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Not only was Ottilia surprised, but even the group of powerful figures in the distance looked as if they had seen a ghost.

From the moment Hui leaned against Kouta like a little bird, to now being held in Kouta's arms without any hesitation, they were utterly shocked, their mouths agape and their jaws practically dropping to the ground.

Only then did they realize how vast the difference was between gods.

They all thought that gods should be like Ottilia—indifferent, proud, and rational; Ke Hui's appearance made them realize that gods can also be gentle, loving, and emotional.

Within the Demon King's body, Hume's soul was not obliterated, or rather, the Demon King did not obliterate his soul.

Hume's humble birth and his relentless climb to the top made the Demon King see his own reflection in him, which is why the Demon King spared him.

At this moment, Hume watched from inside his body as Kouta casually embraced the slender waist of the incomparably beautiful goddess, while the goddess, whom he dared not even dream of reaching, leaned against Kouta like a young girl.

Watching this scene, Hume felt no jealousy whatsoever. If Hui were replaced by a noblewoman, he would have been jealous.

If it were a princess of another country, he would be jealous;

If it were a saintess from the mainland, he would be jealous;

He would be jealous if it were a beautiful Saint-level expert in the distance;

But when it's the goddess Hui, he... can't be jealous.

The distance between them was too great, so great that he could no longer feel jealous.

No matter how confident he was, no matter how much he deceived himself, deep down he knew very well that it was impossible for him, that he could not do it, that he absolutely could not do the same thing as Kouta, and that the possibility of it was even lower than a daydream.

Not far away, the heavily injured Shimogaki Seiichi watched this scene, seeing Kouta and another unfamiliar goddess deeply in love. This was his long-cherished dream, so unattainable, but now it had been easily realized by his enemy.

As for himself, in Ottilia's heart... For a moment, his heart was filled with mixed feelings, which eventually turned into endless resentment and overwhelming hatred. He hated Kouta, and he hated Ottilia even more. But Ottilia was a goddess, and his hatred for her would be subject to divine retribution. Thus, Shimogaki Seiichi turned into light in endless resentment.

"Outer God, you... have fallen in love with a mortal?" This was the first time Ottilia had encountered such a thing in her millions of experiences.

Hui Jue's beautiful face darkened, and she said with a hint of anger and seriousness, "Geng Tai is not an ordinary person, Geng Tai is Geng Tai!"

"Why would someone as sacred as you and me fall in love with a mortal? Gods don't need love. The only value mortals have to us is their souls, which we can simply extract if we want them," Ottilia said indifferently.

Hui looked at her with pity: "You are so pitiful. You have lived for countless years, but you don't even have a single person to accompany you."

Upon hearing this, a flicker of reminiscence crossed Ottilia's eyes, but it quickly vanished. In the vast ocean of her millions of years of memories, she had long forgotten love, nor had she ever thought of loving.

It's not that male gods and female gods don't have sexual relations, but they only cherish and enjoy it; there's no love mixed in.

Because they are gods, they are all ancient monsters who have lived for countless years. None of them can completely trust each other. Without trust, there is naturally no love. As for falling in love with mortals, that is even more impossible.

"As a god, you actually fell in love with a mortal? No, gods don't fall in love with mortals. This is just your excuse, or rather, you just want to play around."

"Interpret it however you like, you'll never understand anyway." Hui gazed deeply at Kouta. "I love him, and I want to be loved by him, it's that simple. I will help him become a god, so that he can stay by my side forever, forever..."

Kouta also turned to stare at Hui. He didn't say anything, but the hand around Hui's waist tightened, as if he wanted to meld Hui into his own body.

Ottilia's eyes turned completely cold. This Outer God was a madman, incomprehensible by reason. Since that was the case, there was no other way but to fight.

Om-!

The Holy Grail appeared in Hui's hand, which she then handed to Kouta, simultaneously transmitting her thoughts telepathically:

"Kouta, I'll hold her back for a moment. Then you can start the ritual immediately. Once the ritual is over, we'll leave this world together."

"Hui, the other party is a god. Are you alright? Maybe we should call it quits."

"No! Don't worry, although I only have one in a billion of the power of my original body, that woman has the same power. We're about evenly matched. Even if I can't beat her, I can buy some time. There's no danger," Hui said confidently.

Hui wasn't lying. In her perception, the other party was indeed only slightly stronger than herself. If her true form were here, she could kill the other party instantly.

"Uh..." Kōta felt like a million sheep were running through his mind.

He had personally witnessed Ottilia's power; just looking directly at her caused his brain to throb with pain, and he simply couldn't imagine just how powerful she was.

Even with such a powerful god, Hui said that the other party was evenly matched with her.

He then suddenly realized just what kind of being Hui was, the woman he shared a bed with every day.

It was only because Hui always acted like a little woman in front of him, obeying him in every way, that Xu Wufa never regarded him as an enemy. To others, Xu Wufa, who would be annihilated if touched even slightly, was like the spring sun to him, warm and gentle, like a spring breeze.

"Kouta, I'm going."

Hui turned to Kouta and said something, then stared at Ottilia, who also looked at Hui.

The moment the two women's eyes met, everyone's vision blurred, and they felt as if the world was both white and dark.

The entire surrounding space—the forest, the earth, the sky—everything distorted, its outlines vanished, leaving only colors, like paints mixed together on a palette.

After their mental daze subsided, the space above the crater shattered, revealing a terrifying, pitch-black void. The space continued to converge, its sharp edges cutting everything in their path into fragments. Gale-force winds howled, and air currents surged, frantically squeezing into the spatial gaps. Meanwhile, the two goddesses vanished without a trace.

This is a huge crater spanning several thousand meters in diameter, its shape and size exactly the same as the highest peak of the Dispire Mountains—the Sky Pillar. The difference is that the Sky Pillar is full of life, while this place is filled with dark red lava, the air is incredibly hot, reaching thousands of degrees Celsius, and the unpleasant smell of sulfur permeates the air.

In fact, this is another dimension, the Heavenly Pillar Crater, the thought dimension of many beings on the continent of Sierra, a reflection of the real world, also known as the Shadow Realm.

The rules of the Shadow Realm are distorted and incomplete, and no life can exist here. That is to say, even gods like Hui and Ottilia can stay in this hellish place.

Neither Hui nor Ottilia wanted to destroy that world, so they both chose this place as the battlefield.

The entire Shadow Realm dimension gradually transformed into a standoff between light and darkness, with neither side restraining their power and allowing it to permeate the dimension...

Chapter 529 God War

The dimension of thought is a reflection of the real world, which can be simply understood as the dimension of dreams, but it also has a more academic name—the shadow realm.

At this moment, in the Shadow Realm, at the highest peak of the Dispiel Mountains—the Pillar of Heaven—endless molten lava gurgled and bubbled from its enormous crater.

This is the Heavenly Pillar crater, a billion-year-old crater in the World Memory.

Hui and Ottilia appeared here as if they had teleported out of thin air.

At this moment, they no longer restrained their power, and this dream dimension was divided by two colors, white and black.

The two colors clashed violently, like bulls in a gladiatorial arena, neither willing to give way.

This is the law of the two themselves assimilating this dimension; the place where Hui is is assimilated into nothingness, and the side occupied by Ottilia is assimilated into light.

"The Black Law, what kind of god are you?" Ottilia stared thoughtfully at the dark divine power radiating from Hui.

At the same time, a burst of light appeared on her body, and her originally casual dress transformed into a skirt armor radiating a holy white light.

But in an instant,

Before she had even finished changing her dress, her eyes widened and her pupils contracted sharply.

Swish! ! !

A black slash flashed down from above her head, or perhaps the slash had already ended by the time this happened; it was merely a memory of this dimension.

The slash cut across her head, her neck, her chest, her abdomen, and her lower body, severing her in two and leaving a thin black crack in space.

Not only that, the slash that split Ottilia in two continued downwards, unleashing terrifying power directly onto the volcano below.

puff--!

A dazzling black light flashed by, cleaving the Sky Pillar, which stood tens of thousands of meters above sea level, in two from top to bottom.

"Did you dodge it..." Hui's voice, as clear as heavenly music, rang out, calm and indifferent, as if she were describing something insignificant.

In front of Hui, the body that had been cut in two did not bleed or fall to the ground, but gradually blurred and faded until it disappeared.

Meanwhile, on the other side in the distance, countless rays of light coalesced and transformed back into Ottilia's form.

Boom boom boom—!!

The Pillar of Heaven let out a mournful cry, and a crack appeared from its top, stretching all the way to the ground.

It began to collapse, and the lava inside, no longer surrounded by rock, began to pour out, like a flood bursting its banks, spreading outwards and flowing across the land.

Suddenly,

boom--!!!

Dark red magma erupted amidst billowing black smoke, its deafening roar pressing down on all sides, scorching countless boulders formed from the collapse of the Pillar of Heaven until they glowed red-hot, then pushing them back into the sky before crashing down, leaving countless fiery streaks in the smoke-filled air.

The entire dream dimension shook, and an incredibly powerful sound wave crashed against the heavens, lingering for a long time.

Fortunately, both gods coincidentally chose this lifeless Shadow Dimension as their battlefield; otherwise, this single attack would have nearly destroyed the real world.

The shadow realm is like a reflection of the real dimension. Because it is a reflection, it is more difficult to manipulate the energy here, and it is also more difficult to cause large-scale destruction in the dimension.

If this is a pillar of heaven being cleaved in two, then in the real world, it's a continent being split in two.

For a god who no longer restrains his power, destroying the world is that simple!

The lava fissure spanning thousands of meters had barely appeared when, under the divine radiation of the two goddesses, it either turned into nothingness or into light...

"You just... launched a sneak attack!?" Ottilia started complaining, not knowing where to begin.

Is it that the other party has no divine dignity, or that the other party is delusional and thinks that a sneak attack can determine the outcome of a divine war?

Hui held a long, black sword in her hand. This was not a weapon, but a manifestation of the law of nothingness.

Hui didn't know how the other gods fought, but she intuitively felt that her way of fighting as the God of Nothingness was to confront the opponent.

This weapon, condensed from the laws of nature, can cut off a piece of flesh from the opponent and devour it directly. By weakening the opponent, it can definitely wear them down to death.

"A sneak attack? Heh~" Hui twirled her sword and said disdainfully, "You think I can't see that you're preparing a powerful move?"

Hui's divine attire changed from a dress to a Valkyrie style with a corset, waist cincher, short skirt, and over-the-knee stockings, suitable for combat, making her both practical and beautiful.

"You saw it, but too late! Divine Magic—Light is the Origin of the World!" Ottilia pointed and released the spell, adding, "Supporting spell, expanding the range of the rules' effects—Blessing of Light!"

Dozens of magic circles appeared on Ottilia's body, engraved with incredibly mysterious runes. Hui couldn't understand any of these runes, but she could tell one thing: the information density of these runes was ridiculously high.

A single rune contains more information than all the knowledge accumulated by human civilization over thousands of years.

Such runes, if seen by a human, would instantly turn them into an idiot due to the terrifying amount of information they contain.

Accompanied by Ottilia's words.

Chi! ! !

In an instant,

A force of light descended suddenly, traveling through different times and spaces.

Light distorted spacetime, and at that moment, almost simultaneously, all its power was concentrated into a single point.

Hui's figure disappeared and instantly reappeared a million kilometers away, a distance of about 2.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

However, the [Divine Magic - Light is the End of the World], like a persistent ailment, traveled a million kilometers and landed precisely on Hui.