Old days in the box

Chapter 496: Divine Realm and the Bet of the Past
The originally airtight light curtain suddenly opened a gap from the low-altitude orbit, which surprised the old relatives on the ground.

There is no way that there would be such a loophole in the orbital bombardment of the Divine Realm. Could it be a trap tactic of the enemy?

"There is a gap of about four thousand meters in the airspace on the left, which is exactly where the boundary elevator arrives. If we evacuate from there, we can enter the return channel without being affected!"

Without time to think about it, Drake had calculated all the relevant data in an instant and informed Tyin of the situation.

"It must be a trap. Now is a great opportunity to catch us all in one fell swoop. They won't miss this chance." But Tyin rejected this idea immediately.

The light curtain fell from the sky almost continuously, without stopping for a moment.

The AT force field that Zhou Xiao threw down was almost unable to hold on, and the roots of the mother trees outside the protection of the force field were blasted into debris all over the ground, and they regenerated repeatedly along with the debris.

Not only the orbital strikes, but also the mothership groups surrounded in space also made way for an obvious passage at the same time, and the orbital strikes against the ground were also intentionally moving towards the direction of Hodel.

This is not a trap, but a signal.

It might not be possible to see clearly from Taiyin and his men's perspective on the ground, but from Zhou Xiao's perspective of God, he could clearly receive the other party's signal: their target was not the old relatives, but the "Buddha" masters who were in the same place as Taiyin - to be precise, the blind god Hodel.

"This is not a threat, it's a bet." The old voice suddenly came slowly from the sky full of light.

"Bet?" Tyne was puzzled.

"The Oracle revealed to them that in the distant future, Buddha will win the battle of death, so they are going to bet on Buddha."

"Is their target Hodel?" Tyne understood at once and turned to look at Hodel who was also protected in the AT force field.

In the prophecy displayed by the "Oracle", "Buddha" will eventually win the God War in Helheim, recreate the spirit world with the Kingdom of Bliss, and become the true master of the spirit world. Therefore, the Evil Spirit Bat came this time to represent the Cross God King to reap this huge victory in advance.

According to the instructions of the "Oracle", if they try to besiege the followers of the Old Ones on the Demon Dog Star, it will lead to a fierce counterattack from the Old Ones, the conflict between the two sides will escalate, and the final losses may very likely exceed the military forces that the Divine Realm has lost in Vanaheim over the years.

Therefore, they chose the safest path among countless futures and decided not to have a head-on conflict with the past at this time and place.

The moment Zhou Xiao saw the other party's signal clearly, he understood all of this.

"My Lord, what should we do now?" Drake's calculations suddenly became confused and he asked hastily.

Everyone knows that the authority of the "Oracle" is never wrong. It was the power of prophecy once held in the hands of the three goddesses of fate. Because its power is so strong, the three goddesses and the main god Odin even need to keep half each, and it is agreed that no single god can ever hold the complete authority of the "Oracle" alone.

But now, Odin has broken his oath and gained complete authority as the "Oracle".

If the "Oracle" is truly never wrong, then was it a wrong decision to bet on the goddess of death in the past?

"Take Hela away, and everyone evacuate Helheim." But Zhou Xiao was as calm as water. He was not affected by the signal from the Evil Bat at all, and immediately gave the order to the screen.

From the beginning, his stakes were not on the identity of "Lord of the Spirit World", but on Hela herself. The three symbols of the mystical trinity are certainly attractive, but in order to unify magic in the nine realms, it is not necessary to become the Lord of the Spirit World.

"understand!"

With the final word of the past, Drake and Tyne immediately took Hela back to the Mist Fleet and headed towards the gap created by the orbital strike.

As expected, both parties chose the path that would result in the least loss. The Divine Realm decided to turn a blind eye to the Old One, and the Old One did not intend to step forward and pretend to be a hero at this time.

As Zhou Xiao said, this game was just a bet, and it was far from the time for the cards to be revealed. And when everyone was placing the bet, they all firmly believed that they would win.

In the gap deliberately left by the orbital strike, the Mist Fleet quickly escaped from the death zone and headed back towards the Styx that was passing over the Demon Dog Star.

On the bow of the Mist Gate, Tyne and Hela both turned their heads to look at the battlefield submerged in the curtain of light.

Tyin's blood brother Hodr was still on that battlefield, and Hela's entire kingdom of death was here, but now they were all forced to retreat and flee.

This was a pure anger. They could not accept escaping, and even more so, they could not accept that their escape was based on the enemy's deliberate letting them go.

Although Tyne had never been a person who valued family affection, he also felt that it was an insult to his pride to abandon Hodel and run away like this, especially since the leader of the enemy was the evil bat who had once imprisoned him.

But they had to go, because higher-level beings had already completed the game on the scale of the future, and they dared not disobey.

Huge void fluctuations came from one side of the boundary barrier. In the airspace vacated by the mothership group, the passage of the boundary elevator arrived, emitting dazzling golden light from the sky, rushing straight towards these floating ghost ships.

With the "Eternal Sun" in low-Earth orbit as a fixed beacon, a passage running through the atrium and Helheim was formed in an instant. The huge suction force sucked in the entire Mist Fleet and quickly returned to the direction of the atrium along the void.

In just a moment, the golden light disappeared into the airspace of Helheim, taking away all the old followers and the goddess of death.

The Kryptonian motherships in the sky began to approach the surface of the small satellite and continued to carry out orbital bombardment on the same area. On the horizon, the demon dog Garm, who sensed the disappearance of the goddess of death, let out a sad howl and led the undead to retreat along the River Styx.

Under the indiscriminate attack of the mothership, the "Buddha" venerables finally couldn't bear it anymore, and soon they were melted into pieces in the explosion one after another.

Only Hoder, the Supreme Lord, was left. He used the power of faith to build a boundless golden protection to resist the bombing, and tried to find a way to leave the battlefield in the chaos.

Seeing this scene, the "Buddha" outside the void finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The moment the Old One left here, He had already stirred up a huge wave from outside the void, turning the boundless power of faith into waves and pouring it towards this tiny satellite, to protect Him as the most important prophet and messenger in this realm.

"Finally, we've made our move. Let's go, it's time to negotiate with God."

The Evil Bat, who had been waiting for this moment in the control room, spoke. He waved his hand to stop the fleet's orbital strike, and began to walk out of the cabin with Gabriel and Lucifer, facing the huge energy surging from the void.

(End of this chapter)