This is a very important moment for him. A lot of people are watching this currently. Whatever he does will define his image for a very long time. If he is to rally people behind his banner when the era of conquest comes, then he can't show any weakness. It will not do for the child of the plane to be seen running for his life.
The second reason he is not running is the golems. The pyramid will turn into golems once he leaves the boundary with the crown. He saw them fight before the justice nutjobs returned the crown to them and he has to admit that they are very powerful. Their defense is ridiculously strong. A powerful attack is needed to deal any damage to them. The justice nutjobs were able to kill the golems and earn good weapons from them due to their powerful divine ability.
Then there is the speed and power of the golems. He can surely handle them if given time but he doesn't have time or leisure. He is currently surrounded by vultures and opportunists. No one has come forth to challenge him yet because of his reputation. They all heard the announcements of his feats so they know what a tough nut he is. Word of his battles has also spread to some extent so people are wary of him. That will change when he is preoccupied with golems.
They understand that he is an unstoppable force of nature. But he won't remain unstoppable when he is busy with golems. At the least, he will become less unstoppable. All they have to do is make him slip up or make a mistake, then an arrow can nail him or a blade can cut him. If they attack him enough, the golems will do their work for them unless he gives up the crown. So it will be like what the justice nutjobs failed to do but on a grander scale.
He doesn't want to give up the crown because to give up the crown is to give up the initiative. Anything can happen to the crown as long as it is not within his hands and he won't entertain that possibility. He also doesn't want to fight golems and be besieged by people from all sides so he will sit on the pyramid and wait. The one that gets the crown is the one that has it when the competition ends not the person who kills the most or holds the crown for the longest. So he will wait.
The third reason why he won't run is currently on its way. It is a compelling reason to stay here on a pyramid with the crown in his hands. Everyone in the competition knows that he has the crown now so the ones that were late to the position of the crown or those that have issues with him will come to him.
Selecting a battlefield is important to achieving victory. He knows himself and he knows his enemy. He intends to take advantage of the information he has about his enemy at his current location. So he will wait and let his enemy come to him.
Meanwhile, more and more people arrived to join the circle of observers around the pyramid. He continued to wait unflustered as people arrived. Then all of a sudden he moved. He activated WORLD BREAKER and he disappeared leaving the crown behind. The world turned into an ocean of fire immediately after he moved. Hell suddenly descended on the pyramid and its vicinities.
The world was baptized in flames for a second before the attack ended. Soverick reappeared on top of the pyramid to find that almost half of the ring of the multitude of people around him have disappeared. A patch of smoking lava ground has replaced where they used to stay. Behind them, some distance away is the first enemy that he is waiting for. This enemy came from the west bearing death and fire.
Soverick assessed his situation calmly. His body is damaged a little from the attack but he survived. Most of his strength is conserved and he is ready to fight. He stood at the top of the pyramid calmly as he healed while Salvos came matching to him.
Salvos, the hell bringer, the herald of fire. He has white fur like those of the bloodline of the sages. He doesn't have the bloodline of the first sage but that of another sage. That has not weakened him though. He is the strongest of the three current generations of sages for a reason.
Evolution causes changes but only favorable changes that provide strength and improve chances of survival are transmitted from one generation to the other because the weak are eliminated.
If the Origin ancestor of Salvos's bloodline was weak, he wouldn't have become an origin god in the first place and his descendants wouldn't have survived. The ability to increase the concentration of the law of fire in everything is a strong ability. The sage that is the Origin ancestor of Salvos made it his concept. Now Salvos is privileged to wield such a powerful divine ability without working for it.
Salvos matched towards Soverick with utter confidence. He didn't walk in an imposing manner. That is for those with something to prove. He doesn't have anything to prove. His dignity is innate and the world is beneath him. Everything bows to his flames so why should he be concerned about them or their opinion? They will eventually succumb to his flames so they might as well be dead men walking. Thɪs chapter is updated by NoᴠᴇFɪre.nᴇt
He didn't spare the multitude of people around him a glance. His closed eyes remain focused on the top of the pyramid where most of his attention is. The only one who is worthy of his attention is on the pyramid. The remaining people are but chaff to him. He killed half of them now without even trying. That's about 150,000 thousand people in less than a second.