"Divinity! What was this supposed to be? The stake from when I won the game? But why had the chess piece landed so far away? Was he unhappy about losing?"
Shade gazed at the golden light amid the blizzard, finding the evil god's actions increasingly strange. Still, he took off toward where the divinity had fallen. After all, once he acquired new divinity, the power brought by the "Divinity Overflow" state would immediately restore him to full strength.
Thus, on this blizzard-filled night, Shade, lost in the Snow Mountain, braved the wind and snow as he climbed ever higher along snowy slopes and mountain paths.
The golden light of divinity guided Shade through the snowy night. Step by step, he arrived at an unfamiliar area of ruins, clearly already very high up.
After climbing ninety-nine slippery steps, crossing a plaza lined with enormous Stone Pillars, and passing beneath a towering spire whose shape he could not make out, he finally saw the golden chess piece floating above the snowy ground at the end of the road. Its appearance was unmistakably that of the [God of Misfortune] when it had descended just now.
Rumble!
Thunder rolled through the night sky, louder even than Iluna's Sunlight Gun. The snowstorm grew fiercer still, and at the end of those unfamiliar ruins, Shade raised an arm before his face as he approached the chess piece step by step, stretching out his left hand until—
"You really think I'm that easy to fool? This is clearly Saint's Precipice!"
He abruptly pulled back his arm, and all the illusions confusing Shade dissipated.
This truly was a ruin, and there truly were stairs, a plaza, Stone Pillars, and a tall tower. But that golden chess piece was clearly floating beyond the cliff's edge. If Shade took even