"Hm?!" Brayden had not expected Royce to find his trail so easily. He had originally planned to hide in the smoke and dust and catch Royce off guard, only for Royce to seize the initiative instead.
With a bang, Brayden suffered a small loss because his ambush failed, and at the same time, he could not help wanting to unleash even more of his power.
Brayden had already realized that Royce was indeed somewhat troublesome. Even if Royce's combat strength could not compare to his, and he was slightly inferior in strength and combat skill, Royce's rate of improvement was still very fast.
If Brayden did not go all out, he truly had no confidence in taking Royce down. So even though Ron and Mary were still threats nearby, Brayden decided to end this quickly.
After all, if this dragged on, Brayden would consume even more power, which would only make things more troublesome then.
The best choice was to quickly deal with everyone present, devour all their souls, escape from this place, and then quietly grow stronger.
At present, Brayden had no way to go to the Hell Dimension. Putting aside the fact that the Hell Dimension had already become fragments, and that Brayden could not even find a single dimensional fragment, even if Brayden could lock onto a dimensional fragment's location, he had no way to leave the Earth Dimension.
Because the current gap in the Earth Dimension had already been repaired, and in all of Inter-dimensional Space, probably only the Ancient One could return to the Earth Dimension now.
In truth, even if the Earth Dimension Consciousness that the Celestials had transformed into back then had not been dealt with by Robet using the Infinity Gauntlet, with Robet's current ability, erasing the Earth Dimension Consciousness would not