"Therefore, the existence of 'God Chosen' is the key to protecting us as we move into the next stage."
"If possible, I believe we should seek as many 'God Chosen' positions as we can."
This world was a strange circle.
Some people were willing to sacrifice everything to become gods, while others chose to refuse when faced with invitations to become the "God Chosen" of the Twelve Heavenly Gods.
Humans were contradictory beings in whom reason and emotion coexisted.
When emotion rose above reason, so-called "logical thinking" became useless.
From that perspective, perhaps the Twelve Heavenly Gods were all beings whose emotions outweighed their reason.
Dark had once heard several remarks during conversations with the professors. "Gods wield divine authority, each with their own duties, manipulating the power of the world's laws—but they are also assimilated by those laws."
"Divinity does not perish, and gods do not die. But as eras change and the gods reincarnate, the self that exists within divine consciousness is gradually worn away... Thus, the higher a god's rank, the more they value their sense of self. They may even deliberately emphasize it, forming excessively pronounced personalities."
"And the combination of being assimilated by the world's laws and deliberately emphasizing one's personality causes gods to gradually neglect matters beyond that personality."
"To use a term you often use, it's 'labeling.'" Of course.
Alongside emotional "labeling," there was naturally also rational "labeling."
Dark had once seen records in some myth of a god hailed as "absolute reason."
And in complete contrast, the source of his bloodline—the Demon Gods of the Seven Original Sins—were likely gods of "absolute emotion."
Likewise, the Demon Gods of the Seven Original Sins also possessed extremely obvious "labeling."
"Labeling."
It was the result brought about by the will of the world.
Because the