After doing this good deed, Gaino headed toward the next stage.
Passing through the checkpoint, Gaino pushed open the door before him. This was the second stage. He wondered what kind of opponent awaited him this time.
This challenge reminded Gaino of when Vados had first brought him to the Godslayer Platform. Back then, Gaino had been incredibly weak. Of course, he had not even grown up yet. He had still been just a child.
He had been small, and his strength had been nothing special either.
Vados had trapped him on the Godslayer Platform for five years. During those five years, Gaino spent every day fighting. He lived in constant fear, because even the slightest mistake back then could have cost him his life on the Godslayer Platform. But Gaino had been lucky. He passed the Godslayer Platform's trial, and his strength improved enormously.
And those gods who had once seemed impossibly out of reach—Vados, for example—now had to obey his orders. That was the authority of strength. Only the strong could make the rules. Only power could silence everyone who opposed them.
Now, Gaino felt no pressure whatsoever on this path of trials. He possessed absolute strength. Great power gave him supreme confidence. That was the confidence of the strong.
Gaino was determined to claim Demigra's head today. In Gaino's eyes, the only one who still posed a threat to him was the King of Time and Space. The King of Time and Space's strength definitely could not be merely the power of a twelfth-order god. Ever since Gaino emerged from the Dragon God Secret Realm, although he had suppressed his strength to the peak of an eighth-order god, his actual combat power had already surpassed Grand Zeno and the Dragon God Zalama.
That was because Gaino felt