The outcome had been all but inevitable.
Back when the Qin Empire rose to dominance, the other nations had united to resist it. Expecting these ancient gods to sit back and watch the Heavenly Court dismantle them one by one would have been naïve.
After all, beings who had survived for countless ages were neither foolish nor complacent.
Drex Valen had anticipated this possibility from the very beginning.
The Ten Golden Crows and the Pangu Banner had both been prepared specifically for a moment like this.
With the War God Xingtian standing guard over the dimensional exit while wielding the Pangu Banner, the Allied Pantheons had no way to break through and escape.
At this critical moment, one of the Egyptian gods stepped forward.
Horus.
The guardian deity of the pharaohs, symbol of kingship, and god of vengeance in ancient Egyptian mythology.
The son of Osiris and Isis, Horus appeared with the head of a falcon and the body of a man. An Egyptian crown rested upon his brow, a linen kilt hung around his waist, and in his hands were the Was scepter and the Ankh.
The instant Horus entered the battlefield, he revealed the divine artifact entrusted to him by the Sun God himself.
The Eye of Ra.
Ra was the supreme solar deity of ancient Egypt, the noonday sun and chief of the Heliopolitan Ennead.
For over a thousand years, Ra had stood at the center of Egyptian worship. Following the rise of Thebes, he merged with Amun and became Amun-Ra, the highest god of Egypt.
Legend held that all life had been created by Ra speaking each being's true name into existence. Humanity itself was said to have been born from his tears and sweat.
The Eye of Ra was called an eye.
In reality, it looked no different from a sun.
Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that it was a sun.
Radiant solar divinity flooded the battlefield.
As the power of a supreme solar god and creator deity, Ra's divine light burned with terrifying intensity. Compared to Jehovah's authority over light, it showed no weakness whatsoever. If anything, its domineering nature felt even more overwhelming.
Even the gods of the Heavenly Court were visibly surprised.
These foreign pantheons possessed treasures of this caliber?
Without hesitation, Horus directed the Eye of Ra toward Xingtian.
The War God immediately sensed danger.
The Pangu Banner swept through the void.
Its full might erupted.
The power to tear apart primordial chaos.
The force to shatter space and time across countless heavens.
The authority of limitless creation.
The supreme law governing all techniques.
The capability to split heaven and earth apart.
Endless Chaos Sword Qi surged outward.
The blazing solar power was ripped open.
BOOM!
As the Pangu Banner unleashed its true strength, the sun and moon lost their brilliance.
The world spun violently.
Mountains shook.
The earth fractured.
Oceans overturned.
The boundless sky split apart into countless pieces as the entire dimensional world was forcibly suppressed.
Space itself shattered.
Earth, fire, water, and wind erupted from the ruins, reconstructing reality from the ground up.
A casual strike generated enough residual force to create a cataclysm capable of destroying worlds.
The Eye of Ra was pushed back so severely that its divine power erupted in waves, as though Ra himself were descending upon the battlefield.
The endless seas flipped upside down.
Every drop of water transformed into torrential rain that crashed across the world. Vast regions remained empty long afterward, unable to refill.
Chaotic currents swept through space.
Terrifying shrieks echoed across heaven and earth.
With a single attack, the entire Black Hole Dimension was suppressed.
Space froze.
Nothing could escape.
The Eye of Ra blazed even brighter.
Its radiance illuminated every corner of existence.
Gradually, its overwhelming divine power began resisting the seemingly limitless force of the Pangu Banner.
Yet Xingtian remained unmoved.
Black-and-white streams of energy poured from his nose and mouth as both hands gripped the colossal banner.
Chaos divine light surged.
Thunderous sounds rolled endlessly across the world.
The entire dimension resembled a pot of boiling water as earth, fire, water, and wind churned violently.
Black shockwaves swept across existence.
Sky and land shattered wherever they passed.
Chaos storms howled.
All things drifted toward annihilation.
The world became a gray sea of primordial disorder as murderous killing intent converged upon the Eye of Ra.
At that moment, the Eye of Ra truly demonstrated why it belonged to a supreme god.
With both solar divinity and creation authority, it resisted the horrifying power of the Pangu Banner.
Even the Heavenly Court gods, fully aware of the banner's destructive capabilities, were astonished.
For an instant, the world returned to nothingness.
Everything became chaos.
Void energy spread through existence.
It climbed into the heavens, seeking to assimilate every god present and bring the entire dimension to its end.
Divine light poured from the Eye of Ra.
The countless realms stabilized.
The gathered gods were protected within its radiance.
The encroaching void was erased before it could reach them.
Xingtian towered between heaven and earth like a giant supporting the cosmos itself.
Suddenly, darkness filled his eyes.
Black-and-white energy streamed from his mouth.
With a roar that shook the void, the raging currents of chaos dispersed.
Space itself resembled torn silk, threatening to split apart entirely.
Then the giant seized the Pangu Banner.
Holding it level before his chest, he swung.
A single strike.
Clear and turbid energies separated.
Chaos surged wildly.
An entire heaven-and-earth was carved open by force.
The land below began taking shape.
The sky rose higher.
Earth, fire, water, and wind flowed endlessly through the newborn world.
Violent destructive energy saturated every corner of existence.
Faced with such apocalyptic power, the Eye of Ra began to falter.
In the end, it was only a fragment of Ra.
Not Ra himself.
The Allied Pantheons suffered devastating losses.
The destruction unleashed by the Pangu Banner appeared catastrophic within the Black Hole Dimension, but in the grand scale of that realm, it affected only a microscopic portion of its vastness.
Outside, however, the situation would have been entirely different.
The Pangu Banner possessed more than enough power to erase a universe.
As an absolute divine artifact forged through the Black Hole Dimension itself, it had reached the level of a single-universe weapon.
Then, at the most critical moment, the Eye of Ra suddenly erupted.
Its brilliance exceeded that of a sun by countless trillions of times.
Divine light flooded existence.
Ra had sensed that something was wrong.
Using the Eye as a beacon, he was forcing his true self to descend.
The gods of the Heavenly Court noticed immediately.
None of them attempted to stop it.
Ra was exactly the kind of prize they wanted.
If a great fish was willing to swim directly into the net, why interfere?
At the same time, Michael gripped the Holy Lance and quietly murmured a series of sacred words.
No one paid attention.
All eyes were fixed on the imminent arrival of Ra.
A supreme solar god.
A creator deity.
The highest god of the Egyptian pantheon.
No one dared underestimate such an existence.
Meanwhile, morale among the Allied Pantheons surged.
They desperately sought to protect Ra's descent.
Yet the Heavenly Court remained strangely calm.
Almost indifferent.
The sight unsettled many of the foreign gods.
Were they truly that confident?
This was Ra.
The Sun God.
Light blossomed throughout the Heavenly Court's world.
The arrival lacked the overwhelming spectacle that had accompanied Jehovah's descent, but it carried a crushing sense of authority that was equally intimidating.
Ra had arrived.
The moment he appeared, Xingtian swung the Pangu Banner at him.
Ra frowned briefly before relaxing.
"An impressive artifact," he said calmly. "A pity you're the one wielding it."
He had no intention of meeting the Pangu Banner head-on with solar power.
Instead, he poured his full strength into his authority as a creator god.
Creation power collided with the banner's might, offsetting its destructive force.
Then Ra charged straight toward Xingtian.
He had already seen the key to the battlefield.
As long as the War God guarding the exit could be defeated, the Allied Pantheons would finally be able to escape.