My Soul card is a Reaper

With Azzy's palm as the center, the Divine Palm of Death was slowly descending from the sky, disintegrating the mountain bit by bit as villagers stared at the sky in fear of death.

Seeing that Azzy was pushing down the divine palm at a slow pace, the winged lion took this opportunity to rapidly absorb more and more natural energy, melting down all the snow in one-kilometer surroundings in the process.

In the end, it managed to conjure its earlier dense fireball once again, shooting at the palm, or more specifically, aimed at Azzy's palm.

"Idiot," mumbled Azzy as he saw the incoming attack. "Anything that has divine energy will be nothing more than a fuel to my attack."

The Divine Palm of Death and the divine fireball clashed; Leah and Ra expected an explosion while Leon, the winged lion expected to break down the corrupted energy and strike Azzy. However, the result is that the fireball only merged with the palm, increasing its power and range further.

When the winged lion saw the phenomenon, it lost its hope and closed its eyes in defeat. The villagers kowtowed, praying for the gods to save them from the disaster.

Leah was the only one who looked a bit confident. She patted the shivering Elias's shoulder and assured him with a smile, "We won, Elias."

"What do you mean we won?" Lord Ra who heard those words snapped at her, "Your husband there is going to kill us all. Why in the hell do you people even come here?"

Leah answered calmly, "Don't worry, Mr. Ra. I, myself learned the technique. There are two kinds of palms. One is throwing at the enemy. The other is carrying it to the enemy.

Azrael is doing the second one. In such a state, he can dismiss it at any moment."

"Ah, is that so?" Lord Ra was stumped by realization before raising his head to look at the palm that blocked the sky.

Meanwhile, Azzy, watching this, had a smirk of victory on his face, "It looks like the battle is settled." Dismissing the plasma scythe, he had his other hand placed on his right hand, intending to absorb it back into his body, "Dismi… Hmm?"

Before he gets to dismiss the technique, a portal appears in its path. Followed by it, the entire palm that spanned atleast ten kilometers in length suddenly stopped descending and just getting sucked into it at a rapid rate, returning the light to the region.

Azzy quickly detached himself from the divine palm of death as it was entirely sucked by the portal, revealing a couple floating beside the portal that disappeared along with the giant palm.

He didn't recognize the lady but the man was a familiar one for sure, although they looked quite angry at him.

"What a bad timing…" Azzy sighed inwardly and flew down while dismissing his transformation. His appearance returned to his teenage self as he reached them, "Hello there. It has been a while, Louis." He greeted them with an awkward smile.

Louis summoned his bow and aimed at Azzy, "It's you again. This time, you crossed a line, Garcia." The displeasure was clearly written on his face.

Azzy shrugged his shoulders, "can't help it. You have a powerful guardian out there. I had to go all out."

Conjuring an energy arrow, Louis roared at him, "That attack could wipe out this entire mountain range." Azzy's plain excuse only angered him further.

Letting out a sigh, Azzy replied calmly, "We don't have such enmity that I would aim for you people, Louis. Even if I want to teach you a lesson for kicking me out from that world back then…" He then pointed the finger downward, "My friends are there, Louis. Do you think I'm an idiot who would sacrifice them over some petty revenge?

I merely want to show your stubborn elders that they cannot just brush us off like we were some commoners who seek refuge in your village. If anything, it is their fault for overly depending on their guardian."

"You bastard…" Louis didn't calm down at all. Instead, he fired the arrow at Azzy. The latter caught it in reflex and poured death energy into it, disintegrating the arrow into nothing, "If you think your earlier feat would scare me, you are wrong, Louis." Azzy became serious. His friend had every reason to be annoyed at him but Azzy couldn't care less at this moment.

In his mind, he was on the right side and Louis was in the wrong for abandoning his family. So, when the other party chose to attack him, Azzy felt like he shouldn't be polite at all.

After crushing down the arrow, he took out an instant SP recovery card and recovered his lost soul energy before summoning the death scythe and an hourglass this time, looking dead serious, "I ask you once again. Return with me or else, I will force you to."

"I would like to see you try," replied Louis, not yielding to Azzy's threats. Pushing away his wife, he conjured an arrow.

Azzy tightly gripped the hourglass and turned it upside down as dozens of portals appeared all around Azzy and Louis in the sky. "Chronos, Help me out, this time." He muttered under his breath.

"Alright," A simple word came in the form of a reply in his head.

Louis stared hard at Azzy as he motioned the arrow as back as possible, "Last time I warned you. You didn't listen. This time, you will be stranded in a desert planet and spend there for eternity without access to your soul orb. Sending you there is more of a suitable punishment compared to… Hmm?"

It was at this instant, the portals disappeared as Louis was trapped inside a bubble.

"Soul skill: Time Prison, successful."

The Time Prison is the ninth soul skill of the hourglass, imprisoning the target/targets in a bubble-like prison. The imprisoned person will not be able to get out no matter what they do. Unless the target is a level above Azzy, it is quite unbreakable from the inside. The only way to break is from outside.

From the moment Azzy was ousted from that planet filled with zombies, he was trying to master this soul skill. He felt that this was the only way to stop Louis from either sending him away or escaping through his spatial skills.

While he learned how to unleash it, there is also a problem of maintaining it for a long time. The lack of focus could dismiss the skill. Hence, he had to take the Reaper's help here.

Once the Reaper accepted the job, Azzy was already confident about completing the mission.

Now that the result is sucessful as he expected, Azzy dismissed the scythe and just carried the hourglass in his hand, flying toward Louis. The latter shot the arrow but it struck the bubble and disappeared. "What's going on?" He looked around.

The woman floating a few meters away hurriedly summoned her weapon to join the battle.

"Soul skill: Illusion of the…"

However, once he trapped Louis, Azzy has already set his eyes on the 8-star Arcana Master. He charged forward, reaching her in a jiffy and giving a powerful chop at her neck before she got to unleash a powerful illusion on her target.

She didn't even see what was coming and ended up unconscious. Louis saw his woman in Azzy's arms in an unconscious state. "You bastard…." He growled in rage, unleashing a portal. He gets in but gets out of the same one.

Carrying the woman in his arms, Azzy flew toward the bubble and calmly said to his friend in rage, "There is only one way to get out of this prison, Louis. And you know how."

Azzy then raised the woman with his free left arm and threw her down without looking in the direction, although while shouting, "Oy, you weird lion over there, catch her."

She was thrown like a baseball, but the winged lion managed to catch her swiftly before slowly going downward.

For the next thirty minutes, Louis tried various techniques. Neither his soul skills nor his spatial skills worked out. As for the sage techniques, since he was imprisoned, he couldn't gather any natural energy from the surroundings.

In the meantime, Azzy patiently waited for him, just floating outside the bubble-like prison.

Once all of his SP recovery cards were exhausted, Louis spoke in a hushed tone, looking as if he wanted to compromise as Azzy didn't plan on attacking anyone, "Look, I admit that you are stronger than me, but I can't just go back with you. My world is plagued by the demons and I need the treasure of our tribe to evolve our guardian and end this war, once in for all.

Your actions stopped my mission two times when I was just closing on. I won't blame you, alright. Just let me go. Once my mission is over, I will visit Mia myself."

Azzy could see the sincerity in Louis' tone, and based on what he said, Azzy guessed what the treasure was supposed to be.

After consulting the Reaper, he replied to Louis, "How about we strike a deal? I will not only help you end this war but also help your guardian to evolve without the need for the treasure. Once I do that, you will return with me and take responsibility for your actions."

"Eh?" Louis was taken aback by Azzy's words, "Why do you go so far? Just what is Mia to you?" he couldn't help but ask.

Azzy dismissed the hourglass in response. As the prison was lifted, he answered, "I don't have many true friends in my life that don't fear my power, Louis. So, whether it is 6 months or 600 years of friendship, I cherish them all the same. To give them justice, I would even go against the gods if I had to."

Louis hung down his head and let out a sigh, "Fine, you win."