Austin could be merciful or wrathful depending on the situation. Since he had no personal grudges against these faces, and he actually once met a giant face who had saved his life, he now decided against hurting these members of the face race.
"He is too powerful. We are no match for him!
Send someone to fetch the supreme grandmaster!"
exclaimed a semi-governing god.
"Young man, you've gone too far.
You've trespassed into our territory and injured our people.
As we don't have any enmity with you, what is your reason for doing this?"
To everyone's astonishment, a loud, imposing voice suddenly reverberated in the space.
Immediately after, eight huge, aged faces floated out of the door floating in the void.
These eight faces were the governing gods of the face race.
The situation had reached such a stage that they were forced to appear.
"Ha-ha! I've waited for so long for you.
I thought you would huddle up and hide like a turtle forever,"
remarked a governing god from the wood puppet race, with a laugh.
"Humph, we have long suspected that your race is behind all this.
What on earth did you do to trick this young human and convince him to work for you?
Young man, tell us, what did the wood puppet race offer you?
Our clan will double their price as long as you don't work for them anymore,"
a governing god of the face race proposed.
The governing gods of the face race believed that the wood puppet race had bribed this young man with a lot of money. Why else would he risk his life for them?
"Your assumption is correct. The wood puppet race did make a generous offer.
However, your race can't give me the benefits that they promised.
I have no ill-will toward your race.
My purpose is to collect an item from Longevity Valley. I will leave as soon as I get it.
No one will get hurt if you stay out of my way.
Don't force me to be violent,"
Austin explained.
"Humph! The wood puppet race wants to take our race's treasure. How can we agree with that?
Young man, please stay away. This is not a matter that involves you!
Otherwise, don't hold us responsible for the consequences!"
shouted another governing god of the face race.
"What?
Does the objec
d, as if he were walking in another space and time, detached from this period of history.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The colossal mouth was like a dark bottomless hole, constantly devouring the void. It looked slow, but in fact, it was astonishingly quick.
Crack!
The huge mouth swallowed the space where Austin stood.
However, Austin had already transported himself to another location.
"Brat, let me see how many times you can dodge!"
The governing god's face roared as it suddenly turned and rushed in another direction.
He headed straight for where Austin had reappeared.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
This face suddenly opened its mouth. As before, it continued to grow as it devoured everything in its path as it snapped its way toward Austin's figure.
"Amazing!"
Austin was so astonished by what he witnessed that he couldn't hold back his praise.
Although the devouring ability of the face race's governing god was not as magnificent as Humphrey's, it was enough to defeat an ordinary governing god.
Whoosh!
Regardless of how quickly the colossal mouth was chewing its way toward him, Austin summoned his bodily movement skill and easily dodged it.
Since he could avoid Humphrey's attack, which was significantly more powerful than this ordinary governing god's, his bodily movement skill helped him evade the attack effortlessly.
"Damn it! This guy's bodily movement skill is too slippery!"
roared the governing god of the face race as anger coursed through him.