"Ah!!!!!!"
Amid piercing screams, Moon God Artemis, caught in the gap between the doors, gradually split apart.
Half her body fell outside the gate and half inside, crashing down simultaneously.
Although Kallen knew Artemis was no holy, gentle goddess out of a fairy tale, watching a deity haloed in countless stories and legends meet her end before him in such a way truly brought a twisted pleasure akin to trampling something beautiful.
Gods must not bleed. Bleeding meant they could weaken, be hurt, and be killed. Kill enough of them, for long enough, and it would become routine: terror would turn to shock, shock to numbness, and then, within that numbness, one would discover pleasure.
Kallen suddenly realized that this deliberately slowed initial opening was not only a buffer for himself and the Order God Church, but also for this world.
Tyranus was managing a vast chessboard.
A crescent moon rose from within the Gate of Reincarnation, then quickly dissipated.
Before falling, the Moon God had voluntarily released her godhead inheritance.
The remaining two halves of her divine body began rapidly melting, not into pus, but into a sea of lunar halos that poured out across a vast area.
At first, the soldiers of the Reincarnation Legion were extremely nervous and afraid. But when the lunar halos passed over them, causing only slight discomfort and no other harm, everyone relaxed.
Instead, the church's senior figures, led by Gatekeeper Romir, looked furious and flustered, shouting orders to organize personnel and erect barriers to stop the lunar halos from spreading further.
But it was already too late.
After covering all of Reincarnation Valley, the lunar halos continued flowing into the Sea of the Dead, while those inside the gate rapidly spread through the Inner Gate World.
Strictly speaking, these lunar halos were