"What should we do, then? We can't exactly stop the Face of Light and the Face of Darkness from clashing."
Third Brother blinked, beginning to realize the severity of the situation:
"Those two are bona fide gods..."
"Could it be that we need to find a way to speed up our clan's God's Chosen One's ascent to the divine throne?" Second Brother muttered to himself before suddenly exclaiming excitedly:
"Ah—I get it!"
"If we want to stop the Face of Light and the Face of Darkness from clashing, we need that God's Chosen One of the God of Slaughter and War to become a god as soon as possible."
"Only once he becomes a true god will he have the strength to stop the conflict between the two gods."
"And if we want the God's Chosen One to become a god quickly, we have to follow his God Ascension Creed and continuously provoke war and slaughter!"
"In other words, intensify the conflict between the Face of Light and the Face of Darkness."
"To sum it up: the fiercer the conflict, the more likely we are to stop the conflict!"
The Eighteenth Elder wore an expression as complicated as that subway-old-man-looking-at-phone meme.
Big Brother and Third Brother were even more dumbfounded, completely unable to understand what nonsense Second Brother was spouting.
What the hell did he mean, the fiercer the conflict, the more likely it could be stopped?
Wasn't that just the left and right sides of his brain fighting each other? A complete contradiction!
Yet Second Brother remained utterly unaware of this, still basking smugly in the satisfaction of having glimpsed the true nature of things.
Seeing that the Eighteenth Elder across from him said nothing, he even reminded him, clearly intending to coax a few words of praise from