Ares felt helpless as he watched the rankers that came with him die one after another from Asura’s Hell’s Infernal Sword. This clearly drew a line for them. It showed how powerless human beings were in front of the gods of Athenae. There were definitely those ridiculous, out of this world, ‘God Class’ players, but none of them had clearly climbed up to the position of a true god yet.

‘Sorry…’

Ares bit his lips. He was the one that led the rankers here. Just imagining the penalty and frustration that everyone would get from here was making Ares feel something that he had never felt in his entire life. He was feeling complete despair.

Athenae was a game where one would advance towards the goal that they had set for themselves. However, one look at Asura and Ares lost his will to fight. Some of the rankers even looked dispirited as they talked about shelving Athenae for good.

But then, at that moment…

“Do you think you’re someone qualified to talk about the current era?”

The owner of the voice was a hundred meters away from them, a beautiful woman with long, silver hair fluttering in the wind.

‘Sword Emperor Ellie…!’

Ares had actually never seen Ellie with his own eyes before. The only one that had a close relationship with Sword Emperor Ellie was Food God Minhyuk. This was something that all of the Korean players knew. Then…

Clack—

Ellie drew her sword…

Thump— t...