Cassius waited eagerly for the Lich's attack to materialize, as he gathered his own Divine Essence in response.
Divine Essence was a magical force that could be only wielded by lesser gods and beings stronger than lesser gods.
It was like mana in terms of its constitution, but much more potent in use, as a normal spell powered using divine essence instead of normal mana was at least 1000 times more powerful.
Not only could mortals not handle divine essence, as having divine essence flowing through one's mana pathway could lead to permanent damage.
Their bodies were not receptive to the flow of divine essence either as mortals did not have the ability to naturally tap into the flow of divine essence.
When one transcended from becoming a mortal to becoming a lesser god. They developed a special organ called the sea of consciousness that could tap into the flow of divine essence in the universe and store it as small droplets within the organ.
When in battle, it was this store of divine essence that a lesser god quickly burnt off to power their spells.
*Rumble*
When the Lich finally gathered enough power for his attack, the ground beneath his feet began to rumble causing shockwaves to run throughout the battlefield.
[ Divine Move : Hell's Gate ]
The Lich spoke in a raspy voice that was inhumane to listen to as he unleashed a devastating attack.
The air around the battlefield suddenly grew colder, the sky darkening as if the sun itself shied away from the impending doom.
From the ground, a swirling vortex of shadow and malice formed, a black portal ringed with eldritch runes that pulsed with a sinister light. Chains, dark as night and thick with wicked barbs, shot out from the portal with terrifying speed. They writhed like serpents, seeking, searching for anything—or anyone—to drag back into the abyss.
Cassius narrowed his eyes when looking at this attack as he could feel the malicious intent behind each chain as they sliced through the air towards him.
"Shit-" Cassius cursed, as he had completely ran out of divine essence to block this incoming move now and had to resort to desperate measures like trying to run away to save his life.
Flying off, Cassius tried to get out of the attack's range, however, the chains of darkness were faster than him as one of the two chains managed to latch on to his ankle.
*Snap*
The second the first chain bound itself to Cassius, he immediately felt the vitality of his body being sapped as he faced a curse of debuff.
Like a paralyzed prey, he could not longer maintain his usual speed as he limped and allowed the second chain to attach to his second ankle.
*Snap*
At this moment, the lesser Gods strength reduced by nearly 50% as he became almost powerless to fight off the chains binding him.
"Help! Help! Somebody Help!" Cassius yelled loudly as he desperately fought off the chains from dragging him into the dark portal, however, could not fully stop them.
Little by little, the chains dragged Cassius towards Hell's Gate, as Cassius screamed and cried for help, hoping for what could only be a certain miracle to save his life.
Once Cassius was within a 100 meters range of the Hell's Gate, the Lich personally began pulling on the chains with his hands as he felt eager to claim the soul of a god.
However, just when it seemed like there was no hope for the lesser god Cassius to survive, Karna came crashing down from the sky as he sliced through one of the two chains binding Cassius.
*Slash*.
*GROWWLLLLL*
The Lich growled like a beast, it was not at all impressed by Karna's antics, however, with one of the two chains snapping, Cassius was able to regain some of his strength as he began preparing a counter spell to break off the last chain binding him.