Who hid my body?

Chapter 373 Ainhgar

The abyss is responding to Isaiah.

The remains of the gods, known as the beasts of the abyss, are the ancient ferocious beasts that have finally awakened after a thousand years of slumber. The red light in the night is their eyes, and the echoes in the abyss are their roars.

They are not content to stay put.

A thousand years of slumber did not extinguish their resentment and anger; on the contrary, it greatly intensified them.

When they slumber, the world is in chaos, and when they awaken, it means the world's peace will end.

"Such a grumpy morning," Isaiah said with a chuckle, looking down at the abyssal beasts. "Want to destroy the world?"

After establishing the [Contract], Isaiah could clearly sense the chaotic and frenzied consciousness of these abyssal beasts, like a storm carrying blood and rain, which could tear him to shreds if he wasn't careful.

No wonder Diana never released those guys in the end.

A contract is reciprocal; it's like a rein. When you use the rein to lead someone, you are also led by them. But most of the time, the initiative in controlling the rein lies with the contracting party, just as humans use reins to control cattle and horses for their own use.

But if you want to use this rein to restrain a more powerful beast, or even to restrain a storm... the rope can indeed do that, but the person wielding it is a different story.

When the power imbalance is too great, it becomes difficult to say who holds the reins.

but……

Isaiah gently rubbed his newly acquired ring finger, as if he were treating an old friend.

“Come,” Isaiah said, “help me hold back the storm.”

He reactivated the [Contract].

In an instant, an invisible restraint tightened around the necks of the newly awakened abyssal beasts.

They all raised their heads, looking at the only human above the abyss, and their anger and resentment, which had not subsided for thousands of years, poured out towards Isaiah in an instant.

He's nothing but a lowly human! How dare he presume to control the gods!
In that chaotic storm of thoughts, Isaiah was able to perceive such clear emotions.

"So that's how it is. It's the consciousness of a dead god?" Isaiah muttered to himself. "Indeed, when you were still alive, humanity was the weakest being in the world."

The humiliation of being controlled by humans greatly amplified the fury of the abyss beasts. One after another, they emerged from the cracks in the abyss walls, their enormous and indescribable bodies breaking the chains that bound them. The abyss trembled, and the rocks shattered.

In a scene resembling the approaching apocalypse, they crouched slightly, clearly preparing to leap up and leave the underground that had imprisoned them for millennia, while simultaneously killing the arrogant human.

Isaiah saw through all of their thoughts.

“What an unruly bunch.” Isaiah slowly raised his hand. “And they can’t even see the situation clearly, now…”

"boom"!
The abyssal beasts rose from the ground and charged toward Isaiah with unstoppable force.

The hideous and twisted indescribable body rapidly approached the moonlight.

They need to return to the real world.

But Isaiah clenched his fist.

"...This is no longer your era."

An even more powerful force exploded in the mind of the abyss beast, and the originally light and fragile restraints, the reins that seemed so fragile that they could break at any moment, suddenly became indestructible.

At the same time, a familiar yet unfamiliar force returned to their hearts.

They raised their heads and looked at Isaiah, who was so close, but it felt as if they were looking at someone else.

In that instant, anger and resentment were replaced by fear.

A thousand years later, that fear caught up with them once more. It reminded them of who they were, and who the other was.

That guy is still alive.

This thought amplified their fear once again, turning it into a storm that quickly engulfed everything. They were like drowning people, struggling frantically in the water, only to see a rein at the last moment before they were about to drown.

So they grabbed the reins and became beasts again.

By the time they came to their senses, the moonlight that had been so close was now out of reach, and they returned to the abyss once more.

Moreover, it is the deepest abyss, where the forbidden final gate stands quietly within their sight.

But the snake's eye on the door had already opened.

……

Is this how they managed to reach the underground?
In a corner of the abyss, Hevinia was quietly observing.

Perhaps because Hevinia was so weak from her serious injuries that she looked like an ordinary person, or perhaps because Isaiah and the Abyss Beasts were too powerful, no one noticed her at the moment, and she was able to witness the entire "battle" between Isaiah and the Abyss Beasts.

Diana's worries were indeed correct; in the end, these abyssal beasts posed no obstacle to Isaiah, and he truly arrived at the final gate.

Now, the only one who can stop him is Ainhgal.

That is to say...

Hevinia looked toward the final gate.

Behind that door lies the remains of Vesas.
After overcoming numerous hardships, we finally arrived at this door.

The battle is now beyond Hevinia's control, and she won't pray in the Well of Redemption as Diana wishes. For now, she and Isaiah are on the same side, since only Isaiah has a chance of defeating Einhgal and opening the final gate.

So all she needs to do is... um?

Hevinia suddenly sensed something.

This is... the power of Vessas?
Why would Vessas's power still exist in this place?

She bent down with difficulty and looked down into the ground, then her pupils narrowed slightly.

Because she caught a fleeting glimpse of Edwin.

……

The planet devourer, Einhgar, has now fully awakened.

It should be said that He had already awakened long ago; He became conscious when Isaiah began his attack on the prison of the abyss.

But He did not move.

Because the existence or demise of the Abyss Prison is none of His concern, nor even the beasts of the Abyss beneath the earth.

His only duty is to stand guard at this door and kill anything that tries to get close to it.

No matter how the outside world changes, it is none of His business; He only cares about this door.

For thousands of years, no one has been able to get close to this door.

Even today, Ainhgar gazes with his cold, single eye at the abyssal beasts that have fallen into the earth. The powerful pressure of the demigod causes these ferocious abyssal beasts to instinctively lower their bodies, trembling as if they have encountered their natural enemy.

After all, they were at most dead gods, while Ainhgal was a true demigod.

The difference in their rank made them instinctively want to retreat, but at that moment, the reins binding them tightened suddenly.

Kill Him!

The command from Isaiah washed over their instincts of fear like a tidal wave, and overwhelmed them in an instant.

Animals with reins on cannot retreat, and under the [contract], they are no longer even allowed the right to fear.

So they moved forward one after another, baring their fangs at the final door and its guardian, their countless mouths roaring.

This is a declaration of war.

Ainhgal finally stopped just watching, and the snake coiled on the door began to turn, its tens of thousands of scales reflecting the red light of its pupils, dazzling and eerie.

There was a "swipe" sound.

A red light flashed in the darkness, and the enormous body tore through the air with a shriek, like a blade drawn from its sheath.

His speed was so fast that the abyssal beasts closest to him didn't even have a chance to react before being engulfed by his enormous body. Then, with a "boom," he turned into raging flames, illuminating the darkness amidst a great wail.

The remaining abyssal beasts immediately launched a counterattack, rushing towards Einhgar, but failed to inflict any damage. They, along with the previous abyssal beasts, were reduced to flames, burning fiercely amidst shrieks.

The underground was transformed into a sea of ​​fire, and all the abyssal beasts that fell into the area instantly became fuel.

Ainhgal did nothing; He simply released the cage, turning all the challengers to ashes.

Amidst the raging flames, Ainhgal raised his head, gazing with his single eye at Isaiah above the abyss.

Clearly, He knows who the real challenger is.

"Is this the body of a demigod?" Isaiah, who was above the abyss, said softly after witnessing all of this. "Indeed, gods are not affected by any means of mortals."

Gods are unaffected by the mortal world.

This is the ironclad rule of this land, something everyone knows in their hearts.

It is precisely for this reason that the idea that "mortals cannot defeat gods" is etched into everyone's mind like a stamp.

Isaiah is an exception; having possessed four parts of Vessah's body, he was qualified to kill a god.

The abyssal beasts also mostly possess this characteristic, after all, most of them were once gods. The reason they were instantly killed was because Isaiah wanted to test Einhgal's physical strength, so he deliberately manipulated them to their deaths.

Now he was certain that Ainhgal was indeed a genuine demigod, and his body was indeed that of a true god, possessing divine characteristics.

Then it comes down to strength.

Isaiah opened his hands, and the power of the [Contract] spread out like a spider web once more. More abyssal beasts broke free of their chains and emerged from the cracks, staring intently at Ainhgar in the sea of ​​fire.

Previously, Isaiah only treated them as puppets and did not allow them to use their true power.

but now……

"Let's do it," Isaiah commanded.

One of the abyssal beasts, which resembled a spider, suddenly stretched out its body, spraying out countless spider silks that poured towards Einhgar, instantly grabbing half of Einhgar's body.

Then a series of teeth-grinding chewing sounds came from underground.

Because what was being shot out was not spider silk, but rather thin tentacles resembling spider silk with countless mouths, which opened and closed continuously, gnawing away.

However, they don't just gnaw at the snakes; their teeth are highly corrosive, and under the high frequency of biting, the scales of Ainhgar showed signs of decay.

But that wasn't all. Another abyssal beast, seemingly pieced together from countless different creatures, launched its attack. It resembled a contorted, obese clown, struggling to roll its ugly body while emitting chilling shrieks.

Under this shriek, the space around Ainhgar began to twist rapidly, contorting into grotesque faces.

The grotesque face opened its massive maw toward Ainhgar, revealing not fangs, but thousands of eyeballs that looked around before simultaneously turning to stare at Ainhgar.

Under the watchful eyes, Ainhgal's scales began to bleed.

Then the third, the fourth...

These creatures, which were either gods or natural disasters in ancient times, are about to launch an attack on the only demigod present. These attacks are all god-killing; if taken head-on, even a true god will perish.

But the true God will not sit idly by and wait for death, nor will Ainhgal.

It twisted its body once more, its thousands of scales reflecting the flames, creating a dazzling vortex.

Or, to put it another way, a black hole.

A black hole capable of swallowing the sun.

Boom boom boom boom!
A powerful gravitational force suddenly arose within the "black hole," instantly snapping the eerie spider silk and erasing the distorted, grotesque faces.

But that wasn't the end of it. The abyssal beasts clinging to the wall were also affected by gravity and were dragged off the wall one by one.

They struggled desperately, inserting their tentacles upside down into the walls or shrinking their bodies to try and squeeze into the cracks.

But none of them worked.

It's like a celestial body encountering a black hole; that immense, overwhelming force renders any resistance futile.

Thus, these catastrophic abyssal beasts were pulled out of the wall one by one, sucked in, and then swallowed by the true abyss, like flies.

However, they did not disappear or die immediately, since Ainhgal did not create a real black hole; they were merely absorbed into Ainhgal's divine body.

Ainhgal is a coiled serpent.

Then came a series of sounds of bones shattering and flesh being crushed. The powerful abyssal beasts were truly like animals caught in a meat grinder, being torn to shreds by Ainhgar's massive divine body.

They struggled frantically, but to no avail; they could only watch helplessly as their bodies were crushed.

Their powerful vitality prevents them from being killed immediately, leaving them to endure the extreme pain without being able to utter a sound.

Because their vocal organs were also destroyed by Ainhgal.

Several minutes later, Ainhgal stopped moving.

The black hole disappeared, and so did the attack on Einhgal.

If it weren't for the fact that Ainhgal's snake scales were already filled with flesh and bone fragments, it would have been as if nothing had happened.

Ainhgal remained silently watching Isaiah.

Like an ancient god in the deep sea, it coldly watches over the small boat that has strayed into the deep ocean.

(End of this chapter)