Ancient God in the Modern World

Allen noticed it and prepared himself. However, although he did so, the beast arrived in front of him before he had anticipated it. The beast, then, knocked him off Stripes' back as it leaped on it.

Then, beyond Allen's expectation, as he was falling, the speedy beast followed him.

For whatever the intention of the beast, Allen prepared to counter it. But first, he had to survive the rampage of the beasts.

With a burst of divine energy, Allen burned some of his divine energy and propelled himself shallowly in the sturdy space of the shrine. As he did so, Allen disappeared from his location and reappeared in the part that no longer has beasts' stampede.

Meanwhile, as he did so, Stripes finally noticed that Allen is no longer on his back but he momentarily received Allen's message telling him to continue and he will follow. With that, Stripes reluctantly looked away and concentrated on heading towards the center.

The burst of divine energy cost Allen a large fraction of his divine energy.

With the intention to recover, Allen closed his eyes and was prepared to connect to his source of divine energies.

However, he opened them in the next second as he noticed that the speedy beast that pushed him off Stripes' back is unto him again.

This time, Allen finally saw the real appearance of the beast. It is an oversized squirrel.

'What the heck is wrong with the animals in the shrine?' Allen asked himself inwardly.

The squirrel has a size equal to that of a human.

However, if the squirrel and the human fought, the human would surely lose.

The squirrel had a solid advantage in terms of speed that humans could only look up to.

Well, perhaps, if the human is riding a hoverboard, a jetpack, or a car, they could barely match the speed of the squirrel but that is illogical when in battle.

After the squirrel is a couple of tens of meters away from Allen, it suddenly runs away as fast as it could.

Allen, then, had a bad feeling about it. He turned around and noticed that a tree trunk is heading towards him.

Thus, without further ado, Allen used some of his divine energy again and propelled himself shallowly in the sturdy space of the shrine for the second time.

Just like the first time, Allen disappeared and reappeared away from the path of the flying trunk and got away from its trajectory.

BOOM!

But in the next second, the dense divine energy in the surrounding ruptured. Then, a massive amount of natural energy gushed out of nowhere.

Allen was confused at first but upon noticing the natural energy, he was enlightened.

'It seemed that the rupture is caused by the counter devour of demonic energy and divine energy,' Allen thought.

He, then, sat down and began absorbing the natural energy in the surrounding.

The rupture of the divine energy resulted in a plentiful amount of natural energy which Allen is taking advantage of.

Not only him, but the other creatures of the realm also took advantage of it including Stripes and the two creatures, the Jotnar and Fenrir's descendant.

'Is this a special phenomenon or a normal one?' Allen thought to himself.

If it is a special phenomenon, it is, then, only happening under special circumstances. However, if it was a normal one, then perhaps the sturdiness of the shrine and the strength of the creatures of the shrine are due to the effect of the natural energy.

However, either of the two, currently, Allen did not care and simply absorbed as much natural energy as he could just like the other creatures.

The natural energy quickly seeped into the annals of the shrine, and into the bodies of the creatures whether they are intentionally absorbing it or not.

Each of the creatures had a huge leap of strength.

The spent divine energy on Allen's body was quickly recovered and his total divine energy accumulated had increased by a factor of ten. Moreover, the alteration of his mortal body is sped up.

Allen now, officially, has the strength of a general.

Allen smiled brilliantly at the thought of it. However, in the next moment, all the joy that he felt disappeared as he noticed the gaze of the two demonic creatures, the Jotnar and Fenrir's descendants.

Their stares are full of hatred and menace as if they long to drink his blood and eat his flesh.

'Fuck!' Allen cursed.

He is now speculating whether him heading to the center of the shrine or perhaps looking for an exit is a good idea.

But it is not the time for him to think of regrets as he had two gigantic creatures to escape from.

Thus, without hesitation, Allen used a portion of his divine energy and formed a pair of wings on his back.

Unlike his transformation many days ago, Allen only formed a pair of wings and did not boost his overall prowess.

He is not intending to fight the two creatures. He only intends to escape them. But it seemed that he underestimated the two, especially Fenrir's descendants.

The oversized wolf has a speed that could not be reckoned with. Even the 'little' squirrel could not, probably, match it.

Thus, Allen sped up his consumption of divine energy as he formed another pair of wings in addition to the first pair.

Furthermore, Allen elongated his wings.

Initially, his wings, when fully opened, are about one and a half meters, now his two pairs of wings are about three meters each when fully opened. In addition, his wings can somewhat manipulate the air to increase his speed.

Indeed, his speed increased noticeably. Allen is now rather confident that his speed could somewhat be compared to the squirrel.

But still, it is far slower than the speed of Fenrir's descendant. Thus, Allen prepared himself for a hopeless battle.

The only thing that Allen hoped now is that his authority and his soul would not be extinguished.

If his authority and his soul is fine, he would only enter his divine slumber and would have a chance of revival again in the future.