Satan's body lay broken inside the massive crater.
The once terrifying ancestor of all demons could barely move.
John stepped onto Satan's chest.
The ground beneath them cracked further from the pressure alone.
Then—
John dissolved the black slime sword.
And started punching.
WOMP!
Satan's face caved into the earth.
WOMP!
Another crater formed.
WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!
Each strike carried monstrous force.
The landscape of Zerathis deformed around them as shockwaves spread endlessly across the barren land.
Far away—
Tessandra stood silently watching.
Her crimson eyes reflected the destruction.
But she said nothing.
Kaelven slowly looked to the side.
"…before I talk back to John again…"
He swallowed.
"…someone remind me not to… please."
Britanya exhaled slowly.
"Killing a conceptual being…"
Her eyes remained fixed on the battlefield.
"I've only heard of it before… but I never experienced it."
Alzwalt crossed his arms.
"To kill a conceptual being…"
He looked toward Satan.
"…you have to kill the idea of the being first."
WOMP!
John's fist smashed Satan deeper into the ground again.
Alzwalt continued calmly.
"Make the being lose its purpose."
"Make it feel the very thing it represents."
His golden eyes narrowed slightly. " And for someone like Satan…"
Another impact echoed.
"…he represents fear, death, and pride."
Alzwalt smiled faintly.
"I wouldn't even wish for anyone to be in his spot right now."
WOMP!
WOMP!
WOMP!
John continued relentlessly.
Satan's body was already destroyed beyond recognition.
Finally—
Satan tried crawling away.
Slowly.
Pathetically.
His fingers dragged against shattered stone while blood and demonic essence leaked from his body.
John stopped punching.
And let him crawl.
Step.
Step.
Step.
John slowly walked behind him.
His blue eyes glowed faintly through the cracks of the white mask.
"Where are you going?"
Satan trembled violently.
John's voice followed him calmly.
"Didn't you give up escaping?"
Satan muttered broken gibberish under his breath.
His demonic energy was gone.
Completely exhausted.
Nothing answered his will anymore.
John suddenly kicked him over onto his back.
Satan stared upward weakly.
John looked directly into his eyes.
"You are pitiful."
John crouched slightly.
"Let me end your suffering."
A pause.
"But I promise you…"
His eyes glowed brighter.
"…it will be painful."
CRACK!
John snapped Satan's left arm apart.
"AAARRRGHHH!!"
CRACK!
Then the right.
CRACK!
Both legs next.
Satan screamed endlessly across Zerathis.
The First Demon.
Begging.
Breathing heavily, trembling violently—
"…kill me…"
His voice broke.
"…please… kill me…"
John stared at him coldly.
"No…Not yet."
The black slime sword manifested again in John's hand.
And then—
SHHHK!
He carved Satan apart piece by piece.
Not wildly.
Precisely.
Methodically.
The physical body of Satan was mutilated entirely.
Destroyed.
But then A dark spiritual mass burst outward from the remains.
Satan's true body.
His actual existence.
Formless demonic essence with two glowing crimson eyes.
It tried to flee instantly But John closed his eyes.
The Soul Circuit activated.
Reality itself began responding to his imagination.
John envisioned a prison.
A place where evil itself could not escape.
A place that denied the very concept of freedom to anything trapped within.
White light expanded outward.
John spoke calmly.
"All things are good outside this barrier."
The white sphere formed around Satan's spiritual body.
"No evil shall escape from within."
Satan slammed against the barrier repeatedly But nothing happened.
John opened his eyes.
"Soul Barrier."
The sphere began shrinking.
Smaller.
Smaller.
Smaller.
Until finally It became the size of a tennis ball floating above John's palm.
Inside it Satan screamed silently.
Endlessly trapped.
John looked down at the sphere.
"Nothing evil can escape this barrier,ever and once the barrier is destroyed…"
The sphere reflected in his glowing blue eyes.
"…everything inside goes with it."
"Be it normal…or conceptual."
Instantly John vanished.
Appearing far out in outer space beyond Zerathis and away from nearby planets.
The white sphere floated upward from his palm.
Then A dark gravitational point formed around it.
Space warped violently.
Stars bent unnaturally toward the center.
John spoke one final word.
"Black Hole."
An enormous black sphere swallowed the barrier whole.
Then John disappeared again.
Returning beside Tessandra, Alzwalt, Britanya, and Kaelven on Zerathis.
Silence.
Then—
John snapped his fingers.
Far away in outer space—
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A colossal explosion erupted. The shockwave traveled through the void itself. Even Zerathis felt it.
The highest mountain peak on the planet shattered completely Its upper half erased instantly Leaving behind only a massive plateau.
Wind exploded across the world.
Dust storms swallowed continents.
Kaelven stared at the horizon for a long moment.
Then sighed deeply.
"…finally finished."