If a godspawn had not appeared!
If this godspawn had not been the offspring of Ubtao, the Dinosaur God, a deity of greater divinity!
Soren would never have called an assembly of the Gods and invited so many deities to appear, let alone a deity whose alignment opposed his, such as the Lord of Radiance.
But!
This was the Time of Troubles.
All the deities had suffered a drastic reduction in power. In his divine state, Soren could have sealed or even killed an ordinary godspawn on his own. But now he could assume, at most, his avatar form, making it extremely difficult to kill the godspawn left behind by the Dinosaur God. With his current strength, even if he gave it everything he had, he could only kill a godspawn left behind by a deity of lesser divinity.
Almost all the deities he had invited had a stake in this matter.
The godspawn had appeared in the Overseas Regions, placing Soren and the Lord of Storms first in the line of fire. If they left it unchecked, every ship from Port Nyanzaru and the Amazon Tropical Rainforest would be in grave danger. And if the godspawn moved onto land, it could destroy Port Nyanzaru in a single day at most, and reduce the entire Amazon Tropical Rainforest to ruins within a few days.
Thus, Soren and the Lord of Storms were the least likely to stand by and do nothing.
Then there was the Goddess of the Sea. The godspawn was currently active on the seabed. It seemed to possess some intelligence, knowing to first use marine creatures to replenish the power it had lost during its long imprisonment. If it continued to grow stronger, the ocean would inevitably suffer devastating damage, because the godspawn's desire for destruction was