Even if they could not be completely annihilated, it would still deal the current gods a massive blow.
In future battles against the gods, their side would find it difficult to replenish their Divine Soldiers.
But weren't they worried that the gods on their own side might end up in the same situation as the current gods?
There was no need to worry about that. The fertility problems among the current gods of the Heavenly Realm were themselves a curse inflicted when they had been driven out.
They had no such concerns at all.
Returning to the matter at hand, if the plan had proceeded normally, humanity should have disappointed the gods beyond all measure a thousand years in advance, prompting Ragnarok to begin.
Instead, their plan had been interfered with. One particularly troublesome individual had been appearing and disappearing like a ghost, beheading their people.
To this day, no one knew what he truly looked like, because everyone who had seen him had died without exception.
Still, they had managed to investigate some information—information that seemed especially absurd.
The other party seemed to be human?
It was not as though they had not tried using the Akasha System to replay events and identify the person, but they had failed.
Was entering Akasha's Chamber difficult?
Not really. They could simply send an insider to investigate.
The problem was that whenever the insider investigated, they would inexplicably die within Akasha's Chamber.
More precisely, after returning from past history, they would be nothing more than lifeless corpses.
That situation made them afraid to send anyone else to continue the investigation.
It was not that they feared the other party. Rather, such events might alert the current gods. If they, too, observed history through Akasha's Chamber, they might accidentally uncover their people, along