Thus, Nether Phoenix learned of the judge's true purpose and vaguely understood that, during that divine journey, the judge had been beguiled.
It kept devouring the surrounding creatures, turning the entirety of the Sin Snatching Territory into a desolate wasteland.
No matter how much it devoured, the damage from the Exhaustive Ray could not be healed even slightly, as its life-recovery ability seemed to be permanently removed.
Nether Phoenix ultimately could not escape death.
It recalled the battle was the same, no matter how it devoured spirits within the Spiritual Purgatory, in the face of the mechanical creatures' terrifying rays, its life recovery ability could never keep up.
At the moment of imminent death, it realized that even if it devoured all these spirits, they could not heal its wounds; it might as well just die and become a king of the Netherworld.
Nether Phoenix finally died.