Chapter 586: The Vanished Divine Race

Chaos Domain.

From low‑rank demons to evil gods capable of shaking the multiverse, they all have their own "home" within the other dimension.

For example, the Pallas·Yadianna who was once trampled flat by John, its Chaos Domain appears as the former Olympus Temple, only that its sister Artemis shot it with a moon‑full bow.

What stands before everyone now resembles the hell described in the Bible and other mythic tales, as if it had long vanished from the primary universe.

And these seem to best match a terror‑sadistic temperament.

After all, this evil god is murderous and volatile, never one for scheming, so using a blood‑red inferno as its "residence" is most fitting.

At the same time…

Roar!!

Countless demons, innumerable beyond imagination, gather here and charge toward the opened teleportation gate.

To them, the scent of the material universe and living beings is like a beggar who has begged for ages without gaining a single coin, suddenly spotting a fragrant, greasy, golden‑glowing fried chicken, irresistibly drawn toward it.

The demons surge like endless blood‑colored tides, attempting to strike the teleportation gate.

Only the thousand Imperial Guard who have entered the other dimension, together with two hundred Saike Maite, have already formed formations around the gate.

Zzz!!

Chhh!!

The Imperial Guard on the outermost ring silently wield their thunder‑powered halberds, swiftly and efficiently reaping the demons.

The black‑gold lightning arcing at the tip of the powered halberd can also inflict substantive damage on this horde of low‑rank rabble, namely…

true death.

Know that the Imperial Guard are the warriors closest to the human Emperor; both armor and weapons have been blessed with pure Spiritual Energy from prolonged proximity to the Emperor.

Moreover, from the moment they stepped into the other dimension, they have silently recited all chapters of the "Human Truth", making their attacks ever more lethal to demons.

Even so, these demons who worship terror‑sadism know nothing of fear; they only strive to kill enemies or be killed, trying to please their master.

In contrast, the Saike Maite positioned behind the Imperial Guard's line, even arranging their stances meticulously, have half of them ceased Spiritual Energy attacks since arriving in the other dimension.

Yet if you approach a stationary Saike Maite who appears to be doing nothing, you can hear him speaking in a low, metallic voice.

Immediately thereafter, including that Saike Maite, a hundred brothers who have not acted since entering the other dimension are all enveloped by pink Spiritual Energy light.

Boom!!

Suddenly, a violent Spiritual Shock radiates from the center of those Saike Maite, sweeping outward.

This strike instantly eases the frontline Imperial Guard's pressure, blasting the low‑grade demon rabble.

But for the distant trolls, each as massive as Empire war‑dog Titans and bearing goat heads, human bodies, and blood‑bat wings, it causes no pain or itch.

It seems the Spiritual Shock released by the hundred Saike Maite is "limited to this".

Ha…ha…!

Some blood‑thirsty trolls with a degree of self‑awareness cackle wildly from afar.

Yet the shock has not ended.

Whoosh!!

In an instant, the pink‑glowing Spiritual Shock that should have swept outward instead reverses, converging back toward the Space Gate.

Then a dazzling light flashes, as if to devour everything nearby.

?!

This sudden upheaval makes many demons halt their charge.

When the light fades…

"Death is the end of the cycle, and you… do not deserve the cycle."

A deep, resonant tone with a responsive timbre reverberates throughout the Chaos Domain.

The "person" uttering these words stands at the front of the teleportation gate, his stature so towering it seems to pierce the sky, several times larger than an Emperor‑grade Titan or even a DivineBody.

Moreover, this "person" has faintly visible limbs and a clearly defined abdominal musculature, wearing simple yet splendid armor and attire.

These traits are still within the "normal" range, so the demons think the Saike Maite merely summoned some gigantic "human".

But when they see the "person's" head—a gray‑black furred jackal queen with twin eyes blazing crimson—they are momentarily bewildered…

How could humans summon a non‑human "thing"?

Yet the jackal‑headed being, towering many times over a DivineBody, lifts its golden scepter and swings it powerfully, unleashing a Spiritual Shock even more staggering than before.

Boom!!

Countless low‑rank demons are incinerated to ash by pink flames.

"Whoa, these kids are truly creative!"

The plague doctor who arrived in the Chaos Domain with Sui Bian and Magnus, upon seeing the Saike Maite summon such a colossal being, claps and exclaims in awe.

But after a brief observation, the plague doctor seems to recall something, hurriedly opens his small bag and reaches in with both hands to rummage.

Aha~!

The odd doctor looks a bit excited, for he has uncovered a long‑missing leather‑bound notebook.

He unties the rope strap.

While flipping through it, he lowers his voice and says, "Hmm… jackal head… I recall thirty thousand years ago… Oh! This place, indeed, is those long‑vanished Egyptian deities?"

The one before us must be Anubi Si, yes, that's right—I'm wondering why it looks so familiar!"

"…"

Hearing that, Sui Bian and Magnus both simultaneously shift their gaze to the plague doctor between the father‑son pair.

"Doctor… you mean… you knew the Egyptian gods from the start?" Magnus can no longer hold back, asking, his voice trembling with disbelief.

Because he has studied every deity that ever appeared on Earth.

Including the Olympian deities among all the divine races.

Just as before, the giant elephant‑shaped entity summoned by the Saike Maiti was indeed one of the many spells mastered by their Totmos Legion.

But that was not the true Anubis; at most it was a scattered fragment of Anubis that remains in the material universe.

The Totmos spent vast amounts of money and effort to capture and gather all the fragments, then stored them in the Core Library of the ship Never‑Defeated, to aid in combat, such as now.

At the same time, Magnus also discovered that many divine races had emerged on Earth; Olympus and Egypt were only the tip of the iceberg.

But aside from Olympus, the other divine races either vanished into the long river of history or disappeared "out of thin air" overnight.

Regarding this, Magnus concluded that those vanished divine races, such as the Egyptian pantheon, may have found a way for collective ascension, while he—whether alone or after long‑term study with his father—had made no breakthrough.

It's not that he never consulted the "living fossil"‑like plague doctor, but the doctor's memory truly is…

…exasperating.

Because the plague doctor had long forgotten what Magnus had asked, had he not seen Anubis's giant elephant form, he might have forgotten that he also possessed a notebook recording the Egyptian divine race.

"Alright, set the divine‑race matter aside for now," Sui Bian said, gazing at the endlessly angry, blood‑soaked horizon. "We are here this time to test whether the evil god can truly be beheaded, erased, and whether we can negotiate, then inject it with a special drug.

Now that evil god is still watching the spectacle, but could break free at any moment; be ready and never let your guard down."

"Yes, father," Magnus nodded in agreement.

The plague doctor said nothing, and tried to slip the notebook back into his small bag, but fearing he would forget the matter before action, he quickly turned the bag opening and placed the notebook into the outer pocket of his white coat, intending to hand it to Magnus later.

As for Sui Bian's plan, it was "simple."

It was, as just said, to personally behead Kong Nu.

It sounds simple, but in fact Sui Bian had been secretly plotting with Magnus and the plague doctor for over a hundred years.

First, and most crucially, how to personally rush into Kong Nu's Chaotic Realm without disturbing the other evil gods and demons.

After all, whether through the Eye of Fear or the portal opened by his offering of Spiritual Energy, stepping into the Alternate Dimension would attract all evil gods and demons.

Sui Bian is confident he can face any single one, but not the whole, so he never rashly entered the Alternate Dimension.

The next issue is whether a line‑of‑sight kill is possible.

Not only Kong Nu, but Na Gou, Jian Qi, Se Nie, and some other evil gods each represent emotional projections of sentient life.

That is to say, even if Sui Bian severely injures any of them and employs "Spiritual Energy Plunder" to eradicate them, after a while the Alternate Dimension will inevitably spawn similar beings again.

Thus, just these two points show that the Alternate Dimension's nature is truly "unsolvable"; otherwise Sui Bian would contemplate erasing all sentient life except humans from the material universe.

In fact, this extreme method is also a viable option, since it can truly break the death cycle.

But its implementation is equally complex, potentially wasting and consuming an extremely long time, making it unprofitable.

After various experiments and calculations, he and his son finally devised a "spell" that can directly reach Kong Nu's domain.

Moreover, Leon's tomb‑exploring expedition once again provided them with a breakthrough tool: a physical portal belonging to a chaotic artifact.

With the spell and the tool in hand.

Since most beings in the Alternate Dimension believe the Human Empire will maintain the previous delicate balance with them, Sui Bian led his old friend and his son, the strongest in Spiritual Energy, targeting Kong Nu, truly breaking the old balance and personally entering the Alternate Dimension.

At this stage, only Kong Nu knows of his arrival; the others still think he sits upon the Golden Throne.

And given Kong Nu's temperament, it is impossible for him to inform the others.

It is just that Kong Nu may not have reacted yet; how Sui Bian bypassed layer upon layer of obstacles and all the great demons' domains to reach "its backyard" remains unknown.

Thus, the Saike Maiti used a collective spell to summon "Anubis" in an attempt to lure Kong Nu into revealing himself.

At this moment.

!

(All undead, obey my command: slay these disgusting beings before us!)

Anubis raised his golden scepter, uttered a certain incantation in an unknown language, and a resonant roar echoed throughout the Chaotic Realm.

Immediately after,

Beyond the line formed by the Imperial Guard and the Saike Maiti, amid the numerous demons and blood‑thirsty trolls, pink pillars of light began to appear.

"Roar…"

"Ugh…"

Accompanied by a hollow, famished growl, countless undead burst from the barren ground.

The vast majority stood two to two‑point‑five meters tall, robust, clad in heavy armor, yet the skin exposed beneath the armor was wrapped in thin white cloth, obscuring their true appearance, with only their crimson‑glowing eyes visible.

A minority were lion‑bodied, human‑faced beasts swathed entirely in white cloth, or giant scorpions and wolves.

The undead army summoned by Anubis began to replace the Imperial Guard, Saike Maiti, and the demon wave in the ongoing clash.

One demon brandished bone spikes, easily beheading a nearby undead soldier; as it tried to attack the next target, the decapitated soldier thrust through its body.

Soon, more soldiers joined the fight, and a flurry of blades "physically" expelled that demon.

The initially decapitated undead soldier even retrieved its fallen head, reattached it, and continued killing the demon alongside its comrades.

Even so, the situation remained stalemated, with both sides helplessly facing each other.

Not long after…

"Hahaha!!!"

A reckless, hearty laugh drowned out all other sounds.

Then, space warped in front of the portal, the sky's furnace flames intensified, and the corpses on the ground surged like a tsunami.

Simultaneously, a structure no different from a mountain, built from countless corpses, bones, metal, and twisted living things, the Brass Throne, gradually rose into view.

Of course, seated atop that Brass Throne was a "human‑bodied god" clad in ornate plate armor etched with crimson runes and a twisted human face, wearing a crown‑like helmet of bone spikes, whose very presence drove everything around into frenzy, the most striking figure.

Around the Brass Throne were exaggerated weapons—great swords and axes forged from the skeletons of ancient colossal beasts—among other varied arms.

And it, the master of this Chaotic Realm, is one of the oldest evil gods—

Kong Nu.

The moment Kong Nu appeared, the Anubis colossus charged at him, for that was its very purpose of being summoned.

(End of chapter)