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.

Their voices rumbled through the air like thunder.

"What should we do? I don't care if we fight or not, but he's right. He's not the enemy we came here for," asked Velion.

Kaelus clicked his tongue. "Why are you even hesitating? He spoke to us rudely. That's reason enough to crush him."

"Kill him. It was 'I' who gave the order that no one must leave this place." Aerion said coldly to both dragons.

Zeus's brow furrowed.

"I?" he repeated.

The dragons exchanged glances.

Aerion, the one who had spoken, narrowed his eyes.

"Hmm? You know about 'I'?"

He sounded almost amused.

"If you know him—no, if he allowed you to know about him—then you might be an ally."

Zeus said nothing at first.

It was true he had worked with 'I' for a long time.

The man had been his adviser, strategist, and confidant.

There had never been a reason to doubt him.

But still… something about him had never felt right.

Zeus had always trusted his instincts.

And those instincts warned that 'I' wasn't someone to trust completely.

He wasn't sure why.

There had never been evidence of betrayal.

But the feeling never left.

Zeus studied the dragons for a moment before asking, "His ability. It's related to Fate reading, isn't it?"

Aerion nodded slowly. "Yes. So you do know him."

Zeus's eyes narrowed further.

'That confirms it,' he thought. '"I" never predicted I could be here.'

He realized something important in that instant.

Right now, he wasn't just Arthur pretending to be Zeus.

He had truly become Zeus, carrying his Fate, his will, and his power.

Which meant, the original Zeus was probably fighting Nameless Death or with him somewhere else at this very moment.

And because of that, the current Zeus—this embodied version—had no readable Fate.

He was a shadow that existed outside of destiny.

A being similar to an Ashborn.

"I've changed my mind," Zeus said suddenly, his voice cutting through the silence. "I'll kill one of you, then I'll leave."

The dragons froze.

Velion frowned. "You just said you had no reason to fight."

"I didn't," Zeus replied. His tone was calm, but his eyes burned with divine power. "But you're connected to him. To 'I'. And I have my own reasons to break one of his pieces before I move on."

Lightning began to gather around his arms, thick enough to shake the air itself.

Kaelus grinned, his massive teeth gleaming. "Finally. Now you're speaking my language."

"Don't underestimate him," Velion warned. "He's very strong. He's—"

A flash of light cut through the sky.

Before Velion could finish, Zeus vanished from sight.

The next moment, his fist collided with Kaelus's jaw, sending the dragon hurtling down through the clouds.

The sound of impact echoed for miles.

Kaelus crashed into the mountain below, breaking stone and metal alike.

Velion's eyes widened. "He's faster than expected."

Aerion spread his wings. "Then stop holding back."

Zeus floated in the air above them, electricity running down his arms. His expression was cold.

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