The True... Slice

"Exactly. Perhaps you and I have both misunderstood Them. When all the fragments of the universe are combined, that existence will be the true Them. That would also explain why what fell in your world was Order, while what fell in mine was Decay!

And... the covenant you mentioned.

You really do know about it. I've always wondered why the gods would sign a covenant to restrict themselves...

Hmm? That look in your eyes... you didn't know about this?

No, you're wondering how I knew?

Heh, now that I think about it, this is the only thing my Lord of Grace ever told me. He said the covenant was the greatest restriction on Him."

Cheng Shi was utterly shocked. "War?"

"Exactly. War. So I was thinking that if the covenant only restricted Him, He would never have signed such a contract. But if the covenant restricted all the gods, then They would have had no reason to forcibly create a shackle to imprison themselves.

"But what if... I mean, what if the restriction imposed by the covenant was merely a side effect, while its true purpose was to fuse the gods' power together and create fragmentary gods across the countless timelines of the universe...

"Tell me, is that possible!?"

"!!!!!"

It was more than possible. It was far too possible!

Cheng Shi even felt that the true nature of the covenant, which had always remained unclear, had been directly guessed by Qin Xin today, right here and now!

Why did he think so? Because of... Truth!

Truth was undoubtedly the god who understood fragments best. One of the covenant's purposes was to draw closer to the omnipotent Origin, and Faith Fusion was one of the methods Truth had promoted under those circumstances.

But who could guarantee that a fusion would