Intelligence
David returned to Gami Star in the morning, thoroughly satisfied with the night's operation.
Calling it retaliation against the War God Temple was merely incidental; no one in God's Great World could likely guess his true reason.
David wanted to obtain the knowledge of attaining godhood through faith, which meant acquiring it from gods who had attained godhood through faith.
He had originally had quite a few options, such as the God of Death and the God of Blood. But the traces of these evil gods were difficult to find. Not even the Five Great Temples could locate them, let alone him.
Later, even when the God of War had wanted to capture David alive, David had never considered obtaining the knowledge of attaining godhood through faith from the God of War.
Because David knew very well just how powerful the God of War was—one of the five gods who had ruled God's Great World for tens of thousands of years. Even with Black Dragon Alexis's help, he could not defeat the God of War.
But something unexpected had happened. After David defeated the God of War's descended body, Shadow Servant absorbed the God of War's divine thought and obtained one of the Talent Abilities within it.
David realized that this was the best and most likely path to obtaining the knowledge of attaining godhood through faith. Retaliating against the God of War's temples happened to follow naturally from it.
"Lord, you must be careful!" Annabella said softly when she saw David.
Such a major incident had occurred, and when his friends could not reach David, they naturally contacted Annabella instead.
Annabella understood the War God Temple's foundations. David's actions openly placed him in opposition to the War God Temple.
After all, even when David had killed the War