"Ah—!!!"
As Hawk felt Gabriel, who was under his foot, refusing to yield and trying with all his might to crawl out of the ruins, a hint of playfulness flashed in his eyes.
Soon.
Gabriel's waist arched, lifting Hawk's right foot.
The next second.
Hawk exerted force!
"Boom!"
"Bang—!!"
The energy of what should now be called the Mind Phoenix Golden Reality Universe surged on Hawk's right foot, and with a thunderous sound, he once again heavily stomped Gabriel back into the ruins.
This time, there was a sound like a watermelon being crushed.
With a squelch.
Hawk's right foot sank into Gabriel's back, forcefully creating a perfectly foot-shaped crater in Gabriel's body.
At the same time—
Beneath his leather shoe, an eight-chambered heart was pulled out by Hawk's foot, and then, under his sole, it turned into a puddle of mush.
If he didn't want to speak, then he didn't have to.
As the heart shattered.
Gabriel instantly stopped struggling.
His body began to transform into White light under Hawk's foot, scattering on the spot, and like the millions of Heaven Dimension beings and hundreds of Six-Winged Angels that Hawk had previously made disappear, he transformed into the purest energy and reintegrated into the Heaven Dimension itself.
A soul emerged from Gabriel's body, and the moment it appeared, it was drawn into Hawk's Underworld, sinking into the Nether狱.
At the same time.
A milky-white, rhomboid-shaped, milky-white gem crystal also emerged as Gabriel's body turned into White light, then rose and slowly floated before Hawk.
"Heaven Dimension Core!"
"Hold it, refine it, and you can possess the Heaven Dimension!"
The moment this White gem rhomboid crystal appeared, Hawk instantly perceived its function.
But... this was too easy.
The Heaven Dimension Core, shouldn't this be in Jehovah's hands? How could it be in Gabriel's?
Was it just because Gabriel was the Archangel protecting the Heaven Dimension?
The most important point.
Where was Jehovah?
Where had Jehovah gone?
Just as Hawk's thoughts spun, the White gem rhomboid Heaven Dimension Core crystal floating before him hummed, shooting out a beam of light.
The beam hit Hawk's front, and then, the Heaven Dimension's energy converged, forming a projection.
God—
Jehovah!
Jehovah appeared in the projection, with a White background, a White seat, dressed all in White, but with skin that appeared somewhat dark, seemingly from sun sensitivity. He raised his hands slightly, smiling at Hawk, and then seemed to greet him like a friend.
"You've come."
"..."
Hawk subconsciously wanted to say, "I shouldn't have come."
But!
He looked at Jehovah in the projection, who seemed to have known he would come here, whose face showed no anger at Hawk destroying his Dimension or killing countless of his beings, but still wore a smile. His thoughts raced.
Jehovah rose from his seat, took a step, and the background instantly vanished. Jehovah seemed to appear on the ruins, the projection so real it was like a Zhenren (Immortal) had appeared.
But Jehovah was not here.
Hawk's seven senses, the moment Jehovah's projection appeared, had traced a wisp of aura projected from Jehovah.
He followed Jehovah's aura through countless Universe bubbles, finally losing track of it in the Universe Sea, which is the Universe Sea where the main multiverse coexists.
It seemed, as if, Jehovah was no longer in this Universe?
Could it be?
Hawk retracted his seven senses, looked at the smiling Jehovah before him, and with his faceplate slid down, he sneered.
"Coward."
"This is called wisdom."
Jehovah's smile didn't change at all, meeting Hawk's gaze: "If you had looked into the future before you came, you would have found that I was no longer here, after you killed my projection at that time."
Hearing this, Hawk remembered the future in his timeline that shone brightly, like a seductive flirt, even threatening him that he would regret not looking after he lost interest.
So—
Was that a warning to him?
Hawk thought while watching Jehovah.
The next second.
He also smiled.
"Then where are you? Tell me, I'll come find you. We have some misunderstandings between us. Perhaps we can meet, sit down, have a good talk, and turn hostility into friendship. After all, the Universe is vast, big enough for both you and me."
"..."
Jehovah didn't speak, looking at Hawk.
Hawk and Jehovah smiled at each other.
Their eyes met.
After a while.
"Hahaha!"
Jehovah burst into laughter.
Listening to Jehovah's laughter, Hawk's brow twitched, especially seeing that old man's face, his disgust grew exponentially.
The next second.
Jehovah's laughter subsided, and he met Hawk's gaze, his voice echoing through the Heaven Dimension.
"God is everywhere!"
"Hmph!"
Hearing this, Hawk snorted and smiled, looking at Jehovah: "When I find you and tear you apart with my bare hands, you'll regret refusing my peace talks."
Jehovah's smile also faded.
"Phoenix, who possesses the Fire of Life, the Fire of Immortality, and the Fire of Nirvana, when you see me next, you will also regret your actions today of occupying my Heaven Dimension."
"Oh!"
Hawk raised an eyebrow, lifted his right hand, and clenched it tightly.
Whoosh!
The White gem rhomboid crystal, symbolizing the Heaven Dimension Core, instantly merged into his hand.
The White gem rhomboid crystal was filled with Jehovah's aura, and as long as this aura was expelled from the crystal and replaced, the entire Heaven Dimension would fall into Hawk's hands.
From then on.
He would be the new owner of the Heaven Dimension.
Also known as—
The New God!
Hawk's thoughts stirred, and his aura surged out from him, swiftly sweeping into the White gem rhomboid crystal in his hand.
It seemed he was about to stage a play in front of Jehovah, occupying the Heaven Dimension right before his eyes.
But!
Just as his aura was almost about to touch the Heaven Dimension Core, Hawk looked up at Jehovah, a mocking smile on his lips: "Old man, you really want me to merge with this thing, don't you?"
As his words fell.
Before Jehovah could react, his right hand, holding the Heaven Dimension Core, suddenly clenched into a fist, as if transforming into a Phoenix claw.
And the Heaven Dimension Core within the Phoenix claw, at the moment the Phoenix claw closed.
"Crack—"
"Boom—!!!"
Five cracks appeared on the Heaven Dimension Core, and then, at the instant the Phoenix claw closed, it shattered and exploded.
Hawk released his right hand, allowing the Heaven Dimension Core, now reduced to dust, to fall from his palm, then looked at Jehovah with a serious and enlightened expression.
"You're right, I'll listen to you. So that I won't regret it in the future, I won't occupy your Heaven Dimension."
"..."
Jehovah's smile completely froze.
The next second.
Jehovah's figure slowly disappeared.
Hawk's mind descended.
Above the Underworld.
He watched expressionlessly as the millions of Heaven Dimension beings, the hundreds of Angels, and Gabriel's soul, which he had destroyed and then moved into the Frozen Netherworld, slowly merged, then emerged from the souls, appearing before him as Jehovah.
Jehovah's face was no longer smiling, but grim.
Extremely grim.
Even his voice had become infinitely grim.
"When did you find out?"
"Let me think."
Smiles don't disappear.
They only transfer.
Hawk, speaking as he descended into the Frozen Netherworld, looked at Jehovah, whose smile he had transferred, with a smile of his own: "When you warned me not to take your Heaven Dimension?"
Jehovah's expression changed.
But the next second.
"Or when you said, God is everywhere?"
"Or when you said that if I looked into the future, I would know you weren't there?"
"Or when I came in and didn't see you."
"Or..."
"Was it when I went to Father John, and he told me he no longer believed in you, and had forsaken you?"
Hawk's words continued.
With each utterance, Jehovah's face grew a shade uglier.
By the end.
When he mentioned Father John, Jehovah's expression was utterly hideous.
Hawk, on the other hand, smiled brilliantly, looking at Jehovah, and shook his head, finding it incredibly amusing.
"You have too many flaws, Jehovah."
"Who do you take me for?"
"A fool like Mephisto, who only grows in size but not in brains?"
"I'm not Mephisto!"
"I'm a Saint Seiya, the Lord of Phoenix, forged from sixteen years as an ordinary person, going through Fire and Water, and countless battles."
"All the schemes you know, I know."
"All the schemes you don't know, I also know."
"The most important point."
"Crude!"
"It's too damn crude."
Hawk looked at Jehovah, whose face was grim beyond compare: "Do you know what the most successful scheme should look like?"
As he spoke.
He already answered his own question.
"The simpler the scheme, the less likely it is to go wrong."
"And you—"
"Dear Jehovah."
"Your scheme was too long, so long that if I hadn't discovered it, I would feel unworthy of my soul's upbringing."
"The reason I haven't exposed it is because I wanted to see what new tricks you could come up with."
"And the result?"
"I was really looking forward to your new tricks."
"Never thought, this is it?"
"You expected me to refine the Heaven Dimension Core, refine your main body, and then your soul would merge with your main body, thereby entering my Universe, and then killing me from within?"
"You pulled a big one on me, do you know that?"
"I only used one move."
"Luring the tiger into its den!"
"Now—"
"Tell me."
"Jehovah!"
"Do you have any backup plans? If not, then you're going to suffer a lot next!"
"Tsk tsk tsk—"
"..." (End of chapter)
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