The Beginning of an End {v}:

In a blink of an eye, Malachi soul energy cascade out of his body like a broken dam at a blinding speed while activating the spell at the same exact moment.

Joshua tries to go back, to run out of the range of the spell but just how insanely big is Malachi's soul realm, before he can even move even a kilometer, the Holding takes effect but while he tries to run back and out, he kept releasing one attack after another just to try and disrupt the spell but he knew it was futile, he already knows he can't out run the spell but he was hoping to create enough trouble for Malachi by moving around but he seems to also have forgotten just how big his soul realm is, and the amount of energy it holds. In the presence of absolute power, every form of scheming will be render useless.

Joshua became relax when he notice the spell have taken hold, and Malachi relax too, Joshua thinking Malachi has forgotten about the three Perfect god that he assign to attack him, he grin to himself for a well thought out plan 'cause he believes he has one up him but when he notice the amusement smile on Malachi's face he knew something is very wrong.

Than it hit him like a dose of cold water on a freezing day, how big is Malachi soul again?, if Joshua himself can be capture despite his speed as a Supreme god than what more of perfect gods especially the ones that are not speed base, looking at his back to the very edge of the Holding, his horror were confirmed, both he, Sofia, Miriam and Themiyo were all confined.

"l should have listened to master and just accept the offer of the greater god association or to have look for another method" Joshua said under his breath while he lament his bad luck and poor judgment of people.

He knew from his first fight will Malachi that, without an Origin god present to suppress him, they has less than twenty percent chance of winning, that was his thought before this battle but reality is a cruel wife to marry.

He finally understand what his master means whenever he says "a dangerous man to lock head with is one who has something to protect, one who have everything to lose and the most dangerous of them all, the one who has nothing left to lose".

By the time the other gods realize what has happened to their major force or even felt the activation of the bead of balance, the only thing that can still move is their eyes, even there life energy and life force seems to have disappear, No that is not correct, the correct feeling is that these energy are still there but they themselves have lost the ability to move or even control them, an instinctual fear deep in their soul has taken a hold of them all, this type of fear root you to the ground, you forget everything you know or might have learnt, even to breathe becomes a problem on its own, a fear that comes from the depth of one's soul.

When these gods finally summon enough willpower to move their eyes toward what instill these fear in them, they saw Malachi holding the head of Themiyo in his right hand while he grab the bead of balances with his left hand.

Malachi flashes back to his wife side, while the runic formation slowly refreshes her with the stored up energy from the first gods that rush into it. He looks down at his right hand that holds Themiyo's head by the hair.

"You pretending to be dead won't save you, or don't you have anything left to say, You know, some bitter words or curses, things like that, you are good at it right??" Malachi said jokingly to Themiyo head but his eyes were shut tight.

"hmm, it's really is annoying dealing with schemers, who can't even see when they don't amount to much in the grand scheme of life" Malachi said to himself, before Themiyo could open his mouth to say something, his head and soul were crushed while his soul energy and life force were consume by the formation.

The fear that grip the heart and soul of these god was almost tangible, just how was he able to cast the spell of Holding on a supreme god and three perfect god within a minute and till has enough energy to behead another Perfect god and not break even a sweat, these feat are more than impossible for a True god to do, the Holding spell is dangerous enough, because after the spell as been cast, the caster his to remain still, so they can be able to supply and control the way the spell consume energy, so not to get their life suck out of them, well that is what they were told about the five primordial spell.

Malachi not only move, but even execute a movement technique or something close to it, they will have pull their own hair if they knew that that was just Malachi base speed, most present today don't really know anything about Malachi's power, only rumors about how a newly ascended True god have been causing trouble in the god-realm, but witnessing his power now, they realize that the rumor are totally false, those rumors did no justice to how terrifying this True god is.

All the gods come to a conclusion at the same time to simply stand still and wait for their own turn to die, nothing more nothing less. Malachi is not known to show mercy, especially not to the people who have try to kill him, in this dog eat dog world, showing mercy to someone who have try to kill you, is the same as dipping your own grave just to fall into it later.