Angel was naturally referring to the most important and complicated struggle over becoming a "Great Old One" outside the Western Continent's seal: the divisions among the five pathways of the "Omniscient and Almighty," to whom the "Chaos Sea" belonged.
Unlike the Evernight Goddess, who had already mastered all her Adjacent Pathways, the God of Steam, whose adjacent pathway had an animated Uniqueness, and the Earth Mother, who had concealed her identity for thousands of years and effectively occupied her adjacent pathway, the greatest problem facing the Gods of Storms, Blazing Sun, and Wisdom was that all their adjacent pathways were already occupied by gods!
And clearly, none of them would willingly sacrifice themselves to help another god succeed. Adam and the "True Creator" were fighting each other, while the other three gods watched from the sidelines, but their positions during the previous world war had already made everything clear.
This meant that the five gods would ultimately have to fight over the one ticket to becoming a "Great Old One." Judging by the God of Combat's fate, the losers would not meet pleasant ends.
This isn't really a question I should be asking, but after those two "Mystic Rituals" with the Western Continent and helping the Evernight Goddess establish contact with the "Underworld Daoist," I keep feeling as though I've become an "ambassador" facilitating communication between both sides of the seal... Is that just an illusion? Angel held her breath and waited for the divine incarnation before her to answer.
Upon hearing her question, Archbishop Hella Berg fell silent. His gaze swept over the towering shelves and mountainous piles of books beside them, and after a moment, he sighed.
"If there were any other choice, I would naturally be unwilling. But life is like that. Sometimes, you can only choose