Solomon's Timelines Overlap in the Summoning / Fused as One: The Sixth Heaven Demon King Fully Awakens!

What happened next made everyone's scalps tingle.

Grabbing the heart, Mara opened its mouth wide and stuffed the heart in, biting down and devouring it.

At the same time, the Mara whose chest had been torn open was ripped apart by the other Maras.

"Urgh!"

"It actually—"

"Is that monster Beelzebub created really okay?"

"It's actually eating its own kind."

The twelve Maras tore into that Mara and devoured it in just a few bites. Whether they were spectators from Humanity's side or the gods' side, none of them could bear to watch.

It would have been one thing if it had been eating a beast, but Mara looked human. This act of cannibalism severely crossed the psychological limits of most people.

Some gods even began hoping Mara would not win this match. They hoped King Solomon would win and destroy Mara.

Ah, and Beelzebub too. That guy was far too dangerous. What the hell was he creating?

"Is it just me?"

"Doesn't Mara seem to have changed a little?"

"Its body seems bigger."

Those who noticed this broke out in even colder sweats.

Could Mara have also inherited Beelzebub's gluttony?

And why were the Maras scanning the audience? What was with that tongue-licking gesture?

Were they treating the spectators as food too?

The next second, the Maras were drawn back to King Solomon. He had made his move.

A Magic Array spread out from beneath him, and some immediately recognized it.

It was the Magic Array used to summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons.

Was he going to summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons again?

Was he summoning them here to die?

Solomon's Timeline-Stacked Summoning

The Seventy-two Pillars of Demons clearly had not been killed just now.

Otherwise, Mara would not have said they had fled.

And now King Solomon wanted to summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons again? Wasn't that sending them to their deaths?

Wait, perhaps he was not summoning the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons.

For example, there was also Hell's Great Demon King Berial.

But could Berial stand against these Maras?

Perhaps he might summon several beings on Berial's level.

Thinking of that, both the gods and humanity began to look forward to it.

"Lord Zeus, do you think Berial can win?"

"Who knows?"

Zeus replied with a shrug.

Though that was what he said, he did not believe Berial could defeat these Maras.

If there were only two or three of them, there might still have been a chance. But thirteen—

No, even against twelve, it would be impossible. And these twelve had even been slightly strengthened.

Why did twelve feel stronger than thirteen?

What would happen if these twelve devoured one another until only one remained?

The thought made Zeus's expression turn grave.

This thing was truly too dangerous. If it got out of control, there would be serious consequences.

Hades had just sent him a message. In the distant ancient past, this thing had nearly destroyed the Underworld.

Yet Beelzebub had found a tiny remnant of it and replicated it. What exactly was that guy thinking?

Did he want to destroy the entire Heavenly Realm?

Considering Beelzebub's past, perhaps he really would do something like that.

Could Beelzebub have such vast resources to research all kinds of things because Odin was backing him?

What was Odin plotting as well?

"This is really bad."

The two ravens were a little flustered. Beelzebub's current display would definitely make some Main Gods feel threatened.

And Odin nominating Beelzebub to fight would surely make those Main Gods think even more.

Just as they were about to chatter on, the two ravens fell silent after seeing the utterly emotionless look in their master's eyes.

Their gaze focused on the arena. As King Solomon summoned them, the figures that appeared were—the Supreme Four Pillars Gods.

The others did not appear?

Had they been frightened by Mara and dared not answer the summons?

That seemed normal enough. They had just been utterly crushed by Mara.

And if they came again this time, they likely would not be able to escape as they had before. They would truly die.

Huh?

Something had gone wrong with the Supreme Four Pillars Gods' summoning as well.

Their figures were shaking, but it was not the trembling of fear. It was like an image on a television screen suddenly jittering for no reason, making their bodies seem like several overlapping layers.

Wait, it was not just their bodies. Even the Magic Array summoning them was shaking, making it seem like countless Magic Arrays were layered atop one another.

"Are they rejecting the summons?"

The Norse God of Trickery frowned.

"That makes sense. They were lucky not to die last time. If they get summoned again, they won't have that sandbox divine artifact. They'll probably really be killed."

Ares immediately concluded that they were resisting King Solomon's summons.

After all, wasn't this the same as suicide?

How could the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons obediently accept the summons? They had to be resisting it.

"No, that's not it!"

Underworld God Hades narrowed his eyes slightly. He had noticed the expressions of the Four Pillars Gods. They clearly did not look like they were resisting.

Instead, they looked somewhat shocked and bewildered.

And that expression was not because they had been summoned again. Something else had happened that had startled them.

His pupils contracted. Was King Solomon's magical power output not a little too high?

"Lord Zeus, the magical power he's releasing clearly far exceeds what he used to summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons before. It even exceeds the power used in the counter-summoning struggle for the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons. What is he doing?"

Hermes could not understand why King Solomon was expending so much magical power to forcibly summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons.

Hm? Zeus did not react or answer him. Instead, he leaned forward slightly and stared wide-eyed at the scene.

Had he noticed something?

The shaking suddenly stopped, and the countless seemingly illusory afterimages all returned to their proper places.

In the end, among the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, only the Supreme Four Pillars Gods had been successfully summoned.

The instant the summoning succeeded, the Maras on the opposite side appeared beside the Supreme Four Pillars at a terrifying speed that left afterimages.

Three against one—were they about to instantly tear open the Supreme Four Pillars Gods' chests?

"What—!"

Hermes's eyes widened sharply.

He had assumed the Supreme Four Pillars would be instantly killed.

Then again, King Solomon would not be that foolish. That meant he might be returning to his old tricks, using visual deception to provide support to the Supreme Four Pillars Gods.

However, this time, there was no mirage-like deception.

This time, each Supreme Four Pillars God blocked the attacks of three Maras on their own.

The next instant, before Hermes could understand what was happening, his vision blurred, and four Maras were killed.

One had been split apart from head to toe. One had a basin-sized hole blasted through its chest. One's head exploded. One was twisted like an empty soda can.

"Th-this, what kind of development is this?"

Even Heimdallr, the announcer, was dumbfounded.

Previously, the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons had been effortlessly ravaged and destroyed by thirteen Maras.

How had the situation reversed after another summoning, when only the Supreme Four Pillars had been summoned? The Maras were being crushed instead.

Had the Maras suddenly become weaker?

No, the Supreme Four Pillars Gods had suddenly become absurdly stronger.

This had something to do with King Solomon, right? He was still outputting massive amounts of magical power into that summoning array.

Wait, King Solomon was not operating just one Magic Array. There was another one above his head.

Looking up, Heimdallr stared in shock at the enormous Magic Array operating in the sky outside the arena.

On closer inspection, that seemingly simple pentagram Magic Array in the sky was actually composed of countless smaller Magic Arrays.

"So that's it. He's done something astounding again!"

Zeus, who had been leaning forward, sat back up and spoke with interest.

He had seen why the Supreme Four Pillars Gods had become so powerful.

Well, as long as one was not blind, everyone knew King Solomon had strengthened them with his power.

But he had seen the true nature of that strengthening.

King Solomon had done something astonishing—he had summoned demon gods from different points in time into this moment and forcibly stacked them together.

That was the true reason the Supreme Four Pillars Gods had suddenly become so powerful.

Oh?

Zeus sensed that King Solomon's released magical power had suddenly increased by quite a bit, though to many gods, it seemed unchanged.

It was like dripping a drop of water into a cup that was already completely full. There appeared to be no difference.

In other words, King Solomon's magical power had risen slightly, but not by his own will.

Had the opening finally begun to loosen?

Becoming One, the Sixth Heaven Demon King Fully Awakens!

Though the stacked Supreme Four Pillars had become stronger, their minds had instead become less flexible.

Each demon god originally possessed special abilities, but now they had become nothing more than pure violent berserkers.

Otherwise, if they had used their abilities flexibly, they could have completely destroyed the Maras' corpses instead of leaving any remains behind.

The result of becoming pure violent maniacs was that the remaining Maras would occasionally sneak a bite.

And the reason they had managed to instantly kill four Maras just now was not because the Supreme Four Pillars were powerful enough to casually one-shot them.

The reason they had killed four Maras in that first clash was mainly because the Maras had underestimated them.

The eight that had narrowly survived naturally became wary. When they clashed with the Four Pillars Gods again, they would not be slaughtered in the blink of an eye.