There was no earth-shattering collision.
The destructive beam, the instant it touched the light before Noah's palm, seemed to vanish like a mud ox sinking into the sea, gently yet absolutely enveloped and swallowed by the endless golden radiance.
Not only that, the vast energy within the beam was effortlessly converted and absorbed. Instead, a constantly flickering flame containing even more astonishing power gathered around Noah's clenched right fist.
Goetia's "gaze" froze. The shock of seeing his attack nullified and even absorbed temporarily overwhelmed his rage.
The next second, Noah threw a punch.
[Noah Hellfire!]
With a simple straight punch, the gathered flame erupted, transforming into a blazing torrent of light that instantly engulfed Goetia!
"Argh—!!!"
A shrill scream replaced his roar.
What Goetia felt was pain far beyond any injury he had suffered before, pain that reached straight to the root of his existence.
Those flames were not merely burning his body. They were burning his very "existence."
The immortality and rapid regeneration he had prided himself on completely failed. His body constantly collapsed within the flames, tried to regenerate, and was immediately burned away even more thoroughly.
This was permanent erasure aimed at "existence."
The irresistible force contained in that punch sent his body flying. He became a burning meteor, smashing through layer upon layer of spatial barriers and hurtling backward at an unimaginable speed until he disappeared into the deep void beyond the Temple of Time.
Only after flying an unknown distance did the flames clinging to him gradually extinguish.
When he finally stopped, Goetia had almost ceased to exist.
His once-majestic halo and body had been reduced to a tiny, shattered core like a dying ember, flickering weakly in the cold void.
The greater part of his existence had been permanently incinerated by those flames. No