Not long after the conflict between the gods erupted.
As she watched the several gods engaged in one-on-one duels in the distance, the Earth Mother Goddess—Chauntea—suddenly frowned, an inexplicable feeling faintly stirring within her.
It was as though something had lightly pricked her mind...
At this moment.
Although both her divine portfolio and divine rank had been sealed, leaving her to enter the fray in a blank-slate state, as the World of Toril's original God of Earth, a great being directly nurtured by the origin of all things, she still sensed that something was wrong through her instincts, from the will deep within the earth.
It was... malice. A great deal of malice directed at her was rapidly being born in different places far away...
The emergence of this abnormal situation.
Immediately made her vigilant, while also causing her to secretly wonder what was happening.
She was puzzled as to what had occurred.
However.
After thinking for a short while, out of a desire to protect herself, she quietly prepared herself mentally.
At the same time.
She used her Mind Power to silently contact the Goddess of Magic—Mystra—who stood beside her, conveying the general situation she knew to the other party.
Faced with that sudden news.
Like the Earth Mother Goddess—Chauntea—the Goddess of Magic—Mystra unconsciously frowned as well.
So much malice was being born at the same time...
This did not seem like something that would happen by chance... Was someone taking the lead or plotting something in secret...
Shar?
Or some other bastard?
Although her eyes remained fixed on the scenes of battle in the distance, countless possibilities silently flashed through Mystra's mind.
Among them, Shar—someone who not only possessed cunning and motive, but also deep-seated hatred and the ability to act—rightfully became the prime suspect, immediately listed as