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Hekaton was not capable of glancing through the Divine Realms with Clairvoyance, but he was able to sense the fight through the Divine Protection he gave to Ullmarauth and the sword he held.

As a God of his caliber, it was more than an easy task for Hekaton to give his Divine Protection to such a weak Demon God as Ullmarauth, in fact, it was incredibly easy.

The difference in power between him and Ullmarauth was the same of a human compared to a mere and small ant… and no, not a monster ant.

He noticed that Ullmarauth was being able to overwhelm them, and had even managed to slice them into pieces.

Hekaton had felt joy blossom within his cold mind for a few seconds, he had thought that this was it.

He had even sensed how Ervas body was cleanly cut into pieces, if he had truly died, his soul should already be within his grasp.

He had quickly activated his powers over souls, exerting his presence over the skies of Kritias and extending his invisible hand.

He was targeting it right into Seashore… several souls began to flow towards him but none of the ones he wanted to see, Ervas and Veronica.

"Hmm…"

Hekaton was sure that Ervas should have died.

His physical body died, after all, he had literally died, he was cut into pieces and was not regenerating due to having died…

Their fused souls were also sliced into pieces, so it shouldn't be possible for them to fake death! Their souls were cut through the power of the blade abilities and also his blessing put into it, which gave it soul-breaking capabilities.

Hekaton methodically began to think why their souls were not coming until he sensed that Ullmarauth began to fight again.

"What? Only the souls without the bodies? Impossible…" he thought.

He sensed as Ullmarauth fought the fused souls, which were sliced apart by the powerful blade!

This was something Hekaton had not expected, this violated his reasoning…

"This shouldn't be possible. First of all, the blade can slice through space, slicing the souls, and also, it has soul-breaking abilities, so they would also shatter the souls… But how? How did they survive then…? Even if fused, their soul density shouldn't be capable of resisting being broken, and their souls are not near as enough to even remain conscious after being fragmented so much… Unless the quality of their souls…" thought Hekaton.

This was the same strange trick that Veronica had used to fake death.

Perseverance's ability to use their own Mana as Health!

Even if their bodies were a single head.

Even if the soul was split into pieces.

As long as they had Mana, they could keep themselves afloat through their System's powerful Perseverance Skill.

And because the soul was fused, it worked on Ervas too.

Hekaton had no power over physical matter such as corpses, so he wasn't able to grab it… but if he were to do so, he would realize that there were left a few small soul fragments inside the head, which used it as a vessel.

These small fragments fused with the others that survived, while others attacked Ullmarauth through the use of their Parallel Minds, they literally split themselves endlessly, yet they were completely fine thanks to Parallel Minds, and each split piece could move independently.

Ullmarauth was fighting against these fragments who abused their near-immortality by using their Mana, although they were reaching a point where they were cut so much they became too weak and were about to be destroyed.

But Ervas and Veronica had no qualms in sacrificing pieces of their souls if the other ones could survive, the smaller ones that survived crawled back into Ervas head, using it as a vessel and then using Ervas Skills to regenerate the entire body from the head, reviving the corpse like nothing.

The fused soul possessed Ervas body, as Veronica's body could be regenerated easily through her Golem Creation and Nanobots Creation Ability, which covered Ervas in armor.

After that, they ate Ullmarauth… alongside their very soul fragments by accident.

Hekaton was left with contempt.

"Once more, they fake death… What kind of ability have they acquired?" he wondered.

Hekaton was very knowledgeable, but he was also a fool in many things, such as the extent of their true abilities, alongside the power of Skills and the magic they were able to wield.

Ervas ad Veronica had managed to fake death through a combination of not only Perseverance but also Death Magic and was able to ignore Hekaton's hand because they were considered "alive" through Perseverance. Perhaps HP was gone after death, but Mana was not gone after death, and could still be used as HP replacement.

However, this wouldn't have worked completely.

So, Veronica had already showered Ervas previously with the Delay Death Spell, a spell that delayed someone from dying.

It worked in the way that the cells of one's body would take longer to die, but they wouldn't regenerate nor was it considered a healing spell.

So, technically, Ervas body parts were all "alive" even though they had lost the ability to move… they were simply slowly dying.

Aside from that, Ervas had used the Life Preservation, the same spell he used in the revived corpses of many people that the two revived some time ago.

The Moment Ullmarauth sliced them into pieces, the soul pieces conjured these spells over the sliced body parts, but at the end, they choose the head as the vessel and grew a new body out of it.

It was crazy and outstanding, but for beings such as them, who held power over life and death like this… it was not so hard to believe.

And well, there was another factor Hekaton didn't know, which also kind of slightly canceled his complete authority over their souls… they had Divine Souls.

Indeed, both had Divine Souls fused together, like Gods.

And Hekaton was not a God of Transmigration that took care of Gods Souls, only of mortal souls.

Although they still held a connection to him which he could use to grasp them, as Divine Souls, they were able to easily resist against his authority…

But Hekaton was left in the blue about all of this, and he couldn't help but scratch his head… In the end, his plans failed, and now he was left disappointed.

"Yet another one is lost. It seems that it has not worked once more. Not even by using such a precious blade… The worst part is that they might now use it for themselves…" thought Hekaton.

Hekaton then took away another Reincarnated Soul which he had given a Cheat Ability and sent to a different world almost at the same time as Veronica's team.

The ability of this Soul was interesting.

It was named Calculation.

It helped the user calculate probabilities… It wasn't good for fights, but it helped the original user avoid conflicts by seeing probabilities.

"My discerning abilities are not bad, but Calculation would be a good addition to it…" he thought, as he quickly converted the soul into a mindless Familiar Spirit and connected to it… and he began to calculate.

However… after a lot of time, it was useless.

"I need more information about their powers… more clues… This is useless without proper proof… I will simply have to keep observing them as they fight against the things I throw at them… Though I fear that they might… No, I should see where I can reach first," thought Hekaton.

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