Battle of the Two Gods!
The God of Life's tentacles spread across the sky like a dark tide.
The black tide surged and churned, raising towering waves as if to drown everything in its path.
But it had met its nemesis.
The Soul Screamer's piercing shriek caused the black tentacles to melt, one after another, into desperate-looking souls.
The souls had no choice but to be sucked into the Soul Screamer's mouth, becoming its food.
One black tentacle after another vanished.
The battle had barely begun, and the God of Life had already suffered a small loss. She grew even more enraged.
"Some little nobody who devours souls dares to make trouble in front of me!"
Thousands of black tentacles flew back before her and became rows of Divine Scions' souls.
Over the nearly hundred million years of their long existence, these souls had wielded Divine Skills of the same Mystic-type while alive. Now, at the God of Life's urging, they released their power together—
Divine Skill, Soul Severing Slash!
Countless souls each manifested a translucent blade of light-flame in their hands.
"Enough. Give it to me!" the God of Life snarled.
All the light-flame blades flew from the souls' hands and landed in the God of Life's grasp, merging into a single, dazzling speck of light.
Stripped of their Divine Skill, the souls turned back into writhing black tentacles.
Clutching the speck of light, the God of Life slashed forcefully toward the Soul Screamer.
Whoosh—
A hundred thousand Divine Skills, Soul Demon Slaying Blade!
A thin, cicada-wing-sharp edge of light sliced down from the sky toward the earth, rushing straight ahead.
Wherever its edge passed, the ground split open into a bottomless chasm.
Rumble, rumble—
The fissure raced across the land, winding forward like a long serpent.
Soon, the