Rhodes gave chase with all his might, and the Sovereigns fleeing ahead pushed themselves even harder. Being caught was a matter of life and death, so none of them dared fly at anything less than full speed. Each of them was thinking that, at the very least, they had to fly a little faster than the others fleeing alongside them.
The Celestial Realm had yet to appear within any of the Sovereigns' Divine Sense. Rhodes still had a chance to catch them before they reached it. Even if he could not keep all of them here, taking down one or two would do!
"Rhodes, don't go too far! We haven't offended the Hall of the Gods all these years, yet you still intend to slaughter every last one of us?" one of the Destruction Element Sovereigns said to Rhodes through a mental transmission.
"Hmph. If you stop now and quit running, I guarantee I won't kill you. And why are you fleeing the Infernal Realm?" Rhodes transmitted to the fleeing Sovereigns without slowing down.
"Pah! Rhodes, do you even believe your own words? You want us to stop? Dream on! As for why we're fleeing the Infernal Realm, if we'd waited any longer, we probably wouldn't have had a chance to escape!" The other Sovereigns said nothing. It was still the Destruction-Element Sovereign who had spoken first who communicated with Rhodes through Divine Sense.
"Traitors! You were born in the Infernal Realm, yet instead of contributing to it, you want to flee to another Overgod Plane. You deserve to die!" That man had correctly guessed Rhodes's intentions. They had indeed been about to hunt down all these Sovereigns, then find loyal subordinates or their own relatives to refine the Sovereign Sparks and become Sovereigns later. They simply had not expected