"I wasn't targeting anyone. I was saying that everyone here... was spouting worthless bullshit."
Russell swept a cold gaze across the hall, instantly stirring up widespread anger. He did not care in the slightest. He was a man who would become the King of Gods—would he fear a bunch of cowards who did not even dare talk back after being cursed to their faces?
Obviously not!
Oppressed, furious breathing filled the hall. Russell narrowed his eyes and looked around, but no one dared meet his gaze.
"Heh, gods?"
The low sneer brimmed with undisguised contempt.
The gods felt both ashamed and enraged, merely waiting for someone to rise up so they could join in condemning the arrogant Russell.
Yet no one did.
"Sun God, today's meeting is extremely important. You are also one of the candidates for King of Gods. Do not cause trouble here or disrupt the order of the meeting by flaunting your martial strength."
The veins on Hades's forehead throbbed. The moment he saw Russell appear, his heart began pounding uneasily. Seeing him forcefully suppress the entire hall only made him more uneasy.
"What? Does the King of the Underworld think I said something wrong?"
Russell waved his hand and drove the Black Flame Greatsword upside down into the floor. With a sinister chuckle, the shadow behind him crawled onto his shoulders and transformed into a devil's grinning face. "Who else agrees with the King of the Underworld and thinks the Sun God is wrong? Step forward now. I'll personally spar with him and let him know... that everything I said was right."
"Sun God!!"
"King of the Underworld!!"
Black light flashed through Russell's eyes. The bizarre black shadow surged dozens of meters high, baring its claws and fangs above the hall, arrogant to the extreme.
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