Do Gods Exist? When the Holy Radiance Church went all out, the power it could unleash was incomparably terrifying.
Even terrifying ancient aberrant entities could not contend against it.
While several Archbishops were locked in a stalemate with the spreading disaster, Yanile had arrived at the City of Judgment under Pope Saint Messiah III's orders. With the divine artifact, the Eye of God's Punishment, in the mountain church, he discerned the true source of the disaster.
They—or rather, "it"—had not originally belonged to this world. After the Great Rift, it had followed certain entities and descended upon the newborn Yar Continent.
All the disasters currently occurring within the Holy Messiah Empire were merely caused by it instinctively stretching its "body."
In the former Civilization of Stars, it had been called Paramisius, meaning Star Energy Hologram.
It fed on the thoughts emitted by intelligent life, using them to resist its own ever-spreading disorder.
Paramisius had no actual physical form in the Material Plane. All the strange phenomena people currently observed in connection with it were in fact caused by its existence interfering with the Material Plane in some way.
After discovering this Paramisius, the Civilization of Stars bound it and divided it into multiple parts, sealing them within the Dark Tower and suppressing it for countless years. Only recently, when the Ruins sealing it collapsed for some reason, had it seized the chance to escape.
Countless years of confinement had left it "hungry" to a near-mad degree.
After breaking free, it immediately set its sights on humans, this weak yet vibrant intelligent species active across the Main Material World's continent.
In the former age, these peculiar weak consciousnesses had not yet existed in the Main Material World. It found them novel and could not wait to have a taste.
Those whose