At the very rear of the stone army.
A grayish-brown stone creature ran over in a panic.
It knelt before an extremely powerfully built, pitch-black stone creature ahead.
"L-Lord Apostle! We-we've been routed!"
The God of Lava's First Apostle, Bozanka.
He crushed the enormous stone cup in his hand, and the scalding lava inside flowed down his fingers onto the sand.
"I can see that."
Bozanka stood, casually pushing the female stone creature beside him aside.
He stepped onto a dune and gazed at the stone army being slaughtered in a one-sided massacre on the battlefield.
"Demons? And machines?"
"Just as expected... as the divine oracle said, these Train Conductors who possess something called a Card Sequence will absolutely become a grave threat to the gods if allowed to grow."
"But here, hmph, entering a Star Core Level Arena means this human's level can't be too high. Now is the best time to eliminate him."
"But these machines... what are they?"
Bozanka looked up at the Hunt Mecha-Dragon continuously firing its autocannons in the sky, somewhat puzzled.
"Forget it. It doesn't matter. As long as I kill their master, machines or Card Sequences, they'll all become stepping stones for my god to ascend to the supreme sequence!"
"However..."
His gaze shifted downward again.
The malice emanating from the headless Goblin Apostle sent waves of alarm through Bozanka.
"Why is there an Apostle's aura? And this aura... it feels like at least a first-tier Apostle on par with me... could this human have joined forces with other gods?"
"No, that shouldn't be possible... gods and Card Sequence holders are mortal enemies. How could they cooperate?"
He knocked on his stone head, and lava stone condensed in his right hand into a black stone greatsword over three meters long.
His other hand