632 Defeated but Alive (1/2)

Kabur, Gloriana, Bashi, and Lily were shocked to see Alrein killing the True God that had been about to kill them all, but they didn't have the strength to even speak at that moment, so they could only observe in silence.

Alrein descended to the places where they were lying and healed them after gathering the four in the same place. There was no way he would leave with those four in such a sorry state.

”You should be alright now. You can just look for some weak ones to kill if you want, but your part in the Second Calamity is over, so you can just retire. Take it as some kind of extreme training to temper yourselves. Without me triggering your luck to the extreme, you wouldn't have survived this kind of opponent.”

It was a fact that Lily and Bashi would have wanted to battle even if Yale said that they were too weak. If possible, he didn't want to send them to battle since they were just Gods and far too inexperienced, but he knew that they would have ended up involved in some way, so he prepared the situation, so they experienced the truth without letting them be in real danger by having Alrein protecting them.

Only after seeing the disparity between themselves and the enemy, they would forget about any ideas of trying to play the hero. In any other situation, they wouldn't have to worry, but the Second Calamity was a place where even some of the most renowned True Gods of the history could die.

Even without Alrein's words, they already knew that their battle didn't have any real meaning since Alrein had been there from the beginning protecting them. However, they understood his reasons very well. They had just seen that they weren't enough to face opponents at that level.

Of course, not all the enemies were at the level of the one they faced, but he wasn't the strongest either, so the level of danger was easy to understand.

Although everything was set for the sake of Bashi and Lily, Kabur and Gloriana also learned how weak they were compared to the strongest of their opponents.

After all, they weren't among the strongest members of the Council of Gods, not they were very well-known.

If it wasn't because they allied themselves with Yale, they didn't doubt that they would have died in the Second Calamity.

”Do as you wish, but I am leaving now. I need to kill others at the level of this bastard. They had already wiped out the teams in charge of delaying them while I was protecting you, so at least I will avenge them.”

Alrein disappeared after speaking those words, but although the words were about serious stuff, Alrein didn't seem too concerned about those deaths.

However, he had sacrificed a lot of people just for the sake of them, so those four didn't dare to think of speak something about Alrein being too partial.

Of course, they didn't know the truth behind the Second Calamity, so they believed that it was their fault that the others died. They didn't think that Alrein wasn't going to save the others anyway if they were unable to endure until he reached their place.

”It is my fault...”

Bashi had calmed down once the True God died, so when he recovered, the effects of the Rage Divinity faded.

At that moment, he understood that without Alrein's interference, Lily would have died, and he would have followed her moments after that. Even their masters would have died just a bit after that.

He never took that war too seriously. Even if he couldn't defeat the opponents, he believed that staying alive wouldn't be a problem, but it was all a problem of perspective.

He wasn't used to facing people like the members of the rebels. They weren't only strong, they were merciless.

When training with people he knew like his father or his master, he knew that he was weaker than them, but he never felt that he would be killed by them since they never had the intention to harm him.

”You don't need to think about it anymore. We all overestimated ourselves. I should have predicted that something like this could happen and designed a proper strategy. If I had led you properly, this shouldn't have happened.”

Kabur felt the greatest shame since he was the strongest of the group, but when the situation was at the worst, he had been useless.

Even though all had part of the fault, he should have been the one to cool them down as the leader of the group, but he failed.

”Don't worry more about this. We are lucky that Alrein was protecting us. Let's retire from the war.”

Gloriana didn't want to think more about that topic, and since they weren't forced to battle, she didn't want to do it anymore.

She saw how easily Alrein killed that powerful enemy. Although she thought that part of it was because the True God was somewhat distracted at that moment due to the victory, Alrein showed to be far more powerful than she expected. It wasn't just that his defense made him unbeatable, his attack power wasn't weak at all, even in the context of the Second Calamity.