(This is a bonus chapter.)
The moment Abner appeared in the Divine Kingdom of the Night Emperor, not far from the true body of the Primordial Demoness, one black tentacle after another, like pythons, extended from the void.
At the tip of each tentacle was an eye, some closed and some open. Anything they saw instantly turned into grayish-white stone, while anything directly touched by the tentacles twisted, sprouting limbs and a head to become women of varying sizes—all remarkably beautiful.
As the grayish white spread rapidly, the tentacles surged madly toward the body of the God of Truth, intending to use the universal collapse and destruction brought by those countless Demonesses of different sizes to "annihilate" Abner.
Since those tentacles were merely extensions of the Primordial Demoness's power, even though the right hand of the God of War and Destruction could erase them, it could not affect her true body and would expose his trump card. Thus, Abner merely lightly pointed the Hermit's Staff forward, swiftly constructing a bronze shield before himself.
The instant the round shield appeared, it curbed the spread of the grayish white. Even the destruction brought by the countless tentacle-created "Demonesses" stopped before the shield's orange-red glow.
This was Mystical Reenactment—Athena's Shield!
In legends of the Old Era, the Hero Perseus relied on Athena's Shield to resist petrification before cutting off Medusa's head.
The Hermit Unique reenacted this piece of "mystery" and achieved quite an excellent result.
After blocking the Primordial Demoness's attack, Abner used the Authority of the God of Truth to continuously simulate the paths of the River of Fate's tributaries, occupying the Fate in which Cheek successfully escaped. At the same time, he pinched the crystal lens over his right eye and used the Authority of Error to briefly gather countless versions