Qian Renxue (44)

"I said that before I went completely mad, I had one last thing to do." Ares looked back. Though he had no facial features, Tang Wulin could feel that he was smiling. "War God Ares once fought for the sake of battle and slaughtered for the sake of glory. But now, I finally understand the meaning of battle—protection. This is more meaningful than every battle I fought in the past thirteen thousand years."

He turned to face the seventh tumor.

"But your body can't withstand a single attack," Dai Chengfeng analyzed calmly. "Though the guard around that tumor is weaker than the previous ones, destroying it would still require a full-strength strike equivalent to a First Class God. Right now, you..."

"I know," Ares said calmly. "That's why I won't attack the tumor."

Everyone froze.

"What I'm going to attack is this domain itself." Ares raised his bone blade and pointed it at the sky. "The world behind the Abyss Gate is the abyss's reflection in the God Realm. The reason it can exist is because the power of the abyss constructed a temporary 'law' here. As long as that law is destroyed, this domain will collapse, the abyss's power will be temporarily dispersed, and we'll have a window to approach Isis."

"But the power needed to do that..." Qian Renxue sucked in a cold breath.

"It requires detonating all of a god's divine power and godhead," Ares said. "Conveniently, I have one ready-made right here."

"You're insane!" Bibi Dong snapped. "If you do that, your Divine Soul will be destroyed, and you won't even have a chance at reincarnation!"

"I went insane long ago," Ares said in a low voice, relief in his tone. "From the first day I was imprisoned here, I was already mad. Now, I only