Lu Li chuckled.
"I'd love to hear the details."
"Seriously, you really didn't know..." Heavy Armor Second Brother sized Lu Li up again, his astonished gaze now filled with blatant disdain. "Fine, fine. Since we're allies, I'll give you a brief explanation."
"Just like Player levels, the hierarchy of power among gods is determined by the rank of their divine status."
"The most ordinary gods are demigods who wield a single Authority, and they possess the lowest divine status."
"Above them are true gods who wield two Authorities."
"Then come the world pillars who wield three Authorities."
"Finally, there are the primordial creations who wield more than three Authorities."
Lu Li had actually known all this already, but he still put on an enlightened expression and nodded. "I see."
"But from the sound of it, the key factor determining a god's strength doesn't seem to be their so-called 'divine status.' It seems to be the number of Authorities they wield."
"The more Authorities a god wielded, the higher their divine status..."
"Hah, that was what I thought at first too." Heavy Armor Second Brother wore the faint pride of someone who had seen the truth before others. "It wasn't until the gods issued an oracle, telling us that divine status was the key to how many Authorities one could contain, that I changed my mind."
"An oracle?" Lu Li raised an eyebrow. "Would it be convenient to reveal which god you worship?"
"What's inconvenient about that?" The smugness on Heavy Armor Second Brother's face deepened. "We worship the God of War and Slaughter. He is the Collector of Blood, the Note That Ends All Things, the Cruel World-Destroying Creation, and the Unshakable Foundation of Eternal Conflict!"
"You've heard of that one, right?"
The corner of Lu Li's mouth twitched almost