"You're are a hypocrite, teaching me of morals when you just committed the same act a while ago!" Deus said his voice filled with disgust
"Won't you teach me a lesson!?" a familiar voice answered
Hearing Ileus answer, deus was angered even more.
"You...!"
His voice was calm, but he was angry. He did not finish his sentence before abruptly stopping.
Hahaha!!!
He started laughing hysterically like a lunatic.
"I guess I underestimated you, to think that one day, you would be able to dare challenge me...but don't worry, just count yourself dead!"
In the dark void, ileus could be seen there with a smug plastered on his face, floating beside him was the familiar crystal.
He knew that deus won't be able to find him here, Mana blends in well with nature's essence, unlike Qi, so everything might look natural to deus unless he looks up close.
And also, it will be hard for deus to detect Mana while using Qi to observe.
He wanted to test the waters and see if he could wrinkle that calm face of Deus.
Ever since he became Deus's subordinate, he had never seen any emotions. So at this time, he has a high chance of getting angry to the point when he would frown.
Because of this, he thought that it would be fun to watch the emotional face of Deus, something no one has ever seen.
"How about we play a game of hide and seek!?" Ileus said in his cold voice with the aim of angering deus.
"Good, I wonder what gave you the courage, the last time I played this silly game was about was when I was still a foolish mortal!"
"..."
"Why not stop hiding like a rat and come out to face me like the real god you claim to be!? "
Ileus didn't answer him, he knows his boundaries, this man millions of times stronger than him, he knew that.
The aura of deus alone is enough to freeze him just like he did to the nine Supreme gods, that's why he must go forward with his plan because if he doesn't, then it would not take long for things to turn awry.
"little white, I will be gone for a while, you might be bored. But try to guide the others"
'Master, when will you return, what about the half mechas? What will we do without you?" The pleading voice of Crystal resounded in his head.
"Go back to my world, I created it for you guys! You guys should go and level up there. give my current subordinate gods the message. . ."
After briefing it on things, telling it many things he decided to make his presence known. But that was after the crystal has long teleported away.
Meanwhile, deus started noticing something strange in the air, it seemed unnoticeable at first, but it somehow became noticeable.
Then he now notice a strange, yet familiar foreign energy which he recognized as the energy Ileus has once called Mana.
He quickly used his spirit sense to tear open the void located at that place.
What met him was the ileus smiling face, ileus body had started disintegrating into shiny, light particles/pixels.
He then heard his message, the last message of ileus before he died.
"I am not running away from you, I will be back...next time, I will come as a Thief!"
He scoffed at ileus pathetic message,
"The Law of the Divine Dao is Supreme! The Use of Qi is a Supreme path! Yet you choose to create your own! But Something interesting has come up after all these boring years, and for that, I will let you live! But a bounty will be placed on your soul! In your next life, you will be dead for real!" He said while drawing the mark of dao on the air with an expressionless face.
As soon as he was done, he sighted a dark smoke coming out of the place ileus once was along with a blue smoke.
These smoke are the essence of some elements.
"Dark essence! and the reincarnation essence, go to your various gods for absorption"
Sigh
'I guess I will have to take and train a new batch, it shameful thing for me to let him go after taking control of my subordinate gods...but I sure would be lying if I say that am not interested in knowing what his plan is'
'I can't help but wonder where he kept them'
The god hovered up in the air looking at the mass destruction he had just caused, he was having mixed emotions right now. He is feeling angry and sad.
Of all his gods, he loved Ileus the most. He loved him because of his rebellious nature. He had always kept him in check not until ileus disappeared without a trace.
He knew what ileus was doing at that time, and he let him do it. He knew that ileus created his plane and dimension forming his world and energy.
But still, he did not regret any of his actions. Even if he went back in time, he would still let ileus do what he wants.
"Ki has been formed, Qi had been formed, Now Mana!? His path sure is different from the others"
When ileus died he knew this would happen, he wanted to die right in front of his master.
He wanted to show him that his 'Servant' is now dead. In his next life, he wanted to be more of a free man.
He wanted to do what he pleases without any form of restriction.
He knew that if he do this and die in front of Deus, Deus would let his soul go.
if Deus wanted him dead right now, he would have attacked ileus's soul the moment he dies, and with that, they would be no Ileus of the next life.
Only ileus of this life. But now that did not happen once Ileus reincarnates and grows strong enough to be able to fend off attacks from an angel from the nine heavens, the attacks would then come.
He wanted to know what gave Ileus the courage to think that he would not kill him.
"Ileus! Such a wonderful and interesting fella! Your kind of breed is kind of new, and I know that you won't choose measly people as your parents, but don't worry, I will be waiting and watching, I will watch you grow stronger till you're strong enough to withstand a single attack from my subordinates, I want to see what show you would put up by that time, I want to see what you can do" Deus's voice echoed in the surrounding, it was like the voice of a battle maniac.
"Don't worry ileus, 'cause I will be waiting, I will be waiting your last fight in your next life would be with me, and you will die by my very own hands I will make sure of it!!!"