Marduk's move was somewhat like splitting his divine sense into thousands of branches. As long as even one of them successfully broke out, it could barely be counted as Marduk still being "alive."
As for Marduk's central primary divinity, it clearly could not escape. The Blade Empress would not simply stand by and watch him flee.
Thousands of divinities burst toward every corner of the Divine Descendant World like a dazzling, multicolored meteor shower.
Death Descendant Fempton beneath the Blade Empress was the first to unleash a vast Tidal Wave of Death Energy, intercepting quite a few of those divinities.
Yet even more divinities, carrying wisps of Marduk's lingering consciousness, fled toward regions farther beyond the battlefield.
At the very instant those divinities appeared, the remaining native gods of the Divine Descendant World also erupted with another wave of power.
While Marduk's action sought a path to survival for himself, it also brought a sliver of hope to the native forces still resisting in this world.
As long as those Divine Descendant gods still fighting could find a way to obtain one of Marduk's Subsidiary Divinities and fuse with it, their strength would inevitably surge within a short time.
This was also the final Divine Decree Marduk issued to his subordinate gods, believers, and subjects.
After unleashing this desperate move, Marduk, with only a single exquisitely beautiful primary divinity remaining at his center, narrowed his eyes. After merging with the Ark behind him once more, he charged straight at the Blade Empress.
Marduk was not launching a suicidal attack. He intended to hold back the Blade Empress a while longer, preventing a powerhouse of her caliber from joining the pursuit of those Subsidiary Divinities too early.
Did escaping with only a wisp of scattered divine sense truly count as "living"?