While Ieta Cavendish stood there stunned, the gods who had long been watching sprang their trap like hunters whose prey had finally fallen in.
Golden lightning bolts rained down from the Outer Void. Large and small alike, they carried enough power to destroy everything in their path as they struck at Ieta Cavendish.
A newly resurrected god was extremely vulnerable. Ieta Cavendish had no Divine Kingdom to protect his true body and little Divine Power of his own. But if he had enough time to gather Divine Power and build a Divine Kingdom, killing him would become more than a hundred times harder.
Just as the golden lightning was about to hit Ieta Cavendish, a thick, blood-red line swept across the sky and cut every bolt in two.
A middle-aged man with brown hair and a bow on his back emerged from the void.
"Bloodthirsty Hunter Malar!"
After severing all the lightning aimed at Ieta Cavendish, he took the bow from his back, drew it to its limit, and aimed at him.
Blood-red light streaked across the dim sky, instantly tearing the black smoke that had long hung over the City of Ten Thousand Machines in two.
But as the blood-red light neared Ieta Cavendish, fiery sunset clouds appeared on the horizon. Dusky rays spread from the sinking sun and gathered into a barrier before him.
The blood-red light tore through one layer of the barrier, only for it to reform at once.
Layer after layer was torn apart and formed anew. After holding out for dozens of seconds, the blood-red light vanished without a trace beneath the dusky glow. And after stopping Malar's attack, that glow did not recede.
Countless rays poured down, soon enveloping the entire City of Ten Thousand Machines and turning its sky into a world