"If I could observe the existence of higher planes, I wouldn't have had to stay in hell for so long." The Blood-Soaked Demon God answered Mel's question very seriously.
She had told Mel from the very beginning that the Divine Race had merely been born into this world earlier than other races. Gods, on the other hand, were a concept that emerged only after the Divine Race had become powerful enough to rule the world.
This world had been transformed beyond recognition by countless wars. Even some of its underlying rules had been rewritten.
Magic power was the foundation of this world, and changing magic power naturally meant changing the rules.
"Boy Mel, why do you think those Apostles are immortal?"
"Apostles?"
Mel began thinking seriously. Apostles themselves were immortal, but that was not the reason.
Still, he did not believe Apostles could not be killed. They simply had not found the right way to kill them.
"I think Apostles can be killed. You just need to find their weaknesses." Mel voiced his true thoughts.
"That's right. You're correct. Apostles can be killed. After the war of the Divine Race ended, the gods no longer dared to treat the human world as a battlefield so casually, because even gods could die completely."
"So that was why proxy wars in the form of Apostles appeared." Mel had heard the Blood-Soaked Demon God mention this before.
Apostles had been born at the end of the First Era and the beginning of the Second Era.
Perhaps their original purpose had merely been to lead a god's followers to victory in war, but which god did not want their Apostle to become stronger?
So, after the first immortal Apostle appeared, the other gods surely wanted their own Apostles to become immortal as well. Immortality