Supreme Kai Realm.

Caelum was still thinking about how to gauge Supreme Kai’s true strength.

Meanwhile, Supreme Kai himself stood frozen in front of a crystal orb, completely dumbfounded.

Anyone who had never seen Supreme Kai would probably imagine a tall, stern god radiating authority.

The reality was nothing like that.

He was short.

And neither calm nor dignified.

The crystal orb displayed the exact moment Caelum absorbed Zorvak, blue flames erupting around him as his terrifying power shook both the galaxy and the entire Sumeru Realm.

Sweat poured down Supreme Kai’s face.

He panicked so badly that his thoughts nearly stopped functioning.

"How could someone this powerful possibly appear in the galaxy?! What am I supposed to do now?!"

He was genuinely terrified.

In truth, not only Grand Kai, but even Supreme Kai himself was nowhere near Caelum’s current level of power.

That was why he was panicking.

As a god, maintaining balance throughout the galaxy was his fundamental duty.

There was no way he could allow someone like Caelum to run wild unchecked.

The problem was simple.

He could not beat him.

Even if he teamed up with Grand Kai and all four Kais, they would still amount to little more than cannon fodder.

When the difference in raw power was this overwhelming, divine arts and sealing techniques meant nothing.

"What do I do? What do I do?!"

Supreme Kai paced frantically in circles.

After agonizing over it for ages, he finally reached a conclusion.

He collapsed onto the floor and muttered hopelessly,

"It’s over... the galaxy is completely doomed this time..."

Meanwhile.

Sumeru Realm, King Yama’s Palace.

Rumble!

Ever since Caelum’s power had shaken the entire Sumeru Realm, strange tremors had continued deep within Hell itself.

Even King Yama’s Palace above it was shaking nonstop.

Along the road of Sumeru, countless souls lined up awaiting judgment.

King Yama sat uneasily on his throne, increasingly anxious.

"Please don’t let something happen in Hell..."

The moment he finished speaking:

"Lord Yama!"

A demon attendant came sprinting into the palace in a panic.

"Something terrible has happened! The strange tremors caused a crack to open inside Hell!"

"What?!"

King Yama’s face changed instantly.

This was exactly what he had feared.

"What kind of crack?!"

The attendant hurriedly explained,

"It’s a rift connecting Hell to the mortal world! A huge number of dead souls have already escaped through it! If this keeps going, both Hell and the living world are going to descend into chaos!"

King Yama’s scalp went numb.

"Hurry! Stop them immediately! We cannot allow the dead to keep escaping into the mortal world, or things will spiral completely out of control!"

"Yes, sir!"

Three days later.

Caelum returned to Pajero Army Headquarters.

Zadamor reported a piece of extremely bizarre intelligence.

Caelum blinked, almost thinking he’d misheard.

He asked again to confirm.

"Pajero?"

"Yes."

Zadamor nodded seriously.

"There’s no mistake. The one who appeared at Branch S3 was definitely Pajero. How would you like us to handle this matter?"

Had someone collected Pajero’s remaining cells and created a clone through biotechnology?

Or was it really him?

Caelum sensed the familiar energy from Branch S3 and smiled with interest.

"Interesting. That really is Pajero’s aura."

"What are your orders?"

"I’ll handle it personally."

He stood up calmly.

"And while I’m there, I’ll figure out exactly what’s going on."

A dead man suddenly returning to the living world was enough to pique even Caelum’s curiosity.

Moments later.

Flash!

Caelum appeared on the planet housing Pajero Army’s S3 Branch.

The entire base had already been reduced to ruins.

Standing atop the wreckage was a familiar figure.

Pajero.

The instant Caelum saw him, he immediately understood.

His eyes landed on the halo floating above Pajero’s head.

A mark belonging only to the dead.

"So he escaped from Hell?"

The moment Pajero sensed Caelum’s presence, he whipped around violently.

Hatred burned in his eyes.

"It’s been a long time, brat!"

Caelum ignored the murderous glare entirely and looked at the halo above his head instead.

"You’re still dead with that thing on your head, right? How exactly did you crawl out of Hell?"

Enemies meeting again naturally ignited old hatred.

Pajero could no longer suppress his fury.

Boom!

His aura exploded as he charged straight at Caelum.

"I’ll personally send you to Hell myself, and then you’ll understand!"

Caelum remained completely calm.

"Your strength hasn’t improved much, but your temper sure has."

Boom!

Pajero instantly entered his Second Form.

His battle power shot up to twenty million.

Confidence flooded his face.

"Everything I suffered in Hell, I’ll repay to you a hundred times over!"

Those who committed terrible crimes in life could not reincarnate until their sins were cleansed.

Pajero naturally fell into that category.

His time in Hell had been unbearable beyond words.

And his hatred for the man who sent him there had only grown deeper.

Unfortunately for him, times had changed.

Even if this had been the battle back on Eye of Aisa, twenty million power still would not have been enough to challenge Caelum back then.

Never mind now.

"Forget it."

Caelum sighed lightly.

"I’ll just look for myself."

Pajero threw a punch full of confidence.

Caelum caught it effortlessly without even powering up.

Pajero’s eyes nearly bulged out in disbelief before Caelum smashed him across the face with a single punch.

Then he grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air.

A familiar scene unfolded once again.

Caelum placed a hand atop Pajero’s head and activated Telepathy, instantly learning everything. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Then he fired a blast and erased Pajero completely, sending him straight back to Hell.

"So that’s what happened."

A crack had opened between Hell and the mortal world.

The dead escaped through the chaos, and Pajero had simply slipped out alongside them.

Too bad for him.

Now he was going right back.

Caelum carefully spread his senses across the North Galaxy.

It didn’t take long before he located the rift connecting Hell and the living world.

Hellish energy continuously poured from the crack, utterly incompatible with the mortal realm.

Then a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

His eyes lit up instantly.

"Hell is where evil souls go to atone for their sins..."

He smiled faintly.

"Looking at it another way, doesn’t that make Hell the place with the highest concentration of powerful fighters?"

In a sense, he wasn’t wrong.

Since there were no worthy opponents left in the mortal world, maybe it was time to visit Hell instead.

Normally, entering Hell required passing through the Sumeru Realm first.

But now that the worlds were connected, Caelum could simply teleport directly inside.

Maybe the strongest being in the entire Super Universe was waiting down there.