The entangling crimson tentacles shot forward like sharp arrows, blazing with terrifying Divine Power.

’The current Lince isn’t exactly a fish on the chopping block, but he shouldn’t have many means left at his disposal,’ the Blood God thought.

The Blood God could see how formidable the Giant Dragon’s body was.

But this Giant Dragon had lost all its divine power. ’So what if its physical body is strong? It can’t possibly be stronger than me, can it? I still have my Divine Power!’

Thus, while the Blood God maintained a degree of caution, he was internally burning with eagerness.

It was a craving for the physical body of a fellow Ancient Life!

The sea urchin-like Blood God had reached his current stage precisely by relying on his ability to devour.

The most important ability granted by his Ancient Bloodline Authority was to devour and evolve.

This was why the lifeforms of the Crimson World were so lacking in diversity, consisting of only the Human Race and the Blood Race.

In fact, this was because, in ancient times, he had devoured far too many other Extraordinary Races and powerful Deities.

As for why the Human Race and the Blood Race were the ones to ultimately remain in this world...

In a sense, it was because he had come to look down on the life of the Mortal World and kept these Intelligent Creatures around merely to pass the time.

Of course, the most important reason was that he needed the Human Race and the Blood Race to exist on the Crimson World to maintain its most basic Mana Ecology.

After all, the Mana Will required a living ecosystem.

While non-intelligent creatures like insects could suffice, a Dominator-Tier Deity like the Blood God clearly understood the importance and indispensability of intelligent life within an ecosystem to the Mana Will.

In short, for a living world—a world with magic—Intelligent Creatures were an essential component.

If the number of Intelligent Creatures in a world became too scarce, it could even cause the Mana Will’s energy level to decline.

Thus, the continued survival of the Human Race on the Crimson World, and even the existence of something like the Adams Empire—a Human Empire—was both a coincidence and an inevitability.

To return to the subject.

But the moment the Blood God greedily launched his attack on Lince, the bloody impact he expected never happened.

The terrifying impact and piercing force of the attack vanished the instant it touched the Giant Dragon’s scales, like an egg smashing against a rock.

Amidst the Blood God’s shock and disbelief, the Giant Dragon shot out its claws and seized three of the great sea urchin’s massive, fleshy tentacles!

At the same time, using the momentum from the attack, the Giant Dragon whipped its tail around.

The next moment, its nearly seven-thousand-kilometer-long tail carved a massive arc as it whipped violently toward the great sea urchin’s face.

Though the great sea urchin reacted quickly, hastily severing its three captured tentacles, the Giant Dragon’s gleaming golden tail was already upon its face.

At that very moment, something happened that the Blood God found utterly incomprehensible.

Yes!

Despite the Magicless Domain imposed by the Crystal Wall’s laws, as the Giant Dragon’s massive golden tail whipped toward him in what seemed like slow motion, sparks suddenly began to appear.

The sparks started faint, but in the next moment, they erupted into a raging inferno, a transformation that occurred so instantaneously only the two combatants could perceive it.

Faced with this scene, the great sea urchin was filled with a mixture of shock and rage.

It instantly diverted more Star Energy to protect the massive eye on its face, while a dense web of its tentacles simultaneously covered the pupil.

BOOM!

A terrifying, ring-shaped ripple of fire flashed, seeming to sweep across the entirety of space.

The terrifying aftershock, far beyond mortal imagination and akin to the collision of planets, rapidly swept through the surrounding space.

The terrifying shockwave was so powerful it even ’blew away’ the Deities watching from seventy or eighty thousand kilometers away.

As for the remaining Aerospace Fighters, they were instantly incinerated into fireballs by the blast.

It had to be said that a battle of this magnitude was far beyond the imagination of ordinary Deities. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The massive explosion generated rings of energy, like those from an exploding planet, that swept out across the entire Star Sea, one after another.

When the aftershocks finally subsided...

...the Deities who had been blown away finally realized that things had returned to normal.

That’s right—the sea urchin Blood God had actively dispelled the Magicless Domain!

Only then did they see that far off in the Star Sea, at the center of the explosion, the great sea urchin’s face was a miserable sight.

A terrifying, fiery fissure now stretched across its planet-sized eye!

The fissure covered one entire half of the Blood God’s Divine Body.

The scene looked as if a canyon of molten rock had spontaneously appeared on the surface of a planet.

It was a truly horrifying sight.

However, very quickly, as the Deities watched...

...the molten fissure on the great sea urchin was quickly covered by a surge of crimson flesh from other parts of its body.

In the span of a single breath, its form was restored to its original state.

But now, all the Deities could see that the expression in the Blood God’s eye as it gazed upon the Giant Dragon had become one of flustered rage and hatred.

"How is this possible!!!"

"How could you possibly use the Authority Power of a Law within the Crystal Wall Domain!!!"

The furious, teeth-grinding voice echoed out.

But the Giant Dragon merely looked down upon the great sea urchin, its indifferent gaze saying it all.

’Since we’ve clearly become irreconcilable enemies, there’s no reason for me to waste another word on this Blood God.’

Therefore, in the very next moment...

...even more terrifying flames began to erupt from the fiery Giant Dragon’s Divine Body.