Ancient God in the Modern World

Sly Shadow took out a gun and pointed it at Stripes.

*Pfft*

Then, a beam from the gun coursed its way to Stripes.

"Melos, do it," Sly Shadow said.

Melos, the man accompanying Sly Shadow, nodded as he already knew what to do.

He slapped his hand in Stripes' direction with a wide smile on his face.

His slap caused the space to ripple, which seemed as if the surrounding has turned into water in which a stone was thrown that caused its original stillness to disappear.

The ripples of the space headed to Stripes' location and intended to devour him, or rather, to put him in a separate space created by Melos.

Of course, this was only possible if the beam that Sly Shadow shot hit Stripes because it would make him fall asleep.

The beam has an effect akin to a tranquilizer. It stimulates the body to feel extreme comfort and would make the target fall asleep in, almost, an instant.

But all of which did not happen. Stripes shone in white light that blocked the beam. He, then, leaped and avoided the rippled which intended to sink him into another layer of space that was prepared by Melos.

Meanwhile, Melos and Sly Shadow, along with Darwin was stunned. They did not expect such an outcome.

After that, Stripes did not stay idle. He dashed towards Melos and swiped his paws towards him. Stripes' speed is not to be trifled with. All his actions were boosted with Allen's Divine Energy. After all, his body is partly altered by Divine Energy and he could store them and use it whenever he wanted.

However, despite being startled, Melos is not a baby, he quickly used his ability to hide on the separate dimension that he prepared.

At the same time as this was happening, Sly shadow kept shooting beams towards Allen, one after the other. But they were not able to hit Allen. Instead, they were suspended in the air as if there is invisible threads that were holding them.

These beams are different than the beam that he shot towards Stripes. The beams, when they hit their target, would explode.

These beams are one of the results of Humanity's scientists in studying energy in all the years. The beam could create a nuclear reaction which would cause a nuclear explosion but on a very small, controlled, scale that would not cause mass destruction to the surrounding.

*Smirk*

Meanwhile, Allen smirked, then, he said, "Solidify!"

It was unknown who he was talking to but the beams that were suspended in front of him began solidifying as if they were put in a snow globe. Meanwhile, the hidden Melos had his eyes widened as he felt the space surrounding Allen all the way to him begin solidifying is a scary speed.

The separate space that he created cracked and disappeared into nothingness and Melos was forced back to the real world with a confused expression.

This is the first time that his ability failed him. Actually, the second time. The first time is when Allen forced him and Sly Shadow out as they were following him.

At first, he did not think much of it because the space that he created is rather vulnerable because it was moving. But the one that he created just now is not supposed to be vulnerable.

Meanwhile, the moment that he was forced back to the real world, Stripes also attacked him as if he was anticipating his 'return'.

Melos tried to use his ability again but to his disappointment, he was not able to. It was as if the space, for some reason, is solidified to a certain degree where he is not able to bend it.

Melos Ability is space bending. He could bend the space in almost all the way he liked. Most of the time, he warps the space, or sometimes, he created a small space within the space.for.him to hide.

"Ahhhh!"

Melos screamed as Stripes' paws hit him.

It was unsure whether he was screaming because of pain from Stripes' paws or because of frustration that he was not able to use his ability.

But either way, it could not be denied that he was injured.

Meanwhile, Allen was dodging all of Sly Shadow's attacks as if he was able to predict them. Well, what can we say, it was due to Allen's combat experience.

Although Allen was dodging all of his attacks, he is also not attacking him. Or rather, Allen knew that his attacks would be useless, and would simply be a waste of Divine Energy.

Well, if Allen used all of his divine energy in a single attack, he might be able to kill Sly Shadow. But that is a no, no. He was not desperate.

At the same time, although he had received an increase in Divine Energy during his battle with Demonic Cloud, it is not to the point where he could fight a general toe to toe.

On the other hand, the reason why he is able to render Melos' ability useless is that the space in their surrounding is sturdy in the first place. And, at the same time, Divine Energy tends to side on the opposite side of destruction.

"Whoo, that's fierce," the old man said as he was watching from the side.

When Sly Shadow heard it, he felt a headache. He had nearly forgotten the existence of the old man.

With that in mind, he gave up on attacking Allen and decided to help Melos.

But as he looked towards Melos' direction, he was horrified to see that Melos' limp body laying on the grass while Stripes was staring at it intently.

"Bastard!"

Sly Shadow cursed his frustration out loud. But on the next moment, he was frustrated even more.

Stripes bit Melos' limp body and carried him towards Allen.

Also at the same time, Allen waved his hands and released the snow globe of energy from Sly Shadow's gun a while ago back at him.

Sly Shadow's eyes widened in fear as he knew what would happen to him if he was hit by those.

"Boom!"

…

"Boom!"

A series of explosions could be heard and after which, Allen's voice resonated through the air.

"Old man, see you on the Warbringer Auction House a few days from now."

But as the old man Looked for Allen, he was not able to find him.

Little did the old man know, Allen had wasted a bit of his Divine Energy to cross the space and leave at a fast pace away from them.