"Anyway, you'd made up your mind, right?" Phainon looked at Mydei's resolute expression and couldn't help but smile.
"Yeah." Mydei nodded, then looked toward those Titan stars.
"Before long, I'll leave Okhema to battle the deepest darkness in this world, to bear... Nikadori's fate."
"So listen carefully."
Mydei's expression turned grave.
"If one day, we meet again on the battlefield, and I stand against the flame-chasing path..."
"Remember to stab the tenth vertebra in my chest from behind. That is the only weakness that can kill me."
"...!" Phainon's eyes widened in shock.
He hadn't expected Mydei to reveal his fatal weakness to him... His friendship was so sincere.
"Then it's a promise." Phainon nodded solemnly.
If Mydei inherited Nikadori's divine authority, he would naturally have to fight the Black Tide.
In that process, he would be the most easily corrupted by the Black Tide among the existing demigods.
If Mydei led Black Tide monsters against Okhema when that time came, the other Chrysos Heirs would have no choice but to kill him.
With that,
the two turned around and walked in completely opposite directions, back to back.
Mydei said in a low voice:
"Go. Rush to your battlefield and deliver death to those flame-stealing hyenas."
"But if you are driven into a corner, pray to the blade in the heavens—"
"—then call out the New God's name."
Not long after.
On the outskirts of the ruined Castrum Kremnos.
Phainon arrived with Dan Heng. Listening to the commotion inside, he couldn't help feeling surprised.
"What a deafening massacre. This doesn't sound like something Teacher Anaxa could have caused alone."
"Brother Dan Heng, let's pick up the pace. The battlefield is ahead."
Along the way lay the corpses of Black Tide monsters, along with scattered... human bodies.
"Xuan Feng people?"