The Eternal Spear of the Asgardian God-King—Gungnir.
It possessed the power of "Certain Hit."
Once Herman hurled Gungnir, the divine weapon forged by Odin locked onto its destined target—the future of the ancient Egyptian Sun God Ra's eye.
During his battle with Ra, Herman sensed that the strange force corrupting the god stemmed from something linked to the back of Ra's eye—a substance in his brain that had driven the Sun God to madness.
Of course, judging by Ra's current power, that same mysterious substance had also greatly strengthened him.
"Hah!"
Ra let out a terrifying roar. Feeling Gungnir's lock-on, he summoned his divine power—golden light tinged with crimson—and began constructing layers of defense before him.
One after another, radiant barriers laced with red patterns formed. The ancient Egyptian Sun God Ra had raised dozens of layers in total.
Clearly, he had sensed the danger.
Even as a God-King, facing the weapon of another God-King, Gungnir still posed a deadly threat.
Boom—
Ra's divine barriers began to crumble.
Gungnir, continuously infused with Herman's divine energy, smashed through them.
The spear had already locked onto its destined strike. Even though Ra's divine power surpassed Herman's in rank, there was no stopping the future Gungnir had claimed.
Forged for the King of Asgard, Gungnir's creation was no ordinary feat. The power it embodied was one of the fundamental laws themselves.
And as everyone knows—laws can often be utterly unreasonable.
Boom—Boom—
Layer after layer of divine barriers shattered, yet Gungnir's might never waned. The spear pierced straight through the eye of the Egyptian Sun God Ra.
The anatomy of gods differed little from that of mortals. In truth, for most beings, the eyes were always the most fragile point.
Ra's eye burst apart, releasing torrents of crimson matter—not blood, but a substance tainted with his divine essence. As it scattered through the fractured void, it corroded even the fabric of nothingness.
"Hiss—"
Herman drew in a sharp breath.
No wonder Ra had gone insane—such a horrific substance could drive any god mad. Herman even doubted whether Ra still possessed a functioning mind at all.
Watching that power capable of eroding the void itself, Herman felt a chill of dread. He grew wary of the substance erupting from Ra's eye and immediately retreated far back.
He had no intention of letting that thing touch him.
He couldn't identify what kind of energy it was, nor whether The Ancient One's condition was caused by exposure to the same corruption.
"It can corrode the very soul… but why can they still move? How does The Ancient One still think and act like a normal person?"
Herman's eyes flickered slightly.
In any case, caution was vital. A substance capable of driving even a God-King mad was nothing to take lightly. Darkness and golden light intertwined across his body—death energy and divine power merging into a solid defensive barrier around him.
Just as those thoughts settled—
"Uuuuuuuhhh!!!"
Ra's pierced eye unleashed an agonized roar. His divine power raged out of control, tearing apart everything nearby.
His colossal body convulsed in the void, writhing in pain. The violent outburst stirred a storm of chaotic space currents—so powerful they could rip apart lesser skyfathers.
Herman reinforced the divine shield around Evelyn, pouring in more energy to keep it from collapsing under the storm's fury.
Fortunately, Evelyn had already lost consciousness. Otherwise, the roar of the ancient Egyptian Sun God Ra would have tormented her beyond death itself. It was no exaggeration to say that his cry could have killed every ordinary lifeform on Earth in an instant.
Moreover, if such devastation had occurred on Earth, the planet would already have been reduced to dust—along with countless worlds surrounding it.
"It didn't penetrate his brain—a bit of a shame."
Herman hadn't expected a one-hit kill, of course. He could sense that after piercing the eye of the Egyptian Sun God Ra, Gungnir had encountered resistance, unable to drive deeper into Ra's skull.
An attack that even divine barriers couldn't block—what on earth had stopped it? Watching Ra roar as he yanked out Gungnir, Herman shouted,
"Return!"
At his command, the divine spear gripped in Ra's hand instantly turned into a streak of light and flew back into Herman's grasp.
"It's you! It's you!"
Though maddened, Ra hadn't completely lost his reason. As he roared at Herman, he opened his mouth wide, gathering countless dazzling streams of divine energy before unleashing a colossal energy cannon aimed directly at him—an attack powerful enough to destroy half a star system.
Blinding radiance tore through the shattered void, the roar of spatial turbulence echoing through the chaos as the devastating blast engulfed Herman.
"Truly a breathtaking attack."
Under the terrifying bombardment, the divine power surging within Herman burst forth continuously. Death energy and golden divine light intertwined, forming an immensely solid shield before him to withstand the blast.
"Die!"
Ra roared again, continuing his assault. His shattered eye kept oozing crimson substance, while something within his mind pulsed brighter and brighter.
This energy—Eerie. Wicked.
Utterly unnatural.
It felt like a substance that shouldn't exist in the universe, yet it somehow amplified Ra's strength the more furious he became.
"Die! Die! Die!"
As Ra's rage grew, so did his power. His already colossal frame began to swell even larger, muscle and sinew writhing beneath his skin.
Double.
Triple.
Amidst the chaotic spatial currents, Ra's figure loomed vast and boundless, his shadow covering the heavens, radiating an overwhelming aura that seemed capable of crushing all existence. His size now exceeded that of a planet.
It had to be said—Ra's growth was truly terrifying.
Not only was his form expanding, but his power too was multiplying exponentially. Under the influence of that strange force, the Egyptian Sun God Ra now possessed the aura of a single-universe entity—though such ascension clearly did not come without a price.
Herman could feel it—the last traces of Ra's sanity had completely vanished along with his transformation.
His once-golden divine power had been entirely corrupted into crimson, and his remaining eye gleamed with nothing but feral madness.
"Roar!"
With each bestial bellow, strange markings began to appear across Ra's body. Countless crimson lines intertwined, gleaming with a sinister luster.
These markings spread like living vines, swiftly crawling over nearly every inch of his flesh.
In an instant, the already deranged Ra appeared even more twisted and grotesque, the markings lending him an aura of dark divinity.
"Crackle-crackle~"
Before Ra's explosive might, the divine shield woven from Herman's twin powers began to splinter and fracture.
"This is the pressure I crave!"
Instead of panicking, Herman's eyes lit up with excitement. Divine power surged violently within him, burning at full capacity.
At that moment, his eyes shone like miniature suns. Divine fire raged inside him, and deep within those flames, a dormant force stirred awake.
Under immense pressure, Herman's golden divine power began to change—not corrupted by the red substance as Ra had been, but awakening into something far greater: the power of a God-King hidden within the divine flame.
Previously, when Herman had gained the identity of the [Raven Emissary], he had also gained the potential to ascend as a God-King. Yet he had never managed to awaken that power.
Normally, he would have needed to form a complete pantheon and ignite the God-King's power in the presence of gathered gods who worshiped him.
However...
The pressure from Ra now presented him with a shortcut. In truth, Herman already had the loyalty of many powerful beings—it was simply that he had not yet gathered them to swear their faith and allegiance to him.
"You! You truly can help me achieve my ultimate power!"
Herman had originally intended to absorb the ancient Egyptian Sun God Ra, using Ra's primordial God-King power to awaken his own. He hadn't expected to gain such an unexpected breakthrough.
His so-called ultimate power—was the supremacy of a Pantheon.
In other words, to become a God-King.
Beings like Wanda and Quicksilver, even without any formal ceremony, had already pledged their loyalty to Herman in their hearts. Igniting his God-King power now merely skipped the formalities.
In truth, it was only natural.
He had obtained the title of [Raven Emissary] long ago, but only now had he fully absorbed and mastered the unique benefits it bestowed.
"Devour gods and demons, command gods and demons... All the deities and demons across the heavens shall bow to me as their king! That is the meaning embodied within my God-King power!"
"To suppress every god and demon in existence!"
Herman's once pure golden divine power underwent a cataclysmic transformation in an instant, turning into a white-gold radiance imbued with supreme majesty. It exuded a terrifying might that seemed capable of crushing everything.
This divine power was overwhelmingly dominant.
Herman's eyes shone with brilliance like the sun itself. Under the eruption of this godly force, powerful enough to overturn the cosmos, he shattered Ra's enormous energy cannon, obliterating the once-terrifying beam into nothingness.
"Roar!"
Ra didn't even have time to react. His frenzied eyes reflected the tidal surge of white-gold divine power that tore through his cannon and continued forward unabated. A chilling sense of danger surged within the mad God-King's heart.
By instinct, Ra opened his massive jaws again, spewing out an even more terrifying crimson energy cannon. The sinister markings across his body flared with an even brighter light.
Boom—
The new blast was even more overwhelming. Everything seemed to fall silent beneath the assault, and even the turbulent space around them appeared to vanish.
However, even this attack, when colliding with Herman's divine power, failed to stir even the slightest ripple. It couldn't withstand his might for even a moment.
Another catastrophic collapse of energy erupted.
Herman's divine power, like an unstoppable spear, shot forward with undiminished force toward Ra's towering form—more precisely, toward Ra's remaining eye.
This surge of divine power carried an unmatched, awe-inspiring might, making all other forces pale in comparison. It felt as though it transcended all of time itself. Any power that tried to resist was nothing more than a futile gesture, crushed instantly into oblivion.
Ra's second strike proved this without question. Overwhelmed by a sense of doom, he couldn't even attempt to evade.
Swoosh—
This divine power pierced through Ra's mind even more effortlessly than Gungnir had. Though it too encountered the mysterious barrier protecting his brain, Herman's God-King power was fundamentally different from Gungnir's.
BOOM!!!
A massive explosion echoed within Ra's head—the rampaging power of the God-King tearing through his mind and blowing apart his skull entirely.
Though Ra's body was immensely durable, the terrifying blast obliterated more than half his head in an instant.
Boom!
Unlike many gods, Ra couldn't regenerate his wounds. Herman's God-King power carried within it an annihilating force that left no room for recovery.
Having lost most of his head, the mighty God-King could only let out a final, anguished roar before collapsing. The intricate markings that had covered his form rapidly faded as his enormous body fell.
"Roar..."
In that last wail of the Sun God, beyond the pain, there seemed to echo a faint, indescribable sense of release.
His bloated form shrank rapidly as it fell, soon diminishing to a size even smaller than the mountainous figure he'd started with.
Before long, Ra was silent.
Countless streams of crimson substance seeped from his shattered skull, scattering and dissolving into the void.
The sky-darkening red matter poured into nothingness after his death. As the flood-like torrent gradually subsided, Ra's corpse appeared almost indistinguishable from that of an ordinary fallen god.
Within the gaping void where his head had been, the primordial essence of the Egyptian God-King now glimmered softly—untouched by even the faintest trace of crimson.