"We’re done." Eris spoke with a large smile on her face as Zia took her robe off.

"Yes, my lady. But... are you sure you want to start now?" Zia asked with a worried face as she stared at the clothes Amaterasu left for Eris. "Isn’t this the clothes that Amaterasu’s Mikos wear?"

"Well, I was her paladin before I became a divine, and... she is still fuelling me with divine magic." She took all of her clothes, and started wearing the outfit Amaterasu provided.

"But... you’re a divine now. Do you really need her divine magic?" Zia was a bit worried, but Eris looked at her with a smile. "Who do you think I am going to fight? It’s Arad."

Wearing the full set in the blink of an eye, Eris tightened the belt around her hips and stared forward with a smile. "I am the underdog here." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Zia knew too well how powerful Arad was, but even she couldn’t see him fighting off the sun. Eris’s true divine body, the Purple Sun, was far larger than the entire mortal world and held enough power that merely getting close to her was impossible.

If you want to fight Amaterasu, then go fight off the sun if you can. That sentence was meant to show the impossible nature of trying to challenge a divine being. But now, it didn’t only apply to Amaterasu, but to Eris as well.

If someone like Gamond wanted to kill Eris, it would be impossible as Gamond would need to fly out of the mortal world, cross space, and fight a whole star. It was impossible, and Zia knew that it also should apply to Arad.

"You’re a star, you can rip him and the world he stands on apart with your mere presence. How come you’re the underdog?"

Eris stared back at her with a wide smile and burning purple eyes. "Arad, doesn’t need divinity. He is..." She took a stance, lifted one fist and extended it forward as she took a deep breath. "Above divinity."

The two of them were standing on a vast and radiant purple plane, the surface of Eris’s boiling star. She normally only has two stars at any time. The one inside Arad’s stomach where her heaven is formed is her true body, and the vestige of her power that shines on the mortal world with Amaterasu’s sun.

The reason she borrowed divine magic from Amaterasu was to form this third star and use it for this fight, because if she didn’t, she would’ve had to either use one of her two stars, or conjure a third one in exchange for her physical power.

To face Arad, Eris needed to be at full power both with her star and body.

[Elemental Expansion: Purple Sun]

The sun that Zia and Eris stood on suddenly flashed forward, flying at blinding speed so fast that Eris and Zia were left floating in the empty void, and Zia gasped as she covered her eyes. "You’re really going to just blast him away?!"

"Tsh... it failed." But before Zia could get an answer, she could hear Eris curse.

Arad was sitting alone on a smooth, beautiful boulder of metallic color. It was cool, nice, and large enough to endure the weight of his giant humanoid body. He looked forward at the endless wastelands spreading as far as the eyes could see, and smiled.

This world was dead, yet beautiful, full of precious minerals and unexplored land. It was calm, silent, and covered with an illustrious purple hue of mist and light, auroras that were nothing like those in the mortal world.

It was a shame, since the sun of this world was falling on his head. Without even looking up, he could already tell from the shadows that the purple sun above was growing bigger and bigger as it approached at horrifying speed. Eris told him to wait for her in this world, but it seems she was going for a devastating sneak attack to take him down.

While anyone else might call a foul, Arad himself was happy. This sneak attack, and with such an aggressive approach that it looked like Eris wanted to end the fight quickly, had one meaning that he appreciated.

This was a draconic courting dance, and Eris knew well that she was the challenger here.

Lifted both hands, Arad started weaving the fabric of space between his fingers like Gojo once did before.

[Yarn Ball]

The threads of space formed into a tight ball, started sucking all matter around Arad, and it was then when he unleashed it. [Elemental Expansion]

An eight-thousand-kilometre-wide sphere of pure darkness spawned out of nowhere, taking a massive bite of the entire planet that Arad was on, and then, sucked the rest in the blink of an eye to compress it all into a tiny, hungry black hole centred around the [Yarn Ball].

Eris’s aim was on point, and the purple sun was about to hit the planet Arad was on directly, if he didn’t consume that planet whole before the impact. What the star ended up hitting was Arad’s elemental expansion, which had the newly formed black hole resting at its edge.

Like an armor-piercing round with a hardened tip, the density of the black hole met the blindingly fast star, and when the two collided, the black hole pierced the star cleanly from one side to the other, leaving a titanic hole in its core.

Where Eris and Zia were, the two of them still saw the star moving, since the light from the impact still didn’t reach them. Yet, as Zia had heard Eris curse earlier, she understood that the attack had failed. What she didn’t know was that Arad had destroyed and devoured the entire star.

"Go back now. He swallowed that entire star and will be here in a second or two." Eris forcefully sucked Zia into her blood and sent her back home, and in the next second, Arad was there by her side, having used Vorvadoss’s space magic to reach her.

She lifted both hands to block his fist, but what hit her was a kick to the guts, followed by a grab to the neck, and then, in the blink of an eye, she was teleported away to the edge of the universe, to where no one would get in their way.

Arad threw Eris down, and she hit the outer crust of the universe like a meteor, feeling as if all of her bones had shattered. Her divine body did immediately heal, but she still felt the pain of getting forcefully teleported away against her will.

"You shouldn’t be able to teleport me away like this." She growled, staring at Arad, who now stood a fair distance away, looking at her with a smile.

"Your heaven is inside me, I swallowed your star, and let’s be honest. You can’t outwill me." He crossed his arms.

She smiled, "True... but, I won’t be flung again like that." She lifted one foot up, pointing it toward the outer void, and then stomped down as she took a low stance, similar to what Amaterasu taught her. A star’s gravity can influence the fabric of space, and so she needs to use that to defend herself against Arad’s space manipulation.

Seeing her, Arad smiled, clenching a fist. For the first time, he was going to swing at a 100% against one of his wives.

"HOO!" Eris touched the ground with both fists. Amaterasu did call it a tachiai, but all Eris cared about was the power behind it. Using all of her weight, strength, and divine power, she was going to rush forward at Arad and knock him down with a single move.

Arad, on the other, hand, was going to take her charge head-on.