“No!” Hoztang cursed at the creature as two of the faces on its flat head shot out shadows of them at the creature.

This creature looked like it would have trouble navigating the grounds and spaces just by judging from its appearance, yet it shifted from position to position when faced with Hoztang’s attacks like it was able to teleport from space to space in mere moments.

“Boom! Bang! Crack!” The floating island shook as the attacks of Hoztang wreaked havoc on its surface - countless energy explosions, heavy impacts from direct and indirect hits from Hoztang’s claws and tail leveled almost half the entire surface in the matter of a few Earth minutes.

Hoztang had almost no idea on what this creature was, but the familiar aura this unimposing chimera of a creature radiated and its presence brought about a worrying feeling, one that made it decide this creature shall be destroyed as soon as possible through any means necessary. And out of this blind, almost desperate, rage, Hoztang’s attacks just kept on going, bringing more destruction to this realm in a matter of minutes than it had been for the last few decades or even centuries.

“Is that all? Is that all?” The creature kept on teasing Hoztang as it shifted closer and closer to Hoztang, yet barely making any actual attempt at attacking Hoztang. But Hoztang, in a state of pure anger and hot headedness, did not realize the obvious unnatural signs surrounding this creature. “The Overlord of Despair and Purposelessness, you are not as powerful as your godhood suggested, and you are pretty far from what the markings you left on the body of the Will implied - you are weak, you are slow, you are foolish, and you clearly don’t have as much control over your kingdom as you claimed yourself to be.”

“Your insolence will not be tolerated!” Hoztang roared and released a huge energy wave sweeping through the entire area.

This kind of wide area attack finally worked to an extent, the creature conjured up a dark energy bubble shield around its body to block off the impact and influence of the shockwave. Seeing that this move forced the insolent creature out of its pattern of shifting, teleporting and thus dodging its attacks, Hoztang immediately unleashed a few more energy shockwaves in a attempt to lock the creature in place, and at the same time, it let out a high pitched scream into the vast space beyond, utilizing some of what was left of its residual power from godhood against this creature.

Bolts of dark lightning sparked out of the thin air and rained down at the creature who was hiding inside its dark energy bubble shield. But just when Hoztang thought it would finally see the destruction of this half crab half worm creature’s destruction, this creature’s two front claws and all of its tentacles rose up and extended at the bolts of dark lightning.

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The next moment, the dark lightning bolts Hoztang conjured were “grabbed” by the creature as if they were just ribbons or rags that were blown its way by the wind. And as this creature pulled back its tentacles and front claws back with an excited and satisfied laughter, the very fabrics of time, space and reality inside this realm also received a violent shake - this was not enough to tear a hole in reality like Lady Vyn did activating a Stone of Negation, but it was enough to caused an immeasurable wave of impact spreading across the entire realm, which was all that was left of Hoztang’s kingdom.

“You…!” Hoztang finally came to the realization of what this creature was, and why its voice and presence reeked of a terrifying familiarity. But it was too late, as the dark lightning bolts, conjured with great effort using the power of godhood, were somehow not only useless against this Defiler, but also became critical threads their target could pull to disassemble and take apart Hoztang’s entire kingdom.

The biggest floating island of this realm instantly cracked up from inside, then burst into millions of tiny pieces.

“Always daring and willing to use your godhood like this, Hoztang! Always willing to enact your will, no matter the cost!” The Defiler laughed out loud as the pieces of the islands exploded into the space all around like sparks from an extra explosive firework: “Come! Strike me once again! This time it will work!”

Hoztang’s giant body shrunk as it sped away from the position of the Defiler - fear and despair now filled its mind, which caused it to instantly lose the will to fight. At this moment, the only thought it had was to escape and avoid actually falling for good.

A flash of dark light appeared right in front of Hoztang, the Defiler teleported to a position in front of it with its front claws and tentacles infused with horrifying dark energy.

“Bang!” Hoztang blocked a hit with its long tail, and it was thrown into the other direction without it due to it being completely shattered.

“Overlord of Despair and Purposelessness! You disappoint me!” The Defiler continued its attack at Hoztang with beyond godly speed: “You have disgraced your godhood!”

Hoztang roared again in desperation, seeing that it no longer had any chance to escape, it dished out the last hail mary it could think of - just like this Defiler said, it was used to doing things its way no matter the cost.

The tiny grain of white crystal melted and was pulled into the shape of a tiny blade, then additional layers of energy were coated onto it, hiding its energy signature and glow. The next moment, a condensed dark energy blade shot at the Defiler as it closed in on Hoztang.

This Defiler extended its two front claws and attempted to grab it just like it did the dark lightning conjured from Hoztang’s godhood energy. But this energy blade just sliced through its two front claws and the middle part of its body like a hot knife through butter. Two streams of corrosive white and golden energy seeped into the wounds on the two pieces of the Defiler’s body. The Defiler screamed in pain, then stopped its pursuit and cut off more from its upper body to stop the spread of the while and golden energy from reaching its head.

Hoztang roared again, conjuring a portal at a distance in front of it in an attempt to escape. And its destination? The last time and place it found a seed of its essence.