The Growth of a God
Chapter 802 - 10: God of the Sacred Beetle Khepri
"Let me give you a suggestion: next time you perform a ’Time Jump’, try not to bring anyone along if you can."
This warning from Huo Dou before leaving wasn’t mere alarmism but a statement of fact that every Time Traveler must know.
"Ah!"
At the exact moment time resumed its forward flow.
Batis suddenly clutched her head and let out a cry of anguish.
Because her mind now contained a memory of the "future," which violently impacted her current personality and reason.
In truth, this is the essence of the "Time Jump."
As her physical state regressed to a few minutes earlier, the corresponding memories in her mind naturally regressed as well.
Batis’s current state was akin to forcibly inserting consciousness from a few minutes in the future into her present body, causing inevitable short-term chaos.
In contrast, Aten, who had comprehended the true meaning of time, accepted this state quite swiftly.
"Hmm, I think I understand what you mean now."
Even just a few minutes of consciousness displacement made Batis suffer so much.
Aten couldn’t dare imagine if such displacement were counted in years, or even millennia, what severe impact and destruction it would bring upon the personality of the current time node.
Your past self from a year ago and your future self a year from now certainly cannot be considered the same.
Only a being like Aten, who was once noble as the Sun God, could maintain the unity of their personality.
"However, now we must solve that fellow first!"
At this moment, time had turned back to when the Sacred Beetle had just dispersed the Nether Realm, and Thutmose hadn’t had the chance to draw the Book of the Dead.
There was no time to complain why Huo Dou, since he had already appeared, wouldn’t settle the trouble before him.
Aten abruptly vibrated his wing sheaths, and an invisible Divine Power instantly surged out from within him.
In the next second, those Sacred Beetles fortified by Divine Power accelerated suddenly, and in an extremely short time completely cleansed the entire Nether Realm.
"What?"
Caught off guard, Thutmose felt darkness before him, as the massive golden beetle appeared right in front of him.
"Sorry, this time I can’t let you pull out the ’Book of the Dead’."
Upon hearing this, Thutmose immediately realized something and instinctively tried to reach for the Book of the Dead once more.
Yet surprisingly, Aten, who was not yet an Ascender, used his wing sheaths on his back to gather sunlight and spat a genuine light cannon toward Thutmose.
At the last moment, what Thutmose could see was the biological wheel and axle structure appearing within the wide-open mouth of the golden beetle.
—Armament-type Implant: High-Energy Biological Light Cannon (Test version)!
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Swoosh—Boom!
By the time Batis came to her senses.
What she saw was a light cannon slicing through the sky, like a sword straightly piercing through Thutmose’s body.
This ’Son of Thoth’, having made an enormous sacrifice, didn’t even get the chance to use his trump card before being utterly defeated by Aten.
Of course, for a true God, as long as their high-dimensional core wasn’t harmed, losing an incarnation didn’t really count for much.
The real despair for Thutmose came from the light cannon that pierced through him; after annihilating his body, it wasn’t satisfied and continued to fire toward the Space-Time Rift behind him.
Whirl... Whirl... Whirl...
Instantly, an overwhelming storm swept in all directions.
Visible energy impacts and space-time distortions appeared in the Mountain and Sea Realm, successfully alerting the nearby Mountain and Sea Gods.
Unlike the previous apathetic stances, these space-time rifts were genuine catastrophes.
Should they be allowed to spread and expand, it was unimaginable what harm they could inflict on the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Thus, one by one, Mountain and Sea Gods emerged from the water, from the land, and even from the sky, doing their utmost to stop the expansion of the Space-Time Rift.
At the same time, city guards from nearby cities drove their Artificial God Armaments, rushing toward the scattered smaller rifts.
"This is my trump card, Thoth!"
Standing at the center of the energy storm and Space-Time Rift, Aten’s voice clearly reached the other end of space-time.
And at the other end, a bright new moon quietly rose.
A canine-headed, ape-bodied god sat upon it, watching the Mountain and Sea Realm with a detached gaze.
Or more precisely, the god was not looking at the Mountain and Sea Realm, but at the golden beetle within it.
"Sacred Beetle?"
There seemed to be some confusion in his words, yet Thoth’s gaze never left Aten.
"I didn’t expect you to be in this world, but how have you become mortal?"
Thoth’s voice also clearly reached Aten’s ears, causing both sides to remain in a more confused standoff.
"You know me?"
Aten swore he had never acquainted Thoth.
In Ra’s world, the two barely interacted at all.
After all, one was the sun shining over the day, while the other was the rotating moon.
Their understanding likely only extended to knowing each other’s names and existence.
What’s more, with Aten now having renounced everything in reincarnation, how could Thoth possibly recognize his identity at a glance?
"Why wouldn’t I know you?"
"Even if you ended up as a mummy, I’d always remember you!"
The indifference in his eyes gradually turned into rage as Thoth glared at Aten and cursed.
"You severed my path to ascendancy and attempted to snatch the ’Supreme Divine Format’ from Amon..."
"No matter how many billions of years pass, I could never forget you!"
"God of the Sacred Beetle · Khepri!"
Aten, utterly confused, was about to retort when he saw a huge ram’s horn thrusting through from the other side of the Space-Time Rift.
On that enormous ram’s horn, Aten felt a kind of unprecedented dread.
It was a Power surpassing the Supreme God a billion times over, a true transcendent might.
Most importantly, Aten sensed a similar rage on that ram’s horn akin to Thoth.
Under the sway of this rage, the owner of the ram’s horn even overlooked the ongoing battle with the Creator, willing to get injured just to kill Aten.
"Help!"
Upon seeing this, Aten immediately cried out for rescue, understanding what was happening.
In an instant, a gigantic eye opened slowly in the sky of the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Under the watchful gaze of the Eye of the Creator, the massive ram’s horn ultimately failed to breach the Space-Time Rift, forcibly stopped within the crevice between the worlds.
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