"Only those who wanted an answer would answer themselves?"
Locke was not surprised by His Majesty Ceres's words.
In this world, aside from one's parents, no one would treat you well for no reason.
Ceres viewed him differently because he must have wanted something from him.
Of course, Locke also knew that this "want" did not mean asking him to do something, but rather wanting to recruit him and make him one of his subordinates.
After all, even within the Sovereign Legion, its members were not a united whole.
There were certainly many different factions within it.
In this era, High Gods could already be considered powerful combatants within the Sovereign Legion.
Yet Ceres had been dispatched to a Material Plane to gather faith. From this, it was clear that Ceres was definitely among those being suppressed.
To the lofty Sovereigns, They would not care about how the soldiers in Their legions fared. They only needed the Sovereign Legion under Their command to complete the tasks They assigned.
Of course, there was another possibility.
The reason Ceres had been sent to a Material Plane to gather faith might have been because, like the Light Pope, he had initially been merely a Low-grade God.
Ceres might have broken through to the High God realm while gathering faith for the Sovereign in the Material Plane.
After all, the Power of Faith was not useful only to Sovereigns.
For God-level Experts, it was also an accelerator for cultivation.
If Ceres had been supported by the Power of Faith from an entire plane, it was not impossible for him to rapidly break through to the High God realm.
Casting these thoughts from his mind, Locke directly asked Ceres, "Lord Ceres, when I became a god, I chose to become a god externally."
"And now,