Austin stared at the three tokens on the hill.
"This is awesome! I'm going to get my hands on three more,"
Austin said to himself, smiling as if all his birthdays had come at once.
But while Austin was celebrating, the mermaid was doing the exact opposite. She felt afraid. Her breaths became heavier as she did her best to stabilize her shaking hands, which almost grabbed onto Austin's back for support.
"Austin, let's get out of here now!" she pleaded, beckoning her panic to him through her eyes.
The mermaid had a good reason to be afraid. The members of the beast race and the Novel Court were staring at Austin and her, their eyes burning through both of their skulls.
The mermaid didn't know the nature of these people, but to say that they looked intimidating would be an understatement. They basked in their defiant and deadly glory with no hint of fear whatsoever. It was hard not to be scared of them.
To make matters worse, they released a strong, threatening aura towards the direction of Austin and the mermaid, which did absolutely nothing to calm down the mermaid's nerves.
"We'll go as soon as I get those tokens," Austin said, nudging his head towards the hill. Despite the threat in front of them, he was determined.
He stretched his arm out, reaching for the three Illusionary Tokens.
When the people saw what Austin was attempting, they broke out of their glares, bursting into a fit of laughter. "This is ridiculous! They've lost their minds."
"Do these weaklings really think they could just show up here and get the tokens?
Do they really think we'll just stand here and do nothing about it?"
"I'm actually entertained by the two's audacity.
They have to be insane to think they can pull this off, especially when we're standing right here."
The people reacted, hurling insulting remarks at Austin and the mermaid.
A few minutes passed, and the genuine divine gods of the two forces still couldn't control themselves. Their faces turned red as they clutched their stomachs in laughter.
All of them thought Austin and the mermaid were idiots.
They thought the two were like clowns in a circus, making fools out of themselves for their audience's attention.
"Austin, le-let's find a way out," the mermaid said, still uncomfortable with the whole situation. "If we stay here longer, we'll be in greater trouble," she continued, doing her best to get her words out.
Austin could tell how nervous the mermaid was by the way she was grabbing onto his clothes for comfort. She did it in the same way a child held onto a stuffed animal when the night came.
"Don't worry. Everything's going to be fine. I'm here. I'm with you,"
Austin said with a soft smile, attempting to reassure the fearful mermaid.
Austin turned his attention towards the jeering crowd. "Idiots! All of you are idiots," he said defiantly as he looked at the genuine divine gods who were still too busy making him and the mermaid the butts of the joke. "Whatever. I don't even want to waste my time and energy on any of you," Austin said frustrated.
He shook his head at them before smiling knowingly to himself. 'They have no idea what's coming, ' he thought to hi
n mouths. Austin didn't even need to lift a finger to cause a bloodbath.
'Hmm. Not bad, not bad at all.
No one in the maze can break the law of illusion, including these genuine divine gods. It really is my best weapon.'
Austin and the mermaid looked at the genuine divide gods, who were in absolute anguish. He was quite satisfied with what he had done using the law of illusion.
It made it so easy for him to defeat the genuine preliminary-grade divine gods. They might have carried unbelievable brute strength, but even that was no competition for what Austin had planned for them.
Austin stared at them with a dead look in his eyes.
"I will kill you all," he said blankly.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The heads of the genuine divide gods began to explode one after another.
A grotesque mixture of blood and brains covered the ground, filling the air with its putrid smell.
Their bodies followed, cracking then obliterating into nothing. All that was left of them were broken bones, splintering to the sky in different directions.
"What just happened? !"
"No way!"
All of them were left stunned, even more stunned than they were earlier.
It was such a shocking and unbelievable sight.
Even they began to question whether or not they were in an illusionary world themselves.
The few who were left of the beast race and the Novel Court stared at the bloody result, while their eyes widened and their mouths dropped to the ground. They really couldn't tell if what they were seeing was real or not.
"This is impossible. Was it all an illusion? Please tell me it was all an illusion.
It has to be. After all, we're in the maze. That has to be the only answer. This isn't real,"
a genuine divine god from the Novel Court exclaimed.
Austin shot his head towards the genuine divide god that had spoken. He laughed slyly. "Of course it's real. Everything you saw is real," he replied. "Now, it's your turn."
Austin placed his eyes upon him.
After a few moments of deep concentration, vortexes of illusions began to appear, surrounding the genuine divine god until he was out of the people's view.