Backlund Under War

After concluding that the Bound God Torzna had gained a new life, Hobart turned to consider how the Demon Monarch Fauvety had obtained the Uniqueness of the Chained pathway.

This deity possessed one greatest special skill: being absurdly hard to kill!

He had lived from the Second Epoch all the way to the Fifth Epoch. If nothing unexpected happened, perhaps He could continue living on.

Over those long years, He should have had the chance to come into contact with a way to become an Ancient One and work toward it.

That should have been the core of His plan to resist the Desire Mother Tree: becoming an Ancient One Himself.

Only by becoming an Ancient One could one possess the status and abilities to deal with an Ancient One.

Fauvety Himself already possessed the Uniqueness and Sequence 1 Characteristics of the Demon pathway, and now He had obtained the Uniqueness of the Chained pathway as well.

During the Second Epoch, in the divine battle between the Blood Ancestor Lilith, the Destruction Demonic Wolf, and the King of Aberrations, Fauvety had already obtained a Godspawn's Extraordinary Characteristics. Moreover, He probably would not truly sacrifice it to the Fallen Mother Goddess.

That meant His preparations concerning Uniquenesses and Extraordinary Characteristics were already complete. The only question was whether, over those long years, He had found clues regarding the corresponding Sefirah, the Shadow World.

As long as no one from his own pathway or an Adjacent Pathways wanted to become an Ancient One, Hobart supported the emergence of more Ancient Ones among Earth's deities. Even if that Ancient One represented evil and demons, it was acceptable.

After glancing once more at the spoils from this battle, Hobart took a deep breath and left the Country of Disorder.

It was not until the