Meanwhile, near the universe's heart, the three rulers glanced at each other with indifferent expressions.

"As expected, he blocked us out," Amun-Ra said coldly, not bothered by this.

They had already anticipated that Ares wouldn't play along with their wishes and placed adequate preparations.

As Ares mentioned, they had modified his soul during his recovery to enable the use of specialized divinities based on his laws.

What he didn't know was that the modification involved the merge of a piece of a ruler's with his growing soul!

The chosen ruler was none other than Amun-Ra!

"Share with us your vision." The first ruler requested.

Amun-Ra did as he was told and activated his dormant piece of soul within Ares, knowing that he couldn't be detected with his specialized divinities activated.

After activation, Amun-Ra's eyes reflected an epic sight of Felix releasing an immense amount of frantic and fierce black flames across the entire dimension!

His body was ignited fully and was the center of the celestial flaming storm, watching with a deadpan gaze as his flames devoured and deconstructed whatever came in their sight!

Yet, Felix didn't seem pleased.

'My flames are too limited compared to being used by my celestial form. This prison is made out of that peculiar specialized divinity. It doesn't seem like it will be enough to break it apart quicker than it recovers.'

He narrowed his eyes at Ares, who seemed completely at ease with his attempts to break past his dimension.

"You are wasting your breath." Ares said casually, "The infinity laws in this dimension allow it to recover infinitely regardless of the damage it takes. While your black flames are powerful, I assume they are nowhere close to even 50% of their peak."

"..." Felix remained silent.

He knew that Ares had analyzed correctly...Celestial powers were on a different level when used by celestials compared to unigins.

Felix was currently considered a unigin by the universe, which was the entire reason he was even allowed to be out.

Thus, even with the inscriptions on his body allowing him to tap into the stone of reality's powers and add the deconstruction effect to his black flames, it was nowhere as strong as the real deal.

However...

"We are in the same boat." Felix responded with an unfazed look, "I don't know much about specialized divinities, but I am sure you can't bring them to their full potential."

"Is that so?"

With a faint smirk, Ares swung three divine finality slashes towards Felix. They were invisible to the common eyes, but they appeared as intense as the sun to Felix.

Felix braced for impact immediately, ordering his black flames to roar into life and transform into a shield!

He knew that those slashes were capable of ending anything they touched, delivering them to their final point of existence!

Only black flames could resist them due to the infinity/finality laws' authority being inapplicable to them.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!

As the divine finality slashes met the shield, they were halted in their place, pushing forward with everything, but the black flames held strong!

Not one to stand idle, Felix gathered his energy and retaliated.

'Dimension of Order,' he intoned to himself coldly.

A transparent square began to expand from his palms, seeking to impose order on the chaotic battlefield.

The infinity laws didn't apply to the sphere as the black flames had already freed Felix from the dimension's effects on him...They might not be strong enough to destroy the realm in time, but freeing him was a piece of cake.

However, Ares had no intentions of losing control over the battlefield.

"Point End!" With an excited roar, he hurled the divine polearm, which was infused with the power of finality until it manifested into a single dark point at its tip.

Pheew!!

The gigantic divine polearm streaked across the black flames, piercing through them akin to a hot knife slicing through fabric!

In no time, it pierced the expanding sphere of order, shattering it into countless fragments of light...The polearm continued its path, heading straight for Felix, who had just dealt with the three slashes!

"How irritating."

Reacting swiftly, Felix made a circle with his hand, utilizing the laws of vibration. Particles started to get agitated within the circle until a gleaming gap in spacetime appeared before him!

"Begone!"

The unstoppable divine polearm went through the gap and vanished to a different spacetime, disappearing from the battlefield entirely, before Felix brought his palms together and locked the gap.

The moment this happened, the two deities paused, their eyes meeting across the sea of black flames and glistening golden divine light from the dimension's surface.

"Not bad, not bad at all." Ares complimented with a pleased smile and a slow clap.

"You aren't so bad either," Felix said casually while massaging his neck, realizing that this battle was going to take a real toll on him.

"Why didn't you escape?"

Ares inquired as he extended his hand to the side, summoning the divine polearm back to his possession. It manifested in no time like being thrown into a different plane was nothing.

"Escape? Why would I do that?" Felix tilted his head in confusion, "I have always expected your arrival and was planning for it. I just didn't account for those peculiar specialized divinities."

Indeed, the moment Felix removed the infinity's effect on him, he was free to leave this realm with many options. Jumping into a different spacetime plane was just as easy as using a wish.

But, he never had any intentions of escaping from Ares' ambush. He already knew that he would be coming for him one way or another to carry on what he had started in the Echoing Tower.

The reason he decided to stay in the void realm wasn't just to absorb void energy and turn it into celestial energy, but also to have a home-ground advantage over him.

The only thing that screwed with his plan was his lack of information about specialized divinities, which was something kept confidential by the three rulers from everyone.

Although he knew about them now and could deduce that they empower abilities to a divine and godly level compared to other divinities, he still had no intentions of running away.

It was for a simple reason...

"Ohoo? Is that so?" Ares chuckled, "You must be after my core I believe."

"Right on target." Felix nodded, unbothered.

"Does this mean you plan to fight me until the end?" Ares asked with a hint of sparkle in his eyes.

"Always planned to." Felix replied, not an ounce of deceit in his eyes.

"Good, good, good." Ares' grin grew wider, "If that's so, how about we make a little agreement between us?"

"Deal?"

"Yes, to make our fight have a proper ending." Ares nodded, "You already know that it is near impossible for us to kill each other with our powers to cancel abilities. Let's not forget our escape capabilities."

"I am listening." Felix constricted his eyes.

He understood that in his current state, he could easily fend off against Ares, but it would be impossible for him to kill him or retrieve his core.

That's because he didn't have Asna's core on him to absorb it. In other words, he couldn't play tricks to steal his core while he was still at full strength.

If he wanted it, he had to actually beat him so bad, it would be possible to extract the core from him.

Of course, this could only work if Ares had no intentions of leaving the fight. "So, how about we have a little death match?" Ares suggested with a tint of craziness in his eyes, "No running away, no canceling skills regardless of their nature, and no abuse of laws. If I win, well, it only proves that my saga has yet to reach the finish line, but if you win, you will obtain my core."

"In both scenarios, you will be the winner since your true form isn't even here." Ares extended his palm towards Felix, his eyes gleaming brightly, "What do you say? Are you interested in creating the greatest and most destructive battle of all time?"