So it was expected which side won this ferocious battle. It didn’t last more than ten minutes, and in the end the colossal ball of fire got moved and pulled using the gravity coming from my black hole.

And that wasn’t all!

The moment that little star’s force got beaten up, I instantly controlled my thick arm like threads, moved them to clutch themselves to this ball of fire, and started grabbing it, getting it closer at a faster pace towards my black hole.

*Sizzle!* *Sizzle!* *Sizzle!*

And just as the two touched each other, it felt like that little star wasn’t formed of fire, but ice. Its surface started to issue thick bellows of bright red smoke, and loud sizzling noises kept coming from it.

Then I saw that threatening star, the one that looked at least one thousand times the size of my black hole, getting slowly and yet steadily eaten up, losing parts and pieces of its gigantic body until it all vanished!

It took close to one day for this colossal thing to get swallowed by my black hole. I didn’t worry about my kingdom back in the shadow world. My territory there was well fortified and secured.

Not to mention any form of energy reaching my territory, be it alive or dead, would be absorbed and added to the overall strength of my structures and fortifications back there.

I looked over, and now I realised how dead serious this threat was. I couldn’t leave this place for sure. And so there was one other possibility for me to do.

To form such a colossal ball of light, the enemy had to use many if not most of its fortresses in the region. I could still see fortresses flying over, but they all belonged to the angels.

Even those belonging to the angels got crushed by that red star once it got formed. The path this deadly artificially constructed celestial body took to arrive here was bathed by the dead and destruction of an endless number of angelic fortresses.

And just when I was thinking about what I should do next, about modifying my plans to suit the current situation, I finally spotted a few lights coming from the direction of the dark planet and moons.

It seemed those angelic races down there finally got the courage and chance to act up and move to meet me.

And so I decided to postpone deciding anything until meeting these dudes up.

They arrived quite fast actually, and that was thanks to their giant fortresses.

Their own were at least five times the size of the standard angelic or the fiendish fortresses. When they arrived, I counted one hundred of them, and that looked like a good collection of fortresses.

“Who are you?” and just as these one hundred colossal things stopped in front of me, one deep voice echoed from one of them.

“It’s not polite to speak to someone while hiding like a coward in there,” I replied, without feeling any pressure or fear from these fortresses.

I already smashed endless **loads of these things, and destroying slightly bigger ones wasn’t a big thing at all.

*Cick!*

Just in the next few minutes, I heard lots of noises coming before doors started to appear from each fortress. Each door showed a group of angels, each had eight pairs of wings, with two who had nine pairs of wings, and only one who got just ten pairs of wings.

I didn’t need to ask around to know who the leaders of this bunch of strong angels were. The ones with ten pairs of wings were without doubt the strongest and leaders of the angels in the region.

And the moment they appeared, they floated towards me, surrounding themselves with some sort of shield as protection.

They were quite cautious, and they got all the right to feel so. After all, I didn’t spare any of their folks when I came here, nor did I care about any of their people when I started to repair their dark planet and moons.

“Can you tell us now who you are?” and when they stopped at least hundreds of metres away, the one who spoke first spoke again.

This dude was like other leaders, and got ten pairs of wings. However, his feathers were all golden purple in colour, giving him quite the look and demeanour.

“I’m a friend who came from far,” I paused before adding, “and I’m here to repay a debt.”

“Repay a debt?!” That dude seemed quite shocked and didn’t believe what I just said, “I can’t tell if it’s revenge or debt you are referring to here.”

“I’m here to repay a debt to one of your kin,” I slowly said.

“I don’t believe any of us still live out of this hell,” that dude paused, “but if you are here to repay a debt, then why are you going all out against my people?”

“I had to sacrifice a few to save the rest,” I shrugged, “without killing your people like this, then coming here in time and saving your planet and moons would have been a dream instead.”

“Hmm… So you are aware of the time loop trigger?” he got from my words such conclusion, and I simply remained silent.

If I didn’t know, then why the hell did I take such a crude and brutal approach to deal with this crisis here?

“I see…” I felt that dude’s eyes falling over the ones around me, the angels I got out and left on my chariot, “so you are here to save us. May I ask how?”

“I believe you are aware that this time loop is getting repeated for endless years, right?” from his tone and the vibe I got from him, I felt like he was more aware of the secrets of this world.

“Then do you know that you aren’t the only race who is fighting against these?” I pointed back, towards the direction of the light planet, referring to the fiends.