Kurushƫru of Ice, Soul Porter, Aitokuroshi of Sound, Kyomu of Shadow, Emis of Insight, and Stroud of Ten Thousand Realms.
A total of six Old Gods had all become Kanzaki Reiâs death spirits.
After obtaining Kurushƫru of Ice, the rest became easy. He simply went after the Old Gods in order of their strength, from weakest to strongest. First, he took down the weak ones and turned them into his death spirits.
Then, using the sheer number of death spirits, he overwhelmed the stronger ones with numbers.
Always catching them off guard.
Kanzaki Reiâs fighting style was absolutely underhanded by these Old Godsâ standards.
They were already not at their prime strength to begin with.
Even fighting one-on-one against Kanzaki Reiâs death spirits would risk having to self-destruct. But Kanzaki Reiâs approach when fighting them was the filthiest possible.
First, he would wear them down from a distance, destroying andçŠè§Ł their alreadyæźç Ž divine kingdoms.
Through the process of fighting and rehearsal
Kanzaki Rei gradually figured out how to use the ăSupreme Luck Scepteră .
In truth, under normal circumstances, Kanzaki Rei couldnât control many of the scepterâs effects. The usable effects were oneâstripping away an enemyâs luckâand anotherâactively triggering a miracle.
But through experimentation,
Kanzaki Rei gradually became aware of some additional subtle uses of the scepter.
Namelyâ
If an enemy was struck directly by the scepter, they would most likely become even more unlucky.
On the other hand,
If the target was not an enemy, they would most likely become somewhat lucky.
As for how the scepter determined whether someone was an enemy or not, Kanzaki Rei had no idea.
But by using this property,
As long as he struck the enemyâs divine kingdom with the Supreme Luck Scepter... the forbidden zone would, due to some coincidence or another, crack open and become exposed to the worldâs normal rules.
And that was precisely something Kanzaki Rei could not accomplish with his own power alone.
...
[Boundless Mountains]
The last one he dealt with was Stroud of Ten Thousand Realms.
Kanzaki Rei had thought this would be the most troublesome enemy. Stroud could mobilize the power of multiple different worlds simultaneously. Moreover, because of the nature of his divine throne, he could actually move freely in the world for short periods.
If handled incorrectly,
Even if Kanzaki Rei won, the residual shockwaves of the battle would probably destroy the entire Boundless Mountains.
Kanzaki Rei felt that harming the innocent wouldnât be good. Besides, just a few days agoâtwo days earlier, to be exactâKanzaki Rei had just established a nation and a religion in the Boundless Mountains.
The effect of the Emperorâs Sword on his person also grew stronger with the development of Kanzaki Reiâs own [Empire] .
But he had been in a hurry and hadnât managed it seriously.
If he ended up destroying the Boundless Mountains because of his own battle, that would be going too far.
Yet the final process of defeating Stroud was completely calm.
It just so happened that Stroud was in hibernation at that time.
His perception of everything inside his divine kingdom was reduced to its absolute minimum. So Kanzaki Rei simply went straight in and, while Stroud was sleeping, assassinated him...
Six battles.
Every single one had absurdly good luck, making the fights bizarrely easy.
"These are the existences that should have been unattainable in this world."
Kanzaki Rei raised his hand.
The six gods raised their hands along with him. Every move they made was completely under his control.
Pffââ
And at that very momentâ
A sound of earth breaking came from behind him.
Crack!
In that same instant, the entire earth was instantly frozen solid by ice.
A gene-like spiral had barely emerged from the ground whenâ
"Ice?"
The gene-spiral creature immediately sensed something was wrong!
It tried to flee!
But its spiral was caught in Kanzaki Reiâs hand. The pillar-thick spiral body was yanked out of the ground in one motion!
Pffââ
However, the moment Kanzaki Rei touched the creatureâs body, the flesh on his arm began to swell grotesquely, bulging inch by inch!
This swelling, rushing upward in reverse, was about to reach Kanzaki Reiâs heart in the next instant.
But thenâ
Pff!
Kanzaki Rei, still holding the spiral creature, exploded into a mist of blood.
And from another direction!
The phantom of ten thousand great swords appeared in the sky.
ăSoldier Path â Path Two: Infinite True Arms · Mass Quantless Swordsă
Whoosh!
The Emperorâs Sword manifested ten thousand projections, Cohesion in the sky!
Eliosaâs Soldier Path, in Kanzaki Reiâs hands, had produced even more variations. Eliosa herself probably didnât even know her own Soldier Path could beæŒç»ed like this.
Boom!
The next second, the gene-spiral creature was pierced through with countless holes!
Ten thousand swords.
Without any interval whatsoever, they had already impaled its body!
Its pupils contracted. It fell to its knees!
In that instant, it already realizedâthe person before it was the one who had killed so many Forbidden Zone Lords!
These Old Gods had all been killed by this single person!
All will to fight had vanished from its heart.
Only the desire to retreat remained!
Butâ
It discovered that the space here had been sealed with Prohibition There was no way to break through the Prohibition and escape anytime soon!
And the entire earth was already covered in solid ice.
Its perception swept around.
Six beings radiating terrifying auras had already surrounded it completely from six different directions.
Kurushƫru of Ice, Soul Porter, Aitokuroshi of Sound, Kyomu of Shadow, Emis of Insight, Stroud of Ten Thousand Realms.
But unlike usualâ
All of them carried the deathly aura of death spirits.
"You killed them."
The moment the spiral creatureâs idea spoke, it merely raised its head toward Kanzaki Rei and looked at him.
Clang!
Its head was sliced by a sharp golden light!
The slice cut off a small portion of its upper end.
"Who allowed you to look up at me."
Kanzaki Rei stood in the sky, radiating authority.
Golden pressure pressed down from above like an avalanche. The spiral magic beast was pierced through its body by golden greatswords, pinned to the ground with countless holes.
"I..."
Kanzaki Rei seemed to have no intention of communicating at all. He simply said flatly: "Kowtow."
Thudââ
With just a single word from Kanzaki Rei, its head grew a human skull and then slammed heavily toward the ground, kowtowing to Kanzaki Rei.
ăEighth Forbidden Magic: Fate â Decree of Fateă
With each heavy kowtow,
The magic beast before him felt all will to resist dissipate from its heart. It felt only that the being before it was an inviolable supreme sovereign. Only thoughts of submission remained in its heart.
This was the Emperorâs Sword.
Pure damage was secondary. What mattered was that once struck by the Emperorâs Sword, oneâs heart would give birth to thoughts of submission.
With just a little push,
Those thoughts of submission could be turned completely into reality.
This magic beastâs arrival was also within Kanzaki Reiâs expectations... In the ten full days since killing Porter, Kanzaki Rei had already completed sixty future rehearsal.
Sixty rehearsal were enough for Kanzaki Rei to examine every single day of the next thirty days in meticulous detail.
He already knew exactly what would happen today as a matter of course.
The only difference was the occasional episode brought by the ăSupreme Luck Scepteră âand those episode all turned out to be fortunate ones.
Kanzaki Rei raised his hand again.
The magic beast before him strained with all its might to project a humble idea, sending a fawning attitude toward Kanzaki Rei.
But Kanzaki Rei simply looked at it with cold indifference.
"You... should just die."