Not One Can Be Left Behind

Bzzzz—!

The instant Kratos burrowed into the ancient god's brow.

A violent storm of energy suddenly erupted within the deathly silent underground tomb.

The ancient god corpse's enormous eyes, once gray and hollow, lit up in an instant.

Blinding white light gushed from its eye sockets, like two supernovas exploding beneath the earth.

A terrifying pressure ten times greater than the one from the pyramid came crashing down.

Crack! Crack!

The crystal statues that had knelt in worship upon the surrounding plains for countless ages instantly shattered beneath that pressure, turning into dust that filled the sky.

The golden bell shield Huineng had just formed did not even last a second before exploding outright.

He let out a scream and was hurled away by the blast, slamming heavily into a boulder.

"Hahahaha!"

A vast, icy laugh brimming with boundless arrogance issued from the ancient god's enormous throat, making the entire space tremble.

"I am God!"

"I am eternity!"

Rumble...

The earth split apart.

That black crystal giant hand, stretching for thousands of miles, slowly rose.

It blocked out every bit of the sky above, then came crashing down upon the tiny Lin Mu and the others with the force to crush all things.

Shadow engulfed everything.

Before that enormous hand, capable of smashing a planet, Lin Mu was as small as a speck of dust.

Yet he did not move.

He merely stood where he was, raised his head, and watched the falling giant hand.

His finger lightly tapped the air.

The Class Panel appeared.

His gaze locked on the target.

[Crystal Ancient God (Kratos Parasitizing)]

The massive crystal palm blocked out all light overhead.

The wind pressure arrived first, crushing the ground's hard crystalline rock layers into pieces.

Huineng clutched his head and curled into a ball. His cassock