Artemis was burning her Divine Soul with a secret art, trying to flee the hopeless battlefield, when her hurtling figure abruptly froze in the void.
It was as though an invisible hand had reached across the barriers of space and law to seize her Soul Origin with unerring precision.
"No—!"
Artemis let out a scream of utter anguish. Starlight flashed wildly across her divine body as she struggled against the unseen restraint.
It was futile. She felt her Divine Might being forcibly suppressed and stripped away by a power she could not comprehend.
It was Absolute Suppression born of a gulf between their very levels of existence.
In a single breath, Hunting Goddess Artemis—a powerful Main God of the Olympian Pantheon renowned for her speed and precision—was dragged back from hundreds of miles away like a kite on an invisible string.
She came to a halt not far from Qin Chuan, her divine body rigid, her face gripped by fear and despair deeper than when she had witnessed Helion's fall.
She could not summon even a trace of Divine Might to resist.
Silence fell over the sea once more.
If Helion's fall had shocked them with its sheer violence, the ease with which Artemis had been captured stirred a deeper fear of something incomprehensible.
The shadows around Nether Monarch Astaroth nearly froze. His fathomless gaze locked on Qin Chuan, and his schemes and greed were forced down, replaced by cold wariness.
"He seized a Main God from afar... and he didn't even use that light that erased a Godhead..."
Astaroth's will passed among the Undead Gods, carrying a faint, almost imperceptible tremor.
The vast will of the Lord of Destruction also fell uncharacteristically silent.
He had just been clamoring to seize or destroy Qin Chuan. Now his Abyss-born savagery and