Nie Jiutian was taken aback, not quite processing it.
He had originally planned to tell these God-chosen individuals the corresponding nodes today, so they could match them one by one and find the opponents they were meant to face.
But from what Sin was saying, failure was already inevitable. If they merely changed who they faced, what difference would that make?
Did he know the relative strengths of the gods? Was he trying to arrange favorable matchups?
But that did not seem to make sense either. He was the strongest among humanity, and he said Pain was the weakest among the gods. He was also half of Pain, so there was no way to arrange favorable matchups at all!
"Change formations? Have us deal with gods whose divine powers do not correspond to our own?" Long Jiu narrowed his eyes and repeated it, his gaze sweeping across everyone present.
"But what would that mean for us? These God-chosen individuals are fighting for their lives because, on one hand, the gods will not spare us. On the other hand, if they win, this will be their Path to Godhood."
Long Jiu had said this on his own initiative, essentially speaking for the others.
The implication in his words was clear—these people were not actually fighting the gods to save the world or humanity!
For every God-chosen individual, if they still wished to retain their human identity and avoid going insane outright, they had to possess some belief to serve as an anchor to their humanity.
Long Jiu's anchor was the shared faith from when the Dragon Group had been founded. He fought to save the world.
But among those present, few probably had anchors to their humanity. Many of them might not even have wanted to remain human at all!
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