"God, what suffering is about to descend upon our world..." In an ordinary, sparsely populated little village in one corner of the Divine Descendant World's east, a village woman with a headscarf tightly clutched the child in her arms and prayed without cease.
At the edge of her vision, a jet-black tidal surge had already swept down from the sky.
The village woman did not know that those black waves were actually formed by one hideous insect beast after another. She merely sensed danger instinctively.
The entire world exuded an ominous atmosphere beneath the invasion of powerful foreign enemies.
Especially at the instant the Plane Barrier shattered, nearly every creature in the Divine Descendant World felt the crumbling, destructive aura of Doomsday Arrival.
Frantis City.
"Fight for the God of Justice!" Several hundred Temple Knights clad in golden armor raised longswords soaked in holy water high in their hands and shouted toward the insect tide that was about to flood into Frantis City.
Because they had rarely waged foreign wars, the Divine Descendant Star Region did not actually possess many properly organized legion forces.
Many Divine Descendant gods merely maintained enough divine envoys to keep their own temples operating.
This was a pyramid-shaped social structure. If there were too many divine envoys, it would inevitably destabilize the foundation of rule and, in turn, drive major changes in the upper structure.
This was something Marduk, the chief god of the Divine Descendant World, would not allow.
When he saw gods growing too quickly or acting "too jumpy," he would inwardly think, What are you trying to do?!
Over the years, the native gods of the Divine Descendant World whom Marduk had eliminated, openly or covertly, included not only those with the potential to reach Level-6 Peak.
Even some Level-4 and Level-5