Collapse Beasts swarm the execution grounds; Kallen saves an old woman bare-handed, then a child

On the screen, Otto pulled out the final spike. His body finally gave out, and he dropped to one knee. Golden divine blood poured from his wounds like a waterfall, forming a sea of blood in the Void.

His Divine Spark cracked with the sound of shattering. His false god body was crumbling, his divinity dissipating. He was falling from a "false god" back to a "mortal"... no, he was worse off than a mortal-a dying remnant of a soul.

"He's going to die," Tang Wulin said. "His Divine Spark has shattered, and his divine blood has run dry. There's no surviving this."

Yet on the screen, Otto smiled.

It was a smile that bordered on relief, as though he had finally laid down some crushing burden.

"At last..." His voice came in broken fragments. "...I no longer have to bear the identity of a 'god.'"

"False god or true god, neither was what I wanted."

"All I wanted..."

He raised his head and looked into the distance, where Kallen's figure flickered in and out of view.

"...was to be that 'human' again, the one who would die for you."

The Light Screen went black, and the dying Otto vanished from view.

The entire space fell into deathly silence.

The Light Screen lit up again, but this time, it no longer showed the imaginary battlefield. Instead, it switched to another time and place.

Five hundred years ago, Schicksal Headquarters, the execution grounds.

"Is this..." Bei Bei froze. "Has time turned back?"

"It hasn't turned back." Tang San stared at the Light Screen. "These are 'simultaneous images.' While Otto is fighting within the Imaginary Tree, that day five hundred years ago is unfolding at the same time."

On the screen, the execution grounds were packed with a sea of people. Kallen