The evil god worshipped by the Aurora Order was said to be the remnant core of the Creator who had created everything, the True Creator... In the Fourth Epoch, when the gods still walked the world, he had not been an evil being reviled by everyone as he was now. Instead, his faith had stood on equal footing with those of the Evernight Goddess, the Lord of Storms, the Eternal Blazing Sun, and other gods. He had supported the Black Emperor Solomon in establishing an empire spanning the entire North Continent, with a standing similar to that of the present alliance of seven gods.
Recalling those secret histories of the Fourth Epoch, Angel frowned and asked:
"But didn't the True Creator support the Black Emperor, one of the four emperors? Why would the Nether Emperor, Death Salinger, listen to his advice?"
Could Death have already gone mad before forcibly accommodating the Red Priest Uniqueness? Angel did not dare voice that thought.
"That's why it's only a suspicion," Azik said, shaking his head to indicate that his answer was not necessarily accurate. "There were believers of the True Creator among the Death Legion marching north, and even angels of the Hanged Man pathway appeared. From that, I concluded that my father had some degree of cooperation with that god."
The Hanged Man—that is, the Secrets Suppliant pathway?
Angel considered it and felt that Azik's inference was very likely correct. After all, Solomon, the Black Emperor supported by this evil god in the Fourth Epoch, had been killed twice by the alliance of six gods at the time. The True Creator himself had also been banished and sealed within the Forsaken Land of the Gods, so it was only natural for him to try to support Death's counterattack on the North Continent.