Trait: Apotheosis Tags: [Mortal], [Faith], [Unity], [Apotheosis] Description: There has always been a legend in this world: mortals, too, can become gods. Mortals who had mastered wisdom united and explored what made gods divine. They honed their wisdom, accumulated experience, created knowledge, and built civilizations. In the end, they deciphered the gods' secret and built a tower leading to the divine realm. When mortals climbed the stairs reaching toward the heavens, the gods' power was no longer beyond their grasp. Authority: None Real World Rules: None Companion Phantom: [Tower of Babylon]
Having no authority, no Real World Rules, and a Companion Phantom that wasn't some suddenly appearing crown, scepter, or ceremonial robe, but the Tower of Babylon that descended when one became a god—every last detail reeked of conspiracy.
Feng Xue almost instinctively looked toward the God of Live Broadcast, but saw that she was still staring at him with the expression of a "sore loser imp." In the livestream she'd opened, Aoyagi Lantern was still standing before the Tower of Babylon.
Even though there was no trace of the Gods of Bailang left, she still stood before the High Tower, poised to climb it, yet never taking a single step.
"Fuck!" How could Feng Xue not realize by now that this woman had set him up? She'd deliberately chosen to begin the ritual at the same time as him. It probably wasn't so she could have him take the hit for her, nor to compete with him for the chance to climb the tower. From the very beginning, she'd meant to put him under pressure and make him climb the tower first!
But what exactly was the trap here?
Suddenly, Feng Xue felt a sense of déjà vu. He'd felt this way before, back in Bailin Country,