As long as they stood here, their entire bodies would emit an aura capable of corrupting other living beings.
A cold curve lifted at Atases's lips. The air around him began to distort, and countless invisible threads of fear silently wound themselves around the Horror Weird God.
"Looks like you're not completely stupid." His voice was low, carrying a terrifying pressure. Every word was like a sharp blade piercing straight into the Horror Weird God's soul.
The Horror Weird God tried to break free of those invisible threads, but with every struggle, they tightened further.
He roared furiously, "You think you can defeat me with the Authority of Fear alone? How naive!"
He summoned all the power within his body, and a blinding dark-purple radiance erupted around him. The light transformed into enormous skeletal claws that clawed toward Atases.
Atases remained unhurried. With a casual wave of his hand, an ink-black barrier instantly rose before him.
The skeletal claws slammed violently into the barrier with a deafening boom, yet failed to breach even its surface.
At the same time, a strange gleam flashed in Atases's eyes, and the threads of fear wrapped around the Horror Weird God suddenly erupted with even greater power.
The Horror Weird God felt the most terrifying scenes continuously flood his mind.
He saw himself torn to pieces by countless powerful beings, saw his godhead utterly destroyed, and saw the creatures he had once devoured come back to life and drag him into an endless abyss.
The illusions were horrifyingly real, making even his divine body begin to tremble.
"No! That's impossible!" the Horror Weird God shrieked madly, trying to dispel the illusions with his immense power. Yet the more he resisted, the more real they became.
He finally realized that Atases's Authority of Fear had