"You can defeat enemies of the mortal world, but what about gods? If I successfully summon you when facing some monster, and a god appears at that moment too, can you defeat the god?"
Shade asked again. This time, Long-Haired Luvia answered with great caution:
"I can only answer you this way: if this world is a play upon a stage, then everyone is an actor, you are an audience member below the stage, and the gods are the backdrop mentioned by the actors but never seen. They may descend upon the stage by using a certain actor as a vessel, but defeating that actor does not mean defeating them.
"Until Doomsday arrives, I too am merely an actor. Though I am the strongest actor, I cannot defeat a god or Saint alone in the Material World. Only gods can oppose gods."
Shade more or less understood what she meant, but it raised another question in his mind:
"By that logic, you shouldn't have been able to defeat gods head-on in the Past either. Back then, you might not even have been as strong as the you I summoned with the Words of Sublimation. So how did you deal with the descent of evil gods in the Past? Could you successfully prevent divine descent every single time?"
"Of course not."
Luvia gently shook her head:
"Sometimes, divine descent is a prerequisite for fulfilling certain conditions I desire. Sometimes, I truly cannot stop it."
"Then after the god descends, do you simply leave?"
Luvia raised her head to look at him:
"Of course not. If I have ways to defeat powerful mortal enemies, then naturally I also have ways to contend with divine descent. Of course, I do not possess your ability to willingly serve as a vessel for a god."