Two forces powerful enough to shake the foundations of the Demon World collided head-on, unleashing a deafening boom that instantly robbed every demon of its hearing.
The energy shockwave spread outward in a ring, shaving three feet off the ground. Some low-ranking demons who failed to dodge in time were reduced to ashes before they could even scream.
Heavenly thunder had stirred the Underworld Fire; the battle reached its fiercest point the instant it began!
Taking advantage of the moment when the two calamities were locked in an inseparable fight and energy streams shot wildly everywhere, the demons kneeling below scrambled and crawled behind relatively safe ruins, trembling as they poked their heads out to watch.
"Hey... who do you think will win?" one demon whispered, his voice still shaking.
A demon beside him with only half a horn left swallowed. "Th-this is way too terrifying. His Majesty the Demon Emperor... should be able to win, right?"
The moment he finished speaking, the demons around him all stared at him with the strange look one gave an idiot.
A demon lord who looked fairly clever, though he had also shouted the loudest when surrendering earlier, lowered his voice and practically gritted his teeth. "What the hell are you thinking? What happens if the Demon Emperor wins? He settles accounts afterward and crushes all of us 'traitors'? Or stuffs us into lava for a bath?"
He paused, genuine terror appearing on his face. Pointing toward the figure darting through the battlefield like a red meteor, repeatedly cleaving apart Mundus's dark energy, he spoke with a tremor in his voice:
"But if that human wins... think about how he was cutting us down like vegetables just now! In his hands, we probably wouldn't even be able to die if we wanted to!