The summit of Atlas erupted into motion.
Five gods lunged forward at once.
The air fractured under the sheer pressure of their power.
Stellar moved first.
Frost erupted from her hands as the air temperature plummeted violently. Moisture in the atmosphere condensed instantly, forming a colossal weapon above her.
A giant ice spear the size of a tower.
With a sharp motion of her arm—
She hurled it toward Eon.
The spear screamed through the air like a falling meteor.
But Eon simply raised a finger.
The spear stopped.
Completely.
Frozen in space as if time itself had paused around it.
Then—
Crack.
Crack.
Crack.
The massive weapon shattered into thousands of glittering shards before reaching him.
Darius was already moving.
Chains burst from the shadows beneath Eon like serpents.
The Chains of the Warden wrapped around his body instantly, locking his arms and torso.
Eon's eyes flickered.
He attempted to dismantle them at a molecular level.
But nothing happened.
His brow raised slightly.
"…Higher authority."
But panic never reached his face.
Instead—
The space around him twisted.
Suddenly the chains shifted direction violently, bending sideways as Eon rearranged the distance between objects.
But Darius reacted instantly.
He slammed his chains into the ground.
Pinning them.
Using the tension—
He launched himself forward like a projectile.
A shadow blade formed in his hand as he shot toward Eon's neck.
But the moment he reached striking distance—
Reality shifted.
Eon swapped their positions.
Now Darius stood where Eon had been.
And Eon stood directly behind him.
His fist already moving.
But Eryndor had seen it.
Storm lightning flashed across the battlefield.
Eryndor vanished.
Reappearing beside Eon mid-attack.
Eon's punch missed.
Eryndor twisted his body—
And unleashed a lightning-fast kick.
CRACK.
The strike landed on Eon's face.
So fast even a High God barely reacted.
Eon saw the attack.
But couldn't fully stop it.
He blocked partially.
Still—
The impact detonated across the platform.
Eon slid back several meters.
His hand smoked.
The skin burned.
Blue lightning crackled across the wound.
Mixed with darkness.
And the faint black flame of the Black Sun.
High authority power.
It had actually injured him.
Eon looked at his hand briefly.
"…Interesting."
Rein attacked immediately.
Golden dominion energy erupted around his fists.
He struck with relentless combinations.
Every punch coated in Domain Energy.
Eon blocked them.
One after another.
Palm.
Elbow.
Shoulder.
Rein suddenly spread his hands.
"Area Lock."
Golden lines of authority began forming around them—
But they shattered instantly.
Eon flicked his fingers.
The dominion field collapsed like broken glass.
Rein's eyes widened.
Eon kicked.
BOOM.
Rein blocked with crossed arms but was still sent flying across the platform.
He crashed into a pillar, stone exploding outward.
But Kaelus was already moving.
Wind roared.
He vanished.
Appearing everywhere at once.
Like a storm given human form.
Kaelus attacked from every direction simultaneously.
Slashes of wind.
Blade strikes.
Palm blows.
Eon blocked several.
But Stellar joined instantly.
Ice erupted across the ground, climbing upward through the air itself.
She froze the atmosphere around Eon.
Restricting molecular movement.
Trying to limit his matter manipulation.
But Eon smiled slightly.
The frozen air melted instantly.
Ice became water.
Then—
Eon flicked his fingers.
The droplets of water sharpened into microscopic spikes.
Thousands of them.
They shot outward in every direction.
Like bullets.
The team reacted instantly.
Wind barriers.
Shadow shields.
Ice walls.
Dominion force.
The attack deflected harmlessly.
Rein stood back up, cracking his neck.
"Yeah…"
He wiped blood from his mouth.
"That ability sure is annoying."
Eon shrugged slightly.
"I do have more to show you."
His eyes gleamed.
"We'll see if you survive long enough."
Then—
He moved first.
Space warped violently.
The distance between him and the team collapsed.
He appeared before them almost instantly.
But Eryndor noticed first.
His eyes narrowed.
Storm energy surged.
Eon punched.
The fist expanded suddenly.
Growing larger.
Larger.
Larger.
By the time it reached Eryndor—
It was the size of a boulder.
BOOM.
The strike hit.
Then the fist shrank back to normal size instantly.
Eryndor was launched across the battlefield.
Kaelus blinked.
"What the fuck…?"
Darius rushed forward.
Shadow martial arts flowing through his limbs as he engaged Eon directly.
Their strikes collided repeatedly.
During the exchange he spoke calmly.
"So you can change your body like that."
Eon blocked a kick and countered with a palm strike.
"Of course."
He stepped sideways.
"Everything is made of matter."
He twisted his wrist.
"If I become a true god…"
His eyes glinted.
"I could change the matter of others as well."
Lightning suddenly split the sky.
A streak of blue storm energy shot across the battlefield.
Darius appeared behind Eon mid-movement.
His chains pulled him upward—
Dragging Eon into the air.
The High God's eyes widened slightly.
And then—
Eryndor appeared in front of him in midair.
Storm lightning exploding around his body.
"Luckily…"
Eryndor's leg swung down.
"…that'll never happen."
CRACK.
The kick smashed into Eon's head.
The impact sent him crashing back to the ground like a meteor.
The platform shattered.
Eon's face was burned from the storm energy.
Before he could stand—
Stellar unleashed a barrage.
Dozens.
Hundreds.
Of massive ice spears rained down.
But Eon stopped smiling.
His eyes turned cold.
He slowly stood.
Then spoke two words.
"Domain Authority."
BOOOOOOM.
A shockwave exploded outward.
The team was blasted backward across the platform.
Stone cracked.
Air trembled.
And suddenly—
Everything changed.
The entire summit became something else.
A domain.
Eon's domain.
The air warped.
Matter bent unnaturally.
Reality itself felt… unstable.
Darius felt it immediately.
His eyes widened.
"…What the hell…"
It felt like Eon existed everywhere.
But also nowhere.
As if the entire battlefield itself was his body.
Eon walked toward them calmly.
Hands in his pockets.
"Let's get serious."
His aura surged violently.
"This time I'm using my full strength."
The air began vibrating under the pressure.
"You've been struggling because…"
He lifted a small crystal artifact from his belt.
"…I possess an artifact that ignores some of the laws of Planet Nohr."
He crushed the crystal in his hand.
Energy surged through him.
"You were fighting me at sixty percent."
The pressure in the domain intensified drastically.
"The most I can release now…"
His aura exploded outward like a gravitational storm.
"…is eighty-five percent."
Rein clenched his fists.
Kaelus tightened his grip on Tempest Blade.
Stellar's frost thickened around her body.
Darius' chains rattled ominously.
But something else happened.
Only one person saw it.
Only Eryndor.
He saw the moment.
The moment Eon appeared in the center of them again.
So fast no one else perceived it.
Eon stood there calmly.
Looking at all of them.
His voice echoed through the domain.
"Don't worry."
His aura flooded the battlefield like a tidal wave.
"Today…"
A faint smile crossed his face.
"If I don't die…"
His eyes gleamed coldly.
"…you all will."