At the summit of a snow mountain on Odin Icefield, jagged ice cliffs rose all around.
The beast god Rhein stood upright. Lion-bodied and human-faced, he folded his arms across his chest, his huge eyes brimming with suspicion as they fixed unblinkingly on the man in the gray cloak before him. This man was the one who had appeared in Greed Sin Abyss and Envy Sin Abyss that day.
"Back then, you advised me not to accept the faith-law system proposed by those damned human traitors!" Rhein said coldly. "I opposed it, but it had no effect whatsoever! Those greedy bastards coveted the enormous benefits brought by the power of human faith, so they established the faith-law system and proclaimed themselves gods!"
He let out a heavy breath, his face twitching as he shook his head. "I know that many things were connected to you. It was only that, at the time, I lacked both the power and the will to stop them! Gods' Revelation was fostered by you, Fallen God Temple was sheltered by you, and those heretics wreaking havoc in the territories of other divine races were all being manipulated by you from behind the scenes."
The gray-robed man sighed faintly. "You know quite a lot. But you only know a small part of it."
With a strange chuckle, Rhein narrowed his eyes and nodded. "So you did even more? Hm, your goal is the same as mine—to wipe out humanity completely, isn't it? Then why have you been skulking around so furtively? And now you've come looking for me again. What scheme are you plotting this time?"
The gray-robed man fell silent for a while. Then he extended a hand, and a pale silver longsword, seemingly condensed from countless stars, slowly emerged soundlessly from his palm. The