"Ah---!!!"
Hawk felt the defiance beneath his feet, using all his strength to try to climb out of the ruins, Gabriel, a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes.
Very soon.
Gabriel's waist arched, lifting Hawk's right foot.
The next second.
Hawk exerted force!
"Boom!"
"Bang---!!"
Under Hawk's right foot, the energy of the Spiritual Phoenix Golden Reality Cosmos surged, and once again heavily stepped Gabriel back into the ruins.
This time, there was a sound like a popping watermelon.
With a splurge.
Hawk's right foot sunk into Gabriel's back, forcing a pit perfectly matching his sole into Gabriel's body.
At the same time—
Beneath the shoe on his foot, a heart with eight holes was brought out by Hawk's sole, then beneath his foot, it turned into a mess.
If you don't want to speak, then there's no need to speak.
As the heart shattered.
Gabriel instantly ceased the struggle.
His body began to turn into white light beneath Hawk's foot, scattering on the spot, just like the millions of heavenly beings that previously disappeared and the hundreds of Six-winged Angels, transforming into the purest energy and merging back into the Heaven Dimension.
A soul emerged from Gabriel's body, and the moment it appeared, it was drawn into Hawk's Netherworld, sinking into the Nether Prison.
At the same time.
A milky white rhombic crystal gemstone also appeared in the white light of Gabriel's body, then slowly rose, hovering in front of Hawk.
"Heaven Core!"
"Hold it, refine it, and you can possess the Heaven Dimension!"
At the first moment that this White Gemstone Rhombic Crystal appeared, Hawk instantly perceived its function.
But…
This is too easy.
Heaven's core, this thing should be in Yahweh's hands, how could it be with Gabriel.
Is it just because Gabriel is the Grand Archangel guarding Heaven?
The most important point.
Where is Yahweh?
As Hawk's thoughts turned, the White Gemstone Rhombic Heaven Core Crystal hovering in front of him buzzed, shooting out a beam of light.
The beam struck in front of Hawk, and immediately, Heaven's energy gathered, forming a projection.
God—
Yahweh!
With a white background, white chair, all white, but skin seemingly dark due to sun allergy, Yahweh appeared in the projection, hands slightly raised, smiling at Hawk, as if greeting a friend.
"You've arrived."
"..."
Hawk instinctively wanted to say, "I shouldn't have come."
But!
Looking at the projection before him, as if already knowing he would be here, Yahweh showing no anger for the annihilation of his dimension nor for the countless beings killed, still smiling, Hawk's mind quickly turned.
Yahweh stood up from the chair, stepped out, the background instantly disappeared, Yahweh seemed to appear on the ruins, projection appearing real like a genuine presence.
But Yahweh is not here.
Hawk's Seventh Sense, at the moment Yahweh's projection appeared, tracked back through Yahweh's projected aura.
He followed Yahweh's aura across countless cosmic bubbles, finally getting lost in the Cosmic Sea, where the Main Multiverse coexists.
It seems, perhaps, Yahweh is no longer in this cosmos?
Could it be?
Hawk withdrew the Seventh Sense, looked at the smiling Yahweh before him, visor lowered, sneered.
"Coward."
"This is called wisdom."
Yahweh's smile showed no change, meeting Hawk's gaze: "If you looked at the future before you came, you'd have seen I wasn't here long before you destroyed my projection."
At this, Hawk recalled his timeline, a radiant display, like a provocative tease, yet after growing uninterested, even threatening regret for not watching the future.
So—
Was that a reminder?
Hawk considered, watching Yahweh.
The next second.
He laughed too.
"Then tell me where you are, I'll find you, we might have misunderstood, perhaps we can meet, sit down, have a good talk, resolve conflict, after all, the cosmos is vast enough for both of us."
"..."
Yahweh said nothing, looking at Hawk.
Hawk and Yahweh smiled at each other.
Eyes met.
After a while.
"Hahaha!"
Yahweh laughed heartily.
Listening to Yahweh's laughter, Hawk's brow twitched, especially looking at Yahweh's old face, disgust surging exponentially.
The next second.
Yahweh stifled the laughter, facing Hawk, voice echoing through the Heaven Dimension.
"God is everywhere!"
"Tse!"
Hawk sneered at the response, watching Yahweh: "When I find you and tear you apart, you'll regret refusing my peace talks."
Yahweh's smile also faded.
"Possessing the Fire of Life, Immortal Fire, and Nirvana Fire, Phoenix, when you next see me, you'll regret occupying my Heaven Dimension today."
"Oh!"
Hawk raised an eyebrow, lifted his right hand, and clenched fiercely.
"Shoo!"
The White Gemstone Rhombic Crystal, symbolizing the Heaven Core, instantly merged into his hand.
Within the White Gemstone Rhombic Crystal, it was filled with Yahweh's aura, and as long as this aura was expelled from the crystal, replaced, the entire Heaven Dimension would fall into Hawk's hands.
From then on.
He would be the new owner of the Heaven Dimension.
Also known as—
New God!
With a thought, Hawk's aura surged out from his body, swiftly towards the White Gemstone Rhombic Crystal in his hand.
It seemed like he was about to perform a play right in front of Yahweh, seizing Heaven before his eyes.
But!
Just as his aura was about to touch the Heaven Core, Hawk raised his eyes, looked at Yahweh, with a mocking smile on his lips, "Old man, you really want me to fuse this thing, don't you."
As the words fell.
Without waiting for Yahweh to react, the right hand holding the Heaven Core suddenly turned into a fist, as if it had transformed into Phoenix's claw.
And between the Phoenix's claw, as it closed around the Heaven Core.
"Crack—"
"Boom—!!!"
Five cracks appeared on the Heaven Core, and then, at the moment the Phoenix's claw closed, it shattered and exploded.
Hawk released his right hand, letting the Heaven Core, which had turned to dust, fall from his palm, then looked at Yahweh with a solemn and taught expression.
"You're right, I listened to you, so I don't regret it in the future, I'm not claiming your Heaven."
"..."
Yahweh's smile froze completely.
The next second.
Yahweh's figure slowly disappeared.
Hawk's mind descended.
Above the Netherworld.
He watched expressionlessly as the Heaven's beings he destroyed and then moved to the Frozen Nether Prison, numbering in millions, along with hundreds of Gabriel's souls, began to slowly fuse, and then emerged from the souls to appear before him as Yahweh.
At this moment, Yahweh's face no longer held a smile, instead, it was gloomy.
Extremely gloomy.
Even his voice became infinitely gloomy.
"When did you find out."
"Let me think."
The smile wouldn't disappear.
It would just transfer.
As he spoke, Hawk also fell into the Frozen Nether Prison, smiling as he looked at Yahweh, whose smile he had transferred: "When you warned me not to claim your Heaven Dimension?"
Yahweh's expression changed.
But in the next second.
"Or when you said God is everywhere?"
"Or when you said if I look at the future, I would know you're not there?"
"Or after I came in and didn't see you."
"Or perhaps..."
"Was it when I went to find Father John, and he told me he no longer believes in you and has betrayed you?"
Hawk's words continued.
With each of his statements, Yahweh's face grew more unsightly.
By the end.
When he mentioned Father John, Yahweh's expression had reached its extremes.
Hawk, on the other hand, beamed brightly, looked at Yahweh, and shook his head with a hint of broad amusement.
"You've made too many mistakes, Yahweh."
"Who do you take me for?"
"Mephisto, someone who grows in size but not in brains, a fool?"
"I'm no Mephisto!"
"I've been an ordinary person for sixteen years, through fire and water, emerged from countless battles, a Saint Warrior, Master of the Phoenix."
"The strategies you know, I know them all."
"The strategies you don't know, I know those too."
"And most importantly."
"Cumbersome!"
"Too damn cumbersome."
Hawk looked at the exceedingly gloomy Yahweh: "Do you know what the most successful strategy should look like?"
As he spoke.
He had already begun to answer his own question.
"The simpler the strategy, the less likely it is to go wrong."
"And you—"
"Dear Yahweh."
"Your strategy stretches too long, so long that if I hadn't discovered it, I'd feel I was failing my soul's upbringing."
"The reason I haven't exposed it is to see what new tricks you might pull."
"And the result?"
"I was looking forward to your new tricks."
"Unexpectedly, this is it?"
"Were you hoping I'd refine the Heaven Core, refine your essence, so your soul could merge with your essence, and enter my Cosmos, then kill me from within?"
"You've thrown me a big one, did you know that?"
"I used just one move."
"Invite the gentleman into the jar!"
"Now—"
"Tell me."
"Yahweh!"
"Do you have another move, if not, then next, you're in for a hell of a time!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk—"
"..."