Mazikeen and Circe's battle was indeed as fierce as she had said. For the moment, the two appeared evenly matched.
On one hand, Maze was not Lucifer after all. She governed Hell in his stead and held the title of Satan, but compared to the genuine Satans, she still fell just a tiny bit short.
Not by much, just that tiny bit. But because the Hell she occupied was not truly hers, she could never reach Lucifer's level.
As for Circe, she had only just inherited another Witch's Mark and had not yet had time to absorb it. It could even be said that her strength had diminished somewhat, as she needed to divert part of her attention to regulating the flow of energy within her body.
But this was Witch's Moon, where she held the home-field advantage, allowing her to fight Mazikeen to a draw.
Her command over dimensional power, especially when it came to transforming enemies, was truly masterful.
Even though Mazikeen, as a Demon King, possessed all kinds of conceptual protections, she still could not avoid being turned into animals or sliced and shredded by invisible forces.
Yet abilities that were terrifying to mortals or other gods meant little to demons. Demons themselves were chaotic and formless. Even if she was turned into an animal, Mazikeen could immediately blow herself into a puddle of pus and blood, then be reborn from a burning Blood Pool.
As long as Hell endured, the Demon King would not die. It was absolutely impossible to completely kill a Satan within an Alternate Dimension.
Demons were tools God used to spread order amid chaos, and God's tools were not so easily broken.
Lucifer had seen through the vast game God was playing, which was why he found rebellion meaningless. Even Lucifer's betrayal,