One Last Time (Second Update for the First Day of the Lunar New Year)

The ultimate light shattered the heavens. From the moment the first speck of ash released its world-burning power, the final curtain had been set.

That six-winged Fallen Angel had sacrificed countless Hell Devils to open a road to Heaven. Beneath the dim stars, he was the only light in the vast, endless night.

He would not permit Hell to exist. He would send the souls of Devils to Heaven, exercise the authority of the first Fallen Angel, and let the world-ending flood descending with the will of Primordial God swallow everything!

The choir's hymn echoed. Scorching radiance reached the boundary of Replacement Space in an instant and engulfed it, while the sound of crystal walls shattering rang without cease.

Only then, amid pure white silence, did Earl Xiemoke watch the ever-expanding pillar of light devour Devils and evaporate the ice. Slowly, he lowered the scepter in his hand.

He turned toward his Devil gate, only to find a handsome man standing outside it. The man's black hair gleamed like satin, his features were sharply defined, and he held a dull gray sword blank as he stared at the Earl.

The Earl's face twisted into sudden savagery. His humanoid body swelled and warped, his horns curled and lengthened, and he returned to his true Devil form.

The towering goat, now somewhat more solid, stepped out into the void. His four hooves broke through space, and each breath from his nose and mouth brought a cold that could freeze all things.

The instant a crystal-clear snowflake drifted down, blood-red light flared on his horns. Terrifying energy enough to destroy an entire Star Domain gathered there. His goat pupils widened into rectangles, and time and space froze in that instant.

At the very least, he would crush this Reincarnator who knew neither heaven's