While Lucifer's duel was a symphony of explosive, overwhelming, and perfectly balanced force—a silent, binary supernova of light and shadow—Ren Kagu's confrontation began with an entirely different, more unsettling quality. It began with absolute, serene silence.
As Lucifer veered off to engage the four-armed brute, Ren Kagu had simply vanished from the accelerating formation. His objective was the second Peak Radiant Archduke, a male demon whose reputation, even in the fragmented intel provided by the Great Seven, was one of insidious cunning and profound conceptual sorcery. This demon, slender and robed in tattered, shadow-like fabrics that seemed to drink the starlight, floated amidst a cohort of lesser Dukes, his long, skeletal hands already weaving complex, multi-layered patterns in the void. He radiated not the raw, chaotic power of his brutish counterpart, but a cold, meticulous, and deeply intelligent malice, the aura of a grandmaster of the dark arts.
