Everyone was stunned for a moment, and even the gods who had witnessed countless wars could not immediately react because what they had expected was something far simpler. They had thought Kael would ascend and become a demi god or at most gain power equal to a god, but what had just happened went far beyond anything they had prepared for.
That sword strike had not simply injured or destroyed.It had severed their connection to divinity itself.
For a brief moment, the battlefield fell into a strange pause as the gods processed what they had just witnessed, and that hesitation spread like a ripple across the universe.
Amidst that pause, Kael moved.
He took a step forward, and that single movement caused the void beneath him to rupture violently while waves of pressure spread outward and crushed everything in their path.
The space ahead of him warped and folded as if it could not withstand his presence.
Then—
A horrific scream echoed.
