Though the Mark of God had appeared on my hand, it wasnât as if this was enough to tell me what was happening.
With the appearance of the Mark of God, I at least knew that this was related to the godâs messenger.
After all, for the Mark of God to appear on my hand like this, it must be reacting to the godâs messenger that was nearby.
The thing was that even though it reacted, it wasnât as if it would tell me exactly where they were.
At the same time, it wasnât as if there was something that was magically going to happen since the Mark of God was reacting.
There was no guarantee that whatever was happening was related to the godâs messenger.
In the end, I just said, "Wait here for a bit and see what happens."
Klein and the royal guards had a trace of doubt on their faces when they heard this, but they still followed my orders. They immediately formed a circle around me as if they were planning to protect me.
However, I had also prepared myself to raise a barrier around us if anything were to happen.
It was just that nothing happened.
Even after the Mark of God appeared, it seemed like there wasnât a single thing that changed about the surrounding. It was as if whatever had us trapped here wasnât planning on letting us out.
"Does this mean that whatever is here isnât friendly towards the other gods?"
This was the first time that I was having this thought.
After all, it didnât seem like the other godâs messengers were supposed to be hostile towards the rest of the gods.
Or at least not towards the majority of the gods, even if the kraken and Aestum had shown their hostility towards Aquaron.
From what Lupus and Zeldir told me, these godâs messengers should have been willing to meet me.
So the only thing that could be happening was that this was some kind of trap.
The godâs messenger could be in trouble and was being used as bait to draw me in.
The only ones that would do that would be the forces of Destruction...
"Only how would they have found the godâs messenger?"
It wasnât the time to think about this, so I focused on finding a way out of this place first.
Though no matter how I thought about it, it really didnât seem like there would be a way out of this place. If we wanted to escape, the only thing that could be done was...
"I am here to see the godâs messenger, thereâs no need to act this way, right?"
Klein and the other royal guards seemed a bit surprised when they heard this, but they werenât really that surprised. After all, they had already figured that this was the case since I had insisted on coming to this place.
Still, they didnât let their guards down as they waited to see what would come out.
This time, there was a reaction to what I said.
Only it wasnât the kind of reaction that I had been expecting from whatever was out there.
"Skitter, skitter."
The sounds were faint, but we were able to hear these sounds coming from all around us. With how many of the same sounds there were, it was as if there were a bunch of things that had completely surrounded us at this moment.
Though we really couldnât see anything and had no idea what was out there.
After a while, it seemed like there was something that was finally released.
It was hard to tell at first, but it felt like there was some kind of relief that came over us. It was as if there had been something that had been putting stress on us the entire time, but we hadnât been able to tell that this was happening until it was finally released.
Though this certainly wasnât good news.
Even if we were free now, it meant that there had been something that had been putting this kind of influence on us the entire time. It meant that there was something out there that had been able to make this move against us without us noticing.
Even if we werenât hurt, it wasnât a good sign...
But we didnât have time to think about this as something was happening around us.
The things that were making the skittering sounds seemed to be showing themselves.
It was just that we soon realized that it wasnât one or two of these things.
Well, we already knew that it wasnât one or two of these things since we could hear the sounds that were coming from around us. Though it was hard not to be taken aback by all of the different things that suddenly appeared.
They came out of the tunnels that were in the cliff faces that were all around us.
These things werenât that big, but there were a lot of them and they covered a lot of space. At the same time, they had similar colours to each other, which meant that they covered large areas when grouped up like this.
With all of them coming out like this, they soon covered the entire area around us.
It was terrifying seeing so many of them gathering like this.
Humans were scared of just one or two of these things, but to see this many of them gathering like this....
They didnât seem to stop after coming out of the tunnels, they continued coming towards us until they completely surrounded us. With all of these creatures around us, the entire area around us turned this uniform black colour.
Though when looking closely, one could see that there were patches of other colours that were there as well.
It really was a sickening sight to see as a human, but there wasnât anything that we could do against this wave of creatures.
All of these insects had completely surrounded our group and trapped us like this.