The God's Standoff, Oushen on the Brink of Death

Hermes was dumbfounded.

"Poseidon? Why would he come?" Hermes murmured as he looked at the barely conscious Oceannus, whose eyes had rolled back.

"Oceannus!" Ruslan shoved past the two gods, rushed to Oceannus's side, and lifted him into his arms. "Oceannus! What's wrong, Oceannus?!"

Blood had sprayed from Oceannus's nose and mouth, and it was still pouring out nonstop. The amount of blood loss was enormous.

"Something's wrong. This much bleeding isn't right." Ruslan was nearly frantic. "How could he be bleeding so much? Oceannus, hang in there! Oceannus! Oceannus!"

Meanwhile, Poseidon remained outside, standing atop the sea as towering waves rose around him, roaring furiously, "My son! Get out here! Answer me! What did you do?!"

On his way here, his simulated thought process had finally figured out what that intensely unsettling sensation was.

If he had to describe it, it was that his "authority" was being "seized."

Unconsciously, Oceannus was competing with Poseidon for absolute control over the sea.

That crossed Poseidon's bottom line, and so he was enraged. Though he did not know what exactly his son, Oceannus, had done to make him feel that his authority over the sea had been shaken, still—

To dare touch a god's divine authority—even if you are a god's offspring, you should not continue to exist in this world!

Hermes watched Oceannus tensely.

On the true-body Machine God, a Divine Core corresponded to various vital locations. Naturally, if it formed in something resembling a human body, the corresponding location would be equally important.

The heart.

Though it existed within the soul, its approximate location was indeed the heart.

The moment Poseidon arrived, without a word, he released an aura filled with overwhelming fury, forcibly suppressing the Divine Core Oceannus had been condensing.

When something went wrong with the Divine Core,