Zeus floated higher, his eyes fixed on the horizon.
His mind was already forming strategies to take down Nameless Death.
’A Heavenbreaker,’ he thought.
That word alone made his expression darken.
’They have nearly no limits of energy.’
He had heard the tales before.
He had thought it was just a myth.
But seeing it for himself proved him wrong.
Nameless Death, the current Heavenbreaker, was unlike anything Zeus had faced before.
A mere Stage 5 being with Stage 4 techniques, and still, he had overwhelmed Zeus completely.
Nameless Death hadn’t even used anything complicated.
A simple Time Stop had been enough.
He had just poured so much energy into it that it became unstoppable.
Zeus clenched his fist.
’Perhaps the tales of the past were not just myths.’
The stories of the old Heavenbreaker, Ultris, who Stage 3 at that time fought peak Stage 6 Gods, were known across all known places.
But few believed them.
Everyone thought they were just exaggerated legends from a long-forgotten age.
Those who could have confirmed the truth were all gone. They were either dead or sealed in unreachable places.
’Seeing the limits of modern Heavenbreakers, I assumed there was a boundary to their energy,’ Zeus thought. ’But it seems the real ones are on a completely different level.’
There were still Heavenbreakers in the present era, of course.
But they were imitations.
These were beings who used the Willpower Element to imitate the path of Ascension.
They could barely reach the First Step. If they had extraordinary talent, maybe the Second. That was their limit.
Yet even those "fake" Heavenbreakers were dangerous.
They had massive energy pools, strong resistance to mental interference, natural immunity to Elementals and Divinities, the power to forge Sacred Treasures, and their own personal World Energy.
Zeus had met many of them over the centuries.
Forgotten Suns, the Alliance, and himself all had contact with such beings.
That’s why they thought the real ones—like Ultris or Nameless Death—would be manageable.
After all, how much stronger could they really be?
’We were completely wrong.’
He frowned, his eyes narrowing as thunder rolled across the sky.
’The very fact that we tried to measure a Heavenbreaker with our own logic was a mistake from the start.’
He rose higher through the air, passing through thick clouds that flashed with blue lightning.
The dragons circling the edge of the Site turned toward him as his aura intensified.
Their massive bodies blocked his way, and their scales reflected the golden light around him.
Zeus stopped, hovering in place. His eyes glowed faintly.
He had come up with plans to defeat Nameless Death already.
And...
’If I use what I know about Ultris, I can hypothesize the weaknesses of true Heavenbreakers.’
’I can use that weakness to target Nameless Death too.’
He finally reached the upper skies.
The barrier separating the Site from outer space shimmered faintly above him, just a few kilometers away.
But before he could break through, the dragons spread their wings, now in their dragonic forms, forming a wall in his path.
"Move," Zeus said plainly. "I have no grudges with you. You have no grudges with me. You don’t need to stand in my way... unless you wish for an early death."
The dragons looked at one another.

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