In one region of the Boundless Mystery, everything was unimaginably vast and unimaginably chaotic.
The storm of hatred that Cnosaeus had become would originally have continued spreading without end, until it filled the entire Boundless Mystery.
But the storm had been stopped and confined within that region.
Even so, the number of living beings afflicted by the disaster was impossible to count. Countless cosmic dimensions, planets, and worlds all faced apocalyptic calamity.
Cnosaeus had been the shortest-lived ruler, and also a deity mocked by the other rulers.
Yet no one knew what Fate Bitch had done to make him choose such an extreme path. He paid the price of his life, authority, soul, and everything else, turning his hatred into a shriek to corrupt and destroy endless living beings.
That shriek was not only invisible, but impossible to defend against.
No matter how powerful a race or civilization was, whether it dispatched millions of warships, deployed shields covering entire planets, or dragged its own world through jump travel... none of it mattered. When the shriek of Hate All Things arrived, they could only endure death.
Until beams of "light" blossomed. Apart from the members who had already fallen, every member of the We Are Light Family chose to act.
They brought their divine kingdoms into the Boundless Mystery, restraining and resisting the storm left behind by Cnosaeus.
In doing so, they turned themselves into food, into dessert.
Unable to strike back, the hyenas lurking in the darkness bared their fangs one after another, their red-glowing eyes revealed.
Sessaro's hasty raid had not changed much, though he had briefly saved Vinadel, the goddess who wielded "life" and "beauty."
But that was all. New hyenas soon appeared.
And it was not only around Vinadel's domain. Around the divine kingdoms of every family