The milky-white Prophet mecha had not moved again from beginning to end.
"...Prophet Mirror Image, Vassago, do you intend to betray Solomon?!" Solomon King glanced back, and Baal's androgynous voice finally carried anger.
A flash of lightning appeared, piercing through that Prophet mecha. The milky-white machine collapsed into light just like that.
And twenty thousand kilometers away, on the dark side of a barren planet.
The real milky-white mecha held a staff in one hand and raised it lightly. A thousand meters ahead, two mechas roughly forty meters tall were trapped within a cage woven from white beams of light.
Fourth Gate Pillar, Samigina, the SSS-grade demon god Punisher covered in White Crystal.
Fifth Gate Pillar, Marbas, the SSS-grade demon god Warden, bloated like an abomination.
"Chief Vassago, this isn't a teleportation force field... We've been isolated within a hidden dimension... What are you trying to do?"
Samigina, the man in charge of Solomon's punishments and the foremost figure beneath the three chiefs, spoke coldly, yet he was not particularly enraged.
Marbas, the Fifth Gate Pillar and Warden, likewise gazed coldly toward their Third Chief.
"I saw the ancient god we worship... slowly being devoured by another cosmic lifeform. That creature was clearly tiny... yet it was truly gnawing away at the ancient god's will... Faith will collapse, and the road ahead will descend into darkness. Solomon, which has endured through ages, must leave behind a Fire Seed."
A gentle voice sounded beside the two men.
"What does that mean?!"
"How could the ancient god be devoured?!"
Even the steady Fourth and Fifth Gate Pillars could not help but pale.
"Solomon King's power has already begun to decline slowly. My king knows this, yet he still places his hopes in the elusive ancient god... I cannot dissuade the two of