The Art of Disguise

Oh? A god I don't recognize?

Interesting. Looks like another god has disguised themselves and come down to the lower world!

If I didn't truly have something important to do right now, I'd definitely expose your true face...

Hermes narrowed his eyes, mulling it over in his heart.

A god disguising their identity and sneaking down to the lower world.

Though that sounded rather fanciful, it was not as if there were no precedents for it in the God Realm. No, rather...

This kind of thing was actually quite common!

Though the God Realm of DanMachi World was vast and contained many gods, because they were all rules condensed into form, immortal and undying, no matter what upheavals had occurred, the number of gods had not changed much.

There were only so many gods, so after spending hundreds of millions of years together, even people who were not particularly familiar with one another had still met many times!

Therefore, while the gods could not be said to know every last thing about the other gods, they could still be considered extremely familiar with them.

It was precisely because of this that certain gods in the God Realm had suffered no small amount after descending to the lower world.

After all, when your weaknesses and strengths were all thoroughly known by your opponent, it became far too easy for the other party to scheme against you.

So, with certain gods who had suffered, been ostracized by other Familias, and been forced to return to the Heavenly Realm as examples...

Later, many gods with a large number of enemies would disguise themselves in advance before descending to the lower world in order to avoid that kind of thing happening again.

Their goal was to confuse the public, mislead the other gods, and