"This is truly a good hand..."
Rin was not the least bit flustered by Osiris suddenly becoming the divine descent vessel of Amon-Ra.
On the contrary, Rin was incredibly excited at this moment.
He had originally treated Osiris merely as a source for collecting Authority.
The real opportunity to plunder the Egyptian pantheon was the next Heretic God, using Osiris's demise as the medium.
As for who that Heretic God would be?
Violet had stated that Amon, Ra, and Atum, the supreme gods of the Egyptian pantheon, would definitely meet her requirements.
Now, things had worked out perfectly.
Amon-Ra-Atum, the trinity Solar God.
Could there be anything more fortunate than this?
Buzz~
Looking at Amon-Ra again, his expression was indifferent, his eyes calm and detached, like a true God, without sorrow or joy, overlooking all living beings.
Swish!
Suddenly, Amon-Ra raised his hand.
In the next moment, an endless flood of light seemed to engulf the entire world.
Rin felt his entire field of vision consumed by golden-white light. He lost all sense of direction and could no longer feel anything aside from what he could see.
No, even his vision became hazy and distorted in that instant.
"Danger!"
Rin instinctively sensed a threat approaching and raised the sword of dawn, ready to block.
But the sense of danger did not diminish. On the contrary, it intensified.
Bang!
In the pure white world, the sword of dawn shattered with a loud bang.
However, Rin, who should have been holding it, was nowhere to be seen.
On closer inspection, a faint patch of dark gray appeared abruptly in this pure white world, like a stain on white paper, extremely conspicuous.
"What just happened?"
It was a flowing long river, the Authority Rin had gained from Lilith, the River Styx summoned by the Path to Hell.
Standing on the River Styx, Rin could finally comprehend the vastness of this white world.
Even the boundless River Styx occupied only a minuscule portion of this space.
This was supposed to be a curse-type technique akin to a Bounded Field, eroding the present world.
Rather than summoning a river, it was more like forcibly inserting a complete confined domain into this place.
"Diablo, Testarossa?"
Rin called out to them, but it was as if this Netherworld had been sealed off, preventing direct contact with his Subordinate Gods.
This also meant Rin's Subordinate God summoning was rendered ineffective.
"Connection failed?"
Rin wasn't anxious, just slightly regretful.
If Testarossa and Diablo could be summoned, with three Heretic God-level powers on his side, there was no way they would lose to Amon-Ra.
"Forget it."
Rin then called Violet, who responded immediately.
[Currently detecting Amon-Ra's abilities.]
"Hm?"
Boom!!
An invisible attack struck once more. Rin quickly summoned hell's gate.
A deafening roar followed.
Hell's gate barely managed to block Amon-Ra's attack.
However, seeing the dense cracks forming across hell's gate, Rin understood the terrifying force behind it.
Boom!
But it only held for a moment before hell's gate completely shattered before Rin's eyes.
From the destruction of the sword of dawn to the collapse of hell's gate, only two or three seconds had passed.
"The sword of dawn shattered, and even hell's gate could barely withstand a single blow."
Rin had already begun to sense something. Violet also sent feedback in real-time.
[Amon-Ra's Authority is related to time.]
"Time…"
Before Rin could ask more, countless invisible attacks surged toward him once again.
These attacks could not be detected by sight.
They didn't exist in this space-time, instead arriving from the distant past and the far-off future.
Because they were events that had already happened, and events that had yet to occur.
This made Amon-Ra's attacks impossible to detect directly, let alone block.
No, Rin could forcibly resist them.
However, Amon-Ra's attacks carried a kind of absolute trait.
No matter what method was used, anything that tried to block them would be forcefully destroyed.
The evidence was the shattered sword of dawn and the crumbling hell's gate, which had even withstood the strongest Authority's strike before.
"Is this the power of a supreme god from a divine pantheon?"
Rin couldn't imagine how another Campione would survive under these circumstances if they encountered Osiris in Amon-Ra's form.
The Path to Hell could only serve as a means of survival and recovery.
Beyond that, it gave Rin a place to stand in this pure white space.
"If the Path to Hell doesn't work, then I'll try this."
Rin began chanting a spell while summoning the seven deadly sins, spreading them outward with himself at the center.
The fundamental function of the seven deadly sins—or rather, its strongest effect—was the ability to provoke original sin in living beings.
Original sin was not exclusive to humans.
Even gods, as long as they possessed emotions, would be corroded by original sin.
And once infected with any of the sins, Rin could activate the other abilities of the seven deadly sins and gradually wear the enemy down.
"Uh…"
However, Rin's plan hit a very awkward snag.
"Does this guy have no humanity?"
Rin was sure that the seven deadly sins had locked onto Amon-Ra's true form.
Yet, to Rin's surprise, Amon-Ra showed no signs of human emotion or flaws. No traces of any original sin.
This guy was more like a robot than a robot.
Although Rin couldn't see Amon-Ra directly, he could clearly sense the other party watching him with calm and indifferent eyes.
"Even if there's no humanity, the gravity field of Pride should still affect non-living things..."
With one move failing, Rin immediately switched to the next.
He prepared to use the gravity of Pride, capable of crushing even non-living objects and abstract concepts, to force Amon-Ra to appear and engage.
"..."
However, the result was the same.
The pure white space remained unchanged, and the gravity effect from Pride didn't seem to activate at all.
"What's going on?"
Rin frowned, summoning one hell's gate after another to block the attacks pouring from the void.
"Violet! Why is it that, even after the seven deadly sins captured Amon-Ra's presence, the gravity I summoned with Pride has no effect?"
(To be continued.)