The 3 Royal Guards and Silvian arrive at the second tower, where floating before it stood tall none other than Iulia, with her crimson red elementalist cloak activated. The boys stop abruptly once they get there.

  “What the heck? Where is that good for nothing orange thing? I put so much time into him and this is how he repays me?!” Iulia said, angered.

  “Mother, as the leader of the Royal Guards from the Other Lands, I declare that your demise is near.” Ares said with seriousness in his tone.

  Iulia keeps frowning down at them, noticing that both of her sons are present.

  “Finally. You two dumbasses get along. It was only about time I'd get to kill all of you at once.” Iulia said before channeling red energy on her right arm.

  She dashed down to the ground then once more towards Ares. He quickly drew out his spear and swung in a slashing motion as Iulia punched with her charged arm, the two clashing but Ares getting knocked back without his stance broken. Radu stomped the ground and raised boulders which he began punching, sending projectiles at her. Iulia summoned a disintegration zone, obliterating his attack. Ares remembers this attack, so he quickly decides to change to his magma element. He struggles for a little before he manages to activate it. stefan3B activates ASM but his feet freeze on the spot. He couldn't have ever guessed that he would come this far.

  Silvian clapped his hands then opened his arms wide, creating a web of lightning before jumping high and slamming it down on her from a blind spot.

  Iulia is staggered for a second, letting out a groan before Ares swiftly moves forward and slashes her face with his fire spear. The weapon felt blunt against her skin as it damaged her like a mace, only blunt force. Ares grabs the spear in both of his hands and thrusts into her, but Iulia quickly grabs him by his shirt and slams him down in the opposite direction.

  “Down!” She screamed out loudly.

  stefan3B knew it was time to act, so he joined the fight. He sprinted before jumping and dropkicking into her back, pushing her away and making her lose grip of Ares.

  Iulia turned back with visible anger on her face, swinging her left arm for a strong backslap against his cheek. Radu managed to throw a large boulder of dirt into her just in time before the slap would connect. stefan3B swiftly backed down from the dust screen the dirt created. Iulia dashed through it towards him, seemingly faster than he expected. She went for a clean right punch into his face, but Silvian managed to grab her by the hair and pull it as he tried electrocuting her. Iulia yelled, her tone hoarse as she leaped back and dropped into Silvian's legs, sweeping him from below before delivering a powerful uppercut, but barely missing his chin. Ares got up from the ground and summoned another fire spear then threw it at her. Iulia took quick notice of this and summoned another disintegration zone, catching it in the sphere. Radu leaps forward in an attempt to strike from a blind spot as Silvian was trying to distract her by charging up lightning. Iulia summoned a disintegration zone next to her other hand as well, unintentionally catching Radu into it before ordering it to move towards Silvian. The boy, confused, unleashed his ray of lightning despite him not knowing what he's fighting against. His lightning is quickly broken down within the zone. Radu backed off the moment the zone moved away.

  Darius saw the action unfold as he was running towards them.

  “They're really fighting without me. This is my chance to shine!” Darius said in his mind before focusing more energy within his legs, beginning to run even faster than before.

  Despite his amazing speed, Iulia saw him, giving her just enough time to react and throw a punch at his face. Darius leaped forward, throwing a punch as well. Sadly for Darius, Iulia’s arm was longer than his, so he ended up taking the punch. Due to the momentum, his body flipped beneath her arm after the hit, making his vessel stumble forward repeatedly until he was down to the ground. He groaned in agony, suddenly regretting his choice of attack.

  Radu was preparing several ground chunks, Ares held 2 fire spears, ready to be thrown and Silvian had enough lightning charged between his palms for another strike. stefan3B still had his ASM activated, waiting patiently for her next move. Iulia was surrounded from every direction. She looked around before chuckling.

  “It's too late anyways. You failed, miserably even.” She said as she placed her left hand on her hips, her right hand rubbing her forehead as she slimed with her eyes closed.

  “She's bluffing, get her!” Radu suddenly commanded.

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  The 3 boys all threw their ranged attacks at once, creating a dust screen around her. After the dust settled down, it was revealed that Iulia summoned a disintegration zone around herself.

  She smiled even wider, with half lidded eyes and a challenging expression.

  “And what do you think you'll do to me-”

  But her words were cut short by stefan3B who didn't hesitate from going inside the disintegration zone and giving her a straight right punch in her face, making the zone shatter in an instant. stefan3B’s ASM began to stack, giving him more than enough power to make a difference. This hit specifically felt extremely personal to Iulia. She angrily snapped back at him from the stun and grabbed him by the neck with her left hand, her right hand clutching into his hair. stefan3B struggled against her hands with no visible results whatsoever. Radu brushed his hand gently against the ground before dashing forward, pulling out a bat made out of dirt. With great stance and inertia, he swung it into her back. Iulia took the blow directly as she was too focused on stefan3B, making her grip on his neck weaken. This allowed stefan3B to push away the hand and deliver a left punch into her jaw, making her release his hair as well. Radu followed along, giving her a right punch to her face. stefan3B continued with a kick to her right side. Radu punched her again with his left fist on the left side of her skull. Ares tagged along as well, swinging his spear like a bat and hitting its tip into her shoulder before making it explode. Silvian jumped high once more before releasing another wave of lightning onto her. Iulia suddenly pushed her arms to each side, creating a strong gust of wind in the process to give her some breathing room. She appeared tired and bruised, but not heavily damaged. With a stern expression, she looked up at the sky. Pure crimson red. She smirked upon the sight.

  “It's over.” She said to herself quietly.

  “What are you talking about?! What is over?!” Radu shouted, already annoyed.

  “The corruption, you idiot. The thing is, even if you defeated me, the flesh towers would revive me nonetheless. You didn't even destroy the first one. You've left it intact.”

  The boys’ eyes suddenly widened upon realizing what she meant.

  “Loads of bullshit! Bullshit bullshit bullshit! You'll never top over the might of a Royal Guard like myself!” Ares said with his usual fiery tone, pointing at her with an angry expression as he clutched to his fire spear with his other hand.

  Iulia slowly turned to him, enough for her to view him from her side. Her skin suddenly partially turned red alongside her hair and eyes, her pupils turning yellow.

  “I was told Belphegor would be the weakest of the sins, but to be beaten by children?”

  The ground started shattering

  “Orange was the one and only thing I ever tried to appreciate, but it seems no matter how much support I gave him, he never flourished.”

  The clouds vanished.

  “Maybe he's a disappointment, just like your brother. After all, he was a clone of him physically.”

  The entire world started shaking and rumbling. Cat noticed the sudden changes in atmosphere.

  “Hm, they seem to be going wild at it. I should see if I have any weapons weak enough to kill her just in case of anything…” Cat thought to himself before opening a portal to his workshop.

  Iulia’s skin started converting more and more into red.

  “I made a contract in hell, that once I seize this land, I'll be granted anything I want! Those greedy bastards will never not want a smart individual like me to tell them what to do! They can't do anything on their own!”

  The flesh pillars suddenly crumbled, turning into red dust and vanishing. Iulia started rising up into the sky.

  “Hell energy is mine!”

  stefan3B’s ASM turned off.

  “This… this is the start of a new era!” Iulia concluded before spreading her arms wide open.

  The entire of Other Lands shattered, being replaced with a hellish landscape every boy was taken away from each other, being forced to stand individually on their respective small surface. The entire world looked like a bunch of random chunks of ground in space. Gazing below you could feel the void of hell itself gazing back upon you. Darius, upon seeing all of this, decided to call it quits.

  “I… I can't… I can't do anything…” He said to himself quietly as he began to cry.

  “I… I…” he continued before fainting out of stress.

  Radu was left in total awe at the sight of the indescribable landscape. He fell down, as his legs gave up on him.

  “Oh boy, what did I get myself into? It doesn't matter now, I suppose. Okay, here we go, full power, all or nothing!” Silvian said to himself before summoning his suit of lightning once more. This time, it kept on growing in size more and more, until it had about 50 meters in height.

  “This is… everything I got…” Silvian said to himself as he was panting inside the titan of lightning.

  Ares let out a battle cry as he charged up all of his powers for one final battle. Iulia’s skin was not fully red, completely demonic. Her eyes were like 2 lost lights which desired to rip the living essence out of anything it dared stand in their way. Her red hair was flowing beautifully around herself, though not to charm, but to warn about the new level of power she had reached. stefan3B was standing there, not knowing what to do. He didn't have any ranged attacks, he couldn't fly and jumping would most likely result in him getting slammed down into the fiery hell. Iulia extended her left arm towards stefan3B, coating him in red energy, pulling him upwards. She then slammed him repeatedly against several surfaces at great speeds mercilessly.

  “Is this how you repay me for giving you life?!” Iulia scowled at him as she gave him his punishment.

  After what felt like an eternity for stefan3B, she summoned a large sphere of disintegration energy around him. Red chains sprouted from the sphere, covering his limbs at once and pulling each of them in different directions. stefan3B screamed in pain until his lungs gave up, still as conscious as ever. The chains began stealing every single bit of power he had left in his body. Iulia began chuckling as stefan3B was being tortured within the zone, without any signs of regret.