### Chapter: 433
After Kraush jumped into the lava...
Inferno was just sitting there, stock still, staring at the molten goo.
Maios had been waiting beside him for a few days, just gazing into the lava as well.
But come on, staring at lava for over a week? That’s exhausting!
Eventually, Maios decided to take a quick tour of the Gold Sky World. He needed a break!
Kraush’s training wasn’t giving Maios any juicy tips for becoming a high-tier god, so he figured a little sightseeing couldn’t hurt.
While he felt a bit disappointed, he wasn’t going to cling to it. After all, becoming a high-tier god isn’t something you pull off in a blink of an eye.
After wrapping up his little excursion, he returned to find Inferno still planted in the same spot, staring into the molten depths.
Honestly, for a high-tier god, patience might be the most critical trait!
As he mulled over this thought, a sudden thud echoed through the air.
Finally, Inferno lifted himself off the ground!
Maios jumped a bit, wondering if he’d distracted Inferno. But then he saw a bright smile on Inferno’s face.
“Finally!”
The moment he spoke, Maios also glanced back at the lava.
Suddenly, it started bubbling and whoosh—everything got sucked into some unseen vortex!
Maios’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.
It wasn’t just the lava either—every grain of fire power throughout the Gold Sky World was getting pulled in!
It felt like the entire world itself was being absorbed.
The sheer magnitude of this force almost sent Maios into a dizzy spell.
This wasn’t just massive power—it was colossal! Even mid-tier gods wouldn’t stay composed in the face of such strength.
He felt like he was trapped in a massive whirlpool, rolling around in a cosmic wave.
“Ugh!”
As he swallowed back a lump in his throat and staggered to the ground, Inferno let out a cheerful chuckle.
“Right, that’s it! Gods often think the only way to grow stronger is by learning from other gods, but nope! Only those who carve their own path will reach beyond!”
Maios’s eyes widened at this revelation.
That wasn’t something he had heard from the other high-tier gods before!
Just then—boom!
A hand erupted from the volcano!
Maios felt a chill run down his spine.
A man with dark blue hair rose up, and as Maios laid eyes on him, his face began to harden.
A gust of wind blew past.
Yet the man’s hair didn’t budge an inch.
It was as if the Gold Sky World couldn’t even touch him!
Clearly, Kraush was no ordinary high-tier god.
The sensation he exuded felt like standing before a galaxy.
So, Kraush wasn’t fit to be called a mere high-tier god.
He was like a star, different from any galaxy.
The moment Maios laid eyes on him, he was overwhelmed.
It was enormous.
Too enormous.
Maios felt as if he was staring at something incomprehensibly huge.
Kraush’s star was too great to fit within his sight.
It was a star that could even swallow galaxies whole, flooding his vision with its radiant light.
It almost blinded him.
The intensity of that starlight permeated through his very being.
“Can’t handle that starlight yet, huh?”
Inferno’s shadow covered Maios’s eyes.
If he kept basking in Kraush’s starlight, he might just evaporate into thin air.
“Instead of letting the light scatter, draw it into yourself!”
Listening to Inferno’s advice, Kraush inhaled deeply.
He concentrated and began redirecting the starlight within him.
Dealing with such overwhelming starlight was certainly a first for him.
“Yes, it seems that way.”
Naturally, the higher-tier gods set up shop in the more powerful corners of the divine realm.
This time, Kraush had absorbed the power of the Gold Sky World all at once.
Normally, gods gradually absorbed it over time.
But given Kraush’s extraordinary awakening, he could manage it in one shot.
“Then, Maios, let me ask you something.”
“Yes?”
“Do you know where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are hiding?”
At that question, Maios hesitated.
After all, the Gold Kingdom had been wiped clean, and the gods were now uniting to bring the flow of world erosion back to the middle realm.
Their primary focus was to summon the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Maios’s own sect, the Partes Constellation, was after the same goal.
So it stood to reason that Maios, being part of that group, could have some clues.
Upon posing his query, Maios’s expression turned slightly complicated.
“Yes, I do know about them. But you might want to let that one go.”
“Why’s that?”
“Those guys are managed by none other than the supreme gods.”
The supreme gods who existed in the divine realm.
The fact that they were directly overseeing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made Kraush scrunch his brow.
“Directly managed by the supreme gods?”
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were beings that the middle realm couldn’t handle.
But the divine realm was a different story.
Even Maios alone was stronger than any of the Four Horsemen that had descended into the middle realm.
After all, he was a god for a reason!
Thus, considering absorbing their power or trying to eliminate them...
Now that plan didn’t seem quite right when those supreme gods were involved!
“It seems like you have no idea what kind of beings the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse really are, Kraush,” Maios said calmly, glancing up at the sky.
“As you know, there are various worlds in the divine realm.
The divine realm, composed of all existence, is unimaginably vast—some worlds are downright unbelievable.”
Even the Gold Sky World was larger than the middle realm.
It was clear just how expansive the divine realm was without needing to elaborate.
“The problem is that even the high-tier gods don’t fully know what lurks in those worlds.”
The high-tier gods, beings of many mysteries and phenomena.
Kraush’s brows furrowed at the thought that even they hold secrets.
“They say those worlds exist on the backside of all existence. We who live on the front can never glimpse behind.”
Kraush figured out why Maios was sharing this info with him.
“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse... they came from that hidden realm.”
“Yes, indeed. They emerged from that behind-the-scenes world.”
Had there been such a thing?
Kraush had always believed the Four Horsemen were simply made to pour out world erosion upon their command by the existing high-tier gods.
But as it turns out, they were entities from a world beyond!
“And the gods all had one consistent impression about them,” Maios paused for dramatic effect.
Finally, when he spoke, the tension in his voice thickened.
“They’re not much different from gods themselves.”
“What?”
“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are beings akin to gods from that hidden world.”
Kraush’s face hardened.
He grasped the implications of that statement.
“So that means the Four Horsemen are...”
“Yes, within the divine realm, unlike in the middle realm, they can wield their true power freely.”
Those Four Horsemen who’d descended upon the middle realm were merely weakened by its limitations.