The purple pillars of light that had descended upon the dead sector of the universe began to fade, leaving only the cold silence of space, except for the heavy, ragged breathing of a fallen king.

Noah looked at Beelzebub calmly.

Right now, he felt he could crush Beelzebub like a bug.

The overwhelming aura he had felt from the demon just moments ago, the pressure which was pinning him to a place and crushing his bones, had vanished.

It wasn't that the pressure had stopped; it was that Noah had grown so powerful that the demon's aura felt like a flickering candle next to a supernova.

Moreover, he could feel something more.

The Crown of Destruction had given him a major boost in his power, and it acknowledged him as its one and only master.

The artifact didn't just sit on his head; it pulsed in sync with his heartbeat, feeding him the raw laws of the universe.

Noah descended through the void.

His feet stepped on nothingness as if it were a solid marble floor.

He stopped directly in front of Beelzebub and gently smiled at him.

It was a terrifyingly peaceful smile.

"How do you like to die, bug?" Noah asked.

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried the weight of an absolute decree.

Beelzebub was afraid of the entity in front of him.

The arrogance that had defined the Sin of Gluttony for eons was gone, replaced by a primal, shaking terror.

He realized that the realm he had wanted to achieve for so long, the true Transcended Realm, had been momentarily obtained by the human he had just been torturing.

"Please... for," Beelzebub began, his voice cracking.

But he couldn't finish his words.

Noah waved his hand casually, as if shooing away a fly.

With a shimmer of purple light, Beelzebub's mouth simply vanished.

The skin smoothed over where his lips had been, sealing his screams inside his throat.

Noah didn't stop there.

He stepped forward and punched the demon's head.

He didn't use enough force to kill him instantly.

Instead, by using the Law of Destruction, he stripped away Beelzebub's innate demonic defenses.

He made the demon's body as sensitive as a mortal's, so that he could feel every ounce of pain.

Noah pummeled Beelzebub for at least three hours nonstop.

In the vacuum of space, there was no sound, yet the ripples of the impact shook the nearby asteroids into dust.

Every time Beelzebub was on the verge of death, Noah would use a spark of the Cube of Life to heal him back to full health.

It was a cycle of absolute agony.

The "King of Flies" was being swatted over and over again by a God who had lost his patience.

After three hours of beating him, Noah finally stopped.

Beelzebub was in a bad condition right now.

His obsidian armor was shattered, his wings were torn to shreds, and his eyes were wide with a plea for the end.

Noah snapped his fingers.

A small, transparent sphere formed around the demon.

As the sphere shrunk, Beelzebub's massive body followed suit, compressing and transforming until he was nothing more than a tiny, harmless creature trapped inside the glass-like orb.

Noah had many things to ask him, about the Demon Realm, about the other Sins.

He wouldn't kill him yet.

Finally, Noah turned away from the prisoner and looked at the massive army behind him.

As he willed it, the Crown of Destruction entered his body again, disappearing into his soul.

Instantly, Noah's aura reduced from that of a God back to a half-step Transcended being.

The crown was a cheat code of the highest order; it could forcefully raise the wearer's combat power one realm higher with no conditions, but it was exhausting to maintain.

Noah restrained his aura further, bringing it down to the level of a normal person so he wouldn't accidentally crush the space around him.

Following his lead, the twelve generals and the million soldiers did the same, their terrifying energies vanishing into their bodies.

"Long time no see. How have you been?" Noah asked with a warm smile, looking at his old friends.

Fiona, one of the top generals, couldn't contain herself.

She started jumping in the void, a bright grin on her face.

"Your Majesty! We missed you so much! I am so glad that you are alright. We thought... well, we didn't know what to think when you disappeared!"

Noah smiled at her.

"Thank you. You did a nice show for me. Let's go to Earth first. You probably all want to meet your families."

Everyone nodded, their faces softening at the mention of home.

Noah then looked at the million soldiers standing in formation.

These were the people who had become his subjects in the Realm of Infinity, warriors from a thousand different worlds who had sworn loyalty to him.

"Thank you everyone for coming to my aid," Noah said, his voice reaching every single soldier.

"Please, Your Majesty, don't say this!" the soldiers roared back in unison.

"Our lives belong to you. We owe everything we are today to you alone!"

Noah just smiled, moved by their loyalty.

"Then let's host a party for you all. But first, we have a planet to fix."

Noah waved his hand.

The laws of space bent to his will, and in an instant, the entire army was teleported back to Earth's orbit.

The soldiers hadn't come to Earth through a normal ship; they had forced the Realm of Infinity to open a direct portal to Noah's location.

They had been so worried that they wanted to see him before even checking on their own kin.

But now that they saw what Earth had become, the atmosphere changed.

The soldiers looked down at the blue planet and clenched their hands.

The demonic energy Beelzebub had released had left the world a graveyard.

Cities were silent, and billions of people lay still on the ground, their life force drained.

Even these powerful warriors couldn't easily bring back life that had already vanished.

They were masters of destruction and combat, but reversing death on a global scale was a power they hadn't gained yet.

To bring back even one mortal from the grip of death usually required a huge toll on an Immortal's soul.

Rudi, standing next to Noah, clenched his fist so tightly that blood started to seep between his fingers.

An intense killing intent surged from his body, turning the clouds below red.

He wanted to snatch the sphere containing Beelzebub and grind it into nothingness, but he restrained himself.

He respected Noah more than his own life and would never act without an order.

Noah noticed and placed a gentle hand on Rudi's shoulder.

"Calm down."

Noah vanished from the spot and reappeared high above the planet, looking down at the silent continents.

He raised both hands, his palms facing the earth.

"Reverse."

Instantly, the space-time around the planet began to churn.

It looked like a film being played backward.

To everyone's utter shock, Noah didn't just heal the people; he reversed the space-time of the entire planet.

Broken buildings flew back together.

The dark demonic mist was sucked back into a vacuum.

Most importantly, the souls that had begun to drift away were pulled back into their bodies.

Performing such a feat for an entire planet started to cause an immense toll on Noah's body.

His skin began to crack, and golden blood leaked from his eyes.

But in that moment, the Cube of Life inside him roared.

It pulsed with an intense, blinding green light that washed over Noah.

Instantly, the cracks vanished, and his fatigue was replaced by a surge of endless vitality.

The Cube and the Crown were working in perfect harmony, one for infinite power, the other for infinite recovery.

Within minutes, the world was back to exactly how it was before the demon arrived.

People on the streets blinked, wondering why they were suddenly standing up or why they felt a strange sense of "deja vu."

Noah returned to where his generals were waiting.

"As expected of His Majesty. He is fundamentally different from us, even if he says he can't cultivate normally," General William said with an awed look.

He had seen many things in the Realm of Infinity, but reversing the time of a whole world was something else entirely.

Noah looked at the 9,999 Earthlings who had returned with him, the original group that had been transported to the Realm of Infinity years ago.

"You should go and meet your family and friends first. I'll settle things here."

Just as they were about to head down, the air grew heavy again.

Everyone stopped and looked at the sky.

Far out in the solar system, multiple ripples appeared in space.

Two massive fleets were approaching from different directions.

The power levels were staggering.

"I can feel them," Rudi muttered, his eyes narrowing.

"At least twenty Immortal Kings and thousands of Immortal Venerables."

Noah felt the signatures and smiled.

One group felt like the cold, refined energy of the Chaos Temple.

The other felt like the ancient, golden power of the Primordial Empire.

"Looks like my friend brought some real help," Noah said, thinking of Arthur.

"But the problem is already solved."

He looked at his army of a million Immortals standing behind him, then at the tiny demon in his hand, and finally at the approaching reinforcements.

The "backwater" planet of Earth was currently the most dangerous place in the universe.

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