stefan3B struggled against the chains for a brief moment before going limp as his mind overwhelmed him with unidentifiable emotions. Suddenly, it felt as if time itself had stopped.

  . . .

  I remember… I remember it all. Everything that I had to go through until now, everything that I had to destroy to reach her. She's the sole reason why I still had motivation to push on. I want to see her D E A D. For everything that I went through, for every stray punch that I've thrown, for everything I destroyed until now, I will make sure… I… I…!

  . . .

  “I WILL DEESSTRROOOOYY YYYOOOOOOUUUUUU!!!” stefan3B suddenly shouted as the chains turned white, empowering him again once more.

  Iulia was shocked that the chains did not work on him, despite them being the thing that empowered him in the first place. What a dumbass.

  stefan3B easily broke free from his chains. Iulia quickly made a sword out of hell energy in her hand and cut her elbow. She forced her body to heal, making her arm spin back into place before being healed properly. Iulia smiled once she saw that her trick worked, but it would soon fade as stefan3B punched her face with such brutality that his fist went right in her mouth through her head. With his other hand, he grabbed her shoulder and kicked her chest to bounce off her while clutching the crude flesh. Iulia touched the hole he just produced only to be quickly healed by hell energy nonetheless. stefan3B threw the flesh into the ground before rushing at her again. This time, Iulia took a more defensive approach and leaped upwards.

  “Ugh, I wish I had the skills that Belphegor did. That stupid mind control would be extremely helpful right now!” Iulia said to herself as she kept being chased by stefan3B.

  Iulia pushed her hands aside and charged up hell energy into large disks before making them spin at high speeds like sawblades.

  “This should work! Whatever this is, he has to die already!” Iulia said before throwing said disks one by one.

  The first disk completely missed stefan3B. As for the second one, stefan3B grabbed it and threw it back at Iulia vertically, landing perfectly on her body. With a kick he pushed the disk further into her body before trying to grab her head and try to split her in two by pushing her body and disk in opposite directions. Iulia casted another small scale disintegration storm to push him back but it wasn't enough to completely get him off of her. Before she could recover from her stagger, he kicked the disk once more, completely forcing it to pass through her body. stefan3B was now close to her, and if she wanted to perform any sort of strike on him, this was the perfect moment.

  “If I could only reach into his brain and see what he's thinking about I could see how to defeat him!” Iulia thought to herself before latching her right hand into his skull, creating sharp stingers on her fingertips to penetrate into his brain.

  . . .

  HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE.

  HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE

  The word “HATE” was engraved in white all over the black void of his mind. Iulia witnessed nothing but sheer raw hatred as she tried to read his mind. He was beyond any saving.

  “What…? Hate…? Hate who? Me? I am the one that's right, why should he hate me of all people?! He deserved everything that's happened to him!”

  . . .

  stefan3B let out a loud groan before grabbing her wrist and snapping it, forcing her hand to retract out of his head.

  “I'LL KILL YOU!” stefan3B yelled before attempting to punch her face, but his fist slipped right through her split face.

  Iulia thought this was an opportunity and forced her body to heal, trapping his forearm inside her head as she glared at him with a cocky smirk and half lidded eyes. However, she clearly did not learn her lesson, as stefan3B pulled his arm back ruthlessly, ripping her mouth out of her head once more. With the same fist he began pummeling her as he held her shoulder with his other hand.

  “DIE! DIE! DIE! WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!” stefan3B screamed hysterically as he kept punching her.

  Iulia unleashed yet another disintegration storm, a stronger one, pushing him away. Once her body healed, she looked at him with an angered expression.

  “So you hate me, huh? You really think you're a church door, huh?”

  stefan3B was thrown back by her stupidity.

  “What?!”

  “You think that hating me, your mother, the one who LITERALLY gave you birth, will change anything?! Are you this stupid?! You think you didn't deserve everything that happened to you until now?!” she continued in a pissed off tone.

  Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.

  After hearing her words, stefan3B began trembling with anger from her stupidity. It was so pure, so raw, that his mouth began to foam. He started making animalistic sounds as he clawed his face with his fingers.

  “Maybe if you weren’t so weak to begin with, we wouldn’t have been here in the first place! How about that? Huh?!”

  “Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid…” stefan3B murmured under his breath, completely stunned by her idiocy.

  . . .

  In the second layer of hell, the representative of the sin of pride, Lucifer, was looking at the rift on the ceiling of hell which was absorbing hell energy in order to feed Iulia. With his hands behind him he gave the portal a serious look. Suddenly, an imp approached him sheepishly.

  “M-master, what is going on? Hell has never been this empty of energy…”

  Lucifer sighed deeply.

  “It’s the woman we signed a contract with. If she manages to corrupt that lump of energy they call a ‘world’ and defeat its inhabitants, she will take over.”

  The imp gave Lucifer a weird look.

  “But master, why would you allow her to borrow energy from hell? The entire dimension is being sucked dry!”

  “The third layer of hell is infinite in length. The portal will eventually suck all the energy from the second layer and eventually from the third layer. Since it’s infinite in length, it will need some time to suck energy from so far away. If she doesn’t use her resources carefully, she will run out of energy temporarily before the portal sends her new energy.”

  The imp stared at Lucifer in confusion.

  “What… I didn’t understand- no, it doesn’t matter… But still, what is in it for you, or anyone in here, to begin with?”

  Lucifer looks down at the imp.

  “Well, my worthless imp, she is a narcissistic, gullible, imbecile who can’t fight for shit. After she disposes of the 3 grand wizards, we will be able to expand our territory. She’s the only individual that was so willing to capture the Other Lands.” Lucifer said before looking back at the portal, which would sometimes pause before sucking in hell energy again.

  “By the time she is done up there, the forces of hell will completely overwhelm her and we will have the entire dimension just for us.” Lucifer continued before clenching his fist as he stared at it while smiling. “Afterwards… Elementalist World will be next.”

  The imp’s confusion deepened.

  “Elementalist World?! Wouldn’t we have a better chance at capturing Earth? We already have influence over humans!”

  “Last time I tried showing off on Earth I got buried in hell like a seed in dirt by those damned angels. At least those elementalists don’t have any sort of divine backup.”

  The imp sighed, already having a headache.

  “Are you sure this will work…?”

  “Yes, imp, of course it will. She has the entire power of hell! Well, somewhat… But still. Unless she is more stupid than I already think she is, Other Lands will be defeated once and for all!”

  . . .

  Iulia wore an angry expression as she summoned 2 discs of energy in her hands again. She threw one disc up and placed the other one in front of her.

  “Why don't I just use all of this energy?! I'm holding back for no reason!” Iulia shouted before engaging.

  The disc above them started raining down blasts of raw hell energy randomly as the disk in front of her started launching blasts in front of her. stefan3B snapped upon seeing attacks coming towards him.

  “I'LL KILL YOU!” he shouted before dashing a large distance to the left, rendering the efforts of the barrage worthless.

  Iulia clenched her teeth and groaned as she struggled to rotate the firing disk towards stefan3B. stefan3B was easily dodging the blasts that fell from above him. Before Iulia managed to aim the disc again, stefan3B jumped into the air in order to destroy the disk, dodging the incoming projectiles with ease in the process. The disc cracked into two, making it stop firing energy blasts. Iulia’s frown deepened as she tried aiming the disc at him.

  “Come on! Rotate already!” she shouted, as if yelling at her own attack would make it spin faster.

  stefan3B threw the first half of the disc into the other one, shattering it.

  “Ugh, why you-” Iulia complained as she looked down at the disk.

  She was quickly interrupted by stefan3B, who dashed in front of her before she'd realized. Using the second half of the disc, he slashed her neck. A clean straight cut, severing her head from her neck. He then turned the disk vertically in order to spank her head away as if he was playing tennis. To counter this, Iulia prepared a disintegration storm in advance, just in case she would be caught lacking like that. Both of them were pushed away a great distance. stefan3B used the disc to stop sliding onto the ground, holding it tight into the dirt. Iulia's head connected back to her head and she suddenly came back to her senses.

  “Oh my, I almost lost my head there.” she said as she started feeling her body with her hands anxiously for a moment.

  “This does no good. At this rate, we are both going nowhere. He probably isn’t even going all out on me with those punches.”

  Iulia’s mind suddenly flashed with an idea.

  “Oh! I could use hell energy to give me an extra layer of armor!” Iulia said before charging up hell energy around her body. A transparent veil with a slight crimson red outline began building around her. The air molecules started shaking, making everything look like it’s trembling.

  “Hahaha! I am unstoppable!” she shouted with a wide grin as her veil grew more in size.

  stefan3B took a brief moment to gather up his energy once more. He frowned and clenched his teeth before throwing the half-disc at Iulia. Seeing this, Iulia proudly demonstrated her new veil by swatting away the disc, receiving no damage in the process.

  “What did she do to herself?” stefan3B wondered to himself.

  The ground kept shaking around them until it suddenly stopped. The entire world lost its red color in the blink of an eye and Iulia stopped charging up energy. Everyone started looking around, confused as to what’s going on.

  “What happened?! Why can’t I access hell energy anymore?!” Iulia shouted in confusion.

  After a brief moment, the red atmosphere returned alongside more hell energy for Iulia to consume.

  “Fucking lightshow you put on, sophisticated ass bitch! You should’ve tried to become a rave dj instead of a dead corpse!”

  Iulia lost her smirk and frowned.

  “You will insult me no longer.” Iulia replied as she stood straight with an imposing stature.

  stefan3B stomped into the ground, making pieces of dirt fly up into the air, creating a blinding dustscreen all around the platform. Iulia grunted before swiping both of her arms in opposite directions, forcing the dust to vanish. stefan3B was suddenly nowhere to be seen. stefan3B fell down with a drop kick into her head, but he couldn’t approach her. Instead, he stood on top of the veil that Iulia created. Confused and misguided, stefan3B began stomping into the veil. Iulia took quick notice of this and grabbed his leg before slamming him down into the ground. She then rushed ahead and grabbed his face before dragging him across the ground, leaving behind a clear dust of dirt that rose up several meters high. stefan3B tried grabbing her arm but he couldn’t properly get a grip on her veil. He tried punching her face, but his hits were being tanked by the veil itself without any signs of disturbance. Iulia’s smile reappeared on her face as she jumped and flipped forward before slamming stefan3B’s body into the platform, crushing it to bits and plummeting him down.