power increasing, no longer resembled a god.
His face contorted in rage as he roared threats at William, and when that failed, he resorted to blackmail—mentioning Lina as a hostage.
"You're courting death!"
Now that he had the perfect excuse, William was secretly overjoyed. His muscles tensed, his powerful physique visible even through the tight Sentinel Armor.
He shouted to Carol,
"Carol, lend me your power! If we don't give it our all and kill this bastard now, we'll face endless revenge later!"
"Are you insane?"
Even though the Space Stone's power felt familiar and close to the energy that empowered her,
Carol hesitated.
Even if the energy came from the same source, it had already transformed into her unique power, making it unpredictable and dangerous to transfer to William.
She shook her head. "Even if I could lend you my power, the moment my energy enters your body, it would tear you apart!"
"Trust me, Carol!"
Now that the moment of truth had arrived, William couldn't let Carol hesitate any longer.
He shouted, "If we fail to banish Set, we'll likely die.
If we let him escape today, how many innocent people will suffer because of our mistake?"
"This..."
"Hurry, Carol! I can't hold on much longer! But I can feel it—with just a little more power, we can send Set back to hell!"
Set, panicking upon hearing William's words, realized that this was the decisive moment.
His true form in hell could no longer afford to hold back—he poured as much energy as Amunet's body could withstand into her.
Instantly, the entire spaceship, except for William's position and the blue-glowing magic circle, was shrouded in darkness.
To Carol, this really looked like a crisis.
Seeing William starting to tremble, she finally made her decision.
Carol placed her hand on William's shoulder, transferring her cosmic energy into the Sentinel Armor.
Suddenly, the Sentinel Armor reacted as if it had been awakened, greedily absorbing Carol's energy.
At the same time, it also began absorbing the residual Space Stone energy radiating from William's body.
The once jet-black armor now glowed with a soft golden light, like sunlight itself.
The armor's adaptive molecular structure shifted, forming fine golden scales across the surface, rippling like waves of gold.
By the time the entire armor transformed from head to toe, turning a radiant golden hue,
William instinctively understood—the Sentinel Armor had successfully cloned Carol's powers.
Without time to test its new abilities, William increased his Space Stone energy output,
while mentally commanding the armor to revert to its original black color,
so Carol would believe he was converting her energy into magic to banish Set.
"No! NO! STOP!"
Set, thinking that William was truly borrowing Carol's power to drive him away, screamed in fury and began cursing Carol frantically.
"I curse you, damned woman! I curse you to hell! I curse you to eternal darkness! I curse you to—"
BOOM!
Before Set could finish, the magic circle forcefully activated.
The Space Stone's energy warped the distance, reducing a full light-year into a mere kilometer.
Set, now engulfed in flames, was catapulted toward Spica, leaving behind a streak of multicolored energy spanning an entire light-year.
In less than ten minutes, his burning body disintegrated, leaving only his soul to crash into Spica's core.
With temperatures exceeding a hundred million degrees, the star's core was capable of burning anything—even souls—into nothingness.
Sure enough, before William and Carol could fully confirm his fate,
deep within one of the layers of hell,
a furious, agonized scream echoed across the entire realm.
Within moments, every demonic overlord in hell learned that yet another mortal from the Material Plane had emerged—someone capable of banishing gods.
Before long, without William even realizing it, his name became a feared threat across hell itself.
So much so that, one day, a demon who had illegally entered Earth
immediately fled back to hell upon hearing his name.
As for Carol, the demons and devils merely regarded her as a powerful superhuman—nothing more.
After all, no matter how strong she was, she couldn't reach into hell to hurt them.
But William was different.
Just like today, he had completely erased part of Set's soul, making him permanently weaker.
Of course, if Carol could enter hell, then with her strength, she could easily wipe out lesser demons and take over minor hell dimensions.
After waiting over ten minutes and confirming that Set's soul had not escaped the star, William finally felt certain—
Set had been burned to nothing.
Sitting down to rest for ten minutes, he then pretended to have recovered some strength and slowly stood up, heading toward the rest chamber.
Once inside, he collapsed onto the bed, pretending to be exhausted.
Yawning, he told Carol, "We'll talk later... I just want to sleep right now."
Watching as William started snoring within seconds, Carol sighed and shook her head.
She glanced at his Sentinel Armor for a few seconds, her expression unreadable,
then silently left the rest chamber.
Walking into the ship's control room, she ordered Sunday,
"Let's go home."
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