Once you stepped into this world, sooner or later, you had to pay what you owed. The world's Investment never came without a cost.
That day, Lu PingAn witnessed the fall of the stars.
"There must be a clause in the godhood ascension contract: when the world faces a fatal threat, deities must save it at any cost."
"This should be one of the underlying principles of the world's divine system. After all, in a sense, the deities connected to it are also part of the world. They are saving themselves as well."
Normally, this was not a major issue.
Even if it truly came to that, they could try to sever the connection and flee directly. During his time in the Silent Mountain Range, Lu PingAn had seen too much of that.
But severing ties took time, and cutting oneself free required sacrifice. This time, it had come far too suddenly.
At the very least, even those deities had not expected that they would be forced to descend in person.
"Too fast. It all happened too fast—from peaceful daily life, to the God Above Gods being captured by the world, to the deities betraying it and entering the fray. It all happened in an instant."
Let alone the deities foreseeing this in advance, even Earth's oldest gods had no experience dealing with a God Above Gods.
They had no reason to know that a God Above Gods could be trapped within the world by such a tiny snare. And the instant it fell in, the world's entire defensive barrier collapsed, tearing open a massive breach.
That meant the gods in the heavens and the demons from beyond the domain could all easily reach the surface.
If that were all, it would have been an acceptable outcome for them to