Chapter 2445

2445 - An Offer to the Behemoth

"…!" Helmor felt a hideous insult after Robin returned to drawing as if what was happening did not concern him.

The Shard fell silent as well, and above, Zavarus the scoundrel did not utter a single word to break the ice… Helmor merely continued lifting Theo upward, Theo who had already fainted from the severity of the pain, the damage, and the feelings of humiliation and failure.

He did not know what to do…

Lowering Theo without taking a great price would be an even greater insult to him.

And if he left him like this and he died… something told him that what Robin said earlier was true, that person had great power he hid well, power capable of killing him the moment he stepped out that door, even if he used his secret weapon against him.

What should he do in this situation? In this silence?!

"…Hmm?" The young man sitting on the ground next to Robin finally opened his eyes, the atmosphere around him was no longer as stable as it used to be.

"Eh?!" He immediately noticed the door and stood up in surprise, then shouted when he saw what was in Helmor's hand, "Big Brother Theo!!"

Without thinking twice he charged through the door, passed through Robin's Soul Shard, then stood before Helmor with serious expressions and a Soul Master aura ready for battle, and around all of this another dangerous aura ready to activate… then he shouted: "Give me back the second brother!!"

"...." Helmor slowly opened his eyes, "First Level Spacetime?"

This was not the first time Helmor had seen the activation of Spacetime. He had killed several Spacetime users with his own hands throughout his life before their maturation, thanks to tracking Cosmic Rejection, so with one glance he knew what the young man before him was using.

Then he turned toward Robin in shock to see his reaction to discovering the young man's truth.

But Robin was still drawing with a steady hand, as if he had heard nothing...

"How long will you keep pretending you don't care about anything?" Helmor raised his head slightly, his eyes becoming more dangerous, "Don't you know what a person's lack of respect might cost them?"

"...." Robin stopped drawing and leaned his back against his seat comfortably, "Leave him alone and I will refrain from interfering in your fight against Hedrick. How about that?"

"....." Helmor clenched his teeth hard.

Wasn't that what he was doing right now? Wasn't his goal essentially to stay in place and continue drawing? He had told him just a moment ago to go back to fighting Hedrick and not take things personally... Was the deal he was offering him simply the situation as it was before he grabbed Theo?!

Then Helmor's eyelid twitched for a moment...

Robin's offer was that he forget what had just happened and not punish him for it?

He was being disregarded to this extent?!

But...

This was still an offer.

*Puff*

Helmor left Theo, and his body slammed into the sand beneath him with force.

"My second brother!!" The young man moved in the blink of an eye, snatched Theo's body, and ran back toward the passage without Helmor stopping him.

*Whoosh* As soon as he crossed the gate, the Soul Shard turned into a chain of power and returned to Theo's head as well. There was no longer a Stabilizer operating on this planet, so it had no choice but to leave.

The chain of events that took less than a second left Helmor standing alone, staring through the door at Robin.

"Aser." Robin examined Theo quickly. "Take him to the field hospital and bring people from the Life Forces and the Genesis Forces to work on treating any stubborn injury, and you handle any soul problem… His injury is a minor external one. He will be fine within a few days if he is cared for well."

"Understood!!" Aser carried Theo in his arms and jumped from atop the mountain, signs of panic on his face.

"Heh~" Robin followed Aser with his gaze as he left quickly, then turned back to look toward Helmor through the Golden Door with his sleepy eyes. "It is hard for me to let the person who did this to my son leave without paying the price, but it is the agreement… You may go. Continue your fight with Zavarus… or whatever it is you are doing."

Then he bent back over his drawing to continue what he was doing.

"Wait!!" Helmor shouted loudly before the door could close.

"Hmm..." Robin responded with a hum without raising his head, clearly busy with what he was doing, but at least he didn't close the door immediately.

"...What exactly does The All-seeing God want?" Helmor spoke in a deep voice, "Why is he putting everything on the line in this Cycle?"

"Heh." Robin let out a small laugh, "It's a secret." Then he placed his finger on his mouth while drawing, "But I'd love to hear... why do you think?"

This wasn't the first time he'd heard that The All-seeing God was the reason for all the power he had, but this wasn't grounds for anger—for them to place their excuses on someone else and believe that he was the one weakening, the one scheming, the one doing everything, was better than them noticing him.

And not just them alone... but their masters as well.

How would their reaction be if they knew he had passed through the Transcendence and his body had begun to change?

Tsk tsk~ This shouldn't happen, not now.

"My opinion?" Helmor narrowed his eyes slightly, clearly Robin wanted to draw him into conversation... but he wanted the same in return.

"...My opinion is that it's a desperate last attempt to hold onto a position that isn't his." Helmor spoke with clear sarcasm, "After losing his Seals in two consecutive Cycles, it's obvious he wants to bet everything on this Cycle in hopes of recovering something of what he lost, but he will most likely fall to the lowest of the low, as happened with those before him."

"Oh..." Robin raised an eyebrow slightly and stopped drawing, "Is the All-seeing God in trouble to this degree? He always talks to me as if he's the king of the world... Did I get deceived by him? Tsk tsk~ And those Seals he keeps losing... that seems very precious."