As the power of Hell gathered, a faint black mist spread through the air.
Under Jiang Hao's control, the black mist drew together into a vast cloak that covered all of Maladomini.
Light filled with Positive Energy poured from the sun and struck the black mist, melting it away as quickly as Ice and Snow beside a furnace.
Jiang Hao paid it no mind. Drawing on his status as Lord of Maladomini, he kept summoning the power of Hell to thicken the cloak overhead and withstand the Lord of Dawn's attack.
Under his control, the battle soon became a war of attrition.
The power of Hell might have been inferior to the Lord of Dawn's Divine Power, and more of it might have been needed to cancel out that Divine Power, but Hell's power was inexhaustible.
When the other Devil Lords saw that "Baalzebul" had held off the Lord of Dawn, they joined the fight. Several serpent-shaped streams of black mist appeared in Maladomini and surged toward the cloak overhead.
The serpents passed through the cloak and faced the Lord of Dawn's sun. Its terrifying light seared their bodies, leaving corroded streaks and pitting their surfaces.
Roar—
One serpent near the sun opened its pitch-black jaws and swallowed it whole. For an instant, darkness fell over Hell.
The next moment, countless rays pierced the serpent. It vanished without a trace amid the endless light.
Jiang Hao seized the opening. He reshaped the cloak into a steam pot, trapped the serpent and the sun inside, and slammed on the lid.
The boundless light disappeared from Hell's sky, and its eternal blood-red hue once again dominated the world.
Seemingly realizing that, across endless space-time, he could do nothing to a Devil Lord residing in Hell with power nearly equal to a god's,