598  Total War Part 4

    "Hey! I remembered asking you a damn question, so why the hell aren''t you answering me?!"

    Reign gritted his teeth, struggling to keep his anger in check. The rage he felt now was even stronger than when he killed Raiden.

    The one thing he despised above all else—people who dared betray him—had never felt this intense, this maddening.

    "You don''t have the right to order me around," Satan scoffed, showing his dominance.

    Without wasting a second, he appeared in front of Reign and threw a punch.

    "You''re not the only one who''s fast," Satan sneered, his fist only millimeters away from Reign''s face. But just as it made contact, his fist passed right through—what he hit was nothing but an afterimage.

    "Idiot, you think you can fight me in terms of speed?" Reign chuckled mockingly, now hovering in the exact same position Satan had been in just moments before.

    Before the devil could even turn around, he realized Reign was getting farther away.

    It wasn''t because Reign was running; it was because Satan had been struck by another attack so fast that it took his brain a moment to process the hit. ''How is this possible? How can a being move this fast?!'' Satan growled in frustration. The attack was not enough to cause fatal damage, but the fact that he was hit without even reacting crushed his ego.

    He prided himself on being the fastest among the trio, after all. When he stabilized his flight, he decided to charge back at his opponent right away.

    But before Satan could even blink, Reign''s fist smashed into his face.

    BANG!

    The force sent him flying, but Reign didn''t pause.

    He began appearing and reappearing in a flash, his movements so quick that Satan looked like a ball being passed around in the air.

    Satan''s veins bulged in his head, the anger and humiliation burning through him like wildfire.

    This was the first time someone had humiliated him to this extent.

    "ARGGGG!| With a roar, he began attacking relentlessly, throwing punch after punch . The speed of his attacks was so intense that it ignited flames in the air, streaks of fire trailing behind their every move.

    But Reign was more than able to keep up.

    Each strike that came his way was either deflected or evaded, and the two of them continued to blur in and out of visibility. They vanished from one spot, only to reappear in another, their movements so fast that it was impossible to track them. The only thing that remained was the deafening sound of their blows, the shockwaves of their clash ripping through the air.

    BOOOOM!

    BOOOOM!

    BOOOOM!

    BOOOOM!

    BOOOOM!

    On the ground, Ariel and Ra stood frozen, unable to comprehend what was happening. They both knew better than to intervene—one single punch, even from a mere shockwave, would be enough to turn them into meat paste. It might have looked like the punches weren''t as strong, but that was only because both Reign and Satan were extremely tough. The power behind each blow was enough to obliterate any demon god, yet the two of them absorbed the impacts without so much as flinching.

    "Ra, that thing? What is that?" Ariel stuttered, her voice tinged with confusion.

    She remembered Ra referring to it as the "System."

    "I''m not really sure," Ra replied, his voice low and tense. "But one thing I can tell you is that thing is not good news. It''s too... evil."

    His eyes stayed locked on the battle above, and the more he stared at his original body, the more he felt like his very life was in danger.