The gods in the station erupted into chaos again. At the same time, the crowd in one area quickly scattered in all directions, revealing an open space—and Zhang Heng standing in it.
Their attention had previously been almost entirely drawn to Gaim on the television, so no one had noticed when Zhang Heng had appeared.
But once they realized that Zhang Heng had entered the station as well, despair inevitably appeared on many faces.
A moment ago, they had still been unhappy that Gaim had concealed the station's existence and wanted to keep them in the game world. Yet in the blink of an eye, even that outcome had become an unattainable wish.
No one knew whether something had gone wrong with Gaim's arrangements or whether the God of Fiction had been too useless to carry them out, allowing the monster called Cthulhu to chase them all the way into the game world.
What terrified the gods even more was the realization that they had nowhere left to run.
When the real world outside had been on the verge of destruction, they could still flee into this new world. But if this new world fell as well, they had no idea where else they could escape to.
However, once they realized this, the gods reacted differently. Some wanted to fight Zhang Heng to the death. Though they knew they were no match for him, dying in battle was better than surrendering and being killed so humiliatingly. Others placed their last hopes on Gaim. Some even dropped to their knees and begged Gaim to intervene.
But a small number reacted differently from both groups, such as Ares. As one of the more powerful gods in terms of combat strength, he had remained active on the front lines and had fought Cthulhu