At the heart of that ancient city swallowed by yellow sands, the sky should have held the radiance of Ra, Egypt's Sun God. Yet now it had been replaced by an eerie, dark-red "sun." It was not a warm light source, but a blood-colored halo floating high in the air, slowly pulsing like the heart of a living creature.
That new sun hung where the original sun had been, emanating unsettling waves of energy.
The stone pillars throughout the city cast distorted shadows, as though the entire world had undergone some fundamental displacement at this very moment. And directly beneath that halo—
A suffocatingly perfect figure stepped out of a massive, ruptured embryo.
He possessed a human form, yet surpassed mortal proportions. His skin was like the purest ivory, flowing with a metallic sheen; the symmetry and harmony of his facial features had reached mathematical perfection, as though sculpted by a god's own hands. His eyes were two deep voids, reflecting nothing yet swallowing every gaze.
It truly was a perfect shell.
It had a bit of that Pinduoduo knockoff feel.
He had an Apollo-like face of flawless beauty, a powerfully proportioned body shaped according to the golden ratio, and every inch of skin radiated an inhuman, unlookable holy brilliance, as if condensed from the purest light. Seven dazzling golden wheels slowly rotated behind his head, exuding immense majesty.
Each one was inscribed with incomprehensible ancient runes, emanating a pressure that made souls tremble.
The evil god's pure white robe fluttered without wind. As its hem drifted through the air, it seemed as if stars were being born and dying within it. Most eye-catching of all was the complete Eye of Ra embedded in his chest—a vertical pupil flowing with molten-gold liquid light, radiating warm and immense energy like the