The flames ignited by the giant mechanical door covered the entire royal capital.
It was as if the heaven and earth were illuminated by this brilliant and blazing light, bathing the entire world in a deep wave of fiery heat.
Everyone looked up and witnessed Victor reappearing from the flaming door.
A strong sense of shock suddenly arose in my heart.
Everyone's eyes widened, their mouths opened wide, and they were so shocked that they couldn't speak and could only swallow dryly.
Not only them, but even Hermes also widened his passionate eyes that seemed to be flowing with gold sand, with disbelief written all over his face.
He stared at Victor in front of him, as if the golden sand in his eyes had solidified in mid-air.
"You...how could you come out of...here..."
"Victor!!!"
A clear and urgent female voice suddenly sounded, interrupting his words.
Under everyone's gaze, a white cloud gracefully crossed the red sky.
The green elf leaned her body forward slightly and rushed towards Victor eagerly.
Kokot hugged Victor's waist tightly, held Victor's arm tightly with one hand, and shook him gently in mid-air, trying to get his attention.
Her voice was full of worry and trembling:
"Where were you just now!"
However, Victor ignored her at all.
He didn't even look directly at Kokot.
This made Kokot feel something was wrong.
She looked at Victor up and down, but as she looked at him, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"V...Victor?"
Victor didn't seem to hear Kokot's voice. He just raised his head slightly and glanced casually at Erica floating in the sky.
Erica lowered her head in the air and stared at Victor who was looking at her.
At that moment, Erica finally relaxed completely, and the flames that represented her anger were extinguished.
"professor……"
Finally, Victor gently stretched out his other hand and pushed aside Kokot's arm.
Kokot's hands fell from the air, his mouth opened, but he could only watch Victor leave helplessly.
A gentle breeze blew through the capital, carrying a light breath of wind that gently passed by everyone's ears.
In everyone's silence, the king was surrounded by a gentle wave of air.
Dust was blown up by the wind, and the flames jumped and swayed.
In the silence, countless people who were listening to the wind stared closely at Victor, but no one said a word.
Even Oberly, who was usually calm, raised his head, with a hint of seriousness in his face as calm as an ancient well.
Soon, Victor walked to the ground on the invisible aura steps and bowed gracefully to Emperor Aubrey.
Then he turned around and walked towards Hermes with steady steps.
The stunned god raised his head from the ground and looked at Victor approaching in front of him in astonishment, his face full of disbelief.
He could only hear Victor's cold voice pouring into his ears like the cold wind of the northern winter.
"You seem surprised?"
Hermes' eyes widened immediately after hearing this, and the chill in his heart seemed to penetrate his bones.
His wide eyes stared at Victor like bells, and his voice couldn't help but tremble:
"You...how could you come out of that door..."
"Could it be that you are too..."
No, this is not right, this is not right.
Victor is obviously a despicable cheater, he should never come out again!
Even if he is really a part of them, he should not appear in this world again.
At this moment, Hermes' heart was filled with confusion,
His mind went blank and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
Those bloodshot eyes due to excessive panic revealed his madness.
"Tell me! Victor!"
"Why would it let you out!"
Cheaters should be punished, this is the common understanding of every god.
Even gods have to follow rules.
But the rules themselves let Victor go?
Hermes was full of confusion, with countless questions swirling in his heart.
The more he thought about it, the more incredible it became. He took a few steps back as if he had lost all strength, and his lips kept trembling.
Seeing Hermes's appearance, Victor smiled softly, with a hint of joking in his tone:
"Why do you think it let me go?"
Hermes froze on the spot, staring at Victor intently, thinking rapidly in his mind.
Almost instantly, he opened his mouth again.
Because he thought of a possibility.
It was so absurd that it even gave him the possibility of infinite fear.
Cold sweat poured out on Hermes' forehead like raindrops, and the golden wings behind him suddenly spread out and flapped rapidly.
Rushing into the sky with a strong whirling wind.
The next second, a dazzling golden light burst out from the ground in the royal capital.
Like a meteorite wrapped in flames, it breaks away from the constraints of gravity and soars straight into the sky.
Finally, Hermes, who broke through the layers of space, was surrounded by flames and golden light, covered in cold sweat.
He lowered his head and looked down.
No one is chasing him, which is good, very good.
But even so, there was only one strong thought left in his mind.
He must escape!
In that cheater...no, he's not a cheater anymore.
That is a "monster" that goes beyond the rules.
He had to get out of here, out of the empire.
He is God, he is a God who cannot be replaced, and he must not fall here.
In a state of extreme tension, Hermes could only hear the whistling wind and the bursting of air.
Heavy clouds and mist passed before his eyes, and he passed through the blue sky and penetrated deep into the thick atmosphere.
He must keep running and never stop.
Otherwise, if he was caught up by the 'monster', he would never dare to imagine the consequences.
However, as Hermes fled further and further away, he suddenly felt an abnormality in the surrounding air.
The temperature around seems to be getting higher and higher.
At first, he doubted whether it was due to the high temperature caused by friction.
But the deeper he went into the clouds, the more he felt something was wrong.
Because the flames had been resisted by his divine power, the warmth penetrated directly through his body and spread throughout his limbs.
Hermes suddenly looked around, his eyes widening in shock.
At this moment, the dense clouds have been filled with intertwined pitch black and red, just like the collapsed hell earth.
Even among the deep clouds, a low roar burst out, like a dull bell.
The alarm bell in his heart suddenly rang, and Hermes felt an unprecedented panic.
No, no!
Even though it was so hot around him, cold sweat still broke out on his forehead, and even his body was also wrapped in the cold.
Sweating profusely, he couldn't help but turn his head and slowly look behind him.
What caught his eyes was an extremely huge blazing sun.
The dazzling light completely enveloped him in an instant and clung to his body.
In an instant, only the reflection of the huge red sun remained in those pupils that had passed through the golden quicksand.
The terrifying flaming sun penetrated the red clouds behind him, completely engulfing his body shrouded in holy light.
And in the depths of the sun, a deep and anxious voice sounded.
"I seem to have seen you somewhere."
"When was it?"
With the sound of that voice, Hermes' whole body became cold.
He was trembling all over, but the cold sweat on his body had already been evaporated by the high temperature.
His throat trembled, wanting to make a sound.
But because he was so close to the sun, his throat experienced the extremely hot gauze, and the terrifying burning poured into his throat. It was as if a violent tear was constantly surging.
Suddenly, a look of astonishment appeared on Hermes' face.
Around him, the originally fine red cracks were gradually covered by deep darkness.
From the cracks covered by darkness, a deep dark liquid seemed to flow down, thick and evil.
Countless tentacles formed of extremely black liquid slowly stretched out from the sky, and the curved tentacles were covered with countless torn and twisted mouthparts.
The scorching sun was tightly wrapped by countless blasphemous tentacles, gradually tightening slowly in the sky.
The sun was tightly compressed during the collapse, and a huge gap was torn open in the calm space.
A clear pale color floated in front of Hermes like a vast ocean.
The next second, the huge white mass began to rotate.
And gradually reflected in the golden eyes of Hermes.
It was not a white ocean at all, but a white eye that had not yet turned around.
But at this moment, the eyeball in the space rift turned around.
Those deep, flowing red ring-like pupils continued to flow towards the distant abyss.
Stab, prick, prick—
The extremely terrifying ferocious eyes stared at Hermes, and the huge and boundless pupils almost made him lose consciousness completely.
But in his hazy state of consciousness, the clear and heavy sound suddenly hit his eardrums.
"I remembered."
Immediately afterwards, countless twisted and ugly tentacles stretched out from around the eyeballs, as if the chaotic abyss was awakening and gradually submerged Hermes.
But he could only watch helplessly as his body was entangled with sticky black tentacles, and everything in his field of vision was obscured by the creeping darkness.
It was as if I had escaped from the hot hell and fallen into the cold abyss.
As he slowly fell into silence in a trance, the evil voice still echoed in his mind.
Like a demon entangled in his body, it lingers for a long time:
"You used to run away like this too."
"Like now, I betrayed the gods out of fear and fled alone."
"But this time..."
In an instant, the heavily wrapped Hermes turned into a mass of black, twisting flesh.
Countless tentacles dragged him violently, and countless mouthparts kept tearing.
Finally, he was slowly dragged into the deep pupils.
Countless red rings lingered around the black flesh, turning into subtle air waves that flowed through the tentacles tearing each other into the seven orifices of Hermes.
At that moment when consciousness gradually blurred, Hermes opened his mouth and made a clear but desperate sound.
"Ha...b...ka..."
As the wriggling mass of black flesh disappeared, the huge deep pupils gently blinked at the huge crack.
Under the entire dark sky, only a huge one-eyed blazing sun remained.
"This time."
"You have no escape."
