-"Do you remember what I said? I am the pendulum swinging into Mountains."
No one could have imagined that a joking remark Zai Jiu Xunge had made when she activated the Second Phase in Quiet Mountains would come true at this very moment.
Nothing like this had ever happened before.
The Mountain Gods and Star Sea Gods faced one another from afar. The atmosphere grew increasingly tense, as though a fight could break out at any moment, yet somehow could not.
The Mountains Faction was neither angry nor panicked, in truth, because Mountains' tranquility had nothing to do with them. The Demon Game had pushed them into opposition with Star Sea. They simply did not want to lose or die; they did not truly care what became of Mountains.
Most importantly, the moment they completely broke free of their God's Gifts, they would receive a set of memories from before the point in time when they had been copied into Mountains.
Every Mountain God standing here could be called a complicated existence, belonging neither entirely to Star Sea nor entirely to Mountains. They existed adrift between Star Sea and Mountains, and their ultimate resting place lay within that Burial Ground.
On the Star Sea Faction's side, excitement and novelty held the upper hand instead.
This was a brand-new version!
In all their years of playing, no one had ever reached this point.
Because no one had ever been so intent on dragging their own world out of the Invasion Sequence.
However much everyone loathed war, once dragged into this vortex, they invariably sank deeper and deeper. Invade other worlds or wait to be invaded by stronger ones-it seemed those were the only two choices.
Rather than saying Star Sea's living beings hated war, it would be more accurate to say