Alex felt his hopes being torn to shreds when he heard Bladedance's words.
"Godslayer, is she correct?" he asked.
"Axiom isn't a power you can use right away, at least not to its fullest extent," Godslayer answered. "You need to be in the Celestial realm before you can lay it around you as a law. If what she is saying is true, then the Hell Emperor must've used the moment of his ascension to the Celestial Axiom realm to turn a portion of the world around him into his Principle."
"He rewrote the law around him, causing the Prison Wall to stop functioning," Godslayer said.
Godslayer made it sound bad, but Alex knew it was much worse.
If applying one's Axiom around them as a law alone was enough, the Hell Emperor would've easily taken the others with him. But even with all that he had accomplished, he had only been able to momentarily change the law around him, giving him just the shortest amount of time to leave.
