"Animal World" Completed

"The event that brought about changes among the Pillar Gods has occurred three times in total.

"The latter two were the Forbidden Fruit and the Kingship, corresponding respectively to the births of Constant Self and the Silver Crowned Dragon.

"But during the first event, the Molting, five Pillar Gods were born all at once..."

The Pillar God of Adaptation, Lord of Scales and Feathers.

The Pillar God of Dusk, Amber.

The Pillar God of Wisdom, the Great Sage.

The Pillar God of Strength, Supreme Heaven.

And...

"...the Pillar God of Beasts, the Beast Lord."

Iver spoke in a low voice.

The old mage's eyes suddenly widened.

This was Secret Knowledge he had never been exposed to before.

To supernatural beings in other countries beyond Avalon, the Silver Crowned Dragon's ascension to godhood was no secret. Precisely because the Crowned Angel was the youngest Pillar God, other countries widely looked down on the Path of Authority... because it could not possibly possess any ancient heritage, and its foundations were clearly lacking.

As for Constant Self replacing the Beast Lord, and the Secret Knowledge that humanity was born from that event, only a handful of people knew of it.

The elves might know more, but human history itself clearly could not have preserved a clear answer to the question of "why humanity came into being."

As for the Molting—it was an even greater secret within secrets.

Even in the history of the Theocracy, it was an unfathomable secret. Only races older than the elves... such as dragons, serpentfolk, or the Winged Ones, who were now nearly extinct, might be able to touch upon a secret of this level.

And if that possibility was taken into consideration...

Aleister recalled the names of the three missions.

Those three paintings completed using the White Horse