Hearing the announcement, the Gods were petrified, knowing that the 'Demon King' that spoke to them was, in fact, the Chaos Knight. Ceres, though, alongside the others, started losing hope in the man she loved the most, but deep within, she could never give up fully.
Meanwhile, everyone trained rigorously for ten whole years, during which the Demon King rebuilt the royal Gods' territory in his perfect image, befitting of the incarnation of evil. In another timeline, though, Hercules pushes his body far beyond his limits, trying to train as much as possible, even being able to increase the time for him and the Akio of that timeline to fit one hundred thousand years in one.
Through this, both he and the Chaos Knight have powered up dramatically, but it was still not enough, according to Hercules. Meanwhile, during the ten years, lots of Gods have also died, those being the ones who tried to kill the Demon King before his 'tournament'.
