My Soul card is a Reaper

The battle between Jupiter and Azrle looked quite intense at one glance, but in reality, the deity was losing against the mortal.

Whatever attacks Jupiter was using, Azrle was blocking them with the shield, where the Jewel of Earth was embedded. Azrle's attacks, on the other hand, were wounding the former.

Pluto's essence was making sure not to let Jupiter's wounds or his energy recover while Neptune's essence was rendering his body's defenses, useless.

Azzy's durable body, inexhaustible stamina, and powerful sage core made it easier for Azrle to launch sealing techniques from Leah's memories that the latter usually couldn't, due to her feminine mortal physique.

The battle went on for an hour, and Jupiter looked anything but fine, filled with injuries and wounds from top to bottom while Azrle looked very imposing.

It forced Jupiter to unleash his most powerful technique, combining both the firebolt and the lightning bolt to create a fire & lightning sphere in his hand. Its size was originally as big as 10 meters but as he compressed the energy inside, its size rapidly decreased.

Almost all the energy stored in the body of the demigod, his essence taken over a long time ago, was gathered in that orb that looked as big as his fist.

"Hmm… this…" Azrle couldn't help but remember a memory of Azzy's second awakening ceremony. Vajra was also in this form when they met for the first time. Azrle couldn't help but wonder whether the true form of an element is a concentrated orb.

"Goodbye…" Jupiter threw the orb toward his enemy with his entire strength, like a pitcher throws a baseball, hoping to destroy the adamantine shield too.

Azrle put forth the shield to block this attack too.

However, even the strongest metal in the universe, known to mankind as well as the deities, couldn't do the job this time.

While the adamantine shield with the jewel of earth embedded inside was able to absorb half of its damage, in the end, the orb of lightning and fire managed to melt down a part of its surface, making a hole out of it and striking Azrle's chest.

"Argh…" "Argh…"

The dual voice of masculine and feminine echoed one after another, in painful screams, as Azrle flew away and crashed to the ground.

Seeing the lightning energy and the fire energy left a huge injury on his enemy's chest, followed by making a mess inside the body, Jupiter developed a smirk on his face, "I guess this battle has been fini…"

His happiness couldn't even last five seconds. As the black crown appeared on Azrle's head, the wound on the outside was healed completely while Azrle's divine energy/sage energy from the sage core neutralized the foreign energies automatically.

Azrle stood on the ground and picked up the shield, which was also repaired by the Jewel of the Earth, "Jinn, come out." The dual voices echoed once again, bringing out Jinn, the malevolent cosmic being from the tales that usually grant wishes.

"Master," As it bowed with its hands on its stomach, Azrle passed the order in a deep voice, "Soul skill: Reality Warping. Power Apex inducement." This was the technique Azzy originally wanted to use, using it as a last resort. It is why Jinn was in spectator mode, before their merge. It will temporarily unlock the full capacity of the user.

"As you wish, Master," Jinn bowed once again before unleashing the skill onto its master.

Azrle, who received a tremendous boost of strength as well as mastery over the three cosmic jewels, immediately dashed forward at extreme hypersonic speeds (>mach 20) and struck Jupiter without giving his body time to react despite the fact that his eyes captured it.

Jupiter flew in the air and Azrle raised the shield, using the Jewel of Earth to create the roots of the world tree and captured him, before leaping forward and reaching him.

The Jewel of Lightning also made its appearance at the last second. Jupiter saw Azrle conjuring a tremendous amount of lightning energy through the jewel, aiming at his heart.

With his body tied up and his energy reserves depleted, Jupiter's facial expression froze for the first time in fear.

"Die," Azrle motioned the jewel of lightning forward, releasing the concentrated lightning energy.

It was at that moment Jupiter shouted in panic, "I abolish the usage of cosmic jewels."

The three cosmic jewels glowed brightly for a second before they returned to normal, taking Jupiter by surprise and the beam of lightning struck Jupiter's heart.

"Why?" Jupiter had this shock on his face as he fell on his back.

"Izaru… now…" Azrle shouted, and the black water body of water, which still resembles Leah, threw her trident.

Neptune's trident put an end to Jupiter by entering his body and exploding itself, damaging every bit of cells in his body and turning him into a lifeless body.

As he died, a jewel burning in flames but enveloped by a wisp flew out of Jupiter's host and flew into Azrle.

"Argh" "Argh"

At once, the three cosmic jewels disappeared as Azrle let out a painful roar.

Excalibur, Queen Izaru, and Jinn disappeared at the same time while a blinding flash of light enveloped Azrle, separating Azzy and Leah after a few seconds.

Leah found the Jewel of Fire was slowly fusing with her soul while Azzy received the true essence of Jupiter.

Unlike the others who received the deity's essence so far, Azzy was experiencing something else entirely.

His soul was seen floating somewhere in space, where he watched a giant woman shrouded in light pressing an orb-like thing between her palms.

The orb compressed over and over until it suddenly exploded and even enveloped this giant in the process, giving birth to early stars, cosmic jewels, Angels, gods, and other cosmic beings.

The scene quickly changed to a scene in a large hall where different chief deities were having arguments about how to govern the universe together.

After all, most of their powers are similar to each other and they don't want to share their authority over the mortals with deities from other pantheons.

Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Ra, Dagda, Marduk, Yu Huang, Amaterasu, Huitzilopochtli, Inti, Perun, Manitou, and Olorun represented their pantheons and the wishes of their brethren.

Some are weak, some are strong, and some have only a few deities in their pantheon, like on Odin's side. He had only Frigg, Baldr, Freyr, Freyja, and Njord.

The negotiations appeared to have failed in the end.

The scene changed to a series of battles between various pantheons, the Olympians and Dii Consentes allied together to eradicate others while the Angels stayed neutral.

Using others' essences, both of these pantheons have agreed to create another universe, where one of them could rule it for eternity, only for Jupiter to realize that Zeus betrayed him, using those divine essences to empower the Olympians.

The Angels had to ally with Dii Consentes to suppress the Olympians and free the essences of other deities fallen in the great battle of gods, but Hades used the demons and the fallen angels to keep this allied army busy while the Olympians killed their counterparts and absorb their essences too.

Zeus won in the end and became the supreme ruler of the universe.

As a result, Jupiter and his brethren were eradicated, albeit freeing a lot of essences, which spread all over the universe and merged with mortals, giving rise to heroes and legends. On the other hand, the Angels were forced to relinquish all of their rights over the universe.

Once the cinematic view ended, Azzy's mind was then flooded with the knowledge of Jupiter's abilities.