They all call me an Outer God.

Even through his eyelids, he could feel a burst of intense light erupting in front of him.

When Ria opened his eyes, he saw a figure behind the white light, someone who was the least likely person to be there and to shield him from the attack.

He single-handedly blocked the attack of two angels, but this caused his already damaged body to rot completely, even exposing his bare bones.

"you……"

Ria's pupils contracted. He wasn't going to die so easily. Ria had always believed he was lucky enough to survive, so he was keen on gambling with his life. This time, in order to prevent Swaal from not being able to find him after his death, he originally planned to die with Swaal and then wait for an opportunity to be resurrected.

Abbreviated as "death escape".

However, just as he made this decision, someone rejected his idea, directly leading by example in defying the angel and returning the attack without hesitation.

After doing all that, the man collapsed to the ground.

After a long silence, Ria walked up to the man, squatted down, and looked at him.

"Why would you do this, Hephaestus?"

Why did Hephaestus save him?

This was something that Lia couldn't understand at all. He had been opposing these people for so long, and there should have been nothing but hatred and resentment between them, yet these people still followed him tirelessly.

The Hephaestus on the ground was so wretched that it was unrecognizable, though appearance was of no importance to them anyway.

But he still managed to piece together a big smile with his own flesh and blood.

He smiled as always: "My lord, we haven't reached a real dead end yet. You haven't squeezed all the value out of everything, so why are you already thinking about squeezing your own life?"
You certainly have no idea what I've been through.

"The pollution of the fertile land spread throughout the city, but every additional individual adds to the strength. When we discovered that Perlmand had sent his subordinates to annihilate us, we made a rather bold decision."

We consumed the entire city's Hephaestus, including the newborn children, to imbue Triston with all his consciousness, and then returned him to Perlmand.

Perlmand is too greedy; he wants everything, and he even set his sights on you. However, this may also be because we underestimated him and went too far...

I'm truly ashamed, but there won't be a next time.

Hephis Gott said, taking a deep breath.

"I am the last one. After I die, there will be no more Hephaestus in this city. You can stay here in peace. Remember to think of us when you are bored."

Someone gave birth to fifty-eight children, and never even had a chance to hold them for you to see... What a pity.

His voice was so weak it was almost imperceptible. In his final moments, the man reached out a hand, seemingly wanting to touch Ria, but before he could fully touch her, he turned into a pure gold statue right before Ria's eyes.

Ria also heard the loud crashing sound coming from inside the high-rise building where Perlmand was. He turned his head and saw an angel of strange and enormous size squeezed inside, trying to climb out haphazardly. Meanwhile, in the sky where the angel had been, Perlmand's body was falling rapidly with the dust.

Just moments ago, Hephaestus had imitated Ria's method, switching the positions of the angel and Permander. However, he was not completely immune to the fluctuations from the angel's attack, which led to his death.

Lia was speechless for a moment.

Does he hate Hephaestus?

They are certainly hated.

Although he didn't want to admit it... these lunatics, who knows what they're thinking all day, seem to be much more humane than he is.

“I never thought I’d be thinking like this.” Ria stood up again, feeling that his current experience truly reflected the saying—when he was in danger, Hephaestus would be happy to help him out, but when there was no danger, they were the greatest danger.

However, it must be said that Hephaestus's actions did indeed help him solve his immediate problem.

Ria walked toward the direction where Perlmand had been shot down, and the figure of that man gradually appeared in the dust. But unexpectedly, he did not turn into a golden statue. Instead, he sat on the ground nervously, scratching his hair and muttering some incoherent words.

"He is watching me, He must be watching me right now..."

"Tell me, is He watching me?!"

Perlmand's gaze suddenly shifted to Ria, who was taken aback.

Is this person contaminated by the idiot meme?

"I saw it! I saw it!"

"What did you see?"

"I saw a red moon... no, it's the sun... no, it's not the sun! That's not the sun!"

Perlmand suddenly tightened his grip on the skull, and a large amount of blood flowed from between his fingers.

The man's eyes became cloudy.

That's not the sun!!!

He suddenly shouted out and put the tip of his thumb directly into his mouth and began to bite it.

When Perlmand looked up at the sky, he was facing the red moon, and he trembled as if he were being burned, wishing he could shrink to the smallest size.

"Stop looking at me! None of you should look at me anymore!!!"

How could idiots cause such a huge amount of pollution?

Ria was somewhat surprised by meme contamination, but the next moment, he dismissed his own idea.

The loss of power within her body and the descent of the angels undoubtedly paved a path for Perlmand to communicate with the radiant sun. While Ria fought with the angels, Perlmand took the opportunity to come into contact with the sun.

He will ascend to Meme One under the watchful eyes of the sun and angels, but what will he see at that moment?
Countless white worms crowded together and devoured each other, forming a giant net that covered the surface of the red moon. Their internal organs were squeezed out, forming fleshy tendrils that floated in the vacuum.

The dark side of the moon is a breeding ground for evil.

Within his mind, in the endless chaos, an even more terrifying celestial body appeared on the opposite side of the red moon, in front of the sun that should have been magnificent, mercilessly obscuring and devouring its shadow bit by bit.

He floated silently in the dark void throne, exuding an indescribable aura of death.

The planet appeared to have been eroded by the winds of time, displaying a rusty, reddish-brown hue. Apart from the irregularly arranged, hill-like spherical protrusions on its surface, there were almost no other features to be seen.

At first glance, these protrusions may be mistaken for ordinary landforms on a planet. However, upon closer inspection, observers will find that these "hills" are not as small as imagined; their size far exceeds the scope of typical planetary landforms.

The planet itself floated there lifelessly, yet its aura was like distant rumbling thunder. At a certain moment, its crust suddenly began to move slowly.

(End of this chapter)