Chapter 91

Phi dashed toward the portal, using her armor’s triple boost. In this mode, she could keep running for about two more minutes, but now she decided to stop and see what Saji was planning. He wasn’t running. On the contrary—covering their retreat, he launched an attack on the God. The plateau with the boy was about a kilometer away. Themis was fleeing because she knew Saji wasn’t joking.

First, the bodies of the sacrifices crumbled away, turning into darkness that surged toward the boy. The sight of the rushing shadows pouring into Saji’s body was bone-chilling. And then, the boy himself disintegrated into dust. And from the sky… a Star began to fall! A deafening roar, like a hundred shuttles taking off, echoed across the valley. The Star blazed with a bright crimson light and was enormous—dozens of times larger than a meteor! Even the God was forced to raise shields to defend against this attack.

Themis scrambled for cover, but it was too late.

—"Saji, you idiot!"

Her scream went unheard—the wild thunder of the explosion, which obliterated the entire mountain plateau, drowned out all other sounds. The massive shockwave hurled the girl’s body fifty meters. By sheer luck, she crashed into the canopy of a tree before plummeting into a lake.

Where the God had stood, a colossal crater now gaped—two hundred meters in diameter. Talamei himself lay at the bottom, laughing. And it wasn’t a malicious laugh, but almost… joyful. His health bar had dropped by a mere five percent.

Saji had died for this attack, yet he hadn’t even managed to seriously wound him.

—"Hey, woman, I hear you! Tell that worm we’ll meet again—and he’ll pay dearly for daring to wound me."

A primal, animalistic terror sent the girl sprinting toward the portal. With every word the God spoke, the very fabric of space trembled, and his overwhelming power and horror pierced her entire being.