Sephiroth, watching via projection, frowned. "The boy is too reckless..." She prepared to teleport and help, but Liara held her back.
"Sephiroth, have you been hiding for so long that you've gone soft? He's clearly holding back."
Liara was right. Ethan was targeting the monster's soul. He systematically crushed every desperate magical beam the Son of Chaos fired and then delivered a final, soul-shattering blow.
"Does he really only have two years of cultivation?" Sephiroth marveled. "Even for a Dragon Emperor, this is ridiculous."
Liara, with her waist-length golden-white hair and incredibly sexy outfit, watched with sparkling eyes. She was a Peak Lower-Tier God herself, having trained for twenty years. Seeing Ethan's effortless power made her feel inferior yet strangely excited.
"Shella and this boy were looking for us. I think it's time we met them," Liara whispered with a smile.
As the Son of Chaos collapsed and dissolved into pure magic particles, Ethan felt a surge of energy. His magic power breached the final gap, officially making him a High-Tier God. By killing an invader, he had earned the favor of the World's Will. He also sensed a new realm: the Infinite Battlefield. But he decided to ignore it—he wasn't going anywhere that dangerous until he reached the level of a True God or Evil God (Saint-class).
With the boss dead, the remaining enemies were quickly mopped up. Vali teleported away, and Ethan let him go, hoping he'd bring some of those "waifus" with him next time. Ethan left the negotiations and profit-splitting to Rias and teleported to follow the two auras he had sensed earlier.
He found them in a secret chamber filled with the corpses of the Council elders. Two stunningly beautiful women stood there.
"Lord Crimson Dragon Emperor, have we met?" Liara asked, looking at Ethan with interest. She wore only two strips of white cloth that barely covered her nipples and crotch, leaving her long legs and soft belly exposed.
"No, but I have admired you both for a long time," Ethan said, his eyes lingering on Liara's provocative outfit. He immediately decided he wouldn't let any other man see her like this.
Ethan invited them to a more private place to talk. He mentioned Shella, Mio, and—notoriously—Basara Toujou.
The mention of Basara hit Sephiroth's sensitive spot. She hated the Old God and Jin Toujou, but her feelings for Basara, the son she had "conceived" without ever losing her virginity (due to the blood-fusion ritual), were complex.
"Fine," Sephiroth said, her face flushing slightly. "Let's go to the Human World."