How had I suddenly ended up in the Netherworld?
Soren was puzzled, too, because he still remembered what had happened at the last moment. He had already suppressed the Demon Lord of Fear's power. A dead deity could only cause so much trouble, after all. By then, the Demon Lord of Fear's defeat had been inevitable, so he had simply attacked Soren directly, trying to seize control of his mind through the fear divinity Soren had absorbed.
How could that possibly work?!
Soren's will was as hard as steel. He had immediately assumed his deity form and met the attack head-on, shattering the Demon Lord of Fear's spirit.
As an ancient archfiend of greater divinity, the Demon Lord of Fear had stored the essence of his soul in the Throne of Fear within the Fear God's Realm after his death. In other words, as long as the Throne of Fear remained intact, his spirit and soul could continually restore themselves. Even if Soren suppressed and killed his divine will, that would only weaken him. It could not truly kill the Demon Lord of Fear.
To put it simply, the Demon Lord of Fear was now like a lich, and the [Throne of Fear] was his phylactery.
"Something isn't right."
After defeating the spiritual entity behind the Demon Lord of Fear's first attack, Soren had set his teleportation beacon to Port Nyanzaru before the space shattered, preparing to return directly to his physical body.
Under normal circumstances, a deity teleporting through the divine ability [Plane Teleportation] was extremely unlikely to encounter any mishap.
That meant Soren's arrival in the Netherworld had most likely been someone's deliberate doing.
Anyone capable of interfering with his Plane Teleportation and redirecting it to the Netherworld had to possess divine rank power far beyond Soren's. There