Ancient God in the Modern World

"I would love to; however, I am in a hurry." Allen politely declined.

"That's unfortunate, then. Unfortunately, you cannot decline."

After the first Mare that appeared in front of the Ratatoskr a while ago finished speaking, a flock of ravens flew out of the spooky trees towards Allen.

Meanwhile, as Allen saw them, all he could do is to widen his eye and furiously flap his two pairs of wings.

He did not waste any moment and headed towards the edge of the spooky forest.

He did not have an advantage in the spooky forest. All that is in there is the faint demonic energy. It would not be wise for him to fight there.

Although the demonic energy is faint, Allen would still be restricted to a certain degree. And he would not like that.

Meanwhile, as he flew, hundreds of thousands of ravens are chasing him.

As Allen flew, he disregarded the usage of his divine energy. He flew swiftly in fear that the ravens would catch up to him.

Although small, they have strength in their number.

After a few more moments of flying, Allen finally reached the edge of the spooky forest. However, the divine crystal in his hand ran dry and had become a normal stone.

But despite that, Allen did not give up.

With a thought, the faint divine energy in the surroundings converged and supported him.

At this moment, he is ready to fight them.

"Death!" Allen said with a voice filled with vigor.

Then, seemingly faint threads of death energies from Allen's eyes flew towards the ravens one by one.

However, Allen's threads of death did not have an advantage with a large number of the ravens.

He could barely take them on. With this, Allen is forced to flee again. And this time, he had learned his lesson.

He is constantly moving.

With the help of the faint divine energies in the surrounding, he is sustaining himself as he fights and flew at the flock of ravens at the same time.

And although not to a big degree, the number of ravens is being reduced as time passes by.

"This cannot go one," Allen thought.

However, he did not have a choice. He could only delay.

At the same time, Allen is not a Divine Spirit for nothing. As he was moving, he was also creating and spreading his Eyes of the Spirit.

Just like how he fought the Jotnar and Fenrir's one of many descendants, he is also planning to create an array to contain them.

You may think that Allen's arrays are strong. However, it is not. Well, they are if and only if they fulfill a certain requirement to activate. That requirement is the divine energies within the surroundings.

Or, if there are none, the death and life energies could also be used. Otherwise, the array will be useless.

Speaking of which, Allen created a spherical barrier of divine energy around him to prevent the ravens from getting close to him.

The ravens, if they are alone, did not have great strength. They merely have the strength of a lower colonel beast.

However, it is different with their group. Furthermore, they act as if they have one mind. It is as if they are being controlled.

"…wait, are they being controlled?" Allen asked himself.

Then, as he looked around, he saw the Mares sitting cross-legged with their eyes shut.

Allen could also feel their spiritual energies surging together and is acting like spiritual chains that bind the flock to do their biddings.

Seeing this, Allen smirked as he was thinking of a way to disrupt their concentration.

Then, a light bulb lit up in his mind. And on the next second, Allen shallowly dived in the sturdy space of the shrine.

He disappeared from his initial location and reappeared on the edge of the Mares' forest.

After that Allen did a series of hand seals as he connected to his bearers and gathered the divine energy from their marks.

Then using those divine energies, he attacked the Mares as he launched a beam of death energies towards them.

With that, the ravens scattered and were no longer attacking them.

In addition, the aura of the ravens also decreased. They no longer had the strength of lower colonel beasts. If they were to fight a lower captain beast, one on one, they would barely be a match to them.

It seemed that the Mares are using secret techniques to forcefully raise the strength of the ravens.

Meanwhile, the Mares coughed out blood while some of them are even dead.

The alive Mares looked at him with menace. However, Allen could not be bothered with them. He immediately left.

He knew that he is not a match for them.

…

Meanwhile, back in Base 300 a few days ago, when General Bren pledge his allegiance to Allen, Elioenai released Arthur Hardy.

Arthur Hardy is barely alive and was simply sustained by Allen's authority.

He is scrawny.

However, they did not release hardy readily. With Allen's command, they are nourishing with life energy using Allen's authority.

He was lying in bed. He is unconscious. In fact, he had never been conscious since Allen had gotten of him.

Then, after a few more days, he woke up.

"Where am I?" that is the first question that he asked.

In which, Thomas replied, "you're in Plague River Church."

"Who are you?" he asked again.

"I am Young Priest," Elioenai replied.

Indeed, unknowingly, the young preacher back then had already become a young priest. And, he was looking forward in becoming a prophet or perhaps a saint. But that is in the future.

"You finally realized that you're no match to my father huh?" Arthur asked.

However, Elioenai's answer stunned him.

"Your father is not a follower of the Divine Spirit of Life and Death."

Indeed, he did not expect that his proud father had defected to his enemy.

At this moment, he asked himself, "does father still love me?"

"Boy, if not for you, I think your father would not yield."

Indeed, Arthur is one of the reasons why General Bren yielded to Allen readily.