137: godhead

The Alien Queen and Samael were entangled in battle.

Boom!

Boom! Boom!

The three pairs of appendages that materialized behind the Alien Queen transformed into a whirlwind of death, mercilessly ravaging Samael's exposed, tattered body!

His massive arm blades hammered down like pile drivers, each heavy blow causing Samael's body to tremble violently, sending fragments of his decaying bone armor scattering!

The sharp scythe-like appendages carved terrifying, 'bone-deep' wounds into his body; no blood flowed from these wounds, only ash-like death matter dissipated!

The scorpion-tail-like appendage, even more like a fatal stinger, precisely struck the critical nodes where Samael attempted to gather strength with each jab, directly dispersing any trace of power he had just managed to muster!

"Ah!!! No!!!"

Samael let out a bloodcurdling scream that was inhuman.

He felt as if he were a disassembled puppet, being torn apart and ground down by an irresistible force, bit by bit!

His once proud power of death, in the face of the opponent's barbaric and unreasonable terrifying strength, was completely shattered before it could even form an effective defense!

His remaining strength was rapidly draining, and his body's structure was collapsing!

He was horrified to discover that this monster's power was even more advanced than his own rule of death!

Even more terrifying!

He was terrified!

He was unwilling!

He had only just escaped his seal, intending to instantly kill the 'ant' who had rescued him, but he hadn't expected this 'ant's' strength to exceed his expectations!

He hated!

He hated the woman who had sealed him here hundreds of thousands of years ago!

He had merely 'visited' one of her temples, and yet she had sealed him here for hundreds of thousands of years!

At this moment, he was...

Weak!

Extremely weak!

Hundreds of thousands of years of sealing had led to his power being almost entirely eroded by the 'branch' that suppressed him.

Although, due to the influence of hundreds of thousands of years, that branch had also transformed into a 'White Bone Giant Tree' by continuously dissolving and absorbing his power of death.

But the power of death it absorbed was not even one hundred-thousandth of his power during his peak!

"Despicable insect! You will regret this! You will..."

Samael's threatening words were not yet finished.

Pfft!!!

A sickening thud, like leather being violently torn, resounded!

One of the Alien Queen's siege-hammer-like arm blades slammed heavily into Samael's chest, utterly shattering his already broken bone armor and caving in his chest deeply!

And the other arm blade, like the heaviest iron hammer, struck Samael's head with destructive force!

Bang!!!

Samael's head, hidden beneath his hood, along with his final unwilling roar and venomous curse, burst open like a rotten watermelon crushed by immense force!!!

Countless grey-black fragments, ash-like decaying matter, and remnants of chaotic death power exploded like fireworks!

The tattered body of Samael, the Angel of Death, who had just escaped and hadn't yet had the chance to announce his return to the world, was utterly... blown apart by the Alien Queen's extreme rampage!!!

The entire Death Desert fell into a deathly silence.

Only the ashes and deathly aura dissipating from Samael's exploded body lingered.

However, a new anomaly arose!

At the core of Samael's exploding body, the dissipating, chaotic power of death did not completely vanish; instead, as if drawn by some core, it frantically converged to a single central point!

Buzz!!!

A fluctuation, purer and more primordial than the death aura Samael had previously displayed, as if it condensed the ultimate essence of the rule of death, suddenly erupted!

The intensity of this fluctuation even caused the very space to wail!

All the ashes, fragments, and dissipating power of death were instantly absorbed!

In the air where Samael's body had exploded, a 'small figure' just the size of a palm, entirely jet black like ink, seemingly condensed from the purest primordial power of death, suddenly formed!

The form of this small figure vaguely resembled Samael, but it was more abstract, more pure!

It had no facial features, only a humanoid outline, emitting a terrifying, heart-palpitating aura of primordial death that seemed capable of ending all things!

This aura was so dense, so pure, that the surrounding space presented a bizarre, constantly annihilating and regenerating distorted state!

Its mere existence seemed to expound the ultimate truth of "death"!

"Divinity?!"

Lin Feng's pupils suddenly constricted to the extreme, and his heart pounded!

Although he had never truly seen one, legends about the core of a deity instantly flooded his mind!

This was definitely a Divinity!

It was the most core and primordial power crystallization of Samael as an Angel of Death!

It was the materialization of a rule authority!

Even if his main body perished, as long as the Divinity remained, there was a possibility of rebirth!

Once the jet-black 'small figure' formed, it didn't hesitate for a moment, not even uttering a single harsh word!

It transformed into an almost imperceptible, pure black line of death, and fled frantically in the opposite direction from Lin Feng and the others, at a speed beyond thought!

It wanted to escape this terrifying place!

To escape the monster that could blow apart its body!

"Hiss—!!!"

The moment this jet-black small figure appeared and attempted to flee, the Alien Queen's cold, battle-ready dark-golden compound eyes, for the first time, erupted with an uncontrollable, naked gleam of greed!

The light was so fervent, so eager, as if a ravenous beast had spotted the world's most exquisite delicacy!

She could clearly sense that the aura of the rule of death emanating from that jet-black small figure, in its purity and primordial nature, far surpassed the White Bone Giant Tree from before, and even far surpassed Samael's tattered body itself!

This was truly a great tonic!

It was the key that could allow her to evolve to a higher level!

Without any hesitation!

The Alien Queen's massive body violently shuddered, and an equally powerful, yet distinctly different, rule power—her own dark-golden rule power, fused with the primordial essences of destruction, devour, and evolution—erupted!

This power was not an attack, but transformed into an immense energy net, composed of countless dark-golden patterns!

The giant net emitted powerful pulling and restraining forces, instantly enveloping a large area of space in the direction the jet-black small figure was fleeing!

"Come... here!"

A silent roar emanated from the Alien Queen's mental will!

The dark-golden rule net suddenly contracted, and a powerful pulling force acted upon the black line of death!

"Buzz—!!!"

The black line, formed from the Death Divinity, trembled violently, and its escape speed plummeted!

It erupted with an even denser, more chaotic aura of primordial death, attempting to resist and tear apart this dark-golden giant net!

Two distinctly different rule powers violently collided and annihilated in the air, emitting a grating, soul-shaking friction sound!

"Despicable creature!!! Do you think 'Divinity' is something you can touch?! Wishful thinking!!!"

A piercing shriek, filled with extreme venom, rage, and terror, did not travel through the air, but exploded directly in the depths of all living beings' souls!

That was Samael's lingering will, clinging to the Divinity, roaring!

He felt a fatal threat!

His exalted Divinity was being pulled as prey by a creature he considered an insect!

This was a thousand times more humiliating than being killed!

The dark-golden net of devour and the jet-black Death Divinity wrestled fiercely in the air, neither giving way!

Space was twisted and deformed by the two terrifying forces, emitting groans of unbearable strain.