Chapter 162: Goetia's Form Reappears, Instant Annihilation!
This wasn't just a figure of speech - space-time had truly frozen.
However, the frozen time was extremely brief, merely an instant, shorter than human neural reaction time.
But for him, who had already taken on a semi-Goetia form, this was more than enough.
By the time half of that instant had passed, he had already reached the Four Generals and killed them.
No, they weren't dead yet, only their bodies had been destroyed, their consciousnesses still frozen in time.
When only 0.01 seconds remained in that fleeting moment, he had already appeared before Hazyirus, one of the Rahu's Seven Luminaries under the mechanical lifeform lord, the evil god Melbazoa.
At this moment, the opponent actually managed to break free from the constraints of time and space, but it was too late—his hand had already seized its face.
Boom—!
The mechanical head shattered into pieces, and the headless mechanical body collapsed like a building block structure losing its most crucial support.
"Ah—!"
An incoherent sound escaped from someone's lips, though no one knew whose.
Then, one by one, they became dazed and stupefied.
The terrifyingly dense attacks that could previously destroy a nation and alter the terrain of the earth had now vanished as if it were all a joke.
The beam attacks dissipated midway as if lacking sufficient energy and intensity.
The missile-like attacks extinguished as if their fuel had instantly run out, and strangely, they didn't continue flying forward due to inertia but instead fell straight to the ground in an illogical manner.
The warheads, which appeared to be mechanically manufactured and should have been quite sturdy, shattered like fragile porcelain upon impact with the ground.
It was as if the previous attacks were merely for show—outwardly strong but inwardly weak.
Their pupils slightly narrowed as they saw the so-called Four Generals' bodies broken apart like toys.
Upon closer inspection, there were also strange, writhing substances inside, but these too seemed to have died, turning into stagnant pools.
Were these beings, at the level of high-class devils and Satans, really dead just like that, without any warning?
What exactly had happened?
Their pupils contracted once more as they spotted an anomalous figure standing before the Moon King Hazyirus.
Before this otherworldly mechanical creature could utter a word, its head was crushed, and its body collapsed in a heap of wreckage.
So, was this otherworldly mechanical creature truly at the level of a chief god?
It felt too unreal—being killed without any resistance?
No, it was all too real, because everyone could feel an unparalleled pressure emanating from the anomalous figure that had slain it, making it impossible to tell whether the cold sweat suddenly soaking their clothes was caused by the mechanical creature's pressure or by this being.
The figure was half-human, half-nonhuman. If one had to describe it, an adjective involuntarily surfaced in their minds—Demon God.
Not just any demon god, but a king among demon gods—a Demon God King.
"The form of the Demon God King..."
"...Goetia"
The first was Asia's dazed murmur, the second was Tsubaki's follow-up.
When the two witnessed this form, these words surfaced in their minds and escaped their lips unbidden.
Neither of them realized they had instinctively dropped to one knee, adopting a posture of submission before this being, before this king.
Suddenly, the alternate space wavered like a mirage and vanished, revealing the original Occult Research Club room once more.
The half-human, half-demon god state also dissipated, returning him to his normal form.
Then, his body began steaming, glowing red all over as if boiled.
Abruptly, Tsubaki's expression changed slightly, and she quickly moved to his side to support him.
Her expression changed once again as her hand touched his body, and the force of her touch became even lighter.
She immediately scolded the nun who was still standing there in a daze.
"Huh? Healing?"
After moving to his side, she immediately exerted her full healing power to treat King Solomon, whose body felt as if it might melt at any moment.
Only when her healing energy enveloped him did she realize it wasn't just a feeling, if left untreated, his body would truly collapse.
"This is—"
"It must be that his pure magical power has reached an unimaginable level, causing his body to become as if cooked by high temperatures"
Sona voiced Rias's speculation.
In Sona's view, that was exactly the case.
When magical power becomes excessively high and the body can't withstand it, this phenomenon might occur.
Correction: It should be said that it was as if he had released all his magical power in an instant, nearly causing his body to fail to withstand it.
If it had been slightly more intense, it would have been equivalent to what's called self-destruction.
So, what exactly happened just now?
He created a separate dimension in an instant, pulled the enemy inside, then overwhelmingly annihilated them in seconds.
Those were three Satan-level beings plus what should have been a chief god-level monster, all instantly destroyed?
Why does this feel so unreal, like a dream?
Meanwhile, in the Dimensional Rift.
"What?"
A mechanical figure emitted a startled sound.
The second Moon King of Rahu's Seven Luminaries under the mechanical lifeform lord Evil God Melbazoa, Hazyirus, had suddenly completely lost contact.
There were two possibilities for this situation. One was that Hazyirus had been trapped by something, making even his master Melbazoa completely unable to sense his existence, as if he were dead.
The other possibility was that he had truly died!
Therefore, Lord Melbazoa immediately ordered it to retreat.
So, looking at the flesh-and-blood creature known as Great Red in this world before it, it snorted coldly and reluctantly withdrew from the Dimensional Rift, leaving this world.
After all, the being before it had stirred up long-dormant battle intent within it, an opponent that could make it somewhat serious.
Just when its interest was piqued, it received orders to retreat.
It knew Lord Melbazoa was worried about one possibility, that there truly existed someone capable of killing Moon King Hazyirus, someone who might be more powerful than it, thus fearing it might also fall in this world.
Therefore, it was ordered not to entangle with this flesh creature to avoid being detained until that being arrived.
Currently, a more detailed investigation of this world was needed.
To investigate what exactly happened to Moon King Hazyirus?
Was he trapped? Or truly killed?