"Those monsters are back! Everyone, gather here and defend together!" the God of Kindness shouted, wiping the golden divine blood from the corner of his mouth.
He then joined forces with the God of Evil to raise a barrier, while the Goddess of Life hurried to heal the God of Destruction.
Upon hearing the God of Kindness's voice, the other deities nearby rushed toward them, but Lightning Creepers kept appearing at random without end.
Many deities who reacted a little too slowly suffered grievous injuries if they were lucky. If they were unlucky enough to have one explode in their faces, or even get caught in a chain of explosions, not even their ashes remained.
A full ten minutes passed before the frequency of the Lightning Creepers' appearances plummeted, but by then, not a single intact building remained in the Divine Realm.
Yet once silence fell, the sight before them sent every survivor's heart sinking to rock bottom.
The Divine Officials and Third-Level Gods had been almost completely wiped out. Fewer than ten percent of the Second-Level Gods had survived, and even the First-Level Gods had lost over half their number to death or injury.
More importantly, they had yet to even see who their enemy was, and the Divine Realm had already been reduced to ruins.
"It must be the anomaly on Douluo Star! I told you long ago that an anomaly had appeared there. Destruction, if you hadn't kept obstructing us and dragging things out, how could things have come to this?" the Asura God raged at the God of Destruction.
"Investigate? Didn't you send the God of War down to investigate? What did he find? We still haven't heard a word from him!" the God of Destruction retorted, glaring fiercely at the Asura God.
"So that gave