The Gon in front Lex was taller than him, its bulky frame covered in metallic spikes instead of hair towering above him like a behemoth. This close, the suppression almost like there was a snake wrapped around his body, constricting him, choking him. His lungs refused to pull in air, and a cold chill traveled down his spine reminding him of a time when he used to feel fear.

Amidst the chaos of battle, surrounded by locusts, Gon and the mercenaries, Lex stood still and continued to look at the member of the Gon race in front of him, and wondered if that’s all there was to it.

"Is that it?" Lex asked, his gentle yet curious voice spreading through the cacophony of the surrounding battle. "Is that all you can muster after being so superior?"

Lex was genuinely unimpressed. To be fair, the suppression that Grimshaw had on Jack was far superior to what Lex was feeling now, and even that had not stopped Jack, so for this to stop Lex was totally unimaginable.

The Gon looked down at Lex, a savage brutality in its eyes, yet it neither spoke, nor did it move to attack Lex in any way. That is because... it simply couldn’t. Lex could have a physical body, he could turn entirely into a soul, and he could turn into thought as well.

In reality, while it appeared that Lex stood in front of the creature, that was just a projection. Lex had dismantled its defenses and entered inside its mind. It should not have been this easy, it really shouldn’t have. They were an entire realm apart, so even if Lex could win, it should have been a struggle. Yet it wasn’t.

Lex’s cultivation technique was finally beginning to show just how overpowered it was. Unlike Regal Embrace, which had obvious results in the form of giving him an unbreakable defense, his new cultivation technique seemed too unfocused, and too spread out. In truth, whatever it did, it just kept building Lex’s foundation, strengthening him from the very base, right up until he had reached an unbelievable level.

Lex’s physical strength was already stronger than a normal Heaven Immortals in the lower levels. What truly kept him weaker than them was his inability to interact with Relational laws.

However, after two decades of meditation and cultivation, as well as the strengthening feedback from resisting entering into the next realm, Lex had entered a realm of power which made it entirely unfair to consider him a normal Earth Immortal.

Lex, oddly enough, thought back to Cornelius II, the only man to give him a tough fight in an equal level. For some reason, Lex felt like back then, Cornelius had been in the exact same state Lex was in now. It seemed he, too, had been resisting entering the next realm to increase his understanding of laws. It only made sense that as a student of Ventura, the foremost cultivation academy in the universe, he would be taught about the best way to progress forward.

Lex suddenly felt like going back to the Crystal realm and fighting him to see how the fight would go. His instincts told him that... it still wouldn’t be an easy fight.

The man was a true genius, and his plots and schemes ran deep. Facing the suppression of the Gon race now, Lex felt like Cornelius had been training all the humans within the Crystal realm to become a superior fighting force so that eventually, they’d be able to fight through the suppression the Gon race had on humans.

The Kraven, then, were merely a sharpening tool for him. Lex didn’t exactly agree with the immense loss of life that such a plan would cause, but he couldn’t argue with the results.

Lex stopped thinking of random things, and instead thought back to how Cornelius used his Lawcraft.

Every time Lex felt like he had understood it, it turned out there were more secrets hidden within.

Only now could Lex see that hidden behind the facade of immense power was the subtle influence of Relational laws. The man had, in the Earth Immortal realm, used Relational laws inside a realm that did not tolerate Heaven Immortals.

Yeah, Lex decided that he would definitely go back and have another bout against Cornelius when he was done here.

Compared to that feat, the defense that these Gon put against him was not worth mentioning.

They were strong, had powerful abilities, and controlled laws very effectively. None of that was enough to stop Lex - not anymore.

Lex did not fight against all the Heaven Immortals - now that would be just plain stupid - but this one, who stood still within the chaos of battle, uninterrupted by both the mercenaries or the locusts, had become Lex’s victim.

Lex had already created a bunch of Lawcrwafts, from Golden Inferno, to Immortal Aegis, to Talk to the Hand 2.0 and even Supremacy. Now, though, he combined all of them into one, supplementing it with his understanding of Abaddon, as well as the mind games he played with Jeffery back when he became a new immortal, to create a Lawcraft that would only work within Abaddon. Of course, he could use the same template and adapt it to other realms. ¹

"Welcome guest," the Gon race member heard in his head, spoken by a soft, nearly gentle voice, "to the Abaddon Inn."

The Gon’s surroundings suddenly changed, and he was no longer in the midst of battle, nor was his mind stuck in a state of savage anger. Instead, a subtle dread began to fill his chest as he looked at the unnatural landscape around him.

Hands and faces made from earth and clay rose out of the ground, frozen still screaming, filled with expressions of pain and terror, wailing at the red sky above, seeking, yearning for repentance yet finding only retribution.

A man appeared in front of him, dressed in a spectacular suit, wearing a devilish mask in front of his face.

"You can call me the Invincible Tyrant. I will be your host today." ¹

In case people forgot, the Golden Inferno is his own version of dragons breath, Immortal Aegis and Talk to the Hand 2.0 are defensive techniques and Supremacy is where he uses his voice to give commands that the target is forced to obey.

Invincible Tyrant is the name of his mask ability he used back in the Inn which hid his ability and had an element of divinity to it because people started to fear the tyrant so much, it became a form of faith.