Perhaps if he had been a little more clearheaded back then, things would have turned out differently now.
On someone's path to rise, the King of the Gods who had provided support second only to White Night Yaksha and the Demon King Absolute Evil thought to himself.
"If that had happened, I would have entered the stage directly as an aspect of Humanity's Final Trial—the identity of Collapse—and forcibly seized the Solar Sovereignty."
"That would have been far more efficient than this, but the side effect would have been that many people would have bled."
As if sensing Indra's thoughts, someone's incarnation lightly voiced another possibility.
Indra's expression stiffened as he stared at that fellow in disbelief.
"You were an aspect of Humanity's Final Trial from the very beginning?"
"Obviously. Without an Apocalypse Theory divinity of sufficiently high rank, how could I devour other Apocalypse Theories?"
The youth, who would likely have needed a great deal of time to weave an Apocalypse Theory divinity if he had not possessed Collapse's divinity, rolled his eyes.
"Enough. Let's stop talking about this."
Just as Indra was about to be stunned into stupidity, Li Zihan suddenly slapped a godhead down in front of him.
An aura sharing Indra's origin, yet vastly more powerful, flowed from it.
For innate Deities, whose godheads were their divinities, such a godhead was equivalent to everything a god possessed.
"This is—"
Gazing at the divinity that felt as though it should have been part of himself, Indra's voice abruptly became hesitant.
"This is the godhead I possessed when I was the war god Bahram. It's yours."
The youth, who had initially wandered Little Garden under Bahram's identity, said with a smile.
"What do you mean by this?"
The King of the Gods, who had already been cut down