There was no army, minions, guardians, or whatever guarding the castle.

    It was just one enemy sitting in the throne room.

    The thing waiting for them was hard to look at. It had the head of a goat, huge with horns that curled up like twisted tree branches. Its body was weird, too, part human, part animal.

    As it rose from the throne, behind it, dark, bat-like wings stretched out. On its head, the pentagram glowed.

    At one glance, it looked like a demon with a layer of demonic energy enveloping his body, but Azzy could feel divinity running rampant in its body simultaneously.

    Baphomet didn''t even bother engaging in a conversation with the intruders and directly charged at them. Or more specifically, at Thalorim.

    *Cling*

    His claws were blocked by the Seraphis'' saber, stunning Thalorim for a moment in surprise.

    *zzzz*

    Azzy acted simultaneously, conjuring divine lightning in his free hand and following up with a palm strike to Baphomet''s abdomen.

    Baphomet blasted away a few meters and crashed to the floor. The lightning sparks were seen all over his body for a couple of seconds before disappearing as he rose to his feet and stared at Azzy silently.

    "It looks like the paralyzing effect doesn''t seem to work on him, Chronos," Azzy said in his head.

    The Reaper replied, "That goes without saying. Baphomet might not be a true deity, but still a deity nevertheless. Your current soul realm is not enough to paralyze him. Of course, Jupiter''s Transformation mode could harm him."

    "Then, what should I do?" He asked.

    The Reaper''s reply was instantaneous, "Why are you asking me that? Didn''t have like a dozen backup plans in case it fails?"

    "Well..."

    *swoosh*

    Azzy didn''t get time to respond to the Reaper''s statement as Baphomet summoned a scepter in his hand.

    "Careful. He summoned the scepter, meaning he would attack us with illusions, dark magic, and necromancy," The Seraphis warned Azzy, feeling that they might really pull this off before even full moon if they worked together.

    Baphomet pointed the scepter at Thalorim, shooting a beam of dark energy at him. Azzy acted swiftly, putting himself between the beam and Thalorim. He blocked it with the sword of radiance itself and charged along the beam''s path, flapping his wings. The lightning sparks gushed out of his body, increasing his speed by a thousand times at once; Azzy closed in their gap and gave a kick to Baphomet''s thigh.

    As Baphomet lost his balance and fell to the floor, Azzy followed it up with a soul skill.

    "Soul skill: Spear of Death"

    The Spear of Death appeared instantly in his left hand. He pierced Baphomet''s heart as the latter didn''t move for some reason and instead just stared at Azzy as if he was in some kind of trance or maybe shocked.

    The Death Spear successfully struck him and the Death energy started its work.

    "Is it over?" Azzy wondered.

    If it does, petrification will start, turning the enemy''s body into stone before becoming ash.

    Just then, Baphomet''s appearance changed. He transformed into the Seraphis.

    Suddenly, Azzy was staring at his demigod teammate, lying at his feet with death energy passed all over his body, which was rapidly turning into stone.

    "What the..."

    Azzy stiffly turned his head to spot Baphomet on the floor near the throne, where the Seraphis were supposed to be lying earlier. Baphomet slowly rose to his feet.

    "You evil fiend... You killed my master..." Another roar was heard from Azzy''s behind.

    "Die."

    "Hail, thou Golden Serpent of Heaven, hearken unto my call. I summon thee to deliver thy judgment upon the sinner."

    As Azzy turned his head, he saw a golden winged serpent in concentrated energy flying toward him.

    Thalorim''s eyes reddened in anger.

    Azzy timely sidestepped to dodge this demigod-level attack in reflex.

    The golden wingless serpent went past him and seemed like it was flying toward Baphomet. But then, in the next second, it flew up and turned back toward Azzy.

    "Wha..."