Or, why don’t you find another savior?

Shiomi was not clear about YHWH's purpose, but he guessed that perhaps he wanted to guide Goetia to recreate the history of the planet from scratch and become the only god that was permanently believed in and worshipped on that new planet.

Different from the faith that has become rare among human beings today, it is a more absolute worship.

At that time, Goetia was the king of the planet who carried out God's will... Is that all? Shiomi was still confused.

"It seems that you have understood the meaning of all this, but you still refuse?"

"Why not? What I hate most is submitting to destruction." Xijian suddenly perked up.

Shiomi, who was the first to regain his ability to fight, instantly snatched away the other nine rings that the two sides were fighting for.

Goetia just stood there motionless, staring at the opponent in front of him.

"…It is really stupid."

Even though the control of the Ten Commandments was taken away, Goetia showed no impatience and only commented on Shiomi coldly.

"Really? But your 'Lord' said I was 'smart'."

Shiomi carefully observed Goetia's movements. Although the Demon King did not move, he could not see any flaws, so he retorted cautiously.

"You heard the revelation, but arrogantly threw it out of your mind. In the end, you are just a man more foolish than Solomon!" Goetia opened his arms. "Now that I know who you are, there is no need to chat with you."

The third treasure, which had been stopped, showed signs of movement again.

"The ring is in my hand, don't even think about activating the third treasure!"

Putting ten rings on his hands, Shiomi began to interfere with Goetia itself.

BeastⅠGoetia is essentially a summoning technique created by the ancestor of magic.

The reason Solomon was able to do this and lay the foundation for magic in later generations came from listening to the revelation from heaven in his dream and obtaining the Ten Commandments, which symbolize wisdom and power.

He intends to use the power of these rings to destroy Beast I's magical structure and weaken its own power.

However, Shiomi's body was suddenly squeezed by the huge burden and began to show signs of overload and collapse.

A stronger cost than when using the Axe of Marduk.

Divine punishment.

YHWH was unable to stop Shiomi from controlling the Ten Commandments, and he knew that completely taking back the Ten Commandments would mean that Goetia would be weakened.

So He made a third choice, requiring anyone who used the Ten Commandments to bear absolute divine punishment.

"It's useless! I have obtained Solomon's body and sublimated into Beast I. I am no longer a being that can be controlled by that man's ring! Besides, you are just a human who knows how to exercise power but cannot become a god!"

Goetia saw through this fact and tried her best to resist Shiomi's attempt to break the spell, and she did resist.

At this time, Goetia saw Shiomi dragging his recovering body and coming to him in an instant. He clenched his ring-wearing hand into a fist and hit him hard in the face.

The nearly three-meter tall figure slid back several steps after being hit.

After the Demon King took advantage of the situation to stabilize his stance, he opened his arms, and the eyes of those Demon Pillars instantly flashed a series of lights.

Countless magic bullets, as sharp as needles, as hot as the sun, and as fast as lightning, poured out in an instant.

"Burn it all up!"

"You think you can burn me to ashes with this kind of attack?"

Shiomi protected his body as the magic bullets ruthlessly penetrated his entire body, leaving behind dense burning and puncture wounds.

The blood gushed out uncontrollably, and then stopped in an instant.

Although he was unable to avoid most of the damage like his mother, he began to recover the moment he was injured, and Shiomi retreated after being hit by Goetia's attack.

As soon as he landed, his wounds had healed.

The attackers and defenders exchanged blows, and Goetia pursued without delay, approaching Shiomi in the same way, and then attacked continuously with his fists like boulders.

Each blow is enough to penetrate the human body and shatter the bones.

After enduring hundreds of punches in a row, Shiomi's internal organs, bones, and even skin continued to regenerate.

Can't be defeated.

Despite personally arranging Tiamat's return to the planet's seventh singularity, Goetia never had the opportunity to confront the primordial goddess.

The power of life is more persistent and entangled than expected.

Goetia stopped punching.

Seeing the attack stagnate, Shiomi opened his arms to construct a spell to counterattack, but saw that Goetia's hands were storing magic power on the scale of a Noble Phantasm and aimed at his entire body.

"Tsk——"

With a secret exclamation, Xi Jian stepped back, but before he could dodge to the side, the magical power bombarded him directly.

The surging current ruthlessly swallowed up Shiomi's body, and he felt the left half of his upper body disappearing.

The attack stopped and Shiomi stood there, dragging half of his body that had been neatly cut off, with blood oozing out of his mouth.

"You have a tough life. Just based on this fact, the title of Son of Tiamat is not just for show." Goetia said coldly.

It was originally planned to completely destroy Shiomi's body, making it impossible for the return of the power of life to catch up.

But this man still managed to survive at the cost of half his body.

Xi Jian silently squatted down and picked up his left hand that had fallen on the ground. When he stood up again, his severed body had been restored except for his left hand.

The arm was restored after being connected to the severed hand.

Everything is as usual, except for the irreparable combat uniform.

"If we keep fighting like this, I'm afraid there will be no end to it. You can't kill me, and I can't kill you right away."

Shiomi calmly spread out his arms, and the Ten Rings slowly fell off his fingers.

"So next I'm going to do something a little extravagant."

Goetia remained silent, not knowing what Shiomi was doing.

Then, Xi Jian smiled slowly: "Since you want me to bear the cost of using the Ten Commandments, then I might as well take a gamble and let you see the extravagant use that even Solomon dared not think of."

Ten rings sparkling with sacred light were suspended in front of Shiomi.

“Tree of Cabala.”

Chapter 9: Sephiroth Reversed

Hearing the words coming out of Shiomi's mouth, Goetia snorted with contempt.

"'Tree of Life', in the end, is it still necessary to seek the power hidden in the Ten Commandments?"

As Goetia spoke, the Ten Rings were connected by golden magic lines, forming a pattern symbolizing the Tree of Life.

"The so-called tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are nothing more than fabrications of YHWH." Xijian said calmly, "How can an existence that appeared many years later than my mother be qualified to call itself the Creator?"

"Arrogant! Using the power of the ring and the power of life, are you trying to recreate the Tree of Life here?" Goetia didn't know what Xi Jian was planning. "Even if that's the case, you can't do anything——"

Before Goetia could finish her words, they were abruptly stopped by Shiomi's action.

"I didn't say that." Xijian moved his hand gently, and the pattern formed by the Ten Rings turned upside down in his hand.

The opposite of the "Tree of Life", it also has ten sephirot, but represents ten vices, corresponding to ten demons.

For Goetia in front of him, he is a heretic among heretics and a rebel among rebellions.

"You bastard, you actually used the Lord's gift--" Goetia was angry.

He couldn't help but be angry.

No matter what situation he reaches, he cannot deny the source of his birth and the source of power that burns through human history and turns everything into fuel.

"Beast I, Demon King Goetia, since you are the one chosen by YHWH, I will simply stand on the opposite side of God, even if I have to become a demon to stop you."

Shiomi opened her arms.

After the pattern formed by the Ten Commandments was reversed, its radiance remained undiminished, and its power remained the same.

"The Tree of Qliphoth." He whispered the name of the pattern, and then apologized to the person who gave him the ring. "I'm sorry, doctor."

This is the deepest kind of rebellion that believers are unwilling to deal with.

"It seems that for a man like you who has overcome death, he won't understand unless he dies once." Goetia's tone revealed complete disappointment. "You turn your back on the Lord's mercy and exercise the power of a demon. You must not be allowed to exist. Even if you become a god—"

Once again, before he could finish his words, Goetia was hit by Shiomi's punch directly on his chest, right above his eye.

The hole pierced Goetia's chest deeply, and the arm almost went straight out of his back.

"10i, 'Materialism' (Qimranut)."

Then, an explosion occurred from inside Goetia, and Goetia was completely knocked to the ground by the attack, holding his chest in disbelief.

It was indeed an attack that simply condensed a huge amount of magical power, but this magical power did not come from Shiomi himself, but from one of the Ten Rings that he had seized control of.

Unleash all the power within a ring and transform it into a huge evil to deny the existence of Goetia.

More importantly, the Ten Commandments were the medium used by Solomon to establish magic as a technique for manipulating phenomena.

"This...power..."

Underestimating the damage Shiomi could cause, Goetia clenched his fists in pain, his fingers suddenly embedding into the rock beneath him.

"I don't care too much about why you want to perform the human incineration. After all, the reason is nothing more than that you have seen too much ugliness and sorrow, and thus regard human beings as worthless existences bound by limited life, isn't it?" Xijian shook the blood off his hands.

He had read the Tablet of Destiny and was very clear about Goetia's motives, so he wanted to completely deny everything about Goetia here.

“So that’s why you choose an uglier vice and turn the power of the source into absolute negation?” Goetia stood up slowly, his pierced chest gradually healing.

It looked like the attack had no effect.

In fact, only Goetia knew that this one strike alone had caused serious damage.

I can't let Shiomi touch me anymore.

"…What's wrong? Don't you want to continue?" Gaetia noticed Shiomi's decline.

Whatever the form, this man was using the Ten Commandments.

Since we have to bear the divine punishment anyway, we might as well use the Ten Commandments to defeat Goetia's consumables.

The Demon King sensed Shiomi's intention.

Therefore, the Demon Pillar entrenched in the center of the Temple of Time launched an attack on Shiomi together.

"Go, Demon Pillars! Our opponent is just a human being who is suffering from God's punishment. Let us use our power to complete the final execution on behalf of the Lord!"

At Goetia's command, the eyes of the demon pillars began to move, aiming at Shiomi and launching an attack.

A beam of highly concentrated magic power, capable of melting rock with one strike, attacks like a dragnet.

Take advantage of this opportunity to activate the third treasure.

Goetia tried to activate the third treasure again, but found that he could not adjust the light band according to the original scale, and the flow of magic power was delayed for a moment.

"too slow."

Shiomi's voice sounded behind him, and Goetia turned around suddenly to fight back, only to see the other party standing dozens of meters away, with his hands raised as if drawing a bow and arrow.

Magic power condenses into a longbow of light.

"9i, 'Unstable' (Aiyatsbus)."

The arrow of light flew off the bow, forcing Goetia to stop adjusting the size of the third treasure and to deploy a defense.

However, just as Shiomi had calculated, he used the Ten Rings as ammunition, and every attack he launched came at the cost of the destruction of the rings.

Goetia was defenseless.

It is a conceptual disadvantage and a gap in will.

His confidence came from nearly three thousand years of planning, the completion of the Burning of Humanity, and the collection of power that was extremely powerful even for a Beast.

There shouldn't be any life that can rival you or pose a threat to you.

When this fact begins to be overturned, Goetia will involuntarily reveal more flaws.

However, Xijian herself was not feeling well either.

Before he could deal another severe blow to Goetia's spiritual base, blood spurted out of his throat uncontrollably.

His right leg felt so heavy that it seemed to be bound in place. Blood oozed from his eye sockets, staining his eyeball and half of his cheek red.

Never before had Shiomi desired the power he once feared as much as he did now.