“What…? What happened?” Nila muttered in confusion, “Mr. Ereg was able to destroy all the jaws with a single attack? He just needed to clap his hands together to do that…?”

Liang shook his head.

“Take a closer look. All the jaws are still alive.” Liang sternly uttered, pointing at one of the hundred jaws.

It had lost a few teeth and it had a damaged right side from which several drops of blood flowed out. However, the jaw was not destroyed. It was making attempts to move and was gradually recovering.

“Yeah.” Nitra nodded, “With this attack, Ereg was unable to destroy any jaw. However, he immobilized each of them for a while, but… Looks like he miscalculated a bit.”

Ereg’s plan was successful, he was able to get rid of all the jaws for a while, but there was no joy or excitement on his face like before.

The reason was simple, the blue ghost had not grown to 85% as he had expected it to. Everything depended on it, and he had made a significant bet, but his luck had failed him this time.

“Hmm… He probably doesn’t have much left.” Alucard muttered thoughtfully, rubbing his chin, “But… after what happened, Gael isn’t likely to give him time to develop since he realized what this could lead to.”

Gael shook his head.

“I don’t know if I got lucky or if you made a serious mistake, but I’m going to take advantage of it!” Gael said majestically, waving his hand.

At the same moment, all the damaged jaws disintegrated into ash and blood. They quickly began to merge into each other, creating new jaws.

There were slightly fewer than before, about eighty, but new jaws were appearing every second, so now, there were even more opponents than before aiming for Ereg!

“Tsk. Decided that this time would be enough? Fine, I can repeat the same thing many more times!” Ereg frowned as his hands flashed blue flames once again.

In a heartbeat, his palms collided with each other, causing powerful shockwaves with rings of aether. This time, Ereg decided to focus some of his power in the middle to create jaw-destroying rings.

In fact, his plan was successful, for among the jaws that were cast aside were now destroyed.

Ereg had never used such an attack before, nor had he found himself in such a situation before, but it was never too late to learn something new.

Gael smirked, it seemed he expected Ereg to be able to improve on his new technique, and it didn’t bother him.

“Fine, looks like it’s time to show you something new, right?” Gael smirked before clapping his hands together.

At the same moment, the one hundred and twenty jaws stopped and looked at each other. They quickly split into thirty grippy four jaws each and began to clash.

“What? What’s going on?” Krana tilted her head in confusion.

Alucard smirked as he threw her a hard stare.

“Isn’t it obvious? I thought a monster like you should have realized it right away, but I guess I was wrong.”

Krana frowned as she puffed up her cheeks.

“Oh, you already know how to feign offense? Where did you learn it and when did you learn it? Well…” Alucard’s eyes went wide, “Is it the natural ability of all girls? Hahaha, that would make sense and explain a lot of things!”

Krana didn’t answer anything, she just sighed heavily, wanting an answer to her question.

“Well, Gael makes small jaws into bigger jaws. He didn’t want to do it before since it didn’t make sense, the bigger jaws wouldn’t have been able to eat Ereg anyway. It was much better to send dozens of small ones at him that he couldn’t completely fight off.” Alucard explained.

“I see…” Krana muttered as her eyes went wide, “However, now that the small jaws have shown their weakness, he decided to replace them. That’s pretty smart.”

Alucard shrugged.

“Maybe. It’s just, it’s what anyone in Gael’s shoes would have done. The shockwaves from the ether stunned all the little jaws, and the second time, Ereg was even able to destroy some of them. At that rate, he wouldn’t even need 85% blue ghost to win.”

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

The thirty large jaws were fully ready, and at Gael’s sweep of his hand, they descended upon Ereg.

Ereg was wary. He didn’t know how strong the large jaws were, but he felt he could handle them.

‘Hmm. Sometimes you don’t need to change your tactics or plan of action, you just need to tweak it a bit and do better than last time, don’t you think?’ Ereg pondered, looking at his hands.

Ether trembled slightly, like a timer that would take Ereg’s strength to another level. However, it wouldn’t happen in the next ten seconds, and Ereg understood that.

The large jaws approached him, completely surrounding him and opening their mouths wide. Their teeth were much larger, and the big jaws also had long fangs. The fangs were not needed to cut through flesh like a sword, but to get as much blood as possible with a successful attack.

Ereg couldn’t let the jaws get any more of his blood. The reason wasn’t just because it made the jaws stronger, the loss of blood was weakening him.

Right now, he felt fine, but if several large jaws sank their fangs into his shoulders and drank his blood, the situation would get much worse.

Whooooooooooooooooooosh.

Ereg focused as much energy as possible into his palms before slamming down again.

The shockwave failed to stun the large jaws, they only paused for a short while before continuing onward.

Gael smirked. His plan had worked perfectly, for all he needed for a successful attack was for his jaws to get a little stronger.

However, soon the joy was gone from his face, replaced by puzzlement and anxiety.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

Ereg didn’t stop at one attack and continued to clap his hands. Not very fast, once every few seconds, because he needed time to accumulate energy. However, it was enough to keep his jaws from moving.

Moreover, after the fifth clap, the large jaws were covered with cracks. They started to collapse, and it seemed Ereg wasn’t going to stop.

‘Shit! I didn’t expect him to have so much energy! Can he keep doing this forever? Gael internally exclaimed in disbelief.

In fact, after the tenth clap, a quarter of all the big jaws were broken, and even Gael started to feel a bright pain in his ears. He had to smash the ether rings with his sword to keep from taking damage from them, and it seemed that this was just the beginning.

A fire burned in Ereg’s eyes, for he didn’t even realize he could use Ether in such a way, it was a new discovery for him, like some explorer.

“Hahaha, it looks like his jaws were useless in front of ether, that wouldn’t happen with yours, would it?” Sven laughed, casting a glance at Wain.

Wain nodded with a slight smile on his face.

“I won’t hide it, since our jaws are based on different forces the result would have been completely different in my case.”

Wain sighed as he looked at the ashy jaws breaking under the effects of ether.

“My jaws would tear the ether apart, preventing it from connecting to become a real threat. After a few minutes, the jaws would reach Ereg, and he wouldn’t be able to defend against them. Though… if it reached 100% blue ghost, I’d probably be in trouble.”

Marlis’s eyes went wide as she looked with disbelief at Wain, then at Ereg.

She and Osvald, spoke to Wain in a casual tone, as an equal, and that suited everyone. However, she realized that compared to the full power of the Nameless King, she was nothing, just an empty space.

She was surprised that Wain had said that about Ereg, which showed how strong Ereg was.

‘Well… It makes sense, right? After all, Ereg and Gael, they’re both progenitors and are among the strongest beings. Me and Osvald, we also stand at the top, but there’s always someone higher…”

Marlis internally muttered, then she cast a quick glance at Wain.

‘Almost always…’

Gael waved his hand, as all remaining large jaws flew back. In over ten claps, Ereg had managed to destroy almost a third of the large jaws and now there were sixteen of them left.

“Fine, looks like I have no choice but to put everything on one attack, right?” Gael muttered before clenching his hand into a fist.

At the same moment, all the jaws turned into ash and blood clots, but they did not merge into a giant jaw, but headed towards the heart and the blood crystals.

Blood crystals shattered, covering the heart with blood and using all the remaining ash to transform into something bigger and more intimidating.

The heart became the base and everything else the material, leaving no more energy in Gael’s third scar.