The Deity vanished.
As if it had never appeared at all.
The presence that seemed to loom in deep space dissipated as well, as though everything that had just happened had been an illusion.
Everything around him returned to normal.
The mine tunnel was still the same mine tunnel.
But...
Jiang Qiao raised his head toward the coffin. In that brief span, the greenish Ghost Hand and the coffin had shattered completely, crumbling into a heap of debris like weathered stone.
As the vessel for Blue Eyes, the instant Jiang Qiao made contact with the Deity,
its death had become inevitable.
"No matter how vicious or domineering you are, you're still just an ant before a Deity."
Jiang Qiao sighed inwardly.
The Ghost Hand's origins were unknown, but it had destroyed that village and caused a top-tier expert to die here.
Yet now,
it was dead.
It had died so silently, without making a sound.
"There's a message."
Jiang Qiao collected himself and looked at the message on the [Simulator].
[Message] Open?
"Open."
Soon, the blood-red screen distorted, and a message appeared.
As he read it,
Jiang Qiao's brows, which had only just relaxed, furrowed again.
"So that's how it is?"
``` [While roaming through the history of your homeland, you encountered an ancient Deity wandering through space and time, unexpectedly obtaining information from "Dual Pupils."]
[It is not, as you imagined, a crystallization of Red Moon fragments.]
[But past experience tells you that, although it is not part of the Red Moon, it must have some connection to it.]
[It appeared so early.]
[Long before the Red Moon, and even before the Abyss.]
[Perhaps, countless ages ago in this homeland, certain special powers were already influencing and infiltrating this world through unusual means, unbeknownst