The twins had already decided between themselves, that asides from directly participating in the mission, they would try to help their fellow demigods the best way they could, and that was without contradicting the nature of Kvass' divine powers.
Since they are all under the same True Spirit that governed the current plane of existence they were within, the twins knew they had to help.
"Faster, they're catching up fast!" Yama urged as their group increased their speed to its possible limit.
Sui! Sui! Sui!
Three beams of light instantly caught up to the fleeing group; they were elder gods after all, which means their speed was at least ten times faster than that of any demigod.
"Hmph! Trying to flee? You will at least ask for my permission to do so!" Belen snorted as she summoned a red whip that seemed to be covered in all sorts of tiny sharp objects.
The whip seemed to have a life of its own and the hilt was covered in several runes; "Restrict all oppositions; shred my enemies to bits; Nuwa's whip!" Belen chanted as she lashed at the retreating group.
"Reject all humanity, return to monke!" Sun bellowed as he smashed his golden staff toward the incoming whip.
Bang!
Sun was sent skidding about five meters away whilst Belen was forced to retreat several steps.
"Hmm? It seems like you do have some ability." Belen snorted as she lashed out her whip once again, and this time the power behind it seemed to have doubled.
"Sweep away all adversaries!" Sun bellowed as he somersaulted into the air and land nimbly landed on a white cloud.
"Ruyi Jingu Bang!" The staff in Sun's grasp suddenly increased in size until it was as large as a school bus; then he smashed it towards the incoming whip.
Boom! An ear-bursting explosion rang out across the area as Belen skidded about three meters away from her previous position whilst Sun was sent hurtling back to the ground.
'Unh? Did that troublesome staff get destroyed?' Belen thought to herself when she realized that Sun's staff was no longer in sight.
"Watch out!" Onir who was just arriving at the scene bellowed as he summoned a golden shield before bracing himself in front of Belen.
Then the golden staff which Belen thought had shattered suddenly descended from above and slammed into Onir's shield.
Kaboom!
The duo was instantly pushed back as Sun who was below waved his hand causing the staff to change trajectory once again, catching the two elder gods off-guard.
But just as it was about to smack the crap out of the two demigods.
Psi!
The sound of a sharp object piercing through the air at insane speed echoed into everyone's ears as a fiery arrow collided with the staff.
Bang!
The staff was instantly overpowered and was sent hurtling back to its owner.
"Thanks, Beira." Onir looked towards the arriving goddess.
Though she was the one leading their search initially, the moment Belen and his divine sense locked onto their target, they immediately increased their speed, leaving Beira who had been initially exhausted from healing Onir behind.
It was due to the same exhaustion that Sun had been able to resist Belen's first two attacks and even get a chance to make a counter of his.
"It seems we have severely underestimated these guys," Onir said with a solemn expression whilst Belen nodded in agreement.
"We don't have much time left; we have been chasing them for half an hour already." Beira reminded.
"Alright then, let's wrap things up quickly." Onir agreed as he began to gather his divine energy.
"Don't kill them, but you can cripple them if you want. I still need to torture them to get my rewards." Belen stated as she also began to gather her divine energy.
Belen had refrained from using her divine energy in the previous two bouts because she knew that all demigods wouldn't be able to handle it, and if she accidentally killed her opponents before torturing them, then all her efforts would have been for naught.
An example was Beira's arrow which had carried an insignificant bit of her divine energy, and that alone was sufficient to send Sun's golden staff into the distance.
"Brace yourselves!" Yama bellowed as Sun stepped in front of the group, calling his staff with a simple grasping gesture.
The staff flew over from the distance into his grasp as he began to twirl it in front of the entire group in a defensive stance.
Valpak wasn't idle either as thousands upon thousands of souls began to fly out of his body, gathering overhead into what seemed to be a misty image of a giant skeletal warrior with a bone sword and shield in hand.
Yama on the other hand simply moved closer to Daniel, ready to protect him if the incoming attacks managed to get past their first two lines of defense.
"Pierce down from the heavens and rend the void; doom bringer!" Onir chanted as a golden sword with several ancient runes that were radiating immense divine energies appeared out of nowhere and stabbed toward Daniel's group.
"Split the oceans and lacerate all oppositions; Nuwa's whip!" Belen chanted as the whip in her hand grew in size and power.
All the tiny sharp objects which were embedded in the whip earlier suddenly revealed themselves to be numerous swords, spears, daggers, and all other slicings, piercing, and stabbing weapons, and they all had ancient tunes which were also emitting divine energy.
The whip then lashed toward the group with tyrannical speed.
"Sing across the void and hunt all targets; Huoyi's arrow!"
Beira suddenly pulled her bowstring as a potent and extremely violent divine energy poured out of her body, turning into an arrow that nocked itself on the bow in her grasp.
String!
Just like a guitar string being plucked, the arrow blasted off the bow, sending massive shockwaves across the area.
Sun and Valpak's expressions turned solemn as they watched the incoming attacks bear down on them, sending ripples that caused several spatial cracks all over the place.
"Resist all humanity, return to monke!" Sun bellowed as a divine energy that paled in comparison to the elder gods, poured out of his body into his staff.
The staff hummed in delight as it expanded in size and began to glow with golden light.
The golden light began to reflect off the staff turning into a twirling mass of energy that looked like a flat circular shield, whilst the characters which were engraved on the staff floated into it and appeared in front of the shield.
"Rend all tangibility and devour all energies; Ghost Warrior King!" Valpak bellowed as the ghost king brandished its sword and shield toward the incoming attacks.
Boom!
The first to arrive was Onir's sword which shattered Sun's shield and sent Sun and his staff flying into the middle of nowhere.
Then Belen's attack arrived as the ghost king slashed its blood-red sword toward the whip.
Clang!
The sword held the whip at bay for a moment before dispersing into a blood mist as it continued in its trajectory; however, it had lost about thirty percent of its momentum.
The moment the blood-red sword dispersed; the ghost kind placed its purple flaming shield in front of Valpak as the whip slammed into it.
The purple flames on the shield flared to life as it began to encase the slowly moving whip, devouring the divine energy that powered it, but the divine energy backing the whip proved too powerful for it to completely devour as the shield then began to crack.
The shield then burst apart, forming a river of purple flames before the whip split them into two and slammed into Valpak who spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying, just like Sun.
Just as their two lines of defense broke apart, Beira's arrow arrived, and instead of allowing it to pierce Yama who was standing in front of Daniel trying to summon something to defend themselves, Beira suddenly snapped her fingers.
Kaboom!
A massive explosion reverberated across the area as violent divine energy spread across the area, destroying anything that was within its reach.
Kvass and Imros as well as the bleeding Valpak and Sun arrived on the scene and saw the massive devastation that had just begun to subside.
They stared at the point of impact awaiting the result of Beira's unrestrained attack; especially Belen who was staring at the scene with an anxious gaze; then the moment the violent energy subsided, they all realized that there was nothing left in sight.