Chapter 155 Not a Deity

"Oh, that's because the Crateris Saint used the Lunar Dew to heal my wounds, which is why they don't look as severe!" Mu replied in a low voice, following closely behind with Yin Shiqi.

"Ah, so it was that!" Old Dohko exclaimed in sudden realization.

Back in his youth, his close friend, the previous Crateris Saint, had also used the dew to heal everyone's injuries.

"But how did you two manage to escape? Was it because of him?" Old Dohko looked back at the sage-green haired youth whom Mu was levitating with psychokinesis.

As the supreme deity of this world, it was not entirely impossible that Hades might let the two go for that reason.

However, Mu and Yin Shiqi were Saints of the Goddess Athena, not Specters under the command of Hades; the two factions were in a hostile relationship.

For the enemy to spare two Saints simply out of consideration for Hades seemed highly unlikely no matter how one looked at it.

"I'm not entirely sure either, but it definitely wasn't because of Hades!"

Mu shook his head and recalled slowly, "When that person discovered that the suspected soul of Hades had awakened within Shun's body, he only spared Shun alone, with no intention of letting me and the Crateris Saint go."

"But just as he was about to continue and kill us, he suddenly stopped and muttered something about 'the favor of fate'."

"And then, inexplicably, he let both of us go."

Whenever he thought of this incident, Mu still found it completely baffling.

"The favor of fate?"

Old Dohko mused for a moment, then tentatively suggested, "Perhaps he sensed the will of the Goddess Athena, and that's why he spared you!"

If interpreted that way, it didn't seem entirely wrong.

Was not the secret protection of the Goddess Athena precisely "the favor of fate"?

"Putting that aside, what kind of enemy on earth could have injured you both to this extent?" Old Dohko asked with a puzzled frown.

As far as he knew, aside from Poseidon the Emperor of the Sea, only the Seven Marina Generals possessed supreme strength in the undersea realm.

Yet, the Sea Emperor had not fully awakened, and the power of the Seven Marina Generals was also restricted; given Mu's strength, it should have been completely impossible for him to be injured at their hands.

He was very curious as to what kind of entity had inflicted such wounds on Mu.

"I don't know!"

Mu followed behind, shaking his head with a solemn expression, and continued, "We didn't even catch a glimpse of the enemy. We were suppressed from afar and almost crushed to death by his psychokinesis."

"You couldn't even see him, yet he could drive you to the brink of death from a distance?" Old Dohko found this hard to believe.

"That's right!"

Mu nodded and said earnestly, "That person used psychokinesis to kill us from afar!"

"In his eyes, we were as frail as ordinary mortals are in ours!"

He dared say that in his entire life, he had never encountered such a terrifying enemy.

Old Dohko tugged at his beard, deep in thought as he said, "To achieve the level of crushing a Gold Saint from afar like that, one must possess at least the strength of a principal deity."

"Could it be that an unknown deity has awakened on the sunken continent of Mu?"

Aside from a deity, he could think of no one else who could possess such power.

At that moment, Yin Shiqi, who had not dared to interrupt or disturb them until now, finally spoke up.

"No, that is not a deity!"

"Not a deity?" Old Dohko looked back at him with a startled and doubtful expression.

Yin Shiqi said earnestly, "I once participated in the North American expedition and truly witnessed that unique aura possessed by deities—an aura that transcends all life."

"Yet from the Cosmos of that enemy hidden on the continent of Mu, I did not feel that kind of aura at all."

"He is definitely not a deity!"

There was a fundamental distinction between gods and mortals.

It was something special that defied verbal description.

Yet once one had laid eyes upon a deity, one would never forget that unique quality.

It was precisely because he had witnessed it that Yin Shiqi could be so certain the mysterious figure was not a god.

Beside him, Mu said in a complicated tone, "I have never seen a god."

"But that entity inside Shun's body, suspected to be the soul of Hades, gave me the feeling of actually beholding a divinity."

That distinct sensation was simply too special; at a single glance, he could sense that the soul within Shun possessed a fundamental difference from all of them.

It was not merely a difference between human beings, nor was it the boundary between the Sixth and Seventh Senses, but a complete and total transcendence, entirely unlike all living things and elevated far above them.

Mu continued reminiscing, "By contrast, the enemy hidden on the continent of Mu lacked that quality in his power; I only felt an ancient and wild aura!"

"He is an entity who is not a deity, yet rivals deities!"

"Master, have you ever heard of such an existence?"

Mu cast his gaze toward the old man ahead.

Master Dohko was a survivor of the previous Holy War, having lived for over two hundred years. In terms of experience and knowledge, no one in the Sanctuary could compare to him.

If even he could not answer this question, then he feared he would never learn the identity of the enemy hidden deep within the continent of Mu.

Hearing this, Old Dohko looked into the distance and pondered slowly, "Not a deity, yet approaching the realm of a deity, possessing power comparable to the gods—such beings have almost vanished from the world today."

"However, back in the distant mythological era, such figures were quite numerous."

"Such a thing exists?" Yin Shiqi was greatly astonished, quietly perking up his ears for fear of missing a single word.

Ever since he ignited his Cosmos and stepped into the transcendent realm, there were very few things left in this world that could captivate him.

And deities, transcending all things, were precisely among them.

Just as when he had first arrived in this world and harbored an extreme longing for the power of the Cosmos.

Now, he was equally curious about the power of the gods.

Consequently, he was more than willing to hear and witness anything related to deities.

The old man sank into distant memories and spoke slowly, "A long, long time ago, when the gods still walked freely among humanity, there were countless heroes, demigods, and monsters upon the earth."

"They were not deities, yet they possessed power that could rival the gods."

"For example, that mighty hero of the Olympian divine realm."

"Before ascending to divinity, even he was merely a demigod, yet at that very time, he already possessed invincible strength."

"And there was that world-famous monster Typhoeus, whose power was feared even by the King of the Gods."

"Perhaps the entity hidden deep within the continent of Mu is one of those powerful beings who once roamed freely across the earth during the age of myth."

"Did your Jamir clan leave behind no related legends? Perhaps we can find related clues from them and figure out his identity!"

With that, the old man turned his head and glanced at Mu.

He was well aware of the connection between the continent of Mu and the Jamir clan.

Mu shook his head gently and sighed, "Very little has been passed down within the Jamir clan to this day, especially records concerning the continent of Mu, which have almost completely vanished!"

"We only know from the memories passed down by word of mouth from past elders that it was once our homeland."

"As for anything else, we know virtually nothing."