The western district of Tartarus had already fallen silent.
The monster wave that once flooded the city had either been slain or driven deeper into the ruined outskirts, leaving behind shattered streets, burning structures, and clouds of drifting ash beneath the dark skies of Tiamat.
An old broken street stretched between two collapsing buildings.
Cracked pavement and Bent street lamps.
Glass scattered like crystal rain across the ground.
And standing in the center of it all was Erethon.
The Primordial of Insanity and Darkness.
Unlike the terrifying legends whispered throughout the upper realms, Erethon now possessed a true body gifted by the Abyss itself. His medium-short dark hair rested carelessly over his hollow eyes. Black robes fluttered around his tall frame while darkness leaked from beneath his feet like smoke.
There was something deeply wrong about his presence.
Not murderous or evil but simply… unstable.
As though reality itself could not properly understand him.
Several meters away stood Vizer Ragnarok.
Cancer of the Zodiac.
Tall and charismatic with short black hair.
Crimson eyes glowing beneath the ruined skyline.
A deep red aura radiated around him, devouring fragments of dust and even the surrounding light.
The two stared at one another in silence while the wind swept through the ruined avenue.
Erethon tilted his head slightly before smiling.
"Are you prepared to die, Vizer?"
Vizer smiled calmly in return.
"I may get injured… but I won't die. After all, I can use the power of my fellow Zodiacs."
Erethon's hollow eyes narrowed with interest.
"That explains why Serion used the power of Taurus."
A violent red energy suddenly erupted from Vizer's body.
The buildings around him trembled.
The ground beneath his feet cracked apart.
Erethon's smile widened instantly.
"No more talking." BOOM.
The two disappeared simultaneously.
The next moment they reappeared in the middle of the street with their fists colliding together.
The impact shattered every remaining window in the surrounding buildings.
Glass exploded outward like a storm.
Vizer immediately followed with a punch directly to Erethon's face.
The blow twisted Erethon's head sideways.
"I've heard a lot about you," Vizer said coldly. "Banned from the Heavenly Court. Untamable. A monster no one could stop except the man who sealed the Primordials."
Erethon smiled through the hit.
Then drove a punch into Vizer's stomach.
The street beneath them exploded.
"I'm flattered."
Vizer staggered backward for half a second—
But Erethon was already moving.
WHAM.
His kick launched Vizer straight through the left building.
Concrete and steel erupted outward.
The entire structure leaned dangerously before partially collapsing.
For several seconds, silence returned.
Then Vizer calmly walked out of the rubble drinking juice from a crushed metal can.
Erethon blinked once.
Vizer finished the drink, then casually tossed the can aside.
The metal rolled across the broken street.
Then Vizer vanished.
His straight punch shot toward Erethon's face with explosive force.
Erethon blocked using both arms but Vizer's raw strength still pushed him backward several meters.
The moment the strike stopped Erethon caught Vizer's right arm and pulled him inward.
Then swept his legs out from beneath him.
For a brief instant, the only thing Vizer saw was Erethon upside down as the world inverted around him.
Then Erethon folded his fist.
Dark energy gathered around it violently.
The force dragged Vizer toward the strike as though gravity itself had changed.
And then—
BOOOOOOM.
Erethon's punch slammed directly into Vizer's guard and drove him into the street below.
A gigantic crater erupted across the avenue.
The shockwave ripped apart nearby buildings.
Even though Vizer blocked the attack, both his arms bent unnaturally from the impact.
Dust and smoke filled the battlefield.
Then a red aura slowly began leaking from the crater.
It spread unnaturally and Hungrily.
The very air around it distorted and vanished as though being consumed.
Erethon stared down into the crater with excitement.
"You have more to show me?"
Then he laughed.
Not like a warrior or a man enjoying battle.
But like something genuinely insane.
Vizer slowly rose from the crater.
His broken arms regenerated through crimson energy while his eyes glowed brighter than before.
"It seems you truly embody your title," he said. "You really are insane."
Erethon suddenly spread his arms wide toward the heavens.
Darkness poured from his robes.
The skies above Tartarus trembled faintly.
"What did you think I was, idiot?"
His hollow eyes widened.
"I'm Insanity."
And he meant it literally.
Erethon was not a Primordial Vessel. He had never been mortal, Never ascended and Never inherited power.
He was born directly from chaos itself.
Chaos is a state of complete disorder, confusion and unpredictability.
The collapse of logic and structure.
Where reason failed, Erethon existed naturally.
He was not merely someone who used insanity.
He embodied it.
That was why even among Primordials, Erethon had always been feared.
Because no one—not even gods—could fully predict chaos.
Vizer suddenly moved again.
His speed detonated the air itself.
He unleashed an incredibly fast punch toward Erethon's skull.
But Erethon tilted his head just enough for it to miss.
BOOM.
The compressed force behind the strike obliterated an entire building behind him instead.
Vizer continued attacking relentlessly.
Punch after punch.
Each strike coated in Cancer energy capable of devouring anything it touched.
The street collapsed beneath them.
The air screamed from the pressure.
Yet Erethon simply smiled wider.
Then suddenly He clasped his hands together.
Darkness condensed violently between his palms.
"Insanity's Revolution."
He pulled his hands apart.
At point-blank range A massive black beam erupted forward instantly.
Vizer's crimson eyes widened.
The beam swallowed him whole and blasted him through the streets of Tartarus, destroying everything in its path.