The air in the hall still reeked of damp earth and burned limbs, yet the man greedily wrinkled his nose and took several deep breaths, as though he had just awakened from a thousand-year dream.
His dark eyes were filled with bewilderment as he propped himself up and looked around.
The first thing he saw was a translucent mask inscribed with strange symbols, lying beside the hall's main entrance.
The moment he saw the mask, the memories in his mind sharpened, flashing past like a revolving lantern:
He was the youngest son of the ancient god Flegrea, a born Mythical Creature of the Fool Pathway—a Miracle Invoker magic wolf, an offspring his father had sired to expel the excess Beyonder Characteristics within him.
He had grown up amid chaos and savagery. His only impressions of his father were cruelty, bloodlust, and madness. The other Subordinate Deities shared these traits to varying degrees. Only the Misfortune Goddess, Amanises, appealed to his sense of beauty, but she always hid in the shadows and rarely appeared.
During the war between the ancient gods, he had witnessed his father's fall with his own eyes. The mighty ancient god's wolf blood had drenched Amanises, while some of the characteristics that had yet to be expelled from his body, along with a certain Uniqueness, had fallen into his hands under the pull of convergence.
Afterward, he and one of his older sisters had fled the Magic Wolf Clan's kingdom, evading the pursuit of other Gods and Kings of Angels wherever they went. Eventually, they had established a hidden kingdom in an uninhabited mountain range on the North Continent.
With the fall of the Magic Wolf Clan's god, the powerful God who called himself the Creator and the humans he favored had come to dominate the world,