Yet behind this darkness, there was not no light.
Some of the God Clan, represented by Yaksha and Okas, held fast to the justice in their hearts and refused to take part in this plundering of souls.
They firmly believed that only by reclaiming the devoured souls from the Karmic Demons could one uphold justice.
Whenever Karmic Demons attacked human villages, they always rushed there at once, fighting those evil monsters to the death and ensuring that every innocent soul could rest in peace.
Deus was not unaware of any of this.
Yet he chose silence and indifference.
In his view, though such acts were cruel, there was no need to interfere too much as long as they did not affect the greater situation.
His attitude undoubtedly condoned, and even encouraged, the occurrence of these crimes.
Sometimes, indifference itself was an encouragement of evil. It allowed evil to breed and caused the light of justice to gradually fade.
As time passed, Deus began to realize that even the existing method of soul conversion could no longer meet the Divine Kingdom's growing demand for power.
So, he turned his attention to Asura's daughter—Misra.
Misra possessed a rare ability that could amplify the power of True Words.
If Misra amplified the process of converting souls into True Words, then one soul could produce two, or even more, portions of True Word Power. This would greatly increase the Divine Kingdom's combat strength.
But Asura would never agree to use his own daughter for such a thing, which was why Deus framed and killed Asura twelve thousand years ago.
Time flew by, and twelve thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Over those long years, the Divine Kingdom relied on Misra's power to amplify True Words and gathered an unimaginably vast amount