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"Ha... ha... ha..."
Beneath a massive wall at the edge of Orario, Noah, who had sprinted out of an alleyway, finally stopped running at full speed. He braced a hand against the wall, bent over slightly, and panted heavily, unable to catch his breath for quite some time.
Even in that state, Noah hurriedly looked back over his shoulder. Only after confirming that no one—or rather, no Goddesses—were chasing after him did he finally let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Did... did I finally lose them?"
It had been nearly half an hour since he had been found by that group of Goddesses.
For the past half hour, Noah had been running for his life.
That was right.
Running for his life.
Even though he definitely would not lose his life if he failed to escape, he would certainly lose something more important than his life.
So, calling it running for his life was no exaggeration at all.
Only now had Noah finally fled to the outskirts of Orario and shaken off that huge group of Goddesses.
Even so, Noah still looked deeply shaken.
"Didn't they say Gods couldn't use their power in the Lower World? Didn't they say their physical abilities were no different from ordinary people's? My stamina should be much better than those so-called Gods', shouldn't it? So why did it still take me a full half hour to get away?"
For the first time, Noah understood just how terrifying so-called Gods could be.
He had clashed with so-called Gods plenty of times in other worlds. He had even personally sent some of those so-called Gods to their graves. By all rights, he should have had