Ancient God in the Modern World

A day had passed. Allen was with The Divine Judo.

Old man, Darwin asked him to temporarily join their faction for the expedition, which he gladly accepted.

Allen and the others were already inside the Asgardian Realm. Yes, a Realm. The gate that Allen saw is the entrance of the Asgardian Realm.

Asgard is a shrine. A gigantic and sturdy shrine, unlike Allen's.

The foreign Divine Energy here is about ten times denser than from the outside, which is not surprising.

As they stroll in the Shrine, dilapidated buildings could be seen. It was evident that, for some reason, there seemed to be a battle on this shrine.

The Shrine could be compared to one-third of Japan's size. Unbelievable but it is not impossible. After all, this place is rather ancient. And, who knows how long has this shrine been collecting Divine Energy to fix itself and to expand.

But what confused Allen is why it was not able to mend the destruction that Allen and the others were seeing. It was as if the destruction that they were seeing had already become part of the shrine itself.

*Boom*

All of a sudden, they heard a loud explosion. Then, they felt the Divine Energy around them fluctuate as if it was being stirred by something.

The Divine Judo, along with Allen and Stripes changed their direction and headed towards the source of the explosion.

*Pffffffttttt*

Just as they arrived close to the source of the explosion, they were greeted by a fiery beam launched from the head of a metallic man with a height twice that of a human, about three meters.

With only one look, it was evident that the metallic man is not made of flesh and blood and also not of energy. Instead, it was made of an alloy as if it was a robot, or rather a puppet.

"Split!"

Old man Darwin said. But there is no need for him to say anything. The Divine Judo will split even if he did not say so to avoid the beam.

All of them, including Allen, had their backs drenched in sweat as they were sure that if the beam hit them, they would become ashes.

*Clang*

Meanwhile, a collision of two metals could be heard as Elian, from the King's Manor, hit the puppet with his angelic wings.

But to his disappointment, the collision did not leave any mark on the puppet.

Elian's eyes widened as he could not believe that the wing that he was proud of is not able to do anything on the puppet.

One must note that his wings are not normal. It was akin to an angel's wings. It seemed to be solidified from strong energy into a sturdy metal.

Supposedly, every hit from his wings should be fatal, aside from that, his wings could also grant him extreme defense and speed that no one could neglect.

Seeing that he cannot harm the puppet, Elian had decided to leave. Thus, with a fap of his wings, he began retreating.

*Whoosh! *

But just as he was retreating, the puppet leaped and landed in front of him, which he bumped into with a 'thud'.

Elian's wings must be sturdy but his body is not. Unlike his wings, his body is made up of flesh and blood.

The puppet pivoted and gave the 'fallen' angel, Elian, a roundhouse kick.

The fallen angel once again flew but this time not with his wings but because he was kicked, instead.

The puppet did not stop there. After kicking Elian, his face opened and it showed its hollow head. Then, from within a fiery beam was shot.

The fiery beam seemed to burn everything on its path, along with the air.

But all of a sudden, a shiny object seemingly dropped from the sky and hit Elian to save him from the fiery beam, but the object was not saved as it was caught by the beam.

But strangely enough, the object did not seem to be destroyed. Instead, it scattered the fiery beam akin to a diamond reflecting the light of the sun. But, still, the collision of the beam to it made it fly off course.

The shining object is, actually, a man. His name is Michael from the King's Manor. His ability is diamonification. He can coat his body with diamonds. In that state, he has all the characteristics of a diamond. Sturdy and shiny.

But the diamond man has blood flowing on his lips due to the impact of the beam. Indeed, he reflected the beam but the force of collision injured him.

Meanwhile, the puppet did not continue attacking Elian or Michael. It turned around and looked at Allen.

Although it does not have a visible eye on its face, Allen was sure that the puppet was staring at him.

Then, his face once again opened and fired a fiery beam towards him. At his peak this was nothing, but currently, it was deadly. Fortunately, Stripes' reaction is not slow.

Stripes glowed in white light and leaped to dodge the beam. Allen could feel the intense heat from the beam as they barely dodged it.

*Boom*

Allen was startled as he heard an explosion close to him from behind him. Even with Stripes' reaction, they were not able to evade the shockwave of the explosion.

As Allen fell to the ground, he lifted his head only to see another puppet that was hit by the beam.

But unlike the puppet that Allen saw first, this one seemed to be made up of black metal while the other one looked like ordinary metal despite its sturdiness.

Meanwhile, despite being hit by the beam, it was not damaged. It immediately stood as it hit the ground only to be knocked back down as the other puppet leaped to give the former a strong kick.

*CLANG*

As their bodies collided, the sound of metals hitting each other could be heard. Aside from that, the air along with the Divine Energy fluctuated due to the shockwave of the collision. Allen, who was closest to it, was propelled through the air and was forced back by a few meters.

*Cough*

Allen coughed out blood because his mortal body was injured.. He lamented and looked forward to when this body of his will be fully altered with Divine Energy.