The Final Step Before Becoming a God King

In theory, the divine skill [Understanding the Sacred] could uncover more public information about the other party.

As the saying went, distance bred misunderstanding.

The farther away something was, the harder it was to communicate about it, and the easier it was to falsify information. Lein's [Destroyer of All Realms] had started out as nothing but completely false publicity.

That was how things went. Rumors about distant things got distorted as they passed from person to person. But when the distant hype was backed up by real, nearby examples, all those earlier assumptions started to seem true.

Just as Thor and the other gods of Order instinctively began looking up Lein's battle record, only Downs was surprised to discover that Flora had made her move.

Flora clasped her hands together, fingers interlaced, and shut her eyes tight. She murmured, "I'll show you the truest version of my master..."

Not many beings understood what a Commandment was, let alone the nature of the things that could inspire panic in an enemy's heart.

While Flora secretly got to work, Lein's system was triggered. When he saw it, he was dumbfounded. Only one thought remained in his mind: She studied journalism.

The same "verifiable battle record" could mean vaguely finding a written account that "so-and-so once fought seventeen people at once and beat them all black and blue," or finding extremely detailed video footage. The two gave completely different impressions.

Needless to say, video footage was more vivid and shocking.

When Thor and Sif looked it up, what they encountered was the spiritual energy Flora had spread through the surrounding space using her [Commandment] divine art.

The process was a little like going online before Lein crossed over: you entered a web address, and the server responded by providing the website's information.

Flora